Terms Of Use, Terms of Service, Privacy Policy & GDPR
Overview
Our site is strongly committed to safeguarding consumer privacy.
We operate under the following set of strict privacy principles:
- The only information we obtain about our members is information needed to process transactions whenever a purchase is made.
- That information is never sold, swapped or traded for any commercial purpose.
- That information would only be disclosed if required to do so by a court-ordered authority (eg, police).
Please click on the sections below to read, understand and exercise your data rights
Data Categories
GDPR Granular Consent: 3 Data Categories
At BiweeklyReviews.com we have two categories of users:
- Visitor
- Registered Member or Subscriber
This section is provided to help you understand your rights and make an informed decision about the consent needed to collect, store and process data at each level.
Visitors
Visitors are people who have navigated to our site.
There are only two instances when consent is required from Visitors:
1) Cookies
2) Completing the Contact Form
Visitors
Our cookies enable us to manage your visit and remember and preferences made - eg: to remember whether a visitor consented to cookies and so disable the pop-up notice.
We use Google Analytics to tell us which pages are more popular and we use that to guide our content.
Contact Form
As this requires an email to reply to, Members give consent to the message being sent to us using secure transmission.
Members consent to us responding to that message.
The thread is kept to ensure continuity of correspondence. All emails are retained to protect our company in the event of litigation.
Visitors can join the site as Registered/Subscribed Members.
Registered Members
- Completing the Contact Form
- As this requires an email to reply to, Members give consent to the message being sent to us using secure transmission.
- Members consent to us responding to that message.
- The thread is kept to ensure continuity of correspondence.
- All emails are retained to protect our company in the event of litigation.
- Completing the Registered/Subscribed Membership form
- The form requires the Visitor to provide 'Member Data': name, email, username, strong password.
- Member Data is stored, securely in our Members Database.
- Member Data is needed to allow the Member to login and access privileged content in the Members' Area.
- Membership is limited to a period determined either by the member (while our site is active) or by BiweeklyReviews.com staff in the event of a Member violating our terms of use.
- The contact name and email address is copied to our email service.
- The email service will send a confirmation message for permission to follow-up with the Registered Member.
- We do not sell, swap or trade email addresses.
- Emails are used to help Members progress their interest in our site.
- Each message sent via our email service includes an unsubscribe link.
Data Protection
GDPR - General Data Protection Regulations
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) replaces the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and was designed to harmonize data privacy laws across Europe, to protect and empower all EU citizens data privacy and to reshape the way organizations across the region approach data privacy
Our Privacy Policy already complies with GDPR standards
For clarification:
Lawful Basis for Processing:
(a) Consent: Each member must give clear consent for us to process their personal data in order to register as a subscribed member on our site
(b) Legal obligation: The processing of data is necessary for our site to comply with the law
How We Use Your Data:
- Personally identifiable data is requested to process membership registration and, where applicable, payments This is encrypted and held, securely by our authorized payment gateway. We do NOT hold credit card information.
- Personally identifiable data sent to us via forms on our site is always secured using the latest encryption - currently TLS 1.2.
- Personally identifiable data is stored on our secure database and is used to allow us to identify, service and support our subscribers.
- Personally identifiable data is retained to meet legislative and, where applicable, tax reporting and investigation requirements .
- Subscribers can instantly and at any time access and manage their personally identifiable record by navigating to 'Manage Your Account' link on the footer of every page. Your account history is portable as it can be exported in a CSV format.
- Subscribers have the right to withdraw permission which they can do by clicking on the unsubscribe link in our communications or using the Contact Page
- Subscribers have the right to be forgotten which they request by email using the Contact Page. (Data will be deleted as permitted by legislative requirements)
Your Obligations - Terms of Use (TOS)
If you cannot meet these requirements, then please DO NOT SUBSCRIBE
To protect your personal data, you have to do your part:
- You must not share your login credentials with ANY third party.
- You must use a 'strong' and 'unique' password.
- You must secure your email account at all times.
- You must tell us if someone hacks your email account, so we can take immediate action to protect your data.
- You must be over 18.
Terms of Use
We invite our Visitors and Subscribed Members to enjoy all the features this site has to offer. But we must require that everyone abides by certain rules so that no one's rights are stepped on.
Failure to abide by these rules can result in immediate termination of access to this site, without recourse.
