The Freelancer and Contractor Services Association Ltd (‘FCSA’) provides the website to you on the basis of the following terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions”). By accessing any page on this FCSA Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. These Terms and Conditions may be updated by FCSA from time to time by posting the updated Terms and Conditions without prior separate notification to you. You should check the Terms and Conditions each time you access the FCSA Website to check for updates.

FCSA Website

You will be able to obtain information about certain FCSA products and services on this FCSA Website and you may also submit queries to FCSA to receive more information.

Use

The FCSA Website and any support are provided to you at no charge and are for your personal and non-commercial use. Any support provided to you is for information purposes only. FCSA reserves the right to make changes to the FCSA Website; or not reply to any queries; or not provide any support in connection with the FCSA Website.

FCSA does not wish to receive confidential or proprietary information from you via the FCSA Website. Subject to FCSA obligation under the Privacy Policy please note that any information or material sent to FCSA via the FCSA Website will be deemed to be not confidential. By sending FCSA any information or material, you grant FCSA an unrestricted, irrevocable licence to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, transmit and distribute that material or information, and you also agree that FCSA is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques that you send us for any purpose.

You undertake not to post to or send via this website any materials that are or could reasonably be construed as: (i) defamatory, libellous, obscene, offensive, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory or blasphemous; (ii) in breach of any obligation of confidence or privacy or any trade secret; (iii) infringing the proprietary rights of any third party or for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals; or (iv) violating any other law.

You also agree not to transmit to or send via the website any materials which could reasonably be held to constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of any country or other competent authority, or infringe the rights of any third party enforceable in any part of the world.

FCSA reserves the right to remove any materials from the website where it reasonably suspects that such material is prohibited by this Section 3 or is otherwise inappropriate. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you acknowledge that FCSA has no control over content on the website provided by other users, neither does it purport to monitor the content of the website to ensure its accuracy, appropriateness or conformity with the principles outlined in these Terms and Conditions.

You must not link to the FCSA Website other websites which are indecent or inappropriate, and you must forthwith remove any link if FCSA in its discretion so requests.

You agree to indemnify FCSA and FCSA affiliates against any claim, demand, loss or damage suffered as a result of breach of this Section 3.

Disclaimer

FCSA hereby excludes all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms concerning the supply or purported supply of, failure to supply or delay in supplying any service in connection with the FCSA Website or that the FCSA Website is accurate, complete or up-to-date, which might but for this Section 4 have effect between FCSA and you, or would otherwise be implied into or incorporated into these Terms and Conditions or any collateral contract, whether by statute, common law or otherwise. You understand and agree that you are using the FCSA Website at your sole risk and that FCSA does not warrant that the FCSA Website will meet your requirements or that the FCSA Website will be uninterrupted, error free or secure. Any content or services provided via the FCSA Website or in connection with the FCSA Website by FCSA is done so on an “AS IS” and on an “AS AVAILABLE” basis and FCSA makes no representations or endorsement of any kind, whether express or implied, with respect to the FCSA Website for the content or services included in, or made available in connection with, this FCSA Website. FCSA reserves the right at its sole discretion, to amend or withdraw any content or services offered as part of the FCSA Website.

Liability

FCSA , any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering this FCSA Website), and any of FCSA group companies and the officers, directors, employees, shareholders or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party, (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, and whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise in connection with this FCSA Website in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of this FCSA Website, any websites linked to this FCSA Website or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing this FCSA Website or your downloading of any material from this FCSA Website or any websites linked to this FCSA Website. This shall not affect your statutory rights.

Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall exclude or limit FCSA’s liability for (i) death or personal injury caused by its negligence; (ii) fraud; or (iii) any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Trademark

You must not display or use in any manner FCSA or FCSA trademarks or logos without FCSA prior written permission.

Reuse of Content

If you wish to reproduce FCSA content on you website, blog, email newsletter or social media, you may reproduce up to 200 words without written permission from the FCSA. You must also cite the source of this content as ‘The Freelancer & Contractor Services Association (FCSA)’, and then add a link to the FCSA website fcsa.org.uk. Permission is required from FCSA for use of more than 200 words – email info@fcsa.org.uk titled ‘Reuse of Content’. Failure to do so is in breach of our Copyright.

FCSA

Registered Office Address:

4th Floor Radius House,

51 Clarendon Road,

Watford,

Hertfordshire,

England,

WD17 1HP

Email: info@fcsa.org.uk

Governing Law

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with these Terms and Conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

Copyright

Copyright FCSA. All rights reserved. It is strictly prohibited to copy, redistribute, republish or modify any materials or software contained on the FCSA Website or in subsequent support without the prior written consent of FCSA.