Introduction

Welcome to Manufacturing Alumni, (the Alumni) a private online networking service operated by World Trade Group and its affiliates (”WTG”, “us” or “we”). This agreement sets out the terms and conditions that govern your access to and use of the WTG Alumni website at http://manufacturing.wtgalumni.com (”the Alumni” or “this Website”) and our services (”Terms and Conditions”). As a registered member of the Alumni and by accessing and using this Website, you confirm that you have read and accept these Terms and Conditions and the Privacy Policy and agree to be bound by them. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions, you may not use or access our services.

We reserve the right to modify and amend these Terms and Conditions at any time for any reason and without prior notice. Any amendments to these Terms and Conditions will be posted on the website and it remains your responsibility to check for any such changes.

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY AS THEY SET OUT IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS, REMEDIES AND OBLIGATIONS, INCLUDING LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS THAT APPLY TO YOU AND YOUR USE OF WTG ALUMNI.

Eligibility & Membership Conditions

Membership to the Alumni is by invitation only and is not available to the general public. As a member, you may not have more than one active account, nor may you open an alternative account if your membership is suspended or terminated for any reason. You may not sell, trade or transfer your account to another person, nor may you access or use any account belonging to any other member.

You are responsible for keeping secure and maintaining the confidentiality of your login username, password and account details, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password and account. If you knowingly provide your login and password information to another person, your account and access privileges may be suspended temporarily or terminated. You agree to immediately notify the Alumni of any unauthorised or suspected unauthorised use of your password or account or any other breach of security and WTG cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from any such unauthorised use.

We reserve the right to withdraw, suspend or terminate any part of your membership to the Alumni and the right to impose a membership fee at any time. Your continued access to and use of the Alumni is strictly conditional upon abiding by the terms but also on payment of any fees applicable.

The Alumni is made available for personal and individual use. We provide a platform and environment for networking and sharing information. If members enter into agreements, arrangements or transactions with other members through the Alumni, we are not a contracting party to such agreements, arrangements or transactions and cannot be held liable or responsible in any way regarding the same.

Termination

WTG is entitled at its sole discretion and with or without cause, to immediately terminate your member account and all access to this Website without prior notice. Without limiting the foregoing, the following will lead to a termination by WTG of a user’s use of the Alumni (a) breaches or violations of these Terms and Conditions or other incorporated agreements or guidelines, (b) requests by law enforcement or other government agencies, (c) a request by you (self-initiated account termination), (d) unexpected technical issues or problems, and (e) extended periods of inactivity. Termination of your Alumni account includes removal of access to all offerings within the Alumni and may also bar you from further use of the Alumni.

Any account termination by us may take into account the interests of WTG and the interests of the members of the Alumni as a whole. Our proprietary rights, disclaimer of warranties, indemnities, limitations of liability and other provisions of these Terms and Conditions shall continue after termination of your membership. We will not be liable to you or any third party for the termination of your account or access to the Alumni.

Acceptable Use Policy

In accessing and using the content of this Website, you agree to abide by all applicable laws, regulations and codes of conduct and you will not engage in any activities relating to this Website that are contrary to such laws, regulations and codes.

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 this Website through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.

In using and accessing the Alumni or this Website, you agree not to:

upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available any content or initiate communications that we deem to be harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, obscene, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;

use the Alumni or the Website for any illegal purpose or otherwise for any purpose which may violate or breach any applicable laws;

upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional materials, junk mail, spam, pyramid schemes, chain letters or any other form of solicitation;
upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available or initiate communications which include any information that you do not have the right to disclose or make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (including without limitation, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and credit card numbers of any third party, insider information, or any other proprietary, private and/or confidential information);

upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content or do any act that infringes the intellectual property or other proprietary rights of any person;

falsely state, impersonate, or otherwise misrepresent your identity, including but not limited to the use of a pseudonym, or misrepresenting your current or previous positions and qualifications, or your affiliations with a person or entity, past or present;

Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise introduce or make available any material that contains software viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or any other computer code, files or programs that are malicious, technologically harmful or otherwise designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;

reproduce, publish, redistribute or modify any of the content or materials contained in this Website (including commercially exploiting or using it as part of any library, archive or similar service);

stalk, harass, intimidate or threaten any other person on or through this Website;

interfere with, disrupt or attempt to gain unauthorised access to this Website or any servers, networks or databases connected to this Website, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Alumni;

attack this Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack or use or allow any person to use any robot, spider, other automated software, device or other process to monitor, crawl or copy any web pages, data or the content contained in this Website or for any other unauthorised purpose;

remove the copyright or trade mark notice(s) from any the content of this Website (or any copies thereof);
and, allow data or content from this Website to be made available to others or downloaded onto any electronic storage media or distribute or transfer data from this Website in any form (printed, electronically relayed, posted to public list services or bulletin boards, or magnetically stored) to, or for the benefit, of others.

We reserve the right to remove any content posted by you or other members which we consider in our absolute discretion to violate our Acceptable Use Policy or which may infringe any party’s intellectual property, privacy or any other rights.

We retain the absolute right to prevent you from accessing this Website, without prejudice to any of our accrued rights, where we in our sole discretion consider it right to do so or that you are contravening our Acceptable Use Policy or any other provisions of these Terms and Conditions.

Information Provided on this Website

Upon posting or providing any information, content or any other materials on this Website, you authorise and direct us to make such copies of your content as we deem necessary in order to facilitate the posting and storage of such content on this Website. By posting content to any part of this Website, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to WTG an irrevocable, perpetual, non- exclusive, transferable, royalty free, worldwide licence (with the right to sub-license) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such content for any purpose on or in connection with this Website or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such content, and to grant and authorise sub licenses of the foregoing.

