Terms & Conditions

Please read these conditions of business carefully before registering as a member on our Web Site. By registering with our Web Site, You agree to be bound by these conditions of business and our Web Site Disclaimers which can be accessed by you via each page of Our Web Site. We may modify these conditions of business at any time. Any such modification will be effective immediately from the time they are included on Our Web Site. You agree to review these conditions of business regularly to ensure that You are aware of any modifications made to them.


THESE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS DO NOT AFFECT YOUR STATUTORY RIGHTS.


1. Basis of Contract

1.1. Any reference to “Web Site” is to the web site located at the URL greatwarliterature.co.uk “We, Us. Our, Ourselves” means Great War Literature. “You, Your, Yourself” means the person who uses the Web Site. “Study Guide” means the material available on Our Web Site.

1.2. These conditions shall govern the use of our Web Site by you to the exclusion of any other terms and conditions.

1.3. These conditions supercede all previous terms and conditions and shall replace any terms and conditions previously notified to you.

1.4. No variation to these conditions shall be binding on us unless agreed in writing between you and one of us.

1.5. Our employees, writers and/or agents are not authorised to make any representations or warranties concerning our Web Sites and/or the services that we offer unless confirmed by us in writing.

1.6. You acknowledge that you do not rely on any representation and/or warranty that has not been made in accordance with these conditions.


2. Use of Web Site

2.1. You shall only use the Web Site for lawful purposes.

2.2. When you use the Web Site and/or send us an e-mail, you are communicating with us electronically. You consent to all communications being sent to you electronically via the e-mail address that you provide to Us. You agree that such communications will satisfy any legal requirement for the communication to be in writing.

2.3. You will comply with all generally accepted principles of Internet usage including but not limited to not:-

2.3.1. sending unsolicited mass communications;

2.3.2. sending mail bombs, trojan horses, viruses or other disruptive programs or code;

2.3.3. copying software or other proprietary materials without the appropriate authorisation; and/or

2.3.4. violating the security of our Web Site or engaging in unauthorised decompilation and/or decryption of protected materials.

2.4. We shall have the sole discretion to edit, refuse to post or remove any material that is submitted and/or posted to Our Web Site.


3. Intellectual Property Rights and Confidentiality

3.1. You may only download Study Guides from our Web Site for Your own personal use.

3.2. All intellectual property rights (including without limitation all patents, copyright, design rights (whether registered or unregistered), trade marks (whether registered or unregistered), skill and/or know-how and other similar rights, whether existing now and/or in the future, wherever existing in the world together with the right to apply for protection of the same) in the Study Guides shall be owned by us absolutely.

3.3. You shall only use the Study Guides purchased for research purposes and you shall not pass off or attempt to pass off any Study Guide as your own work. To do so would constitute an infringement of copyright and moral rights and may also breach regulations set out by educational institutions.

3.4. The copyright and any other intellectual property rights in the design, text, pictures, graphics and the selection and arrangement of them and in all software compilations, coding, source code, software and in all documents and/or other material on the Web Site belongs to us absolutely or is licensed to us.

3.5. If You believe that the content of Our Web Site or Coursework in any way infringes intellectual property rights belonging to You or any third party, please contact us immediately.


4. Payment

4.1. Payment is accepted by credit/debit card or PayPal.

4.2. All online payment transactions are handled by our secure online payment system or by PayPal if using the "PayPal Express" option. When payment is made using our secure online payment service, your card details are fully encrypted for protection.


5. Limitations on Liability

5.1. We shall have no Liability for any matters that are outside our reasonable control.

5.2. We shall have no Liability in respect of any acts and/or omissions by PayPal including but not limited to Liability for the security of information that is passed by You to PayPal.

5.3. We shall use our reasonable endeavours to ensure the security of our Web Site. We shall have no Liability where the security of our Web Site is breached due to acts and/or omissions by you and/or where we have taken reasonable steps to protect the security and integrity of the Web Site.

