Terms & Conditions

WEBSITE TERMS OF USE/PRIVACY POLICY
CROSSBRIDGE LLP


1.     TERMS OF WEBSITE USE
This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our websites www.crossbridge.co.uk and www.crossbridge-consulting.com ("our sites"), whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the sites. By using our sites, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our sites.

2.    INFORMATION ABOUT US
www.crossbridge.co.uk and www.crossbridge-consulting.com are sites operated by Crossbridge LLP ("We"). We are a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registration number OC338039 and have our registered office and main trading address at 16-18 Monument Street, London EC3R 8AJ.  Our VAT number is 927 4440 18.

3.    ACCESSING OUR SITES
Access to our sites is permitted on a temporary basis, and We reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our sites without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our sites are unavailable at any time or for any period.
From time to time, We may restrict access to some parts of our sites, or our entire sites, to users who have registered with us.
You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our sites.  You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our sites through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them. 

4.    INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our sites, and in the material published on them. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world.  All such rights are reserved.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our sites for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our sites. 
You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our sites must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the materials on our sites for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
If you print off, copy or download any part of our sites in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our sites will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

5.    RELIANCE ON INFORMATION POSTED
Commentary and other materials posted on our sites are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed.  We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our sites, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

6.    OUR SITES CHANGE REGULARLY
We aim to update our sites regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our sites, or close them indefinitely. Any of the material on our sites may be out of date at any given time, and We are under no obligation to update such material.

7.    OUR LIABILITY
The material displayed on our sites is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, We, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby 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 our sites or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including:
•    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
whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable, provided that this condition shall not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your tangible property or any other claims for direct financial loss that are not excluded by any of the categories set out above.
This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

8.    INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR VISITS TO OUR SITES
We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy.  By using our sites, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

9.    UPLOADING MATERIAL TO OUR SITES
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to our sites, you must comply with the content standards set out in the following paragraph 10. You warrant that any such material does comply with those standards, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. 
Any material you upload to our sites will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, 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 uploaded by you to our sites constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials uploaded by you or any other user of our sites.
We have the right to remove or reject any material uploaded by you to our sites if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with the content standards set out in the following paragraph 10.

10.    CONTENT STANDARDS FOR UPLOADED MATERIAL
These content standards apply to any and all material which you upload to our sites ("contributions"), and to any interactive services associated with such uploading.
You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.
Contributions must:
•    Be accurate (where they state facts)
•    Be genuinely held (where they state opinions)
•    Comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted
Contributions must not:
•    Contain any material which is defamatory of any person
•    Contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory
•    Promote sexually explicit material
•    Promote violence
•    Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age
•    Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person
•    Be likely to deceive any person
•    Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence
•    Promote any illegal activity
•    Be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety
•    Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person
•    Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.

11.    VIRUSES, HACKING AND OTHER OFFENCES
You must not misuse our sites by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our sites, the server on which our sites are stored or any server, computer or database connected to our sites. You must not attack our sites via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our sites will cease immediately.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our sites or to your downloading of any material posted on them, or on any website linked to them.

12.    LINKING TO OUR SITES
You may link to our home pages, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
Our sites must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our sites other than the home pages. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in paragraph 10 above.
If you wish to make any use of material on our sites other than that set out above, please address your request to info@crossbridge.co.uk

13.    LINKS FROM OUR SITES
Where our sites contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. 

14.    JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW
The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our sites although We retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country. 
These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.

15.    TRADE MARKS
"CROSSBRIDGE" is a UK registered trade mark of Crossbridge LLP. Crossbridge Services Limited, Crossbridge LLP, the Crossbridge logo, and certain product names mentioned in this web site are trade marks of Crossbridge LLP. All other product names mentioned in the web sites are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only.

16.    VARIATIONS
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our sites.

17.    YOUR CONCERNS
If you have any concerns about material which appears on our sites, please contact info@crossbridge.co.uk Thank you for visiting our site


PRIVACY POLICY FOR VISITORS TO www.crossbridge.co.uk or www.crossbridge-consulting.com

1.    INTRODUCTION
Crossbridge LLP ("We") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (together with our terms of use) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.  Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

2.    INFORMATION ABOUT US
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the "Act"), the data controller is Crossbridge LLP of 16-18 Monument Street, London EC3R 8AJ.

3.    INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU
We may collect and process the following data about you:
•    Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site ("our site"). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information if and when you report a problem with our site.
•    If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
•    We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
•    Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, and the resources that you access.

4.    IP ADDRESSES
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

5.    COOKIES
For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. Some of the cookies we use are essential for the site to operate.

If you register with us or if you continue to use our site, you agree to our use of cookies.

Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be to access all or parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon you visit our site.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 2 years

6.    WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access

7.    USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
We use information held about you in the following ways:
•    To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
•    To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
•    To allow you to participate in interactive features of our website (such as the facility to upload your curriculum vitae) when you choose to do so.
•    To notify you about changes to our services.
If you are an existing client, we will only send marketing communications to you by electronic means (e-mail) with information about services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.
If you are a new client, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this.

If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data.

8.    DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
•    In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
•    If Crossbridge LLP or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about visitors to its website may be one of the transferred assets.
•    If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Crossbridge LLP, our clients, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

9.    YOUR RIGHTS
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data.  You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at our address or via info@crossbridge.co.uk.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

10.    ACCESS TO INFORMATION
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you

11.    CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail

12.    CONTACT
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed via info@crossbridge.co.uk.