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This Agreement describes the terms
and conditions which are applicable to your use of this Website. Please read
these terms and conditions carefully before you use our Website. If you do not
accept these terms and conditions, please do not use our services and if you
have any questions please contact us on our email address as shown in clause
1.11 in Schedule 1. As we may amend this Agreement at any time by posting such
amendment on the Website, we recommend that you monitor these pages from time
to time.
CONTENTS
These Conditions contain the following
sections:
1 Eligibility for Services
2 Approval process and acceptance of Conditions
3 Amendment of Conditions
4 Our liability
5 Indemnity
6 Your obligations and our rights
7 Payment
8 Breach and Termination
9 Assignment, sub-contracting and Intellectual Property
10 Data Protection and Privacy
11 Confidentiality
12 No Agency and Exclusion of third party rights
13 Notices
14 Waiver
15 Linked Internet Sites
16 General
Schedule 1 - Glossary of Defined
Terms
These Conditions apply to any use
by you of the Website. The Glossary in Schedule 1 sets out what we mean by each
defined term, for the purposes of these Conditions. When a contract is entered
into on these Conditions, the parties will be:
(a) us, Psychologyonline.co.uk Limited,
also referred to as "the Website Provider", "we" and "us",
(all of these expressions include any person to whom we have assigned our rights
under these Conditions and, where the context permits, any Affiliates of ours
or other person acting on our behalf); and
(b) you, also referred to as "the
Web User" and "Approved Person"
1. Eligibility for Services
1.1 Our Services are eligible only
to individuals who can form legally binding contracts under English law. Without
limiting the foregoing, our Services are not available to minors, and you must
be over 18 years of age to enter into a contract with us. If you do not qualify,
please do not use our Services.
1.2 In the event that we discover
you are not eligible to enter into a contract with us, we shall reserve the
right to withdraw our Services from you.
1.3 Our Services are not intended
to replace the services offered to you by your GP. We therefore recommend that
you keep your GP informed about the Services you are receiving from us.
2. Approval Process and acceptance
of Conditions
2.1 You have provided information
required by us in the approval process through the Website, with a view to becoming
an Approved Person. Once you accept these Conditions in the manner indicated
by the Website, your acceptance will constitute:-
2.1.1 an offer by you to contract
on the terms of these Conditions; and
2.1.2 your agreement that data provided
by you pursuant to these Conditions may be used in accordance with Condition
10 (Data Protection); and
2.1.3 a representation by you that
no information provided or to be provided by you in connection with the approval
process or subsequent process will infringe any law.
2.2 You agree that the decision to
grant you Approved Person status, or allow such status to continue in relation
to all or any part of the Website Services is for our absolute discretion. We
shall be entitled to take such time as we require to satisfy ourselves (or otherwise)
of your suitability for Approved Person status at the outset and may also review
the position subsequently, terminating your status as Approved Person for any
reason in our absolute discretion.
2.3 If you become an Approved Person,
we shall send you an email setting out the various appointment dates available
for you.
2.4 Once an appointment date has
been scheduled for you to receive Services, should the psychologist allocated
to you need to cancel your appointment, we shall either:
2.4.1 automatically re-allocate your
appointment with your psychologist using your original credit card payment;
or
2.4.2 at your request, cancel your
appointment in which case you shall receive a full refund.
3. Amendment of Conditions
3.1 The conditions may be amended
by us at any time by posting the amended Conditions on the Website. The amended
Conditions will be effective upon the effective date indicated in them. We therefore
recommend that you monitor the conditions from time to time.
3.2 We may add or delete any part
or all of the Website Services at our discretion at any time.
3.3 We shall be entitled to monitor
the Website as often as, and in such manner as, we see fit. We shall further
be entitled to suspend the operation of the Website, or any of the Website Services,
temporarily or permanently, for any reason whatsoever.
3.4 The Conditions will not be modified
except in accordance with Condition 3.1 or 3.2.
4. Our Liability
4.1 The following provisions set
out our entire liability and your attention is in particular drawn to the provisions
of this clause.
4.2 We shall attempt to ensure that
the information available on the Website at any one time is truthful and accurate.
