Terms and conditions of use
Published 13.04.2023
1. Introduction
1.1 These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website.
1.2 By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.
1.3 If you register with our website, submit any material to our website or use any of our website services, we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.
2. Copyright notice
2.1 Copyright © 2023 My Family Circle (trading as Activily).
2.2 Copyright © 2023 Activily (a trading name of My Family Circle Ltd.
2.3 Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:
(a) we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and
(b) all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.
3. Permission to use website
3.1 You may:
(a) view pages from our website in a web browser;
(b) download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;
(c) print pages from our website for your own personal and non-commercial use, providing that such printing is not systematic or excessive;
(d) stream audio and video files from our website using the media player on our website; and
(e) use our website services by means of a web browser,
subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.
3.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 3.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.
3.3 You may only use our website for your own personal and business purposes; you must not use our website for any other purposes.
3.4 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.
3.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:
(a) republish material from our website (including republication on another website);
(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;
(c) show any material from our website in public;
(d) exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or
(e) redistribute material from our website.
3.6 Notwithstanding Section 3.5, you may redistribute our newsletter in print and electronic form to any person.
3.7 We reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to our website, to areas of our website and/or to functionality upon our website. We may, for example, suspend access to the website during server maintenance or when we update the website. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the website.
4. Misuse of website
4.1 You must not:
(a) use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility, integrity or security of the website;
(b) use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;
(c) hack or otherwise tamper with our website;
(d) probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our website without our permission;
(e) circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our website;
(f) use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;
(g) impose an unreasonably large load on our website resources (including bandwidth, storage capacity and processing capacity);
(h) decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our website without our permission;
(i) conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;
(j) access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;
(k) use our website except by means of our public interfaces;
(l) violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website;
(m) use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing); or
(n) do anything that interferes with the normal use of our website.
4.2 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.
5. Use on behalf of organisation
5.1 If you use our website or expressly agree to these terms and conditions in the course of a business or other organisational project, then by so doing you bind both:
(a) yourself; and
(b) the person, company or other legal entity that operates that business or organisational project,
to these terms and conditions, and in these circumstances references to “you” in these terms and conditions are to both the individual user and the relevant person, company or legal entity, unless the context requires otherwise.
6. Buyer registration and accounts
6.1 This Section 6 applies to buyers and prospective buyers.
6.2 To be eligible for a buyer account on our website under this Section 6, you must be at least 18 years of age and resident in the United Kingdom.
6.3 You may register for a buyer account with our website by completing and submitting the account registration form on our website, and clicking on the verification link in the email that the website will send to you.
7. Service provider registration and accounts
7.1 This Section 7 applies to you if you are, or wish to be, a service provider offering services to buyers through our website.
7.2 To be eligible for a service provider account on our website under this Section 7, you must be operating a business and:
(a) if you are a sole trader, you must be at least 18 years of age and resident in England and Wales;
(b) if you are a partnership, you must be established under the laws of England and Wales; and
(c) if you are a limited company or other limited liability entity, you must be incorporated in England and Wales.
7.3 You may register for a service provider account with our website by completing and submitting the account registration form on our website, and clicking on the verification link in the email that the website will send to you.
7.4 You must keep your service provider account information up to date.
8. User login details
8.1 If you register for an account with our website, you will be asked to choose a user ID and password.
8.2 Your user ID must not be liable to mislead and must comply with the content rules set out in Section 22; you must not use your account or user ID for or in connection with the impersonation of any person.
8.3 You must keep your password confidential.
8.4 You must notify us by email immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password. Our email is support@activily.co.uk
8.5 You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.
9. Reviews
9.1 We publish reviews of products and services on our website.
9.2 Reviewers are or may be independent from us; accordingly, reviews published on our website do not necessarily reflect our views and opinions.
9.3 You acknowledge that reviews published on our website may be out of date, biased, partial, misleading and/or inaccurate.
9.4 You should not rely upon reviews published on our website to make decisions or determine courses of action, and you should conduct your own research before making a decision or embarking upon a course of action.
9.5 Subject to Section 27.1, we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage arising from any reliance you may place on any review published on the website.
9.6 You agree to the publication of reviews relating to you and your business, by others, on our website; you acknowledge that such reviews may be critical or defamatory or otherwise unlawful; and, subject to Section 27.1, you agree that you will not hold us liable in respect of any such reviews, irrespective of whether we are aware or ought to have been aware of such reviews.