5.4. We shall use our reasonable endeavours to monitor the material on our Web Site and to ensure that any material that is immoral, unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, profane and/or causes offence is removed from our Web Site upon receipt of notice of any such material.

5.5. We shall have no liability to You for any:-

5.5.1. consequential losses;

5.5.2. loss of profits and/or damage to goodwill;

5.5.3. economic and/or similar losses;

5.5.4. loss of and/or corruption of data;

5.5.5. transmission of virus and/or any other harmful code;

5.5.6. special damages and indirect losses; and/or

5.5.7. missed deadlines and/or failed exams.

5.6. Our total Liability to you in relation to any one claim shall not exceed 100% of the payment for the Study Guide(s) that you have paid to us.

5.7. Each of the limitations and/or exclusions in this Agreement shall be deemed to be repeated and apply as a separate provision for each of:

5.7.1. Liability for breach of contract and/or under this Agreement;

5.7.2. Liability for a breach of a duty of care (including negligence);

5.7.3. Liability for breach of statutory duty; and

5.7.4. Liability for breach of common law.

5.8. Nothing in this Agreement shall exclude or limit our Liability for death or personal injury due to our negligence or any Liability which is due to our fraud or any other Liability which we are not permitted to exclude or limit as a matter of law.

5.9. Nothing in this Contract shall exclude any of your statutory rights which may not be excluded or limited due to you acting as a consumer and/or due to any applicable law. Any provision, which would be void under any consumer protection legislation or other legislation, shall, to that extent, have no force or effect.


6. General

6.1. No waiver by Us of any breach of this Agreement shall be considered as a waiver of any subsequent breach of the same provision or other provision.

6.2. If any provision of this Agreement is held by any competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part the validity of the other provisions of this Agreement and the remainder of the affected provision shall be unaffected and shall remain in full force and effect.

6.3. We shall have no liability to you for any delay in performance of this Agreement to the extent that such delay is due to any event outside our reasonable control including but not limited to acts of God, war, flood, fire, labour disputes, subcontractor delays, strikes, lock-outs, riots, civil commotion, malicious damage, explosion, governmental actions and any other similar events. If we are affected by any such event then time for performance shall be extended for a period equal to the period that such event or events delayed such performance.

6.4. All third party rights are excluded and no third party shall have any right to enforce this Agreement.

6.5. This Agreement is governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law and the parties agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.


7. Our Details

7.1. The Web Site is owned and operated by Great War Literature.

7.2. The contact details for Great War Literature Publishing LLP are as follows:

Great War Literature Publishing LLP, Forum House, 22 Stirling Road, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 7DN. United Kingdom.

You can contact Great War Literature by e-mailing admin@greatwarliterature.co.uk



Please read these provisions carefully before using our web site. By accessing or using our web site, you agree to be bound by the provisions set out below. If you do not agree to be bound in this way, do not continue to access or use our web site. We may modify these provisions at any time. Any such modifications are effective immediately from the time they are included on our web site. You agree to review these provisions regularly to ensure you become aware of any modifications to them.


Audio and e-Book Digital Downloads Refunds and Returns Policy

Great War Literature is unable to accept the return of digital items (eg. e-Books or audio files) or provide a refund once you have purchased due to the nature of the automated electronic delivery method of digital items in compliance with EU Directives on digitally downloaded assets.

Note: Specific rules apply to damaged or defective download items. If your download should error or be corrupted and you are unable to download the item again within the 24-hour period you should e-mail us to obtain a replacement. Please remember to quote your PayPal Payment Reference and date of purchase. We are unable to offer a refund unless there is a complete failure to resolve the problem on our part, but, will be happy to provide a replacement PDF. We cannot be responsible for any failure to complete the purchase or operation of the documents due to malfunction or unappropriate software on the purchasers systems.


Basic Returns Policy

By law, customers in the European Union have the right to withdraw from the purchase of an item (ie. book or CD) within seven working days of the day after the date the item is delivered. Return it to us in its original condition within seven working days of the day after the day you received the item, unopened (with any seals and shrink-wrap intact) and we will issue a full refund for the price you paid for the item excluding any postage and packaging.

