1. Terms of Service
1.1 The taptu.com website (the taptu.com Site or the Site) and its associated services are brought to you by Taptu Limited (Taptu, we or us) company registration number 05514819, registered office 140 Cambridge Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0GF, VAT registration number 895 928 057. The taptu.com Site is accessible through the following domains:
Your use of this site and the services are subject to the terms of service below, which form a legal agreement between you and us. If you do not agree to be bound by these terms, then you must not use the taptu.com Site. By using the Site you are agreeing with these terms.
1.2 These terms of service may be amended without giving notice. Please review this page regularly to take note of the last revised date above. Any amendments will be effective from the date of posting of the revised terms onto the taptu.com Site.
1.3 Where Taptu has provided you with a translation of these terms, it is for your convenience only, and the English language version of the terms will preside over your relationship with Taptu.
1.4 Nothing in this agreement affects your statutory rights.
2. Taptu.com Site
2.1 The taptu.com Site provides an internet search engine which can be accessed from either a PC or a mobile phone. The Site also provides a discussion forum within which search results can be shared, blogs written, pictures uploaded, webpages linked to etc (Here on in described as the Services).
2.2 We are constantly finding improved ways to present the Taptu Services to you. In order to do this you agree that we may stop either temporarily or permanently providing the Services, to you, or all users, at our discretion without prior notice to you.
2.3 Taptu:
makes no representation as to the accuracy of any content or information or the suitability or reliability of the Services
is not responsible for the timeliness or otherwise of any content, information or services being made available to you
is not responsible for the timeliness, deletion or failure to store any user communications of personalisation and website customisation settings
3. Use of the Taptu Services
3.1 The taptu.com Site cannot be used for business or commercial purposes, it can only be used for personal use.
3.2 Some of our Services require you to register first in order to gain access. The registration requires you to provide information about yourself. You agree that any registration information you provide to us will always be accurate, correct and up to date. The registration process will involve the creation of a user name and password. We have the right to refuse the creation of an account if the user name is vulgar, defamatory, illegal, trademarked, or impersonates someone else. It is your responsibility to keep you password and user name confidential, and not to transfer or resell it to a third party. Any personal data we collect in the registration or other processes, is subject to our Privacy Policy, which by reference forms part of this agreement.
3.3 You will not attempt to access Taptus Services by any means other than the Taptu interface.
3.4 You agree that in return for your use of the Services, we may place advertisements, and promotions on our Site.
3.5 Unless we have given you express written permission, you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Services for any purpose.
3.6 You agree that you are solely responsible for any breach of your obligations under this agreement, and for the consequences of any such breach.
3.7 By using the Site you accept that you are using the Services entirely at your own risk, and that by providing you with this service, Taptu is not advising you in any way. Any legal, medical, financial or other information referred to in or through the Site is only presented for information purposes, and does not constitute professional advice, you should consult a professional in order to obtain such advice.
3.8 We provide access to a discussion forum on the site. In using this you acknowledge that any and all material, information, data, text, photographs, graphics, messages or other content posted or sent using the taptu.com Site (User Content) are the responsibility of the person from whom that User Content originated. We do not exercise any editorial control over User Content, but we do reserve the right to monitor it, and remove any User Content we feel is not appropriate, without notice to you. We will not be liable to you for any User Content posted by you, including any errors, omissions, or misrepresentations, for loss of damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of, or arising from, any postings or for our removal, modification, or deletion of such User Content. You understand that any User Content will be made available publicly.
3.9 When you post User Content onto the Site you grant Taptu a world-wide, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, non-exclusive perpetual licence to copy, modify, adapt, translate and make publicly available such User Content in whatever way we choose, without any requirement to compensate you for such use.
3.10 You agree that Taptu own all legal right, title and interest in and to the Services, and to any intellectual property subsisting in the site.
4. Licence from Taptu
4.1 Taptu grants to you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive licence to use the software provided to you by Taptu as part of the Services provided. You must not copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile, or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the software, unless Taptu has given you express written permission.
5. Content in the Services
5.1 All the information that you have access to as a result of using the Services (e.g. data files, written text, computer software, music, audio files, photographs, videos, images etc) are the sole responsibility of the person from whom the content originated. Such information is referred to as Content in the paragraph below, the term Content includes User Content.
