Copyright & Licencing Information

Summary

All materials on this web site are copyright and reproduction is prohibited without specific permission from the copyright holder. If you are wanting to re-use materials from this site, you must obtain written permission first.


Introduction

This web site represents thousands of hours of designer/engineer time, over many years, seeing the evolution of the site. We are rightly proud of the information presented and consider this a good investment to inform our potential customers and assist existing customers. As this is considerable investment, we rightly rely on the law to protect that investment against other person's or companies who do not wish to make their own investment, but choose to make commercial or non-commercial gain from our material without permission. Copyright theft of web or any other protected materials is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. It does matter.


1. Definitions

2. Ownership

All material on this site is either :

  1. Original materials created by SEG Communications
  2. Have been specifically licenced to SEG Communications
  3. Used by SEG Communications with the specific consent of the originator

3. Reproduction Restrictions

It is prohibited for any party to publish or republish any material from this web site without the specific written permission of SEG Communications.

4. Licencing Costs

Subject to permission being granted for usage, standard costs, subject to negotiation are UKP 1000 per month for use of any single page (as defined by a single HTML/ASP/PHP file) or use of any of the material on the page. Additionally, each image/graphic (including GIF/JPG files, whether in part or full) is charged at an additional UKP 50 per image. Prices are expressed in Pounds Sterling and are per month or part month. All pricing is subject to negotiation; please contact us to discuss. Material may not be used pending licence and the licence/permission is only valid once you have written specific permission from us.

Where licence is granted, suitable Copyright notices much be used, as detailed by the licence and sub-licencing or granting usage permission to third parties is prohibited, except by specific permission.

5. Responsible Web Hosting

It is the responsibility of any web site owner, maintainer or designer to ensure that he has adequate persmission to use any materials on his/her site, just like a car driver should be able to drive his card competently. Where a web site owner uses other parties to design his site, he should ensure that those persons operate due diligence in using material, to avoid copyright infringement.

We will seek legal recourse against persons, company or body who reproduces our material without permission, including any persons responsible who are acting on behalf of or employed by a company or person who uses the material.

6. Legal Regionality

The laws of England & Wales apply, or any over-riding authority including any internationally enforceable laws which will help in protecting our propretary rights.

7. Our Responsibility to third parties

We take appropriate precautions and have adequate policies in place with all material we put on this site, however if you have licenced material to us, 3rd parties might unlawfully reproduce your material obtained from this site. If we are using your material and you are unsure of the permission status, please contact us in order that we can confirm. If you feel that your own copyright has been breached in any way, please contact us immediately in order that the matter can be promptly investigated.