Terms and Conditions of Use and Acceptable Use Policy for www.personadesign.ie

Welcome to our website. This site is maintained as a service to our customers. By using this site, you agree to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use. Please review these terms and conditions carefully. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, you should not use this site.

1. Introduction
   1. Thank-you for visiting our website www.personadesign.ie (our site).
   2. This page (together with the documents referred to on it tells you the (i) terms and conditions of use of our site and (ii) acceptable use listed on our website, whether as a guest or a registered user.
   3. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use our site. By using our site, you indicate that you accept the (i) terms and conditions of use of our site and (ii) acceptable use policy and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to them, please refrain from using our site.
2. Information about us

www.personadesign.ie is a site operated by Persona Design Consultants Ltd., Carra House, Howth, Co. Dublin, Ireland

3.  Terms and conditions of website use for www.personadesig.ie 

 3.1  Accessing our site

1. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
2. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us.
3. 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, and you must not disclose it to any third party. 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 opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
4. When using our site, you must comply with the provisions of our acceptable use policy below.
5. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site.  You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.

 3.2  Intellectual property rights

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.
2. You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site.
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.
4. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged.
5. You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
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.

 3.3.  Reliance on information posted

Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed.  We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

3.4  Our site changes regularly

We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

 3.5  Our liability

1. The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:
   1. all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity; or
   2. any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for loss of income or revenue; loss of business; loss of profits or contracts; loss of anticipated savings; loss of data; loss of goodwill; wasted management or office time; and for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable, provided that this condition shall not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your tangible property or any other claims for direct financial loss that are not excluded by any of the categories set out above.
2. This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

3.6  Information about you and your visits to our site

We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy.  By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

3.7  Transactions concluded through our site

Contracts for the supply of goods formed through our site or as a result of visits made by you are governed by our terms and conditions of supply below.

 3.8  Uploading material to our site

1. Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material 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 below.  You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.
2. Any material you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
3. We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our site.
4. We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy below.

3.9  Viruses, hacking and other offences

1. You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which 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.
2. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act. 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.
3. We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

 3.10  Linking to our site

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, but 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.
2. You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
3. 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. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy below.
4. If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please address your request to [email protected]

  3.11  Links from our site

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only.  We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

4.   Terms and conditions of website use for www.personadesign.ie 

  4.1  Prohibited uses

1. You may use our site only for lawful purposes.  You may not use our site:
   1. in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
   2. in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
   3. for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way;
   4. to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards below;
   5. to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam); or
   6. 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.
2. You also agree:
   1. not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of our terms of website use above; or
   2. 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.

  4.2  Interactive services

1. We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site, including, without limitation:
   1. chat rooms; or
   2. bulletin boards (interactive services).
2. Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical).
3. We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users (and in particular, for children) from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our site, and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.
4. The use of any of our interactive services by a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. We advise parents who permit their children to use an interactive service that it is important that they communicate with their children about their safety online, as moderation is not foolproof. Minors who are using any interactive service should be made aware of the potential risks to them.
5. Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.

  4.3  Content standards

1. These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (contributions), and to any interactive services associated with it.
2. You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.
3. Contributions must:
   1. Be accurate (where they state facts).
   2. Be genuinely held (where they state opinions).
   3. Comply with applicable law in Ireland and in any country from which they are posted.
4. Contributions must not:
   1. Contain any material which is defamatory of any person.
   2. Contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
   3. Promote sexually explicit material.
   4. Promote violence.
   5. Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
   6. Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
   7. Be likely to deceive any person.
   8. Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
   9. Promote any illegal activity.
   10. Be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
   11. Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
   12. Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
   13. Give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.
   14. Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.

  4.4  Suspension and termination

1. We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this acceptable use policy through your use of our site.  When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.
2. Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the terms of use above upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
   1. Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
   2. Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site.
   3. Issue of a warning to you.
   4. Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
   5. Further legal action against you.
   6. Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.
3. We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy.  The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

5.   Jurisdiction and applicable law

1. The Irish courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site.
2. These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of Ireland.

6.   Variations

We may revise the (i) terms and conditions of use or (ii) acceptable use policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

7.  Fees and Payment

As consideration for any purchase you make on the Websites, you shall pay Persona Design Consultants Ltd all applicable fees and taxes. We (or our third-party payment processor) shall authorize your credit card, bank account, or other approved payment facility you provided during the registration process for the full payment of the fees and any applicable taxes, and you hereby consent to the same.

You must provide current, complete, and accurate billing and credit card information. You must promptly update all billing information (such as billing address, card number, and expiration date) to keep your account current, complete, and accurate, and you must promptly contact us if your credit card is lost or stolen, or if you become aware of a potential breach of account security (such as an unauthorized disclosure or use of your Sign-In Name or Password).

You hereby authorize Persona Design Consultants Ltd to obtain or determine updated or replacement expiration dates for your credit card in the event that the credit card you provided us expires. We reserve the right to charge any renewal card issued to you to the same extent as the expired card. If payment is not received from your credit card issuer, you hereby agree to pay all amounts due upon demand. You agree to pay all costs of collection, including legal fees and costs, on any outstanding balance. In certain instances, the issuer of your credit card may charge you a foreign transaction fee or related charges, which you will be responsible to pay. You are advised to check with your bank and credit card issuer for details.

8.   Your concerns

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact [email protected]. You should print a copy of these terms and conditions for future reference.

