TERMS OF USE

Last updated: 23rd November, 2018

The website (laka.co.uk) and web app (app.laka.co.uk) (together the “Sites”) are a copyrighted work belonging to Laka Ltd (“Company”, “us”, “our”, and “we”).  Certain features of the Sites may be subject to additional guidelines, terms, or rules, which will be posted on the Sites in connection with such features.  Without limitation to the preceding sentence, your submission of information, including personal information, through or in connection with the Sites is governed by the terms of our data policy as updated from time to time, available at http://laka.co.uk/data-policy (“Data Policy”) and http://laka.co.uk/privacy-policy (“Privacy Policy”).

All such additional terms, guidelines, and rules, including our Data Policy and Privacy Policy, are incorporated by reference into these terms of use (these “Terms”).

These Terms set forth the legally binding terms and conditions that govern your use of the Sites.  By accessing or using the Sites, you are accepting these Terms (on behalf of yourself or the entity that you represent), and you represent and warrant that you have the right, authority, and capacity to enter into these Terms (on behalf of yourself or the entity that you represent).    If you do not agree with all of the provisions of these Terms, do not access and/or use the Sites.

1. ACCOUNTS

ACCOUNT CREATION

In order to use certain features of the Sites, you must register for an account (“Account”) and provide certain information about yourself as prompted by the account registration form.  You represent and warrant that: (a) all required registration information you submit is truthful and accurate; (b) you will maintain the accuracy of such information. You may delete your Account at any time, for any reason, by following the instructions on the Sites. Company may suspend or terminate your Account in accordance with Section‍

Laka Club Membership

You can choose whether or not to become a member of the Laka Club – if you do so you will be a “Member”. Becoming a Member will give you access to a range of services, including events, promotions, discounts and more. Your Membership will last for one year from the day you sign up (that year and each subsequent year being a “Membership Year”). The Membership renews automatically at the end of each Membership Year, unless you or the Company cancels it beforehand. You may cancel your Membership at any point in time by giving notice to the Company and it will terminate at the end of the current Membership Year. You will still have access to the benefits of being a Member until expiry of the Membership Year in which you gave valid notice to the Company to terminate your Membership.  Your Membership to the Laka Club is free of charge.

ACCOUNT RESPONSIBILITIES.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Account login information and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your Account.  You agree to immediately notify Company of any unauthorized use, or suspected unauthorized use of your Account or any other breach of security.  Company cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with the above requirements.

2. ACCESS TO THE SITES

LICENCE

Subject to these Terms, Company grants you a non-transferable, non-exclusive, revocable, limited licence to use and access the Sites solely for your own personal, non-commercial use.

CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS

The rights granted to you in these Terms are subject to the following restrictions: (a) you shall not license, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, host, or otherwise commercially exploit the Sites, whether in whole or in part, or any content displayed on the Sites; (b) you shall not modify, make derivative works of, disassemble, reverse compile or reverse engineer any part of the Sites; (c) you shall not access the Sites in order to build a similar or competitive website, product, or service; and (d) except as expressly stated herein, no part of the Sites may be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means.  Unless otherwise indicated, any future release, update, or other addition to functionality or content of the Sites shall be subject to these Terms.  All copyright and other proprietary notices on the Sites (or on any content displayed on the Sites) must be retained on all copies thereof.

MODIFICATION

Company reserves the right, at any time, to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Sites (in whole or in part) with or without notice to you.  You agree that Company will not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuation of the Sites or any part thereof.

NO SUPPORT OR MAINTENANCE

You acknowledge and agree that Company will have no obligation to provide you with any support or maintenance in connection with the Sites.

OWNERSHIP

Excluding any User Content that you may provide (defined below), you acknowledge that all the intellectual property rights, including copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets, in the Sites and its content are owned by Company or Company’s suppliers.  Neither these Terms (nor your access to the Sites) transfers to you or any third party any rights, title or interest in or to such intellectual property rights, except for the limited access rights expressly set forth in Section 2.1. Company and its suppliers reserve all rights not granted in these Terms.  There are no implied licences granted under these Terms.

3. USER CONTENT

USER CONTENT

“User Content” means any and all information and content that a user submits to, or uses with, the Sites (e.g., content in the user’s profile or postings).  You are solely responsible for your User Content.  You assume all risks associated with use of your User Content, including any reliance on its accuracy, completeness or usefulness by others, or any disclosure of your User Content that personally identifies you or any third party.  You hereby represent and warrant that your User Content does not violate our Acceptable Use Policy (defined in Section 3).  You may not represent or imply to others that your User Content is in any way provided, sponsored or endorsed by Company.  Because you alone are responsible for your User Content, you may expose yourself to liability if, for example, your User Content violates the Acceptable Use Policy.  Company is not obligated to backup any User Content, and your User Content may be deleted from the Sites at any time without prior notice.  You are solely responsible for creating and maintaining your own backup copies of your User Content if you desire.

