Yacht & Marine Surveyors

Copyright & Liability Statement

MARINE SURVEYS UK takes all reasonable care to ensure that the information contained on this website is accurate. However, no warranty or representation is given that the information and materials contained on it are complete or free from errors or inaccuracies. To the extent permitted by applicable laws, MARINE SURVEYS UK accepts no liability for any loss or damages or expenses of any kind. For our disclaimer relating to our legal advice, please see Legal Information Disclaimer.

Material on this website is protected by copyright which is owned by MARINE SURVEYS UK. Users may view, print and download the contents for personal use only and the contents must not be used for any commercial purposes. The material on this website or any part of it is not to be incorporated or distributed in any work or in any publication in any form without the permission of  MARINE SURVEYS UK. To request permission please contact info@marinesurveysuk.com

The views expressed by third parties placing material on these pages are not representative of the views of MARINE SURVEYS UK. MARINE SURVEYS UK cannot monitor the content not produced by us and has not reviewed all the third party material published on this site and MARINE SURVEYS UK accepts no liability whatsoever in relation to the content of third party material placed on these pages.

Legal Information Disclaimer

The following disclaimer covers all information available on the Legal section of MARINE SURVEYS UK site and all information given by MARINE SURVEYS UK Legal staff by telephone or by electronic means: MARINE SURVEYS UK takes all reasonable care to ensure that the information contained on this website is accurate. However, no warranty or representation is given that the information and materials contained on it are complete or free from errors or inaccuracies. To the extent permitted by applicable laws, MARINE SURVEYS UK accepts no liability for any loss or damages or expenses of any kind including without limitation compensatory, direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of data, income or profit, loss of or damage to property, or claims by third parties howsoever arising in connection with your use of this website, the copying or use of any information or material contained in or referred to in this website. This exclusion of liability shall not apply to damages arising from death or personal injury caused by the negligence of MARINE SURVEYS UK or any of its employees or agents.

Companies Act Regulatory Information

The following information is provided in keeping with the Companies (Registrar, Languages and Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/3429) relating to electronic business communications.

Marine Surveys UK is a trading name of Matt West Partnership

Business address;
4 Brook Cottages, Mill Lane, Westbourne, Emsworth, Hampshire, PO10 8RT

Privacy, Security and Data Protection

PRIVACY POLICY

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 MARINE SURVEYS UK is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy

1.2 This policy sets out the basis on which any personal information we collect from you, or that you provide to us, on our website (the Site) will be used.

1.3 For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998, the data controller is Matt West Partnership

2. USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

2.1 Any details you provide will be retained by us for use on future visits to the site. The details you give us may be combined with information about your use of the Site and information from other MARINE SURVEYS UK records in order to:

2.1.1 Provide you with on-line services that you could be interested in and;

2.1.2 enable MARINE SURVEYS UK to offer you products and services that may interest you, by post, telephone or e-mail

2.2 We use information held about you in the following ways:

2.2.1 to respond to your comments and queries;
2.2.2 to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, for example to fulfil your orders
2.2.3 to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have indicated that you wish to be contacted for such purposes by post, email, SMS, telephone or other means of electronic communication;
2.2.4 to ensure that content from the Site is presented in the most effective mannger for you and for your computer;
2.2.5 in relation to entries you make in any competitions, promotions or prize draws on the site, for the purposes explained in the terms and conditions applicable to the competitions, promotions or prize draws;
2.2.6 to allow you to participate in any interactive features of our services when you choose to do so; and
2.2.7 to notify you about changes to our services.

3. DIRECT MARKETING

3.1 If you give your consent we may keep you informed of MARINE SURVEYS UK news and offers by post, email or text or other electronic communication.

3.2 If you agree we may also share your information with selected third parties so that they may provide you with news and offers by post, email or text or other electronic communication, where you have indicated that you wish to be contacted for such purposes by post, email, SMS, telephone or other means of electronic communication

3.3 If you do not want us to use your information for direct marketing purposes, or to pass you details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please check or un-check (as directed) the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your information.

