Website Terms & Conditions of Use

Last updated 31st October 2024

1. Introduction

1.1 These website terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website https://therecoverygroup.org.uk

1.2 By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. Accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.

1.3 If you register with our website, submit any material to our website or use any of our website services, we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.

1.4 You must be at least 18 years of age to use our website. By using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant that you are at least 18 years of age.

2. Credit

2.1 This document was created using a template from Docular (https://docular.net)*.

3. Copyright notice

3.1 Copyright (c) 2024 The Recovery Group

3.2 Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:

(a) we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and

(b) all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.

4. Permission to use website

4.1 You may:

(a) view pages from our website in a web browser;

(b) download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;

(c) print pages from our website for your own personal and non-commercial use, providing that such printing is not systematic or excessive;

(d) stream audio and video files from our website using the media player on our website; and

(e) use our website services by means of a web browser,

subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.

4.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 4.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.

4.3 You may only use our website for your own personal and business purposes; you must not use our website for any other purposes.

4.4 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.

4.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

(a) republish material from our website (including republication on another website);

(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;

(c) show any material from our website in public;

(d) exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or

(e) redistribute material from our website.

4.6 Notwithstanding Section 4.5, you may redistribute our newsletter in print and electronic form to any person.

4.7 We reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to our website, to areas of our website and/or to functionality upon our website. We may, for example, suspend access to the website during server maintenance or when we update the website. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the website.

5. Misuse of website

5.1 You must not:

(a) use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility, integrity or security of the website;

(b) use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(c) hack or otherwise tamper with our website;

(d) probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our website without our permission;

(e) circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our website;

(f) use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;

(g) impose an unreasonably large load on our website resources (including bandwidth, storage capacity and processing capacity);

(h) decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our website without our permission;

(i) conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;

(j) access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;

(k) use our website except by means of our public interfaces;

(l) violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website;

(m) use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing); or

(n) do anything that interferes with the normal use of our website.

5.2 You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.

5.3 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

6. Our rights to use your content

6.1 In these terms and conditions, “your content” means all works and materials (including without limitation text, images, audio material and video material) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website.

6.2 You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media.

6.3 You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 6.2.

6.4 You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 6.2.

6.5 You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

6.6 You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on our website.

6.7 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.

7. Rules about your content

7.1 You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.

7.2 Your content must not be illegal or unlawful and must not infringe any person’s legal rights. It must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in any jurisdiction, under any applicable law).

7.3 Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:

(a) be libellous or maliciously false;

(b) be obscene or indecent;

(c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trademark right, design right, right in passing off or other intellectual property right;

(d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;

(e) constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;

(f) constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity;

(g) be in contempt of any court or in breach of any court order;

(h) be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;

(i) be blasphemous;

(j) be in breach of official secrets legislation;

(k) be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;

(l) depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;

(m) be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;

(n) be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;

(o) consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;

(p) constitute spam;

(q) be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or

(r) cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.

8. Limited warranties

8.1 We do not warrant or represent:

(a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;

(b) that the material on the website is up to date;

(c) that the website will operate without fault; or

(d) that the website or any service on the website will remain available.

8.2 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time at our sole discretion without notice or explanation. Save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.

8.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 9.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.

9. Limitations and exclusions of liability

9.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(c) limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or

(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

9.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 9 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions: 

(a) are subject to Section 9.1; and

(b) govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.

9.3 To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

9.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

9.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses. This includes (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

9.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

9.7 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

9.8 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees. Having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions.

10. Breaches of these terms and conditions

10.1 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may: 

(a) send you one or more formal warnings;

(b) temporarily suspend your access to our website;

(c) permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;

(d) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or

(e) suspend or delete your account on our website.

11. Variation

11.1 We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.

11.2 Revised terms and conditions apply to the use of our website from the publication date on the website. You hereby waive any right to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions.

12. Assignment

12.1 You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions. 

12.2 You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions. 

13. Severability

13.1 If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

13.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect. 

14. Third party rights

14.1 A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit. It is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

14.2 The exercise of the parties’ rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

15. Entire agreement

18.1 Subject to Section 9.1, these terms and conditions, together with our privacy policy and cookie policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website. And shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.

16. Law and jurisdiction

16.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with UK law.

16.2 Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions are subject to the jurisdiction of the UK courts.

17. Our details

17.1 The Recovery Group (C.I.C) own and operate this website.

17.2 We are registered in England and Wales under Company Number – 15695354, and our registered office address is 20 Rockwell Road, Liverpool, England, L12 4XZ.

17.3 Our principal place of business is 20 Rockwell Road, Liverpool, England, L12 4XZ

17.4 You can contact us:

(a) by post, to the postal address given above; or

(b) using the details displayed on our website contact page;

17.5 Website hosting and management is by Rob Smith IT, a business registered in France. Registration (Siret) number 510 987 480 00017.

*Note: the above credit is retained to avoid infringement of copyright.