TERMS OF WEBSITE USE

This page (and the documents it refers to) tells you the terms of use on which you may use our website https://www.blackbusinessmag.com (our site) as a guest or registered user. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By using our site, you accept these terms of use and agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please do not use our site.

ABOUT US

https://www.blackbusinessmag.com is a site operated by Black Business Magazine Ltd(“we” or “us”). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 14743655. Our registered office address is Suite2A, Blackthorn House, St Paul’s Square, Birmingham B3 1RL, and our email address is tru@blackbusinessmag.com.

OUR SITE

We allow access to our site on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw, restrict or change our site at any time and without notice. We will not be liable if, for any reason, our site is unavailable at any time or if the content is changed or out of date.

You must treat as confidential any user identification code, password or other security feature in relation to our site. If, in our opinion, you aren’t complying with these terms of use, we have the right to disable any such code, password or feature at any time.

You must comply with the provisions of our Acceptable Use Policy when using our site.

It is your responsibility that anyone who accesses our site through your internet connection is aware of these terms and complies with them.

VARIATIONS

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page, provisions, or notices published elsewhere on our site.

ONLINE PURCHASES AND TERMS OF SALE

To subscribe or purchase any of our services, products or any of our subscriptions, you are required to enter personal information. All of this information is subject to our Privacy Policy.

Eligibility: This Site is for users who are 18 years of age or older. By agreeing to the Terms of Use, you warrant that you are of legal age to form a binding contract with the Company and meet all the foregoing eligibility requirements. If you do not meet all of these requirements, you must not access or use the Site. If you are using the Site on behalf of any entity, you further represent and warrant that you are authorised to accept these Terms of Use on such entity’s behalf.

Registration: You are required to create an account in order to purchase from our Site.

Subscribing: By subscribing, you agree to pay your subscription fee for the digital and/or physical products that are delivered for the term agreed by both parties.

Subscription Renewal: By signing up for a Black Business Magazine subscription, you understand and agree you will be charged at the standard rate and that any promotional codes used as a new customer at signup do not transfer or apply to your renewal fee. If you cancel your subscription, you will be subject to the standard rate on renewal.

The Company do not accept any responsibility or offer refunds for ‘auto renewals’ proceeding if you have failed to cancel your subscription before your next renewal date. You understand and agree that you will be automatically billed after your current 3 or 12 months subscription expires unless the subscription is ‘set to cancel’ before your final payment date in your initial commitment.

Your subscription is continuous until you cancel. If you cancel your membership before an existing subscription period ends, you will not be due a full or partial refund.

 If you do not cancel your membership before your subscription renewal, your subscription will automatically renew for a new period of the same amount of time.

Cancellation: You may cancel your subscription by logging into your account on the Black Business Magazine website anytime. This does not initiate a refund if you fail to cancel before the renewal date.

Your subscription is continuous until you cancel, and if you cancel your subscription before the end of an existing subscription commitment period, you will be charged for the remainder of that subscription period. 3-month and 12-month subscriptions are payable in advance; if you wish to cancel, you have three working days from subscribing to cancel.

Where Black Business Magazine states you can cancel at any time, this directly refers to the renewal, and you must cancel by 11:59 pm on the day before your renewal date.

Black Business Magazine does not offer a ‘free trial’ or ‘£1 trial’ unless stated. A 12-month subscription differs, and you have agreed to pay in advance for the subscription period. Normal month-to-month subscriptions can be cancelled at any point.

Black Business Magazine discounts are one per household.

Black Business Magazine is a subscription service; by signing up, you agree it is your responsibility to cancel your own subscription by logging into your account profile. The Company do not accept responsibility to cancel your account on your behalf. It is up to the customer alone to cancel the subscription. Cancellations must be completed before the next renewal date. Your subscription will renew on the same date of the month that you signed up for a 3-month or 12-month subscription.

You must cancel your subscription 24 hours before the renewal date. All cancellation requests received after the renewal date of a subscription period will apply to the following subscription period.

Billing & Payments: You will automatically be charged each month on your renewal date for your ongoing monthly subscription. If you have committed to a subscription period lasting longer than one month (e.g. a three-month plan, a twelve-month plan), you agree to pay in advance for that subscription period.