10. User reviews
10.1 We publish reviews by users on our website.
10.2 If you have registered with our website, you may submit reviews for publication on the website, subject to these terms and conditions.
10.3 Your reviews must be honest, reasonable and bona fide reviews of your personal experience of a service you have received from a supplier booked through our website.
10.4 You may only post a review if you (or your child if your child is under the age of 18) have personally received the service from the supplier you wish to review .
10.5 You must not post a review if:
(a) you have a financial interest in the subject matter of the review;
(b) you are an owner, partner, member, employee, business partner or affiliate of any person who has a financial interest in the subject matter of the review; and/or
(c) you are otherwise connected with, or related to, any person who has a financial interest in the subject matter of the review.
10.6 For the avoidance of doubt, your reviews constitute “your content” for the purposes of Section 21 and Section 22.
10.7 You acknowledge that we may publish and otherwise use, in conjunction with your reviews, your user ID, but we shall have no obligation to do so.
10.8 You hereby waive all your moral rights in your reviews to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and warrant that all other moral rights in your reviews have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
10.9 You acknowledge that the user reviews published on our website are submitted by users, and that we do not usually review, approve or edit such reviews; accordingly, we do not warrant the completeness or accuracy of the user reviews.
11. Service provider listings
11.1 If you register with our website as a service provider, you will be able to submit listings to the website.
11.2 To create a listing on our website, you should take the following steps: Register for a Service Provider account, authenticate the account with the link sent to your email address and complete the onboarding criteria presented when you first log in.
11.3 Listings that are submitted will be automatically processed within 24 hours following submission.
11.4 Subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions, we reserve the right to reject, unpublish and/or delete any listings that breach these terms and conditions or that do not meet any additional guidelines for listings published on our website; and if we reject, unpublish or delete a listing for any of these reasons, we will not refund any fees you may have paid to us in respect of the listing.
11.5 If we permit the publication of a listing, it will remain published on our website for the relevant period set out on our website from time to time, subject to these terms and conditions.
11.6 Listings submitted to our website must be true, fair, complete and accurate in all respects.
11.7 Listings submitted to our website must constitute bona fide listings relating to Childrens actiities, clubs and classes, either in-person or live online.
11.8 Listings must be allocated to the appropriate category or categories. If you cannot identify an appropriate category for a listing, please contact us at support@activily.co.uk.
11.9 You must keep your listings up to date using our website interface; in particular, you must remove any listings in respect of activities that have ceased to be available.
11.10 You must ensure that all prices specified in or in relation to a listing are in pounds Sterling only.
12. Differentiated treatment
12.1 We will not treat our own listings made available to consumers through our website differently from those made available by other services providers.
13. Service rules
13.1 The only services that may be the subject of a listing on our website are services falling within the following categories: activiies, clubs and classes provided physically in-person or live online.
13.2 You must not use our website to advertise, buy, sell or supply physical products, intangible products or downloadable products.
13.3 You must not advertise, buy, sell or supply through or in relation to our website any service that:
(a) breaches any law, regulations or code, or infringes any person’s intellectual property rights or other rights, or gives rise to a cause of action against any person, in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law;
(b) involves the supply, distribution or publication of any material that would, if published on our website by you, contravene the provisions of Section 4 or Section 22; or
(c) relates to drugs, narcotics, steroids or controlled substances; relates to pornography or obscene, indecent or sexually explicit materials; encourages or facilitates criminal acts or civil wrongs; or encourages or facilitates the infringement of any intellectual property right.
14. Data
14.1 You may, if you have a services provider account on our website, both during the term of a contract under these terms and conditions and for a period of 30 days after the termination of a contract under these terms and conditions, access the following categories of information provided or generated by you or other users in the course of using our marketplace services: All business content you have input into your service provider portal and all customer data relating to customers and participants of your services which are held on your service provider account portal. You may access such information by exporting a .CSV file.
14.2 We will have access to all information provided or generated by you and other users in the course of the use of our marketplace services.
14.3 We may provide to third parties information provided or generated by you and other users in the course of the use of our marketplace services in the following circumstances only:
(a) where necessary for the proper functioning of our website;
(b) in the case of non-personal data, [detail sharing]; and
(c) in the case of personal data, in accordance with our privacy policy (which includes information about opting-out of such data sharing).
14.4 You will have no contractual right under these terms and conditions or otherwise to access information provided or generated by you or by other users when using our marketplace services, except as specified in this Section 14.
