TERMS & CONDITIONS OF WEBSITE USE

This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use on which you may contribute to or make use of our website at www.homestagersTODAY.com (Site).

You should note that your use of the Site is also subject to our Terms of Supply and you should understand that by using the Site or ordering any of our Products, Services or Information, you agree to be bound by these Terms and our terms of website use. You should print a copy of both sets of terms and conditions for future reference.

Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use our Site. By using our Site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please do not use our Site.

1 INFORMATION ABOUT US
www.homestagersTODAY.com is a Site operated by Home Staging Enterprises, which is a trading name of MetaGuilds Ltd. The company is registered in England, registration number 3933765 and is registered at 81 Burton Road, DERBY, DE1 1TJ, England, Our operating address is: Highlands, Wharncliffe Road, Ilkeston Derbyshire,  DE7 5GF, England

2 ACCESSING THE SITE
2.1 Access to our Site is permitted on a temporary basis and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our Site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

2.2 From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our Site, or our entire Site, to users who have registered with us.

2.3 If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security
procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

2.4 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 that they comply with them.

3 THE SITE CHANGES REGULARLY

We aim to update our Site regularly and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our Site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our Site may be out of date at any given time and we are under no obligation to update such material.

4 PROHIBITED USES

Viruses, hacking & other offences:

4.1 You must not misuse our Site 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 Site, the server on which our Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Site. You must not attack our Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.

4.2 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 Site will cease immediately.

4.3 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 Site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

4.4 You may use our Site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our Site:

• in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
• in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
• for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way;
• to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards;
• to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam);
• to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

4.5 You also agree:

• not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our Site in contravention of the provisions of section 5 below;
• not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt :
  • any part of our Site;
  • any equipment or network on which our Site is stored;
  • any software used in the provision of our Site;
  • or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

5 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

5.1 We are the owner of or have saught permission to reproduce all material our Site. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

5.2 You may only reuse any material on this site if you reuse in full keeping all source information within the copy. You must also get permission by emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

5.2.1 If you find material on this site which you have not agreed to have published here, you must contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. in the first instance. Any such material will be removed.

5.3 You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

5.4 Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our Site must always be acknowledged.

5.5 You must not use any part of the materials on our Site for commercial purposes without obtaining permission of the originating author.

5.6 If you print off, copy or download any part of our Site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our Site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

6 RELIANCE ON INFORMATION POSTED

Commentary and other materials posted on our Site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any contributor to our Site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

7 INTERACTIVE SERVICES

7.1 We may from time to time provide interactive services on our Site,
including, without limitation:

• chat rooms;
• bulletin boards;
• on-line support;

7.2 Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical).

7.3 We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users (and in  particular, for children) from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our Site, and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our Site, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.

7.4 The use of any of our interactive services by a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. We advise parents who permit their children to use an interactive service that it is important that they communicate with their children about their safety online, as moderation is not foolproof. Minors who are using any interactive service should be made aware of the potential risks to them.

7.5 Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.

8 TRADING NAMES

The words homestagersToday, institute of Home Stagers, The Home Staging Academy and The Staging Directory are trading names of Home Staging Enterprises

9 UPLOADING TO OUR SITE & CONTENT STANDARDS

9.1 Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to our Site, or to make contact with other users of our Site, you must comply with the content standards set out below. You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.

9.2 Any material you submit to be upload to our Site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material submitted by you to our Site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

9.3 You warrant that any information that you provide to us will be true, accurate, current and complete information and you agree to maintain and promptly update that information to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If at any point we reasonably believe that such information is not true, accurate, current and complete, we reserve the right to withdraw material from the Site.

9.4 We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials submitted by our contributors to our Site.

CONTENT STANDARDS

9.5 These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our Site (contributions)

9.6 You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

9.7 Contributions must:

• be accurate (where they state facts);
• be genuinely held (where they state opinions);
• comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.

9.8 Contributions must not:

• contain any material which is defamatory of any person;
• contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
• promote sexually explicit material or violence;
• promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
• infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person;
• be likely to deceive any person;
• be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
• promote any illegal activity or advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or
• computer misuse;
• be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety or be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;
• be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person or to give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.

9.9 We have the right to remove any material submission you make on our Site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with the content standards set out in this section 9.

INDEMNITY

9.10 You agree to indemnify Home Staging Enterprises and its affiliates, officers, agents and other partners, and employees, at all times against all costs, claims or liabilities, due to or arising out of contributions you submit, your violation of these terms or use or your violation of any rights of another.

10 INFORMATION ABOUT YOU & YOUR VISITS TO OUR SITE

We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By using our Site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

11 TRANSACTIONS CONCLUDED THROUGH OUR SITE

Contracts for the supply of goods, services and information formed through our Site or as a result of visits made by you are governed by our terms and conditions of supply

12 LINKING TO OUR SITE

12.1 You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

12.2 You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.

12.3 Our Site must not be framed on any other Site and you may not create a link to any part of our Site other than the home page without our specific consent (see section 8.4 below). We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in these terms of use.

12.4 If you wish to make any use of material on our Site other than that set out above, please address your request to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

13 LINKS FROM OUR SITE

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

14 OUR LIABILITY

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

14.1.1 all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.

14.1.2 any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our Site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our Site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for:

• loss of income or revenue;
• loss of business;
• loss of profits or contracts;
• loss of anticipated savings;
• loss of data;
• loss of goodwill;
• wasted management or office time; and
• 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.

14.2 This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

15 SUSPENSION & TERMINATION

15.1 We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of these terms of use through your use of our Site. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.

15.2 Failure to comply with these terms constitutes a material breach of the terms of use upon which you are permitted to use our Site and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

• immediate, immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any content provided by you to our Site;
• issue of a warning to you;
• legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach;
• further legal action against you;
• disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.

15.3 We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of these terms of use. The responses described in these terms of use are not limited and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

16 VARIATIONS

We may revise these terms of use 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 made, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our Site.

17 JURISDICTION & APPLICABLE LAW

Courts in Englands and Wales will have 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 conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country. These terms of use are governed by the laws of Englands and Wales.

18 YOUR CONCERNS

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