PARTNERS TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. Thank you for your interest in promoting the Getting British Business Online ("GBBO") initiative (the “Initiative”). Google Inc. and its affiliates ("Google") have worked in collaboration with Yola to provide GBBO related tools and services at www.gbbo.co.uk and www.getbusinessonline.co.uk (together, the "GBBO Site").
2. As an organisation which wishes to promote the Initiative ("Partner"), these terms and conditions, and the Google universal terms of service (here: http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS), which are incorporated into this agreement by reference, govern your participation in the Initiative (together, “Terms”). By applying to become a Partner, you accept these Terms. You understand and agree that Google will treat your use of any services associated with the Initiative as acceptance of the Terms from the moment you start using those services onwards.
3. You agree that by signing up as a Partner, you give Google a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to identify you as a Partner on the GBBO Site and in related materials and reproduce, display, and use your brand, logo and trademarks (“Your IP”) on the Initiative Site and in related materials for the duration of the Initiative. You agree that, following the termination of the Initiative or your involvement in it, for any reason, this licence will continue and Google will be allowed a reasonable time to remove Your IP from the GIBO Site and related materials.
4. You agree not to use the GBBO Site for any purpose other than to promote activities or services which you are providing and which relate to GBBO. If Google accepts your application to become a Partner, we will send you further information about the Initiative and may provide you with tools and materials to allow you to promote the Initiative to your customers. You may use these solely in accordance with any guidelines that we send you or publish on the GBBO Site. You agree that participating in GBBO does not give you any rights in the term "GBBO" or "Get British Business Online": these are owned by Google.
5. You agree that you will not take any action which infringes any third party’s intellectual property rights, and you warrant that your brand and logos do not infringe any third party intellectual property rights.
6. Although Google will provide functionality within the GBBO Site to allow Partners to list their GBBO-related events or services, this does not mean that your or any other Partner's events are endorsed by Google or any other Partners or sponsors. You agree not to use Google's or any other Partner or sponsor's brand, logos, trademarks or other intellectual property without the relevant owner's prior written consent.
7. Any data which you enter into the GBBO Site will be held by Google subject to Google's privacy policy (available here: http://www.google.com/intl/en_GB/privacypolicy.html). Google will share this information with Yola and trusted third parties involved in the Initiative in accordance with its privacy policy. Google will not share it with other third parties unless you have given your consent to this during the sign up process or through options given to you in subsequent communications.
8. Google reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change portions of the Terms at any time without further notice. If Google does this, the new Terms will be posted on www.gbbo.co.uk. Your continued use of the GBBO Site after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new terms.
9. If you use the GBBO Site or any of the services offered through the GBBO Site in contravention of the Terms, or use or promote them against the spirit of the GBBO Initiative, any login you may have for the GBBO Site may be withdrawn from you, and any rights or licences which you may have been granted by Google in relation to the Initiative will automatically terminate.
10. Google and/or its partners may end the Initiative at any time at their sole discretion without any liability to you.
11. You may withdraw your involvement in the Initiative and terminate this agreement at any time at your sole discretion.
12. Google may withdraw your involvement in the Initiative and terminate this agreement at any time at its sole discretion. If Google finds out that you have infringed anyone’s intellectual property rights, it will withdraw your involvement in the Initiative and terminate this agreement immediately.
13. To the extent permitted by law, neither party is liable to the other party for any indirect, consequential, special or punitive damages; and neither party shall be liable for more than £50,000 in total for any claim connected with the Terms. For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in these Terms limits your or Google’s liability for death or personal injury caused by your or Google’s negligence, or liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
14. If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, this will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions.
15. This agreement is governed by English law and the parties agree that the English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute (contractual or non-contractual) concerning these Terms except that either party may apply to any court for an injunction or other relief to protect its intellectual property rights.