This Website (webagencydirect.com) is owned and operated by Compare the Course Ltd (‘we’/’us’/’our’), a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number: 07762733.

It is an online platform for Web agencies / IT professionals (Professionals) who provide IT services (Services) such as Web Design, Software, Marketing, PPC (Pay per Click), SEO (Search engine optimisation) and Customers who post their IT projects (Project) to request for Proposal/Quotation from Web agencies / IT professionals that are registered on this Site.

Acceptance of Terms

• Your access to and use of Webagencydirect.com ("the Website") and the Services defined below , are subject exclusively to these Terms and Conditions.

• You agree not to use the Website and/or Services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms and Conditions.

• By using the Website and/or Services you are fully accepting the Terms and Conditions. If you do not accept these Terms and Conditions you must immediately stop using the Website and/or Services.

• We reserves the right to update or amend these Terms and Conditions at any time and your continued use of the Website and/or Services following any changes shall be deemed to be your acceptance of such change. It is therefore your responsibility to check the Terms and Conditions regularly for any changes.

• We may update the Website from time to time, and may change the content at any time without any prior notice.

Access to the Website

• We do not guarantee that the Website or any content contained on the Website will always be available or be uninterrupted.

• You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Website.

• Your access to the Website is permitted on a temporary basis only. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of the Website without notice to you. We will not be liable to you for any reason if the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

• Although we makes reasonable efforts to update the information on the Website, please note that the content contained on the Website may be out of date at any given time and we are under no obligation to update it.

Eligibility

You must be 18 years of age or over to register on this Site.

Customer Account Registration

The Site is completely free for Customers to use. There are no charges to post the project to request for quotation/proposal.

Web Agencies/ IT Professionals need to purchase credits from us in order to provide Customers with a proposal/quotation but the only fee Customers may be liable for is the fee for any work as agreed between the Customer and the Professional.

Customers can post the IT project that they require to request for Quotation/Proposal from Web Agencies/ IT Professions. When posting the project, Customers will be asked a number of questions to enable Professionals to understand the project requirements for a proposal/quotation, if possible.

We will send each Request to a selection of Web Agencies/ IT Professions to review and decide if the Professional wants to contact the customer for the project at our discretion.

If a Web Agency/ IT Profession chooses to provide a proposal/quotation, the Customer will receive a message from the Web Agencies/ IT Professionals and/or a phone call to discuss the project requirement in details. The Customer may also be sent the Web Agencies/ IT Professions.

Web Agencies /IT Professional Account Registration & Profile

Registration is required to become a Web Agency/ IT Professional on the Site. In order to make the platform as trustworthy, secure and safe as we can without providing any personal endorsements, we endeavour but have no obligation to carry out some basic ID checks. Registration is subject to agreement by us in all cases, and we reserve the right, in our sole and absolute discretion, to decline any application for registration, without providing any reason.

Web Agency/ IT Professional must ensure that any registration details provided are accurate. To register an account with us, accurate, complete and up-to-date contact information must be provided, including name, postal address as it appears on government-issued identification, the legal name and details of business, telephone number, email address, and profile photo or company logo.

This profile is accessible to the public and to Customers.

The profile may evidence the Professionals past work through images and videos, and may include reviews from past customers and peers.

Reviews will help show Customers examples of prior work of the Professional but we do not guarantee or warrant the accuracy or authenticity of any review left about a Professional and Customers should undertake their own checks to confirm such reviews.

Our Role

This Site is an online platform where Customers post their IT project(s) in an expectation to receive a quotation/proposal from Web agencies / IT Professionals and for Web agencies / IT Professionals buys credits to respond to Customers IT project requirements with a proposal/quotation.

If the Customer wishes to proceed with a proposal for the project, the Web agencies / IT Professionals and Customer shall contract directly with each other in relation to the provision of the particular Service and Customers will be obliged to pay Professionals directly.

We do not guarantee that the Customers will receive a quotation/proposal from Web agencies / IT Professionals by posting their IT project. We also do not guarantee that the Web agencies / IT Professionals who buy our credits to contact/respond to the Customers projects will receive orders from Customers. We do not provide the Services, or make any representation or warranty about Customers, their likelihood to select Web agencies / IT Professionals, and we are not responsible for the obligations of Web agencies / IT Professionals or Customers. We have no obligations regarding Customers' payments (or any other obligations of Customers), which remain their sole responsibility under their direct contract with Professionals. Equally we are not responsible for Services or any problem or delay in providing them, or for any dispute over the amount due to be paid by Customers. We are not an agent or partner of any Web agencies / IT Professionals or Customers.

