1. General Terms
Definitions
The following is made on behalf of GLOBAL SANCTIONS LIMITED. Any reference to “Global Sanctions”, “we”, “our”, “us” is to GLOBAL SANCTIONS LIMITED.
We are a limited company registered in England & Wales, company number 09286159.
References to “our site” or the “Global Sanctions Site” are to the digital information network operated by or on behalf of Global Sanctions, including without limitation, globalsanctions.com, globalsanctions.com, and any other domains and websites owned or operated by Global Sanctions, and the material on such domains.
1.1 User consent to the Terms & Conditions
You represent that you have read and agree to be bound by the Terms & Conditions.
These Terms & Conditions apply whenever you use our site and access the content and services provided by Global Sanctions (“Global Sanctions Content”).
1.2 Registration and Account Creation
As part of the registration and account creation process necessary to obtain access to certain areas of and services provided by Global Sanctions, including those areas that require a fee or payment for access, you will select a username and a password. You will provide Global Sanctions with certain registration information, all of which must be accurate, truthful, and updated. You shall not:
- create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission;
- use a username in which another person has rights without such person’s authorisation; or
- use a username or password that Global Sanctions, in its sole discretion, deems offensive or inappropriate.
Global Sanctions reserves the right to deny creation of your account based on Global Sanction’s inability to verify the authenticity of your registration information or if your registration breaches any laws or UK regulations. You shall be solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You shall immediately notify Global Sanctions via info@globalsanctions.co.uk of any known or suspected unauthorised use(s) of your account, or any known or suspected breach of security, including loss, theft, or unauthorised disclosure of your password or credit card information.
You are fully responsible for all usage and activity on your account, including, but not limited to, use of the account by any third party authorised by you to use your username and password. You agree you will not sell, transfer or assign your membership or any membership rights.
If the computer system on which you accessed the Service is sold or transferred to another party, you warrant and represent that you will delete all cookies and software files obtained by or through use of Global Sanctions.
1.3 Free Email Alerts
Signing up to receive Global Sanctions news alerts entitles you to receive email alerts at a frequency of your choice (immediately, daily, or weekly) and to view the 5 most recent news stories. However, we may vary or cancel the access rights of non-paying users at any time.
2. Subscription Terms
2.1 Subscriptions
We offer a range of subscriptions:
- Corporate subscriptions – access for anyone in the same organisation;
- Self-employed subscriptions – access for self-employed individuals;
- Free subscriptions (for students, charities and NGOs); and
- Subscriptions on a trial basis (“Trial Subscriptions”).
The above are referred to collectively as “the Subscriptions” and individually as a “Subscription”.
Trial Subscriptions last 14 days unless otherwise agreed. You may not take more than one Trial Subscription in any twelve-month period. We may cancel any Trial Subscription if you have had access to any other Trial Subscription in the previous twelve months.
You may purchase a Subscription by submitting an order and providing the sign-up details on the Global Sanctions Site. We will only accept your order when we have successfully processed your payment details and emailed you to confirm this.
We will try to process your Subscription order promptly but cannot guarantee activation by any specified time. We may reject any Subscription order in our discretion. You confirm that your sign up and payment details are complete and accurate, and that you are entitled to purchase a Subscription using those sign up and payment details. It is your responsibility to update and maintain changes to your sign up details on your Account pages.
Your Subscription entitles you to access all news stories, legislation, guidance, court judgments, target search tool, sanctions map, and media resources (“Subscription Content”).
You Subscription Period lasts for 12 months from date of payment, unless otherwise agreed. Your Subscription will renew automatically, unless paid for by BACs or cancelled by you.
2.2 Corporate Subscriptions
Corporate subscriptions permit access for anyone in the same organisation to all news stories, legislation, guidance, court judgments, target search tool, sanctions map, and media resources. Corporate subscriptions allow you to create corporate sub-accounts for those within the same organisation to access our content.
If your access is through a corporate sub-account, then these Terms & Conditions continue to apply to your use of our site.
2.3 Fees and Payment
You agree to pay the Subscription fees at the rates and in the currency displayed during the Subscription process.
If we do not receive payment authorisation or any authorisation is subsequently cancelled, we may immediately terminate or suspend your Subscription.