LICENCE

You hereby grant (and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant) to Company an irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free and fully paid, worldwide licence to reproduce, distribute, publicly display and perform, prepare derivative works of, incorporate into other works, and otherwise use and exploit your User Content, and to grant sublicensee of the foregoing rights, solely for the purposes of including your User Content in the Sites.  You hereby irrevocably waive (and agree to cause to be waived) any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to your User Content.

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY.

The following terms constitute our “Acceptable Use Policy”:

  1. You agree not to use the Sites to collect, upload, transmit, display, or distribute any User Content (i) that violates any third-party right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right; (ii) that is unlawful, harassing, abusive, tortious, threatening, harmful, invasive of another’s privacy, vulgar, defamatory, false, intentionally misleading, trade libellous, pornographic, obscene, patently offensive, promotes racism, bigotry, hatred, or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual or is otherwise objectionable; (iii) that is harmful to minors in any way; or (iv) that is in violation of any law, regulation, or obligations or restrictions imposed by any third party.
  2. In addition, you agree not to: (i) upload, transmit, or distribute to or through the Sites any computer viruses, worms, or any software intended to damage or alter a computer system or data; (ii) send through the Sites unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of duplicative or unsolicited messages, whether commercial or otherwise; (iii) use the Sites to harvest, collect, gather or assemble information or data regarding other users, including e-mail addresses, without their consent; (iv) interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on servers or networks connected to the Sites, or violate the regulations, policies or procedures of such networks; (v) attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Sites (or to other computer systems or networks connected to or used together with the Sites), whether through password mining or any other means; (vi) harass or interfere with any other user’s use and enjoyment of the Site; or (vi) use software or automated agents or scripts to produce multiple accounts on the Sites, or to generate automated searches, requests, or queries to (or to strip, scrape, or mine data from) the Sites (provided, however, that we conditionally grant to the operators of public search engines revocable permission to use spiders to copy materials from the Sites for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials, subject to the parameters set forth in our robots.txt file).

ENFORCEMENT

We reserve the right (but have no obligation) to review any User Content, and to investigate and/or take appropriate action against you in our sole discretion if you violate the Acceptable Use Policy or any other provision of these Terms or otherwise create liability for us or any other person. Such action may include removing or modifying your User Content, terminating your Account in accordance with Section 8, and/or reporting you to law enforcement authorities.

FEEDBACK

If you provide Company with any feedback or suggestions regarding the Sites (“Feedback”), you hereby assign to Company all rights in such Feedback and agree that Company shall have the right to use and fully exploit such Feedback and related information in any manner it deems appropriate.  The company will treat any Feedback you provide to Company as non-confidential and non-proprietary.  You agree that you will not submit to Company any information or ideas that you consider to be confidential or proprietary.

4. INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify Company (and its officers, employees, and agents), including costs and attorneys’ fees, from any claim or demand made by any third party due to or arising out of (a) your use of the Sites, (b) your violation of these Terms, (c) your violation of applicable laws or regulations or (d) your User Content.  Company reserves the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us, and you agree to cooperate with our defence of these claims.  You agree not to settle any matter without the prior written consent of Company.  Company will use reasonable efforts to notify you of any such claim, action or proceeding upon becoming aware of it.

5. THIRD-PARTY LINKS & ADS; OTHER USERS

THIRD-PARTY LINKS & ADS.

The Sites may contain links to third-party websites and services, and/or display advertisements for third parties (collectively, “Third-Party Links & Ads”).  Such Third-Party Links & Ads are not under the control of Company, and Company is not responsible for any Third-Party Links & Ads. The company provides access to these Third-Party Links & Ads only as a convenience to you, and does not review, approve, monitor, endorse, warrant, or make any representations with respect to Third-Party Links & Ads.  You use all Third-Party Links & Ads at your own risk, and should apply a suitable level of caution and discretion in doing so. When you click on any of the Third-Party Links & Ads, the applicable third party’s terms and policies apply, including the third party’s privacy and data gathering practices.  You should make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any transaction in connection with such Third-Party Links & Ads.

OTHER USERS.

Each Sites user is solely responsible for any and all of its own User Content.  Because we do not control User Content, you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for any User Content, whether provided by you or by others.  We make no guarantees regarding the accuracy, currency, suitability, or quality of any User Content.  Your interactions with other Sites users are solely between you and such users.  You agree that Company will not be responsible for any loss or damage incurred as the result of any such interactions.  If there is a dispute between you and any Sites user, we are under no obligation to become involved.

Subject to applicable law, you hereby release and forever discharge the Company (and our officers, employees, agents, successors, and assigns) from, and hereby waive and relinquish, each and every past, present and future dispute, claim, controversy, demand, right, obligation, liability, action and cause of action of every kind and nature, that has arisen or arises directly or indirectly out of, or that relates directly or indirectly to, the Sites (including any interactions with, or act or omission of, other Sites users or any Third-Party Links & Ads).