15. The buying and selling process
15.1 You agree that a contract for the purchase and supply of a service or services will come into force between you and another registered website user, and accordingly that you commit to purchasing or supplying the relevant service or services, in the following circumstances:
(a) a buyer must add the services he or she wishes to purchase to the shopping cart, and then proceed to the checkout;
(b) if the buyer is a new user, he or she must create a buyer account with the website and log in; otherwise, the buyer must enter his/her/their login details;
(c) once the buyer is logged in, he/she/they must select the preferred date and time for the supply of the services and confirm the order and his/her/their consent to these terms and conditions and the applicable terms and conditions of supply;
(d) the buyer will be transferred to the website of the appointed payment service provider, and the payment service provider will handle the buyer’s payment to the service provider; buyers must submit payment in full via credit or debit card;
(e) the website will then send to the buyer an automatically generated acknowledgement of payment;
(f) once the service provider has checked whether it is able to meet the buyer’s order, the service provider will send to the buyer an order confirmation (at which point the order will become a binding contract between the service provider and the buyer) or the service provider will confirm by email that it is unable to meet the buyer’s order.
16. Terms and conditions of supply
16.1 Service providers must use the website interface to create legal notices applying to their relationships with service buyers.
16.2 Service providers must ensure that:
(a) the service provider’s legal notices are sufficient to meet the service provider’s legal disclosure obligations and other legal obligations;
(b) to the extent required by applicable law, the service provider registers with relevant tax authorities and pays all relevant taxes in relation to the service provider’s supplies of services; and
(c) the service provider complies with all laws applicable to their service listings and supplies of services, including where applicable the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 and the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002.
16.3 Except to the extent that a buyer and service provider expressly agree otherwise, the following provisions will be incorporated into the contract for the supply of services between the buyer and the service provider:
(a) the price for the services will be as stated in the relevant service listing;
(b) other amounts and VAT and other taxes will only be payable by the buyer if this is expressly and clearly stated in the service listing;
(c) provision of the services must be made within 30 days following date the contract for the supply of the services comes into force or such period as the buyer and service provider may agree;
(d) appropriate means of provision of services must be used by the service provider; and
(e) services must be provided with reasonable care and skill and must conform in all material respects to the description of the services in the service listing and any other description of the services supplied or made available by the service provider to the buyer.
16.4 If the service provider is a trader and the buyer is a consumer, the provisions of Section 17 shall be incorporated into the contract for the supply of services between the buyer and the service provider.
16.5 Both buyers and service providers undertake to comply with the agreed terms and conditions of supply.
17. Distance contracts: cancellation right
17.1 This Section 17 applies if and only if the services provider is a trader and the buyer enters into a contract with the service provider as a consumer – that is, as an individual acting wholly or mainly outside the buyer’s trade, business, craft or profession.
17.2 The buyer may withdraw an offer to enter into a contract with the service provider at any time; and the buyer may cancel a contract entered into with the service provider at any time within the period:
(a) beginning when the contract was entered into; and
(b) ending at the end of 14 days after the day on which the contract was entered into,
subject to Section 17.3. The buyer does not have to give any reason for the withdrawal or cancellation.
17.3 The buyer agrees that the service provider may begin the provision of services before the expiry of the period referred to in Section 17.2, and the buyer acknowledges that, if the service provider does begin the provision of services before the end of that period, then:
(a) if the services are fully performed, the buyer will lose the right to cancel referred to in Section 17.2; and
(b) if the services are partially performed at the time of cancellation, the buyer must pay to the service provider an amount proportional to the services supplied or the service provider may deduct such amount from any refund due to the buyer in accordance with this Section 17.
17.4 In order to withdraw an offer to enter into a contract or cancel a contract on the basis described in this Section 17, the buyer must inform the service provider of the buyer’s decision to withdraw or cancel (as the case may be). The buyer may inform the service provider by means of any clear statement setting out the decision. In the case of cancellation, the buyer may inform the service provider using the cancellation form that the service provider will make available to the buyer. To meet the cancellation deadline, it is sufficient for the buyer to send its communication concerning the exercise of the right to cancel before the cancellation period has expired.
17.5 If the buyer withdraws an offer to enter into a contract, or cancels a contract, on the basis described in this Section 17, the buyer will receive a full refund of any amount the buyer paid to the service provider in respect of the contract, except as specified in this Section 17.
17.6 The service provider will refund money using the same method used to make the payment, unless the buyer has expressly agreed otherwise. In any case, the buyer will not incur any fees as a result of the refund.