4.3 Notwithstanding any other provision
of the Conditions, we shall have no liability to any person in respect of any
loss, damage, costs, claims and proceedings and expenses (including without
limitation, legal expenses) whatsoever awarded against or incurred or paid by
you in connection with:-
4.3.1 either a failure by you to
provide information or false information being provided by you during any approval
procedure or Assessment procedure regarding (but not limited to) your psychiatric
history, suicidal ideation or self-harming behaviour;
4.3.2 the Website, or any part of
it, being or becoming unavailable to persons generally or any category of them
or any delay arising in the communication of information from the Website;
4.3.3 the Website, or any part of
it, containing false, misleading or illegal information or material which is
obscene, defamatory, threatening, infringes any Intellectual Property or other
right of others and/or damages any hardware or software;
4.3.4 any virus, bug or other interference
or access to the Website and/or any System (or any information technology system
linked to it) by unauthorised persons (howsoever arising, including by virtue
of our negligence) preventing or affecting the operation of all or any part
of the Website or the security arrangements in connection with the Website or
the failure to correct any defect in connection with the Website;
4.3.5 any person accessing any information
including (without limitation) financial, banking and other payment details
of any Web User PROVIDED THAT the Website Provider shall take reasonable steps
to have in place security arrangements so as to prevent such access.
4.4 Subject to the other provisions
of this Condition 4, our aggregate liability to any Web User in respect of loss
of or damage to any property, real or personal whether such liability arises
in contract or in tort (including negligence or otherwise) shall not exceed
the aggregate of all sums paid by such Web User under these Conditions in the
twelve (12) months preceding such liability arising.
4.5 In no circumstances shall we,
our employees, our agents or any other person acting on our behalf be liable
for any direct, incidental or consequential loss.
4.6 Without prejudice to the generality
of the foregoing provisions, the Website Services are provided without warranty
of any kind, either express or implied, including (without limitation) any warranty
as to the information supplied or any decisions made through using the Services.
5. Indemnity
5.1 You will indemnify, defend, and
hold us and/or Affiliates, employees, independent contractors, officers, directors,
agents, successors and assigns harmless from and against any suits, losses,
claims, demands, liabilities, costs and expenses (including legal and accounting
fees) ("a Claim") arising out of or relating to any claim or action
based upon a breach of these Conditions by you.
5.2 We shall:
(a) provide you with prompt written
notice of any Claim;
(b) permit you to control the defence
and settlement of any Claim but only if you meet the costs in full of any such
defence or settlement; and
(c) not enter into any settlement
or compromise of any Claim without your prior consent.
6. Your obligations and rights
6.1 You shall be responsible for
complying with all laws in England and Wales. For clients using this service
from the USA, our Conditions shall be construed and governed in all respects
in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and any dispute or differences
in relation to these Conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction
of the English Courts.
6.2 You shall:
6.2.1 not use any device, software
or routine to knowingly or intentionally interfere with the proper working of
the Website or the Website Services or cause any virus, bug or other interference
to be introduced into the Website or any System;
6.2.2 ensure that no information
provided on your behalf is obscene, defamatory or threatening or breaches any
Intellectual Property or other rights of others and/or damages any of our hardware
or software or any hardware or software of third parties; and
6.2.3 not knowingly or intentionally
undertake any action which either disrupts the Website or imposes an unreasonable
or disproportionately large load on the Website's infrastructure.
6.3 You will meet all costs incurred
by you in connection with your use of the Website Services.
6.4 To receive Services you must
provide us with complete and accurate information during the Assessment and
approval procedure.
7. Payment
7.1 In return for the Services, you
will pay £60.00 for each 55 minute session, £60 for each full Assessment,
£40 for each 35 minute session and £21 for each Consultation/Enquiry.
7.2 Payment is to be made by credit
card on the day that you book an appointment with the psychologist allocated
to you. We shall then send you an email setting out the exact time for your
appointment.
7.3 You agree to pay the applicable
fee (as set out in 7.1 above), even in the event that you wish to cancel the
Services, unless 48 hours notice of cancellation before the date of your appointment
is given. If you give us 24 hours notice of cancellation, we shall refund you
50% of the fee.
8. Breach and Termination
8.1 Either of us can terminate this
Agreement or the provision or receipt of Services by giving 48 hours notice
in writing. In the event that this Agreement is terminated, you must pay us
all the charges outstanding at the time of termination.
8.2 Should you give us any false
information either during the approval process, during the Assessment or thereafter,
we shall treat your contract with us as null and void.
