Website Terms and Conditions

This is version 1 of the Website Terms and Conditions, as published 2nd March 2021.

Table of Contents

1. General Information Regarding These Terms and Conditions

Welcome, and thank you for your interest in Figular as operated by Galagic Limited (“Galagic,” “we,” “our,” or “us”). These Terms and Conditions apply to your use of all of the Figular websites that Galagic operates. These include figular.com, figular.co.uk and figular.org together with all other subdomains thereof, (collectively, the “Websites”). The terms also apply to all products, information and services provided through the Websites (together with the Websites, the “Services”).

These terms form a binding legal agreement between you and Galagic in relation to your use of the Services. Collectively, this legal agreement is referred to below as the “Terms.”

Human-readable summary of Sec 1: These terms create a contract between you and Galagic. The contract governs your use of all websites operated by Galagic, unless a particular website indicates otherwise. These human-readable summaries of each section are not part of the contract, but are intended to help you understand its terms.

2. Your Agreement to the Terms

BY CLICKING “I ACCEPT” OR OTHERWISE ACCESSING OR USING ANY OF THE SERVICES YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD, AND AGREED TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS. By clicking “I ACCEPT” or otherwise accessing or using any Services you also represent that you have the legal authority to accept the Terms on behalf of yourself and any party you represent in connection with your use of any Services. If you do not agree to the Terms, you are not authorized to use any Services. If you are an individual who is entering into these Terms on behalf of an entity, you represent and warrant that you have the power to bind that entity, and you hereby agree on that entity’s behalf to be bound by these Terms, with the terms “you,” and “your” applying to you, that entity, and other users accessing the Services on behalf of that entity.

Human-readable summary of Sec 2: Please read these terms and only use our sites and services if you agree to them.

3. Changes to the Terms

From time to time, Galagic may change, remove, or add to the Terms, and reserves the right to do so in its discretion. In that case, we will post updated Terms and indicate the date of revision. If we feel the modifications are material, we will make reasonable efforts to post a prominent notice on the relevant Website(s) and notify those of you who have supplied an email address via email. All new and/or revised Terms take effect immediately and apply to your use of the Services from that date on, except that material changes will take effect 30 days after the change is made and identified as material. Your continued use of any Services after new and/or revised Terms are effective indicates that you have read, understood, and agreed to those Terms. User feedback is invited regarding changes to these terms via the Website’s contact details or through user forums where available.

Human-readable summary of Sec 3: These terms may change, we welcome feedback. When the changes are important, we will put a notice on the website. If you continue to use the sites after the changes are made, you agree to the changes.

4. Acceptable Use

  1. Compliance with Laws and Regulations

Your use of the Websites and Services must not violate any applicable laws, including copyright or trademark laws, export control laws, or other laws in your jurisdiction. You are responsible for making sure that your use of the Service is in compliance with laws and any applicable regulations.

  1. Conduct Restrictions

While using the Websites and Services, you agree that you will not under any circumstances:

  • harass, abuse, threaten, or incite violence towards any individual or group, including our employees, officers, and agents, or other users;
  • interact with Service features, in a way that significantly or repeatedly disrupts the experience of other users;
  • use our servers for any form of excessive automated bulk activity (for example, spamming or cryptocurrency mining), to place undue burden on our servers through automated means, or to relay any form of unsolicited advertising or solicitation through our servers, such as get-rich-quick schemes;
  • use our servers to disrupt or to attempt to disrupt, or to gain or to attempt to gain unauthorized access to, any service, device, data, account or network
  • impersonate any person or entity, including any of our employees or representatives, including through false association with Galagic, or by fraudulently misrepresenting your identity or site’s purpose; or
  • violate the privacy of any third party, such as by posting another person’s personal information without consent.
  1. Information Usage Restrictions

You may use information from our Service for the following reasons, regardless of whether the information was scraped, collected through our API, or obtained otherwise:

  • Search engines may use public information for indexing our content.
  • Archivists may use public information from the Service for archival purposes.

