Website terms of use

Website Terms of Use

This page (together with any other documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use (“Terms”) on which you may make use of this website (our “Site”). Please read these Terms carefully before you start to use our Site. By using our Site, you indicate that you accept these Terms and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these Terms, please refrain from using our Site immediately.

We may revise these Terms at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these Terms may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our Site. 

Information about us

Our site is operated by Informa Festivals (referred to as “we”, “our”, and “us”), which is a trading division of the Informa Group. The parent company of the Informa Group is Informa PLC, registered in the United Kingdom under company number 8860726. Our registered office address is 5 Howick Place, London, SW1P 1WG, UK. All Informa PLC UK trading subsidiaries are registered for VAT under one UK VAT group: GB365462636. A full list of entities within the Informa Group is available on request.

Accessing our site

Access to our Site is provided on a temporary basis and we reserve the right to withdraw access to our Site or amend the service we provide on our Site without notice and will not be liable if for any reason our Site is unavailable at any time or for any period. 

Where you access products and/or services via our Site, your access (and use) will be governed by the terms and conditions applied to those products and/or services in conjunction with these Terms. In the event of any conflict between these Terms and the relevant product or service terms, the latter will prevail and apply.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our Site.  You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Site through your internet connection are aware of these Terms and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them. You agree not to damage, interfere with or disrupt access to the Site or do anything which may interrupt or impair its functionality.

Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability  

Anything on our Site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it. We seek to ensure that information published on our Site is accurate when posted, but we cannot be held liable for its accuracy or timeliness, and we may change the information at any time without notice. You must not rely on information on the Site, and you acknowledge that you must take appropriate steps to verify this information before acting upon it. 

Every user who visits this Site does so at their own risk. The materials in this Site are provided "as is" and without warranties of any kind either express or implied including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, security or accuracy, all of which are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Neither us, nor any other party involved in the creation, production or delivery of this Site or whose materials or information appear in this Site, will be liable for any damages or injury caused by, including but not limited to, any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, defect, delay in operation of transmission, computer virus, line failure, technical inaccuracies, typographical errors or the inability to use the materials in this Site – even if there is negligence on our part or by our authorized representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages, or both.  

The above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you to the extent that applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages. In that event, our total liability to you for all losses, damages, and causes of action (in contract, tort, including without limitation, negligence, or otherwise) will not be greater than the amount you paid to access this Site.  

We may suspend or withdraw our Site  

We do not guarantee that our Site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our Site for business and operational reasons. 

Monitoring

We reserve the right to monitor and track your visits to the Site.

Intellectual property

We are the owner or the licensee of all copyright, trade marks, design rights, database rights, confidential information or any other intellectual property rights (together the Intellectual Property) in our Site.  The Intellectual Property in our Site is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

If you print off, copy, download or use any part of our Site in breach of these Terms, or any other terms and conditions applied to the products and/or services which apply to your use of our Site, your site will cease immediately and you will, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.  

You agree that in using our Site you will:  

1. only use the material on our Site in accordance with the following permitted uses:  

1. you may view them on a computer screen, print off only one copy of any page(s) from our Site;  
2. you may download extracts of any page(s) from our Site where permission to download and store the materials is specifically granted in the relevant materials, and that downloading was permitted in accordance with fair practice and only to the extent reasonably required in the circumstances;  
3. where permission to download and store material is specifically granted, you may download and store the content on the hard disk of your computer or portable media but not make any further transfer or copy of it; and  
4. you may only make such other use of the material as may be specifically authorised on our Site or within the relevant materials;  
2. not distribute, reproduce, modify, store, transfer or in any other way use any of the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded (including as part of any database, library, news, information, archive, website or similar service) unless specifically authorised by us or as set out above;  
3. not disseminate advertisements on our Site or use our materials for any other commercial purposes (which would include using them to promote or encourage the sale of your goods/services);  
4. not disseminate any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation;  
5. not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text;  
6. always acknowledge our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our Site;  
7.  not remove the copyright or trade mark notice(s) from our materials; 
8. not scrape, extract, download, upload, sell or offer for sale any of the material on our Site and you agree not to use, or cause to be used, any computerized or other manual or automated program or mechanism, tool, or process, including any scraper or spider robot, to access, extract, download, scrape, data mine, display, transmit, or publish, any of the material on our  Site; and
9. not upload or input any materials including any of our content, data or information (in whole or in part) onto any kind of Artificial Intelligence (AI) source or Large Language Models (LLM). You shall indemnify us from and against all losses, costs, claims and damages incurred and/or suffered by us arising out of or in connection with your breach of this clause.

We are not responsible for websites we link to  

Where our Site contains links to third party websites 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 websites or information you may obtain from them.  

We have not reviewed these third-party websites and have no control over the contents or availability of those websites or resources. If you decide to access any of the third-party websites linked to our Site, you do so entirely at your own risk.  

User-generated content is not approved by us  

Our Site may include information and materials uploaded by other users of our Site. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our Site do not represent our views or values. We accept no responsibility for any statements, material or other submissions placed on our Site by users.  

If you wish to complain about information and materials uploaded by other users please contact us using the “Contacts” section of our Site.  

Uploading content to our Site  

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our Site, or to contact other users of our Site, you will comply with these Terms. You warrant that any such contribution does comply with these terms, and you will be liable to us for any loss or damage that we suffer as a result of your breach of that warranty.  You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.  

Any content you upload to our Site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but by uploading any content to our Site you grant us, our affiliates and other users of our Site a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties.  

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our Site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights or of their right to privacy.  

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our Site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with these Terms.  You will ensure that you do not upload, post or disseminate:  

1. any material that may interrupt, damage, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment, including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data;  
2. any material which is or may infringe the rights (including intellectual property rights) of any third party or be unlawful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy, which may cause annoyance or inconvenience or may restrict or inhibit the use of our Site by any person or which constitutes or encourages conduct that may be considered a criminal offence or give rise to civil liability in any country in the world;  
3. any material which does or may bring us or any of our brands or affiliates into dispute or in any way damage their reputation; and  
4. any link(s) that take users to material that contravenes any of the above restrictions.  

We are not responsible for viruses, and you will not introduce them  

We do not guarantee that our Site and any related material provided by us to you will be secure or free from bugs, viruses or other malicious code.  

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Site. You should use your own virus protection software.  

You will not misuse our Site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You will 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 will not attack our Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you may commit a criminal offence under applicable laws. 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 any such breach, your right to use our Site will cease immediately.  

Rules about linking to our Site  

You may link to the home page of our Site, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.  You will 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 will not establish a link to our Site in any website that is not owned by you.  Our site will 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 link to or make any use of content on our Site other than that set out above, please contact us using the “Contacts” section of our Site.  

Jurisdiction and applicable law

The English courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our Site, although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these Terms in your country of residence or any other relevant country.

These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including, without limitation, non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.

Thank you for visiting our Site.