Terms and Conditions

Definitions of Terms:

Definitions: In this agreement the terms have the following meaning:

The Company : ProtectMyWork.com or "www.ProtectMyWork.com" is the trading name of Protect My Work Limited, a company registered in England and Wales no 4358873.

The User, Member or Subscriber : means any person, company, partnership, and organisation or body which ProtectMyWork.com supplies services or browses the site.

Work: "Work" refers to the registered work (digital files and data) that a member uploads or emails to their account and can access in the "My Protect Work" page once logged into the members area.

Conditions of Supply of Service:

Data upload & storage:

The user permits ProtectMyWork.com , to store their material for the agreed term. On expiry of the term (without renewal), the user authorises Protect My Work Limited, to delete all work files, personal data and emails from the web server.

The maximum data allowed per email (or upload) is 100 megabytes, which includes the mail message file itself.

ProtectMywork.com will take reasonable steps to protect and store your files safely and securely, but in the case of user error, failure to follow our rules, or user software bugs or technical issues on their own device, we take no responsibility for corruption or loss of files or registration records . The user should ensure that they have an up-to-date web browser with cookies and JavaScript turned on.

We backup the data at regular intervals.

Site and service usage:

The maximum number of attachments per email (or upload) is 5.

ProtectMyWork.com reserves the right to change these terms and conditions of service but will give at least 1 calendar months notice to the user.

ProtectMyWork.com will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the web site service un-availability (down time) is kept to a minimum.

Subscribers with an active subscription may use our 'copyright protection warning' logos on their registered work .

Copyright

Copyright ProtectMywork.com does not claim to provide any formal legal/statutory protection or copyright registration, nor does it guarantee that the user owns the copyright for the material. The service provided pertains to help the user provide evidence of originality and help prove the time and date of creation.

By using the service, the user attests;

- to being the creator and original author of the material, or current copyright owner, and is solely responsible for it′s originality, authenticity and safe-keeping.
- that the material does not infringe in anyway whatsoever any 3rd party copyright claims and thus indemnifies ProtectMywork.com from any such claims.

Confidentiality & non disclosure

ProtectMyWork.com will keep subscribers data safe , and will never disclose the contents of your work submission to 3rd parties. Website work submissions are 100% processed and recorded by our secure server automatically if submitted with the detailed instructions provided, so no member of staff will look at the actual contents. The only exceptions to this is if it is deemed necessary by a director of ProtectMyWork.com to view the work in order to ensure it complies with the law, to investigate a breach of the law (e.g breach of copyright or trademark), abuse of the system or staff or if the user specifically requests it. All passwords are securely encrypted in our a database ensuring only the user has access.

14 day money back period

The 14 day money back offer only relates to new subscribers. ProtectMyWork.com will provide refunds to the user for a subscription payment if we are notified in writing by email to support@protectmywork.com within 14 days of the initial subscription payment. The refund will be processed within 7 days (max) on receipt of email. The 14 day money back offer does not apply to users that have previously subscribed to our service, or any other products or service provided.

Cooling-Off Period

Under the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013, you are entitled to a statutory cooling-off period of 14 days, which begins the day after you sign up for an account at www.protectmywork.com

Abuse

To uphold the safety of staff and the reputation of the company, the company may suspend or delete a user's certificates and/or accounts without notice, refund or compensation to the user, if the user is found to be breach of these terms, or specifically in the following serious situations:

- If the users actions or uploaded content is deemed in breach of Law (intellectual property law or other laws), or in the opinion of the directors it can damage the reputation of the company or any of its other users,

- If the user is deemed to be abusing staff members (written or verbal).

Affidavit

In the event of going to court, the user is allowed 1 free affidavit. The user will need to supply ProtectMyWork.com with a copy of their personal ID (e.g passport) , a copy of the court case hearing documentation which shows a valid case number, date of hearing, court name & address, claimant & defendant names & addresses. A request for an affidavit for court action cannot be made within the 14 day money back period.

Legal:

These Terms shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, English law. The parties irrevocably agree that the courts of England shall (subject to the paragraph below) have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute, which may arise out of, under, or in connection with these Terms or the relationship established by them.

ProtectMyWork.com does not allow any of the following content to be stored on its servers:

- Illegal Material,
- Adult Material (Includes all pornography, erotic images, or otherwise lewd or obscene content. The designation of "adult material" is left entirely to the discretion of ProtectMyWork.com)
- Warez - Includes pirated software, ROMS, emulators, phreaking, hacking, password cracking. IP spoofing, etc., and encrypting of any of the above. Delivery of Service

Delivery of subscription Service

The user can start using the service immediately upon payment approval. The service is of course, delivered digitally. So that you enjoy our continuous protection , annual subscriber fees will be automatically collected every year in advance on the annual renewal date, unless you cancel your annual subscription renewal payment before this of course. See our FAQs page on how to cancel your automatic subscription renewal payments in our member area.

certificate tokens

A token is simply a group of files that you upload for us to date stamp digital certificate. Once used, each token gets assigned a unique reference number & password by our system. Files cannot be changed after they are uploaded, as this would invalidate our certification date stamp. They can of course be deleted at any time by you, but the token is not re-usable after deleting it. All certificates are kept in digital format for the duration of your subscription.

Force Majeure

Neither the user nor ProtectMyWork.com shall be liable for any delay or failure to perform any of its obligations if the delay or failure results from events or circumstances outside its reasonable control, including but not limited to acts of God, strikes, lock outs, accidents, war, fire, the act or omission of government, highway authorities or any telecommunications carrier, operator or administration or other competent authority, the act or omission of any Internet Service Provider, or the delay or failure in manufacture, production, or supply by third parties of equipment or services, and the party shall be entitled to a reasonable extension of its obligations after notifying the other party of the nature and extent of such events.

taxes & duties

Users outside the UK are responsible for paying any local taxes due in their country of residence.