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About these Terms

Thank you for visiting our Website. https://www.sptc.net.in / (“Website”) is operated by the Safety Professional Training Center and Consultancy Services (“SPTC”, “we” or “us”). This document provides you with certain information about:

  • Your use of our Website and the terms on which we make our Website available to you (“Terms of Use”);
  • The terms on which would are permitted to use our RSS News Feed (“News Feed Standard License Terms”);
  • The terms on which we provide training or services to you (“Book Now with us Terms and Conditions”); and

Please read this document carefully before you start using our Website. If you have any questions about our Terms of Use, News Feed Standard License Terms, Book Now with us Terms and Conditions, please contact us at info@sptc.net.in

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1. By using our Website, you accept these Terms of Use

  • By visiting our Website, you confirm that you accept these Terms of Use and agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to any of these terms, please refrain from using our Website. We recommend that you print a copy of this document for future reference.
  • We reserve the right to amend these Terms of Use and any of our Policies from time to time. Every time you wish to use our Website, please check them to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.
  • You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained within our Policies may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our Website.

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2. We may make changes to our Website

  • We may update and change our Website from time to time to reflect changes to our services, our users’ needs or any other aspect of the way we run our business.
  • Through the Website, you may gain access to the trainings and services of SPTC Services, which is wholly owned by SPTC. In addition to these Terms of Use, there may be additional Terms and Conditions relating to your use/purchase of such products or services which you should read carefully before using/purchasing any such products or services.
  • You must not use the Website in any way that causes or may cause the Website to be damaged or access to the Website to be interrupted at all.

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3. You must keep your membership account safe

  • If you have a membership account with us, this should belong to and only be accessible by you. Each membership account is available to one person only and must not under any circumstances be registered or operated automatically by a computer programme or otherwise.
  • If you choose, or you are provided with, a password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

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4. Disclaimer

  • We do not guarantee that our Website, or any content on it, will always be available or that your ability to use it will be uninterrupted. Some parts of our Website are only accessible to SPTC members. We may suspend, withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our Website for business or operational reasons.
  • The content on our Website is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action based on the content on our Website.
  • While the information contained in the Website has been compiled from sources reasonably believed to be current and reliable, we make no warranties, representations or guarantees, whether express or implied, about the accuracy, reliability, completeness or timeliness of such information and will not be liable for any loss or damage suffered because of any error or omission which may occur.
  • Where our Website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked sites or any information that you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
  • The information on the ‘Choosing a course’ page is correct at the time of being published on the Website. Courses may have been added or removed since this list was published. We bear no responsibility for the information given on this page, which is produced for guidance purposes only. We reserve the right to refuse any application submitted to join SPTC as a member, irrespective of the qualifications held.
  • Where an article, presentation or other document has been written for the Branch or Group pages of the Website by a volunteer, the following disclaimer must be posted with it:“The opinions expressed in Branch or Group articles, presentations and other documents, posted on the Website are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Safety Professional Training Center and Consultancy Servies (SPTC). Where the content includes discussion and information about Indian law or occupational health matters, this should not be regarded as legal or medical advice. Where legal advice is required, a suitably qualified lawyer should be consulted. Where medical advice is required, a suitably qualified medical practitioner should be consulted.
    Save as set out in the Terms of Use, SPTC, fully permitted by law, excludes all warranties, conditions and implied terms, including the warranty of non-infringement of third parties’ rights
    .”

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5. Uploading content

  •  Some information or material, such as on our Website forums, are uploaded to the Website by other users. These forums are monitored by us to safeguard individuals against defamatory content which may be uploaded by users from time to time. However, any information or materials uploaded by other users of the Website have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our Website do not represent what we think or what our business believes.
  • If you wish to complain about any information or materials uploaded by other users, please contact us at info@sptc.net.in

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6. Our responsibility

 

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.