8.3 Without prejudice to any other
remedies which may exist, if you fail to comply with any of the Conditions,
we shall be entitled to treat the contract then in existence in relation to
Web Services as discharged by such breach, immediately following notice from
us.
9. Assignment, Sub-Contracting and Intellectual Property
9.1 You shall not assign or transfer
or purport to assign or transfer to any other person any rights under these
Conditions, without our approval in writing.
9.2 We shall be entitled to assign
rights under these Conditions without your prior approval and may sub-let the
whole or any part of our obligations under these Conditions without any such
approval.
9.3 You acknowledge that (other than
in respect of information provided by you) the Intellectual Property Rights
in and to the Website and any rights to information, documentation, images and
other material of whatsoever nature displayed on the Website are our absolute
property and/or the property of third parties contracting with us and you shall
assert no right, title or interest in or to any such matter.
9.4 This Website is for personal
and non commercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display,
perform, reproduce, publish, licence, create derivative works from, transfer
or sell any information obtained from the Website. You may only download to
your personal computer for viewing purposes and print out a number of pages
of this Website for your personal use.
9.5 The provisions of this Condition
9 shall survive expiry or termination howsoever arising.
10. Data Protection and Privacy
10.1 We shall take reasonable steps
to protect the information collected from you and other Web Users and use such
information only for the purpose for which it was provided. Please note that
the registration of your personal information on the Website is your consent
to the use of that information as set out in this Agreement.
10.2 For the purpose stated in Clause
10.1, the information may be stored and processed. We declare that in accordance
with clause 11, all such information will be treated confidentially. On request
by you, by a Court of law or any other body entitled thereto by law, we will
supply information on your stored data and correct, delete or prevent the further
use of the data held.
10.3 The parties to this Agreement
undertake to one another, where applicable:
10.3.1 to comply at all times with
the Data Protection Acts;
10.3.2 to obtain and/or maintain
all necessary registrations and/or notifications required by the Data Protection
Acts; and
10.3.3 not to do or permit anything
to be done which may cause the other to be in breach of the Data Protection
Acts including, without limitation, the improper collection, use, disclosure
or loss of data held on any computer or other equipment or held by way of manual
or other non-computerised systems and any kind of improper use, disclosure or
abuse of computer passwords.
10.4 We are committed to protecting
your privacy but we cannot guarantee the security of information disclosed by
you online since the internet is not a secure medium, and you must assume the
entire risk for using the Website. Please therefore be careful and responsible
when maintaining the secrecy of any password and/or account information online.
10.5 All information submitted by
you, including your credit card details, your address and your email address,
is automatically encrypted using the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol, the
industry standard for the transfer of sensitive data on the internet.
10.6 In the event that the Website
Provide is sold or integrated into another business, your details may be disclosed
to our prospective purchaser's advisers and subsequently to the new owners only
for the purposes of maintaining the supply of Services.
11. Confidentiality
11.1 Subject to clause 11.2, the
parties agree to keep confidential any and all information concerning each other
whether disclosed in writing, verbally or in relation to the matters provided
for in these Conditions ("the Information"). The parties further agree
in particular not to disclose all or any part of that Information to any third
party (except as may be required by mandatory rule of law or order of court
of competent jurisdiction or as required for performance of their obligations
under these Conditions).
11.2 In the event that we consider
that there is a threat to your or a third party's safety during the provision
of the Services, we reserve the right to contact your GP and disclose such Information
to the GP as we deem necessary in order to protect your or a third party's safety.
11.3 For the purposes of this clause
11 the parties each agree that the Information shall not include:
11.3.1 information which is or becomes
available in the public domain (on the Web site or otherwise);
11.3.2 information which the recipient
can establish was at its free disposal prior to its receipt under or in connection
with this Agreement; or
11.3.3 information at any time received
from the recipient from third party not apparently bound (after enquiry) by
any obligation of confidence.
12. No Agency and Exclusion of Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act
12.1 We and you are each independent
contractors and no agency, partnership, joint venture, employer-employee or
franchisor-franchisee relationship is intended or created by these Conditions.
12.2 A person who is not party to
the contract entered into on the terms of these Conditions is not intended to
have enforceable rights under such contract.
13. Notices
13.1 Any notices to be sent to either
party shall be sent by email to:
13.1.1 us at the email address given
in the definition of "Website Provider" in Schedule 1; and
13.1.2 you at the email address specified
in our records for you for the time being.
