Terms of use

This website (website) is the website of Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (Spirax Group, us or we), a company registered in England and Wales under company number 596337 and with its registered address at Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc, Charlton House, Cirencester Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL53 8ER, UK. The pages on the website are published by Great State on behalf of Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc.

Please read these terms of use of the website carefully as by using the website you agree to be bound by them. We reserve the right to vary these terms of use at any time and will post any variations here. You are advised to review these terms of use on a regular basis as you will be deemed to have accepted variations if you continue to use the website after they have been posted. If you do not agree to abide by these terms of use you should not use the website in any way.

1 Accessing the website

1.1 Neither Spirax Group nor Great State guarantee that the website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to the website is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of the website without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason the website is unavailable at any time or for any period.
1.2 You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the website.
1.3 You are also responsible for ensuring that any persons with access to the website through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use, and that they comply with them.

2 Intellectual property rights

2.1 All materials (including, without limitation, all designs, text, graphics and their selection and arrangement) on this website are the copyright of Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc and all of its affiliates (Spirax Group) or its licensors. No material on this website may be copied or reproduced in any form whatsoever, whether physical, electronic or otherwise, without Spirax Group’s express, prior, written consent. However, where "printer friendly" versions of any of the pages of this website are available, you may print out those pages and keep for your own, non-commercial, use.
2.2 All brand names, product names and/or service names used in this website are trademarks, trade names, service marks or copyrights of Spirax Group or its licensors. Any use of any such brand name, product name and/or service name without the express, prior, written consent of Spirax Group may constitute an infringement of those rights and Spirax Group gives no permission for the use of any such item in any way whatsoever.

3 Limited permission to copy or download

3.1 You are permitted to print or download extracts from this website for your own personal, non-commercial use.
3.2 Any copies of these pages saved to disk or to any other storage medium may only be used for subsequent viewing purposes or to print extracts for your own personal, non-commercial use.
3.3 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. No part of this website may be reproduced or transmitted to or stored in any other website nor may any of its pages or parts thereof be disseminated in any electronic or non-electronic form nor be included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without Spirax Group’s express, prior, written permission.
3.4 Except to the limited extent set out above, you are not permitted to copy, broadcast, download, store (in any medium), transmit, show or play in public, adapt or change in any way the content of this website for any other purpose whatsoever without Spirax Group’s express, prior, written permission.
3.5 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 Information we provide on the website

4.1 The content of this website is only for general information or use. It does not constitute advice and should not be relied upon in making (or refraining from making) any decision. Spirax Group uses reasonable care to make sure that the information appearing on this website is accurate and up to date. However, errors and omissions could occur and you should independently verify the accuracy of the information yourself before placing any reliance upon it.
4.2 FOR THE REASONS REFERRED TO IN THE PARAGRAPH ABOVE AND BECAUSE SPIRAX GROUP DOES NOT HAVE ANY CONTROL OVER THE USE TO WHICH THE INFORMATION ON THIS WEBSITE MAY BE PUT, SPIRAX GROUP HEREBY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, AS TO THE ACCURACY OF ANY INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THIS WEBSITE AND/OR THE AVAILABILITY OF THIS WEBSITE AND, ACCORDINGLY, SPIRAX GROUP SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY (SAVE IN RELATION TO (I) DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY ARISING THROUGH ITS NEGLIGENCE; AND/OR (ii) ANY OTHER MATTER IN RESPECT OF WHICH LAW PRESCRIBES THAT LIABILITY MAY NOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED) FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE HOWSOEVER ARISING AND OF WHATEVER NATURE INCURRED IN THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR IN RELIANCE ON ANY INFORMATION CONTAINED ON IT INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OF GOODWILL AND/OR LOSS OF PROFITS), ARISING IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE.
4.3 The provisions of the paragraph above shall not affect any express written warranties given by Spirax Group in connection with the sale of any product or service.

5 Share and company information

5.1 The information contained in the website is not an invitation to invest in shares or other securities, or any other products or services or otherwise deal in these or enter into a contract with Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc or any other company. The information provided should not be relied upon in connection with any investment decision. You should always seek appropriate professional advice in relation to such. The past performance of Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc or any other company referred to on the website cannot be relied upon as a guide to its future performance. The price of shares and the income derived from them can go down as well as up and investors may not recoup the amount originally invested.
5.2 Any reference to any product or service that has been or may be provided by Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc or any other company does not amount to a promise that such product or service will be available at any time. Changes to or improvements in such products or services may be made at any time without notice.

6 Links to other websites

If this website provides access via hypertext or other links to resources in other websites, such links shall be for browsing only and in so doing Spirax Group does not endorse any linked entities nor authorise any act which may be in breach of copyright or any other third-party rights which are protected in law or by international treaties worldwide. Spirax Group does not accept any responsibility or liability for any of the material contained on any third-party website.

7 Material submitted by users to our social media sites

7.1 In the event that our social media sites contain material submitted by users, Spirax Group shall not accept any responsibility for the content or accuracy of such material and the views expressed are not necessarily those of Spirax Group.
7.2 Any material or information transmitted or posted to our social media sites by any means will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary and may be disseminated, stored or used by Spirax Group for any purpose whatsoever.
7.3 Do not post or transmit to this website or our social media sites any unlawful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic or profane material, or any material that is racist, harmful, threatening, menacing or that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability.
7.4 We have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our social media sites constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
7.5 We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our social media sites.
7.6 Spirax Group expressly reserves the right at any time and without notice to edit or withdraw any material posted to our social media sites by any user for any reason whatsoever.

8 Viruses

8.1 Spirax Group and Great State make no warranty that the content of this website is free from infection by viruses or anything else that has contaminating or destructive properties and users are advised to take all appropriate steps (including the use of up-to-date anti-virus software) to minimise the impact of any such viruses or similar items.
8.2 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 cooperate 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.

9 Your login details

9.1 Any personal information provided when you register for alert services on the website will be held in accordance with the Great State privacy policy.
9.2 We have the right to disable any user accounts at any time if, in our reasonable opinion, you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use and/or if we believe that your account is being used in an unauthorised or fraudulent manner.
9.3 If you know or suspect that anyone other than you has or is likely to access your user account, you must promptly notify us. Following such notification you may be required to set up a new account with a new email address.

10 Rights of third parties

Both Spirax Group and the user expressly agree to waive any rights that they may have under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to bring a claim in respect of any other agreement entered into between Spirax Group and the user in relation to the subject matter of these terms and conditions and further agree that all third parties shall be expressly excluded from bringing a claim under the said Act in relation to these terms and conditions and/or your use of this website.

11 Invalidity of terms

If any provision of these terms and conditions shall be unlawful, void or unenforceable for any reason then that provision shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions.

12 Law

12.1 These terms of use are governed by the laws of England and Wales and you agree that the English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction in any dispute.
12.2 To the extent that any part of these terms of use is found to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction such part shall to that extent be severed from the remaining terms all of which shall remain in full force and effect as permitted by law.