1.TERMS OF WEBSITE USE
These terms of use (together with the documents referred to in it) tells
you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website (our
site), whether as a guest or a registered user. Use of our site includes
accessing, browsing, or registering to use our site.
Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use our site,
as these will apply to your use of our site. We recommend that you print
a copy of this for future reference.
By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and
that you agree to comply with them.
If you do not agree to these terms of use, you must not use our site.
OTHER APPLICABLE TERMS
These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also
apply to your use of our site:
- Our Acceptable Use Policy below, which sets out the permitted
uses and prohibited uses of our site. When using our site, you must
comply with this Acceptable Use Policy.
- Our Cookie Policy below, which sets out information about the
cookies on our site.
INFORMATION ABOUT US
This site is owned by the Meritt Foundation. It is operated by Meritt One Ltd ("We"). We
are registered in England and Wales and have our
registered office at 71-75 Shelton Street, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9JQ.
CHANGES TO THESE TERMS
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. Please check this
page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on
you.
CHANGES TO OUR SITE
We may update our site from time to time and may change the content at any time.
However, please note that any of the content on our site may be out of date at any
given time, and we are under no obligation to update it. We do not guarantee that our
site, or any content on it, will be free from errors or omissions.
ACCESSING OUR SITE
Our site is made available free of charge.
We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be
uninterrupted. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend,
withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our site without notice. We will not
be liable to you if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any
period.
You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our
site.
You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your
internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and
conditions, and that they comply with them.
YOUR ACCOUNT AND PASSWORD
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any
other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such
information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.
We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by
you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to
comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
If you know or suspect that anyone other than you know your user identification code or
password, you must promptly notify us at [email protected]
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, 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 print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for
your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to
content posted on our site.
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 content on our
site must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the content on our site 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 site in breach of these terms of use,
your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return
or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
NO RELIANCE ON INFORMATION
The content on our site 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, any action on the basis of the content on our
site.
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no
representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content
on our site is accurate, complete or up-to-date.
LIMITATION OF OUR LIABILITY
Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal
injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or
any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.
To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations
or other terms which may apply to our site or any content on it, whether express or
implied.
We will not be liable to any user 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, our site; or
- use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
If you are a business user, please note that in particular, we 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.
If you are a consumer user, please note that we only provide our site for domestic and
private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and
we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business
interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed
denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect
your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to
your use of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website
linked to it.
We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links
should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be
liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
VIRUSES
We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and
platform in order to access our site. You should use your own virus protection
software.
You must not misuse our site 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 site, the server on which our site is stored
or any server, computer or database connected to our 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 our site will cease immediately.
LINKING TO OUR SITE
You may link to our home page, 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 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 to our site in any website that is not owned by you.
Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of
our site other than the home page.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content
standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy below.
If you wish to make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please
contact [email protected]
THIRD PARTY LINKS AND RESOURCES IN OUR SITE
Where our site 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.
APPLICABLE LAW
If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, its subject matter and its
formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree to that the courts of
England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction. However, if you are a resident
of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are
resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.
If you are a business, these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation (and any
non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the
exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
2.PRIVACY POLICY
The Meritt Foundation and its service provider Meritt One Ltd ("We") are committed to
protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our terms of use MERITT.CO and any other documents referred
to on it) 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. By visiting our website you are accepting and consenting to the practices described
in this policy.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is
Meritt One Ltd of 71-75 Shelton Street, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9JQ.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU
The smart contracts written in the programming language Solidity does not collect
information from you, however any information you publish onto a blockchain like
Ethereum is public by design.
If you go to our website or utilise other services, we may collect and process the
following data about you:
- Information you give us. This is information about you that you give us by filling
in forms on our site or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. It
includes information you provide when you register to use our site, subscribe to
our service, search for a product, place an order on our site, participate in
discussion boards or other social media functions on our site, enter a competition,
promotion or survey and when you report a problem with our site. The information
you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number,
financial and credit card information, personal description and photograph.