Terms of Use
- Do not share your logon passwords and user names. Our system is designed to detect this immediately, and suspend any account where more than one person signs on using the same username and password.
- Do not reprint, republish, repost, or otherwise distribute or transmit content or images presented on this site. Downloading is easy, but just because you may be able to copy our content doesn't mean you own it. Unauthorized use of or copying of our content, trademarks, and other proprietary material can subject you to civil or even criminal liability. Please don't violate our copyright.
- No advertising, trading of goods or services, or other commercial use is allowed.
- Do not use vulgarity, obscenity, profanity, ethnic slurs, hate speech, or sexually explicit language, or harass, abuse, or threaten when communicating with us.
- If and when access to our Forums is granted to Subscribed Members, when you post content in the discussion forums, you permit this site to display and distribute the content, and to use it for advertising and promotion. You grant to this site the complete, perpetual, but non-exclusive right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, sub-license, etc. the content in whole or in part, throughout the world and universe, on a royalty-free basis.
- We do not try to edit or to monitor messages posted on the discussion forums, but we reserve the right to edit or remove objectionable postings. The person posting a message is solely responsible for it, not this site. Violators may be permanently banned from using the forums, or even have their subscriptions terminated.
Copyright and Trademark Law
All editorial content and graphics on this site are protected by U.S. copyright and international treaties and may not be copied or re-used without the express written permission of this site, which reserves all rights .
Limitation of Liability
THIS SITE PROVIDES THE INFORMATION, SERVICES AND PRODUCTS ON THIS WEBSITE "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. YOU ALSO AGREE THAT THIS SITE SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CONTENT FOUND ON THIS SITE FORUMS AND THAT YOUR USE OF THIS SITE FORUMS AND ANY DOWNLOADING OF MATERIALS FOUND ON OR THROUGHOUT THE THIS SITE FORUMS IS DONE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES TO YOUR COMPUTER OR DATA THAT RESULTS.
ALL EXPRESS WARRANTIES AND ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS ARE HEREBY DISCLAIMED TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. THIS SITE DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE USE OF PERFORMANCE OF THIS WEBSITE WILL BE TIMELY, UNINTERRUPTED OR FREE OF ERROR, OR THAT THIS WEBSITE OR ITS SERVER WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES. IN NO EVENT SHALL THIS SITE, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AGENTS AND EMPLOYEES BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR INJURY, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER ARISING FROM THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS WEBSITE OR FROM ANY INFORMATION, SERVICES OR PRODUCTS PROVIDED THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, EVEN IF THIS SITE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN THE EVENT THAT APPLICABLE LAW PREVENTS THE EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN WARRANTIES, SUCH EXCLUSION DOES NOT APPLY TO YOU TO THE EXTENT LIMITED BY LAW.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE
Thank you for visiting our website.
All visitors to the Website must be at least 18 years of age to be eligible to use it.
Please read the following terms carefully before accessing any information on our Website(s)
DEFINITIONS
'This Company' or 'our Company' - means JMSD Publishing Limited
'We' or 'us' or 'our' - means JMSD Publishing Limited
'This Website' or 'our Website(s)' or 'our website' - means BiweeklyReviews.com.
'Users' or 'website users' - means visitors, subscribers or members of BiweeklyReviews.com or of any website owned by JMSD Publishing Limited
'Subscriber' or 'Member' - means registered free member
INTRODUCTION
This website is operated by JMSD Publishing Limited ('The Company'). We are a company registered in England and Wales under Registration Number 9020082 and as such the laws of the United Kingdom will govern these terms of use without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws. Our Registered Office Address is: Lytchett House, 12 Freeland Park, Wareham Road, Poole,
Dorset BH16 6FA
Your use of our Website is subject to the terms stated in this document and by using our website you agree to be legally bound by them. This applies whether or not you register your details with us as a subscriber and/or member.
Please read these terms carefully before using our website. If you do not agree to these terms, we respectfully request that you exit our website.
GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
GENERAL TERMS
All users of this Website are bound by our Terms (And Conditions) of Service. Your use of this Website and the information available on it are subject to the terms and conditions set out in this document and also in our Privacy Policy and Disclaimer Statements and by using this Website you are acknowledging that you have read and understood our terms and you consent to abide by them.
