Terms & Conditions

Thank you for your interest in Lotus and your visit to media.lotuscars.com. This page sets out the terms and conditions of use on which you may use our website ("our site").

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

Information about us

Media.lotuscars.com is a site operated by Group Lotus Plc ("We"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 606189 and have our registered office at Potash Lane Hethel Norwich NR14 8EZ. Our main trading address is the same as our registered office address. Our VAT number is GB105 986 355

Accessing our site

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

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.

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 reserve 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 and conditions of use.

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 conditions, and that they comply with them.

Intellectual property rights

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it.  You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

Copyrights

© Copyright 2016 Group Lotus plc.

All rights reserved. Any text, images, graphics, sound files, animation files, video files, and their arrangement on this website are subject to copyright and other intellectual property protection. These objects may not be copied for commercial use or distribution, nor may these objects be modified or reposted to other sites. This site may also contain images that are subject to third-party copyright.

Trademarks

LOTUS, the Lotus Roundel Device, model names and all associated logos and distinctive designs are trade marks of Group Lotus plc subject to trade mark and other intellectual property protection.

Reliance on information posted

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

Our 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 material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

Our liability

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:

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

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, provided that this condition shall not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your tangible property or any other claims for direct financial loss that are not excluded by any of the categories set out above.

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.

Information about you and 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.

Viruses, hacking and other offences

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.

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.

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.

Linking to our site

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.

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

Our site must 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 make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please address your request to webmaster@lotuscars.co.uk.

Links from our site

Any links to other sites and resources provided by third parties 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.

Jurisdiction and applicable law

The English courts will have, and you hereby submit to, 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 and conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country.  These terms and conditions of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England.

Variations

We may from time to time amend these terms and conditions and we reserve the right to do so without notice at any time.  The amended version will be published on our site.

Your concerns

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact webmaster@lotuscars.co.uk or:

Webmaster, Group Lotus plc, Potash Lane, Hethel, Norwich, Norfolk, NR14 8EZ, United Kingdom.

Thank you again for your interest in Lotus and your visit to our site.

Media.lotuscars.com is a site operated by Group Lotus Plc ("We"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 606189 and have our registered office at Potash Lane Hethel Norwich NR14 8EZ. Our main trading address is the same as our registered office address. Our VAT number is GB105 986 355