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Investment and Pensions Europe Magazine and its associated website at ipe.com, newsletters, news alerts and all news, information, data, images, specifications, reviews, videos, and other content is an information and news service (collectively referred to as the “Service”) from IPE International Publishers Ltd. (“IPE”).

The digital formats of the Service are collectively referred to as “our site”.

Terms of use of the Service 

This terms of use (together with the documents referred to in it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of the Service, whether as a guest or a registered user. Use of the Service includes accessing, browsing, or registering to use the Service across all digital and print formats.

Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the Service, as these will apply to your use of the Service. We recommend that you print a copy of this for future reference.

By using the Service, you confirm that:

  • you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them;
  • it is lawful for you to access our site in every country in which you will do so;
  • you will only apply to register, and you will only access or attempt to access, the IPE.com Reference Hub (see registration below) when you are outside the United States of America, Canada and Japan.

If you do not agree or cannot comply with these terms of use, you must not use our site.

Other applicable terms

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of the Service:

  • Our Privacy Policy , which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using the Service, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
  • Our Acceptable Use Policy , which sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of the Service. When using the Service, you must comply with this Acceptable Use Policy.
  • Our Cookie Policy , which sets out information about the cookies on the Service across all digital formats.

Information about us

The Service is operated by IPE International Publishers Ltd (“We”). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 3233596 and have our registered office at 1 Kentish Buildings, 125 Borough High Street, London SE1 1NP, United Kingdom; which is also our main trading address. Our VAT number is 685 178 492.

Changes to these terms

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. 

Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you.

Changes to the Service

We may update the Service from time to time, and may change the content at any time. However, please note that any of the content generated by the Service may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.

We do not guarantee that the Service, or any content on it, will be free from errors or omissions.

Accessing the Service

The Service is made available free of charge, although access to some content generated by the Service may be chargeable.

We do not guarantee that the Service, or any content generated by it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to the Service is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of the Service without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason the Service is unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Service.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the Service online through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

Registration to the ipe.com Reference Hub

In order that you may visit the IPE.com Reference Hub (including the Real Estate part of the Reference Hub), registration is required where content is locked down and for this you are provided with, a user ID and password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, which you must treat as confidential. This is personal to you and you must not disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable any user ID or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion, you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use or those additional terms within the registration process.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user ID or password, you must promptly notify us at support@ipe.com.

You shall indemnify us against any unauthorised use of your user ID or password, including use by a third party where you have allowed or facilitated that third party to have access to the part of the Service that requires registration, however so received.

We will only accept applications for registration from:

(a)  ‘Overseas Visitors’ ;
(b)  ‘Investment Professionals’ ; and
(c)   ‘High Net Worth Companies, High Net Worth Unincorporated Associations, and the Trustees of High Value Trusts’.

Subscription payment and term
This Agreement shall start on the Commencement Date and shall, subject to early termination, continue for the Minimum Term.

Following expiry of the Minimum Term, this Agreement shall renew automatically for further successive renewal periods of 12 months each (a “Renewal Term”) unless written notice of termination is given by one party to the other at least 30 days before the expiry of the Minimum Term or the applicable Renewal Term.

Unless written notice of termination is given by you to IPE at least 30 days before the expiry of the relevant term, your Subscription shall automatically renew for another year and we shall invoice you for the applicable Fee in accordance with the Contract Details.

Subscription Cancellation
You shall have no right to cancel your Subscription or any part of it until the end of the current term. If you notify us of your intention to cancel, such notice shall therefore only take effect at the end of the then current term, and you shall not be entitled to a refund.

You may notify us that you wish to cancel your Subscription by contacting us in writing (email sufficient).

IPE may suspend or terminate your Subscription without further obligation to you if you breach this Agreement. IPE may also suspend or terminate your Subscription if it is prevented from providing the Product to you by circumstances beyond its control. If IPE terminates your Subscription for any reason (other than for a breach by the Subscriber or its Authorised User(s)) then it shall provide you with a pro rata refund of the Fee already paid by you in respect of the unexpired term of your Subscription.

Upon termination or expiry of this Agreement for any reason, you shall, within 30 days of the Termination Date, delete all Content stored in your possession or under its control, unless otherwise agreed with IPE in writing, or unless retention is required by law or for regulatory purposes, in which case you agree that the Content shall only be retained to the extent required under such law or regulation and shall not be used for commercial purposes.

Intellectual property rights

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights contained in the Service, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may copy, print one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from the Service for your personal and non-commercial use; and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on the Service so that they can access and read it directly for themselves (but subject to these terms and conditions). However: (a) you must not make the whole or any part of any page(s) that are on, or form part of, the IPE.com Reference Hub available to any other person in any way; and (b) you must not copy, download, store, transmit, display, copy or distribute the whole or any part of any other page(s) in a structured manner or by creating a database in any form comprising all or part of the material on those pages(s), whether they are part of the IPE.com Reference Hub or not.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have copied, printed 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.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on the Service must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the content on the Service for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

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

No reliance on information

The Service provides content for general information only. Although care is taken in the preparation of information supplied by us, it is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely and we are not responsible for you taking or refraining from taking actions on the basis of information provided by us. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on the Service.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on the Service, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied:

  • in relation to any information, goods or services offered, accessed or obtained through the Service;
  • in relation to warrantees of title, non-infringement of copyright or patent rights of others, merchantability, or fitness or suitability for any purpose;
  • for the content, accuracy, integrity, lawfulness or otherwise of information on websites over which we have no control;
  • as to the suitability for any particular purpose of the information and data generated by the Service;
  • as to the accuracy of the description of any goods.

We do not endorse or in any respect warrant any third party products or services by virtue of any advertisement, information, material or content referred to, or included on, or linked from or to the Service.

Subscriptions terms and conditions

This agreement will terminate if you are in material breach of any of its terms and if the breach is not remedied within the period of twenty working days after written notice of it has been given to you.
On termination of this agreement for any reason:
(a) All licences granted under this agreement shall immediately terminate;
(b) Subject to the exceptions in this sub-clause, you will take reasonable steps to delete the Materials from your electronic media, including your intranet and electronic storage devices so that you no longer have an electronically functional copy of any part of the Materials. You are not required to delete or destroy printouts containing Materials that were made prior to termination, or copies of such printouts;
(c) We may destroy or otherwise dispose of any of the Subscriber Data in our possession unless we receive, no later than ten days after the effective date of the termination or expiry of this agreement, a written request for the delivery to you of a print-out of the then most recent back-up of the Subscriber Data. We shall use reasonable endeavours to deliver the print-out to you within 30 days of receipt of such a written request, provided that you have, at that time, paid all fees and charges outstanding at and resulting from termination (whether or not due at the date of termination). You shall pay all reasonable expenses incurred by us in delivering such print-out; and
(d) Termination shall not affect or prejudice the accrued rights of the parties as at termination, or the continuation after termination of any provision expressly stated to survive or implicitly surviving termination.
This agreement will renew for further terms equal in duration to the Term on the same terms as set out in the Order save in respect of the Licence Fee which may be increased by up to 5 (five) percent in respect of each such renewal. The provisions of the preceding sentence shall not take effect if You provide written notice to Us that You wish the agreement to terminate not less than 30 days prior to the expiry of the then current Term or renewal thereof.

Limitation of our liability

Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to the Service or any content on it, whether express or implied. 

We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

  • use of, or inability to use, the Service; or
  • use of or reliance on any content generated by the Service.
  • loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
  • business interruption;
  • loss of anticipated savings;
  • loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
  • any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of the Service or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.

We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Uploading content to our site

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of the Service, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy .

In order to submit material to our site you may be required to register a unique user ID and password (See Registration above). In this event you undertake not to maliciously create additional registration accounts for the purpose of abusing the functionality of the site, or other users; nor to seek to pass yourself off as another user of our site.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. 

Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. The rights you licence to us are described in the next section (Rights you licence).

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy. We may also be required to hand over such information by order of a court of law.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our site.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy and/or prohibit your right to access.

The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.

Rights you licence

When you upload or post content to our site (other than content supplied to those parts of the site that require registration, where separate terms apply), you grant the following license to us: a non-exclusive, transferable, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works or display and perform that user-generated content with the Service and across different media; and to promote the Service and/or our services. The licence shall include the right for any user of the site to access and use the content in accordance with these terms of use. Furthermore, it will allow us to edit, crop or arrange content to publication, or not to publish it in part or in whole. [The license shall expire when content is removed from the Service].

Viruses and other technologically harmful material

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that 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 the Service will cease immediately.

Linking to our site

You may link to our site, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

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.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy .

If you wish to make any use of content generated by the Service other than that set out above, please contact Publisher, IPE International Publishers Ltd, 1 Kentish Buildings, 125 Borough High Street, London SE1 1NP, United Kingdom, or by email to piers.diacre@ipe.com. This may be subject to a fee.

Third party links and resources in 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.

Applicable law

These terms of use, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Trade marks

IPE, Investment & Pensions Europe and the IPE logos are registered trademarks and service marks. IPE International Publishers Ltd. may also claim trademark and service mark rights in other marks contained in the pages.

Contact us

If you wish to advertise on this site, please contact Dan Brill at dan.brill@ipe.com tel +44 (0)20 7397 5280  

If you have any questions about our Terms & Conditions, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you can contact:

IPE Webmaster / Online Services
IPE International Publishers Ltd.
1 Kentish Buildings
125 Borough High Street
London
SE1 1NP
United Kingdom

info@ipe.com

Telephone number: +44 (0)20 3465 9300

January 2024


DEFINITIONS for registration

An ‘Overseas Visitor’  is a person who is domiciled outside the United Kingdom, who (i) expressly agrees only to visit the Service when they are outside the United Kingdom; and (ii) expressly confirms that they are entitled, under the law of the country in which they are domiciled and from which they will visit the Service (if different), to receive the information thereon and to access the contents thereof, whether that information and/or those contents are or may be financial promotions (under section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) (Financial Promotions ), or not.

The Financial Promotions on the IPE.com Reference Hub part of the Service must not be acted upon by persons in the United Kingdom (unless they are Investment Professionals, High Net Worth Companies, High Net Worth Unincorporated Associations, or the Trustees of a High Value Trust).

There are in place proper systems and procedures to prevent visitors from the United Kingdom (other than those to whom these Financial Promotions may lawfully be communicated) from engaging in the investment activities to which the Financial Promotions on the IPE.com Reference Hub relate, with the person directing the communication, a close relative of his, or a member of the same group.

‘Investment Professional’ means:

(i)       an authorised person (as that term is defined in the Glossary to the Handbook of Rules and Guidance maintained by the Prudential Regulation Authority and/or the Financial Conduct Authority of the United Kingdom) (the Glossary );

(ii)       an exempt person (as that term is defined in the Glossary), where the Financial Promotions on the Service relate to a controlled activity (as that term is defined by section 21(9) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) (a Controlled Activity ) which is a regulated activity to which the person is exempt;

(iii)      any other person (1) whose ordinary activities involve him in carrying on the Controlled Activities to which the Financial  Promotions on the Service relate for the purposes of a business carried on by him; or (2) who it is reasonable to expect will carry on such an activity for the purposes of a business carried on by him;

(iv)      a government, local authority, or international organisation; or

(v)       a person (‘A’) who is  director, officer or employee of a person (‘B’) falling within any of sub-paragraphs (i) to (iv) where the Financial Promotion is made to A in that capacity and where A’s responsibilities when acting in that capacity involve him in the carrying on by B of Controlled Activities.

The Financial Promotions on the IPE.com Reference Hub part of the Service are directed at Overseas Persons, Investment Professionals, High Net Worth Companies, High Net Worth Unincorporated Associations, and the Trustees of High Value Trusts.

There are in place proper systems and procedures to prevent anyone else from engaging in the investment activities to which the Financial Promotions on the IPE.com Reference Hub relate, with the person directing the communication, a close relative of his, or a member of the same group.

Persons who do not have professional experience in matters relating to investments should not rely on the Financial Promotions on the IPE.com Reference Hub part of the Service

‘High Net Worth Companies, High Net Worth Unincorporated Associations, and the Trustees of High Value Trusts’ means:

(i)      anybody corporate which has, or which is a member of the same group as an undertaking which has, a called-up share capital or net assets of not less than (1) if the body corporate has more than 20 members or is a subsidiary undertaking of an undertaking which has more than 20 members, £500,000; or (2) (otherwise) £5 million;

(ii)     any unincorporated association or partnership which has net assets of not less than £5 million;

(iii)    the trustee of a high value trust; 

(iv)    any person (‘A’) whilst acting in the capacity of director, officer or employee of a person (‘B’) falling within any of (i) to (iii) where A’s responsibilities, when acting in that capacity, involve him in B’s engaging in investment activity;

(v)     any person to whom the Financial Promotion may otherwise lawfully be communicated.

For these purposes, called up share capital has the meaning given in section 547 of the Companies Act 2006.

High Value Trust means a trust where the aggregate value of the cash and investments which form part of the trust’s assets (before deducting the amount of its liabilities) is £10 million; or has been £10 million or more at any time during the year immediately preceding the date on which the Financial Promotion in question was first made or directed.  

Net Assets has the meaning given in section 83 of the Companies Act 2006.

The Financial Promotions on the IPE.com Reference Hub part of the Service are directed at Overseas Persons, Investment Professionals, High Net Worth Companies, High Net Worth Unincorporated Associations, and the Trustees of High Value Trusts and the controlled activities and controlled investments to which they relate are only available to such person. Other persons should not act upon them.

There are in place proper systems and procedures to prevent anyone else from engaging in the investment activities to which the Financial Promotions on the IPE.com Reference Hub relate, with the person directing the communication, a close relative of his, or a member of the same group.”