PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE

What's in these terms?

These terms tell you the rules for using our website, AstonOwners.com.
Our site is intended to give you information about buying, maintaining and using Aston Martin cars.

Who we are and how to contact us

Registered Users

• You may become a registered user of our site by completing the subscription process . Please note that ‘subscriber’ is used to denote registered users, whether or not fee-paying (see below).
• You will be required to have a unique username and password.
• Subscribing to our site will entitle you to enter copy and images (where allowed).
• We reserve the right to terminate your subscription of our site if we consider, in our absolute discretion, that you are in breach of these or any other terms which govern your use of our site.
• You must keep your personal details safe
• If you register as a member of our site, you must treat your username and password as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.
• We have the right to disable any username or password at any time, if in our absolute discretion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
• If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your username or password, you must promptly notify us at admin@AstonOwners.com. 

Fees payable for our services

• Our forum is made available free of charge. A subscription is payable for some (restricted) services.
• Any fees applicable will be communicated to you in advance of accessing any/all services that are restricted to fee-paying users.
• Fees will be payable annually in advance and will cover one year’s subscription. 
• You are responsible for paying any required fee to access restricted services.
• Failure to pay the required fee will result in the removal of your access to our site’s restricted services.
• All fees will be published on our site.
• Our fees may change from time to time without notice. 

How you may use material on our site

• We 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 off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others to content posted on our site.
• 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 content on our site must always be acknowledged.
• You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us.
• 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 these sites
• The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. We strongly recommend that you check any information which may be important to you with the service provider in question before using their service.
• We will make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site within a reasonable time of being notified of any errors or inaccuracies, but we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.
• We are not responsible for websites we link to
• Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties (including hotels, pubs, garages, booking websites and other service providers), these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. 
• We have no control over the content of those sites or resources.
• User-generated content is not approved by us
• This site may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the site, including reviews and comments. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not necessarily represent our views or values.
• If you wish to complain about reviews, comments or other materials uploaded by other users, please contact us at admin@AstonOwners.com and we will look into your complaint.  We reserve the right to take such action as we see fit in relation to your complaint.

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
Please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity. 

How we may use your personal information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy.

Uploading content to our sites

• Only our registered subscribers may upload content (such as comments or reviews) to our site.
• Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy 
• You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.
• Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of our site a perpetual, fee-free, worldwide licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. 
• We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
• We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy 
• You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.
• We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them
• We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
• You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.
• You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is 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 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.

Rules about linking to our site

• You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
• 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.
• Our site must not be framed on any other site, unless we specifically provide a way of doing so.
• Hot-linking of images or other hosted content is not permitted with permission.
• We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
• The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy 
• If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact admin@AstonOwners.com.

Business Closure

If and when closing the business, we undertake to donate any remaining cash balance, after costs, to our then current nominated charity partner.

Our trade marks 

AstonOwners.com is an unregistered trademark of our business. You are not permitted to use it without our approval, unless it is part of material you are using as permitted under How you may use material on our site.

Which country's laws apply to any disputes?

Please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England & Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland