These terms of use relate to the use of our website only.
The Terms and Conditions that apply to the sale of any products via our website, or otherwise, can be found here (Trading Terms). Our Privacy policy can be found here (Privacy Policy).
1. GENERAL
1.1 The Rapid Global Limited, Company Number 14684565 (Rapid Global) website (www.rapidglobal.com) (Site), and all material on the Site (Material), is owned and operated by Rapid Global.
1.2 In these terms UK Consumer Law means (i) the Consumer Rights Act 2015, (ii) the Sale of Goods Act 1979, and (iii) the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977.
1.3 You accept and agree to comply with these Terms by accessing, browsing, opening or otherwise using any part of the Site. You acknowledge that you have had sufficient opportunity to read and understand the Terms and that you have the requisite authority and legal capacity to enter into these Terms. These Terms are in addition to the Trading Terms and any other document executed by you and Rapid Global. To the extent of any inconsistency, the terms of the Trading Terms or the executed document shall prevail over these Terms. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms, please immediately discontinue your use of the Site.
1.4 Rapid Global may amend these Terms from time to time without notice. Any amendment will be effective immediately upon being posted on this Site. Your continued use of this Site after any amendment becomes effective will constitute your acceptance of and agreement to comply with the amended Terms. Please therefore review these Terms each time you use this Site to ensure you understand the Terms that apply.
1.5 While Rapid Global has made every effort to ensure the accuracy and currency of this Site and the Material, it is subject to change and there may be inaccuracies, errors and omissions.
1.6 Rapid Global reserves the right to vary or modify the Material contained on this Site and to change or discontinue any function of (or accessibility to) this Site, without notice.
1.7 You must take your own precautions to ensure that whatever you select for use from this Site is free from viruses or anything else that may interfere with or damage the operation of your computer system. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access the Site. You should use your own virus protection software.
1.8 You must not misuse the Site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to the Site. You must not attack our site 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 the Site will cease immediately.
1.9 You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the Site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.
2. PRIVACY
2.1 Rapid Global may automatically record details about any computer used to access the Site (including the IP address, domain name and browser time), the date and time of access and details of the information downloaded. If collected, this information will only be used for internal statistical purposes and to improve this Site, and may be collected by Rapid Global’s use of cookies, for more information, please see Rapid Global’s Cookies Policy.
2.2 Any other information supplied to, or used by, Rapid Global, including personal or health information is used, and treated in accordance with Rapid Global’s Privacy Policy.
3. USERNAME
3.1 If you are issued a Username and Password you must treat that information as confidential, must not disclose it to any third party and are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of that information. You are responsible for any and all activities on this Site which occurs under your Username.
3.2 Your Username, and non-exclusive licence to use this Site, is non-transferable (Membership).
3.3 Rapid Global may terminate your Membership at any time without notice to you. Rapid Global have the right to disable your Username or Password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in Rapid Global’s reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use. You may terminate your Membership by written notice to Rapid Global.
3.4 If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your Username or Password, you must promptly change such Username or Password, or notify us using our support request form.
3.5 You must take due care to protect the copyright of the Site and Material and other intellectual property rights relating to the Site and Material and must protect any confidential information from unauthorised use, copying, publication or distribution.
3.6 You must adhere strictly to Rapid Global’s Privacy Policy and all privacy laws in respect of personal or health information contained on the Site or in the Material.
4. LINKS TO OR FROM OTHER SITES
4.1 For your convenience, the Site may contain links to other third-party websites. Rapid Global has no control over, and makes no representation or warranty as to, the accuracy or any other aspect of the information on any linked sites. These links are provided for your information only.
4.2 No link to another website is to be construed as an endorsement by, or recommendation or approval of, Rapid Global in respect of any information, goods or services. Rapid Global have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
4.3 You must not create or maintain any link from another website to this Site without Rapid Global’s prior written consent.
5. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
5.1 © Copyright – Rapid Global™. All rights reserved.
5.2 Rapid Global are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in the Site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. Unless otherwise indicated, Rapid Global reserves all copyright and other intellectual property rights in the content, graphics, coding and design of the Site and Material.
5.3 Rapid Global grants you a limited non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the Site and Material for your own personal, or internal business purpose or any other written purpose for which your Membership has been granted. Rapid Global’s status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on the Site must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated).
5.4 You may not use, copy, modify, transmit, store, publish or distribute the contents of the Site or Material for any purpose other than the purposes set out in clause 5.3.
5.5 Subject to clause 5.3, no licence is to be implied by virtue of these Terms.
5.6 Rapid Global reserves all rights in relation to the Rapid Global trademark. Other products and company names referred to on this Site may be owned by third parties.
5.7 The websites, products, information, technologies and process contained or referred to in this Site may be the subject of other intellectual property rights owned by Rapid Global or third parties. No licence is granted in respect of those intellectual property rights other than as set out in these Terms.
5.8 You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, the Site. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):
- Any “robot”, “bot”, “spider”, “scraper” or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of the Site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the Site.
- Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.
5.9 The provisions in clause 5.8 should be treated as an express reservation of Rapid Global’s rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).
5.10 Clause 5.8 and 5.9 shall not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) Rapid Global are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.
6. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
6.1 To the full extent permitted by law, Rapid Global excludes all representations, warranties or terms (whether express or implied) other than those expressly set out in these Terms.
6.2 Rapid Global do not exclude or limit in any way its liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by Rapid Global’s negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation. Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any products or services to you, which will be set out in Rapid Global’s Trading Terms.
6.3 Rapid Global will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with use of, or inability to use, the Site, in particular Rapid Global will not be liable for loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue; business interruption; loss of anticipated savings; loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
6.4 If defective digital content that we have supplied, damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, Rapid Global will either repair the damage or pay you compensation.
7. ASSUMPTION OF RISK
7.1 You acknowledge and agree that:
(a) the Site and Material may have inherent defects, errors or deficiencies;
(b) you will use the Site and Material and any advice, opinions or information supplied by Rapid Global, its officers, employees or agents at your own risk; and
(c) the Site and Material are supplied on the understanding that you will not hold Rapid Global, its officers, employees or agents liable for any loss or damage resulting from your use of the Site or Material.
7.2 In particular, you acknowledge that your Username has been issued to you for the purpose of providing you with access to Material that concerns a particular purpose. The Material is not generic and should only be used in connection with the purpose for which that particular Username was issued.
7.3 You further acknowledge that the Site may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the Site. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.
8. DISCLAIMER
8.1 You acknowledge that the speed of response from the Site is dependent on your internal connection and performance of the Site and Materials may be affected by such external factors as your speed of connection, infrastructure bandwidth and the number of users on the connection.
8.2 The content on the Site is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. Rapid Global makes no warranty or guarantees, whether express or implied, as to the completeness or accuracy of any Material or as to its fitness for a particular purpose.
8.3 Rapid Global does not warrant that the Site, the Material or the material on any linked website does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any person.
8.4 Rapid Global does not warrant or guarantee that the Site, or the functions and content of the Site, or any third-party websites, will be:
(a) uninterrupted or without error,
(b) remedied if defects occur, or
(c) free of viruses or other harmful components.
8.5 Rapid Global may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons. Rapid Global will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.
8.6 Rapid Global will not be liable for disruptions to this Site.
8.6 Rapid Global:
(a) takes no responsibility for any delay, malfunction, non-performance or other degradation of the Site or Materials caused by or resulting from any alteration, modifications or amendments to the Site or Materials requested by you; and
(b) is not responsible for any delays, delivery failures, or any other loss or damage resulting from the transfer of data over communications networks and facilities, including the internet, and you acknowledge that the Site and Materials may be subject to limitations, delays and other problems inherent in the use of such communications facilities.
8.7 Rapid Global is not liable to you or anyone else if interference with or damage to your computer systems occurs in connection with the use of this Site or any external site to which a link is provided.
8.8 Where the Materials include pre-written materials provided by Rapid Global or other third parties, Rapid Global and its content providers will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that the Materials are accurate. However, you acknowledge and agree that:
(a) the information provided in such Material is intended only to provide a summary and general overview for the purposes of e-learning and training and is not intended to be a substitute for legal advice.
(b) You will seek legal or other professional advice before acting or relying on any of the Materials.
(c) If you or your authorised users edit the Materials, neither Rapid Global nor its content providers will be responsible for any Liability arising from such amendments.
9. INDEMNITY
9.1 You must indemnify Rapid Global and keep Rapid Global fully indemnified against all liabilities, damages, claims, losses, costs and expenses which Rapid Global may incur to a third-party or you as a result of:
(a) your use of this Site or the Material;
(b) any breach by you of these Terms; and
(c) any claims arising from any information, data, text or messages transmitted using the Site including claims for defamation, invasion of privacy, infringement of intellectual property rights or breach of any other applicable law, regulations or codes.
10. WAIVER
10.1 If you breach these Terms, failure by Rapid Global to take action will not constitute a waiver of rights and remedies arising from that breach and Rapid Global reserves its entitlement to enforce its rights and remedies in relation to that breach. Any waiver of any provision of these Terms will be effective only if it is in writing and executed by Rapid Global.
11. TRANSFER
11.1 Rapid Global may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to another
organisation. Rapid Global will always tell you in writing if this happens and will ensure that the
transfer will not affect your rights under the contract.
12. JURISDICTION
12.1 The Terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the law of England and
Wales. You submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England and Wales.
13. SEVERABILITY
13.1 Any provision in these Terms which is invalid or unenforceable is to be read, if possible, so as
to be valid and enforceable, or otherwise must be severed to the extent of the invalidity, without
affecting the remaining provisions of these Terms or affecting the validity or enforceability of that
provision in any other jurisdiction
Updated on the 28th of May 2024