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Terms and conditions
1.1
The web site (the "Website") is operated by MEM Consumer
Finance Ltd (registered number 04786727) whose registered address is 2 Minton
Place, Victoria Road, Bicester, OXON, OX26 6QB ("MEM" "we",
"us", "our").
1.2
Please read the details set out below
carefully before using this Website. By accessing this Website, you agree to be
bound by the following terms and conditions and disclaimers (the
"Terms").
1.3
All
our products and services are subject to the terms and conditions and
disclaimers of the applicable agreement governing their use.
2
No
offer
2.1
Neither
the information, nor any opinion contained in our Website constitutes an offer
to sell or solicitation or an offer to buy any financial instruments or any
advice or recommendation with respect to such financial instruments.
3
Users
3.1
You
are wholly responsible for the use of the Website by any person using your
computer and you must ensure that any such person complies with these Terms.
3.2
The
Website is currently intended for those who access it from within
3.3
To register with us you must be
over eighteen (18) years of age. You must ensure that the details provided by
you on registration or at any time are correct and complete. You must inform us
immediately of any changes to the information that you provided when
registering by updating your personal details.
3.4
You will not knowingly transmit
any virus or other harmful matter to the Website. You may not use any device, software or
routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the
Website nor may you attempt to decipher, de-compile, disassemble or reverse
engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up the Website or
any part of it.
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Disclaimers and Limitation of
Liability
4.1 Whilst we have taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy, currency, availability correctness and completeness of the information contained on the Website, information is provided on an "as is", "as available" basis and we do not give or make any warranty or representation of any kind, whether express or implied. The use of the Website and the materials contained in it are entirely at your own risk. We shall not be liable for any losses or damages, whether direct or indirect, consequential or otherwise that you may suffer as a result of your use of the Website, including but not limited to computer service or system failure, access delays or interruption, data non-delivery or mis-delivery, computer viruses or other harmful components, breaches of security or unauthorised use of the system arising from "hacking" or otherwise or your reliance on the information contained on the Website.
4.2
We do
not represent or warrant that the Website will be available and meet your
requirements, that access will be uninterrupted, that there will be no delays,
failures, errors or omissions or loss of transmitted information, that no viruses
or other contaminating or destructive properties will be transmitted or that no
damage will occur to your computer system. You have sole responsibility for
adequate protection and back up of data and/or equipment and for undertaking
reasonable and appropriate precautions to scan for computer viruses or other
destructive properties.
4.3
We
make no representations or warranties regarding the accuracy, functionality or
performance of any third party software that may be used in connection with the
Website.
4.4
Nothing in these Terms or in
the pages of the Website shall limit our liability for death or personal injury
arising out of our negligence, or for fraud, or for any other liability, which
cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
4.5
The
information, material and content provided in the pages of the Website may be
changed at any time without notice. Changes may be made to the Terms at any
time without notice by updating this posting. Any
revised term shall take effect as at the date when the change is made to the
Website. You agree to review
the Terms regularly and your continued access to or use of the Website will
mean that you agree to any changes.
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Third
party Websites
5.1 Links contained in the Website might lead to other websites not under our control, and we accept no liability for the content or availability of any linked site which is not operated by us or any link contained in a linked site not operated by us. Links on the Website are provided to you only as a convenience and the inclusion of any link does not imply reliability and we do not necessarily endorse any pages linked to the Website. Accordingly, you should read the terms and conditions of those websites before using them and direct any questions or comments about the linked website's contents to the relevant website provider.
5.2
You are not entitled (nor will
you assist others) to set up links from your own websites to the Website
(whether by hypertext linking, deep-linking, framing, toggling or otherwise)
without our prior written consent, which we may grant or withhold at our
absolute discretion. You are also not entitled to direct link (also known as
"Hot Link") any images or content without our prior written
authorisation.
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Internet
e-mail
6.1
Messages
sent over the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be completely secure as they are
subject to possible interception or loss or possible alteration. We are not
responsible for any message lost, intercepted or altered by third parties and
will not be liable to you or anyone else for any damages or otherwise in
connection with any message sent by you to us or any message sent by us to you
over the Internet.
6.2
The Website makes use of
cookies. Cookies are files that identify your computer to our server. Cookies
in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the computer used. Many
sites do this whenever a user visits their site in order to track traffic
flows. Cookies themselves only record those areas of the site that have been
visited by the computer and for how long. You may prevent the use of cookies by
configuring your web browser accordingly, but please note that this may hinder
some of the Website functionality.
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Trade
marks and copyright
7.1
All
copyright, trade marks and all other intellectual property rights in the
Website and its content (including without limitation the pages screens,
information and material) included in the Website and all software and source
codes connected with the Website is owned by or licensed to MEM Consumer
Finance Ltd unless otherwise noted.
7.2
Our logos and all brands and
products referred to or detailed in the Website are the trademarks of, or
licensed to, MEM Consumer Finance Ltd. No rights are granted in respect of any
of the above trademarks. If you are in doubt whether an item is our trademark
or that of any MEM Consumer Finance Ltd business, please contact us for
clarification.
7.3
You
may imprint, copy, download or temporarily store extracts from our Website for
your personal information or when you use our products and services. You may not republish, retransmit, redistribute or otherwise make
such information or pages available to any other party or available on any
website, on-line service or bulletin board of your own or of any other party or
make the same available in hard copy or on any other media without our express
prior written consent.
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Data
protection
8.1
We
may as a result of your interaction with the Website hold and process personal
information obtained about you when you access the Website and use it for
making lending decisions and servicing our relationship with you, for the
purposes of fraud prevention and debt collection, to understand your financial
needs, to conduct our business and to provide you with better customer services
and products from both MEM Consumer Finance Ltd and those of selected third
parties, to evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing of the Website and for
statistical analysis. We may pass this information to other members of MEM Consumer
Finance Ltd or agents, as permitted by law so that they may do the same and
they may pass information held by them about you to us so that we may do the
same. We will not disclose any such information outside of MEM Consumer Finance
Ltd except for fraud prevention purposes and/or if required/obliged by law or
Governmental or judicial bodies or agencies or to our regulators under proper
authority, or under a strict code of secrecy to sub-contractors or persons
acting as our agents or where we have your consent or have previously informed
you.
8.2
By
submitting an application form through this site, you agree that MEM Consumer
Finance Limited can contact you from time to time by post, fax, telephone or
other electronic means, to tell you about other products and services, offered
by ourselves or other carefully selected companies, that we believe would be of
interest to you. We may also pass your information to third party financial
services companies for the purpose of them telling you about their services or
products.
8.3
All
information submitted in this form is held safely and securely by MEM Consumer
Finance Limited in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. We require all
parties to whom we may pass your information to treat it with the same degree
of confidentiality.
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Governing
law
9.1
The
Terms are governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of









