Compliance

WEBSITE TERMS OF USE

Last Updated: 01-11-23

These Website Terms of Use, together with any and all other documents referred to herein, set out the terms under which you may use this website, www.meatbusinesswomen.org (our “Site”). Please read these Terms of Use carefully and ensure you understand them. Your agreement to comply with and be bound by these Terms of Use is deemed to occur upon your first use of our Site. If you do not agree to comply with and be bound by these Terms of Use, you must stop using our Site immediately.

1. Definitions

In these Terms of Use, the following expressions have the following meanings:

2. Access to our Site
   • Access to our Site is free of charge.
   • It is your responsibility to make all arrangements necessary to access our Site.
   • Access to our Site is provided “as is” and on an “as available” basis. We may alter, suspend or discontinue our Site (or any part of it) at any time and without notice. We will not be liable to you in any way if our Site (or any part of it) is unavailable at any time and for any period.

3. Intellectual property rights
   • All Content included on our Site and the copyright and other intellectual property rights subsisting in that Content, belongs to or has been licensed by us unless specifically labelled otherwise. All Content is protected by applicable United Kingdom and international intellectual property laws and treaties.
   • Subject to clause 3.3 you may not reproduce, copy, distribute, sell, rent, sub-licence, store or in any other manner re-use Content from our Site without our prior written consent.
   • You may:
     • access, view and use our Site in a web browser (including any web browsing capability built into other types of software or app);
     • download our Site (or any part of it) for caching;
     • print pages from our Site;
     • download extracts from pages on our Site; and
     • save pages from our Site for later and/or offline viewing.
   • Our status as the owner and author of the Content on our Site (or that of identified licensors, as appropriate) must always be acknowledged.
   • You may not use any Content saved or downloaded from our Site for commercial purposes without first obtaining a licence from Us (or our licensors, as appropriate) to do so.

4. Links to our Site
   • You may link to our Site provided that you:
     • do so in a fair and legal manner;
     • do not do so in a manner that suggests any form of association, endorsement or approval on Our part where none exists;
     • do not use any logos or trademarks displayed on our Site without our prior written consent; and
     • do not do so in a way that is calculated to damage our reputation or to take unfair advantage of it.
   • Framing or embedding of our Site on other websites is not permitted without our prior written consent.
   • You may not link to our Site from any other site the content of which contains material that:
     • is sexually explicit;
     • is obscene, deliberately offensive, hateful or otherwise inflammatory;
     • promotes violence;
     • promotes or assists in any form of unlawful activity;
     • discriminates against, or is in any way defamatory of, any person, group or class of persons, race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age;
     • is intended or is otherwise likely to threaten, harass, annoy, alarm, inconvenience, upset, or embarrass another person;
     • is calculated or is otherwise likely to deceive another person;
     • is intended or is otherwise likely to infringe (or to threaten to infringe) another person’s privacy;
     • misleadingly impersonates any person or otherwise misrepresents the identity or affiliation of a particular person in a way that is calculated to deceive (obvious parodies are not included in this definition provided that they do not fall within any of the other provisions of this clause 4.3);
     • implies any form of affiliation with us where none exists;
     • infringes, or assists in the infringement of, the intellectual property rights (including, but not limited to, copyright, trademarks and database rights) of any other party; or
     • is made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party including, but not limited to, contractual duties and duties of confidence.

5. Links to other websites

Links to other websites may be included on our Site. Unless expressly stated, these websites are not under our control. We neither assume nor accept responsibility or liability for the content of third party websites. The inclusion of a link to another website on our Site is for information only and does not imply any endorsement of the websites themselves or of those in control of them.

6. Use of our System
   • You may use our System at any time to contact us. However, you must not:
     • communicate in a way that is obscene, deliberately offensive, hateful or otherwise inflammatory;
     • submit information that promotes violence;
     • submit information that promotes or assists in any form of unlawful activity;
     • submit information that discriminates against, or is in any way defamatory of, any person, group or class of persons, race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
     • submit information intended or otherwise likely to threaten, harass, annoy, alarm, inconvenience, upset or embarrass another person;
     • submit information that is calculated or is otherwise likely to deceive;
     • submit information that is intended or otherwise likely to infringe (or threaten to infringe) another person’s right to privacy or otherwise uses their personal data in a way you do not have a right to;
     • misleadingly impersonate any person or otherwise misrepresent your identity or affiliation in a way that is calculated to deceive;
     • imply any form of affiliation with Us where none exists;
     • infringe, or assist in the infringement of, the intellectual property rights (including, but not limited to, copyright, trademarks and database rights) of any other party; or
     • submit information in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party including, but not limited to, contractual duties and duties of confidence.
   • We may monitor communications made using our System.
   • Any information you send us through our System may be modified by us and, by sending us such information, you waive your moral right to be identified as the author of that information.
   • Any personal information sent to us, whether through our System or otherwise (including but not limited to your name and contact details), will be collected, used and held in accordance with your rights and our obligations under the law.

