Terms and Conditions
Using our website
The Treasury Solicitor’s Bona Vacantia website is maintained for your personal use and viewing. Access and use by you of this site constitutes your acceptance of these terms and conditions. They take effect from the date on which you first use this website.
You agree to use this site only for lawful purposes, and in a manner that does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of, this site by any third party. Such restriction or inhibition includes, without limitation, conduct which is unlawful, or which may harass or cause distress or inconvenience to any person, and the transmission of obscene or offensive content or disruption of normal flow of dialogue within this site.
You are prohibited from posting or transmitting via this website any unlawful, defamatory, obscene, offensive or scandalous material, or any material that constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, likely to give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violates any law. We will fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order lawfully requesting or directing us to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials on this website.
Information collected by us is used for internal review to:
- improve the content of bonavacantia.gov
- customise the content and/or layout of bonavacantia.gov
- notify users (with their consent) about updates to bonavacantia.gov
Information collected is not shared with other organisations for commercial purposes.
Accessibility statement
This website is run by the Treasury Solicitor Bona Vacantia Office. It is our intention that our website is usable and accessible to all users. This website's objective is to conform to the Guidelines for (UK Government Websites ), which supports Web Content Accessibility Guidelines of the World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3.org/[External website]).
This accessibility statement applies only to the Bona Vacantia website at www.bonavacantia.gov.uk. It does not apply to any other site, including any site that is linked from our pages.
Hyperlinking policy
Hyperlinking to the Bona Vacantia website
We do not object to you linking directly to pages on this site and you do not need to ask permission to do so. However, we do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site. The Bona Vacantia pages must be displayed in the user‘s entire browser window.
Hyperlinking from the Bona Vacantia website
It is our policy to obtain permission to link to other websites. We are not responsible for the content or reliability of the websites we link to and do not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them. We aim to replace broken links to other sites but cannot guarantee that these links will always work as we have no control over the availability of other sites.
Virus protection
We make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. You must take your own precautions to ensure that the process which you employ for accessing this website does not expose you to the risk of viruses, malicious computer code or other forms of interference which may damage your own computer system. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the Internet. We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from this website.
Privacy Statement
If you are a user with general public and anonymous access the Bona Vacantia website does not store or capture personal information, but merely logs the user's IP address that is automatically recognised by the web server.
We do not use cookies for collecting user information and we will not collect any information about you except that required for system administration of our web server.
This privacy statement only covers the Bona Vacantia website at http://www.bonavacantia.gov.uk . This statement does not cover links within this site to other websites.
The system will record your email address and other information if volunteered to us by you. This shall be treated as proprietary and confidential. It may be used for internal review and to notify you about updates to the Bona Vacantia website.
Disclaimer
The Bona Vacantia website and material relating to government information, products and services (or to third party information, products and services), is provided ‘as is’, without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.
We do not warrant that the functions contained in the material contained in this site will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or represent the full functionality, accuracy, reliability of the materials. In no event will we be liable for any expense loss or damage including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damages whatsoever arising from use or loss of use of, data or profits arising out of or in connection with the use of the Bona Vacantia website.
No data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed as totally secure. Whilst we strive to protect such information, we do not warrant and cannot ensure the security of any information which you transmit to us. Accordingly, any information which you transmit to us is transmitted at your own risk.
Governing Law
These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute arising under these Terms and Conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
Variation
We may at any time revise these terms and conditions without notice. Please check regularly. Continued use of the Bona Vacantia website after a change has been made is your acceptance of the change.