Scraping refers to extracting information from our Service via an automated process, such as a bot or webcrawler. Scraping does not refer to the collection of information through our API.

You may not use information from the Service (whether scraped, collected through our API, or obtained otherwise) for spamming purposes, including for the purposes of sending unsolicited emails to users or selling User Personal Information (as defined in the Privacy Policy, such as to recruiters, headhunters, and job boards.

Your use of information from the Service must comply with the Privacy Policy.

  1. Excessive Bandwidth Use

The Service’s bandwidth limitations vary based on the features you use. If we determine your bandwidth usage to be significantly excessive in relation to other users of similar features, we reserve the right to suspend your usage, throttle your access, or otherwise limit your activity until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption.

  1. User Protection

You must not engage in activity that significantly harms other users. We will resolve disputes in favor of protecting users as a whole.

Human-readable summary of Sec 4: Behave as you would have others do to you. Don’t break the law or be disruptive.

5. Privacy

Galagic is committed to responsibly handling the information and data we collect through our Services in compliance with our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference into these Terms. Please review the Privacy Policy so you are aware of how we collect and use your personal information.

Human-readable summary of Sec 5: Please read our Privacy Policy. It is part of these terms, too.

6. User-Generated Content

  1. Content Available through the Services

Provided as-is: You acknowledge that Galagic does not make any representations or warranties about the material, data, and information, such as data files, text, computer software, code, music, audio files or other sounds, photographs, videos, or other images (collectively, the “Content”) which you may have access to as part of, or through your use of, the Services. Under no circumstances is Galagic liable in any way for any Content, including, but not limited to: any infringing Content, any errors or omissions in Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, transmitted, linked from, or otherwise accessible through or made available via the Services.

  1. Responsibility for User-Generated Content

You may create User-Generated Content while using the Service. You are solely responsible for the content of, and for any harm resulting from, any User-Generated Content that you post, upload, link to or otherwise make available via the Service, regardless of the form of that Content. We are not responsible for any public display or misuse of your User-Generated Content.

  1. Ownership of Content, Right to Post, and License Grants

You retain ownership of and responsibility for Your Content.

Human-readable summary of Sec 6: You own your content and are responsible for it.

  1. Galagic’s Rights to Content

Galagic and our licensors, vendors, agents, and/or our content providers retain ownership of all copyright of any kind related to the Website and Service. We reserve all rights that are not expressly granted to you. Copyright © Galagic Limited. All content on the Site, unless specifically stated otherwise, is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International including these Terms.

  1. Other trademarks

Other trademarks used on the site are the registered trademarks of their respective owners. Those marks are used for referential purposes only and are not intended to suggest or imply any affiliation with or endorsement by their respective owners.

Human-readable summary of Sec 7: We own the copyright of our Website and Service, which is generally licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International but there may be exceptions. Other trademarks used on this site are not intended to suggest endorsement or affiliation with us.

8. Disclaimer of Warranties

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, GALAGIC OFFERS THE SERVICES (INCLUDING ALL CONTENT AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH THE SERVICES) AS-IS AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE SERVICES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. GALAGIC DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS OF THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT CONTENT MADE AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH THE SERVICES WILL BE ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT ANY SERVERS USED BY GALAGIC ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. GALAGIC DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION REGARDING USE OF THE CONTENT AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICES IN TERMS OF ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE.

Human-readable summary of Sec 8: Galagic does not make any guarantees about the sites, services, or content available on the sites.

9. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL GALAGIC BE LIABLE TO YOU ON ANY LEGAL THEORY FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, ACTUAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR OTHER DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF REVENUE OR INCOME, LOST PROFITS, PAIN AND SUFFERING, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, COST OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, OR SIMILAR DAMAGES SUFFERED OR INCURRED BY YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY THAT ARISE IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICES (OR THE TERMINATION THEREOF FOR ANY REASON), EVEN IF GALAGIC HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, GALAGIC IS NOT RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE WHATSOEVER IN ANY MANNER FOR ANY CONTENT POSTED ON OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICES (INCLUDING CLAIMS OF INFRINGEMENT RELATING TO THAT CONTENT), FOR YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, OR FOR THE CONDUCT OF THIRD PARTIES ON OR THROUGH THE SERVICES.

