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Terms of Use

1 Introduction

1.1 These Terms and Conditions of Use set out the rights and obligations of users of the websites www.thegreenhome.co.uk and www.thegreenworkplace.co.uk (“the Websites”) which belong to and are operated by Green Home Solutions Limited (trading as “The Green Home”), a company registered in England under registration number 7117502.  In consideration of The Green Home providing access to the Websites all use of the same by anyone accessing the Websites is subject to these Terms and Conditions of Use and all people accessing the Websites are deemed to understand and accept these Terms and Conditions of Use without limitation or qualification.  If any person accessing the Websites does not accept these Terms and Conditions of Use, they should immediately desist from using the Websites.

1.2 The Green Home reserves the right to vary these Terms and Conditions of Use from time to time.  Such variations will take effect immediately upon the posting of the varied Terms and Conditions of Use upon the Websites.  In continuing to use the Websites, any person accessing the Websites is deemed to accept such variations.

1.3 The Green Home reserves the right to withdraw or modify any aspect of the Websites for whatever reason, whether legal, technical or otherwise without notice. The Green Home will not be liable if for any reason the Websites are unavailable at any time or for any period.

1.4 From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our Websites, or our entire Websites, to users who have registered with us.

If any person chooses, or is provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of The Green Home’s security procedures, such person must treat such information as confidential, and must not disclose it to any third party. The Green Home have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by a user or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion the user has failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms and Conditions of Use.


2 Information, Accuracy and Availability

2.1 Whilst The Green Home makes every effort to present accurate and reliable material and information on the Websites, it does not endorse, approve or certify any material and information on the Websites as true or accurate, nor does it guarantee the completeness, efficacy or timeliness of such material and information. The Green Home does not accept any liability arising from any inaccuracy or omission in the information provided or in relation to any such product, process or service.

2.2 Furthermore, The Green Home makes no representations or warranties about the suitability or accuracy of the information contained in the Websites for any purpose.  The Green Home hereby expressly excludes all warranties and conditions with regard to this information, including, to the extent enforceable, all warranties and conditions whether express, implied or statutory, of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement of third party rights.

2.3 Any persons accessing the Websites do so entirely at their own risk.


3 Links to Other Websites

3.1 At certain places on the Websites, hypertext links are provided to enable any person accessing the Websites to directly access other third party websites.  These third party websites contain material or information created, published and maintained by organisations independent of The Green Home.  The Green Home does not endorse, approve, certify or control these external sites, nor any product or service referred to on them and does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, or timeliness of any material and information appearing on such websites.

3.2 The Green Home assumes no responsibility for any consequences resulting from the use of any material and information contained on the Websites or on any linked third party websites and expressly disclaims all liability for damage arising out of the use, reference to, reliance upon or performance due to such information.


4 Representations and Warranties

4.1 Persons accessing the Websites will not seek to amend anything on the Websites or include or create any link to the Websites without The Green Home’s express written consent.

4.2 Persons accessing the Websites will not remove or change any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property notices contained on any material copied or printed off the Websites, or use such materials for a purpose not envisaged by these Terms and Conditions of Use.

4.3 Persons accessing the Websites will indemnify and hold harmless The Green Home against all and any loss, damage or expense howsoever incurred by The Green Home arising from any non observance by such person of any of these Terms and Conditions of Use. In addition and without prejudice to any other remedy that may be available to The Green Home hereunder, in the event that any person accessing the Websites breaches any of these Terms and Conditions of Use they will as soon as practicable and at their own cost remedy any such breach.


5 Alerting The Green Home

If persons accessing the Websites see anything on the Websites which appears to infringe these Terms and Conditions of Use, please contact The Green Home by emailing The Green Home at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . It is expressly agreed that The Green Home reserves the right at its sole discretion and at any time without notice to exclude any person from accessing the Websites including in circumstances where The Green Home anticipates that any persons accessing the Websites will act other than in accordance with these Terms and Conditions of Use or establishes that such persons are acting or have acted other than in accordance with these Terms and Conditions of Use.