17.7 The service provider will process the refund due to the buyer as a result of a cancellation on the basis described in this Section 17 without undue delay and, in any case, within the period of 14 days after the day on which the service provider is informed of the cancellation.
18. Marketplace fees
18.1 Marketplace service providers must pay to us the following amounts:
(a) commission in respect of each sale of services made through our website.
18.2 In respect of fees payable to us by service providers:
(a) the fees will be as specified on our website from time to time; and
(b) the scope and duration of the services in respect of which the fees are payable will be as specified on our website at the time those fees are paid.
18.3 In respect of commission payable to us by service providers:
(a) commission shall be payable at at the rate or rates specified on our website from time to time;
(b) we shall deduct commission due from amounts held or processed by us on behalf of the service provider; and
(c) commission payments are non-refundable, irrespective of whether a buyer subsequently cancels the underlying order and irrespective of whether a buyer is entitled to, or receives, a refund in respect of such an order.
18.4 All amounts stated in these terms and conditions or on our website are stated exclusive of VAT.
18.5 If we are required by applicable law to make any VAT deductions to or on payments made by us to a service provider or processed by us on behalf of a service provider under these terms and conditions, we shall remit those deductions to the relevant government or tax authorities. We shall provide written evidence of any such tax payments to the service provider. The service provider must reimburse us in respect of such tax payments and, without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, we may deduct an amount equal to any such tax payments from payments due to the service provider under these terms and conditions.
18.6 Promptly following receipt of a written request from us, you must supply to us any information and documentation that we may reasonably request in order to identify you or facilitate our compliance with our legal obligations relating to the taxation of payments made to us or processed by us under or in relation to these terms and conditions. We may supply such information and/or documentation to relevant government and tax authorities.
18.7 We may vary fees from time to time by posting new fees on our website, but this will not affect fees for services that have been previously paid.
18.8 We may vary commission rates from time to time by posting new rates on our website, but this will not affect any liability to pay commission that accrues before the new rates are posted.
19. Payments
19.1 You must pay to us the fees in respect of our website services in advance, in cleared funds, in accordance with any instructions on our website.
19.2 If you dispute any payment made to us, you must contact us immediately by email at support@activily.co.uk and provide full details of your claim.
19.3 If you make an unjustified credit card, debit card or other charge-back then you will be liable to pay us, within 7 days following the date of our written request:
(a) an amount equal to the amount of the charge-back;
(b) all third party expenses incurred by us in relation to the charge-back (including charges made by our or your bank or payment processor or card issuer);
(c) an administration fee of GBP 25.00 including VAT; and
(d) all our reasonable costs, losses and expenses incurred in recovering the amounts referred to in this Section 19.3 (including without limitation legal fees and debt collection fees),
and for the avoidance of doubt, if you fail to recognise or fail to remember the source of an entry on your card statement or other financial statement, and make a charge-back as a result, this will constitute an unjustified charge-back for the purposes of this Section 19.3.
19.4 If you owe us any amount under or relating to these terms and conditions, we may suspend or withdraw the provision of services to you.
20. Our role
20.1 You acknowledge that:
(a) we do not confirm the identity of website users, check their credit worthiness or bona fides, or otherwise vet them;
(b) we do not check, audit or monitor the information contained in listings;
(c) we are not party to any contract for the sale or supply of services advertised on the website (except the marketplace and payment processing services made available to buyers and services providers under these terms and conditions);
(d) we are not involved in any transaction between a buyer and a service provider in any way, save that we facilitate a marketplace for buyers and service providers and collect and process payments as an agent on behalf of service providers,
and accordingly we will not be liable to any person in relation to the offer for sale or supply of any services advertised on our website; furthermore we are not responsible for the enforcement of any contractual obligations arising out of a contract for the sale or supply of any services and we will have no obligation to mediate between the parties to any such contract.
20.2 You acknowledge that we cannot be held responsible for the behaviour of our users, either on or off the website, and we cannot guarantee that any information provided by a user is true, accurate, complete, current and not misleading; and subject to Section 27.1 you will not hold us liable in respect of any loss or damage arising out of any user behaviour or user information.
20.3 The provisions of this Section 20 are subject to Section 27.1.
21. Our rights to use your content
21.1 In these terms and conditions, “your content” means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website.
21.2 You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to reproduce, store and publish your content on and in relation to this website and any successor website.
21.3 You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 21.2.
21.4 You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 21.2.
21.5 You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
21.6 You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on our website.
21.7 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.
