Terms of Use

Welcome to the www.privatedentistry.com website (our “Platform”). These Terms constitute a legal agreement between you and privatedentistry.com of 102 Stockport Road, Romiley SK6 3AN governing the use of our Platform and our Services. We license use of our Platform to you on the basis of these Terms. We do not sell our Platform to you, and we remain the owner of our Platform at all times.

Acknowledgement

• Private Dentistry merely provides the technical and organisational infrastructure to ensure the proper conduct of transactions on the platform. Whether or not a service is offered and/or accepted is entirely at the discretion of the Users. Private Dentistry has no control over this process. Services are provided by service providers directly to users, who determine the deliverables and all other requirements.
• Private Dentistry does not itself become a contracting party to the contracts concluded exclusively between the users. The performance of contracts concluded with Private Dentistry is also exclusively between the users.
• Private Dentistry reserves the right to delete the service providers’ profile in the case of false information and gross violations of these terms and our Terms and Conditions without prior notification or naming of reasons. In the case of gross deception, falsification of documents or other wilful misrepresentation, Private Dentistry will take appropriate action, including legal action.

Terms Of Use

• The provisions set out in these Terms govern your access to and your use of our Platform and shall constitute a legally binding agreement between you and us. We may change such terms from time to time and shall notify you accordingly if we do. If you do not agree to such terms, you must not use our Platform.
• Subject to you agreeing to abide by these Terms, we hereby grant to you a revocable, non-exclusive and non-transferable license to use our Platform on these Terms.
• The users themselves are responsible for compliance with legal requirements and the assertion of claims arising from the contracts they have concluded. In particular, Private Dentistry does not guarantee:
  • the accuracy and completeness of the statements and declarations made in relation to the services offered,
  • the services offered as such; and
  • the conduct and performance of the offering third party.
• Users are required to comply with applicable laws when using the platform and Service. It is each users own responsibility to ensure that their offers are lawful and do not infringe the rights of third parties.
• Users may not use addresses, contact details, and e-mail addresses obtained through the use of Private Dentistry for any purpose other than contractual and pre-contractual communication. In particular, it is forbidden to resell this data or use it to send advertising, unless the respective users have expressly consented to this in advance.
• The content published on Private Dentistry by the respective users is generally not reviewed by Private Dentistry and does not represent the opinion of Private Dentistry.
• Private Dentistry can only perform a limited review of the data provided by users. Therefore, no guarantee can be given for the accuracy of the data provided by the respective Users.
• By creating an account and/or a listing, which involves providing us with certain mandatory and voluntary information as required for a successful registration, you agree and acknowledge that:
  • you have read the terms set out in these Terms and agree to be bound by and comply with them; and
  • you shall ensure that all Users of your Account abide by these Terms.
• You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Account and you are responsible for all activities that occur under your Account. You agree that all actions carried out by any person through your Account shall be deemed to be an act carried out by you, and you shall ensure that all persons who have access to and use your Account are authorised to do so. We are not responsible for any loss, damage or liabilities arising as a result of or in connection with the wrongful, fraudulent or illegal use of your Account.
• We reserve the right to, without any notice, explanation, or liability and in our sole discretion, refuse to allow you or suspend your access to our Platform or your Account at any time, or remove or edit content (including content submitted by you) on our Platform or on any of our affiliated websites (including social media pages).
• We reserve the right to change, modify, suspend, or discontinue any portion of the Services, our Platform or any other products, services, affiliated websites (including social media pages) and/or other software provided by us in connection with any of the foregoing at any time. You agree that access to or operation of any of the foregoing may from time to time be interrupted or encounter technical difficulties.
• Save to the extent permitted by us in writing, you are not permitted to use, or submit any content to, our Platform or any of our affiliated websites to advertise, promote or market any products or services of any third party or yourself.
• The following additional terms also apply to your use of our Platform and form part of these Terms:
  • Our Privacy Policy
  • Our Cookie Policy

Fees and Payments

• We provide both free and paid plan Services on per account basis.
• All charges for the paid services (“Charges”) are posted on the platform, or otherwise set forth in the Agreement. You agree to pay for paid services according to these Terms. Charges paid by Customer are non-refundable.
• The Services are prepaid services for the duration listed in the order form. Except to the extent otherwise set forth in an order form, the prepaid period automatically expires at the end of the paid period.
• As long as you are using paid services, you will provide Private Dentistry’s third-party payment processor with valid credit card information and authorise us to deduct the charges against that credit card. You will replace the information for any credit card that expires with information for a different valid credit card. Anyone using a credit card represents and warrants that he or she is authorised to use that credit card, and that any and all charges may be billed to that credit card and won’t be rejected. If, for some reason, our third-party payment processor is unable to process your credit card order, we will try to charge 3 more times in the next few days. Consecutive charge retries does not change and/or extend your monthly or annual renewal date.
• We may introduce new or cancel existing paid services and features at any time and change pricing from time to time. You will be informed about any of the changes at least one month in advance via email and/or on our platform.
• All prices for Services are calculated in GBP and your credit card will be charged in GBP.
• You are responsible for any taxes imposed on the Services except in cases where legislation requires us to collect the taxes.
• Reselling of the Services to third parties is permitted only if you sign a specific agreement with Private Dentistry.

