Web site conditions – the boring bit
Every website has to have rules setting out what the website owner can promise to a user and, more importantly, what it cannot. Whilst we hope you find our website refreshing, helpful and informal, as regards legal bits, unfortunately this website is no different to others in having some legal restrictions.
It is really important that you read these conditions carefully before deciding to use our web site. By accessing or using our web site, you agree to be bound by the provisions set out below. If you do not agree to be bound in this way, please navigate away and do not continue to access or use our web site. From time to time we may modify these provisions and any such modifications will be effective immediately from the time they are included on our web site. We urge you to review these provisions regularly to ensure you become aware of any changes to them.
Confidential Information
By its nature, the Internet is not a secure medium and privacy cannot be assured. We therefore cannot accept responsibility for any harm or damage you may suffer by sending personal or confidential information to us over the Internet or if we send you such information at your request.
If you choose to give us personal information via the Internet we may need to correspond with you, for example, to let you know how we will use such information. If you tell us that you don’t want us to hold that information as a basis for contacting you further, we will respect your wishes.
Contracts
We are not able to conclude any contracts by e-mail.
Encryption
Please note that any e-mail sent to or from ourselves via this web site and any attachments will not be encrypted and may therefore be liable to be compromised. Unfortunately this is an inherent risk in relation to e-mail and you agree that that is a risk you are prepared to take.
As a result, to the extent permitted by law, we do not accept any liability (whether in contract, negligence or otherwise) for any external compromise of security and/or confidentiality in relation to transmissions sent by e-mail.
Cookies
Cookies are pieces of software which are placed onto the hard drive of your computer by web sites. The aim of a cookie is to track a user's navigation in the web site and store the information on the user's hard drive. This information should make your web site visits more productive by storing and using information on your web site preferences and habits. They do not identify users personally but they do identify each user's computer. Your browser software can choose whether or not to accept cookies and most browser software is initially set up to accept them.
We may offer cookies to you. If you don’t want to receive them, you must make sure that your browser software is set not to accept cookies.
Data Protection and Privacy
We will comply with the requirements of all relevant Data Protection legislation in force from time to time. In particular, users may request a copy of any personal data held by us about them upon written application. Please note we reserve the right to charge the current statutory fee for providing such information. If you believe that any personal information we hold about you is incorrect or incomplete please contact us immediately. Any information found to be incorrect will be corrected promptly.
We intend to manage any information learned about you in an ethical manner. It will only be used for our internal purposes. If you have opted to provide us with information about yourself, we may use this information to contact you by email or other means to provide you with details of our services or send to you bulletins which we believe may be of interest to you. We will not pass information we hold about you to any organisation outside CSIS Limited. If you do not want us to use the information in this way please contact us at:
Data Protection Officer
Anne Kappel
1156 15th Street NW
Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20005 USA
Please note that we do not collect or compile personally identifying information for dissemination to third parties for consumer or business marketing purposes. We do not sell databases or personal information to third parties and so you will not be bombarded by marketing emails as a result of providing your details to us.
We can follow your navigation through our web site and identify the web pages which you visited. We may use such information to build statistics on users of our web site for our own use and for the use of third parties.
Links
Whilst we try to ensure that linked websites are informative and useful, we do not operate them and therefore we cannot accept responsibility for the information contained on or the practices of a website you are able to access through a link on our website. We believe those websites to be informative, but we make no representations about the quality or accuracy of any such websites.
Again, since a linked website is operated independently of our own, we cannot guarantee that any links to third party websites contained on our website will function correctly.
Intellectual Property
Many of the photographs provided on this website have been provided to us by third parties for your limited use. They are copyright of their respective owners. Otherwise, all website design, text, graphics and the selection and arrangement of them and all software compilations, coding, underlying source code, software and all other material on this web site are copyright Container Shipping Information Service Limited unless otherwise acknowledged. ALL RIGHTS IN THOSE MATERIALS ARE RESERVED.
We grant permission to you to electronically copy and to print hard copy portions of this web site for the sole purpose of using this web site as a research and information resource provided you agree not to change and/or delete any content, web design and/or layout contained in that material. Any other use of materials on this web site including modification, distribution, or republication are strictly prohibited.
Infringement of copyright is theft. Whilst we hope that you find the information and resources on this website informative, please make use of it within the terms that we have set out for you. Please be aware that infringement of our copyright in this website or the materials associated with this website may lead to criminal and/or civil sanctions in the UK, US and other countries.
We ourselves respect the rights of copyright holders. Therefore, if you believe that any content of our web site in any way infringes intellectual property rights belonging to you or any third party please contact us immediately.
Viruses
We are sure that you know that viruses and similar destructive programs are an inherent risk of Internet communication.
We promise that we will use reasonable endeavours to prevent contamination of any material sent to you with any virus or similar destructive code. However, we do not, to the maximum extent permitted by law, accept any liability for any virus or similar destructive code which your computers or software may suffer as a result of you accessing our website or any other communication via the Internet between you and us.
It is your responsibility to scan what you choose to download from our web site to ensure that it is free of such items as viruses, worms, trojan horses and other similar destructive code.
General Disclaimers
We (including any of our affiliates, directors, employees or other representatives) are not liable for losses arising out of or in connection with the use of this website.
We are only providing this web site and its contents on an "as is" basis and we make no (and expressly disclaim all) representations or warranties of any kind with respect to this website or its contents including (without limitation) warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose. In addition we do not represent or warrant that the information accessible from or via this web site is accurate, complete or current.
The limitations of liability in relation to this web site apply to all damages of any kind, including (without limitation) compensatory, direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of data, income or profit, loss of or damage to property and claims of third parties.
The limitations of liability in relation to this web site do not limit our liability to the extent that it cannot be limited and/or excluded by applicable law.
Your use of our web site is subject to English law. Any dispute and/or claim arising out of this web site is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
Any rights not expressly granted by us are reserved.