BiweeklyReviews.com is a site which offers free access to information to those interested in carrying out a little extra research, before making a decision whether or not to purchase an item on display on this site or on third party sites to which the article is linked.
COPYRIGHT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
All content, included on this Website such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, digital downloads and software, is the property of JMSD Publishing Limited, its associates or its content suppliers and is protected by International copyright and intellectual property right laws.
The compilation of all content on this Website or Websites is the exclusive property of JMSD Publishing Limited, our associates or our software suppliers and is protected by International copyright laws.
All copyright and other intellectual property rights in any material contained on this website or other websites owned by JMSD Publishing Limited or its associated companies are either owned by us or have been licensed to us by the rights owners. The Website contains trademarks including the company logos and any related domain name addresses which belong to us or have been licensed to us by the trademark owner for use on the Website(s). Use of these trademarks is forbidden unless prior written permission has been obtained from the owner of the trademark.
ACCESS AND USE OF THE WEBSITE
You may not remove any copyright, trademark or intellectual property notices contained in any material from our website(s)
You may not systematically extract and/or utilise parts of the contents of our website(s) without our express written consent.
You may not (whether or not you wish to promote our products as an affiliate) use and/or publish any part of our website content including our Website Title and Website Description. Any attempt at framing our website for any purpose will be swiftly and effectively challenged and reported to the proper authorities.
The Company reserves the right to make changes to its Website(s), these terms and conditions of service, disclaimers and privacy policy statements at any time and without any notice and the current terms of use as displayed on this Website will be the terms and conditions which govern the usage of the Website. By browsing The Company's website you accept that you are bound by the current terms and conditions and we therefore recommend that you check these from time to time so that you keep up-to-date with any changes.
WARRANTIES
The Company and its directors and employees make no representations or warranties that the content of our Website(s) complies with the laws including those relating to intellectual property laws of any country outside the United Kingdom. Users who access our Website(s) from outside the United Kingdom do so by accepting full responsibility for ensuring compliance with all local laws to which they are subject.
We reserve the right to decline to supply any individual or company. We reserve the right at any time to suspend or terminate your subscription and access to or use of our Website(s).
If any provision of these terms and conditions is found to be invalid by any Court having competent jurisdiction the invalidity of that provision will not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these terms and conditions which shall continue to have full force and effect.
We will not be liable to you in the event that we are prevented by circumstances beyond our control from delivering any product or service which you have ordered. The failure by us to exercise any right or remedy under these terms and conditions shall not constitute a waiver of that right or remedy.
LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS OF LIABILITY
We and other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering this or other of our Websites) and any of our group companies and the officers, directors, employees, shareholders or agents of any of them exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party including without limitation any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, and whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise in connection with this or any other of our Websites in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of this Website, any Websites or Sites linked to this Website or the material on such websites or sites linked to this website or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing this website or your downloading of any material from this website or websites or sites linked to or from this website.
If your use of material on this Website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you assume all costs thereof. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have adequate internet security software installed on your computer before using our Website for any purpose.
WEBSITE ACCESS AND AVAILABILITY
We will do our utmost to ensure that our website remains accessible without interruption and that transmission will be error-free. However, this cannot be guaranteed due to the nature of the internet.
Your access to BiweeklyReviews.com may also be occasionally suspended or restricted to allow for repairs, maintenance, or the introduction of new features and services. As our site is hosted on third party servers and we are subject to their terms, these suspensions or restrictions may occur at times determined by them and so be beyond our control.
JMSD Publishing Limited will not be responsible for any of the following:
- losses that were not caused by any breach on our part; or
- any business loss (including loss of profits, revenue, contracts, anticipated savings, data, goodwill or wasted expenditure); or
- any indirect or consequential losses that were not foreseeable to both you and us when you commenced using our site as a visitor or as a subscribed member
We will not be held responsible for any delay or failure to comply with our obligations under these conditions if the delay or failure arises from any cause which is beyond our reasonable control.
INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify us fully, defend and hold us and our officers, directors, employees and agents harmless from and against all claims, liability, damages, losses, costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of any breach of the terms and conditions by you or your use of this website or the use by any other person using your registration details.
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
ByweeklyReviews.com is an on-going free website for anyone wishing to get additional information about products or services about which we decide to include and display on this website. This information may be delivered via images and articles about a given product or service, curated videos and for eligible (ie, registered) members, newsletters and access to our download library.