5.2 We reserve the right to pre filter, review, flag, filter, refuse or remove any or all Content from any Service. By using the Services you must understand that you may come across Content which you find offensive, indecent or objectionable, and therefore you use the Services at your own risk.
5.3 The results produced from performing a search will be from sites owned and operated by third parties. We have no control over these websites, therefore we accept no responsibility, and make no warranties or representations for the activities of these websites.
5.5 We are not responsible for without limitation, the accuracy, relevance, copyright compliance, legality or decency of any content or services contained in the websites listed in search results, or from links on our Site. You are fully aware that any link on our Site may link to websites which contain harmful, offensive or objectionable material. We have no responsibility if the search results contain such sites, and you release us from all liability in respect of the same. We do reserve the right to remove any third party links from our website.
5.5 Any transaction you enter into on a third party site is solely between you and the third party, we do not play a part. Further we do not make any representations or warranties to the security of any information (Such as credit or debit card information) which you submit to a third party site, and you hereby irrevocably waive any claim against us in relation to such sites.
6. Restrictions on using the taptu.com Site
6.1 You agree not to use the Site to:
Submit User Content which is promotional material, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, junk mail, unsolicited or unauthorized advertising
Distribute any User Content which infringes or violates any partys copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary right without express permission. This includes any Content which would breach any employment contract, or non disclosure agreement you are subject to
Submit User Content that is hateful, abusive, unlawful, defamatory, libelous, invasive of anothers privacy, vulgar, obscene, harmful, threatening, harassing, tortuous, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable
Threaten or harm any other user, which includes stalking
Pretend to be another person or entity, or misrepresent your association with another person or entity
Distribute any viruses, worms, or other destructive, harmful files, codes or programs.
Breach any law intentionally or otherwise, whether that be national or international
Disguise the source of any posting, through manipulation of headers
Perform any actions that would breach the data protection or privacy rights of others. For example you must not collect and distribute information about other users without their permission.
Perform any automated querying through using software to determine how our ranking of search results work, nor must you use the site, or the Content from it for meta-searching
7. Children
7.1 We are keen for all ages to enjoy the services our website has to offer. However we are concerned that some links or User Content on the site will not be appropriate for child viewing. It is your responsibility as your childs legal guardian to determine whether any part of the site is not suitable for your childs viewing, and supervise access as necessary.
7.2 If you are under 18 please ensure you have the permission of your parent or guardian to use the site, create an account, and submit User Content.
8. Warranties
8.1 We provide the Services as is, and we give you no warranty in respect of them. In particular we do not represent or warrant:
your use of our Services will meet your requirements
your use of our Services will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or free from error
any information obtained by you as a result of your use of our Services will be accurate or reliable
that defects in the operation or functionality of any Software provided to you as part of the Services will be corrected.
that if the service is temporarily unavailable for whatever reason we will restore all User Content you have submitted in full.
8.2 We also disclaim any implied term of satisfactory quality, or fitness for a particular purpose.
9. Limitation of liability
9.1 Nothing in this agreement shall exclude our liability for losses which may not lawfully be excluded or limited by applicable law.
9.2 To the maximum extent permitted by law and except in respect of death or personal injury caused by Taptus negligence, Taptu will not be liable for any loss, damage, cost or expense of any kind incurred by you arising in connection with your use of, or inability to use, the taptu.com Site and you release Taptu from all such liability.
10. Indemnity
10.1 You agree to indemnify, and keep indemnified Taptu and its officers, directors, employees and agents against any and all liability, losses, claims, demands, disputes, damages or costs of any kind, including attorneys fees and costs of litigation, resulting from or in any way connected with your use of the taptu.com Site, and any User Content you submit, or any breach by you of this Agreement or any applicable local laws.
11. General terms
11.1 This Agreement and any other documents referred to therein, constitutes the entire agreement between Taptu and you. This Agreement replaces in full any prior agreements which might have existed, whether oral or written, between you and us.
11.2 You agree that if we do not enforce any of the terms in this Agreement, this will not be taken as a formal waiver of our rights, and that those rights will still be available to us.
11.3 If a court finds any term of this Agreement to be invalid, you agree that we will remove that term from the Agreement, without affecting the remaining terms.
11.4 This Agreement is governed by English Law. You and Taptu submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England. Notwithstanding this, you agree that Taptu shall still be allowed to apply for injunctive remedies (or any equivalent type of urgent legal relief) in any jurisdiction.
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