London Business Forum Terms and Conditions

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE AND THE CONTENT.

BY BEING GRANTED LICENCE TO THE CONTENT YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, PLEASE CONTACT THE USER WHO HAS GRANTED YOU THIS LICENCE AND ASK FOR ITS REMOVAL, OR CONTACT US AND ASK TO CANCEL YOUR LICENCE.

Who we are and how to contact us

www.londonbusinessforum.com is a Site ( the “Site”) operated by London Business Forum ("We"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 04188195 and have our registered office at:

London Business Forum

38 Bartholomew Close

London

EC1A 7HP

This is also our main trading address.

Our VAT number is 777 8584 52.

We are a limited company.

To contact us, please email [email protected].

By using our Site and Licence you accept these terms.

By using our Site, you confirm that you accept the terms of this policy and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our Site.

We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

By using our Site you accept these terms

By using our Site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our Site.

We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

These are terms and conditions supplementing the Service Agreement between your employer, contractor or other party has that passed on the third-party licence to you (the “End-user”) to have access to our Content under said agreement.  

Content – the audio-visual material provided under this agreement.

Service – the service you access via the Licence to display on a Device the Content you have access to.

Device – the electrical equipment used to stream the Content, including but not limited to a mobile phone, television, laptop, tablet or PC.

Licence – as detailed in the Service Agreement which grants you, the End-user access to the Content.

There are other terms that may apply to you

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our Site:

We may make changes to these terms

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our Site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. These terms were most recently drafted in October 2021.

We may make changes to our Site

We may update and change our Site or Content from time to time to reflect changes to our products, our users' needs and our business priorities. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any major changes.

We may suspend or withdraw our Site, Content or Service

We do not guarantee that our Site, or the Content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our Site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

You are also responsible for ensuring that you are the only person accessing our Site through your internet connection or Device using the login credentials provided to you.

We may transfer this agreement to someone else

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under the contract.

You must keep your account details safe

Your username and password must not be shared with anyone else. If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your password, you must promptly notify us at [email protected].

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

You should keep all your personal information up to date. When logged into your account, you can check and edit your personal information in My Profile https://www.londonbusinessforum.com/member-area/?panel=your_profile, see your previous history and manage your other settings.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at [email protected].

If someone else owns the phone or device you are using

If you download or stream the Content onto any Device not owned by you, you must have the owner's permission to do so and ensure all your account and login details are not stored in said device. You will be responsible for complying with these terms, whether or not you own the Device.

How you may use the material on our Site

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our Site for your personal use only and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our Site.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our Site must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated).

You must not use any part of the content on our Site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our Site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our Site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

In return for your agreeing to comply with these terms you may:

  1. download or stream the Content off of the Site, or accept invitation to view the Content via Zoom, Team or similar application onto your Device to use and display the Content on such Devices for your own use only; and
  2. provided you comply with the "LICENCE RESTRICTIONS" below.

No text or data mining, or web scraping

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our Site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our Site. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):

Any "robot", "bot", "spider", "scraper" or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of the Site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.

  • Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.
  • The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).

This clause shall not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.

Licence restrictions

You agree that:

  1. you will not rent, lease, sub-license, loan, provide, transfer or otherwise make available, your Account , the Content or the Services in any form, in whole or in part to any person without prior written consent from us;
  2. you will not copy any Content, or videos on the site unless permitted by these terms or by us in advance in writing; and
  3. you will not translate, merge, adapt, vary, alter or modify, the whole or any part of the Content.

Acceptable use restrictions

You must:

  1. not use the Content or any Service in any unlawful manner, for any unlawful purpose, or in any manner inconsistent with these terms, or act fraudulently or maliciously, for example, by hacking into or inserting malicious code, such as viruses, or harmful data, into the Site , any Service or any operating system;
  2. you are 18 years of age or over to accept these terms;
  3. not infringe our intellectual property rights or those of any third party in relation to your use of the Content, WebSite or Service (to the extent that such use is not licensed by these terms);
  4. not use the Content, Site or Service in a way that could damage, disable, overburden, impair or compromise our systems or security or interfere with other users;
  5. not collect or harvest any information or data from the Content, WebSite or Service or our systems or attempt to decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running any Service; and
  6. not bring the London Business Forum into disrepute, make any disparaging or defamatory comments or any other comments that may harm the reputation of the London Business Forum.

We are not responsible for websites we link to

Where our Site contains links to other Sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.

We have no control over the contents of those Sites or resources.

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

  • We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our Site or any content on it.
  • We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
  • use of, or inability to use, our Site; or
  • use of or reliance on any content displayed on our Site.
  • In particular, we will not be liable for:
  • loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
  • business interruption;
  • loss of anticipated savings;
  • loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
  • any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

How we may use your personal information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy, https://www.londonbusinessforum.com/privacy-policy.

We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them

We do not guarantee that our Site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our Site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Site, the server on which our Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Site. You must not attack our Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Site will cease immediately.

Rules about linking to our Site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our Site in any website that is not owned by you.

Our Site must not be framed on any other Site, nor may you create a link to any part of our Site other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The webSite in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy, https://www.londonbusinessforum.com/website-acceptable-use-policy.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our Site other than that set out above, please contact [email protected].

Which country's laws apply to any disputes?

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

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