MEMBERSHIP TERMS
Upon registration, and where applicable, you may be required to enter your e-mail address and confidential password. You should make sure that you keep your details safe.
Your login details are confidential and for your own personal use, only. Please do not share your username and password with anyone. We have a system in place to detect sharing of login details. Abuse of these terms may result in your account being suspended or terminated permanently without recompense. In addition, we may even revoke the product licences that may have already been granted to you for products you may have downloaded from our Download Library.
Site lockout may occur if you attempt to login in a second time without having logged out previously within a given 24-hour period. So please make a point of clicking on 'Logout' each time you decide to end your session on BiweeklyReviews.com Members' Area.
If you accidentally cause the lockout, please use our Contact Form to submit a support ticket. We will then arrange to unlock your account to enable you to login.
CANCELLATION OF MEMBERSHIP
Cancellation of your registration of a free subscribed member is easy and can be actioned any time within the membership period or by clicking on the 'Unsubscribe' link which is at the foot of every email/newsletter we send out to subscribers.
PRIVACY POLICY - SEE ALSO BELOW
Personal details provided to us through our Website(s) shall only be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy Statement. We will never disclose your e-mail address to any third party. By providing your personal details to us you are consenting to their use in accordance with our terms.
Our Websites have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of information under our control.
Whilst every effort is made to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party hackers from obtaining this information illegally.
THIRD-PARTY SITES AND DISCLOSURE
Our website(s) may include links to external or third party sites. These links are provided for our website users as an additional service for obtaining further information about products or services to which reference may be made on our Website(s). These third party sites will have their own terms and conditions of use and service and you should familiarise yourself with their terms. JMSD Publishing Limited and its employees can make no warranty or representation about any linked sites nor can we accept responsibility or liability for any loss or damage that may arise as a result of using any material which may appear at a linked site.
We may be affiliates for products that we feature on our website. Our recommendations are based on our personal opinions and experience which are, in turn, based on our own personal use of the product or service. Where we feature products to which we may be affiliated but which we have no personal experience of the use of the product or service, we will declare that in the relevant section of the product or service description.
If you purchase any item through our affiliate links we may earn a small commission (at no cost to you) from the product owner's affiliate program.
Any products that you order from any site to which you link from our Website are subject to any terms and conditions applicable to that site and we have no liability to you in respect of such sites or any products or services you may obtain from them. These third party sites may collect data or solicit personal information from you. Third party sites are not subject to our Privacy Policy.
It is your responsibility to ensure that you are happy with the terms and conditions and privacy policies on any such third party site before you use it or proceed to order goods or services from it.
MODIFICATION OF OUR TERMS AND WEBSITE CONTENT
JMSD Publishing Limited reserves the right to change, modify, add or remove any section(s) of the terms of this agreement at any time without notice. Changes will become effective immediately. You agree to review this agreement periodically since subsequent use by you of our Website(s) will confirm your acceptance of any changes.
BUSINESS HOURS & CUSTOMER SERVICES
Our business hours are 0930 -1700 hours (GMT) Mondays to Fridays, excluding UK National and Bank Holidays.
We welcome any comments you may wish to make with regard to the service you receive from our Company or its associated companies from our Website(s).
If you have any suggestions that you believe may help us further improve our service to you and our other visitors or subscribed members or you have any queries relating to the above terms, we would welcome receiving your email. Simply use our Contact Form.
Although we make every effort to respond promptly to emails, no guarantee of response time is given or implied. Nor are we responsible for the delivery of emails to or from us. Please allow for time zone differences. For example 9.30 am in Italy is 7.30 am in the UK and 4.30 pm EST is 9.30 pm GMT.
Telephone support is not provided. All visitor or member communication on this site should be sent to us using our secure 'Contact Form.
A link to our Contact Us page and to our other legal documents (which you are advised to read) are also given at the foot of our site.
Privacy Policy
Overview
We are strongly committed to safeguarding consumer privacy on our Web site. We operate under the following set of strict privacy principles:
The only information we obtain about our members, is information we need to process access to the Members' Area for registered members. That information is never revealed, resold, or made public for any reason.
Personally identifiable information provided by members (name or e-mail address) is never disclosed to anyone.
Cookies
Each time a member logs into our site, we store a temporary "cookie" in the browser files of the member computer. This cookie is used during your online session to allow you free access to the member's area, without repeatedly requiring you to re-enter your user name and password.