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Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our site we
may automatically collect the following information:
- technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to
connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type
and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions,
operating system and platform;
- information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators
(URL), clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time),
products you viewed or searched for page response times, download errors,
length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as
scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the
page, and any phone number used to call our customer service number.
- Information we receive from other sources. This is information we receive about you
if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide.
We are working closely with third parties (including, for example, business
partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising
networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference
agencies). We will notify you when we receive information about you from them and
the purposes for which we intend to use that information.
COOKIES
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps
us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us
to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes
for which we use them see our Cookie policy for MERITT.CO
USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
We may use information held about you in the following ways:
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Information you give to us. We may use this information:
- to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into
between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and
services that you request from us;
- to provide you with information about other goods and services we offer
that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired
about;
- to notify you about changes to our service;
- to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective
manner for you and for your computer.
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Information we collect about you. We may use this information:
- to administer our site and for internal operations, including
troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey
purposes;
- to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most
effective manner for you and for your computer;
- to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when
you choose to do so;
- as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
- to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you
and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
- to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site
about goods or services that may interest you or them.
- Information we receive from other sources. We may combine this information with
information you give to us and information we collect about you. We will use this
information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending
on the types of information we receive).
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
You agree that we have the right to share your personal information with:
- 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.
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Selected third parties including:
- business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any
contract we enter into with them or you;
- analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and
optimisation of our site;
We will disclose your personal information to third parties:
- In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we will
disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or
assets.
- If the Meritt foundation or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third
party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will 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
HTTPS://MERITT.CO and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or
safety of Meritt One Ltd, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging
information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud
protection and credit risk reduction.
WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination
outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating
outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. This may include staff
engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your
payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal
data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing.
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to
access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password
confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
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.
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 [email protected]
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.
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.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and,
where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any
updates or changes to our privacy policy.
CONTACT
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should
be addressed to [email protected]
3.ACCEPTABLE USE
This acceptable use policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you may
access our website (our site). This acceptable use policy applies to all users of, and
visitors to, our site.
Your use of our site means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the policies in
this acceptable use policy, which supplement our terms of website use above.
This site operated by Meritt One Ltd (we or us). We are registered in England and Wales
and we have our registered office at 71-75 Shelton
Street, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9JQ.
PROHIBITED USES
You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:
- In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or
regulation.
- In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent
purpose or effect.
- For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
- To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising
or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
- To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses,
Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other
harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the
operation of any computer software or hardware. You also agree:
- Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention
of the provisions of our terms of website use above.
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Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
- any part of our site;
- any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
- any software used in the provision of our site; or
- any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.
INTERACTIVE SERVICES
We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site, including, without
limitation:
- Chat rooms.
- Bulletin boards.
- Live updates.
- Interactive services.
Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you
about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of moderation is
used (including whether it is human or technical).
We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users (and in particular, for
children) from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our
site, and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of
the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those
risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any
interactive service we provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our liability for
any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in
contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.
The use of any of our interactive services by a minor is subject to the consent of their
parent or guardian. We advise parents who permit their children to use an interactive
service that it is important that they communicate with their children about their
safety online, as moderation is not fool proof. Minors who are using any interactive
service should be made aware of the potential risks to them.
Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with a means
of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.
CONTENT STANDARDS
These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site
(contributions), and to any interactive services associated with it.
You must comply with the spirit and the letter of the following standards. 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.
- Give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.
- Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only)
copyright infringement or computer misuse.
SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION
We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this acceptable
use policy through your use of our site. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we
may take such action as we deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the
terms of use above upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our
taking all or any of the following actions:
- Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
- Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by
you to our site.
- 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.
- Further legal action against you.
- 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 acceptable use
policy. The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any
other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
CHANGES TO THE ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
We may revise this acceptable use policy 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 make, as
they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in this acceptable
use policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our
site.
4.INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps
us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us
to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of
cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the
hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is
transferred to your computer's hard drive. We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation
of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into
secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of
visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it.
This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that
users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our
website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and
remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you
have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make
our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We
may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and
providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use
cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be
analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that 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 able to access all or parts of
our site.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 2 years.