Terms and Conditions

These Terms and Conditions are the contract between you and Tony Richards ("us", "we", etc.), the owner of this website. By visiting or using our website, you agree to be bound by them.

They are based on a set written by Net Lawman and released under licence. They protect your rights as well as ours.

I am Tony Richards, the author of this website, contactable at contact@crewlog.me.uk or by post to 20 Birbeck Rd, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, NP26 4DX.

You are: Anyone who uses Our Website.

Please read this agreement carefully and save it. If you do not agree with it, you should leave Our Website immediately.

These are the agreed terms:

1. Definitions

Consumer: Means any individual who, in connection with this agreement, is acting for a purpose which is outside his business.
Content: Means the textual, visual or aural content that is encountered as part of your experience on Our Website. It may include, among other things: text, images, sounds, videos and animations. It includes content Posted by you.
CrewLog Membership: Means any service we provide, whether through Our Website or otherwise. It includes the membership service we provide as set out on Our Website and in this contract.
Post: Means display, exhibit, publish, distribute, transmit and/or disclose information, Content and/or other material on Our Website, and the phrases "Posted" and "Posting" shall be interpreted accordingly.
Services: Means all of the services available from Our Website, whether free or charged.
Our Website: Means any website or service designed for electronic access by mobile or fixed devices which is owned or operated by us. It includes all web pages controlled by us.

2. Our Contract

These terms and conditions regulate the business relationship between you and us. By buying CrewLog Membership or using Our Website free of charge, you agree to be bound by them.

We do not offer the Services in all countries. We may refuse to provide the Services if you live in a country we do not serve.

In entering into this contract you have not relied on any representation or information from any source except the definition and explanation of the Services given on Our Website.

Subject to these terms and conditions, we agree to provide to you some or all of the Services described on Our Website at the prices we charge from time to time.

Our contract with you and licence to you for free use of this website lasts until you close your account or it is deemed by us as no longer in use. We will notify you of any changes to these terms. Your continued use of our services after that shall be deemed acceptance by you of the changed Service, system and/or terms.

Our contract with you and licence to you for use of any paid-for aspects of this website last until you close your account, or it is deemed by us that your account is no longer in use, or the length agreed at the time of payment elapses. Any continuation by us or by you after this expiry is a new contract under the terms then posted on Our Website. Your continued use of our services after that shall be deemed acceptance by you of the changed Service, system and/or terms.

The contract between us for free use of Our Website comes into existence when you register your account.

The contract between us for any paid-for aspects of Our Website when we receive payment from you for a Service.

If we give you free access to a Service or feature on Our Website which is normally a charged feature, and that Service or feature is usually subject to additional contractual terms, you now agree that you will abide by those terms.

We may change this agreement in any way at any time. The version applicable to your contract is the version which was posted on Our Website at the time that the contract was made.

3. Your Account and Personal Information

When you visit Our Website, you accept responsibility for any action done by any person in your name or under your account or password. You should take all necessary steps to ensure that the password is kept confidential and secure and should inform us immediately if you have any reason to believe that your password has become known to anyone else, or if the password is being, or is likely to be, used in an unauthorised manner.

You agree that you have provided accurate, up to date, and complete information about yourself. We are not responsible for any error made as a result of such information being inaccurate.

You agree to notify us of any changes in your information immediately it occurs. If you do not do so, we may terminate your account.

4. CrewLog Membership

Our basic Service is free of charge. You may use it subject to your compliance with the terms of this agreement.

Details of the cost and benefits of CrewLog Membership are as set out on Our Website. You may subscribe to CrewLog Membership Services at any time.

If you subscribe to CrewLog Membership as a Consumer, the law provides that you can opt out of your right to the 14 day cancellation period. Of course, we will not accept your subscription request unless you agree to lose your cancellation right.

You do this by instructing us to allow subscription immediately, or as soon as we can. If you do that, we will give you CrewLog Membership immediately and you lose your right to cancel your order.

By accepting these terms, you now agree that you are instructing us to give you CrewLog Membership immediately and you understand that, in doing so, you lose your right to cancel your order within 14 days.

If you give up your right to cancel, that will apply to any renewal of your CrewLog Membership at any time from now.

Apart from your cancellation right, termination of CrewLog Membership will be regulated by this contract set out in paragraph 13 below.

You may not transfer your CrewLog Membership to any other person.

We reserve the right to modify the CrewLog Membership rules or system and to change the terms and conditions of this agreement at any time, without notice. Your continued use of the CrewLog Membership after such modifications shall be deemed an acceptance by you to be bound by the terms of the modified agreement. The terms that apply to you are those posted here on our website on the day you join as a member.

5. Prices

The price payable for Services that you order is clearly set out on Our Website.

Prices are inclusive of any applicable value added tax or other sales tax.

Bank charges by the receiving bank on payments to us will be borne by us. All other charges relating to payment in a currency other than Pounds Sterling will be borne by you.

