Terms & Conditions
Terms and Conditions of Website Use
Effective date: 5 December 2025
These terms of website use (together with any documents referred to in them) set
out the terms on which you may use the website at www.responsiblesourcing.org.uk
(“our site”). Use of our site includes accessing, browsing or otherwise
interacting with the site as a guest or registered user. Please read these
terms carefully before you start to use our site; by using our site you
confirm that you accept these terms and agree to comply with them. If you do
not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.
Information About Us
Our site is operated by Responsible Sourcing Scheme Ltd (“we”, “us” or
“our”). Responsible Sourcing Scheme Ltd is a private company limited by
guarantee without share capital, registered in England and Wales with company
number 14141862. Our registered office is BGA House,
Nottingham Road, Louth, England, LN11 0WB. We are
committed to promoting responsible sourcing of growing media and related
materials and operate our site to provide general information about our scheme
and its activities. To contact us, please email info@responsiblesourcing.org.uk.
Changes to These Terms
We may revise these terms at any time by amending this page. Where changes
are material we will indicate this on our site, but please check this page
regularly to take notice of any updates, as they are binding on you.
Changes to Our Site
We may update and change our site from time to time. Although we aim to
ensure that the information on our site is accurate and current, the content
may be out of date at any given time and we are under no obligation to update
it. We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will be free from
errors or omissions, and we may suspend, withdraw or restrict the availability
of all or any part of our site for business or operational reasons.
Accessing Our Site
Our site is made available free of charge. We do not guarantee that our
site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted.
Access is permitted on a temporary basis. We will not be liable if for any
reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period. You are
responsible for making all arrangements necessary to access our site and for
ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection
are aware of these terms and other applicable policies and that they comply
with them.
Our site is directed at people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not
represent that content available on or through our site is appropriate or
available in other locations. If you access our site from outside the United
Kingdom, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with
local laws.
Acceptable Use and Prohibited Activities
You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You agree that you will not:
- Use our site in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or
international law or regulation. - Transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised
advertising or promotional material (spam). - Knowingly introduce viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other
material that is malicious or technologically harmful or 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. Breaching this
provision may constitute a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act
1990; we will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement
authorities and co‑operate with those authorities by disclosing your
identity. - Use our site to bully, harass or otherwise harm any person, or to
upload or transmit any defamatory, obscene, offensive or inflammatory
material. - Use our site for commercial purposes without our prior written
permission. Our site and its content are provided for general
information only; you may not use any part of the content on our site for
commercial exploitation without obtaining a licence from us or our
licensors.
We reserve the right to suspend or permanently block your access to our site if
you engage in prohibited activities or breach these terms.
Intellectual Property Rights
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our
site and in the material published on it. These works are protected by
copyright laws and treaties around the world; all such rights are reserved.
You may print off one copy or download extracts of any page(s) from our site
for your personal use, and you may draw the attention of others within your
organisation to content posted on our site. You must not modify the paper or
digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded, and you
must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any
graphics separately from any accompanying text. Our status (and that of any
identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be
acknowledged.
Except as expressly stated above, you must not use any part of the content on
our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence from us or our
licensors. If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach
of these terms, 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.
Trade Marks
“Responsible Sourcing Scheme” and any associated logos are trade marks of
Responsible Sourcing Scheme Ltd. You may not use these trade marks without
our prior written permission, except to refer fairly and accurately to our
organisation.
No Reliance on Information
The content on our site 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 on the basis of content on our site. Although we make reasonable
efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations,
warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our
site is accurate, complete or up to date. Examples
described on our site may not represent current practice or may be subject
to change.
Limitation of Our Liability
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal
injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent
misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited
by English law. To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions,
warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our site or any
content on it, whether express or implied.
We will not be liable to any user 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:
- use of, or inability to use, our site; or
- use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
If you are a business user, please note that in particular we will not
be liable for:
- loss of profits, sales, business or revenue;
- business interruption;
- loss of anticipated savings;
- loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
- any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
If you are a consumer user, please note that we provide our site for
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.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed
denial‑of‑service attack, 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 your downloading of any content on
it, or on any website linked to it.
Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability
arising as a result of the supply of any goods or services by us to you,
which will be set out in the applicable supply terms and conditions.
Viruses and Security
We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or
viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology,
computer programmes and platform to access our site and should use your own
virus protection software. You must not misuse our site by knowingly
introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that 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 you would commit a criminal offence
under the Computer Misuse Act 1990, and we will report any such breach to
the relevant law enforcement authorities.
Linking to Our Site
You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and
legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. 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 to our site in any website that is not owned by you. Our
site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any
part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw
linking permission without notice. If you wish to make any use of content
on our site other than that set out above, please contact
info@responsiblesourcing.org.uk.
Third‑Party Links and Resources in Our Site
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 and are not responsible
for them. Such links should not be interpreted as approval or endorsement by
us of those linked websites.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
If you are a consumer, please note that these terms, 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 non‑exclusive jurisdiction.
However, 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,
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.
Contact Us
To contact us about these terms or any other matter, please email
info@responsiblesourcing.org.uk or write to Responsible Sourcing
Scheme Ltd, BGA House, Nottingham Road, Louth, England, LN11 0WB.
Thank you for visiting our site.