Terms of Use

INTRODUCTION

The legal documents provided online are for your convenience only. In all cases the terms and conditions printed in the relevant sale catalogue and in written contracts for sale take precedence over the terms and conditions shown below. This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms and conditions on which you may make use of our website. Please read these terms carefully. By accessing and using our website you agree to be bound by these terms. We may amend or revise these terms at any time by updating the text of this page. It is your responsibility to check this page regularly for such amendments by which you will be bound.

 

INFORMATION ABOUT US

This website is operated by Dawsons Auctioneers Limited, registered in England and Wales, company number 10185175, registered office: Unit 8 Cordwallis Park, Clivemont Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 7BU.

 

ACCESSING OUR WEBSITE

Access to our website is permitted on a temporary basis and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service without notice (see below). You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our website. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons accessing the website through your Internet connection are aware of these terms and that they comply with them.

Where you are provided with a user ID, 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. You are responsible for any transactions undertaken by any third party where you have disclosed such information.

 

YOUR STATUS

Our website is not intended to be used by those under 18 years of age since it may contain material of a nature which may be inappropriate for them to view (such as nudity in a work of art) or information on articles which may be harmful and/or illegal in the hands of children. By bidding for or buying articles through our web site you warrant that you are legally capable of entering into binding contracts; and you are at least 18 years old. 

 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our website, 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 copies, 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 website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

 

RELIANCE ON INFORMATION POSTED

Commentary, data and other materials posted on our website 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 website, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents. The information contained in website may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. We will not be liable for any such inaccuracies. We do not make any express or implied warranties or representations in relation to the website (including, without limitation, warranties, non-infringement or any implied warranties), and the same are hereby excluded. We do not accept any liability for faults which may lead to temporary unavailability of the website, whether this is in our reasonable control or not. Our liability in relation to any sale advertised on the website will be as set out in the relevant Conditions of Sale.

 

OUR SITE CHANGES REGULARLY

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

 

INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR VISITS TO OUR WEBSITE

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

 

TRANSACTIONS CONCLUDED THROUGH THIS WEBSITE

Contracts in relation to the sale of any item advertised on our web site are governed by the Conditions of Sale relating to that particular auction. These will be displayed clearly during the electronic bidding process. Alternatively, they are available on request by contacting us at [email protected] and letting us which sale you would like the Conditions of Sale for.

 

UPLOADING MATERIAL TO OUR WEBSITE

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to our website or to make contact with other users of the website you must comply with our content standards. You warrant that any such contribution complies with those standards and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.

 

LINKING TO OUR WEBSITE

You may link to our website, 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. Our website must not be framed on any other website. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. If you wish to make any use of material on our website other than that set out above, please address your request to [email protected]

 

LINKS FROM OUR WEBSITE

Our website contains links to various websites and other resources provided by third parties. These links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may be suffered in connection with your use of them.

 

JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW

The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our website 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. Any dispute relating to any bid made by you or any contract resulting from acceptance of your bid in respect of any lot shall be governed by the Conditions of Sale applicable to the relevant sale.

 

MISCELLANEOUS

In the event that any of these Website Terms of Use are determined by any competent authority to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable to any extent such term, condition or provision will to that extent be severed from the remaining terms, conditions and provisions which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.

 

VIRUSES, HACKING AND OTHER OFFENCES

You must not misuse our website 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 website, the server on which our website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our website. You must not attack our website 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 website 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 website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

 

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