Please read these terms of use (together with the other web pages referred to in them) carefully, before you start to use the website. Use of our website includes accessing, browsing, or contacting us through our website.

1. Information about us and how to contact us

woodsfordlitigationfunding.com and www.woodsford.com is a website operated by Woodsford Group Limited. (“We”). We are a private limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 07327885 and have our registered office at 8 Bloomsbury Street, London, WC1B 3SR.

Our VAT number is 201 3892 39.

We welcome feedback from our users: please contact Steven Savage, our Head of Marketing with any helpful comments and criticisms. We will use this information to help us to improve the terms of use of our website for all users.

2. Accessing our website

By using our website, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our website.

We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

3. Other applicable terms

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our website:

Our Privacy Notice, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our website, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

Our Acceptable Use Policy, which sets out permitted uses and prohibited uses for our website. When using our website, you must comply with this Acceptable Use Policy.

Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our website.

4. Changes to these terms

We may amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our website, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at the time. These terms were last updated on 7 February 2018.

5. Changes to our website

We may update and change our website from time to time, for example, to reflect changes to our products, our users’ needs and/or our business priorities.

6. Suspend or withdraw website

Our website is made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our website for business and operational reasons. We will try to give reasonable notice of any suspicion or withdrawal.

You are responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our website through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

7. Intellectual property rights

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

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our website for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our website.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our website must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the content on our website for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our website in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

8. No reliance on information

The content and materials contained on our website are provided for general information purposes only. It is not intended to amount to or constitute professional advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content or materials on our website.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our website, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content and materials on our website are accurate, complete or up-to-date.

9. Links from our website

Where our website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.

We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources.

10. Limitation of our liability

We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.

If you are a business user:

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our website or any content on it, whether express or implied.

We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

• use of, or inability to use, our website; or
• use of or reliance on any content displayed on our website.

Please note that in particular, we will not be liable for:

• loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
• business interruption;
• loss of anticipated savings;
• loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
• any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are not a business user:

Please note that we only provide our website for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our website for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

11. Viruses

We do not guarantee that our website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our website. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our website, the server on which our website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our website. You must not attack our website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our website will cease immediately.

12. Linking to our 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.

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 to our website in any website that is not owned by you.

Our website must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any part of our website other than the home page, without our prior written permission.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our website other than that set out above, please contact Steven Savage, our Head of Marketing.

13. Applicable law

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction. However, if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, these terms 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.