Credits

Web Agencies/ IT Professionals need to purchase credits from us in order to provide Customers with a proposal/quotation.

All charges payable by Web Agencies/ IT Professionals to purchase our credits shall be in accordance with the scale of charges and rates published from time to time by us on our web site, errors and omissions accepted, and shall be due and payable in advance. You agree that, except where otherwise specified in these terms, these fees are not refundable on any basis.

We reserve the right to alter price of our Credits without any further notice to Web Agencies/ IT Professionals.

All fees paid to us are non refundable except in circumstances set out in these Terms. You also agree not to issue a chargeback via your bank in relation to any fees charged by us. If you do so you accept that you will be liable for our costs in dealing with the chargeback and recovering any fees properly due to us under the Terms.

Users (Customers and Web Agencies/ IT Professionals) Content

Content must:

• be relevant to the purpose of the Site;

• where it states facts, be accurate to the best of you knowledge, information and belief; and

• comply with applicable law in the United Kingdom and in any country from which it is submitted.

Content must not:

• be unlawful in any way;

• contain any material which infringes any intellectual property right or other right of any other person;

• be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence or data protection obligations;

• contain fraudulent information;

• contain any material which is defamatory of any person or entity;

• be likely to mislead or deceive any person;

• be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent a Customer's identity or affiliation with any person;

• contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;

• be menacing, threatening, abuse or invade another´s privacy, or cause harassment, anxiety, alarm, upset, embarrassment, annoyance or inconvenience to any person;

• contain or promote sexually explicit material;

• promote violence or aggression;

• promote discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;

• encourage, advocate, promote, solicit, invite or assist any illegal activity or unlawful act such as (by way of example only) intellectual property infringement or computer misuse;

• be used to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam);

• disrupt the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive amount of Customer Content (flooding attack) to the Site, or that otherwise negatively affects other users' ability to use the Site;

• contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware;

• be posted by a third-party agent, service, or intermediary that offers to post content on behalf of others without express permission from us; or

• give the impression that it emanates from us, if this is not the case.

Limitation of Liability

The Site is an online platform, which is intended to allow Web Agencies /IT Professionals and Customers to connect and arrange for the provision of IT Services directly with each other. Subject to the provisions of this Section, we are not responsible for and disclaim any and all liability related to the provision of Services as between Professionals and Customers.

Customers agree that their use of the Site and hiring Web Agencies /IT Professionals for IT Services is entirely at their own risk. We do not endorse any particular Web Agency /IT Professional, their reliability or ability to provide the IT Service requested. We are not liable for validating any Web Agencies /IT Professionals.

Nothing in these Terms shall limit or exclude our liability to Customers for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation or any other liability that under English law may not be limited or excluded.

Our total liability arising under or in connection with these Terms or any breach or non-performance of these Terms no matter how fundamental (including by reason of negligence) in contract, tort or otherwise shall be limited to £10.

Termination of an Account

We may terminate your account upon your request at any time.

We may, at our discretion where we consider this reasonably necessary (for example if a Customer is in breach of these Terms), immediately terminate their account and all access to the Site without prior notice.

We will not be liable to Customers and Web Agencies /IT Professionals or any third party for the termination of their account.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by English law, and Customers agree that any dispute between Customers and us regarding them or the Site will only be dealt with by the English courts. Nothing shall prevent us from bringing proceedings to protect our intellectual property rights before any competent court.

Protecting your personal details on our website.

We know that you care how information about you is used and shared and we appreciate your trust in us to do that carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy and forms part of our website terms and conditions (‘Website Terms’).

By accepting our Website Terms or by visiting webagencydirect.com (‘the Website’) you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

It is important to protect your Personal Data (as defined in the Data Protection Act 1998) and we are committed to giving you a personalised service that meets your needs in a way that also protects your privacy. This policy explains how we may collect Personal Data about you. It also explains some of the security measures we take to protect your Personal Data, and tells you certain things we will do and not do. You should read this policy in conjunction with the Website Terms.

When we first obtain Personal Data from you, or when you take a new service or product from us, we will give you the opportunity to tell us if you do or do not want to receive information from us about other services or products (as applicable). You can normally do this by ticking a box on an application form or contract. You may change your mind at any time by emailing us at the address below.

Some of the Personal Data we hold about you may be ‘sensitive personal data’ within the meaning of the Data Protection Act 1998, for example, information about your health or ethnic origin.

