Terms & Conditions

1. Terms Of Website Use

Place North West Ltd, trading as Place North East, welcomes you to the placenortheast.co.uk website (our site).

These terms of use together with our privacy policy and our acceptable use policy set out the terms of use on which you may make use of our site. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.

If you have registered with us or provided any personal details and subsequently change your details, you should immediately notify us by e-mailing [email protected].

2. Accessing Our Site

Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

We may restrict access to some parts of our site to registered users and/or subscribers and, from time to time, we may change the restricted areas or restrict access to the entire site.

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.

When using our site, you must comply with the provisions of our acceptable use policy.

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

3. Intellectual Property Rights

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, 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 site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site. 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 site must always be acknowledged. You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from our licensors or us. If you print off, copy or download any part of our site 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.

4. Reliance On Information Posted

Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

5. Third Party Material

You will see advertising material of third parties on our site. The individual advertisers concerned are solely responsible for the content they submit, including ensuring that it complies with all applicable legislation. We will not be responsible, or liable for the content or accuracy of any such materials.

6. Our Site Changes Regularly

We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

7. Our Liability

The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, and third parties connected to us, hereby expressly exclude:

All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.

Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for:

loss of income or revenue
loss of business
loss of profits or contracts
loss of anticipated savings
loss of data
loss of goodwill
wasted management or office time
for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable

This does not affect our 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.

8. Information About You And Your Visits To Our Site

We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

If you subscribe to our newsletters, you will be asked to provide certain information about yourself. You can unsubscribe to any or all of these newsletters at any time.

We accept no responsibility for:

either the hirer or the jobseeker and we have no authority as an employment agency and do not effect introductions between hirers and jobseekers; or

either the vendor/landlord of any property or the potential buyers/tenants and we have no authority as an estate agent and do not effect introduction between vendors/landlords and the potential buyers/tenants.

As a registered delegate at a Place North East event, your name and contact details will be placed on the attendee list which may be passed on to sponsoring companies. You may be contacted with information about products and services, such as future events, in the form of direct marketing by phone or email.

9. Linking To Our Site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but 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 from any website that is not owned by you.

Subject to your right to make use of any web and/or RSS feeds that we may make available from time to time; our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page without our consent. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy.

If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please address your request to [email protected].

10. Links From Our Site

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

11. Jurisdiction And Applicable Law

The English courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country. These terms of use are governed by English law.

12. Trade Marks

Place North East and PlaceNorthEast.co.uk are trade marks of Place North West Ltd.

13. Variations

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

Thank you for visiting our site.

14. Subscriber Terms of Use

Place North West Ltd welcomes you to the placenortheast.co.uk website (our site). These subscriber terms of use together with our privacy policy and our acceptable use policy and any specific terms, instructions and guidelines which we may notify you of from time to time form the basis of the agreement between you and us (our agreement) and govern your use of the subscription services. Our agreement constitutes the entire understanding between us in relation to your use of the subscription services. For the avoidance of doubt, your use of our site are governed by the terms of use above.

15. Uploading Material To Our Site

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to our site, or submit comments on the forums section of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy. You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our site.

If you want to submit material to us for publication on our site, you may do so on the following terms:

publication of any material you submit to us will be at our sole discretion. We reserve the right to make additions or deletions to the text or graphics prior to publication, or to refuse publication;
you grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide licence to republish any material you submit to us in any format; and
you warrant the material that you submit is your own original work and you own all intellectual property rights in it.

We reserve the right to remove your access to individual services if we believe you are in breach of these terms or the terms of our acceptable use policy.

16. Viruses, Hacking And Other Offences

You must not misuse our site 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 site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site 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 site will cease immediately.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

17. Privacy

All information received by us from your registration and/or your use of our site and/or your purchase of the subscription services will be used in accordance with our privacy policy and terms of use.

We respect the personal information provided by you. We will only transfer this information in accordance with our privacy policy and as may be required to provide the subscription services to you.

18. Term and Termination

Your subscription to newsletters will commence on the date that we notify to you in our order acknowledgement (commencement date).

You may cancel your subscription at any time by sending an e-mail to [email protected]. We shall endeavour to process your request promptly and within 5 working days of receipt.

If in our reasonable opinion you have breached any terms of our agreement we reserve the right to cancel your subscription.

These provisions do not affect your statutory rights.

19. Warranties and Limitation of Liability

We will use reasonable endeavours to promptly remedy any faults in the subscription services that we provide. If we are found to be liable to you, our liability (whether arising in negligence or otherwise) will not in any circumstances exceed an amount equal to the sums paid or payable by you in respect of the subscription services to which such liability relates.

We give no warranties, express or implied, as to the content provided in our subscription services (including without limitation warranties as to defamation, accuracy, breach of confidence, copyright ownership, moral rights, fitness for any purpose, or any other rights of any kind) since much of the content is user generated and we therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents. Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed.

