Terms and Conditions
Thank you for visiting www.wordery.com (the "Website"), the website of Waterstones Booksellers Limited, a company registered in England at 203-206 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9HD, with company no. 610095 ("Waterstones").
These Website Terms and Conditions (as amended from time to time) describe how we offer the Website for your use and the rules that you must comply with when using the Website (the "Terms").
Contact us
All references to Waterstones in these Terms include Waterstones and its affiliates officers, partners, members, employees, consultants, authorised agents and sub-contractors. "Our", "we" and "us" means Waterstones; "you" and "your" includes, where applicable, any person who accesses the Website on your behalf. "Includes" means includes or including without limitation.
Should you need to contact us, please see the Contact us section of the Website.
By using our Website you accept these terms
By using our Website you accept these Terms and agree to comply with the rules set out in these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use our Website.
changes
We amend these Terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our Website, please check these Terms to ensure you understand the Terms that apply at that time. We may update and change our Website from time to time.
Our Website is made available free of charge.
We do not guarantee that our Website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our Website.
We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation.
Use of our Website
You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Website through your internet connection are aware of these Terms and other terms as set out on our Website, and that they comply with them.
You must:
- use our Website only for lawful purposes;
- configure your own information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Website; and
- use your own virus protection software.
You must not:
- reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our Website; or
- use our Website:
- in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
- to harm or attempt to harm children;
- to bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate anyone; or
- to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam);
- misuse our Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful or otherwise harmfully interacting with our Website or any part of it;
- attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Website, the server on which our Website is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to our Website or any other equipment or network connected with our Website;
- interfere with, damage or disrupt any software used in the provision of our Website or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party on which this site relies in any way; or
- attack our Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
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 Website will cease immediately.
Rules about linking to the Website
You may link to our home page for non-commercial purposes, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must ensure that the destination to which you link our Website does not contain any material that is offensive, discriminatory, illegal, harassing, or otherwise objectionable.
You must not, unless otherwise agreed by Waterstones:
- establish a link to our Website in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists;
- establish a link to our Website in any website that is not owned by you;
- frame our Website on any other website, nor create a link to any part of our Website other than the home page; or
- provide a link that portrays us or any of our services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or defamatory manner.
We may withdraw linking permission without notice.
Intellectual Property
"Intellectual Property Rights" means: (a) any and all intellectual or industrial property rights existing under any Laws anywhere in the world, whether registered or unregistered, including patents, utility model rights, rights in layout-designs (topographies) of integrated circuits, rights in trade secrets, rights in confidential information and know-how, design rights, copyrights (including rights in software), neighbouring rights, database rights or other rights in compilations of data, and any and all rights of a similar nature, and (b) all applications and rights to apply for any of such aforementioned intellectual or industrial property rights, including registrations, renewals and extensions, anywhere in the world;
We are the owner or the licensee of all Intellectual Property Rights in our Website, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
You may not transmit, reproduce, modify, copy, distribute or use for commercial purposes any of the materials or content of the Website without our prior consent.
NO TEXT OR DATA MINING, OR WEB SCRAPING
You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our Website or any services provided via, or in relation to, our Website for any purpose, including the development, training, fine-tuning or validation of AI systems or models. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):
- any "robot", "bot", "spider", "scraper" or other automated device, programme, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of our Website or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same; or
- any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information or develop, train, fine-tune or validate AI systems or models which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.
The provisions in this paragraph should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard but for the avoidance of doubt does not restrict search engine indexing of our Website.
You shall not use, and we do not consent to the use of, our Website, or any data published by, or contained in, or accessible via, our Website or any services provided via, or in relation to, our Website for the purposes of developing, training, fine-tuning or validating any AI system or model.
Content on the Website
The content on our Website is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from taking, any action on the basis of the content on our Website.
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our Website, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our Website is accurate, complete or up to date.
Where our Website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
Our Website may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the Website. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our Website do not represent our views or values.
We do not guarantee that our Website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Website.
Your privacy
For information about how we may collect and use any personal information about you, as well as how we use cookies and similar technologies, please see our Privacy Notice.
Limitation of liability
The information published on this Website is provided for general informational purposes only and is subject to change without notice. Waterstones accepts no liability for the accuracy or completeness of the information contained herein, nor does it assume any responsibility to update such information. Waterstones cannot guarantee that the content of the Website is accurate or complete and no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, are given in this regard.
This Website may from time-to-time contain links to third-party websites ("Third Party Sites"), over which Waterstones has no control. Waterstones does not assume any responsibility or liability for the content of Third Party Sites. Waterstones does not monitor or endorse the content of Third Party Sites and will not be responsible for the availability of such sites.
Your use of our Website is at your sole risk. Our Website is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Waterstones disclaims all liability for any loss or damage that you might incur as a result of accessing or using this Website or any link to a third-party website contained herein, including, for the avoidance of doubt, compensatory, direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of data, income or profit, loss of or damage to property and claims of third parties.
Consequences if you do not use our Website in accordance with these Terms
If we find that you have not used our Website in accordance with these Terms, we may take any action we deem appropriate, for example:
- immediately withdrawing your right to use our Website (either temporarily or permanently);
- issuing a warning to you;
- instituting legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from your misuse of our Website;
- taking further legal action against you; and/or
- disclosing any information to a law enforcement or other supervisory authority as we reasonably feel is necessary or is required by law.
Governing LaW
The laws of England and Wales govern these Terms and your use of the Website. It is technically possible for you to obtain access to this Website from any country in the world, and we have no practical ability to prevent such access. We designed this Website to comply with the laws of England and Wales. We operate in various countries throughout the world and comply with the laws of the countries in which we operate. If any material on this Website, or your use of it, is contrary to the laws where you are, we do not intend you to use the Website, and we ask you not to use it.
Severability. If any provision of these Terms is or becomes invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of these Terms will not be impacted.
No waiver. A failure to exercise, or a delay in exercising, a right or remedy provided by these Terms or under applicable Law does not constitute a waiver of such right or remedy or a waiver of any other rights or remedies. No single or partial exercise of a right or remedy provided by these Terms or under applicable law will prevent the further exercise of such right or remedy or the exercise of any other right or remedy.
Third party rights. Nothing in these Terms comprise a stipulation in favour of any third party or will confer upon any third party any right or benefit, whether under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise.