Terms & Conditions

Website usage Terms and Conditions

These are the terms and conditions, along with our privacy policy, which govern your use of www.maryportas.com.

If you continue to browse and use these websites you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use.

The terms ‘Mary Portas’ or ‘Yellowdoor Creative Marketing Ltd’ or ‘us’ or ‘we’ refers to the owner of the websites whose registered office is 22 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HJ. Henceforth refered to as ‘The Owners’. Our company registration number is 3210052 (England and Wales). The term ‘you’ refers to the user or viewer of our website.

The use of this website is subject to the following terms of use:

The content of the pages of this website is for your general information and use only. It is subject to change without notice.
Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website meet your specific requirements.
This website contains material which is owned by or licensed to us. This material includes, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance and graphics. Reproduction is prohibited other than in accordance the exceptions, which form part of these terms and conditions.
All trademarks reproduced in this website, which are not the property of, or licensed to the operator, are acknowledged on the website.
Unauthorised use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.
From time to time this website may also include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse the website(s). We have no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s).
You may not create a link to this website from another website or document without the ‘The Owners’ prior written consent.
Your use of this website and any dispute arising out of such use of the website is subject to the laws of England, Scotland and Wales.

Business privacy policy

This privacy policy sets out how ‘The Owners’ uses and protects any information that you give ‘The Owners’ when you use this website.

‘The Owners’ are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

‘The Owners’ may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 1st February 2010.
What we collect

We may collect the following information:

name
contact information including email address

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

Internal record keeping.
We may use the information to improve our products and services.
We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, promotions or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information by writing to or emailing us at info@maryportas.com.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to Yellowdoor Creative Marketing Ltd, 22 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HJ.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Website disclaimer

The information contained in this website is for general information purposes only. The information is provided by ‘The Owners’ and while we endeavour to keep the information up to date and correct, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the website for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk.

In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from loss of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this website.

Through this website you are able to link to other websites which are not under the control of ‘The Owners’. We have no control over the nature, content and availability of those sites. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.

Every effort is made to keep the website up and running smoothly. However, ‘The Owners’ take no responsibility for, and will not be liable for, the website being temporarily unavailable due to technical issues beyond our control.
Intellectual Property Rights, Access and Use of the Site

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in the site, the content and the trade marks. Subject to these terms, we grant you a limited, temporary, revocable and non-exclusive licence to access, browse and use the site (including the content and trade marks) in accordance with the access and use of the site

Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following:

you may print or download to a local hard disk extracts for your personal and non-commercial use only
you may copy the content to individual third parties for their personal use, but only if you acknowledge the website as the source of the material

You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.
Advertising and Sponsorship

Parts of the Site contain advertising and sponsorship. Advertisers and sponsors are solely responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on the Site complies with all legal and regulatory requirements and does not contain any material which is objectionable including, without limit, information which is defamatory, obscene, threatening or untrue. We are not responsible for any such material or any error or inaccuracy contained in such material and any issues which you may have should be raised directly with the relevant advertiser or sponsor.
Submission of Materials

If you submit materials to us, you agree:

to grant us a royalty free, worldwide, perpetual license to use, copy, distribute, publish, republish, store, archive, syndicate, sub-license, transmit, adapt, edit, create derivative works from, perform, exercise publicity and copyright rights in relation to such material (including any ideas, concepts or formats) in any manner and in any format and/or media;
to any moral rights in the material submitted;
that we may disclose your identity to any third party making any claim or assertion of any kind in relation to your material; and
that we may monitor your use of the Site and any communications made via the Site.

In submitting material to us, you warrant that any material you submit:

is not obscene, threatening, menacing, offensive, defamatory, abusive, in breach of confidence, in breach of any intellectual property right (including, without limitation, copyright) or otherwise in breach of or violates any applicable law or regulation or code, and you shall indemnify us and keep us fully indemnified against any third party liabilities, claims, costs, loss or damage we incur as a result of publishing material you submit to us, including consequential losses.

We may choose to publish or not publish any material you submit to us and exercise our rights in relation to that material in our absolute discretion.