Whilst we will make commercially reasonable efforts to maintain the currency, accuracy, and availability of the subscription services, we give no warranty that the content will be free from error, constant or that there will be uninterrupted access the subscription services. We will notify you in advance of any scheduled downtime. However, we accept no responsibility or liability for any interruption or delay.

All implied warranties and conditions are excluded to the maximum extent permitted by law and in particular, we do not warrant that our site or its contents are virus free or that the subscription services are compatible with your software or computer configuration. We accept no liability for any loss or damage of whatever nature you may suffer in the event of an infection or contamination by a virus or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware. You are solely responsible for protecting your hardware, software and system from such attacks.

In no circumstances shall we be liable for any loss of profits, loss of business, depletion of goodwill and/or similar losses or pure economic loss, or for any special, indirect or consequential loss, costs, damages, charges or expenses howsoever arising.

You warrant that you have the right to enter into our agreement and that you will comply with its terms and conditions.

You undertake that you will at our request do all such further things and execute all such further documents as we may reasonably require for the purpose of confirming our rights pursuant to our agreement and/or giving effect to the provisions of our agreement.

You shall indemnify us and hold us harmless against any and all liabilities, claims, loss, damages and costs (including, without limitation, legal fees) arising due to your breach of any of the terms of our agreement.

20. Miscellaneous

Nothing in our agreement will be deemed to create a partnership or joint venture between us. Neither of us shall have the authority to bind the other or to contract in the name of or create a liability against the other in any way for any purpose.

No failure or delay by either us in exercising our rights under our agreement will operate as a waiver of that right nor will any single or partial exercise by us or you of any right preclude any further exercise of any other right.

If any provision of our agreement is found to be illegal, void or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not affect the validity of the remaining terms of our agreement.

A person who is not a party to our agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to rely upon or enforce any term of our agreement but this does not affect any right or remedy of a third party which exists or is available apart from that Act.

21. Events

Ticket bookings: View the Event Booking Terms & Conditions

Sponsorship: View the Event Sponsorship Terms & Conditions

22. Advertising

In order for Place North East (the company) to process your order please ensure you have read and understand these terms of business and ensure that by entering into this contract you are in a position to comply with the requirements as a purchaser of any services or goods with Place North East (advertiser).

1. All advertisers’ materials for publication must be provided to the company in accordance with the current technical requirements and its content must comply with current guidelines of the advertising authority.

2. Place North East reserves the right to position and or to change the size of any advertisement unless such position or size is specifically agreed or is technically possible on this order, to reject remove or suspend any advertisement or to modify the wording of any advertisement.

3. The advertiser warrants to the company that it has all the necessary rights in the advertisement and its contents. The advertisement does not contravene any law, regulation or code of practice nor infringe any rights of the third party. The advertisement complies with the Advertising Standards Authority’s current code of practice and with all other requirements of any relevant authority. If the advertiser requires any consent from any third party in connection with the advertisement and its contents, it has obtained all such consents.

4. The advertiser grants the company a worldwide non-exclusive fully paid license to use and reproduce and display the advertiser’s material including any artwork, trademarks, brand features and any other contents contained in the online advertisement.

5. The company is not liable for any loss to the advertiser if the advertiser is at fault for delay in supplying copy, logos, artwork, before the start of the advertising campaign.

6. The company is not liable for any loss in connection with the advertisement in the website including any malfunction, computer error, defect in software, loss of data or other damage or disruption to advertisement except to the extent to which it is unlawful to exclude such liability under law applicable to this contract.

7. The company is not liable for any errors in copy or contact details, it is the responsibility of the advertiser to check and sign off in writing by sending an email with changes and amendments to the account handler.

8. Offers, competitions, discounts advertised on Place North East or any of its group websites are offered by the advertiser not by the company. Therefore the advertiser shall indemnify and keep indemnified the company against all expenses, damages and loss or claim arising from the advertisement.

9. If the company fail to publish the advertisement within the terms of the agreement the sole liability of the company to the advertiser shall be limited either a part refund of fee less production cost or placement of the advertisement at a later time.

10. Cancellation of advertising in any form is conditional on the advertiser making a written request to the company within seven days from the date of order. In any event, cancellation will be subject to a 50% cancellation fee payable within 30 days of such request. Cancellation later than seven days after the booking and between four and six weeks from the start of the campaign will be subject to a 75% cancellation fee. Cancellation within four weeks of the start of the campaign will be subject to a 100% cancellation fee.

11. All sums quoted are exclusive of applicable value added tax and are payable without deduction on the specified dates.

12. Invoicing is available at the company’s discretion, for purchases greater than £50 ex VAT.

13. Failure to pay any sums due by a specified date will permit the company to cancel this agreement by written notice to you.

14. Where refunds are supplied, any admin fee applied will be non-refundable.

15. This agreement shall be governed by the law of England and Wales.

23. Payment of Invoices

Payment for any and all activity is upon agreement of works and within 28 days, unless otherwise agreed prior to invoicing. Payment must be received into our account on or before the date stated on the invoice.

An administration fee of £5 plus VAT is payable on all invoices for event tickets, job listings and event listings.