What's in these terms?
These terms tell you the rules for using our website www.bookmot.com. These terms should be onjunction with our Terms and Conditions of Business which will be sent to you if you wish to engage our services.
1. Who we are
Who we are. Outlook UK Limited (company number 04086107) (we and us) is a company registered in England and Wales trading as Book MOT. Our VAT registration number is 760527826.
2. By using our site you accept these terms
2.1 By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to
comply with them.
2.2 If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.
2.3 We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.
3. We may make changes
3.1 We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check
these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.
3.2 We may update and change our site from time to time to reflect changes to our services, our
users' needs and our business priorities.
4. We may suspend or withdraw our site
4.1 Our site is made available free of charge.
4.2 We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be
uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our
site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any
suspension or withdrawal.
4.3 You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your
internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions,
and that they comply with them.
5. Our site is only for users in the UK
Our site is directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that content available on or through our site is appropriate for use or available in other locations.
6. You must keep your account details safe
6.1 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. You must not disclose it to any third party.
6.2 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 reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any
of the provisions of these terms of use.
6.3 If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or
password, you must promptly notify us.
7. How you may use material on our site
7.1 We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the
material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the
world. All such rights are reserved.
7.2 You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your
personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted
on our site.
7.3 You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or
downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio
sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
7.4 Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site
must always be acknowledged.
7.5 You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without
obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
7.6 If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use,
your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy
any copies of the materials you have made.
8. Do not rely on information on this site
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.
9. We are not responsible for websites we link to:
9.1 Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these
links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval
by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.
9.2 We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
10. User-generated content is not approved by us
10.1 This website may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the site.
This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views
expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.
10.2 If you wish to complain about information and materials uploaded by other users please
contact us.
11. Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you
11.1 Whether you are a consumer or a business user:
- We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or contractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
- Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any services to you.
- We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.
- We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
- use of, or inability to use, our site or
- use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
- In particular, we will not be liable for:
- loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue
- business interruption
- loss of anticipated savings
- loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation
- any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
11.3 If you are a consumer user
- Please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
- We provide no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied about the services provided by those businesses included on our website and confirm that in displaying the information of these business we have undertaken no checks to ascertain their suitability for the provision of MOT services.
12. How we may use your personal information
12.1 We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. These terms will
inform you as to how we collect and process your personal data through your use of this website,
including any data you may provide to us through this website.
12.2 We are the controller and responsible for your personal data. If you have any questions
about our privacy practices, please contact us.
12.3 You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office
(ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would,
however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please
contact us in the first instance.
12.4 It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please
keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
12.5 This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking
on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data
about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their
privacy statements. When you leave our website,we encourage you to read the privacy policy of
every website you visit.
12.6 We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we
have grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data including names, titles, date of births, gender.
- Contact Data including your address, email address and telephone numbers.
- Transaction Data including details about the services provided to you, payments to and from you and other details of services you have purchased via us.
- Service Data including details about your MOT bookings and enquiries, and records of the bookings and enquiries you have made via our website.
- Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
12.8 We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- To provide services to you where you have asked us to.
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (for example, to recover a debt due to us).
- Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
12.10 We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
12.11 We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data,we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
12.12 Where you have signed up to our newsletter you can ‘opt out’ at any time by notifying us.
12.13 You also have the right to:
- Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
- Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
- Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
- Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms.
- Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
- (f) Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
- Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
13. Uploading content to our site
13.1 Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to
make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in
our Acceptable Use Policy.
13.2 You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be
liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be
responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.
13.3 Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary.
You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and
other users of our site a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute
and make it available to third parties.
13.4 We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that
any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual
property rights, or of their right to privacy.
13.5 We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post
does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.
13.6 You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.
14. We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them
14.1 We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
14.2 You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and
platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.
14.3 You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs
or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain
unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer
or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack
or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a
criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the
relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing
your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease
immediately.
15. Rules about linking to our site
15.1 You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does
not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
15.2 You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval
or endorsement on our part where none exists.
15.3 You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.
15.4 Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our
site other than the home page.
15.5 We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
15.5 The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards
set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.
15.7 If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out
above, please contact us.
16. Acceptable Use Policy
16.1 You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:
- In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
- In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
- To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our standards. A contribution must be accurate (where it states facts); be genuinely held (where it states opinions); and comply with the law applicable in England and Wales and in any country from which it is posted. A contribution must not be defamatory of any person; be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory; infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person; contain any advertising or promote any services or web links to other sites.
- To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
- To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
- Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of these terms.
- Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt any part of our site; any equipment or network on which our site is stored; any software used in the provision of our site; or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.
- Be defamatory of any person.
- Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
- Promote sexually explicit material.
- Promote violence.
- Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
- Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
- Be likely to deceive any person.
- Breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
- Promote any illegal activity.
- Be in contempt of court.
- Be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
- Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
- Impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
- Advocate, promote, incite any party to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
- Contain a statement which you know or believe, or have reasonable grounds for believing, that members of the public to whom the statement is, or is to be, published are likely to understand as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
- Contain any advertising or promote any services or web links to other sites.
17. Information about our use of Cookies
17.1 Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us
to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve
our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
17.2 A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard
drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your
computer's hard drive.
17.3 Please note that third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control.
17.4 You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the
setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies
(including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
17.5 When we consider that a breach of this acceptable use policy has occurred, we may take such
action as we deem appropriate. Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a
material breach of the terms of use upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result
in the immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site and removal of
any contribution uploaded by you to our site.
18. Which country's laws apply to any disputes?
These terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.