Last updated on 31st October 2024
Please read these legal sections carefully as it contains important information on who we are, terms for website use, how we use cookies on our services and how we deal with your privacy.
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Our Terms & Conditions.
This policy should be read together with our cookies Policy which set out who we are, how to contact us, what data is collected, how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.
1. Introduction
- These terms and conditions (Terms) apply when you use this website, www.studioyears.co.uk and/or www.studioyears.com (Website).
- You agree to be bound by these Terms which form a binding contractual agreement between you and us, STUDIOYEARS Limited being a company incorporated in England and Wales with Company number 13831357 and registered office address at W8a Knoll Business Centre, 325-327 Old Shoreham Road, Hove, England, BN3 7GS (our, we or us).
- If you don’t agree to these Terms, you must refrain from using the Website.
- Additional terms and conditions may apply to your purchase and/or use of any goods or services we may offer on this Website.
- We may change these Terms at any time by updating this page of the Website, and your continued use of the Website following such an update will represent an agreement by you to be bound by the Terms as amended.
2. Access & use of the website
You must only use the Website in accordance with these Terms and any applicable laws, and must ensure that your employees, sub-contractors and any other agents who use or access the Website comply with the Terms and any applicable laws.
3. Your obligations
You must not:
- copy, mirror, reproduce, translate, adapt, vary, modify, sell, decipher or decompile any part or aspect of the Website without our express consent;
- use the Website for any purpose other than the purposes of browsing, selecting or purchasing goods;
- use, or attempt to use, the Website in a manner that is illegal or fraudulent or facilitates illegal or fraudulent activity;
- use, or attempt to use, the Website in a manner that may interfere with, disrupt or create undue burden on the Website or the servers or networks that host the Website;
- use the Website with the assistance of any automated scripting tool or software;
- act in a way that may diminish or adversely impact our reputation, including by linking to the Website on any other website; and
- attempt to breach the security of the Website, or otherwise interfere with the normal functions of the Website, including by:
- gaining unauthorised access to Website accounts or data;
- scanning, probing or testing the Website for security vulnerabilities;
- overloading, flooding, mailbombing, crashing or submitting a virus to the Website; or
- instigate or participate in a denial-of-service attack against the Website.
5. Intellectual property
- We retain ownership of the Website and all materials on the Website (including text, graphics, logos, design, icons, images, sound and video recordings, pricing, downloads and software) (Website Content) and reserves all rights in any intellectual property rights owned or licensed by it not expressly granted to you.
- You may make a temporary electronic copy of all or part of the Website for the sole purpose of viewing it. You must not otherwise reproduce, transmit, adapt, distribute, sell, modify or publish the Website or any Website Content without prior written consent from us or as permitted by law.
6. Links to other websites
- The Website may contain links to other websites that are not our responsibility. We have no control over the content of the linked websites and we are not responsible for it.
- Inclusion of any linked website on the Website does not imply our approval or endorsement of the linked website.
7. Security
We do not accept responsibility for loss or damage to computer systems, mobile phones or other electronic devices arising in connection with use of the Website. You should take your own precautions to ensure that the process that you employ for accessing the Website does not expose you to risk of viruses, malicious computer code or other forms of interference.
8. Reporting misuse
If you become aware of misuse of the Website by any person, any errors in the material on the Website or any difficulty in accessing or using the Website, please contact us immediately using the contact details or form provided on our Website.
9. Privacy
You agree to be bound by our Privacy Policy, which can be found here.
10. Liability
- We make no warranties or representations about this Website or any of its content and will not be responsible to you or any third party for any direct or consequential loss suffered in connection with the use of this Website. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we exclude any liability that may arise due to your use of our Website and/or the information or materials contained on it. You agree to indemnify us for any loss or liability arising out of your use of this Website.
- To the extent that the provisions of any applicable law shall impose restrictions on the extent to which liability can be excluded under these Terms including, for the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of sections 3, 6 and 11 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 in the UK (and its equivalent in any other jurisdiction) relating to the requirement of reasonableness, the exclusions set out in this clause shall be limited in accordance with such restrictions. However, any exclusions of liability that are not affected by such restrictions shall remain in full force and effect.
- Nothing in these Terms shall exclude or limit a party’s liability for fraud or intentional unlawful conduct by a party, or death or personal injury resulting from a party’s negligence.
11. General
GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
This agreement and any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter or formation shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales. Each party irrevocably agrees that the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection with this agreement or its subject matter or formation.
