Williams Terms and Conditions

Important Legal Notice – Terms and Conditions of Use

ATTENTION: This legal notice applies to the entire contents of the Website under the domain name www.attwilliams.com (Website) and to any correspondence by e-mail between us and you. Please read these terms carefully before using the Website. Using the Website indicates that you accept these terms regardless of whether or not you choose to register with us. If you do not accept these terms, do not use the Website. This notice is issued by Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited (Company).

1.    INTRODUCTION

1.1    You may access most areas of the Website without registering your details with us, but certain areas of the Website are only open to you if you register.

1.2    By accessing any part of the Website, you shall be deemed to have accepted this legal notice in full. If you do not accept this legal notice in full, you must leave the Website immediately.

1.3    The Company may revise this legal notice at any time by updating this posting. You should check the Website from time to time to review the then current legal notice, because it is binding on you. Certain provisions of this legal notice may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages at the Website.

2.    LICENCE

2.1    You are permitted to print and download extracts from the Website for your own personal and non-commercial use on the following basis:

(a)    no documents or related graphics on the Website are modified in any way;

(b)    no graphics on the Website are used separately from the corresponding text; and

(c)    the Company's copyright and trade mark notices and this permission notice appear in all copies. 

2.2    Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all material on the Website (including without limitation photographs and graphical images, but excluding the Visitor Material) are owned by the Company or its licensors.  The images, logos, names and trade marks used to identify the Company or the AT&T Williams team, whether registered or not, are proprietary marks of the Company, which may not be used without the Company’s permission, save as provided in clause 2.1. 

2.3    The images, logos, names and trade marks on the Website which identify the partners and sponsors of the Company, or their products or services, belong to them and are used with their permission.  You may not copy or use them for any purpose, save as provided in clause 2.1.

2.4    For the purposes of this legal notice, any use of extracts from the Website other than in accordance with clause 2.1 for any purpose is prohibited. If you breach any of the terms in this legal notice, your permission to use the Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from the Website. 

2.5    Subject to clause 2.1, no part of the Website may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without the Company's prior written permission. 

2.6    Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.

3.    VISITOR MATERIAL AND CONDUCT

3.1    Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered under our Privacy Policy, any material you transmit or post to the Website, including user names, (Visitor Material) shall be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. The Company shall have no obligations with respect to the Visitor Material. The Company and its designees shall be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use the Visitor Material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes. 

3.2    You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from the Website any material:

(a)    that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience; or

(b)    for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals; or

(c)    that contains other people’s private and confidential information without their express authorisation and permission; or

(d)    that impersonates others in a manner that does or is intended to mislead, confuse or deceive others; or

(e)    that promotes any service (including non-commercial) or includes advertisements, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes or solicitations whether by means of a link or contacting other visitors to the Website through the messaging tools provided on the Website; or

(f)    which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party, in any country in the world; or

(g)    which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).

3.3    You may not misuse the Website including, without limitation, by hacking or for other illegal purposes.  International users agree to comply with all local laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content. 

3.4    All Visitor Material and any consequences thereof, including the use thereof by other users of the Website, are the sole responsibility of its originator and the Company cannot take responsibility therefor.  The Visitor Material you provide may be viewed by others and you should only provide content that you are comfortable sharing with others under these terms. 

3.5    You retain your rights to any Visitor Material that you submit, post or display via the Website and you grant to the Company a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence (with the right to sub-licence) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute the same in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed).  You agree that this licence includes the right for the Company to make such Visitor Material available to other companies, organisations or individuals who partner with the Company for the syndication, broadcast, distribution or publication of the same on other media and services, subject to our terms and conditions for such use.

3.6    You represent and warrant that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the rights granted herein to any Visitor Material that you submit to the Website.

3.7    The Company does not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, completeness or reliability of any Visitor Material and you acknowledge that by viewing the Visitor Material you may be exposed to offensive, inaccurate, misleading, harmful or otherwise inappropriate content.  Any use or reliance upon the Visitor Material is at your own risk and under no circumstances shall the Company be liable in any way for Visitor Material.