When ever you log off or leave the site, the cookies file is automatically removed.
External Links
In order to provide visitors with greater value, some of our pages may provide links to various third party Web sites.
In no case, is member information or 'cookies' provided to the third party sites. However, keep in mind that many sites do attempt to capture visitor information when you browse those sites.
Once you leave our site, we are not able to alert you should another site attempt to gather information from your browser.
Security
Our Web site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. We employ strict security measures to safeguard online transactions; personal information is stored in a secured database and always sent via an encrypted Internet channel.
Choice/Opt-In
Our site gives users the opportunity to opt-in to receive communications from us. You can be assured that we never reveal, sell, or make available your email address to anyone for any purpose.
This site also gives users the option for removing their information from our database in order to stop receiving communications or our service.
Other
If you have questions regarding our privacy policy, feel free to let us know, using our Contact Page
Cookies
Our site uses cookies to enhance viewer experience, personalise viewer experience and to analyse our traffic
Here is a list of the cookies in use and their function
Member Rules
We invite our registered members to enjoy all the features this site has to offer. But we must require that members abide by certain rules so that no one's rights are stepped on.
- No sharing of member logon passwords and user names. Our system is designed to detect this immediately, and suspend any account where more than one person signs on using the same username, password.
- No reprinting, republishing reposting or redistribution of information, images, etc., presented on this site, to any other site. Doing so is violation of our copyright.
Failure to abide by these rules can result in immediate termination of membership and further legal action as required.
Data Breach Policy
- Every care is taken to protect personal data from incidents (either accidentally or deliberately) to avoid a data protection breach.
- This Policy sets out the procedure to be followed to ensure a consistent and effective approach is in place for managing data breach and information security incidents.
- This Policy relates to all personal and sensitive data held by our site, regardless of format.
- This Policy applies to all staff.
- For the purpose of this Policy, data security breaches include both confirmed and suspected incidents.
- An incident in the context of this Policy is an event or action which may compromise the confidentiality or integrity of personal data, either accidentally or deliberately.
- An incident includes but is not restricted to, the following:
- Loss or theft of personal data or equipment on which such data is stored (e.g. loss of laptop, USB stick, iPad/tablet device, or paper record)
- Equipment theft or failure
- Unauthorized use of, access to or modification of data
- Attempts (failed or successful) to gain unauthorized access to personal data
- Unauthorized disclosure of personal data
- Hacking
- Human error
- Phishing
- All staff members are responsible for reporting data breach and information security incidents immediately to the Managing Director
- If the breach occurs or is discovered outside normal working hours, it must be reported as soon as is practicable.
- The report will include full and accurate details of the incident, when the breach occurred (dates and times), who is reporting it, if the data relates to people, the nature of the information, and how many individuals are involved.
- The Managing Director will first determine if the breach is still occurring and take the appropriate steps to minimise the effect of the breach.
- An initial assessment will be made by the Managing Director and with relevant staff members to establish the severity of the breach .
- The Managing Director will determine the suitable course of action to be taken to ensure a resolution to the incident.
- An investigation will be undertaken by the Managing Director immediately and wherever possible within 24 hours of the breach being reported.
- The Managing Director will investigate the breach and assess the risks associated with it, for example, the potential adverse consequences for individuals, how serious or substantial those are and how likely they are to occur.
- The investigation will take into account the following:
- the type of data involved
- it's sensitivity
- the protections in place (e.g. encryptions)
- what's happened to the data eg, has it been lost or stolen
- whether the data could be put to any illegal or inappropriate use
- who the individuals are, number of individuals involved and the potential effects on those data subject(s)
- whether there are wider consequences to the breach
- The Managing Director will report the incident to the Information Commissioner's Office within 72 hours .
- The Managing Director will coordinate notification to the members affected within 72 hours.
- Notification to the individuals whose personal data has been affected by the incident will include a description of how and when the breach occurred and the data involved. Specific and clear advice will be given on what action has already been taken to mitigate the risks.
- The Managing Director must consider notifying third parties such as the police, insurers, bank and credit card companies.
- Once the incident is contained, the Managing Director will carry out a full review of the causes of the breach; the effectiveness of the response(s) and instigate corrective action to systems, procedures and controls to minimize the risk of similar incidents occurring.