Global Sanctions reserves the right to vary the price of your Subscription. We will give you at least 14 days’ notice of any variation, which will take effect at your next renewal date.
Global Sanctions will do all that it reasonably can to ensure that all of the information you give us when paying is secure by using an encrypted secure payment mechanism. However, in the absence of negligence on our part, any failure by us to comply with this contract or our Privacy Policy or breach by us of our duties under applicable laws, we will not be legally responsible to you for any loss that you may suffer if a third party gains unauthorised access to any information that you give us.
We use Stripe or PayPal to facilitate online payments and so do not hold or retain any personal payment information. For details of how Stripe handles your information, please see their Privacy pages. For details of how PayPal handles your information, please see their Security pages.
2.4 Your Right to Termination
If you no longer wish to have a Subscription, you may terminate your Subscription. Cancellation will take effect at the end of your then current Subscription period. You will not be entitled to a refund except in the event that there is a fault in our provision of Global Sanctions services.
If you purchase a Trial Subscription and cancel before the end of the 14 day period, you will retain access to Subscription Content until the end of the trial period, at which point, you will not be charged.
To exercise your rights to terminate, you must inform us of your decision by contacting info@globalsanctions.co.uk. Please include:
- Subscriber’s full name;
- The account email address;
- The billing address; and
- Your contact telephone number
You are responsible for all charges incurred up to the time the account is terminated.
2.5 Our Right to Termination
If we do not receive payment authorisation or any authorisation is subsequently cancelled, we may immediately terminate or suspend your Subscription.
Upon purchasing a subscription, you provide information pertaining to your eligibility for the selected subscription. If you misrepresent your eligibility, we reserve the right to terminate your subscription without notice and without refund.
We may suspend or terminate your Subscription if we are prevented from providing services to you, or accepting payment from you, by applicable law or circumstances beyond our control, or if we cease operations. If we terminate for any of these reasons, we will provide you with a pro rata refund to the extent permitted by applicable law. If we terminate for any of these reasons, we will email you at the address you have registered stating that the agreement has terminated.
We may also suspend or terminate your Subscription, without refund, if you breach these Terms & Conditions, or in the event of any verbal or written abuse of any kind (including abusive, offensive or aggressive language) directed towards our team, or any member of the public, with or without notice and without further obligation to you.
If we disable your account, you agree that you will not create another one without our permission. Notwithstanding anything else herein, Global Sanctions reserves the right to pursue any and all claims against any user of your account.
If you are not a Subscriber, then we may suspend or terminate your access to Global Sanctions at any time, with or without notice and without further obligation to you.
3. Use of Material
3.1 Intellectual Property
Globalsanctions.co.uk and globalsanctions.com and all intellectual property rights in each are owned by Global Sanctions, its licensors or both. This includes, without limitation, rights such as: copyright, trade marks, domain names, design rights, database rights, trade names, logos, trade secrets, as well as text, images, graphics, logos, audio, video, URLS, metadata and other material (“Global Sanctions Content”). We reserve all of our rights in any intellectual property in connection with these Terms & Conditions.
Nothing in these Terms & Conditions grants you any legal rights to the Global Sanctions Site or Global Sanctions Content other than as necessary to enable you to access Our Site. You agree not to adjust, to try to circumvent or delete any notices contained on Our Site (including any intellectual property notices).
3.2 Use of Site
The amount and types of Global Sanctions Content that you can view depends on whether or not you have purchased a Subscription. We may vary or cancel the access rights of non-paying users at any time.
We try to ensure that all Global Sanctions Content is accurate, up-to-date and free from bugs. However, we cannot promise that it will be. Any reliance that you may place on the information on Global Sanctions is at your own risk.
Global Sanctions Content is provided for your general information purposes only and to inform you about us and our products and news, features, services and other websites that may be of interest. It does not constitute technical, financial or legal advice or any other type of advice and should not be relied on for any purposes.
Your use of the Global Sanctions Site and Global Sanctions Content is for your own personal and non-commercial use only. You may download and print extracts from Global Sanctions for your own personal and non-commercial use only, provided you maintain and abide by any author attribution, copyright or trademark notice or restriction in any material that you download or print.
