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This website is published on behalf of The UK Fusion Industry Taskforce, under www.fusionindustrytaskforce.co.uk, a non-commercial collaborative group comprising representatives from the engineering sector and relevant academic institutions, set up to provide a platform for discussions around the development of fusion energy in the UK and the promotion of fusion related engineering activities to UK Government and decision-makers.

This website is owned and maintained by Assystem Energy & Infrastructure Limited (company number 03148098), registered office address: Innovation Centre, 1 Evolution Park, Haslingden Road, Blackburn, Lancashire, United Kingdom, BB1 2FD (Assystem).

Enquiries related to the content or use of this website should be directed to contact@fusionindustrytaskforce.co.uk

CONDITIONS OF USE

This page (together with the documents referred to on it) sets out the conditions of use (Conditions of Use) on which you may make use of our website www.fusionindustrytaskforce.co.uk (referred to in these Conditions of Use as the Website), whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read these Conditions of Use carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website, you indicate that you accept these Conditions of Use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these Conditions of Use, please refrain from using the Website.

There are other terms that may apply to you and the use of our Website:

• Our Acceptable Use Policy (set out below), which sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of our Website. When using our Website, you must comply with this Acceptable Use Policy.
• Our Privacy Policy. We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy.
• Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our Website.

ACCESSING THE WEBSITE

Access to the Website is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on the Website without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts, or all of, the Website to users who have registered with us.

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 Conditions of Use.

Our Website is intended for use by users in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that content available on or through our Website is appropriate for use or available in other locations.

When using the Website, you must comply with the provisions of our Acceptable Use Policy below.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Website. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the Website through your internet connection are aware of these Conditions of Use, and that they comply with them.

RELIANCE ON INFORMATION POSTED

All material posted on the Website is intended for information purposes only and does not represent legal advice on which reliance should be placed. Users are hereby placed under notice that they should take appropriate steps to verify such information. No user should act or refrain from acting on the information contained on the Website without first verifying the information and as necessary obtaining legal and/or professional advice.

COPYRIGHTS

Copyright in these pages is owned by Assystem or other members of The UK Fusion Industry Taskforce as applicable. Other than as set out below, all copyright, trademarks, design rights, patents, database rights and other intellectual property rights (registered and unregistered) in and on the Website and all content (including all applications) located on the Website shall remain vested in Assystem or its licensors (which includes other users). You may not copy, reproduce, republish, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use Website content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. All other use is prohibited. You must not modify any of the Website content, adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any Website content in any circumstances and/or use any part of the content on the Website for commercial purposes unless otherwise licensed by Assystem. Assystem’s status (and that of any identified contributors as part of The UK Fusion Industry Taskforce as the authors of content on the Website must always be acknowledged.

The creation of hypertext links to www.fusionindustrytaskforce.co.uk website is subject to the prior agreement of affiliate members. For any request, please send an email to contact@fusionindustrytaskforce.co.uk

Assystem and The Fusion Industry Taskforce affiliates are the exclusive owners of all intellectual property rights relating to both the structure and content of the www.fusionindustrytaskforce.co.uk website, worldwide. Assystem grants the user – subject to Assystem’s copyright notice on all copies – the right to reproduce all or part of the contents of the Website for storage for the purpose of display on a single computer screen and for reproduction, in one copy, for backup or hard copy.

This right is granted for strictly personal, private and non-collective use, any networking, redistribution or marketing of all or part of this content to third parties, in any form whatsoever, being strictly forbidden. Notwithstanding the rights of reproduction and storage as strictly defined above, and without the prior express written authorisation of The Fusion Industry Taskforce and its affiliates, the Internet user is prohibited from reproducing and/or using the trademarks and logos present on the www.fusionindustrytaskforce.co.uk website, as well as from modifying, copying, translating, reproducing, selling, publishing, exploiting and distributing in a digital or other format, all or part of the information, texts, photos, images, videos and data present on this Website. The violation of these mandatory provisions subjects the offender, and all persons responsible, to the criminal and civil penalties provided by law.

LINKING TO THE WEBSITE

You may link to our Website, 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.

You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.

LIABILITY

All information accessible via this Website is provided “as is”. Assystem makes no representations or warranties, express or implied, and assumes no liability in connection with the use of this information.

Assystem is not responsible for the accuracy, errors or omissions contained in this Website. The user is solely responsible for the use of such information. Assystem reserves the right to change this information at any time by updating this Website. Assystem shall not be liable for any damages whatsoever, whether direct or indirect, resulting from information contained on this Website.

Assystem expressly disclaims all liability and responsibility for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user arising from any reliance placed on materials posted on the Website, including materials posted by any visitor to the Website, and by anyone who may be informed of any of their contents, or from the use or inability to use the Website, whether directly or indirectly, resulting from inaccuracies, defects, errors, whether typographical or otherwise, omissions, out of date information or otherwise, even if such loss was reasonably foreseeable and Assystem had been advised of the possibility of the same. Direct, indirect or consequential loss and damage shall include but not be limited to loss of profits or contracts, loss of income or revenue, loss of business, loss of goodwill, damage to reputation and wasted expenditure or management time.

The user undertakes not to transmit to this Website any information which may give rise to civil or criminal liability and undertakes not to disclose via this Website any information which is illegal, contrary to public policy or defamatory.

In addition, this Website contains information provided by external companies or hypertext links to other sites which have not been developed by Assystem. The existence of a link from this Website to another site does not constitute an endorsement of that site or its content. It is the responsibility of the user to use this information with discretion and critical thinking. Assystem shall not be liable for any information, opinions or recommendations expressed by third parties.

DISPUTES

These Conditions of Use their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales

IMPORTANT

Any messages you send us via the Internet may be intercepted on the network. Until they reach us, their confidentiality cannot be guaranteed.

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

This Acceptable Use Policy sets out the terms between you and The UK Fusion Industry Taskforce under which you may access the website www.fusionindustrytaskforce.co.uk  (referred to in this Acceptable Use Policy as the Website). This Acceptable Use Policy applies to all users of, and visitors to, the Website.

Your use of the Website means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the policies in this Acceptable Use Policy, which supplement our Conditions of Use.

Prohibited uses

You may use the Website only for lawful purposes. You may not use the Website:

• 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
• for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way
• to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards
• to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam); or
• 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 the Website in contravention of the provisions of our Conditions of Use, or
• not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt any part of the Website, any equipment or network on which the Website is stored any software used in the provision of the Website, or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Interactive services

We may from time to time provide interactive services on the Website, including, without limitation:

• comment spaces and forums
• public profiles
• blogs, and
• any other forms of user-generated content.

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. Information about data gathered during any interactions is covered by our Privacy Policy.

We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on the Website, 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 the Website, 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.

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.

Content standards

These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to the Website (contributions), and to any interactive services associated with them. 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.

Contributions must:

• be accurate (where they state facts)
• be genuinely held (where they state opinions)
• comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.

Contributions must not:

• contain any material which is defamatory of any person
• contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory
• promote sexually explicit material
• promote violence
• promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion or belief, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or age
• infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person
• be likely to deceive any person
• be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence
• promote any illegal activity
• 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
• be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person
• give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case, or
• advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.

Suspension and termination

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this Acceptable Use Policy through your use of the Website. When a breach of this 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 Conditions of Use upon which you are permitted to use the Website, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

• immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use the Website
• immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to the Website
• issue of a warning to you
• 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
• further legal action against you, or
• disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.

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.

Changes to the Acceptable Use Policy

We may revise this 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 make, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in this Acceptable Use Policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on the Website.