  • We exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms implied by law that may apply to our Website 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 however it arises and, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
  • your use of, or inability to use, our Website; or
  • your use of or reliance on any content displayed on our Website.
  • Without prejudice to any other provision contained within these Terms of Use, we shall not be liable for any damages arising from the use of, or inability to use, the Website or any of its contents. Whilst precautions are taken (such as checking that all documents uploaded are virus-free), we do not guarantee that any part of the Website is free of infection by viruses or anything else that may be harmful or destructive to the device used to access this Website. For the avoidance of doubt, if any use of the Website results in the need for servicing or replacing equipment or data, we shall not under any circumstances be responsible for those costs.
  • The exclusions of liability in this section apply to the fullest extent permissible by law.

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7. Intellectual Property and Branding

 

  • Unless expressly stated otherwise, all intellectual property rights in our Website (this means copyright, design rights, trade marks, patents, rights in any inventions and any other rights that are similar) and the material on our Website are, as between you and us, vested in us (except for any pre-existing rights belonging to you or others).
  • You must not use any part of the content on our Website (except any content that you have generated) for commercial purposes without obtaining a license to do so from the owner of that content.
  • In connection with your use of the Website, you are however permitted to view, copy, download, store, retransmit, display, distribute, show or play in public any part or content of the Website for the purposes of research, private study or for internal circulation within an organization, if all the following conditions are adhered to:
  • You retain all copyright notices and other proprietary notices contained in the original material on any copy you make;
  • SPTC is quoted as the source and the content of the material is not adapted or modified in any way; and you do not use the Website nor the material in any manner which would otherwise constitute an infringement of any third-party rights (including any intellectual property rights).
  • The SPTC acronym and SPTC logo are registered trademarks and cannot be reproduced without our prior written permission, save as permitted by Clause 3.1 above.
  • The permission to allow any person to use the SPTC logo shall only be given in our absolute discretion to:
  • Partners or collaborators of SPTC, for use in a project in which SPTC is formally involved;
  • Organizers of events which SPTC is sponsoring or is officially associated with; or approved training organizations.
  • Where we give you permission to use our logo in accordance with Clause 4, your usage shall be restricted to direct, specific references to a project, event or training programme with which we are involved. The logo shall not under any circumstances be permitted to be used to imply a broad or generic association with SPTC.
  • For the avoidance of doubt, the SPTC logo shall not available for members to use on an individual basis.  Full reproduction guidelines and logo configurations are only usually available to authorized users. If you would like to seek permission to use the SPTC logo, please get in touch so that we can confirm whether you have our permission to do so and instruct you on how to use the logo correctly.

All other trademarks or trade names in the Website are the marks of the respective owner(s) and any unauthorized use is prohibited.

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8. Contributions

 

  •  Where you submit any contribution to the Website, including through forums, consultation document responses, or blogs, you agree to grant us, free of any charge, the right to reproduce, create derivative works from and exercise copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution and in accordance with any restrictions set out in our Privacy Notice from time to time. We will not reproduce or use any private messages sent by you through our Website in any way unless we are permitted or required to do so by law.
  • You are responsible for making sure that any contributions you make, or which are made on your behalf on our Website do not breach the rights (including intellectual property rights) of anyone else. If any third party makes a claim against us that any contributions made by you or on your behalf infringes any of their rights in any way, you must indemnify us for all claims, liabilities, loss, damage, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal expenses) that we suffer or incur because of or in connection with such contribution.

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9. Submitting comments on consultation documents

 

  • All SPTC members are welcome to supply their views on consultation documents to be considered as part of an SPTC response.
  •  SPTC reserves the right not to include in an SPTC response to a consultation document, any comment that it feels should not be included, for example comments that:
  • Are racist, sexist or abusive.
  • Promote individuals, organizations or products/services.
  • Are outside the SPTC consensus view (e.g. of an extreme or contrary nature).
  • Are inaccurate or irrelevant to the issues in the consultation document.
  • All comments become anonymous once they are submitted in the SPTC response. Anyone reading the response will not be able to tell who has provided the comments.

We will not pass your details on to any other party. The only reason we may use your details is if we need to contact you for administrative reasons regarding the consultation document you have commented on.