We accept no liability for any content submitted by you or other users and third parties. We do not vet or pre-screen any material that you or other users and third parties have submitted to the Site, however we reserve the right to remove, at any time and without reason or prior notice or any liability any material submitted by you or other users and third parties.
Exclusions and limitations of liability

All information and/or data on the Site is provided on an “as is” basis. Save to the extent required by law, no representations, warranties or terms of any kind are made (or shall be implied by statute or otherwise) in respect of the Site or the Content, including, without limitation, warranties of satisfactory quality, conformity to contract, accuracy, adequacy, conformity to description or fitness for any particular purpose.

‘The Owners’ do not give any warranty or guarantee relating to availability of the Site or that the Site and/or our operation of it, the Content or the server that makes the Site available are error or virus free or free of other harmful components or that your use of the Site and/or the Content will be uninterrupted.

You agree that ‘The Owners’, its directors, employees, agents or other representatives or affiliates will not be responsible or liable (whether in contract, tort or otherwise), under any circumstances for any amount or kind of loss or damage (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any anticipated loss of profit, loss of profit, loss of opportunity, loss of data, costs and fines and/or any special or incidental damages of any kind) that may result to you or a third party arising from or connected in any way to:

interruption of business; or
access or other delays, terminations, suspensions, denials or access interruptions to the Site; or
data non-delivery, data misdelivery, data corruption, destruction of data or other modification of data; or
third party website links on the Site; or
reliance on the information contained on the Site; or
computer viruses, system failures or malfunctions which may occur in connection with your use of the Site; or
any inaccuracies, omissions or misleading, false or deceptive statement in the Content; or
events beyond our reasonable control.

Notwithstanding any provision of these Terms, ‘The Owners’ do not exclude or limit its liability for:

death or personal injury caused by its negligence or that of any of its officers, employees or agents; or
fraudulent misrepresentation; or
any liability which it is not lawful to exclude either now or in the future.

Indemnity

You will indemnify and will keep indemnified ‘The Owners’ on demand against all claims, costs, proceedings, demands, losses, damages, expenses (including legal expenses) or liability whatsoever arising directly or indirectly as a result of:

any breach of these Terms by you; or
your fault, negligence or breach of statutory duty; or
your use of software robots, spiders, crawlers, or similar data gathering and extraction tools, or any other action you take that imposes an unreasonable burden or load on our infrastructure (whether owned by, leased or licensed to us) or that of any of our Suppliers.

Secret Shopper Guidelines

These guidelines help us ensure that the Secret Shopper reviews we publish are accurate, relevant and fair.

All Secret Shopper reviews must meet standards in these categories:

Comment Etiquette

No swearing, threats, prejudiced comments, hate speech, sexually explicit language or other non-family-friendly content.

Please follow standard etiquette when writing your review. Do not use ALL CAPS, excessive typographic symbols, HTML tags or slang.

Written by actual shoppers

Reviews must be based on the shopper’s experience, not second-hand information or hearsay (unverified information, rumors or quotations from other sources or the reported opinions/experience of others).
Reviews must be true, fair, and constructive.
While reviews can be negative, they must not be defamatory or offensive in nature
Reviews must not personally name individual employees of a retailer or organisation being reviewed
Reviews written by owners or management posing as shoppers will not be accepted. If you are an owner or manager and would like to respond to a comment, please email secretshopper@maryportas.com

Unique and independent

You may write one review on any given organisation. Secret Shoppers may submit subsequent reviews for additional visits as follows:

o Review(s) may be submitted for subsequent shop visit(s) one month after the publication of your last review.

Important note: If you’d like to update a review you wrote, please contact webmaster@maryportas.com

Reviews should contain only original content and no quoted material from other sources.
All e-mail addresses and contact information are not allowed in reviews, nor is promotional material of any kind. We reserve the right to reject any URL for any reason.
Please do not include questions for other reviewers or comments about other reviews, reviewers or management responses.

Age requirement

All reviewers must be over the age of 13.

Your personal details

The e-mail address associated with your account must be correct. We may need to contact you if there is a problem with your review, so no fake e-mail addresses, please.
We will never publish your email address, and are happy for you to use an alias rather than your real name.

And finally…

Mary Portas Website LLP reserves the right to remove a review or management response at any time for any reason.
The reviews posted on MaryPortas.com are individual and highly subjective opinions. The opinions expressed in reviews are those of Secret Shoppers and not of Mary Portas Website LLP, Mary Portas, or any of her associated companies. We do not endorse any of the opinions expressed by reviewers or in management responses. We are not affiliated with any establishment listed or reviewed on this web site.