Uploading Content to our Platform

• You irrevocably and unconditionally represent and warrant that any of your content uploaded to our Platform complies with our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, the UK`s DPA/GDPR and any other applicable laws.
• You are fully responsible for your content uploaded to our Platform. We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for:
• the content or accuracy of any content or data uploaded by you, by us on your behalf, or any other user of our Platform; or
• the loss of any content or data (whether in physical or digital form) provided to us by you. You should keep a record of all such content and data.
• We will only use the content uploaded by you for the purposes of carrying out the Services, carrying out our obligations in this Agreement and any other purpose expressly set out in this Agreement or otherwise agreed between us. We will not otherwise disclose or distribute the content uploaded by you, save for when required by law, a court of competent jurisdiction or any governmental or regulatory authority.
• We may use the content uploaded by you for the purpose of data analytics or to implement artificial intelligence or machine learning. Any such content shall be anonymized and used only for the purposes of improving the Services and our response to users of the Platform.
• We have the right to disclose your identity to any third party claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our Platform constitutes a violation of their rights under applicable law.
• We have the right to delete any content uploaded to our Platform if, in our opinion, it does not comply with the content standards set.

Prohibited Uses

• You may use our Platform only for lawful purposes. You may not use our Platform:
  • in any way that breaches any applicable local or international laws or regulations;
  • 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 content standards as set out in our prevailing terms and conditions as amended from time to time; and
  • 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.
• You also agree:
  • not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our Platform in contravention of the provisions of our Terms; and
  • not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
  • any part of our Platform;
  • any equipment or network on which our Platform is stored;
  • any software used in the provision of our Platform; or
  • any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Restrictions

Except as expressly set out in this Agreement or as permitted by any applicable law, you undertake:

• save for internal distribution amongst your employees and persons authorised by you for your internal business purposes, and any other purposes contemplated under these Terms or the Platform, not to reproduce, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publish, display, communicate, transmit, sell, exploit or use the whole or any part of any Service, our Platform or any of the contents therein for any commercial or other purposes;
• not to disassemble, decompile, reverse-engineer or create derivative works based on the whole or any part of the source code of our Platform nor attempt to do any such thing, or to reproduce, display or otherwise provide access to the Services, our Platform or any of the contents therein, including but not limited to framing, mirroring, linking, spidering, scraping or any other technological means;
• not to provide or otherwise make available our Platform in whole or in part (including but not limited to program listings, object and source program listings, object code and source code), in any form to any person without prior written consent from us;
• to include our copyright notice on all entire and partial copies you make of our Platform on any medium;
• to comply with all applicable technology control or export laws and regulations; and
• not to disrupt, disable, or otherwise impair the proper working of the Services, our Platform or our servers, such as through hacking, cyber-attacks (including but not limited to denial-of-service attacks), tampering or reprogramming.

Technical requirements and responsibility

• Users are responsible for ensuring that the technical requirements for access to and use of the respective services are met.
• This applies in particular to the hardware and operating system software used, the connection to the Internet, the firewall settings (if any) and the current browser software. The user shall carry out necessary and reasonable adjustment measures himself/herself and shall bear the costs for the Internet connection in order to be able to access the online course.
• Private Dentistry does not guarantee that the services offered can actually be used with the user’s computer.

Intellectual Property Rights

• You acknowledge that all intellectual property rights in our Platform anywhere in the world belong to us, that rights in our Platform are licensed (not sold) to you, and that you have no rights in, or to, our Platform other than the right to use them in accordance with these Terms.
• Any intellectual property rights in content uploaded by you to our Platform shall continue to belong to you or their respective owners. You agree that you grant us a royalty-free and non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, publish, and display such intellectual property rights for the purposes of performing the Services, promotional purposes, internal administrative purposes and any other purposes set out in these Terms, including for the purpose of improving the Services and our responses to users of the Platform.
• You acknowledge that you have no right to have access to our Platform in source code form.
• Save for internal distribution amongst your employees and persons authorised by you for your internal business purposes and any other purposes contemplated under these Terms or the Platform, you must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded from our Platform in any way and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
• Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our Platform must always be acknowledged.
• You must not use any part of the content on our Platform for commercial purposes not specified on our Platform without obtaining a license to do so from us or our licensors.
• If you print off, copy, or download any content on our Platform in breach of this Agreement, your right to use our Platform will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

