Home > Legal Disclaimers English Español العربية русский язык 中文 Trade Links Home About AHK Services Commodities Mining Industry Solid Fuels News Careers Contact Us Terms and Conditions of Website Use We appreciate your interest in our services and your visit to our website www.ahkgroup.com ('our site'). TERMS OF WEBSITE USE This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our site. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use our site. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please do not use our site. INFORMATION ABOUT US www.ahkgroup.com is a site operated on behalf of the Alfred H. Knight Group of Companies (the "AHK Group") by Alfred H. Knight International Limited ("We"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 900322 and have our registered office at Eccleston Grange, Prescot Road, St. Helens, Merseyside WA10 3BQ, United Kingdom. This is also our principal place of business. Our VAT registration number is GB-163-9996-06. We are a private limited liability company, as are other companies in the AHK Group that are incorporated in England and Wales. AHK Group organisations that are incorporated, or organised, in accordance with the laws of other countries are either private limited liability companies or the nearest equivalent in the country concerned. For legal and/or commercial reasons some AHK Group organisations outside the United Kingdom may be joint ventures operated with local partners. ACCESSING OUR SITE Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS Except for third party trademarks, we (or another organisation in the AHK Group) are the owner, or the licensee, of all intellectual property rights in our site 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 copies, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your own reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site. You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged. You must not use any part of the materials on our site 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 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. RELIANCE ON INFORMATION ON OUR SITE Information and other materials on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents. OUR SITE CHANGES REGULARLY Our policy is to update our site regularly and we may change the content at any time. If we need to do so, we may suspend access to our site, or close it. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material. OUR LIABILITY We make every effort to provide accurate and complete information and materials on our site. However, they are provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to their accuracy or completeness. In addition, we do not warrant that any information or materials downloaded from our site will be error-free, or free of viruses or other components that are malicious or technologically harmful. To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of the AHK Group, and third parties connected to us, expressly exclude: All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity. Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for: loss of income or revenue; loss of business; loss of profits or contracts; loss of anticipated savings; loss of data; loss of goodwill; wasted management or office time; and for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable. This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR VISITS TO OUR SITE We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate. TRANSACTIONS CONCLUDED FOLLOWING THE USE ETC., OF OUR SITE Contracts for the supply of service(s) formed following the use of our site or as a result of visits made by you to our site are governed by the terms and conditions of business of the AHK Group organisation with whom you contract for the service(s) concerned. UPLOADING DATA TO OUR SITE Any data you upload to our site will be held subject to our privacy policy. Please note that we may have the right to disclose your identity, or may be compelled by a Court in the United Kingdom to disclose your identity, to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy, or is defamatory of them. We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any data you upload to our site. We reserve the right to remove any data you upload to our site, at any time, in our absolute discretion. VIRUSES, HACKING AND OTHER OFFENCES You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs or other components that are 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 United Kingdom 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 site 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 site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it. LINKING TO OUR SITE Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site, without our permission (which we may give, or refuse, in our absolute discretion). We reserve the right to withdraw any linking permission without notice. LINKS FROM OUR SITE Where our site contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them, their accuracy, timeliness, suitability or any other aspect of the information or materials on them, or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. We do not monitor those websites and the inclusion of links to them is not intended to give any importance to those websites, or the information or materials contained on them; nor is it intended to recommend, prefer or endorse any services or information contained on any of those websites or the owners or sponsors of any of them. LINKING TO OUR SITE If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please send your request to Val.Head@ahkgroup.com JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site, 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 and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. AHK TRADE MARK Is the registered trademark, or trademark, of Alfred H. Knight Holdings Limited in the United Kingdom and other countries. It may not be used in any way without the prior written approval of Alfred H. Knight Holdings Limited. VARIATIONS We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You must refer to this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they will be binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site. YOUR CONCERNS If you have any concerns about information or materials that appear on our site, please contact Val.Head@ahkgroup.com Thank you for visiting our site. 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