Website Terms and Conditions

LAST UPDATED: 14th January 2013

Acceptance of Terms

  • 'We' refers to Dr. Merlin Dunlop (“we”, “us”, “our”) and we own and operate this website ('Site').
  • Your use of the Site is subject to these Terms of Use. By using the Site, you will be deemed to have accepted and agreed to be bound by these Terms of Use. We may make changes to these Terms of Use from time to time. We may notify you of such changes by any reasonable means, including by posting the revised version of these Terms of Use on the Site. You can determine when we last changed these Terms of Use by referring to the 'LAST UPDATED' statement above. If you do not agree to the changes implemented by us, your sole and exclusive remedy is to terminate your relationship with us as a customer of the services. Your use of the Site following changes to these Terms of Use will constitute your acceptance of those changes.
  • If you are agreeing to these Terms of Use or any of our other Service Agreements on behalf of a corporate entity, you represent and warrant that you have the legal authority to bind such corporate entity.
  • You are responsible for all access to the Site using your internet connection, even if the access is by another person.
  • We will use reasonable efforts to ensure that the Site is available at all times. However, we cannot guarantee that the Site or any individual function or feature of the Site will always be available and/or error free. In particular, the Site may be unavailable during periods when we are implementing upgrades to or carrying out essential maintenance on the Site.
  • We reserve the right to restrict your access to the Site or part of it. Access to restricted areas of the Site may be subject to registration and other conditions. If we grant you permission to access a restricted area, we may withdraw that permission at any time (including where you breach any of these Terms of Use).

Disclaimer of warranties

  • We provide the Site on an 'as is' basis and make no representations as to the quality, completeness or accuracy of any content made available on the Site. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we expressly exclude:
  • (a) all conditions, warranties and other terms that might otherwise be implied by law into these Terms of Use; and
  • (b) any and all liability to you, whether arising under these Terms of Use or otherwise in connection with your use of the Site.

Limitation of Liability

  • The foregoing is a comprehensive limitation of liability that applies to all damages of any kind, including (without limitation) compensatory, direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of data, income or profit, loss of or damage to property and claims of third parties. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in these Terms of Use is intended to exclude or limit any liability that may not by law be excluded or limited, and in particular none of the exclusions and limitations in this clause are intended to limit any rights you may have as a consumer under local law or other statutory rights which may not be excluded.

Use of the Site

  • Your use of the Site is conditional on your compliance with the rules of conduct set forth in these Terms of Use and you agree that you will not:
  • use the Site for any fraudulent or unlawful purpose;
  • use the Site to defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the rights of others, including without limitation others' privacy rights or rights of publicity;
  • impersonate any person or entity, falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity in connection with the Site; or express or imply that we endorse any statement you make;
  • interfere with or disrupt the operation of the Site or the servers or networks used to make the Site available; or violate any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of such networks;
  • transmit or otherwise make available in connection with the Site any virus, worm, Trojan horse or other computer code that is harmful or invasive or may or is intended to damage the operation of, or to monitor the use of, any hardware, software, or equipment;
  • reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, or otherwise exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of, use of, or access to the Site;
  • modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the Site. If you wish to reverse engineer any part of the Site to create an interoperable program you must contact us and we may provide interface data subject to verification of your identity and other information;
  • remove any copyright, trade mark or other proprietary rights notice from the Site or materials originating from the Site;
  • frame or mirror any part of the Site without our express prior written consent;
  • create a database by systematically downloading and storing Site content;
  • use any manual or automatic device in any way to gather Site content or reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site without our express prior written consent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we grant the operators of public online search engines limited permission to use search retrieval applications to reproduce materials from the Site for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of such materials solely in connection with each operator's public online search service.
  • We reserve the right to revoke these exceptions either generally or in specific instances.

Intellectual Property

  • The intellectual property rights in the Site and all of the text, pictures, videos and other content made available on it are owned by us and our licensors. You may not print or otherwise make copies of any such content without our express prior permission in writing.

Privacy policy

  • We take your privacy very seriously. We ask that you read our privacy policy carefully as it contains important information about what to expect when we collect personal information about you and how we will use your personal data.

Marketing

  • We may wish to provide you with information about special features of our website or any other service or products we think may be of interest to you. If you would like to receive this information, please confirm this in writing to us. If you agree to us providing you with marketing information, you can always opt out at a later date.

  • We may also want to provide you with related information from third parties we think may be of interest to you. If you would like to receive this information, please confirm this in writing to us. If you agree to us providing you with third party marketing information, you can always opt out at a later date.

How we protect your information

  • We have put in place the following security procedures and technical and organisational measures to safeguard your personal information: firewall protection, password protection and limited access to your information.
  • We will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal information. However, you should be aware that the use of the internet and instant web based communications, are not entirely secure and for this reason we cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal information which is transferred from you or to you via the Internet.Access to your information and updating and correcting your information.
  • You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please send an email to merlin@impossibottle.co.uk. We may make a small charge for this service.
  • We want to ensure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. If any of the information that you have provided to us changes, for example if you change your email address, name or payment details, or if you wish to cancel your subscription, please let us know the correct details by sending an email to merlin@impossibottle.co.uk.You may ask us, or we may ask you, to correct information you or we think is inaccurate, and you may also ask us to remove information which is inaccurate.

Sale of business

  • If our business is sold or integrated with another business your details may be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchasers and their advisers and will be passed on to the new owners of the business.

How to contact us

  • We welcome your views about our website and our privacy policy. If you would like to contact us with any queries or comments please send an email to merlin@impossibottle.co.uk.

Links to other websites

  • The Site contains links to other websites. Such links from the Site are provided solely for visitors’ convenience. Links taken to other websites are done so at your own risk and we accept no liability for any linked sites or their content. Please note that we have no control over the contents of other websites.
  • When visiting external websites, you should review the privacy policy of the websites and other terms of use.
  • This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.

Contents and Links disclaimer

  • We seek to ensure that all content and information published at the Site is accurate and up to date. The information on the Site does not constitute legal advice and we cannot be held liable for actions arising from its use. In addition, we cannot be held responsible for the contents of any externally linked pages.

Severance

  • If any provision of this agreement (or part of a provision) is found by any court or administrative body of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal, the other provisions shall remain in force.
  • If any invalid, unenforceable or illegal provision would be valid, enforceable or legal if some part of it were deleted or modified, the provision shall apply with whatever modification is necessary to give effect to the commercial intention of the parties.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

  • This agreement shall be governed by and construed in all respects in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.
  • In relation to any legal action or proceedings to enforce this agreement or arising out of or in connection with this agreement (the ‘Proceedings’) each of the parties irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
  • These submissions shall not affect our right to take proceedings in any other jurisdiction nor shall the taking of Proceedings in any jurisdiction preclude us from taking proceedings in any other jurisdiction.