4. THIRD PARTIES

4.1 We may disclose your personal information to other companies affiliated with MARINE SURVEYS UK and to service providers for the purposes of the fulfilling of your order, processing your payment details and providing support services.

4.2 All payment transactions will be processed on our behalf by Secure Trading Limited trading as SecureTrading. This means that your credit/debit card details are provided directly to Secure Trading Limited and are never revealed to us.

4.3 In addition, we may disclose your information to a buyer in the event that we or any of our assets are acquired by a third party (as your information may be one of the transferring assets).

4.4 We will also disclose any of your personal information to any third party where we are under a duty to do so in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or protect any of our rights, property or safety (or those of our members or customers).

5. COOKIES

5.1 A cookie is a small piece of information that is placed on your computer, and is used to differentiate you from other users accessing our Site. The Site contains much information and we use cookies because we want to help you find what you want as quickly as possible.

5.2 We use session and persistent cookies. Persistent cookies remain valid across visits, and can be helpful in avoiding the need for you to enter the same information on each visit to our Site. They help us to:

5.2.1 Compile anonymous statistics around how our Site is used to help improve our service (including for example information on the type of web browser that you are using, the operating system that your computer uses, and (where applicable) the link that you followed to get to our Site);

5.2.2 store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise the Site according to your individual interests;
5.2.3 speed up your searches; and
5.2.4 recognise you when you return to the Site.

5.3 For more information about cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org or refer to the documentation provided with your web browser software.

5.4 No information regarding your payment details is included in the cookie or can be accessed by using it.

6. INTERNET SECURITY

6.1 MARINE SURVEYS UK takes the security of any personal information we hold very seriously.

6.2 Our Site servers are housed behind a secure firewall that prevents access to our databases by unauthorised users. All of our servers are housed in a secure environment with high levels of physical security.

6.3 In addition to what MARINE SURVEYS UK do to safeguard your privacy and security, there are a number of things you can do to protect yourself from Internet fraud, like choose a password you can remember but others will not guess, change it regularly, and if you do write it down, keep it somewhere safe and secure.

6.4 Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain features or parts of the Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. You must not share the password with anyone.

6.5 When you have finished your session on the Site, make sure that you prevent your details being seen by anyone that you do not wish to see them. So, if you have registered and logged in, remember to log off and clear any 'cache' so there is no record of any transactions left on screen. We also recommend you then close your browser so any history of the session is cleared.

7. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

7.1 Third party internet sites that you can link to through websites are not covered by this policy, so we urge you to be careful when you enter any personal information online.MARINE SURVEYS UK accepts no responsibility or liability for these websites.

8. RIGHT OF ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

8.1 If you want to know what personal information the MARINE SURVEYS UK holds on you, you can access it under the terms of the Data Protection Act. If you want to exercise this right, please write to: Administration Manager MARINE SURVEYS UK , 4 Brook Cottages, Mill Lane, WEestbourne, Emsworth, PO10 8RT enclosing a cheque for the administration fee of 10 made payable to matt west Partnership

8.2 If you require further information or have any questions regarding this policy, then please email: info@marinesurveysuk.com, telephone us on +44 7798554535 or write to us at the above address.

9. GENERAL

9.1 Marine Surveys UK is a trading name of Matt West Partnership

Business address;

4 Brook Cottages, Mill Lane, Westbourne, Emsworth, Hampshire, PO10 8RT

Updates We keep this policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this webpage. This policy was last updated on 29/05/2010

Linking to this Website

We welcome links to us from third party websites

If you do decide to link to this website, please feel free to use the following explanation of our services:

Marine Surveys UK provide Pragmatic surveys in plain English and carry out surveys on Yachts and small craft around the world

Do not use a link to us to state or imply a relationship with us that does not exist, especially where it could be taken to be an recommendation of goods or services on offer.

Website terms of use

1. Introduction

1.1. www.marinesurveysuk.com (the Site) is operated by (MARINE SURVEYS UK, we and us).

1.2. Use of the Site is on the terms contained in this document (Terms of Use). If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, stop using the Site immediately. By accessing and using the Site you are indicating your acceptance to be bound by these Terms of Use. They are a legal agreement between you and us and can only be amended with our consent. They should be read in conjunction with any details provided on the Site about how the Site operates and the services which are available.

