Terms and Conditions
The term ‘Blue Magpie’, ‘Blue Magpie Books’ ‘us’, ‘our or ‘we’ refers to the owner of the website, Blue Magpie Books Limited (Company Number 11089643), whose registered office is 80-83 Long Lane, London, EC1A 9ET, United Kingdom. The term ‘you’ and ‘your’ refers to the user or viewer of our website under these Terms.
‘Goods’ means the good(s), including but not limited to books in digital or printed form, you have ordered from us using a website and ‘Services’ means the service(s) you have ordered from us using a website, including but not limited to e-books, together, the ‘Products’.
‘Terms’ refers to these Terms of Use of the website.
If there is anything that you do not understand please feel free to email any enquiry to us here: publisher@bluemagpie.co
1. Access to the website
Welcome to our website. This website is owned and operated by Blue Magpie Books Limited. The content of the pages of this website is for your general information and use only. If you browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy policy govern Blue Magpie’s relationship with you in relation to this website.
2. Terms and Conditions
Blue Magpie Books Limited retains the right, at its discretion, to change any of these Terms of Use at any time and it is your responsibility to refer to and comply with these Terms on accessing this site. You accept that you will have no claim for breach of contract or otherwise in respect of any such alteration. Your continued use of our website constitutes your agreement to all of these Terms of Use as revised from time to time. This site may be used only for lawful purposes and in a manner which does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of the site by, any third party. If you disagree with any part of these Terms and conditions, please do not use our website.
3. Changes to the website
You acknowledge and accept that we may from time to time alter any aspect of the website, or any of the Products provided through the website, as we think fit and without notice to you.
4. Acceptable Use Policy
Unauthorised use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence. You must use the website for lawful purposes only and must comply at all times with the Acceptable Use Policy. It is a condition of use of the website that you will not post any Prohibited Content on any comment or review section of any Website as set out below. Prohibited Content includes (but is not limited to):
• falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage us or any third party;
• content or links to websites that are unlawful, obscene, indecent, profane, defamatory, libellous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, in breach of privacy or confidence or encourage such conduct and/or that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to breach of contract, break any law, or are otherwise inappropriate;
• any illegal or unauthorised copy of work protected by a third party’s copyright;
• material that is otherwise subject to third party rights unless you have the relevant permission to use such material and publish it on the website;
• impersonation of another person;
• advertisements or solicitations of business;
• or personal information about another person and/or attempts to solicit personal information from anyone.
Any content which includes any of the content set out at clause 4 is Prohibited Content. We may, in our absolute discretion, deem any other Content not listed in clause 4 to be Prohibited Content.
You must not send for display on the website any material that is unlawful including but not limited to material which is defamatory, obscene, indecent, menacing, in breach of privacy or confidence, infringes copyright or trademark rights. You must not send material containing software viruses or otherwise use a website in any way that interrupts access to it.
By submitting material to any public forum that we make available on the Website, you confirm that you own any intellectual property in such materials or that you have permission from the owner. You further agree that you have obtained the informed consent of any subjects of any images. You hereby waive any moral rights you may have in relation to such content.
We reserve the right to investigate and take appropriate action against anyone who, in our opinion, is in breach of the Acceptable Use Policy. Such action includes, but is not limited to, reporting the Prohibited Content and your details to the appropriate law enforcement agencies and removing the Prohibited Content from our website. We reserve the right to suspend your account or terminate your access to the website, if you are, in our absolute discretion, deemed to be a repeat infringer of the Acceptable Use Policy.
5. Privacy and Personal Information
Your privacy is very important to us and these Website Conditions must be read in conjunction with our privacy policy which is published on our Website and can be found at the Privacy link at the bottom of any page.
6. Links to Other websites
The Blue Magpie website may incorporate links to other websites of third parties. Such links are provided for your convenience only, and their provision does not constitute an authorisation by us to you to access such third party websites, nor an endorsement of the content of such third party sites by us. You acknowledge and accept that we are not, and will not be held, responsible for any damages, loss, costs or expenses arising from the use of such third party websites or products or services available through such third party websites.
7. Trademarks and Copyright
All rights, including copyright and database right, in this website and its contents (including but not limited to text, photographs, audio, video, graphics, downloads and streams) are owned by or have been licensed to Blue Magpie Books Limited or are otherwise used by us as permitted by applicable law. Except as set out below, in accessing this site you agree that you will access the contents solely for your own personal, non-commercial use and you acknowledge that you are not permitted to copy, download, store in any medium (including any other website), distribute, transmit, modify or show in public any part of this site without the prior written permission of Blue Magpie Books Limited or in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Requests to republish any of the Content and to use quotations or extracts from any books published by Blue Magpie Books should be sent to Blue Magpie Books Limited at the address below or by emailing us at publisher@bluemagpie.co.
8. Downloads
Where material on this site is made available to download, you may do so only for your own personal use or for the specific purpose of promoting the sale of Blue Magpie Books titles. You may not alter the material downloaded in any way. If such material is downloaded for promotional purposes, extracts of text must be quoted without alteration and images must be used in their entirety without any addition, modification or alteration (other than reducing their size). You agree to acknowledge Blue Magpie Books prominently in relation to every image and/or textual extract which you use for promotional purposes and if you quote any extract from one of our titles you also agree to identify the author. You agree that you will not use any material from this site in any way which may be derogatory of the material itself, the author or Blue Magpie Books.
9. Price and availability of titles
Whilst every effort is made to ensure accuracy of prices and availability of the titles featured on this Site, this cannot be guaranteed and price and availability information may change without notice.
10. Indemnity
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Blue Magpie Books Limited and any affiliated company or individual harmless from any and all liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, related to any violation of these Terms by you or your authorised users, or in connection with the use of the website or the internet or the placement or transmission of any message or information on the website by you or your authorised users.
11. Warranty and Disclaimer
This website is provided in good faith on an "as is" basis. You use the website at your own risk. Blue Magpie Books Limited makes no representations or warranties, express or implied, about its site or the material contained or referred to on it or available for download from it, and will not be held liable in any way for your use of it.
Except to the extent as provided by the applicable law, Blue Magpie Books Limited disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
Blue Magpie Books Limited or any of its directors, employees or other representatives excludes to the fullest extent permitted by law all liability for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, losses and expenses whatsoever including loss of business, anticipated savings revenues, profits, goodwill or reputation arising out of or in any way connected with the use of the this site or any information, content, software products or services obtained through or downloaded from the website.
We endeavour to ensure that all information and material on this site is correct and accurate but do not accept any liability for errors or omissions. We further do not warrant that the website or the products and materials contained on such website are error free, or that errors will be corrected, or that this site or the server from which it is run is free of viruses or other potentially harmful codes.
12. General
These Website Conditions will be exclusively governed by and construed in accordance with English law. The English Courts will have exclusive jurisdiction in any dispute, save that we have the right, at our sole discretion, to commence and pursue proceedings in alternative jurisdictions.
If any part of these Website Conditions is found to be invalid by any court or other regulatory or competent body, the invalidity will not affect the rest of the Website Conditions, which shall remain in force.