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For use of the www.planet-science.com website

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In consideration of NESTA allowing you to access the pages of the Site all users of the Site are deemed to accept the following terms and conditions of use:

1. Permitted Use

1.1 Subject to what is said below material from the Site may be downloaded, viewed, listened to (where appropriate), printed, copied on the hard disk of your computer and used for your own personal, non-commercial purposes as a personal information resource in good faith ONLY. Any other type of use requires the prior written agreement of NESTA.

1.2 You agree that you will not use the Site:

(a)
for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any material, the publication, dissemination, use or possession of which infringes the rights of any person or which is unlawful in any other respect;

(b)
in any way which is abusive, defamatory or obscene or which will harass, distress or inconvenience any person or which might restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of the Site by any person;

(c)
for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation or commercial exploitation;

(d)
for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;

(e)
to create a database (electronic or otherwise) that includes material downloaded or otherwise obtained from the Site;

(f)
to transmit or re-circulate any material obtained from the Site to any third party other than for private, non-commercial purposes and always in good faith;

(g)
in such a way so as to remove the copyright or trade mark notice(s) from any copies of any material made in accordance with these terms;

(h)
in any way that might bring NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), into disrepute.

2. Liability

2.1 The information provided on or in the Site is intended for recreational, educational and non-commercial purposes only. Whilst every reasonable effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information provided by NESTA and its employees in these pages, the contents of the Site reflect the opinions of the writers, they are personal to them and are naturally subject to change from time to time. IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF USERS TO CHECK THE ACCURACY OF RELEVANT FACTS AND OPINIONS GIVEN ON THE SITE BEFORE ENTERING INTO ANY COMMITMENT BASED UPON THEM.

3. Links

3.1 Some of the pages on the Site include links to external websites. These links are included to give users the opportunity to access other pages that it is felt may be of assistance to them. NESTA is not responsible for the content of these Internet sites.

4. Viruses

4.1 Whilst effort has been taken to ensure that the pages of the Site are free from viruses, NESTA gives no warranties that they are indeed free from viruses and users are responsible for ensuring that they have installed adequate virus checking software.

4.2 NESTA excludes, in so far as it is legally possible, all liability and responsibility (other than liability for death or physical injury arising out of the negligence of NESTA or its officers) for any viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment or other material transmitted with or as part of:

(a) the pages on the Site or any other Internet sites; or
(b) any material downloaded from the Site or any other Internet sites.

5. Intellectual Property

The names, images and logos identifying NESTA or third parties and their products and services, are the proprietary marks of NESTA and/or third parties. Any use made of these marks may be an infringement of rights in those marks and NESTA reserves all rights to enforce such rights that it might have.

6. Jurisdiction

The terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any disputes arising from matters relating to the Site shall be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

7. NESTA

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