We cannot refund any postage or packaging cost for the original item.

Please note that we cannot accept returns that are delivered to us by hand.

This returns policy applies to all of our printed books and CD's but excludes digital items (eg: e-Books and audio files).

Great War Literature also regrets that we cannot accept cancellations of contracts for the purchase of printed books, videos, DVDs, and audio products where the item has been unsealed.


Confidential Information

The Internet is not a secure medium and privacy cannot be assured. We cannot accept any responsibility for any harm or damage you may experience or incur by sending personal or confidential information to us over the Internet or if we send you such information at your request.

If you choose to give us personal information via the Internet we may need to correspond with you, for example, to let you know how we will use such information. If you inform us that you do not wish to have this information used as a basis for further contact with you then we will respect your wishes.


Contracts

Please note that contracts may [not] be concluded on our behalf by e-mail.


Encryption

Please note that any e-mail sent to or from us via this web site and any attachments will not be encrypted, unless the e-mail is deemed by us to contain information of a sensitive nature in relation to you or your purchase. They may therefore be liable to be compromised. This is an inherent risk in relation to e-mail. We do not, to the extent permitted by law, accept any liability (whether in contract, negligence or otherwise) for any external compromise of security and/or confidentiality in relation to transmissions sent by e-mail.

Information provided, such as credit card data, is protected by strong encryption by ourselves and our third party merchant facilities provider i.e. PayPal. For further information regarding the protection of your data when using these services please refer to PayPal's Security Center information page at: https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_security-center-outside.


Cookies

Cookies are software applications which are placed onto the hard drive of your computer by web sites. The aim of a cookie is to track a user’s navigation in the web site and store the information on the user’s hard drive. This information should make your web site visits more productive by storing and using information on your web site preferences and habits. They do not identify users personally but they do identify each user’s computer. Your browser software can choose whether or not to accept cookies and most browser software is initially set up to accept them.

We do not currently offer cookies on this web site, but our third-party providers may do. You should refer to our third-party provider’s terms and conditions for further information. You should ensure that your browser software is set not to accept cookies if you do not wish to receive them, but we should make you aware that the functionality and access for feature such as payment may be impaired.


Data Protection

We will comply with the requirements of all Data Protection legislation in force in England and Wales from time to time. In particular users may request a copy of any personal data held by us about them upon written application. Please note we reserve the right to charge the current statutory fee for providing such information.

We intend to manage any information learned about you in an ethical manner. It will only be used for our internal purposes and the internal purposes of our group. We do not sell databases or personal information to third parties.

We can follow your navigation through our web site and identify the web pages which you visit. We may use such information to build statistics on users of our web site for our own use and for the use of third parties.

We do not collect or compile personally identifying information for dissemination or sale to third parties for consumer marketing purposes.


Links

We do not accept any responsibility for the information practices of a web site you are able to access through a link on our web site. We make no representations about any other web sites which you may access through links on our web site.

The inclusion of a link to a third party web site contained on our web site does not mean that we endorse that third party web site.

A third party web site accessed from a link on our web site is independent from us and we have no control over the content and/or management of that web site. You view and rely upon the contents of any such third party web site at your own risk. We accept no liability to you for the contents of and/or information on any third party web site.

We shall have no liability to you for any loss or damage you may suffer if you enter into any contract as a result of viewing a third party web site linked to our web site.

We do not guarantee that any links to third party web sites contained on our web site will function correctly.

You are not entitled to create a link to any part of our web site without our prior written consent.


Intellectual Property

All web site design, text, pictures, graphics and the selection and arrangement of them and all software compilations, coding, underlying source code, software and all other material on this web site are copyright 2004-2006 Great War Literature unless otherwise acknowledged. ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED.

Infringement of our copyright in this web site or the materials associated with this web site may lead to criminal and/or civil sanctions in the UK, US and other countries.