7. Membership
   • All of our individual membership packages are paid by on an Annual or Monthly basis for a twelve-month period.
   • The membership fee may be increased or reduced at any time and at our sole discretion. We will contact you should there be any changes to the membership fee.
   • We reserve the right to reject membership for any reason whatsoever

Members will receive:

• access to webinar sessions;
• access to the Meat Business Women Membership Directory;
• access to the Meat Business Women library of resources; and
• access to the mentoring portal

Cancellations:

• Members can cancel their re-occurring subscription during any time of their membership. For the Monthly Fee, all commitments to pay each of the 12 Monthly Fees until expiry of the Membership must be upheld; For the Annual Fee, no amount of this fee shall be returned to you.

• Refunds, if required, will be considered on a case by case basis and, only if our business hasn’t fulfilled our obligations;

8. Events

Meat Business Women will use the information you have provided to keep you informed about events with instructions on how to access and make the most of the event, and to advise you of this same event in future years. Where required, we will also share details with third parties who are assisting with the event, for example, we may share your details with an event provider if we will be using a third party online application to facilitate elements of this event. By registering for this event, you agree to this use of your information.

Please be aware that Meat Business Women may record parts of events for use in presentations and communications explaining our work.

If you have a query please contact [email protected]

Event Cancellation Policy

Paid-for events will not be refunded if cancelled in 3 weeks or less of the scheduled start time of the event, unless otherwise stated.

9. Disclaimers
   • Nothing on our Site constitutes advice on which you should rely. It is provided for general information purposes only.
   • Insofar as is permitted by law, we make no representation, warranty, or guarantee that our Site will meet your requirements, that it will not infringe the rights of third parties, that it will be compatible with all software and hardware or that it will be secure.
   • We make reasonable efforts to ensure the Content on our Site is complete, accurate and up-to-date. We do not, however, make any representations, warranties or guarantees (whether express or implied) that the Content is complete, accurate or up-to-date.
   • We make reasonable efforts to ensure all pricing information shown on our Site is correct at the time of going online. We reserve the right to change prices at any time and may add or remove special offers and promotions from time to time.
   • While we take every reasonable effort to ensure all representations and descriptions of services available from us correspond to the actual services available, minor variations or errors may occur.
   • Our site may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the site, including some Content. 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. We are not responsible for the information, materials or Content uploaded by other users of our site, in particular this applies to the Membership Directory section of the our site. We may not be held liable for any loss or damage that may arise, or be alleged to arise, from the publication of information, materials or Content by other users of our site, or the reliance on any such information, materials or Content.