1.3. The supply of any products or services you order from the Site is subject to our Trading Terms. You should also read our Privacy Policy.

1.4. We reserve the right to change these Terms of Use from time to time without prior notice by changing them on the Site. Your continued use of the Site after these Terms of Use are amended will indicate your acceptance of those Terms of Use in regard to your use of the Site.

2. Accessing the Site

2.1. We cannot guarantee that the Site will operate continuously or without interruptions or be error-free. You must not attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site and, in particular, you must not attempt to circumvent security, tamper with, hack into, or otherwise disrupt the Site or any computer system, server, router or any other internet-connected device.

2.2. You are responsible for ensuring that your computer system meets all relevant technical specifications necessary to use the Site and is compatible with the Site. You also understand that we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that any content of the Site will be free from infection, viruses and/or other code that has contaminating or destructive properties. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements for the safety and reliability of data input and output.

2.3. From time to time, we may restrict access to certain features or parts of the Site, or the entire Site, to users who have registered with us. If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. 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 opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms of Use.

2.4. The Site has been designed to adhere to the Level AA accessibility guidelines under the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

2.5. The Site is designed to work with Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8, Firefox 3+, Opera 8+ and Safari 4+.

2.6. We reserve the right, in our discretion, to withdraw, suspend or modify the Site or certain features or parts of the Site with or without notice to you, where we have reason to do so. There may also be times when the Site or certain features or parts of the Site become unavailable, whether on a scheduled or unscheduled basis. You agree that we will not be liable to you or to any third party for any withdrawal, modification, unavailability, suspension or discontinuance of the Site or any service available on or through the Site.

3. Using the Site

3.1. You must use the Site and the information available from the Site responsibly. No such information may be used for or in connection with any unlawful, immoral or anti-social purpose, or in a manner which is or may be damaging to our name or reputation.

3.2. The Site is designed to meet the needs of a wide range of users wishing to interrogate our information online. Due to limitations of IT equipment and bandwidth, the Site is not intended to be a source for bulk downloads. Accordingly, users, IP addresses or blocks of IP addresses who deny or degrade service to other users by generating unusually high numbers of database accesses, whether generated manually or by automated means, may be denied access to the Site's services without notice.

4. Accuracy of information

4.1. We will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that information on the Site is accurate, but commentary and other material posted on the Site are not intended to amount to advice or authority on which reliance should be placed. Except to the extent that our Trading Terms apply, we make no representation or warranty that any information is accurate, complete or up-to-date and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, we accept no liability for any loss or damages or expenses of any kind including without limitation compensatory, direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of data, income or profit, loss of or damage to property, or claims by third parties howsoever arising in connection with your use of this Site, the copying or use of any information or material contained in or referred to in this Site. This exclusion of liability shall not apply to damages arising from death or personal injury caused by the negligence of MARINE SURVEYS UK or any of its employees or agents.

4.2. The views expressed by third parties placing material on these pages are not representative of the views of MARINE SURVEYS UK.  MARINE SURVEYS UK cannot monitor the content not produced by us and has not reviewed all the third party material published on this Site and  MARINE SURVEYS UK accepts no liability whatsoever in relation to the content of third party material placed on these pages.

4.3. If you find any inaccurate information on the Site please let us know and we will endeavour to correct it, where we agree, as soon as reasonably practicable.

5. Intellectual property rights

5.1. All content on the Site including but not limited to text, software, photographs and graphics is protected by intellectual property rights, including copyright, database rights and trademarks. We, or our licensors, own intellectual property rights in the selection, coordination, arrangement and enhancement of such content, as well as in the original content. Except as expressly set out in these Terms of Use, nothing in these Terms of Use shall give you any rights in respect of any intellectual property owned by us or our licensors. You shall not assert or attempt to obtain any such rights and you shall not use, copy, reproduce, modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works from, or in any way exploit, our name, intellectual property rights, or those of any affiliated companies within our group, or any of the content of the Site, in whole or in part, except as provided in these Terms of Use.