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10. Search engines and email addresses

 

  •   Remember our public forums and blogs are accessible to everyone and are ‘crawled’ by search engines, such as Google and Yahoo, daily. This means anything you post on one of our public forums and blogs could be indexed by a search engine and returned in search engine results. We accept no responsibility for any contribution made by you which is returned in search engine results. Member-only forums are not crawled by search engines.
  • Your email address is not visible to other forum users. To contact another user outside the forums, you should use our private messaging service. If you disclose your email address in a forum posting or private message, you do so at your own risk and we do not accept any liability for any consequences you suffer because of this.

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11. 18 years and under

 

  •   18 years and under are not allowed to post messages or contributions on the Website. If you are under 18 years and need advice or have a question for our forum users, why not ask your parent, guardian or teacher to post the question on your behalf, and you will still be able to read the responses without having to register for the forums.

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12. RSS feeds

 

  • By subscribing to our news feeds, you agree to abide by our news feed terms of use:
  • You may use the SPTC news feed (“Feed”) to place the content on your electronic device. We will use reasonable endeavors to ensure the general availability of the Feed; however, we do not guarantee that this will be the case.
  • You agree to abide by all applicable laws, regulations and codes of conduct in your use of the Feed its content.
  • Any content available via the Feed belongs to SPTC. We own the copyright and all other intellectual property rights associated with the content.
  • You may not do any of the following without prior written permission from SPTC:
    • Reproduce the content (other than allowed under the News Feed Standard License Terms), or modify, or in any way commercially exploit any of the content;
    • Redistribute any of the content (including using it as part of any library, archive or similar service);
    • Remove the copyright or trade mark notice(s) from any copies of content made in accordance with these terms;
    • Create a database in electronic or structured manual form by systematically downloading and storing all and any of the content.

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13. Complaints about forums

 

  • You must not post complaints on the forums or post a complaint about identifiable users, SPTC moderators or moderating action.
  • If you are concerned about a moderating decision, posts or communications from a moderator, the forum rules or another user’s behavior /profile/post/private message, please use the Report Message link available beneath every post. Make sure that you explain your concerns when using the report function – there is a text box on the report form for this purpose. Alternatively, you can email ithelpdesk@sptc.net.in.
  • All concerns are considered by the Web Team and then discussed by the moderating team where appropriate. Will usually aim to get back to you in five working days.

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14.  Find a consultant

 

  •  The Website provides a link to register aims to assist businesses to find advice on general health and safety management. SPTC is one of the professional bodies that have worked together in partnership to develop the register, which has established a benchmark standard for safety consultants and help to raise the quality of advice being given to businesses.
  • It is the responsibility of the client to satisfy him or herself that the consultant concerned has current professional indemnity and public liability insurance, and that they can provide the service(s) required.
  • SPTC cannot accept any liability for any service, advice, guidance or information provided by consultants listed on the Website.

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15. Membership

 

  • If you are an SPTC member, you will only be able to register your membership once with SignUp. If you have got any problems with logging into SignUp, use our ‘forgotten password’ tool and we will send an email to your main SignUp email address telling you your password.
  • You must register as yourself and not impersonate another member or user. If we find out that you have registered with false information, you may be barred from using the Website or, if you are a member, it may lead to disciplinary action.
  • Branch/Group members and Branch/Group Committee members will have access to their relevant Branch and Group ‘member only’ and ‘committee only’ areas in SignUp. They should use the information they access here for SPTC Branch and Group purposes only.
  • SPTC membership fees (when you join SPTC or renew your membership be paid through SignUp, and you will need to click to accept the terms of membership and/or terms of renewal when you go through the joining or renewal process.
  • Read the Membership terms.
  • The membership renewal terms will become available at the point of renewal.

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16. Which laws apply to any disputes?

 

  •  Please note that these Terms of Use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by Telangana Law. You and we both agree that the courts of Telangana will have non-exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident outside India.