Disclaimers

(a) DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

THE INFORMATION ON THIS SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN `”AS IS,” “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. YOU AGREE THAT USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. Persona Design Consultants Ltd DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY EXPRESS WARRANTIES, STATUTORY WARRANTIES, AND ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF: MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE SHALL BE TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE.

FURTHERMORE, Persona Design Consultants Ltd DOES NOT WARRANT THAT USE OF THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, AVAILABLE AT ANY TIME OR FROM ANY LOCATION, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE SERVICE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. Persona Design Consultants Ltd, ITS SUBSIDIARIES, VENDORS AND AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DELETION, FAILURE TO STORE, OR UNTIMELY DELIVERY OF ANY INFORMATION OR MATERIALS, AND ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE. USE OF THE SITE’S SERVICES IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES TO YOU COMPUTER SYSTEMS OR LOSS OF DATA THAT MAY RESULT FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF SUCH INFORMATION OR MATERIAL.

(b) LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

Persona Design Consultants Ltd SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE TO PROVIDERS OR ANY THIRD PARTIES UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES OR LOSSES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES WHICH MAY BE INCURRED IN CONNECTION WITH Persona Design Consultants Ltd OR THE SITE, OR USE THEREOF, OR ANY OF THE DATA OR OTHER MATERIALS TRANSMITTED THROUGH OR RESIDING ON THE SITE OR ANY SERVICES, OR INFORMATION PURCHASED, RECEIVED OR SOLD BY WAY OF THE SITE, REGARDLESS OF THE TYPE OF CLAIM OR THE NATURE OF THE CAUSE OF ACTION, EVEN IF Persona Design Consultants Ltd HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE OR LOSS.

(c) EARNINGS DISCLAIMERS. 

The information presented in this Website is intended to be for your educational and entertainment purposes only.

We are not presenting you with a business opportunity.

We are not presenting you with a distributorship.

We are not making any claims as to income you may earn.

We are not presenting you with an opportunity to get rich.

Before embarking on any endeavour, please use caution and seek the advice your own personal professional advisors, such as your solicitor, attorney and your accountant.

Where income figures are mentioned (if any), those income figures are anecdotal information passed on to us concerning the results achieved by the individual sharing the information. We have performed no independent verification of the statements made by those individuals. Please do not assume that you will make those same income figures.

Please do not construe any statement in this website as a claim or representation of average earnings. There are NO average earnings. Testimonials and statements of individuals are not to be construed as claims or representations of average earnings. We cannot, do not, and will not make any claims as to earnings, average, or otherwise.

Success in any endeavour is based on many factors individual to you. We do not know your educational background, your skills, your prior experience, or the time you can and will devote to the endeavour.

Please perform your own due diligence before embarking on any course of action. Follow the advice of your personal qualified advisors.

There are risks in any endeavour that are not suitable for everyone. If you use capital, only “risk” capital should be used.

There is no guarantee that you will earn any money using any of the ideas presented in our in materials. Examples in our materials are not to be interpreted as a promise or guarantee of earnings. Many factors will be important in determining your actual results and no guarantees are made that you will achieve results similar to ours or anybody else’s. No guarantee is made that you will achieve any result at all from the ideas in our material.

You agree that we will not share in your success, nor will we be responsible for your failure or for your actions in any endeavour you may undertake.

Privacy Policy

Note: ‘Us’ refers to Persona Design Consultants Ltd ‘You’, ‘User(s)’, ‘Visitor’ refers to any person who uses this website.

This Web site is owned and controlled by Persona Design Consultants Ltd.

Persona Design Consultants Ltd is committed to implementing measures designed to protect the privacy of those using our services. Persona Design Consultants Ltd respects the privacy of all those who visit our Site and use our online services and we collect information from and about our users to be used to improve the service we offer. Except as set forth within this Privacy Policy, our Terms & Conditions, and other published guidelines, we do not release personally identifiable information (as described below) about users of this Site without their permission.

Effect of This and Related Documents: This Privacy Policy, together with our Terms & Conditions and other published guidelines, governs your interaction with this Site, and your registration for and use of Persona Design Consultants Ltd. online services.

Opt-Out Option: If you would like to have your personally-identifiable information removed from Persona Design Consultants Ltd’s databases going forward, please e-mail [email protected] and we will use reasonable efforts to comply with your request. However, there will be residual information that will remain within Persona Design Consultants Ltd’s databases, access logs, and other historical internal records, which may or may not contain such personally-identifiable information.

The Information We May Gather

1. Non-personally-identifiable information:

1.1 As a standard practise, Persona Design Consultants Ltd assigns a random number to each user for anonymously tracking content preferences and traffic patterns. This random number lets us keep track of “how many” times users are doing specific things – like visiting our site each month – without really knowing who those users are (unless they specifically tell us). We analyse this data for trends and statistics, such as which parts of our site users are visiting and how long they spend there. We also gather information about what users are searching for. We use all this information in order to improve our content, plan site enhancements, and measure overall site effectiveness.

2. Personally identifiable information:

2.1 General: In certain areas of this Site, we require that you provide us with personally-identifiable information, in order to be able to use that portion or those portions of this Site.

2.2 If you submit a request for more information from us, the information you submit will only be used by Persona Design Consultants Ltd. Our lists are private and are never sold to any third parties.

If you have any queries about this policy please feel free to contact us.