THIRD PARTY RIGHTS
This agreement does not give rise to any rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of this agreement.
WAIVER
No party to this agreement may rely on the words or conduct of any other party as a waiver of any right unless the waiver is in writing and signed by the party granting the waiver.
SEVERANCE
Any term of this agreement which is wholly or partially void or unenforceable is severed to the extent that it is void or unenforceable. The validity and enforceability of the remainder of this agreement is not limited or otherwise affected.
JOINT AND SEVERAL LIABILITY
An obligation or a liability assumed by, or a right conferred on, two or more persons binds or benefits them jointly and severally.
ASSIGNMENT
A party cannot assign, novate or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations under this agreement without the prior written consent of the other party.
ENTIRE AGREEMENT
This agreement embodies the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes any prior negotiation, conduct, arrangement, understanding or agreement, express or implied, in relation to the subject matter of this agreement.
INTERPRETATION
- (singular and plural) words in the singular includes the plural (and vice versa);
- (gender) words indicating a gender includes the corresponding words of any other gender;
- (defined terms) if a word or phrase is given a defined meaning, any other part of speech or grammatical form of that word or phrase has a corresponding meaning;
- (person) a reference to “person” or “you” includes an individual, the estate of an individual, a corporation, an authority, an association, consortium or joint venture (whether incorporated or unincorporated), a partnership, a trust and any other entity;
- (party) a reference to a party includes that party’s executors, administrators, successors and permitted assigns, including persons taking by way of novation and, in the case of a trustee, includes any substituted or additional trustee;
- (this agreement) a reference to a party, clause, paragraph, schedule, exhibit, attachment or annexure is a reference to a party, clause, paragraph, schedule, exhibit, attachment or annexure to or of these Terms (this agreement), and a reference to this agreement includes all schedules, exhibits, attachments and annexures to it;
- (document) a reference to a document (including these Terms) is to that document as varied, novated, ratified or replaced from time to time;
- (headings) headings and words in bold type are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation;
- (includes) the word “includes” and similar words in any form is not a word of limitation;
- (adverse interpretation) no provision of this agreement will be interpreted adversely to a party because that party was responsible for the preparation of this agreement or that provision; and (currency) a reference to £, or "pounds", is to Pound Sterling currency, unless otherwise agreed in writing.
Our Privacy Policy.
1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy is provided by STUDIOYEARS Limited being a company incorporated in England and Wales with Company number 13831357 and registered office address at W8a Knoll Business Centre, 325-327 Old Shoreham Road, Hove, England, BN3 7GS (‘we’, ‘our’ or ‘us’) for use of our products and services including our websites www.studioyears.co.uk and www.studioyears.com. (Services).
We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on how and why we collect, store, use and share any information relating to you (your personal data).
It also explains your rights in relation to your personal data and how to contact us or the relevant regulator in the event you have a complaint. Our collection, storage, use and sharing of your personal data is regulated by law, including under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).
We are the controller of personal data obtained via the Services, meaning we are the organisation legally responsible for deciding how and for what purposes it is used.
2. What this policy applies to
This privacy policy relates to your use of the Services only.
The Services may link to or rely on other apps, websites, APIs or services owned and operated by us or by certain trusted third parties to enable us to provide you with Services. These other apps, websites, APIs or services may also gather information about you in accordance with their own separate privacy policies. For privacy information relating to these other apps, websites or services, please consult their privacy policies as appropriate. For more information see the section ‘Who we share your personal data with’ below.
3. Personal data we collect about you
The personal data we collect about you depends on the particular activities carried out through the Services. We will collect and use the following personal data about you:
| Category of data | In more detail |
|---|---|
| Data when you sign up for our newsletter or marketing emails | Your name and email address |
| Data when you request us to provide goods or services | Your name and email addressYour contact phone numberYour postal and/or business address |
| Other data the Services collects automatically when you use it | Your activities on, and use of, the Services which reveal your preferences, interests or manner of use of the Services and the times of use |
| Data collected when you make an enquiry with us | Your name and email address |
If you do not provide personal data we ask for where it is required it may prevent us from providing services and/or the Services to you. We collect and use this personal data for the purposes described in the section ‘How and why we use your personal data’ below.
4. Sensitive data
Sensitive personal data (also known as special category data) means information related to personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin; political opinions; religious or philosophical beliefs; trade union membership; genetic data; biometric data (where used for identification purposes); data concerning health; data concerning a person’s sex life; and data concerning a person’s sexual orientation.
