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We reserve the right to make changes to this legal notice. Any changes we may make to this legal notice will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, we will also notify you by e-mail. Certain provisions of this legal notice may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages of the Website.

 

 

Usernames and Passwords

 

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Use  of Website content

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1. Search, view, retrieve, and display portions of Website content;
2. electronically save portions of Website content;
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4. remove or alter the copyright notices or other means of identification or disclaimers as they appear in the material sent to you;
5. systematically make printed or electronic copies of multiple extracts of the material for any purpose except as permitted by law or as authorised by OUP;
6. display or distribute any part of the material on any electronic network, including without limitation the Internet and the World Wide Web;
7. permit anyone to access or use the material; and/or
8. use all or any part of the material for any commercial use.

 

 

Intellectual Property Rights

 

We and/or our licensors are the owners of all intellectual property rights in the Website, and the Website and the materials on the Website are protected by intellectual property laws around the world including copyright and trade mark laws. Subject to the terms of this legal notice and any other licence agreements between you and OUP, all such rights are reserved and no materials may otherwise be copied, modified, published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without our prior written permission. Oxford University Press, OUP, Oxford and/or any other names of products or services provided by Oxford University Press and referred to on the Website are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Oxford University Press.

 

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Disclaimer

 

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You are solely responsible for your choice in selecting this Website product.

 

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Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph, OUP's liability arising out of or in connection with your use of the Website and/or this legal notice whether in contract, tort, misrepresentation, under statute or otherwise will not exceed the price you paid for your subscription to access this Website.

 

Neither party's liability for personal injury or death caused by negligence or for fraud is excluded or limited.

 

The exclusion and limitation set out in this legal notice only applies to the extent permitted by law and is without prejudice to any express provisions to the contrary in any written licence or subscription agreement which you have with Oxford University Press in respect of the use of any online service provided via the Website.

 

 

Links

 

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In addition, a link to a non-OUP website does not mean that OUP endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content, or the use, of such website or the products and/or services offered on such website. It is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your use is free of such items as viruses, worms, trojans and other items of a destructive nature.

 

 

Service Access

 

While we endeavour to ensure that the Website is normally available 24 hours a day, we shall not be liable if for any reason the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

 

Access to the Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond our control.

 

 

User-generated material

 

Portions of our Website may allow users to post their own material. Materials posted by users do not necessarily reflect the views of OUP. By posting materials on our Website, you represent that you have all necessary rights in and to such materials and that such materials will not infringe any personal or proprietary rights of any third parties, that such material is not technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data), nor will such materials be defamatory, unlawful, threatening, obscene or otherwise objectionable.

 

OUP reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to review, edit or delete any material posted by users that OUP deems defamatory, unlawful, threatening, obscene or otherwise objectionable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, OUP expressly disclaims any responsibility or liability for any material communicated by third parties through our Website.

 

Any material you upload to the Website will be considered non-confidential. In posting material to the Website you grant OUP a worldwide irrevocable royalty-free licence to use, analyse, publish, display, communicate to the public and exploit such material in all languages in any form or medium whatsoever (and to sub-license all such rights). You waive any moral rights in any content you upload to our Website (including but not limited to the right to be identified as the author). We will normally credit you but you agree that we are not obliged to do so. In posting material to any part of the Website you agree to abide by any applicable guidelines on the website.

 

 

Copyright Infringement Complaints

 

OUP respects, and takes the protection of intellectual property rights seriously. If you believe that any content on this website infringes your copyright and you wish it to be taken down, please send us a written notice by email or post which includes:

(i) A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or someone authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
(ii) Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single website are covered by a single notification, a list of such works at that website.
(iii) Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing (or to be the subject of infringing activity) which is sufficient to allow OUP to identify and locate of the material.
(iv) Your address, telephone number, and, if available, an email address at which you may be contacted.
(v) A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
(vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

 

Please send this notice to our designated DMCA agent:
By email: [email protected]
By post: Legal Department
Oxford University Press
Great Clarendon Street
Oxford
OX2 6DP
United Kingdom

 

 

Suspension and Termination

 

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this legal notice through your use of the Website. When a breach of this legal notice has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate including but not limited to blocking without warning or discussion any user who does not adhere to this legal notice, and removing all previous posts and contributions.

 

Failure to comply with this legal notice may result in immediate temporary or permanent withdrawal of your access to and/or right to use the Website.

 

 

Global Nature of Websites

 

You recognise the global nature of the Website and thus, agree to comply with all applicable local laws in your jurisdiction when using the Website.

 

Information we publish on the Website may contain references or cross-references to our services and/or products offered that are not announced or available in your country. Such references do not imply that we intend to announce such services and/or products in your country.

 

Governing Law

 

You agree that this legal notice shall be exclusively governed in accordance with the laws of and the courts in England and Wales. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this legal notice will preclude OUP from applying to any court to bring an action for the infringement of its intellectual property rights.

 

Queries

 

If you have any concerns about material which appears on the Website, please contact us.

 

Note on proprietary status

 

Oxford Dictionaries Online includes some words which have or are asserted to have proprietary status as trade marks or otherwise. Their inclusion does not imply that they have acquired for legal purposes a non-proprietary or general significance nor any other judgement concerning their legal status. In cases where the editorial staff have some evidence that a word has proprietary status this is indicated in the entry for that word but no judgement concerning the legal status of such words is made or implied thereby.

 

Updated on: 15th  March 2018

Effective on: 15th March 2018

 

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