Terms of use

Please read these website terms of use carefully before using this site

Who we are and how to contact us

https://www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk is a site operated by the Goldsmiths’ Company (“We”, “the Goldsmiths’ Company”). The Goldsmiths’ Company Charity is registered in England and Wales under charity number 11048746. Both the Goldsmiths’ Company and the Goldsmiths’ Company Charity have our registered office at The Goldsmiths’ Company, Goldsmiths’ Hall, Foster Lane, London EC2V 6BN.

To contact us, please email info@thegoldsmiths.co.uk or telephone us on 020 7606 7010.

By using our site you accept these terms

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, you must not use our site.

We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

There are other terms that may apply to you

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

We may make changes to these terms

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.

We may make changes to our site

We may update and change our site from time to time to reflect changes to the products listed, our users’ needs and our charity priorities. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any major changes.

We may suspend or withdraw 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. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

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.

Our site is only for users in the uk

Our site is directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that content available on or through our site is appropriate for use or available in other locations.

If you choose to access our site from locations outside of the UK, you do so at your own risk and you are responsible for compliance with local laws.

You must keep your account details safe

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 knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at info@thegoldsmiths.co.uk

How your may use material on our site

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.

If you are unsure of the legality of your use of the material on this website you should contact info@thegoldsmiths.co.uk

Do not rely on information on this site

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.

We welcome any information regarding inaccuracies or faults on the site; such information should be e-mailed at info@thegoldsmiths.co.uk. We will attempt to correct any inaccuracies or faults notified to us as soon as we reasonably can.

We are not responsible for websites we link to

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

User-generated content is not approved by us

This website may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the site, including to bulletin boards and chat rooms. 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.

If you wish to complain about information and materials uploaded by other users please contact us on info@thegoldsmiths.co.uk.

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

Whether you are a consumer or a business user:

  • We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

If you are a business user:

  • We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.

  • We 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, our site; or

    • use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.

  • 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.

  • 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, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation. However, we will not be liable for damage that you could have avoided by following our advice to apply an update offered to you free of charge or for damage that was caused by you failing to correctly follow installation instructions or to have in place the minimum system requirements advised by us.

How we may use your personal information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our privacy notice, available at our Privacy Page.

Prohibited use of our site

You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site in ways that breach these terms:

  • In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect according to applicable local, national or international law or regulation.

  • 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 access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt: any part of our site, our equipment or network, any software used to provide access to our site, or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Uploading content to our site

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards as set out below.

These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site. The content standards must be complied with in spirit as well as to the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution you make as well as to its whole.

We reserve the right to determine, completely at our discretion, whether a contribution breaches the content standards.

The contribution must be accurate (when relating to facts) or be a genuinely held opinion.

A contribution must not contain any:

Harassment, bullying, defamation and threats: You may not offer goods or services, or post or upload contributions, that harass, bully, defame or threaten a specific individual.

Illegal activities: You may not offer goods or services, or post or upload contributions that contravene or that facilitate or promote activities that contravene, the laws of the jurisdictions in which either you or us operate, or impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.

Intellectual property: You may not offer goods or services, or post or upload contributions, that infringe on the copyright or trademarks of others.

Malicious and deceptive practices: You may not use our site to transmit malware or host phishing pages. You may not perform activities or upload or distribute contributions that harm or disrupt the operation of our site or any services we provide, or the infrastructure of our site, including that of our third-party providers. You may not use the site for deceptive commercial practices or any other illegal or deceptive activities.

Terrorist organizations: You may not offer goods or services, or post or upload contributions, that imply or promote support or funding of, or membership in, a terrorist organization.

Child exploitation: You may not offer goods or services, or post or upload materials that exploit or abuse children, including but not limited to images or depictions of child abuse or sexual abuse, or that present children in a sexual manner.

Hateful content: You may not use the site to promote or condone hate or violence against people based on race, ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, medical condition, veteran status or other forms of discriminatory intolerance. You may not use the site to promote or support organizations, platforms or people that: (i) promote or condone such hate; or (ii) threaten or condone violence to further a cause.

We may, at any time and without notice, remove any contributions, and suspend or terminate your account or your access to the site if you engage in activities that violate the letter or spirit of these content standards, including activities outside of your use of our site.

We have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor or investigate any contributions and your use of the website at any time for compliance with these terms, or any other applicable terms between you and the Goldsmiths’ Company governing your use of the services (collectively, the “Terms”). Our determination of whether a violation of this paragraph has occurred will be final and binding, and any action taken with respect to enforcing this paragraph, including taking no action at all, will be at our sole discretion.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us a world-wide, royalty free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable license to use, store, and copy that content and to distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform, publicly display and make available to third parties that content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate that content into other works in any format or medium now known or later developed.

We also have the right to disclose your identity (i) if required by law or legal process and (ii) to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards as set out above.

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.

We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them

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 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 that 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.

Rules about 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 these terms.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact info@thegoldsmiths.co.uk.

Which country’s laws apply to any disputes?

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that 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, their subject matter and their 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.