6 Intellectual Property & Use of the Websites

6.1 The Green Home is the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights (including without limitation all patents, registered designs, registered trade marks and any applications for such registered rights, copyright, database rights, unregistered design rights, unregistered trade marks, trade or business names (including internet domain names) and all other rights of a similar nature or having equivalent or similar effect to any of the foregoing as in each case may exist anywhere in the world) in the Websites and the materials published on the same. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

6.2 Persons accessing the Websites may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use the Websites’ content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any the Websites’ content. Any other use of the Websites’ content requires the prior written permission of The Green Home.

6.3 Persons accessing the Websites agree to use the Websites only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of the Websites. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within the Websites.

6.4 The Green Home neither warrants nor represents that any person’s use of the material displayed on the Websites will not infringe rights of third parties.

6.5 The Green Home’s status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on its Websites must always be acknowledged.


7 Limitation of liability

7.1 The Green Home hereby expressly excludes any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our Websites or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of the Websites, any websites linked to it and any materials 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.

7.2 The Green Home will not be liable for any failure to perform its obligations under these Terms and Conditions of Use caused by matters beyond its reasonable control, howsoever arising.


8 Non-excluded Liabilities

Nothing in these Terms and Conditions of Use limit The Green Home’s liability for death or personal injury resulting from The Green Home’s negligence, nor The Green Home’s liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter nor any other liability which may not be lawfully excluded under applicable law.


9 Viruses, Hacking and Other Offences

9.1 You must not misuse our Websites 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 websites, the server on which our websites are stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Websites. You must not attack our Websites via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.

9.2 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 rights to use our Websites will cease immediately.

9.3 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 Websites or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.


10 Contributions

10.1 Where you are invited to submit any contribution to the Websites or email the administrator you agree, by submitting your contribution that such contribution is non-confidential and non-proprietary and you agree to grant The Green Home a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in our Privacy Policy set out below. If you do not want to grant to The Green Home the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to the Websites or email the administrator.

10.2 Further to paragraph 10.1, by submitting your contribution to either of the Websites or emailing The Green Home, you warrant that your contribution:

  • is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to The Green Home for all the purposes specified above;
  • is not defamatory;
  • complies with applicable law in the United kingdom and in any country from which they are posted; and
  • does not violate, plagiarise, or infringe the rights of third parties or any third party intellectual property rights, including without limitation copyright, trade mark, trade secrets, right of confidentiality, privacy, publicity, personal or other proprietary rights; and
  • Is accurate (where facts are stated)

and you indemnify The Green Home against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by The Green Home as a result of your breach of the above warranties, and waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on the Websites and for the purposes specified above.

10. 3   If you breach these Terms of Use or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on the Websites, The Green Home may use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop any further such infringements. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer or email provider about the infringement/s.   The Green Home reserves the right to delete any contribution, or take action against any account, at any time, for any reason including:

  • Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our website
  • Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our Websites
  • Issue of a warning to you
  • Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach
  • Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary

We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this clause 10. The responses described in this clause 10 are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.


11 Entire Agreement

These Terms and Conditions of Use and our Privacy Policy set out below represent the whole agreement between persons accessing the Websites and The Green Home concerning the Websites and they replace all earlier agreements and understandings between such persons and The Green Home.  Any person who is not a party to any agreement formed under these Terms and Conditions of Use has no rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to rely upon or enforce any terms of these Terms and Conditions of Use.


12 Severability

In the event that any term of these Terms and Conditions of Use is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of appropriate jurisdiction, the remaining Terms and Conditions of Use shall remain valid and enforceable.

13 Law

The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from or related to a visit to our Websites. These Terms and Conditions of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.

14 Privacy Policy

For more information about our privacy policy, click on the 'Privacy' link at the bottom of this page.