22. Rules about your content
22.1 You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.
22.2 Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).
22.3 Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:
(a) be libellous or maliciously false;
(b) be obscene or indecent;
(c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off or other intellectual property right;
(d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;
(e) constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;
(f) constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity;
(g) be in contempt of any court or in breach of any court order;
(h) be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;
(i) be blasphemous;
(j) be in breach of official secrets legislation;
(k) be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;
(l) depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;
(m) be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;
(n) be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;
(o) consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;
(p) constitute spam;
(q) be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or
(r) cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.
(s) include any link to any competing platform for your Classes
(t) include any link to third party booking software (unless there is already an agreed partnership with the booking software provider);
22.4 Your content must be appropriate, civil and tasteful, and accord with generally accepted standards of etiquette and behaviour on the internet.
22.5 You must not use our website to link to any website or web page consisting of or containing material that would, were it posted on our website, breach the provisions of these terms and conditions.
22.6 You must not submit to our website any material that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
23. Provision of contact details
23.1 Save where expressly requested or permitted by us to do so, you must not add any information to our website that may facilitate direct communications with other users (including without limitation email addresses, postal addresses, instant messaging IDs, telephone numbers, fax numbers, personal website URLs and social networking profile URLs).
24. Report abuse
24.1 If you learn of any unlawful material or activity on our website, or any material or activity that breaches these terms and conditions, please let us know.
24.2 You can let us know about any such material or activity by emailing us at support@activily.co.uk
25. Suspension and restriction of services
25.1 If we decide to suspend and/or restrict your account on our website:
(a) we will provide to you contemporaneous or prior written notice of the suspension and/or restriction;
(b) alongside that notice, we will provide to you a statement of the reasons for the suspension and/or restriction, unless we are under a legal or regulatory obligation not to do so; and
(c) if you would like to contest the suspension and/or restriction, you may do so by writing to us using the contact details set out in these terms and conditions.
25.2 Subject to the other provisions of this Section 25, if we decide to suspend and/or restrict your account on our website, we may do so at any time in our sole discretion with or without notice to you.
25.3 Where we suspend or restrict access to our website or services, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or restriction (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).
26. Limited warranties
26.1 We do not warrant or represent:
(a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;
(b) that the material on the website is up to date;
(c) that the website will operate without fault; or
(d) that the website or any service on the website will remain available.
26.2 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.
26.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 27.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.
27. Limitations and exclusions of liability
27.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions will:
(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
(c) limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law,
and, if you are a consumer, your statutory rights will not be excluded or limited by these terms and conditions, except to the extent permitted by law.
27.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 27 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:
(a) are subject to Section 27.1; and
(b) govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.
27.3 To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.
27.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.
27.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.
27.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software, providing that if you contract with us under these terms and conditions as a consumer, this Section 27.6 shall not apply.
27.7 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage, providing that if you contract with us under these terms and conditions as a consumer, this Section 27.7 shall not apply.
27.8 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).
27.9 Our aggregate liability to you in respect of any contract to provide services to you under these terms and conditions shall not exceed the total amount paid and payable to us under the contract.
28. Indemnity
28.1 You hereby indemnify us, and undertake to keep us indemnified, against:
(a) any and all losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute) incurred or suffered by us and arising directly or indirectly out of your use of our website or any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions;
(b) any VAT liability or other tax liability that we may incur in relation to any sale, supply or purchase made through our website, where that liability arises out of your failure to pay or to register to pay any VAT or other tax properly due in any jurisdiction.
29. Termination
29.1 We may terminate a contract under these terms and conditions at any time in our sole discretion with or without notice to you, except as specified in this Section 29.
29.2 You may terminate a contract under these terms and conditions at any time using your account control panel on our website.
29.3 If you have a services provider account on our website, we may only terminate a contract under these terms and conditions in the following circumstances:
(a) you breach these terms and conditions or act inconsistently with the spirit of these terms and conditions;
(b) you breach any applicable laws, infringe the legal rights of any person or create legal liabilities for us or any other person, in each case in relation to your use of our website;
(c) you abuse our systems, our users or our personnel;
(d) you are or become insolvent, bankrupt or unable to pay your debts as they fall due;
(e) you do not respond within 90 days, substantively and reasonably, to communications that we send to you via our website soliciting a response;
(f) you do not log into our website during a period exceeding 90 days;
(g) we decide to cease publishing our website or providing our services; or
(h) we decide to make fundamental changes to our services.
