Terms and conditions

chathamhouse.org is a site operated by Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs), registered charity (no. 208223). Our main trading address is 10 St. James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LE. Our VAT number is 653 2181 53. We are regulated by the Charity Commission.

Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend our site or the services 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. This may affect guests, users who have registered with us or members although we will use our reasonable endeavours to minimise any disruption that this may cause.  

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

When using our site, you must comply with the provisions of our acceptable use policy detailed below.

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.

Our site and its content (including but not limited to, animations, character design, text, software, music, lyrics, sound, photographs, graphics, video, audio, infographics page layouts and design) are protected by intellectual property rights, including copyright and trademarks, as detailed in our Copyright and Trademark notice below.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organization to material posted on our site.

Except as expressly authorised in writing either separately or where otherwise stated in these terms of use, you agree not to copy, download, adapt, alter, modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works of any content of our site, or of any site property received by you as part of an order, in whole or in part. All rights not granted or licensed pursuant to these Terms are hereby expressly reserved to us.

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.

Copyright and Trademark notice

‘The Royal Institute of International Affairs’ and ‘Chatham House Enterprises’ are UK registered trademarks of The Royal Institute of International Affairs. All information and content on our site is the copyright of The Royal Institute of International Affairs. Our trading name and our site are owned by us and are descriptive of our products and services.

Commentary and other materials posted on our site (including our microsites listed below) are not intended to amount to advice on which any reliance should be placed. Chatham House is an independent body which does not express opinions of its own. The opinions expressed in our publications and other website content are the responsibility of the authors and we draw your attention to the terms and any disclaimers expressed by the authors (or their publishers) in such publications and website content. We therefore 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.

Microsites

• Democracy and Technology in Europe
• A guide to sharing the data and benefits of public health surveillance
• Elite Perceptions
• Moving Energy Initiative
• Eksperty
• Syria from within
• Forest Governance and Legality
• America’s Global Role
• CASCADES Climate Risks
• Sustainability Accelerator
• Resources Trade
• Circular Economy

We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely, at any time, for instance, for operational, regulatory, legal or other reasons. 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.

Whether you are a consumer or a business user

• 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.
• Further limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any of our services to you, which will be set out in our terms and conditions referred to in paragraph 1.1.1 above.

If you are a business user:

• We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.
• We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with: (i) use of, or inability to use, our site; or (ii) use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
• In particular, we will not be liable for: (i) loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue; (ii) business interruption; (iii) loss of anticipated savings; (iv) loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or (v) any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user:

• Please note that we only provide our site for your 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.
• If defective digital content that we have supplied, damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation. However, we will not be liable for damage that you could have avoided by following our advice to apply an update offered to you free of charge or for damage that was caused by you failing to correctly follow installation instructions or to have in place the minimum system requirements advised by us.

We do not guarantee that our site will be suitable for your purposes or requirements.  If your computer does not support relevant technology, including encryption, you may not be able to use certain services or access certain information on our site.  We will not be responsible for any failure of electronic messages or images (whether via the internet or SMS) sent through the service to reach your intended recipient on the date specified by you.

Our site is accessed via the World Wide Web which is independent of us.  Your use of the World Wide Web is at your own risk and subject to all applicable national and international laws and regulations.  We do not represent that our site is appropriate or available for use in any jurisdiction other than the United Kingdom.  

We process information about you when you visit our site (and our microsites) in accordance with our privacy notice.

Please note that our site is not designed to allow users to upload material to it, so users are advised not to transmit unsolicited material to us in order to have it posted on our site.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly or negligently introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which 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, a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 may have been committed and we will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of any such breach or alleged 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.

You may link to our website, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but 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.

You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site.. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the Content Standards.

It is sometimes possible to access our site through a link located on another website or within a third party email communication. We do not endorse any products, materials, companies or individuals that provide a link to our site or make any warranties, representations or other assurances with respect to any information contained in or at these other sites or third party email communications.

If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please address your request to the Digital Transformation team over email.

Where our site contains links to other sites 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, do not endorse and are not liable for any content advertising, products, services or other materials on or available from such sites and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Any dealings by you with any third party on or through our site shall be solely between you and that third party and we shall not be responsible for any loss or damage that may arise from any such dealings, nor shall we be deemed to be acting as an agent for you in any such dealings.

If you are a consumer, 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 and 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.

If you are a business, these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Any failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these terms of use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are 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.

If any provision in these terms of use shall in whole or in part be held to any extent to be invalid or unenforceable under any enactment or rule of law, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the other provisions of these terms of use which shall remain in full force and effect.

Neither you nor us shall be held to be in breach of our respective obligations hereunder or liable for any loss or damage which may be suffered by the other party due to any cause beyond our reasonable control including without limitation any act of God, fire, storm, flood, lightening, disease, pandemic, strike, trade dispute, war, conflict, act of terrorism, any act or omission of government or regulatory bodies or communications operators.

A person who is not a party to these terms of use may not enforce any of its terms under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact us.

Your use of our site is also subject to our acceptable use policy.

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