Please note that we do not knowingly or intentionally collect sensitive personal data or information about criminal convictions from individuals and that you should not submit sensitive data to us.
If, however you do submit sensitive data to us, such as if you make this sensitive data available to other users of the Services (such as by publishing it through any forum feature we may make available from time to time) we will assume that you have purposefully made any such sensitive data manifestly public.
5. How your personal data is collected
We collect personal data from you directly when you sign up to the Services, contact us directly or reach out to us via social media, make submissions via the Services when a forum element is available, or indirectly, such as your activity while using the Services.
At this point in time, we do not collect any personal information about you using cookies or similar technologies. In the event that this were to change and if we were to decide to collect personal data about you using cookies, you would be notified of this change by means of in-app notification, with detailed information regarding our use of cookies and similar technologies to be made available in the relevant cookies policy.
6. How and why we use your personal data
Under data protection law, we can only use your personal data if we have a proper reason, e.g.:
- where you have given consent
- to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
- for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract, or
- for our legitimate interests or those of a third party
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests. We will carry out an assessment when relying on legitimate interests, to balance our interests against your own. You can obtain details of this assessment by contacting us (see ‘How to contact us’ below). The table below explains what we use your personal data for and why.
| What we use your personal data for | Our reasons |
|---|---|
| Providing services and/or the functionalities of the Services to you | Your name and email address |
| Contacting you (via email or phone) with offers of our Services | Your name and email addressYour contact phone numberYour postal and/or business address |
| To enforce legal rights or defend or undertake legal proceedings | Data you store online with us using the Services including your usage history or preferences (while such data may not always be personal data as defined at law in all cases we will assume it is and treat it in accordance with this policy as if it were) |
| Communications with you not related to marketing, including about changes to our terms or policies or changes to the Services or service or other important notices | Your activities on, and use of, the Services which reveal your preferences, interests or manner of use of the Services and the times of use |
| Protect the security of systems and data | Your name and email address |
| Operational reasons, such as improving efficiency, training, and quality control or to provide support to you | Your name and email address |
| Statistical analysis to help us manage our business, e.g., in relation to our performance, customer base, app and functionalities and offerings or other efficiency measures | Your name and email address |
| Updating and enhancing user records | Depending on the circumstances:to perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract (in this case, the contract means the Terms and Conditions which apply to the Services)to comply with our legal and regulatory obligationswhere neither of the above apply, for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g. making sure that we can keep in touch with our customers about their accounts and new products or functionalities related to the Services and our services |
| To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations | Depending on the circumstances:to perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract (in this case, the contract means the Terms and Conditions which apply to the Services)to comply with our legal and regulatory obligationswhere neither of the above apply, for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g. making sure that we can keep in touch with our customers about their accounts and new products or functionalities related to the Services and our services |
| To share your personal data with members of our group and third parties in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency. In such cases information will be anonymised where possible and only shared where necessary | Depending on the circumstances:to comply with our legal and regulatory obligationsin other cases, for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to protect, realise or grow the value in our business and assets |
See ‘Who we share your personal data with’ for further information on the steps we will take to protect your personal data where we need to share it with others.
7. Marketing
We intend to send you email marketing to inform you of our services such as promotions. We will always ask you for your consent before sending you marketing communications, except where you have explicitly opted-in to receiving email marketing from us in the past or except where you were given the option to opt-out of email marketing when you initially signed up and you did not do so. You will have the right to opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time by:
- contacting us at marketing@studioyears.com
- using the ‘unsubscribe’ link included in all marketing emails you may received from us.
We will always treat your personal data with the utmost respect and never sell or share it with other organisations for marketing purposes.For more information on your right to object at any time to your personal data being used for marketing purposes, see ‘Your rights’ below.
| What your rights regard | Your rights |
|---|---|
| Access to a copy of your personal data | The right to be provided with a copy of your person data |
| Correction (also known as rectification) | The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal data |
| Erasure (also known as the right to be forgotten) | The right to require us to delete your personal data – in certain situations |
| Data portability | The right to require us to restrict the use of your personal data in certain circumstances, e.g. if you contest the accuracy of the data |
| To object to use | The right to object: 1. at any time to your personal data being used for direct marketing (including profiling) 2. in certain other situations to our continued use of your personal data, e.g. where we use your personal data for our legitimate interests |
| Not to be subject to decisions without human involvement | The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. We do not make any such decisions based on data collected by the Services |