3.8    The Company may not moderate all Visitor Material, but where the Company becomes aware of Visitor Material that is in breach of these terms, it shall be removed from the Website.  If you find any Visitor Material that is in breach of these terms, do not respond to it via the Website, but please identify it to the Company via team.player@williamsf1.com.

3.9    Visitor Material containing languages other than English may be removed by the Company.

3.10    The Company shall fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing the Company to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of clause 3.2 or clause 3.3.

4.    LINKS TO AND FROM OTHER WEBSITES

4.1    Links to third party websites on the Website are provided solely for your convenience and by using them, you leave the Website. The Company has not reviewed all of these third party websites and does not control and is not responsible for these websites or their content or availability. The Company does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to the Website, you do so entirely at your own risk.

4.2    If you would like to link to the Website, you may only do so on the basis that you link to, but do not replicate, the home page of the Website, and subject to the following conditions:

(a)    you do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of the Williams F1 or AT&T Williams logos;

(b)    you do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around the Website;

(c)    you do not in any way imply that the Company endorses any products or services other than its own;

(d)    you do not misrepresent your relationship with the Company nor present any other false information about the Company;

(e)    you do not otherwise use any Williams F1 or AT&T Williams trade marks displayed on the Website without express written permission from the Company;

(f)    you do not link from a website that is not owned by you; and

(g)    your website does not contain 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.

4.3    The Company expressly reserves the right to revoke the right granted in clause 4.2 for breach of these terms and to take any action it deems appropriate.

4.4    You shall fully indemnify the Company for any loss or damage suffered by the Company or any of its group companies for breach of clause 4.2.

5.    SHOPS

5.1    Orders placed with the shops accessed from the Website via the “Shop” link will be subject to separate terms and conditions available on the respective shop’s website which you should read prior to purchase.  These websites are operated by third parties on behalf of the Company and the Company cannot accept responsibility for their content or transactions entered into thereon.

6.    REGISTRATION

6.1    Each registration is for a single user only. The Company does not permit you to share your user name and password with any other person nor with multiple users on a network.

6.2    Responsibility for the security of any passwords issued rests with you.  You will ensure that you log-out properly at the end of each session.

6.3    You will be required to provide certain personal information when registering with the Website.  The Company shall only use such information in accordance with all relevant United Kingdom data protection legislation.  For further details, please see our Privacy Policy which forms part of these terms.

6.4    Your registration must contain a valid and operational email address at all times.  If the Company tries to contact you and your email address is not operational, your registration may be terminated.

7.    DISCLAIMER

7.1    While the Company endeavours to ensure that the information on the Website is correct, the Company does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of any material on the Website. The Company may make changes to the material on the Website at any time without notice. The material on the Website may be out of date, and the Company makes no commitment to update such material.

7.2    The material on the Website is provided "as is", without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company provides you with the Website on the basis that the Company excludes all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) which, but for this legal notice, might have effect in relation to the Website. 

7.3    The Company cannot guarantee that the material and downloads on the Website are free from viruses or malicious codes.  It is your responsibility to ensure that you have taken precautions to protect your own computer system from virus infection.

8.    SERVICE ACCESS

8.1    While the Company endeavours to ensure that the Website is normally available 24 hours a day, it shall not be liable if for any reason the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period. 

8.2    The Company reserves the right to alter, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Website, including your access to it for any reason.

8.3    You will not interfere with the proper working of the Website and will not tamper with, hack into or otherwise disrupt any computer system, server, router or any other internet connected device associated with the Website.

9.    LIABILITY

9.1    The Company, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering the Website), and any of the Company's group companies and the officers, directors, employees, shareholders or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, and whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise) in connection with the Website in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of the Website, any websites linked to the Website or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing the Website or your downloading of any material from the Website or any websites linked to the Website. 

9.2    Nothing in this legal notice shall exclude or limit the Company's liability for:

(a)    death or personal injury caused by negligence (as such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977;

(b)    fraud;

(c)    misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter; or

(d)    any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

9.3    If your use of material on the Website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you assume all costs thereof. 