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17. Email and attachments

 

  •   SPTC will not send you an email with an attachment unless you specifically request it. We will not ask you to confirm any of your details by email. Should you receive an email with an attachment indicating that it is from SPTC, and you have not specifically asked for the attachment, you should not open it as it may not be from us.
  • All of SPTC’s e-mail enabled computers are running up-to-date antivirus software. Although every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that our computers are virus free, we cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage to computers or other equipment caused by opening a file from, or indicating that it is from, SPTC.

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18. Order process

 

  • Our privacy and cookies policy sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you or that you provide to us. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate. It also sets out information about the cookies we use on our site.
  • Each order or acceptance of a quotation for Trainings/Services by you from SPTC shall be deemed to be an offer by you to buy Trainings/Services subject to these conditions.
  • No order placed by You shall be deemed to be accepted by SPTC until a written acknowledgement of the order is issued by SPTC or (if earlier) SPTC delivers the Trainings/Services to You.
  • You shall ensure that the terms of your order and any applicable specification are complete and accurate.
  • Any quotation is given on the basis that the Contract shall come into existence upon dispatch by SPTC of the acknowledgement of order or, if earlier, dispatch of the Trainings/Services to you (the “Contract”). Any quotation is valid for a period of 10 days only from its date, provided that SPTC has not previously withdrawn it.

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19. The Training’s/Services

 

  • All Goods are subject to availability. As a result of continuous product improvement, the specification or design of Goods may vary from that shown.
  • It is your responsibility to ensure the suitability of the Goods offered for any particular purpose prior to purchasing the Goods.

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20. Prices and Payment

 

  •  You shall pay for the Trainings/Services at the point at which you purchase the Trainings/Services via the Website. The price of the Trainings/Services shall be confirmed prior to you purchasing the Trainings/Services.
  • All prices in our catalogue, leaflets and on the Website are in INR, including GST and delivery and were correct when published. We reserve the right to change the advertised price before an order is placed. You shall be notified of such amended price prior to purchasing the Trainings/Services.
  • If you fail to make any payment due to SPTC under the Contract by the due date for payment, SPTC may charge interest at the higher of either 3% above Bank’s base rate or the rate as set out in the Late Payments of Commercial Debts Regulations. Such interest shall accrue on a daily basis from the due date until actual payment of the overdue amounts, whether before or after judgement. You will pay the interest together with the overdue amount.
  • Title to the Trainings/Services shall not pass to you until the earlier of:§ SPTC receives payment in full (in cash or cleared funds):§  For the Trainings/Services; and

    §  For any other Trainings/Services that SPTC has supplied to you in respect of which payment has become due, in which case title to the Trainings/Services shall pass at the time of payment of all such sums

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21. Termination

 

  •  SPTC may terminate this Agreement immediately if:(i)  The Customer is in material breach of the Contract and, if remediable, has not remedied the breach within 20 (twenty) days of service of a notice requiring remedy of such breach;(ii)  The Customer ceases to trade or is unable to pay its debts, suspends or threatens to suspend payment of its debts or enters into an Insolvency Event.

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22. Personal Information and Data Protection

 

  • Please access our Privacy Policy for details as to how we use your personal data.
  • We will process your personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 and the Data Protection Act 2018.
  • Your credit/debit card details will be kept for the duration of the transaction for which they were supplied only. Upon satisfactory completion of the transaction, your credit/debitcard details will be removed and destroyed. No record of them will be kept, electronically or otherwise.

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24. Assignment

 

  •   SPTC may assign the Training/Services or any part of it to any person, firm or company.
  • You shall not be entitled to assign the Training/Services or any part of it without the prior written consent of SPTC.

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23. Credit/Debit Card Payment

 

  •  The secure credit/debit card processing service for this site has been provided by our 3rd party service providers. Your details may be transferred to our 3rd party for the sole purpose of processing any transactions you have instigated.
  • Under no circumstances will your credit/debit card information passed on, sold or loaned. Your credit/debit card information is kept for the duration of the transaction in question only. If you are in any doubt, we are happy to take credit/debit card payments over the counter or accept payment by cheque.
  • You should ensure that you have established a secure connection before supplying any credit/debit card information. For more information on how to tell if you are viewing a secure or non-secure site, please see your browser’s documentation.

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