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By accessing, using or downloading materials from this website you agree to the following terms and conditions. If you do not agree with these terms, do not use this site or download any materials from it.

Copyright

Copyright, and all other intellectual property rights in the material available at this site, is owned by HQIP or the third party that authored or funded the work and may only be used in the ways described in this legal notice.

Except as otherwise indicated on this website, you may view, download or print a single copy of documents and graphics from this website provided that:

1. the material is used solely for research, personal or non-commercial purposes;

2. the material is not modified or altered in any way; AND

3. you do not remove any part of this legal notice.

Furthermore you must not, without the express consent of HQIP:

1. republish material from this website (including on another website);

2. sell, rent or sub-licence material from this website;

3. show any material from this website in public;

4. edit or modify any material on this website;

5. redistribute material from this website (except for content specifically and expressly made available for this purpose such as the HQIP newsletter).

All rights, title and interest not expressly granted are reserved.

Trademarks

All company, product or service names referenced in this website are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Links to other websites

Links and frames connecting this website with other websites are for convenience only and do not mean that HQIP endorses or approves those sites, their content or any changes and updates to them.

Warranties and disclaimers

Except as expressly provided in an agreement between you and HQIP, all information, software, products and related graphics contained on this website are provided "as is" without warranty, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, titale and non-infringement of third party intellectual property rights.

In no event shall HQIP be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages for loss of profits, revenue, data or use incurred by you or any third party, whether in action in contract, tort, or otherwise, arising from your access to, or use of, this website. HQIP make no representations about the suitability, reliability, or timeliness, and accuracy of the information, software, products and related graphics contained on this website. HQIP reserves the right to make improvements, changes or updates to this website at any time without notice.

Acceptable use

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to this website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of this website, or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful.

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which is offensive, or which consists of or is linked to malicious software, including but not limited to any spyware, virus, trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger and rootkit.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activity, including data mining, data extraction and data harvesting without HQIP's written consent.

Restricted access

Access to certain areas of this website are restricted and HQIP reserve the right to restrict access to other areas at its discretion.

If you are provided with a user ID and password which enables access to a restricted area, you must ensure that this user ID and password is kept confidential. You user ID and password may be disabled at HQIP's discretion.

User generated content

In these terms of use, user content means material (including but not limited to, text, images and audio, video and audio visual materials) that you submit to this website for whatever purpose.

Except as expressly provided, any information or material sent to HQIP will be deemed NOT to be confidential. By submitting information or material to HQIP, you grant HQIP an unrestricted, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, publish, translate and distribute the information or material in any existing or future media. You also agree that HQIP is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques that you send us for any purpose.

However, we will not release your name or otherwise publicise the fact that you submitted materials or other information to us unless: (a) you grant us permission to do so; (b) we first notify you that the materials or other information you submit to a particular part of a site will be published or otherwise used with your name on it; or (c) we are required to do so by law.

User content must not be illegal or unlawful, nor infringe on any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against you, HQIP or a third party. HQIP reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on our servers.

Breach of terms of use

Without prejudice to HQIP's other rights, if you breach these terms of use in any way HQIP may take appropriate action to deal with the breach. This could include suspending your access to the website, prohibiting future use of this website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing this website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or taking legal action against you.

Variation

We may revise these terms of use from time to time and revised terms will apply from date of publication. It is your responsibility to check for updates.

Governing law and jurisdiction

This website (excluding linked sites) is controlled by HQIP from its offices within the United Kingdom. The interpretation, construction and effect of this Legal Notice and Disclaimer shall be governed and construed in all respects in accordance with the Laws of England. You and HQIP also agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.