6. DISCLAIMERS

The Sites is provided on an “as-is” and “as available” basis, and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, Company (and our suppliers) expressly disclaim any and all warranties and conditions of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including all warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, quiet enjoyment, accuracy, or non-infringement.  We (and our suppliers) make no warranty that the Sites will meet your requirements, will be available on an uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free basis, or will be accurate, reliable, free of viruses or other harmful code, complete, legal, or safe.

7. LIMITATION ON LIABILITY

To the maximum extent permitted by law, and subject to the final paragraph in this Section 7, in no event shall Company (or our suppliers) be liable to you or any third party for any lost profits, lost data, costs of procurement of substitute products, or any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages arising from or relating to these Terms or your use of, or inability to use, the Sites, even if Company has been advised of the possibility of such damages.  Access to, and use of, the Sites is at your own discretion and risk, and you will be solely responsible for any damage to your device or computer system, or loss of data resulting therefrom.To the maximum extent permitted by law, and subject to the final paragraph in this Section 7, our liability to you for any damages arising from or related to these Terms (for any cause whatsoever and regardless of the form of the action), will at all times be limited to a maximum of fifty pounds sterling (GBP 50). The existence of more than one claim will not enlarge this limit.  You agree that our suppliers will have no liability of any kind arising from or relating to these Terms.The exclusions in this Section 7 shall apply to the maximum extent permitted by law, but Company does not exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability which may not be excluded by law.

8. TERM AND TERMINATION

Subject to this Section, these Terms will remain in full force and effect while you use the Sites.  We may suspend or terminate your rights to use the Sites (including your Account) at any time for any reason at our sole discretion, including for any use of the Sites in violation of these Terms.  Upon termination of your rights under these Terms, your Account and right to access and use the Sites will terminate immediately.  You understand that any termination of your Account may involve deletion of your User Content associated with your Account from our live databases. The company will not have any liability whatsoever to you for any termination of your rights under these Terms, including for termination of your Account or deletion of your User Content.  Even after your rights under these Terms are terminated, the following provisions of these Terms will remain in effect: Sections 2 to 2.5, and Sections 3 to 9.

9. GENERAL

CHANGES

These Terms are subject to occasional revision, and if we make any substantial changes, we may notify you by sending you an e-mail to the last e-mail address you provided to us (if any), and/or by prominently posting notice of the changes on our Sites.  You are responsible for providing us with your most current e-mail address.  In the event that the last e-mail address that you have provided us is not valid, or for any reason is not capable of delivering to you the notice described above, our dispatch of the e-mail containing such notice will nonetheless constitute effective notice of the changes described in the notice.  Any changes to these Terms will be effective upon the earlier of thirty (30) calendar days following our dispatch of an e-mail notice to you (if applicable) or thirty (30) calendar days following our posting of notice of the changes on our Sites.  These changes will be effective immediately for new users of our Sites.  Continued use of our Sites following notice of such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS

The communications between you and Company use electronic means, whether you use the Sites or send us emails, or whether Company posts notices on the Sites or communicates with you via email. For contractual purposes, you (a) consent to receive communications from Company in an electronic form; and (b) agree that all terms and conditions, agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that Company provides to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications would satisfy if it were be in a hardcopy writing.

ENTIRE TERMS

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the use of the Sites.

WAIVER

A waiver by Company of any right or remedy under these Terms shall only be effective if it is in writing, executed by a duly authorized representative of Company and shall apply only to the circumstances for which it is given. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or remedy under these Terms shall not operate as a waiver of such right or remedy, nor shall it prevent any future exercise or enforcement of such right or remedy.  No single or partial exercise of any right or remedy shall preclude or restrict the further exercise of any such right or remedy or other rights or remedies.

HEADINGS AND INTERPRETATION

The section titles in these Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. The word “including” means “including without limitation”.

SEVERABILITY

If any provision of these Terms is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unenforceable, the other provisions of these Terms will be unimpaired and the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed modified so that it is valid and enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by law.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOU AND US

You confirm that you are acting on your own behalf and not for the benefit of any other person. Your relationship to Company is that of an independent contractor, and neither party is an agent or partner of the other.

ASSIGNMENT

These Terms, and your rights and obligations herein, may not be assigned, subcontracted, delegated, or otherwise transferred by you without Company’s prior written consent, and any attempted assignment, subcontract, delegation, or transfer in violation of the foregoing will be null and void. The company may freely assign these Terms.  The terms and conditions set forth in these Terms shall be binding upon assignees.

GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales. You agree that the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with the subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) of these Terms.

COPYRIGHT/TRADEMARK INFORMATION

Copyright © 2017 Laka Ltd. All rights reserved.  All trademarks, logos and service marks (“Marks”) displayed on the Sites are our property or the property of other third parties. You are not permitted to use these Marks without our prior written consent or the consent of such third party which may own the Marks.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you wish to contact us in writing, or if these Terms require you to give notice to us in writing, please contact us at:
Laka Ltd
7 East Tenter Street
London E1 8DN
Email: hello@laka.co.uk

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