Certain jurisdictions do not permit the exclusion of certain warranties or limitation of liability for incidental or consequential damages, which means that some of the above limitations may not apply to you. IN THESE JURISDICTIONS, THE FOREGOING EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS WILL BE ENFORCED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

Human-readable summary of Sec 9: Galagic is not responsible for the content on the sites, your use of our services, or for the conduct of others on our sites.

10. Indemnification

To the extent authorized by law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Galagic, its employees, officers, directors, affiliates, and agents from and against any and all claims, losses, expenses, damages, and costs, including reasonable legal fees, resulting directly or indirectly from or arising out of (a) your violation of the Terms, (b) your use of any of the Services, and/or (c) the Content you make available on any of the Services.

Human-readable summary of Sec 10: If something happens because you violate these terms or because of your use of the services, you agree to repay Galagic for the damage it causes.

11. Termination

By Galagic: Galagic may modify, suspend, or terminate the operation of, or access to, all or any portion of the Services at any time for any reason. Additionally, your individual access to, and use of, the Services may be terminated by Galagic at any time and for any reason.

By you: If you wish to terminate this agreement, you may immediately stop accessing or using the Services at any time.

Automatic upon breach: Your right to access and use the Services terminates automatically upon your breach of any of the Terms.

Survival: The disclaimer of warranties, the limitation of liability, and the jurisdiction and applicable law provisions will survive any termination. The license grants applicable to Your Content are not impacted by the termination of the Terms and shall continue in effect subject to the terms of the applicable license. Your warranties and indemnification obligations will survive for one year after termination.

Human-readable summary of Sec 11: If you violate these terms, you may no longer use our sites.

12. Miscellaneous Terms

  1. Governing Law

Except to the extent applicable law provides otherwise, this Agreement between you and Galagic and any access to or use of the Website or the Service are governed by the laws of England in the United Kingdom, without regard to conflict of law provisions. You and Galagic agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts located in England.

  1. Non-Assignability

You may not assign or delegate any rights or obligations under the Terms or Privacy Policy without our prior written consent, and any unauthorized assignment and delegation by you is void.

  1. Section Headings and Summaries

Throughout this Agreement, each section includes titles and brief summaries of the following terms and conditions. These section titles and brief summaries are not legally binding.

  1. Severability, No Waiver, and Survival

If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that portion of the Agreement will be construed to reflect the parties’ original intent. The remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. Any failure on the part of Galagic to enforce any provision of this Agreement will not be considered a waiver of our right to enforce such provision. Our rights under this Agreement will survive any termination of this Agreement.

  1. No Agency Relationship

The parties agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and Galagic as a result of the Terms or from your use of any of the Services.

  1. Amendments; Complete Agreement

This Agreement may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized representative of Galagic, or by the posting by Galagic of a revised version in accordance with Section 3. Changes to the Terms. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, represent the complete and exclusive statement of the agreement between you and us. This Agreement supersedes any proposal or prior agreement oral or written, and any other communications between you and Galagic relating to the subject matter of these terms including any confidentiality or nondisclosure agreements.

  1. Acknowledgements

These Terms were adapted from two sources:

Thanks to both of them.

Human-readable summary of Sec 12: If there is a lawsuit arising from these terms, it should be in England and governed by English law. We are glad you use our sites, but this agreement does not mean we are partners.

Note about Reusing these Terms and Conditions

These Terms are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. You are free to use and adapt these Terms for your own purposes in conformance with that license. However, please keep in mind that these Terms may not be completely suitable for your situation. We strongly encourage you to seek the advice of your own legal counsel before repurposing these Terms on your own site.