Terms and Conditions

The following terminology applies to these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Notice and Disclaimer Notice and any or all Agreements:

“Client”, “You” and “Your” refers to you, the person accessing this website and accepting the Organisation’s terms and conditions.

“The Organisation”, “Ourselves”, “We”, “Our” and “Us”, refers to our Organisation. “Party”, “Parties”, or “Us”, refers to both the Client and ourselves, or either the Client or ourselves.

All terms refer to the offer, acceptance and consideration of payment necessary to undertake the process of our assistance to the Client in the most appropriate manner, whether by formal meetings of a fixed duration, or any other means, for the express purpose of meeting the Client’s needs in respect of provision of the Organisation’s stated services/products, in accordance with and subject to, prevailing law of the UK.

Any use of the above terminology or other words in the singular, plural, capitalisation and/or he/she or they, are taken as interchangeable and therefore as referring to same.

We may process information about your visits to the website, the extent to which is governed by MAF International’s Privacy Notice. By using our website, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate. We employ the use of cookies. By using MAF International's website you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with MAF International’s Privacy Notice. Most of the modern day interactive websites use cookies to enable us to retrieve user details for each visit. Cookies are used in some areas of our site to enable the functionality of this area and ease of use for those people visiting. Some of our subsidiaries/affiliate partners may also use cookies.

We take your privacy very seriously and collection and use of personal information is governed by our Privacy Notice. Click here to review the MAF International Privacy Notice.

Unless otherwise stated, MAF International own the intellectual property rights for all material published on our website. All intellectual property rights are reserved and protected by copyright laws and treaties. You may view and/or print pages from http://www.mafint.org for your own personal use subject to restrictions set in these terms and conditions.

•  Republish material from http://www.mafint.org
• Sell, rent or sub-license material from http://www.mafint.org
• Reproduce, modify, duplicate or copy material from http://www.mafint.org
• Redistribute content from MAF International (unless content is specifically made for redistribution).
• 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 MATERIAL ON OUR WEBSITE MUST ALWAYS BE ACKNOWLEDGED.

MAF International respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement or are aware of any infringing material on the website, please contact us and provide us with the following information: an electronic or physical signature of the person authorised to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the website (including a URL and/or screen shot); your address, telephone number, and email address; a written statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

Whilst we endeavour to ensure that the information on this website is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up to date.

The material displayed on our website is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we and any third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:

• all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity;
• any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our website or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our website, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for: o loss of income or revenue;
• o loss of business;
• o loss of profits or contracts;
• o loss of anticipated savings;
• o loss of data;
• o loss of goodwill;
• o wasted management or office time; and
• o for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.

You must not misuse our website by knowingly 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 website, the server on which our website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our website. You must not attack our website 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. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our website 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 website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

The following organisations may link to our website without prior written approval:

• Government agencies;
• Search engines;
• News organisations;
• Online directory distributors when they list us in the directory may link to our website in the same manner as they hyperlink to the websites of other listed businesses; and
• System wide Accredited Businesses, except soliciting non-profit organisations, charity shopping sites, and charity fundraising groups which may not hyperlink to our website.

These organisations may link to our home page, to publications or to other website information so long as the link: (a) is not in any way misleading; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the linking party and its products or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party's site.

We may consider and approve in our sole discretion other link requests from the following types of organisations:

• commonly-known consumer and/or business information sources
• dot.com community sites;
• associations or other groups representing charities, including charity giving sites,
• online directory distributors;
• internet portals;
• accounting, law and consulting firms whose primary clients are businesses; and educational institutions and trade associations.

We will approve link requests from these organisations if we determine that: (a) the link would not reflect unfavourably on uss; (b)the organisation does not have an unsatisfactory record with us; (c) the benefit to us from the visibility associated with the hyperlink outweighs the absence of ; and (d) where the link is in the context of general resource information or is otherwise consistent with editorial content in a newsletter or similar product furthering the mission of the organisation. These organisations may link to our home page, to publications or to other website information so long as the link: (a) is not in any way misleading; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the linking party and its products or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party’s site.

If you are among the organisations listed in paragraph 1 above and are interested in linking to our website, you must notify us by sending an e-mail to contact@mafint.org.

Please include your name, your organisation name, contact information (such as a phone number and/or e-mail address) as well as the URL of your site, a list of any URLs from which you intend to link to our website, and a list of the URL(s) on our site to which you would like to link. Allow 2-3 weeks for a response.

• By use of our corporate name; or
• By use of the uniform resource locator (Web address) being linked to; or
• By use of any other description of our website or material being linked to that makes sense within the context and format of content on the linking party's site.
• No use of MAF International’s logo or other artwork will be allowed for linking absent a trademark license agreement.

Without prior approval and express written permission, you may not create frames around our Web pages or use other techniques that alter in any way the visual presentation or appearance of our website.

We reserve the right at any time and in its sole discretion to request that you remove all links or any particular link to our website. You agree to immediately remove all links to our website upon such request. We also reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions and our linking policy at any time. By continuing to link to our website, you agree to be bound to and abide by these linking terms and conditions.

We shall have no responsibility or liability for any content appearing on your website. You agree to indemnify and defend us against all claims arising out of or based upon your website. No link(s) may appear on any page on your website or within any context containing content or materials that may be interpreted as libellous, obscene or criminal, or which infringes, otherwise violates, or advocates the infringement or other violation of, any third party rights.

Where our website contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

If you find any link on our website or any linked website objectionable for any reason, you may contact us about this. We will consider requests to remove links but will have no obligation to do so or to respond directly to you.