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Terms and Conditions

This GPAQ website is owned by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited.

Acceptance

These Terms and Conditions ('Terms'), detail the basis upon which you are permitted to access and use this website www.mygpsurvey.com (the 'Website'). By using our Website, you are agreeing to these Terms and Conditions, whether as registered user or subscriber. By using our Website you are indicating you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. From time to time we may change these Terms and Conditions, and will post revisions on this website. We require that you read these Terms and Conditions prior to using our Website and thereafter regularly review any changes and you are responsible for doing so.

Privacy

The use of the data that you provide us, or which is collected by us on our website, is governed by our Privacy Policy. By using our site you consent to such processing.

Access to the Website

We try to ensure that website availability is uninterrupted and that transmissions will be error-free. However, we cannot, guarantee that your access will not be suspended or restricted from time to time, whether due to technical faults or to allow for repairs, maintenance or the introduction of new facilities or services. We of course try to limit the frequency and duration of any suspension or restriction.

Accounts and Passwords

If you have registered or subscribed to use any service within the Website, any user identification code or password is personal and non transferable and must be kept confidential and used only by you (unless agreed in writing with BMJ Publishing Group Limited) for the specified term of your subscription or registration period (which may be terminated at the discretion of BMJ Publishing Group Limited). We have the right to take action should this requirement be breached.

The website has not been optimised for use via mobile devices and users wishing to do so should be aware that they may not experience full functionality of the site.

Intellectual Property Rights

The content, layout, design, data, databases and graphics on the website are protected by UK and other international intellectual property laws and are owned by BMJ Publishing Group Limited or it's Licensors. Unless expressly permitted in writing, no part of the website and/or its content may be reproduced, stored in any medium, including but not limited to a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means including but not limited to electronic, digital, paper, mechanical, via photocopying, recording, broadcasting nor, shown in public. You may not create any derivative work or make any other adaptation, without our prior written consent. You must not modify any of the copies you have displayed on screen (or in printed certificates) in any way and you may not use any illustrations, photographs, videos or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. Any permitted use of our material above is subject to ensuring that our copyright notices and trade marks appear as they do on our website. If you use any material from our website in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must at our option return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made in breach. All rights not expressly granted in these terms or any express written licence, are reserved.

BMJ Publishing Group Limited's trademarks and logos which are displayed on the website are the trademarks of BMJ Publishing Group Limited and its Licensors. Any use including framing, metatags or other text utilising BMJ Publishing Group Limited's trademarks or other trademarks displayed, is strictly prohibited without our (or, if applicable, our Licensor's) express written consent.

Any material you upload to any user forum or via any news voting function will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary (unless otherwise stated on the site) and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

Permission for use of our intellectual property

Any request for permission of our content or images, or other use of our intellectual property not authorised under a subscription, should be made by emailing us

Links

Our Website may contain links including hyperlinks which may take you outside the BMJ Publishing Group Limited family of websites. Links are provided for your convenience, and an inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement or approval by us of the linked website, its operator or content. We have no control over the contents or functionality of those sites and accept no responsibility for any loss or damages that may arise from your use of them. We are not responsible for any website outside the BMJ Publishing Group Limited family of websites, and such websites use will be subject to relevant terms and conditions and privacy policies.

Disclaimers and limitations of liability


Disclaimers

  • Description or reference to an organisation, product or publication or service does not imply endorsement of that unless it is owned by BMJ Publishing Group Limited and in which case it is subject to the disclaimers and limitations of liability herein. To the fullest extent permitted by law the material and information displayed on our website is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to accuracy.
  • The material on this website does not constitute advice and is not a substitute for your own judgement as a professional.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, BMJ Publishing Group Limited expressly exclude:

  • All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity;
  • Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with the information contained on or use or inability to use or result of the use of our website, any websites linked to it and any material posted on it, including without limitation any liability for loss of income or revenue, loss of business, loss of profits or contracts, loss of anticipated savings, loss of data, loss of goodwill, wasted management or office time and for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable; and
  • Any direct losses in excess of twice any subscription fees paid.

Nothing in this provision affects our or our contractor's liability for death or personal injury arising from our (or their) negligence nor our (or their) liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under an applicable law.

Your conduct

You must not use the website in any way that causes or is likely to cause the website or access to it to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way. You understand that you are solely responsible for all electronic communications and contents sent from your computer to us. You must use the website for lawful purposes only. You must not use the website for any of the following:

  • Fraudulent purposes in connection with a criminal offence or otherwise unlawful activity
  • To send, use or re-use any material that is illegal, offensive, abusive, indecent, harmful, defamatory, obscene or menacing; or in breach of copyright, trademark, confidence, privacy or any other right; or is otherwise injurious to third parties; or objectionable; or which consists of or contains software viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any spam
  • To cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety
  • To reproduce, duplicate, copy or resell any part of our site in contravention with these terms of use.

Governing law

These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales, whose courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction, save that we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or other relevant country.

 
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