Collecting Information

We may collect Personal Data about you from a number of sources, including the following:

• 1.1. From you when you agree to take a service or product from us, in which case this may include your contact details, date of birth, how you will pay for the product or service and your bank details.

• 1.2. From you when you contact us with an enquiry or in response to a communication from us, in which case, this may tell us something about how you use our services.

• 1.3. From documents that are available to the public, such as the electoral register.

• 1.4. From third parties to whom you have provided information with your consent to pass it on to other organisations or persons.

• 1.5. We do not store credit card details.

Using Your Personal Information

• 2.1. Personal Data about our customers is an important part of our business and we shall only use your Personal Data for the following purposes and shall not keep such Personal Data longer than is necessary to fulfil these purposes:

  • 2.1.1. To help us to identify you when you contact us.

  • 2.1.2. To help us to identify accounts, services and/or products which you could have from us or selected partners from time to time. We may do this by automatic means using a scoring system, which uses the Personal Data you have provided and/or any information we hold about you and Personal Data from third party agencies (including credit reference agencies).

  • 2.1.3. To help us to administer and to contact you about improved administration of any accounts, services and products we have provided before, do provide now or will or may provide in the future.

  • 2.1.4. To allow us to carry out marketing analysis and customer profiling (including with transactional information), conduct research, including creating statistical and testing information.

  • 2.1.5. To help to prevent and detect fraud or loss.

  • 2.1.6. To allow us to contact you in any way (including mail, email, telephone, visit, text or multimedia messages) about products and services offered by us where

    • 2.1.6.1. these products are similar to those you have already purchased from us,

    • 2.1.6.2. you were given the opportunity to opt out of being contacted by us at the time your Personal Information was originally collected by us and at the time of our subsequent communications with you, and

    • 2.1.6.3. you have not opted out of us contacting you.

  • 2.1.7. To allow us to contact you in any way (including mail, email, telephone, visit, text or multimedia messages) about products and services offered by us and selected partners where you have expressly consented to us doing so.

  • 2.1.8. To keep you up to date with our member benefit scheme under which, as part of your membership benefits, we will give you membership information and details of discounts and offers we negotiate from time to time on behalf of our members. If you do not wish to receive this benefit, please write to our Data Protection Manager at the address given in clause 7.1 below.

  • 2.1.9. We may monitor and record communications with you (including phone conversations and emails) for quality assurance and compliance.

  • 2.1.10. We may check your details with fraud prevention agencies. If you provide false or inaccurate information and we suspect fraud, we will record this.

• 2.2. We will not disclose your Personal Data to any third party except in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

• 2.3. We may allow other people and organisations to use Personal Data we hold about you in the following circumstances:

  • 2.3.1. If we, or substantially all of our assets, are acquired or are in the process of being acquired by a third party, in which case Personal Data held by us, about our customers, will be one of the transferred assets.

  • 2.3.2. If we have been legitimately asked to provide information for legal or regulatory purposes or as part of legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings.

  • 2.3.3. We employ companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf and we may disclose your Personal Data to these parties for the purposes set out in clause 2.1 or, for example, for fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and email, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analysing data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links) and providing customer service. Those parties are bound by strict contractual provisions with us and only have access to Personal Data needed to perform their functions, and may not use it for other purposes. Further, they must process the Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as permitted by the Data Protection Act 1998. From time to time, these other people and organisations to whom we may pass your Personal Data may be outside the European Economic Area. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your Personal Data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the Data Protection Act 1998.

• 2.4. Where you give us Personal Data on behalf of someone else, you confirm that you have provided them with the information set out in this Privacy Policy and that they have not objected to such use of their Personal Data.

• 2.5. In connection with any transaction which we enter into with you:

  • 2.5.1. We may carry out with one or more licensed credit reference and fraud prevention agencies:

    • 2.5.1.1. credit checks where you have given us your express consent, and

    • 2.5.1.2. fraud prevention checks.

  • We and they may keep a record of the search. Information held about you by these agencies may be linked to records relating to other people living at the same address with whom you are financially linked. These records will also be taken into account in credit and fraud prevention checks. Information from your application and payment details of your account will be recorded with one or more of these agencies and may be shared with other organisations to help make credit and insurance decisions about you and members of your household with whom you are financially linked and for debt collection and fraud prevention. This includes those who have moved house and who have missed payments.

  • 2.5.2. If you provide false or inaccurate information to us and we suspect fraud, we will record this and may share it with other people and organisations. We, and other credit and insurance organisations, may also use technology to detect and prevent fraud.