10.    GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

This legal notice shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with this legal notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

PRIVACY POLICY   

Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited (the Company) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy (together with the terms and conditions of use) sets out the basis on which any personal data collected from you, or that you provide via the Website, will be processed.  Please read the following carefully.

1.    For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited of Grove, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 0DQ, England.  The nominated representative for the purpose of the Act is Mr Mark Biddle.

2.    DATA THAT MAY BE COLLECTED BY THE COMPANY

2.1    The Company may collect and process the following data about you (Data):

(a)    Information that you provide by filling in forms on the Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering, subscribing to our services, posting material or requesting further services. You may also be asked for information when you enter a competition or promotion on, or report a problem with, the Website.

(b)    If you contact the Company, a record of that correspondence may be kept by the Company.

(c)    The Company may also ask you to complete surveys that it uses for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.

(d)    Details of transactions you carry out through the Website and of the fulfilment of your orders.

(e)    Details of your visits to the Website including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data and the resources that you access.

3.    IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES

3.1    The Company may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to its partners. This is statistical data about users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

3.2    For the same reason, the Company may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help the Company to improve the Website and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable the Company to:

(a)    estimate the audience size and usage patterns of the Website;

(b)    store information about your preferences, and so allow the Company to customise the Website according to your individual interests;

(c)    speed up your searches; and

(d)    recognise you when you return to the Website.

3.3    You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to the Website.

3.4    Please note that advertisers on the Website may also use cookies, over which the Company has no control.

4    WHERE THE COMPANY STORES THE DATA

4.1    The Data may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (EEA). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for the Company or for one of its suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that the Data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

4.2    All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers and/or those of its server provider. Where the Company has given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of the Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. The Company ask you not to share a password with anyone.

4.3    Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although the Company will do its best to protect your Data, it cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted to the Website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once the Company has received your information, the Company will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

5.    USES MADE OF THE DATA

5.1    The Company uses information held about you in the following ways:

(a)    To ensure that content from the Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

(b)    To provide you with information, products or services that you request from the Company or which the Company feels may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.

(c)    To carry out the Company’s obligations arising from any contracts entered into with you.

(d)    To allow you to participate in interactive features of the Website, when you choose to do so.

(e)    To notify you about changes to the Website’s services.

5.2    The Company may also use the Data, or permit selected third parties to use the Data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you.  The Company or such third parties may contact you about these by post, email or SMS if you have consented to this.

5.3    If you do not want the Company to use your Data, or permit selected third parties to do so, for marketing purposes, please ensure that you appropriately complete the checkbox section of the registration form or, if you wish to alter your permissions at a later date after registration, please send an email to team.player@williamsf1.com.

5.4    The Company does not disclose information about identifiable individuals to its advertisers, but the Company may provide them with aggregate information about users (for example, the Company may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). The Company may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in SW1). The Company may make use of the Data collected from you to enable it to comply with its advertisers’ wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.

6.    DISCLOSURE OF YOUR DATA

6.1    The Company may disclose the Data to any member of its group, which means its subsidiaries, its ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.

6.2    The Company may disclose the Data to third parties in the following circumstances:

(a)    In the event that the Company sells or buys any business or assets, in which case the Company may disclose the Data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.

(b)    If the Company or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case the Data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.

(c)    If the Company is under a duty to disclose or share the Data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply the Terms and Conditions of Use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, its customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

7.    YOUR RIGHTS

7.1    You have the right to ask the Company not to process your Data for marketing purposes. The Company will usually inform you (before collecting your Data) if the Company intends to use your Data for such purposes or if the Company intends to disclose your Data to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing at registration.  You can also exercise the right at any time after registration by contacting us at team.player@williamsf1.com.

7.2    The Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partners, advertisers and affiliates.  If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that the Company does not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.  Please check these policies before you submit any Data or personal information to these websites.

8.    ACCESS TO INFORMATION

8.1    The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet the Company’s costs in providing you with details of the information it holds about you.

9.    CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

9.1    Any changes the Company may make to this Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page.

10.    CONTACT

10.1    Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed and should be addressed to team.player@williamsf1.com.

Issue Date: 9 March 2010