13.2 Notice sent by email shall be
deemed to be received twenty four (24) hours after sending unless the sender
has by then received notification that the email was not received in circumstances
where the sender's information systems generally issue such notifications and
were fully operational for all material purposes at the relevant time.
14. Waiver
14.1 No indulgence shown by either
party to the other shall prevent that party subsequently insisting upon its
rights and remedies under these Conditions.
15. Linked Internet Sites
15.1 The Website may contain links
to other sites. Please be aware that if you follow these links, other sites
may have different terms and conditions.
15.2 We are not responsible for the
content or services available on any other internet site linked to or accessed
via this Website or for the terms and conditions of these sites.
16 General
16.1 These Conditions shall be construed
and governed in all respects in accordance with the laws of England and Wales
and any dispute or differences in relation to these Conditions shall be subject
to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
16.2 Any reference in these Conditions
to a statute or provision of a statute shall be construed as a reference to
that statute or provision as amended, re-enacted or extended from time to time.
16.3 The headings in the Conditions
are for convenience only and shall not affect their interpretation.
16.4 Where the context so admits,
words importing a singular number only shall include the plural and vice versa,
and words importing one gender shall include the other genders.
16.5 If any provision of these Conditions
is held to be invalid, void and/or unenforceable, such provision or part shall
not affect, and shall be deemed to be severed from, the remainder of these Conditions
to the extent that the remainder shall be or continue to be fully valid and
enforceable.
16.6 These Conditions constitute
the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter
covered by them and supersede and extinguish any representations and understandings
previously given or made other than those set out in these Conditions.
SCHEDULE 1
1. In these Conditions, the following
expressions shall have the following meanings:
1.1 "Affiliate" means in
relation to either party, a person (as defined at paragraph 2.1 below) which
controls or is controlled by or which is controlled by an entity which controls
such party;
1.2 "Approved Person" means
a person who has completed the Website's approval procedure, including an Assessment,
and has been approved by us for the purpose of receiving Services.
1.3 "Assessment" means
an initial assessment of the Web User by the Website Provider to see if they
obtain an Approved Person status.
1.4 "Conditions" means
these general conditions for the provision of Services.
1.5 "Data Protection Acts"
means legislation intended to protect data relating to individuals and their
privacy.
1.6 "GP" means the person
you have named as being your current doctor during the approval process.
1.7 "Intellectual Property Rights"
means patents, registered designs, trademarks, utility models (whether registered
or unregistered), applications for any of the foregoing and the right to apply
therefore in any part of the world; copyrights, design rights, data based rights,
topography rights, know-how; all other similar equivalent rights arising or
subsisting in any country of the world in relation to the Website or any part
of it.
1.8 "Services" means the
provision of therapy on the Website.
1.9 "System" means the
information systems through which a Web User connects to the Website.
1.10 "Website" means the
site reference www.psychologyonline.co.uk on the worldwide web and, where the
context permits, shall include any Web Site linked to the www.psychologyonline.co.uk
Web Site.
1.11 "Website Provider"
means psychologyonline.co.uk Limited, having company number of 4063351 and its
registered office at 15-19 Devereux Court, Temple, London WC2R 3JJ (email address:
admin@psychologyonline.co.uk).
1.12 "Website Services"
means any services which may be supplied according to these Conditions.
1.13 "Web User" means any
person entering the Website.
2. Reference in the Conditions
to:
2.1 the word "person" or
"persons" or to words importing persons include, without limitation
individuals, partnerships, corporations, government agencies, committees, departments,
authorities and other bodies, corporate or unincorporated, whether having distinct
legal personality or not;
2.2 any agreement or instrument shall
include such agreement or instrument as it may from time to time be amended,
supplemented or substituted;
2.3 an "agreement" also
includes a concession, contract, deed, franchise, licence, treaty or undertaking
(in each case) whether oral or written;
2.4 "law" includes common
or customary law and any constitution, decree, judgment, legislation, order,
ordinance, regulation, statute, treaty or other legislative measure in any jurisdiction
or any present or future directive, regulation, request or requirement (in each
case) whether or not having the force of law, but, if not having the force of
law, the compliance with which is in accordance with the general practice of
persons to whom the directive, regulation, request or requirement is addressed.
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