29.4 If you have a services provider account on our website and we decide to terminate a contract under these terms and conditions:
(a) we will provide to you at least 30 days’ prior written notice of the termination, except in the circumstances set out in below;
(b) alongside that notice, we will provide to you a statement of the reasons for the termination, unless we are under a legal or regulatory obligation not to do so; and
(c) if you would like to contest the termination, you may do so by writing to us using the contact details set out in these terms and conditions,
providing that the notice period set out above will not apply if we are subject to a legal or regulatory obligation which requires us to terminate the provision of the whole of our marketplace services to you in a manner which does not allow us to respect the specified notice period; nor will it apply if we exercise a right of termination under an imperative reason pursuant to applicable national law which is in compliance with European Union law; nor will it apply if we can demonstrate that you have repeatedly infringed these terms and conditions. If the notice period set out above does not apply, we will nonetheless provide to you, without undue delay, a written statement of reasons for our decision to terminate.
29.5 If:
(a) we terminate a contract under these terms and conditions;
(b) as a result of such termination, you lose access to any of our services with respect to which you have paid us in cleared funds; and
(c) you have not breached a contract under these terms and conditions and we do not have any other specific ground or grounds for terminating as set out in these terms and conditions,
then we will refund to you a pro rata amount of your payment(s), such amount to be calculated by us using any reasonable methodology. You will not be entitled to any refund except as set out in this Section 29.5.
30. Third party websites
30.1 Our website includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties; such hyperlinks are not recommendations.
30.2 We have no control over third party websites and their contents, and subject to Section 27.1 we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
31. Trade marks
31.1 ACTIVILY, MYACTIVILY, MY FAMILY CIRCLE, our logos and our other registered and unregistered trade marks are trade marks belonging to us; we give no permission for the use of these trade marks, and such use may constitute an infringement of our rights.
31.2 The third party registered and unregistered trade marks or service marks on our website are the property of their respective owners and, unless stated otherwise in these terms and conditions, we do not endorse and are not affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such we cannot grant any licence to exercise such rights.
32. Variation
32.1 We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.
32.2 The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions, subject to the other provisions of this Section 32.
32.3 If you have a services provider account on our website:
(a) we will notify you in writing of any proposed changes to these terms and conditions;
(b) the date upon which the proposed changes will take effect will be specified in our notice to you, but will not be before the expiry of a period of 15 days following the date that we give you the notice; and
(c) you will have the right to terminate a contract under these terms and conditions by giving to us written notice of termination before the expiry of the period specified above, in which case a contract under these terms and conditions will terminate upon the expiry of that period,
but, notwithstanding the foregoing, we may vary these terms and conditions by giving to you written notice of variation if we are subject to a legal or regulatory obligation which requires us to change these terms and conditions in a manner that does not allow us to respect the notice period referred to above, or if we have exceptionally to change these terms and conditions to address an unforeseen and imminent danger related to defending our websites or our users from fraud, malware, spam, data breaches or other cybersecurity risks.
33. Assignment
33.1 You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions – providing, if you are a consumer, that such action does not serve to reduce the guarantees benefiting you under these terms and conditions.
33.2 You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
34. Severability
34.1 If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.
34.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
35. Third party rights
35.1 A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.
35.2 The exercise of the parties’ rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.
36. Entire agreement
36.1 Subject to Section 27.1, these terms and conditions, together with our privacy and cookies policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.
37. Law and jurisdiction
37.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.
37.2 Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.
38. Statutory and regulatory disclosures
38.1 We will specify on the website or elsewhere in these terms and conditions the different technical steps you must follow to conclude a contract under these terms and conditions, and also the technical means for identifying and correcting input errors prior to the placing of your order.
38.2 We will not file a copy of these terms and conditions specifically in relation to each user or customer and, if we update these terms and conditions, the version to which you originally agreed will no longer be available on our website. We recommend that you consider saving a copy of these terms and conditions for future reference.
38.3 These terms and conditions are available in the English language only.
39. Our details
39.1 This website is owned and operated by My Family Circle Ltd.
39.2 We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 12703822, and our registered office is at 28 Alexandra Terrace, Exmouth, Devon, England, EX8 1BD.
39.3 Our principal place of business is at 3 Shortlands, London. W6 8DA.
39.4 You can contact us:
(a) by post, to the postal address given above;
(b) using our website contact form;
(c) by telephone, on the contact number published on our website; or
(d) by email, using the email address published on our website.