You understand that all content publicly posted or privately transmitted through WTG Alumni is the sole responsibility of the person from which such content originated and that WTG shall not be liable for any errors or omissions in any content. WTG cannot guarantee the identity of any users with whom you may communicate or interact in the course of using WTG Alumni, nor can WTG guarantee the authenticity of any data or information which users may provide about themselves or their circumstances. You may remove any of your content from the Website at any time, however you acknowledge that WTG may retain archived copies of all such content.

Nothing contained in these Terms and Conditions shall be construed as limiting or reducing WTG’s responsibilities and obligations to users in accordance with our Privacy Policy

Disclaimer and Reliance on Information

All information, commentary and other materials provided to you by WTG on this Website are for informational purposes only and are believed to be reliable but are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed.

WTG disclaims all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such information by any person and further, disclaims all guarantees, conditions or warranties as to completeness, timeliness, adequacy or accuracy of such information. Your access, use, and reliance upon such information are entirely at your own risk. The opinions expressed in this Website are subject to change at any time without notice.

WTG makes no warranty that this Website or any of the Services provided will be available or accessible at all times and WTG shall not be held liable or responsible to any person in any way in the event of any interruptions, system malfunctions or delays which may affect your access to or use of this Website or any of the Services.

WTG aims to update this Website regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to this Website, or close it indefinitely. In the event that any of the material on this Website becomes out of date at any given time, we are under no obligation to update such material.

Intellectual Property Rights

WTG is the owner (or the licensee) of all works of authorship and all intellectual property rights in them, including without limitation copyright, design, text, sound recordings, images, trade marks, logos, confidential information and database rights in this Website and all content and other material published on it. All WTG’s rights in the materials contained on this Website are expressly reserved.

Except as otherwise expressly stated in these Terms and Conditions, WTG’s materials in this Website (or any part of them) and including all intellectual property rights in such materials may not be copied, transmitted, displayed, performed, distributed, licensed, altered, framed, stored for subsequent use, or otherwise used in whole or in part in any manner without WTG’s prior written consent or licence. Further, you must not use any of the materials on this Website (or any part of them) or WTG’s intellectual property rights in them for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from WTG (or our licensors).

You may download information contained on this Website and print out a copy for your personal use, so long as you do not remove any copyright or other notice as may be contained in such information, as downloaded. If you print off, copy, download, publish or redistribute any part of this Website in breach of these Terms and Conditions, your right to use this Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any such copies of the materials you have made.

WTG Communications

In the course of providing you services, WTG may need to communicate with you via email from time to time. You agree to receive emails from us which are specific to your account and necessary for the normal functioning of the Alumni, including any welcome emails which help inform new users about various features of the Alumni. You also agree to have your name and/or email address appear in the header of certain communications which you initiate through the Alumni.

Monitoring and Enforcement

Although we have the right to monitor activity and content associated with the Alumni, we are not obligated to do so. And since we do not, and may not have the ability to, control or actively monitor content we don’t guarantee its accuracy, integrity or quality. Because community standards vary and individuals sometimes choose not to comply with our policies and practices, in the process of using our website, you may be exposed to content that you find offensive or objectionable. You may contact us to let us know of content that you find objectionable and we may investigate such complaints but we reserve the right in our sole discretion not to pursue any complaint or take any further action. Under no circumstances will we be liable in any way for any content, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of, access to, or denial of access to any content on this Website.

Fees

Initial membership to the Alumni is free. WTG reserves the right to charge for the Alumni or any portion thereof, modify the pricing of, add to, or discontinue the Alumni or any portion thereof without prior notice.

Links

This Website may contain links to websites controlled or offered by third parties. WTG shall not be liable or responsible for any information, materials, products or services posted or offered on any such third party websites, or any link contained on a third party website or any changes or updates to such websites. By providing or creating a link to any third party website, WTG does not in any way endorse or recommend any products or services offered or any content or information contained on such third party website.

Limitation of Liability

THIS WEBSITE, INCLUDING ALL INFORMATION AND MATERIALS CONTAINED ON THIS WEBSITE, ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”. TO THE FURTHEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WTG SHALL NOT BE LIABLE IN ANY WAY TO ANY PERSON OR ENTITY FOR ANY CLAIM, LIABILITY, COST, EXPENSE, LOSS OR DAMAGE (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, LIABILITY FOR THIS WEBSITE NOT BEING AVAILABLE FOR USE, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOST OR CORRUPTED DATA OR SOFTWARE, OR THE PROVISION OF SERVICES AND SUPPORT TO ANY PERSON OR ENTITY HOWSOEVER CAUSED (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE) EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH CLAIM, LIABILITY, COST, EXPENSE, LOSS OR DAMAGE.

THIS DOES NOT AFFECT WTG’S 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. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING IN THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS TO THE CONTRARY, THE REMEDIES HEREUNDER SHALL APPLY EVEN IF SUCH REMEDIES FAIL THEIR ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold WTG and any of our officers, employees and agents harmless from and against all and any expenses, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses incurred or suffered and any claims or legal proceedings which are brought or threatened, in each case arising from your use or conduct on this Website and/or a breach of the Acceptable Use policy and/or any of these Terms and Conditions.

Processing Your Data

We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. By using this Website, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate. Without limitation of the terms and conditions set forth in our Privacy Policy, you understand and agree that WTG may disclose personally identifiable information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal processor protect the rights, property, or safety of WTG, its users, and the public.

Enforceability

If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is held by any court or other competent authority to be void or unenforceable in whole or part, these Terms and Conditions shall continue to be valid as to the other provisions thereof and the remainder of the affected provision.

Entire Agreement

These Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and WTG and governs your use of the Alumni, superseding any prior agreements between you and WTG.

Applicable Law

This Website, all content contained herein and your use of them shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.