Website terms of use

Unless otherwise indicated, this website and its contents are the property of the College of Estate Management, whose administrative offices are at Whiteknights, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6AW, United Kingdom. ('CEM'). The copyright in the material contained on this website belongs to CEM or its licensors. The trademarks appearing on this website are protected by the laws of England and by international trademark laws.
The information placed on this website by CEM has been prepared solely for the purpose of providing selected information about CEM, about the products and services that CEM provides, to enable prospective students to register their details for the purpose of obtaining further information, and to entitle registered students to access CEM’s student web portal.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our website for your personal reference 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 material on our website must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the materials 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 site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
CEM does not make any warranty that information contained on this website, or on any site linked to this website, is complete, accurate or up to date; and CEM is not responsible for the results of reliance on any such information.
CEM does not make any warranty that use of the website will be uninterrupted, virus free or error free; or that use of the website will not affect other software or operating systems used to access the website. Any warranties provided under the general law are expressly excluded to the fullest extent possible. In particular, CEM does not warrant that use of the website will not infringe the rights of any other person or organisation; nor that the website is of reasonable quality or fit for any particular purpose, even if CEM has received notice of an intention to use the website for that purpose.
Unless they are contained in CEM information, or unless expressly stated otherwise, opinions given on this website are those of the individuals making them, and not those of CEM. CEM is not responsible for such opinions or any claims resulting from them.
To the extent permitted in law, CEM accepts no liability for any loss or damage which may be suffered by other parties as a direct or indirect result of using this website (including loss of profit, loss of opportunity, loss of business, and consequential loss).
Persons submitting material to CEM or to this website are solely responsible for that information and material and for any claims relating to its content, whether made against CEM or otherwise. Whilst CEM does not exercise editorial control over any content posted to the website by users, CEM reserves the right at its sole discretion to remove any content which it has been notified is objectionable, whether or not the objection is substantiated, and otherwise to review, edit or delete any comments posted by users which it deems defamatory, unlawful, threatening or otherwise objectionable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and to the extent permitted in law, CEM accepts no responsibility or liability for any material communicated by third parties via the website.
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
Subject to the above, those gaining access to this website are authorised to make use of the website (and of any interactive facilities which are available through it) for any lawful purposes. The following is a non-exclusive list of uses which are expressly prohibited:
1. using the website to commit or encourage unlawful acts, including unlawful copying or use of copyright material;
2. use of CEM material’s except as expressly authorised and as a registered user;
3. misrepresenting the user’s identity or authority;
4. distributing any type of virus or other device intended to cause nuisance, loss or corruption of any information on the website or accessed through it, or of any systems used to operate the website or any systems accessed through it;
5. tampering with communications which are not the user’s, or making any alteration to any information on the website;
6. accessing or attempting to access other parties’ user accounts;
7. hacking or attempting to hack any part of the website, or any system used to run it, or any system accessed through the website;
8. disrupting the flow of communications in interactive areas;
9. storing personal data derived from the website;
10. posting material which:
  1. infringes intellectual property rights;
  2. defames or threatens other people or organisations;
  3. is offensive, obscene or hateful, or which other users of the website are likely to consider offensive, obscene or hateful.
CEM collects email addresses and other contact details, together with any comments provided voluntarily via this website. CEM also collects information on which pages are visited. This information is used to improve the content of the website and to make contact for marketing purposes and for the supply of information.
CEM’s collection of data through this website is subject to CEM’s privacy policy, which can be reviewed on this website.
These terms are governed by English law, and the courts of England have exclusive jurisdiction in relation to them.
If any of these terms is found to be illegal or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the term(s) in question will be severed; but the remaining terms will continue in force.

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