Permission is granted to you to electronically copy and to print hard copy portions of this web site for the sole purpose of using this web site as a research and information resource provided you agree not to change and/or delete any content, web design and/or layout contained in that material. Any other use of materials on this web site, including modification, distribution or republication, are strictly prohibited.

If you believe that any content of our web site in any way infringes intellectual property rights belonging to you or any third party, please contact us immediately.


Viruses

Please note that viruses and similar destructive programs are an inherent risk of communication via the Internet.

We will use our reasonable endeavours to prevent contamination of any material sent to you with any virus or similar destructive code.

We do not, to the maximum extent permitted by law, accept any liability for any virus or similar destructive code which computer equipment and/or software used by you may suffer as a result of your accessing our web site and/or any other communication via the Internet between you and us.

It is your responsibility to scan what you choose to download from our web site to ensure that it is free of such items as viruses, worms, trojan horses and other similar destructive code.


General Disclaimers

Neither we nor any of our affiliates, directors, employees or other representatives will be liable for losses arising out of or in connection with the use of this web site.

We are only providing this web site and its contents on a “as is” basis and we make no (and expressly disclaim all) representations and/or warranties of any kind with respect to this web site or its contents. In addition we do not represent or warrant that the information accessible from or via this web site is accurate, complete or current. The information accessible from or via this website is not to be used as a substitute for professional advice. We have no liability for any content that is posted on the website by a third party.

The limitations of liability in relation to this web site apply to all damages of any kind, including, without limitation, compensatory, direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of data, income, production or profit, loss of or damage to property and claims of third parties.

The limitations of liability in relation to this web site do not limit our liability to the extent that it cannot be limited and/or excluded by applicable law.

You are liable for any telephone charges and any charges made by your internet service provider as a result of your use of the internet service.

Any rights not expressly granted by us are reserved.

GREAT WAR LITERATURE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO AMEND AND/OR WITHDRAW ANY PUBLICATION WITHOUT NOTIFICATION.

GREAT WAR LITERATURE STUDY GUIDES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" FOR YOUR USE, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. BECAUSE SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, THE ABOVE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

THE VIEWS AND/OR INTERPRETATIONS EXPRESSED OR CONTAINED WITHIN THE GREAT WAR LITERATURE STUDY GUIDES ARE SOLELY THOSE OF THE EDITOR AND IN NO WAY REFLECT UPON THE AUTHOR OR THE PUBLISHER.

GREAT WAR LITERATURE DOES NOT GUARANTEE THAT ANY CONTENT, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE OR OTHER MATERIAL ACCESSIBLE THROUGH THE GREAT WAR LITERATURE SITE WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES, "WORMS", "TROJAN HORSES", OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

IN NO CASE SHALL GREAT WAR LITERATURE, ITS PARTNERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AFFILIATES, AGENTS OR CONTRACTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE GREAT WAR LITERATURE WEB SITE OR ITS PRODUCTS OR FOR ANY OTHER CLAIM RELATED IN ANY WAY TO YOUR GREAT WAR LITERATURE USE. BECAUSE SOME COUNTRIES, STATES OR JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR THE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, IN SUCH COUNTRIES, STATES OR JURISDICTIONS, GREAT WAR LITERATURE'S LIABILITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN ANY SEPARATE SOFTWARE LICENCE OR AGREEMENT, GREAT WAR LITERATURE DOES NOT ENDORSE, WARRANT OR GUARANTEE ANY THIRD-PARTY PRODUCT OR SERVICE OFFERED THROUGH THE GREAT WAR LITERATURE WEB SITE AND WILL NOT BE A PARTY TO OR IN ANY WAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MONITORING ANY TRANSACTION BETWEEN YOU AND ANY THIRD PARTIES THROUGH THE GREAT WAR LITERATURE WEB SITE. YOU HEREBY RELEASE GREAT WAR LITERATURE FROM ANY AND ALL OBLIGATIONS, LIABILITY AND CLAIMS IN EXCESS OF THESE LIABILITY LIMITATIONS.