  • 2.5.3. If you need details of those credit agencies and fraud prevention agencies from which we obtain and with which we record information about you, please write to our Data Protection Manager.

Protecting Information

We have strict security measures to protect Personal Data.

• 3.1. We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.

• 3.2. We reveal only the last five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.

• 3.3. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of personally identifiable customer information. Our security procedures mean that we may occasionally request proof of identity before we disclose personal information to you.

• 3.4. It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer.

The internet

• 4.1. If you communicate with us using the internet, we may occasionally email you about our services and products. When you first give us Personal Data through the Website, we will normally give you the opportunity to say whether you would prefer us not to contact you by email. You can also always send us an email (at the address set out below) at any time if you change your mind.

• 4.2. Please remember that communications over the internet, such as emails and webmails (messages sent through a website), are not secure unless they have been encrypted. Your communications may go through a number of countries before they are delivered – this is the nature of the internet. We cannot accept responsibility for any unauthorised access or loss of Personal Data that is beyond our control.

Cookies

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. This sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your computer. These are called ‘cookies’.

These cookies cannot be used to identify you personally and are used to improve services for you, for example through:

• – Letting you navigate between pages efficiently

• – Enabling a service to recognise your computer so you don’t have to give the same information during one task

• – Recognising that you have already given a username and password so you don’t need to enter it for every web page requested

• – Measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and that there is enough capacity to ensure they are fast

To learn more about cookies, see:

• – www.allaboutcookies.org

• – www.youronlinechoices.eu

• – www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies/

Users typically have the opportunity to set their browser to accept all or some cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these options, of course, means that personalised services cannot be provided and the user may not be able to take full advantage of all of a website’s features. Refer to your browser’s Help section for specific guidance on how it allows you to manage cookies and how you may delete cookies you wish to remove from your computer.

Multiple cookies may be found in a single file depending on which browser you use.

The cookies used on this website have been categorised based on the categories found in the ICC UK Cookie guide, as follows:

Category 1: strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.

Category 2: performance cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.

Category 3: functionality cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as a live chat session. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

Category 4: targeting cookies or advertising cookies

These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.

The list below shows the cookies that we use, other than those that are strictly necessary to this service. If you have any queries about these, or would like more information, please contact our Manager by sending an email us at info@webagencydirect.com.

Cookie name Description Google analytics Google analyThe _utma cookie is part of Google analytics, and is primarily used to track visits to any site that uses Google analytics. _utma stores the number of visits made from your device, the time of the first visit, the previous visit, and the current visit. This cookie does not contain any personal information other than the IP address of your device. This is a third-party cookie. By using this website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.

Links

• 6.1. The Website may include third-party advertising and links to other websites. We do not provide any personally identifiable customer Personal Data to these advertisers or third-party websites.

• 6.2. These third-party websites and advertisers, or internet advertising companies working on their behalf, sometimes use technology to send (or ‘serve’) the advertisements that appear on the Website directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel gifs), and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalise advertising content. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that they may use, and the information practices of these advertisers and third-party websites are not covered by this Privacy Policy. Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices. In addition, the Network Advertising Initiative offers useful information about internet advertising companies (also called ‘ad networks’ or ‘network advertisers’), including information about how to opt-out of their information collection.

• 6.3. We exclude all liability for loss that you may incur when using these third party websites.

Further Information

• 7.1. If you would like any more information or you have any comments about our Privacy Policy, please either write to us at Data Protection Manager, or email us at info@webagencydirect.com.

• 7.2. We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice to you, in which case, we will publish the amended version on the Website. You confirm that we shall not be liable to you or any third party for any change to this Privacy Policy from time to time. It is your responsibility to check regularly to determine whether this Privacy Policy has changed.

• 7.3. You can ask us for a copy of this Privacy Policy and of any amended Privacy Policy by writing to the above address or by emailing us at info@webagencydirect.com. This Privacy Policy applies to Personal Data we hold about individuals. It does not apply to information we hold about companies and other organisations.

• 7.4. If you would like access to the Personal Data that we hold about you, you can do this by emailing us at info@webagencydirect.com or writing to us at the address noted above. There may be a nominal charge of £10 to cover administrative costs.

• 7.5. We aim to keep the Personal Data we hold about you accurate and up to date. If you tell us that we are holding any inaccurate Personal Data about you, we will delete it or correct it promptly. Please email us at info@webagencydirect.com or write to us at the address above to update your Personal Data.