You may share links or have your site link to Global Sanctions Content and the Global Sanctions Site provided the following conditions are met:
- When displaying a Global Sanctions logo, you do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of the Global Sanctions logo;
- The site does not contain content that could be construed as offensive;
- You do not imply that Global Sanctions is endorsing you or your site;
- The site does not infringe any intellectual property or other right of Global Sanctions or any person;
- The site complies with all relevant laws and regulations; and
- You do not misrepresent your or your site’s relationship with Global Sanctions.
Without limitation, you shall not use (nor facilitate, authorise or permit the use of) the Global Sanctions Site and/or any Global Sanctions Content for any other purpose without our prior written approval - this includes, without limitation, that you shall not use, copy, scrape, reproduce, alter, modify, collect, mine and/or extract the Global Sanctions Content:
- for any machine learning, machine learning language models and/or artificial intelligence-related purposes (including the training or development of such technologies);
- for any text and data aggregation, analysis or mining purposes (including to generate any patterns, trends or correlations); or
- with any machine learning and/or artificial intelligence technologies to generate any data or content or to synthesise or combine with any other data or content; or
- for any commercial use.
You shall not use any service, software, device, tool, method, program, technique, algorithm or process to circumvent any restriction, condition, protection or technological measure that controls access to Global Sanctions Content in any way, including bypassing or circumventing any access controls or use limits of Global Sanctions Content.
4. Disclaimer of Liability
To the extent permitted at law, we do not accept any responsibility for any statement in Global Sanctions Content. Nothing in the Global Sanctions Content is provided for any specific purpose or at the request of any particular person. For the avoidance of confusion, we will not be liable for any loss caused as a result of your doing, or not doing, anything as a result of viewing, reading or listening to the Global sanctions Content or any part of it. You can access other sites via links from Global Sanctions. These sites are not under our control and we are not responsible in any way for any of their contents, this includes, but is not limited to, viruses and malicious or harmful content. We are not responsible for the availability of any sites linked to.
While we will use commercially reasonable methods and practices to protect against viruses and other malicious software in the Global Sanctions Content and/or services, we give no warranties of any kind concerning Global Sanctions Content. We do not warrant that Global Sanctions or any of its contents is virus free. You must take your own precautions in this respect as we accept no responsibility for any infection by virus or other contamination or by anything which has destructive properties.
Although we will do our best to provide constant, uninterrupted access to Global Sanctions, we do not guarantee this. We accept no responsibility or liability for any unavailability, interruption or delay.
5. Data protection
To find out what data we collect and how we use it, please visit our Privacy Policy.
6. Changes to these Terms & Conditions
Please note that Global Sanctions may change these Terms & Conditions from time to time at its sole discretion and Global Sanctions reserves the right to do so without your consent. Any revised Terms & Conditions will be applicable at the time of posting on the Global Sanctions site. Please ensure that you review these terms and conditions regularly as you will be deemed to have accepted a variation if you continue to use the Global Sanctions site after it has been posted.
For changes to these Terms & Conditions that we deem material, we will place a notice on globalsanctions.com by revising the link on the homepage to read substantially as “Updated Terms & Conditions” for an amount of time that we determine in our discretion. Continued use of the Global Sanctions Site for at least 30 days following receipt of notification of any change will constitute acceptance of the revised Terms and Conditions.
If you no longer accept these Terms & Conditions, or any future modification to these terms and conditions, you must cease using the Global Sanctions Site. Continued use of the Global Sanctions Site after 30 days indicates your continued acceptance of these terms and conditions.
7. Governing law and jurisdiction
These Terms & Conditions are governed by English law and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
8. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Global Sanctions, and each of its respective officers, directors, and employees, in full from any and all damages, losses, demands, claims, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including, but not limited to, loss of profits, loss of revenue and attorneys’ fees and expenses), arising out of, or in connection with, a breach by you or any user of your account of:
- these Terms & Conditions;
- our Privacy Policy; or
- your obligations, representation and warranties under these Terms & Conditions.
The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Global Sanctions of any linked website or its provider. While every care is taken to ensure that the information displayed on this website is correct, no warranty or representation is given as to its quality, accuracy, fitness for purpose, usefulness or completeness. The materials contained on this website are of a general, informational, nature. We have used reasonable endeavours to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the contents of the pages on this site but the information does not constitute legal or professional advice and must not be relied on as such.
9. No waiver
Our failure to insist upon or enforce any provision of these Terms & Conditions shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right of Global Sanctions.