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Terms and Conditions for VillageNotes.com

About these conditions

For the purpose of these conditions, we refer to the villagenotes.com website as 'the website'.

If you log on to or use any part of the website you agree to these conditions. If you do not want to agree to these conditions, do not log on to or use this website.

We may change these conditions at any time without giving you notice. Please check these conditions from time to time for any changes. By continuing to use the website you agree to all the changes we make to these conditions.

Cancelling your Subscription or Removing your Business/Group from website

All businesses and groups that have opted to pay for a profile page to maintained on the village notes website, along with some other services - such as a listing in the annual business directory - will have 14 days in which to cancel their subscription and not owe village notes any money. Your notice of cancellation must be received within 14 consecutive days from the date of invoice otherwise you will be liable to pay the full amount immediately. You must submit an e-mail with the subject line "Cancellation" to cs@villagenotes.com to effect your cancellation.

Your business or group can be removed from the villagenotes.com website at any time by sending an e-mail with instructions to cs@villagenotes.com. You will still be liable to make all outstanding payments unless cancellation was made within 14 consecutive days from the invoice date.

Using VillageNotes.com

villagenotes.com allows you to search for goods and services and to contact the organisations that provide these goods and services. You are allowed to use the website and the results of any search you carry out on the website for this purpose unless this is not allowed under paragraph 10 of these conditions.

You cannot use the website:

for any unlawful purpose;
to harm, threaten, abuse or harass another person, or in a way that invades someone's
privacy or is (in our reasonable opinion) offensive or is unacceptable or damaging to village notes
to tamper with, update or change any part of the website;
in a way that affects how it is run;
in a way that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionably large burden on village notes communications and technical systems as determined by us; or
using any automated means to monitor or copy the website or its content, or to interfere with or attempt to interfere with how the website works.

Disclaimers

You use the website at your own risk.
We advise you to make sure you are satisfied with the exact type and nature of goods or services being offered by any organisations you search for using the website. We also recommend that you check the qualifications of people, companies and organisations offering the goods or services. We are not an agent for and do not give guarantees for these organisations or their goods and services.
You should not rely on the website for advice.

As far as the relevant laws allow, no advice or information we give you guarantees that:
there will be no problems with how you use the website; or
the computer or server you use to log on to the website is free of viruses or other harmful programmes.

Limits to our liability

There is no limit to what we and the people who provide our services will be liable for if someone dies or is injured because of something we have or have not done or because we have committed fraud.

Under no circumstances will village notes or any other organisation involved in creating, producing, maintaining or distributing the website be liable for any loss of:

profits;
business or business opportunities;
savings you expect to make;
goodwill;
use of corrupted information; or
information.

If we do not keep to these conditions, we will only be liable for losses you have suffered as a direct result. We are not liable to you for any other loss whether they are because we have not kept to our obligations or contract, because of something we have not done, due to defamatory statements or liability for a product or otherwise as a result of:

using or relying on the website;
not being able to use the website;
any mistake, fault, failure to do something, missing information, or virus on the website or
if it does not work properly because of incidents outside of our control such as (but not limited to) interruptions to communication and networks and circumstances beyond our control;
theft, destruction of information or someone getting access to our records, programs or services without our permission;
goods, products, services or information received through or advertised on the website or any links provided by the website; or
any information, data, message or other material which you e-mail, post, upload, reproduce, send, or otherwise distribute or receive using the website.

The whole agreement

These conditions make up the whole agreement between you and us in how you use the website. If a court decides that a condition is not valid, the rest of the conditions will still apply.

The law

The laws of England and Wales apply to your use of the website and these conditions. We control the website from within the United Kingdom. However, you can get access to the website from other places around the world. Although, these places may have different laws from the laws of England and Wales, by using the website you agree that the laws of England and Wales will apply to everything relating to you using the website and you agree to keep to these laws. We have the right to take you to court in the country you live in

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