This page tells you the terms and conditions on which you may make use of the takepayments website under the domain name www.takepayments.com (the “Site”). These terms and conditions are referred to on this page as these “Terms of Use”.
Please read these Terms of Use carefully before you start to use the Site. By using the Site, you indicate that you accept these Terms of Use and that you agree to abide by them.
We may revise these Terms of Use at any time by notices published on the Site or sent to you by email to any email address(es) you have provided to us from time to time.
If you use the Site after the date on which those changes take effect then you indicate that you accept the revised Terms of Use and that you agree to abide by them.
Information about us
The Site is a website operated by takepayments Limited (referred to in these Terms of Use as “we”, “us” and “our”). ‘takepayments’ is a trading name of takepayments Limited. We are a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 3102137 and have our registered office at 4th Floor, Highbank House, Exchange Street, Stockport, SK3 0ET. Our VAT number is 374978245.
Accessing the site
You may access most areas of the Site without registering your details with us. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of the Site to users who have registered with us.
Access to the Site is permitted on a temporary basis and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on the Site without notice. If the need arises, we may suspend access to the Site, or close it indefinitely.
We will not be liable if for any reason the Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Site (including the provision of an internet connection and related equipment). 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 that they comply with them.
Passwords and security information
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 for accessing the Site, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party.
You are also responsible for ensuring the security of your user identification code, password or other information relating to your access to the Site and for ensuring that no unauthorised person has access to them or uses the Site whilst you are connected to it.
We have the right to disable any user identification code or password or other piece of security information, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms of Use.
Prohibited uses
You must not use the Site in any way that breaches any applicable laws or regulations or in any way that has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
You must not:
Information shown on the site
We aim to update the Site from time to time and accordingly we may change the content at any time. Any of the material on the Site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.
All information and other materials displayed on the Site are provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to their accuracy. Accordingly you should not rely on any such information or materials.
Use of your information
When you use the Site, we will collect and process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. By using the Site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
Intellectual property rights
We 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. All such rights are reserved.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from the Site for your personal reference, but you must not modify or otherwise use such material in any way. You may draw the attention of other people within your organisation to material posted on the Site, as necessary for your business purposes.
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 material on the Site must always be acknowledged.
If you print off, copy or download any part of the Site in breach of these Terms of Use then (without prejudice to any other provision of these Terms of Use) you must on request by us immediately return (or, at our option, destroy) any copies of the materials you have made.
Viruses, hacking and other offences
You must not misuse the Site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful (together referred to on this page as “Harmful Materials”). You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Site, the server on which the Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to the Site. You must not attack the Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
By breaching the above 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.
It is your responsibility to ensure that you are adequately protected against Harmful Materials (whether by use of appropriate anti-virus software or similar, or otherwise). We will therefore not be liable for any loss or damage caused by any Harmful Materials that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of the Site or to your downloading of any material posted on it.
Links from the site
Where the 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, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
Our liability
We hereby expressly exclude:
whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable. Nothing in these Terms of Use shall exclude or limit our liability:
Suspension and termination
If you breach any provision of these Terms of Use, we shall be entitled to take all or any of the following actions:
The above actions are not limited and we may take any other action we deem appropriate when you breach (or we anticipate, in our discretion, that you will or may breach) these Terms of Use.
Jurisdiction and applicable law
The courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, your use of the Site and/or these Terms of Use.
These Terms of Use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.