Further, unless you cancel your subscription or membership prior to the end of your then, current subscription period, at the end of that period, your subscription will automatically be renewed for an additional subscription period of the same amount of time.

Prepaid credit/debit cards are not accepted.

For your convenience and continuous subscription benefits as a member, you do not need to edit your credit card information if your payment method reaches its expiration date. You have an ongoing subscription; you authorise us to continue billing that credit card on file, including extending the expiration date until we are notified by you or the credit card company that the account is no longer valid. Please update your payment method information or cancel your subscription should you wish to discontinue accessing our services.

Your Personal Data: Your security is paramount to us. We use a reputable third party to process all payments, ‘Stripe Europe Ltd’, and you agree that we can store your information with this party. You also acknowledge that we will not be held responsible for any third-party security breaches.

Shipping: Our listed prices include shipping fees unless otherwise stated. All orders placed on our website are subject to availability. Products will be shipped according to our Site shipping terms.

Loss of Goods: Royal Mail is responsible for delivering all goods ordered. Should your magazine not arrive by seven days after the date stated, please email us.

Return / Refund Policy: All sales and subscriptions on our Site are considered final. Digital products are non-refundable. The Company has a return policy in line with distance selling laws; if there is a problem or defect with any product delivered by the Black Business Magazine box, we will do our utmost to rectify the problem; if you ‘do not like’ the product, then the product can be returned at the customer’s expense, as stated by distance selling laws. Products must be returned unopened, unused and intact. If the products have been opened/used, we will not accept a return or offer any refund; by subscribing, you agree to these terms.

Please refer to our FAQ page, or you can contact customer service hello@blackbusinessmag.com

Correspondence: We send e-mail correspondence and newsletters following orders and registration by subscribers. You can opt out of these at any time.

Pricing/Errors: Product prices and product availability are subject to change without notice. We may cancel any offer and reserve the right to correct errors, including after an order has been submitted, whether or not your credit/debit card has been charged. If your credit/debit card has already been charged and your order is cancelled, the Company will issue a refund to your credit/debit card account in the amount of the charge. You accept that your subscription being ‘auto renewed’ on the date advised at sign-up is not considered an error liable for a refund.

Order Acceptance/Confirmation: We reserve the right at any time after receipt of your order to accept or decline your order. The Company reserves the right to decline sales to any party.

Warranty: You are responsible for deciding if the products you receive are suitable for you (including allergies, choking, and all other hazards). You agree that the sole solution for any damage arising from using our products will be credited towards your next subscription, as decided by Black Business Magazine. We will not offer any compensation under any circumstance.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site and the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without a licence from us or our licensors. You may not reproduce in any format (including on another website) any part of our site (including content, images, designs, look and feel) without our prior written consent.

If, in our opinion, you are in breach of these provisions, your right to use our site will cease immediately, and you must either return or destroy (as required by us) any copies of the materials you have made.

RELIANCE ON INFORMATION AND LINKS

The contents of our site (including links to other sites and resources provided by third parties) are for information only, and we shall not be liable for any use of or reliance on such materials. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website meet your specific requirements.

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 warrant that all data you provide is accurate.

LINKING TO OUR SITE

You may link to our home page only if you have first obtained our written consent and provided that you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with our Acceptable Use Policy and must be owned by you.

You must not link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

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.

If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please address your request to editor@blackbusinessmag.com

UPLOADING MATERIAL TO OUR SITE

When you upload material to our site or contact other users, you must comply with our Acceptable Use Policy. If you upload material in breach of our Acceptable Use Policy and we suffer loss. As a result, you will reimburse us for such loss.

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 it to third parties. If any third party claims that any material posted or uploaded by you to our site violates their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy, we have the right to disclose your identity to them.

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.

We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on our site if we believe such material does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

VIRUSES, HACKING AND OTHER OFFENCES

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing any malicious or technologically harmful material. 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 failing to comply with this provision, you would commit a criminal offence and your right to use our site will cease immediately, and we will report your actions to the relevant authorities.

OUR LIABILITY

The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties regarding its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we hereby expressly exclude:

• All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
• 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 (whether by a third party or us), 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.

This does not affect any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW

The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from or related to, a visit to our site.

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 England and Wales.