Terms and Conditions
1 January 2026
It is important that you carefully read these Terms and Conditions for ‘Access! Business English’, the trading name of Kieron Heath, a sole trader located in Bedford, United Kingdom. Hereinafter, ‘Access! Business English’ is referred to as ‘the company’ and if you are not willing to accept our Terms and Conditions, please refrain immediately from using our website and associated materials.
In addition, please read our ‘Privacy Policy’ which applies to our collection and use of your personal information in relation to our website. People who register with us are also bound by the Terms and Conditions agreed to during account creation.
We may change these Terms and Conditions from time to time by updating this page. You should review this page regularly. Your continued use of our website after changes have been made will be taken to indicate that you have read and accepted those changes. You should not use our website if you do not agree with any changes to these Terms and Conditions.
Your use of our website is provided by the company on the following terms and by using our website you are acknowledging that you have read and accepted these Terms and Conditions and our Privacy Policy.
LIST OF CONTENTS
1. Terms and Conditions – General
2. Intellectual Property
3. Your Content and Information
4. Accuracy of Content and Information on our Website
5. Liability
1. TERMS AND CONDITIONS – GENERAL
1.a. You agree to use our website only in accordance with these Terms and Conditions, the Terms and Conditions agreed during your account creation with the company, for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else’s use of our website.
1.b. Prohibited behaviour includes, but is not limited to, harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within our website or impersonating another person, for example, by using their login details to access the pages of our website.
2. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
2.a. All copyright, trademarks, design rights, patents and other intellectual property rights (registered and unregistered) and all content located on our website shall remain vested in the company. Unless previously agreed with the company, you may not copy, reproduce, republish, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use the company’s content in any way, except for your own personal, non-commercial use.
3. YOUR CONTENT AND INFORMATION
3.a. Certain pages of our website permit you to post, send or upload content and information. If you do this, we shall take this to mean that you have read and accepted our Terms and Conditions.
3.b. You must not post, send or upload any such content or information:
which is or could be considered defamatory, derogatory or inappropriate with regard to the company, its customers or clients or any other person or organisation
which contains any confidential information about another person or organisation, unless you have our permission or that of the other person or organisation
which contains any offensive, obscene or criminal content or any other content which may cause embarrassment to the company, its customers or clients or any other person or organisation
which contains any personal data about another person including such information as names, contact details and sensitive personal data – for example, information about an identified or identifiable individual’s mental or physical health, racial or ethnic origin, religious or other beliefs. The United Kingdom Information Commissioner’s website provides more guidance on what is personal data and sensitive personal data – https://ico.org.uk/
unless you own or have appropriate rights to use the intellectual property rights subsisting in or relating to that content and information and unless you are sure that posting, sending or uploading the same does not infringe the rights, including but not limited to the intellectual property rights, of any other person or organisation
3.c. We are not responsible for any content and/or information which you post, send or upload onto our website. We reserve the right to withdraw any such content and/or information without notice and at our sole discretion and to pursue any course of action against you available to us under applicable laws.
4. ACCURACY OF CONTENT AND INFORMATION ON OUR WEBSITE
4.a. The company does not represent that information contained on or available via our website is accurate or complete and accordingly it should not be relied on as such. You should not rely on any such information. Any arrangements made between you and any other person, using or named on our website are entirely at your sole risk and responsibility.
4.b. Information contained in or accessible via our website changes on a regular basis. We may make updates, improvements or alterations to our website at any time and without notice.
4.c. Addresses of, or links to, other websites may appear on our website for your convenience. The company does not operate or monitor other websites and we accept no responsibility or liability for the content of other websites. Any link is not intended to be, nor should be construed as, an endorsement of any kind by us of another website.
4.d. Should we link to other websites, it is your responsibility to check the terms and conditions and privacy policy on any other website that you visit.
4.e. Should any part of the company’s courses function improperly, the company will take steps to remedy the situation as soon as possible. Once a course or courses have been purchased, the company policy is not to refund the cost of such a course, but the company is willing to offer a one-off Mini Course on a complimentary basis.
5. LIABILITY
5.a. We do not guarantee that:
use of our website will be compatible with all hardware and software
use of our website will be uninterrupted or error or virus free
use of our website will deliver any specific outcome for its users
defects on our website will be corrected, save for those defects which the company is obliged to correct by law
5.b. You must take appropriate steps to ensure that you regularly check for and protect against viruses when using our website on any device.
5.c. We make no statement about the suitability of the content, information and services contained on, or accessed via, our website. All warranties, terms and conditions in this regard, including all warranties, terms and conditions implied by statute or otherwise, of satisfactory quality and fitness for purpose are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law – please see directly below for more details. For the avoidance of doubt, this includes materials accessed via links to websites – including home pages, web pages or documents they contain – operated by any other person or organisation.
5.d. We further exclude to the fullest extent permissible by law – please see directly below for more details – all liability for damages and direct, indirect or consequential loss – all three of which terms include pure economic loss, loss of profits, loss of business, business interruption, depletion of goodwill and like loss – or otherwise incurred by you or any other person or organisation and arising out of or in any way connected with the use of our website or its content, whether based on contract, tort, strict liability or otherwise.
5.e. We do not exclude or limit our liability, if any, to you:
for any breach of obligations arising under section 12 Sale of Goods Act 1979 or section 2 Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 for any matter for which it would be illegal for us to exclude or to attempt to exclude liability for fraud.
5.f. You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless us, our affiliates and our officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses or expenses, including reasonable legal costs, arising out of or in any way connected with any breach by you of these Terms and Conditions.
5.g. The internet is not a secure means of communication. Emails may be intercepted by other people or organisations. You should not send any communication to us through our website or by email, in particular which contains personal data (including sensitive personal data) and/or confidential information about you or any other person, unless you accept that any such communication would be sent at your own risk and on the understanding that we would not be liable for any loss that you might suffer as a result, except for losses which cannot be excluded or limited at law, as referred to directly above.
5.h. Regarding videos in the course modules, the company often includes hyperlinks to various relevant videos which are accessible on YouTube or on the websites of other third-party video producers. In order to respect and protect the copyright of video producers, suppliers and publishers, the company is not legally permitted to embed such videos on its website. Clients of the company, and viewers browsing the company’s website, must also respect and comply with the copyright obligations of YouTube, the producers and owners of all such videos posted thereon, in addition to all other videos accessible through Access! Business English’s website from other sources and providers on the internet. Whilst the company is legally permitted to include third-party URL hyperlinks on its website, the company cannot fully guarantee that these hyperlinked videos will always be available online, in which case the company requests that it be informed as soon as possible so that it can offer an alternative replacement in addition to a complimentary Mini Course.
5.i. Regarding other media including audio recordings, articles and texts on the company’s website, or contained in any other materials produced by the company, clients and any viewers of all such materials must legally comply with the copyright requirements of each item. If in doubt, please contact the following: [kieron.heath@accessbusinessenglish.com]
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