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Please read these terms of use carefully before you use this website.

By accessing any part of this website you agree to the following terms of use ("Terms"). If you do not agree to these Terms in full, you must leave the site immediately.

Certain words and phrases are defined in clause 4.3 and have the same meaning wherever used in these Terms.

1. Liability

1.1 You use this website at your own risk. Although the ABI endeavours to ensure that the information and/or material contained on the website is correct, the ABI does not make any representations or warranties, express or implied, that the Data is accurate, complete or current, or that use of the website is free of risk of viruses or other damage.

1.2 Unless otherwise agreed in writing neither the ABI nor any of its directors, officers, employees, agents or sub-contractors nor any of the members of the ABI shall be liable to you for:

1.2.1 any direct loss; or

1.2.2 any loss of profits, business or anticipated savings, or loss of or corruption of data, or any indirect loss or consequential loss whatsoever; even if it has been advised or is otherwise aware of the possibility of such loss.

1.3 Nothing in these terms affects your statutory rights as a consumer under English law.

1.4 Nothing in these terms of use shall exclude or limit the liability of the ABI for death or personal injury due to its negligence, or for its fraud.

1.5 Nothing in this website is intended to be, or should be construed as:

1.5.1 an invitation, offer or inducement to you or any other person to engage in investment activity, or

1.5.2 advice on the merits of, or a recommendation in relation to, any particular product or product provider.

1.6 While the ABI endeavours to ensure that this website is normally available 24 hours a day, the ABI will not be liable if for any reason the website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

2. Links

On this website you may be offered automatic links to other websites which are outside the control of the ABI. You should not regard these links as recommendations or promotions of any particular product or product provider, and the ABI does not accept responsibility for the content or the privacy practices of such websites, nor for any transactions between you and such websites.

3. Intellectual Property Rights

3.1 All Intellectual Property Rights in all materials on this website are vested in the ABI and/or its licensors and content contributors (including its members).

3.2 You must not copy, modify, use or otherwise deal with the whole or any part of this website (in particular, the Data) except that you may (subject always to clause 3.3):

3.2.1 quote from this website in material issued by you to a third party so long as you give due accreditation to the ABI and refer expressly to this website as the source of the relevant quotation;

3.2.2 download the Data to your hard-disk for the purpose of your own personal use (if you are a private individual) or for your own internal business use (in all other cases).

3.3 Under no circumstances are you permitted or authorised to supply or resell the Data to third parties, or extract or re-utilise any or all of the Data for commercial purposes, without the prior written consent of the ABI.

4. General

4.1 The ABI reserves the right at any time to amend these Terms without notice to you.

4.2 These Terms shall be governed by and construed exclusively in accordance with English law. Any dispute arising under these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts and, by using this website, you hereby submit to and waive any objections to, the jurisdiction of such courts.

4.3 Wherever used in these Terms, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them below:

ABI means the Association of British Insurers, whose principal place of business is at One America Square, 17 Crosswall, London, EC3N 2LB.

Data means any information and/or materials (including without limitation statistical materials) contained on this website from time to time;

Intellectual Property Rights means trade marks, trade and business names, domain names, copyright and moral rights, rights in databases, patents, rights in confidential information and all other intellectual property rights (in each case whether registered or unregistered and including applications for any of the foregoing) and all rights or forms of protection having equivalent or similar effect to any of the foregoing which may subsist anywhere in the world.