5.2. You may download information from the Site for your own personal non-commercial use only and subject to the conditions set out in Trademarks and Conditions of Use of the Tick Mark. Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, no copying, redistribution, retransmission, publication or commercial exploitation of downloaded material will be permitted without our express permission and that of the copyright owner. In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution or publication of copyright material, no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trade mark legend or copyright notice shall be made. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading copyright material.

5.3. The material on this Site or any part of it is not to be incorporated or distributed in any work or in any publication in any form without the permission of  MARINE SURVEYS UK. To request permission please contact us at info@marinesurveysuk.com

5.4. The rights granted to you under these Terms of Use shall terminate immediately upon your breach of any of these Terms of Use.

6. Links to this and other websites

6.1. We may provide hyperlinks from the Site to other internet sites which are operated by other organisations. We are not responsible for external websites that link to the Site or which are linked from it. That we include these hyperlinks does not imply any endorsement of the material on such sites or any association with their operators.

6.2. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to prohibit any link from another internet site to materials or information on the Site. Without prejudice to that right, if you wish to link to the Site, you may only do so on the basis that you link to, but do not replicate, the home page of the Site, and subject to the conditions set out in the following conditions:

6.2.1. the link is neither misleading nor deceptive and must fairly indicate the Site as the destination of the link, using this explanation:
6.2.1.1 Marine Surveys UK provide Pragmatic surveys in plain English and carry out surveys on Yachts and small craft around the world
6.2.2. you do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of our logo;
6.2.3. you do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around the Site, or in anyway conceal that visitors are leaving your site;
6.2.4. you do not in any way imply that we endorse any products or services other than our own;
6.2.5. you do not misrepresent your relationship with us nor present any other false or misleading information about us;
6.2.6. you do not otherwise use any of the trade marks displayed on the Site without our express written permission;
6.2.7. you do not link from a website that is not owned by you;
6.2.8. you do not use the MARINE SURVEYS UK logo as a linking image, except as permitted under Conditions of Use of the Tick Mark;
6.2.9. you do not hold us liable for any broken links produced on your site as a result of our moving or deleting pages on our Site; and
6.2.10. any website from which you link to the Site does not contain any content that is distasteful, offensive or controversial, infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or otherwise does not comply with all applicable laws and regulations.

7. Our liability

7.1. Although we hope the Site will be of interest to users (and except to the extent that our Trading Terms apply), we accept no liability and offer no warranties or conditions in relation to the Site or its content, to the fullest extent such liability can be excluded by law.

7.2. If you are a consumer and not a business user, we shall not be liable to you for any business losses and shall only be liable for any losses which are reasonably foreseeable.

7.3. If you are a business user, in no event shall we be liable to you for any indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, revenue or goodwill arising from your use of, or inability to use, the Site or information on the Site. Except as provided in these Terms of Use, all terms implied by law are excluded.

7.4. We accept liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence and responsibility for fraudulent misrepresentation and any other liability that cannot, under English law, be excluded.

8. General

8.1. Marine Surveys UK is a trading name of Matt West Partnership

Business address;

4 Brook Cottages, Mill Lane, Westbourne, Emsworth, Hampshire, PO10 8RT

8.2. Any formal legal notices should be sent to us at the address at the end of these Terms of Use by email and confirmed by post.

8.3. Failure by us to enforce a right does not result in waiver of such right. You may not assign or transfer your rights under these Terms of Use.

8.4. If any part of these Terms of Use is found to be unenforceable as a matter of law, all other parts of these Terms of Use shall be unaffected and shall remain in force.

8.5. You and we agree that English law applies to these Terms of Use and that any dispute between us regarding the Site or arising out of or in connection with these Terms of Use will only be dealt with by the English courts, unless you are resident in another part of the United Kingdom, in which case the applicable law of that part of the United Kingdom will apply and any dispute will be brought before the courts there.

9. How to contact us

9.1. If you experience problems with the Site or would like to comment on it then please email: info@marinesurveysuk.com, telephone us on +44 7798554535 or write to us at Marine Surveys UK 4 Brook Cottages, Mill Lane, Westbourne, Emsworth, Hampshire, PO10 8RT