Warranties

• While we make all efforts to maintain the accuracy of the information on our Platform, we provide the Services, Platform, and all Related Content on an “as is” and “as available” basis, unless otherwise specified in writing. We make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of any of the foregoing, unless otherwise specified in writing.
• As part of the Services, you may communicate with Third parties and have access to Third party’s Advice. Any information about Third parties is provided on an “as is” basis, based on information provided to us by the Third parties. We do not make any warranties, express or implied, as to the qualifications, quality, suitability, fitness for purpose, completeness, or correctness of any Third party or Third party’s Advice.
• You acknowledge that Third parties are not our agents or employees, and all Third parties are solely responsible for any Advice. No Third party is authorised to make any statement or representation for and on behalf of us. While we have conducted basic checks on Third parties, we do not make any representations or warranties as to the qualifications or experience of any Third party and you are encouraged to conduct your own due diligence on each Third party, including whether such Advice is relevant or suitable for your needs.
• To the full extent permissible by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, relating to our Platform or any Services, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. We do not warrant that the Services, our Platform, the Related Content, or electronic communications sent by us are free of viruses or other harmful components.

  Limitation of Liability

• We are not liable for the completeness, accuracy or correctness of any information uploaded on our Platform and any Related Content. You expressly agree that your use of the Services and our Platform, including reliance on any Advice, is at your sole risk.
• You agree not to use the Services, our Platform and the Related Content for any re-sale purposes, and we have no liability to you, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, arising under or in connection with these Terms (including but not limited to the use of, or inability to use, the Services, our Platform or any other website or software) for:
  • loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
  • business interruption;
  • loss of anticipated savings;
  • loss or corruption of data or information;
  • loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
  • any other indirect or consequential loss or damage.
• Nothing in these Terms shall limit or exclude our liability for:
  • death or personal injury resulting from our negligence;
  • fraud; and/or
  • any other matter in respect of which we are prohibited under applicable law from limiting or excluding our liability.
• Our Platform is not intended to serve a record-keeping function and we shall not be liable for any loss of data or content.
• These Terms set out the full extent of our obligations and liabilities in respect of the supply of the Services and our Platform. Except as expressly stated in these Terms, there are no conditions, warranties, representations, or other terms, express or implied, that are binding on us. Any condition, warranty, representation, or other term concerning the supply of the Services and our Platform which might otherwise be implied into, or incorporated in, these Terms whether by statute, common law or otherwise, is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold us, our related corporations, and our respective directors, officers, employees, agents and representatives, independent contractors, licensees, successors and assigns harmless from and against all claims, losses, expenses, damages and costs (including but not limited to direct, incidental, consequential, exemplary and indirect damages), and reasonable legal fees, resulting from or arising out of your act, default or omission, whether in your use of our Platform, Services, and/or any websites or software in relation thereto or otherwise, and whether in respect of your breach of these Terms or any laws or regulations or otherwise.

• Other important terms
  • We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to another organization, but this will not affect your rights or obligations under these Terms.
  • You may only transfer your rights or your obligations under these Terms to another person if we agree in writing.
  • No joint venture, partnership or agency or employment relationship has arisen by reason of these Terms.
  • These Terms and any document expressly referred to in it constitutes the entire agreement between us regarding their subject matter, and supersedes and extinguishes all previous agreements, promises, assurances, warranties, representations, and understandings between us, whether written or oral, relating to that subject matter. You agree that you shall have no remedies in respect of any statement, representation, assurance, or warranty (whether made innocently or negligently) that is not set out in these Terms, or any document expressly referred to in it. You agree that you shall have no claim for innocent or negligent misrepresentation or negligent misstatement based on any statement in these Terms or any document expressly referred to in it.
  • If we fail to insist that you perform any of your obligations under these Terms, or if we do not enforce our rights against you, or if we delay in doing so, that will not mean that we have waived our rights against you and will not mean that you do not have to comply with those obligations. If we do waive a default by you, we will only do so in writing, and that will not mean that we will automatically waive any later default by you.
  • Each of the conditions of these Terms operates separately. If any court or competent authority decides that any of them are unlawful or unenforceable, the remaining conditions will remain in full force and effect.
  • These Terms, its subject matter and its formation, and any other disputes or claims in connection therewith, are governed by the law of England and Wales. In the event of any such disputes or claims in connection with these Terms, you agree to first engage in good faith discussions with us to resolve such dispute or claim. If such dispute or claim is not resolved within sixty (60) days, we both irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.