You will pay all sums due to us under this agreement by the means specified without any set-off, deduction or counterclaim.

If, by mistake, we have under-priced an item, we will not be liable to supply that item to you at the stated price, provided that we notify you before we dispatch it to you.

6. Renewal Payments

CrewLog Membership does not renew automatically. At expiry of your CrewLog Membership, it will lapse, unless you take active steps to renew it. This renewal will be considered a new contract under the Terms at the time.

CrewLog Membership is non-refundable and non-transferable.

7. Security Of Your Payment Details

All payment details are processed by an external payment processor, who will encrypt your payment details to protect them. This page is not controlled by us, and we do not store your payment details.

8. Restrictions On What You May Post To Our Website

We may, at our discretion, read, assess, review or moderate any Content Posted on Our Website. If we do, we need not notify you or give you a reason.

You agree that you will not use, or allow anyone else to use, Our Website to Post a Content which is or may:

Be malicious or defamatory
Consist in commercial audio, video or music files
Be obscene, offensive, threatening or violent
Be sexually explicit or pornographic
Be likely to deceive any person, or be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity, age, or affiliation with any person or organisation
Give the impression that it emanates from us, or that you are connected with us, or that we have endorsed you or your business.
Solicit passwords or personal information from anyone
Be used to sell any goods or services or any other commercial use
Include anything other than words (i.e. you will not include any symbols or photographs)
Link to any of the material specified above, in this paragraph
Cause any infringement of other people's rights, including their rights surrounding their personal data

In connection with the restrictions set out above, we may refuse, edit or remove a posting which does not comply with these terms.

9. How We Handle Your Content

Our Privacy Policy is strong and precise. It complies fully with the Data Protection Act, and is here.

If you Post Content to any public area of Our Website it becomes available in the public domains. We have no control over who sees it or what anyone does with it.

Posting content of any sort does not change your ownership of the copyright in it. We have no claim over it and we will not protect your rights for you.

You understand that you are personally responsible for your breach of someone else’s intellectual property rights, defamation, or any law, which may occur as a result of any Content having been Posted by you.

You accept all risk and responsibility for determining whether any Content is in the public domain and not confidential.

Please notify us of any security breach or unauthorised use of your account.

10. Removal Of Offensive Content

For the avoidance of doubt, this paragraph is addressed to any person who comes on Our Website for any purpose.

We are under no obligation to monitor or record the activity of any customer for any purpose, nor do we assume any responsibility to monitor or police Internet-related activities. However, we may do so without notice to you and without giving you a reason.

If you are offended by any Content, the following procedure applies:

Your claim or complaint must be submitted to us by email. It must include the content, where it is posted, and the cause of the concern.
We shall remove the offending content as soon as we are reasonably able
After we receive notice of a claim or complaint, we shall investigate so far as we alone decide
We may re-instate the Content about which you have complained or not

In respect of any complaint made by you or any person on your behalf, you now irrevocably grant to us a licence to publish the complaint and all ensuing correspondence and communication, without limit.

You now agree that if any complaint is made by you frivolously or vexatiously you will repay us the cost of our investigation including legal fees, if any.

11. Security Of Our Website

If you violate Our Website, we shall take legal action against you.

You now agree that you will not, and will not allow any other person to

Modify, copy, or cause damage or unintended effect to any portion of Our Website, or any software used within it
Link to Our Website in any way that would cause the appearance or presentation of Our Website to be different from what would be seen by a user who accessed Our Website by typing the URL into a standard browser
Download any part of Our Website, without our express written consent
Collect or use any information obtained from or about Our Website or the Content except as intended by this agreement
Share with a third party any login credentials to Our Website

Despite the above terms, we now grant a licence to you to:

Create a hyperlink to Our Website for the purpose of promoting an interest common to both of us. You can do this without specific permission. This licence is conditional upon your not portraying us or any product or service in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive manner. You may not use any logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark of ours as part of the link without our express written consent.
You may copy the text of any page for your personal use in connection with the purpose of Our Website or a Service we provide.

12. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

The law differs from one country to another. This paragraph applies so far as the applicable law allows.

All implied conditions, warranties and terms are excluded from this agreement. If in any jurisdiction an implied condition, warrant or term cannot be excluded, then this sub paragraph shall be deemed to be reduced in effect, only to the extent necessary to release that specific condition, warranty or term.

We make no representation or warranty that the Services will be:

Useful to you
Of satisfactory quality
Fit for a particular purpose
Available or accessible, without interruption, or without error

We claim no expert knowledge in any subject. We disclaim any obligation or liability to you arising directly or indirectly from information you take from Our Website.

We shall not be liable to you for any loss or expense arising out of or in connection with your use of Our Website, which is indirect or consequential loss, or economic loss or other loss of turnover, profits, business or goodwill. This applies whether in an action of contract, negligence or otherwise, even if such loss was reasonably foreseeable or we knew you might incur it.

