Terms and Conditions for the World Oral Literature Project web site
Terms and Conditions of Use
References in these terms of use to "we", "our" and "us", etc. are references to us, the World Oral Literature Project. Your use of our website consisting of all subdirectories is subject to these terms of use which you should read before making any further use of our website. If you do not agree to these terms of use, you are not authorised to use or continue using our website.
We may amend these terms of use at any time. Any revised terms of use will take effect immediately from the time they are published on our website.
Disclaimer
All information in this web site is provided in good faith, but no warranty can be made for its accuracy.
No guarantee whatsoever is provided by the University of Cambridge or the World Oral Literature Project in these pages; and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage of any kind resulting from any defect or inaccuracy in the information offered in them.
It is wise to check the most recent versions of these documents with the World Oral Literature Project since the web site may not be completely accurate or up to date.
Copyright
Our web site, its design and content, and all technical infrastructure relating to it is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights.
Material contained in our website may be downloaded, viewed and printed for personal non-commercial use or for internal non-commercial circulation within your organisation provided that no trade mark, copyright or other proprietary notices contained in or appearing on such material are removed in whole or in part. Material contained in our website may not otherwise be copied, reproduced or redistributed in whole or in part without our prior written permission. In particular, it must not be reproduced or exploited for commercial gain. All other rights are reserved and you must ask our permission before making any other use of material contained in our website. This permission to reproduce material does not extend to material identified as belonging to third parties. You must obtain the permission of the relevant owners before reproducing such material.
The names, trade marks and logos used and displayed on our website are the registered and unregistered trade marks of the University of Cambridge or of others. You may not use these names, trade marks or logos without prior written permission from the relevant owner(s).
This site also contains links to resources which do not belong to the the World Oral Literature Project. While the World Oral Literature Project aims to provide useful links, we cannot endorse these sites or guarantee the quality of their content.
Your obligations when accessing our website
In accessing any part of our website, you agree:
- not to use our website in such a way that disrupts, interferes with or restricts the use of our website by other users;
- not to upload, display or transmit any materials to or through our website which are false, plagiarised, offensive, defamatory, threatening, obscene, unlawful or which infringe the rights (including copyright) of any other person anywhere in the world;
- not, except insofar as permitted by law, to reverse engineer, decompile, copy or adapt any software or other code or scripts forming part of our website or attempt to transmit to or via our website any information that contains a virus, worm, Trojan horse or other harmful or disruptive component;
- not to change, modify, delete, interfere with or misuse data contained on our website and entered by or relating to any third party user of our website; and
- to indemnify (pay) us for any loss, expenses or damage we suffer or incur if you breach any of these obligations or any other provision of these terms of use.
Exclusions and limitations of liability
Owing to the nature of the Internet we cannot guarantee that our website or the websites to which it is linked will always be available to you. We also cannot guarantee that any material which you download from or access on our website or the websites to which it is linked will be free from infection, viruses and/or other code that has contaminating or destructive properties. You should therefore ensure that you have appropriate protection against viruses and other security arrangements in place whilst using the Internet.
Our website has been prepared with the primary aim of providing general information about the University and its courses, and is not intended to constitute specific advice in relation to any of your particular requirements. Although every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that the information and material we have prepared for our website was accurate at the time of publication, it is subject to variation at any time without notice and we give no warranty whatsoever that any information or material on our website will be accurate or complete at any particular time or at all. If you believe that any information or material which we have prepared for and published on our website is inaccurate or misleading please let us know and, if we agree that the information or material is inaccurate or misleading, we will correct it as soon as is reasonably practical.
We may publish material on our website which is owned or written by a third party, for example, comments made by external examiners or external reviewers. We do not necessarily endorse the views, contents or findings contained in any such material and we are not responsible for the accuracy or otherwise of such material.
The information, material and services provided on our website are provided on an 'as is' and 'as available' basis and we accept no liability for such information, material and services provided. Where you rely on any information, material or services on our website, you do so entirely at your own risk and you accept that, except as set out in these terms of use, all warranties, conditions and undertakings, express or implied, whether by common law, statute, trade usage, course of dealings or otherwise in respect of such information, material and services are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
In no circumstances shall we be liable to you for any direct or any indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, revenue or goodwill resulting or arising from your use of or inability to use our website or any other website linked to it, or from your reliance on the information, material and services provided on our website or information, material and services accessed through it.
Nothing in these terms of use is intended to exclude our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or for our fraudulent misrepresentation or to exclude any obligations we may have to make certain information available.
Jurisdiction
Our website has been designed and these terms of use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Any dispute arising out of the access or use of our website shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the English courts.
General
Nothing in these terms of use is intended to, nor shall it, confer any benefit on a third party whether under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise. You may not assign or transfer your rights under these terms of use without our prior written permission.
Our failure at any time to enforce any right we may have against you does not mean that we have waived our right or that we will not enforce that right at a later time.
If at any time any provision of these terms of use is or becomes invalid or illegal in any respect, such provision shall be deemed to be severed from these terms of use but the remaining provisions of these terms of use shall continue to be valid, legal and enforceable.