10. Our liability
    1. To the fullest extent permissible by law, we accept no liability to any user/member for any loss or damage, whether foreseeable or otherwise, in contract, tort (including negligence), for breach of statutory duty or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with the use of (or inability to use) our Site or the use of or reliance upon any Content included on our Site.
    2. To the fullest extent permissible by law, we exclude all representations, warranties and guarantees (whether express or implied) that may apply to our Site or any Content included on our Site.
    3. We exercise all reasonable skill and care to ensure our Site is free from viruses and other malware. We accept no liability for any loss or damage resulting from a virus or other malware, a distributed denial of service attack or other harmful material or event that may adversely affect your hardware, software, data or other material that occurs as a result of your use of our Site (including the downloading of any Content from it) or any other site referred to on our Site.
    4. We neither assume nor accept responsibility or liability arising out of any disruption or non-availability of our Site resulting from external causes including, but not limited to, ISP equipment failure, host equipment failure, communications network failure, natural events, acts of war, or legal restrictions and censorship.
    5. Nothing in these Terms of Use excludes or restricts our liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or for any other forms of liability which cannot be excluded or restricted by law.
11. Viruses, malware and security
    1. We exercise all reasonable skill and care to ensure our Site is secure and free from viruses and other malware.
    2. You are responsible for protecting your hardware, software, data and other material from viruses, malware and other internet security risks.
    3. You must not deliberately introduce viruses or other malware, or any other material which is malicious or technologically harmful either to or via our Site.
    4. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of our Site, the server on which our Site is stored or any other server, computer, or database connected to our Site.
    5. You must not attack our Site by means of a denial of service attack, a distributed denial of service attack or by any other means.
    6. By breaching the provisions of clauses 9.3 to 9.5 you may be committing a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. All such breaches will be reported to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will cooperate fully with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. Your right to use our Site will cease immediately in the event of such a breach.
12. Acceptable use policy
    1. You may only use our Site in a manner that is lawful. You must:
       1. ensure you comply fully with all local, national or international laws and/or regulations;
       2. not use our Site in any way, or for any purpose, that is unlawful or fraudulent;
       3. not use our Site to knowingly send, upload or in any other way transmit data that contains any form of virus or other malware, or any other code designed to adversely affect computer hardware, software or data of any kind; and
       4. not use our Site in any way, or for any purpose, that is intended to harm any person or persons in any way.
    2. We may suspend or terminate your access to our Site if you materially breach the provisions of this clause 10 or any of the other provisions of these Terms of Use. We may:
       1. suspend, whether temporarily or permanently, your right to access our Site;
       2. issue you with a written warning;
       3. take legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all relevant costs on an indemnity basis resulting from your breach;
       4. take further legal action against you as appropriate;
       5. disclose such information to law enforcement authorities as required or as We deem reasonably necessary; and/or
       6. any other actions we deem reasonably appropriate.
    3. We hereby exclude any and all liability arising out of any actions (including, but not limited to, those set out above) we may take in response to breaches of these Terms of Use.
13. Data protection, privacy and cookies
    1. Use of our Site is also governed by our Privacy Policy available at www.meatbusinesswomen.org/privacy-policy and our Cookies Policy (available from www.meatbusinesswomen.org/cookies-policy. These policies are incorporated into these Terms of Use by this reference.
    2. All personal information we may use will be collected, processed and held in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 2018, the EU Regulation 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and your rights under the GDPR.
    3. For details of our collection, processing, storage and retention of personal data including, but not limited to, the purpose(s) for which personal data is used, the legal basis or bases for using it, details of your rights and how to exercise them and personal data sharing (where applicable), please refer to our Privacy and Cookies Policies.
14. Changes to these Terms of Use
    1. We may alter these Terms of Use at any time. Any such changes will become binding on you upon your first use of our Site after the changes have been implemented. You should therefore check this page from time to time.
    2. In the event of any conflict between the current version of these Terms of Use and any previous version(s), the provisions current and in effect shall prevail unless it is expressly stated otherwise.
15. Contacting us
    1. To contact us, please email us at [email protected]
16. Governing law and jurisdiction
    1. These Terms of Use, and the relationship between you and us (whether contractual or otherwise), shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.
    2. If you are a consumer/member, any dispute, controversy, proceedings or claim between you and us relating to these Terms of Use, or the relationship between you and us (whether contractual or otherwise), shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, as determined by your residency.
    3. If you are a business, any disputes concerning these Terms of Use, the relationship between you and us, or any matters arising therefrom or associated therewith (whether contractual or otherwise), shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Last updated September 30, 2021

This Cookie Policy explains how MEAT BUSINESS WOMEN LTD (“Company“, “we“, “us“, and “our“) uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our websites at https://meatbusinesswomen.org, (“Websites“). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

In some cases we may use cookies to collect personal information, or that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, MEAT BUSINESS WOMEN LTD) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

Why do we use cookies?

We use first and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Websites to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Online Properties. Third parties serve cookies through our Websites for advertising, analytics and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our Websites and the purposes they perform are described below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific Online Properties you visit):

How can I control cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Manager. The Cookie Consent Manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services.

The Cookie Consent Manager can be found in the notification banner and on our website. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.

In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.

The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our Websites and the purposes they perform are described in the table below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific Online Properties you visit):

Essential website cookies:

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Websites and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.

Performance and functionality cookies:

These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Websites but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality (like videos) may become unavailable.

Analytics and customization cookies:

These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Websites are being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Websites for you.

Advertising cookies:

These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.

What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our Websites or opened an e-mail including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

How often will you update this Cookie Policy?

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

Where can I get further information?

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at [email protected] or visit our privacy policy.