We make no representation or warranty and accept no responsibility in law for:

Accuracy of any Content or the impression or effect it gives
Delivery of Content, material or any message
Privacy of any transmission
Any act or omission of any person or identity of any person who introduces himself to you through Our Website
Any aspect or characteristic of any goods or services advertised on Our Website

Our Website includes Content Posted by third parties. We are not responsible for any such Content. If you come across any Content which offends you, please contact us at contact@crewlog.me.uk.

We will do all we can to maintain access to Our Website, but it may be necessary for us to suspend all or part of our service for repairs, maintenance or other good reasons. We may do so without telling you first.

You agree that in any circumstances when we may become liable to you, the limit of our liability is the amount you have paid us in the immediately preceding 12 month period for the Services concerned.

This paragraph (and any other paragraph which excludes or restricts our liability or provides an indemnity to us) applies to our directors, officers, employees, subcontractors, agents and affiliated companies, as well as to us. Any of them may enforce this provision under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

If you become aware of any breach of any term of this agreement by any person, please tell us by emailing contact@crewlog.me.uk. We welcome your input but do not guarantee to agree with your judgement.

Nothing in this agreement excludes liability for a party's fraud.

13. Duration and Termination

This agreement shall operate for the period for which you have subscribed to the CrewLog Membership Service.

You may terminate this agreement at any time, for any reason, with immediate effect. You may terminate the agreement either by closing your account. We reserve the right to check the validity of any request to terminate membership.

We may terminate this agreement at any time, for any reason, with immediate effect by sending you notice to that effect by post or email.

Termination by either party shall have the following effects:

Your right to use the Services immediately ceases
We are under no obligation to forward any unread or unsent messages to you or any third party

In the event of such termination by us, we will within seven days refund to you the balance of your subscription outstanding for any Service, pro rata with time not elapsed.

There shall be no re-imbursement or credit if the Service is terminated due to your breach of the terms of this agreement.

We retain the right, at our sole discretion, to terminate any and all parts of the Services provided to you, without refunding to you any fees paid if we decide in our absolute discretion that you have failed to comply with any of the terms of this agreement.

14. Storage of Data

We assume no responsibility for the deletion or failure to store or deliver email or other messages.

We may, from time to time, set a limit on the number of messages you may send, store, or receive through the Service. We may delete messages in excess of that limit. We shall give you notice of any change to your limit, except in an emergency.

You accept that we cannot be liable to you for any such deletion or failure to deliver to you.

15. Interruption to Services

If it is necessary for us to interrupt the Services, we will give you reasonable notice where this is possible and when we think the down time is such as to justify telling you.

You acknowledge that the Services may also be interrupted for many reasons beyond our control.

You agree that we are not liable to you for any loss, foreseeable or not, arising from any interruption to the Services.

16. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us against any loss, damage or liability, suffered by us at any time and arising out of:

Any act, neglect or default of yours in connection with this agreement or your use of the Services

Your breach of this agreement

Your failure to comply with any law

A contractual claim arising from your use of the Services

17. Dispute Resolution

The following terms apply in the event of a dispute between the parties:

If you are not happy with our services or have any complaint then you must tell us by email message to contact@crewlog.me.uk.

If a dispute is not settled as set out above, we hope you will agree to attempt to resolve it by engaging in good faith with the other in a process of mediation or arbitration.

18. Miscellaneous Matters

If any term or provision of this agreement is at any time held by any jurisdiction to be void, invalid or unenforceable, then it shall be treated as changed or reduced, only to the extent minimally necessary to bring it within the laws of that jurisdiction and to prevent it from being void and it shall be binding in that changed or reduced form. Subject to that, each provision shall be interpreted as severable and shall not in any way affect any other of these terms.

The rights and obligations of the parties set out in this agreement shall pass to any permitted successor in title.

If you are in breach of any term of this agreement, we may:

Terminate your account and refuse access to Our Website
Remove or edit Content, or cancel any order at our discretion
Issue a claim in any court

Any obligation in this agreement intended to continue to have effect after termination or completion shall so continue.

No failure or delay by any party to exercise any right, power or remedy will operate as a waiver of it nor indicate any intention to reduce that or any other right in the future.

Any communication to be served on either of the parties by the other shall be delivered by hand or sent by first class post or recorded delivery or by e-mail.

It shall be deemed to have been delivered:

If delivered by hand: on the day of delivery
If sent by post to the correct address: within 72 hours of posting

This agreement does not give any right to any third party under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise, except that any provision in this agreement which excludes or restricts the liability of our directors, officers, employees, subcontractors, agents and affiliated companies, may be enforced under that Act.

Neither party shall be liable for any failure or delay in performance of this agreement which is caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control.

The validity, construction and performance of this agreement shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales and you agree that any dispute arising from it shall be litigated only in that country.