WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE
Last updated: 21 April 2026
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE
By using our website you accept these terms
By using our website, you confirm that you accept these terms of and conditions of use and that you agree to comply with them.
If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our website.
Who we are
Claire.co.uk is a website operated by CONTAMINATED LAND:APPLICATIONS IN REAL ENVIRONMENTS ("CL:AIRE” or ”We"). We are a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales under company number 3740059 and have our registered office at Reading Business Centre, Fountain House, Queens Walk, Reading, England, RG1 7QF. We are a registered charity with registered charity number 1075611.
Changes to our website, suspension and withdrawal
We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our website for business and operational reasons.
We may update and change our website from time to time.
We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation.
Our website is only for users in the UK
Our website is directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that content available on or through our website is appropriate for use or available in other locations.
Other applicable terms
These terms of and conditions of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our website:
· If you purchase a membership, our Membership and Account Terms and Conditions will apply to your membership.
· If you purchase goods or services (including training courses) from our website, our Products and Events Terms and Conditions will apply to such sale.
In the event of any conflict between a provision in the Membership and Account Terms and Conditions or the Products and Events Terms and Conditions and a provision in these terms and conditions of use, the Membership and Account Terms and Conditions or the Products and Events Terms and Conditions (as applicable) shall take priority.
You are responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our website through your internet connection are aware of these terms and conditions of use and other applicable terms of service, and that they comply with them.
Log-in details
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. 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 reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms and conditions of use.
If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us by calling the contact number at the foot of the website.
Use of content on our website
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our website, 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 print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our website for your personal use. You may not copy or download any complete database or substantial portion of it. Databases on the website include (without limitation) lists of members and industry contacts, their logos, profiles and contact details.
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.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our website must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated).
You must not use any part of the content on our website for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors. There may be a fee to pay for any such licence.
You must not use any content, code or technical element of our website for (1) the development of any software program, including, but not limited to, training a machine learning or artificial intelligence (AI) system; or (2) providing archived or cached data sets containing content or code to another person or entity.
You may not use any part of the content on our website to say or imply that we endorse, promote, supply or approve of you, your business or any product, service or material without our prior written consent.
If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our website in breach of these terms and conditions of use, your right to use our website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made (except that you are permitted to print off and retain one copy of these terms and conditions of use for your records).
Our logo and branding
Except as otherwise provided in Membership and Account Terms and Conditions (to the extent these are applicable), you must obtain our prior written permission to use the name or logo of CL:AIRE or any CL:AIRE initiative, for any use, including (without limitation): (i) merchandising purposes; (ii) on or in relation to a software product that includes or is built on top of any CL:AIRE initiative, including open source projects; or (iii) in an attention-getting or branding manner. Without our express prior written consent, no CL:AIRE or CL:AIRE initiative logo may be used in a manner that implies an affiliation with, approval by, endorsement of or sponsorship by us.
Prohibition of text or data mining and web scraping
You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our website or any services provided via, or in relation to, our website for any purpose, including the development, training, fine-tuning or validation of AI systems or models. This includes manually scaping information from the website and using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of) any "robot", "bot", "spider", "scraper" or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of our website or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same, or any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information or develop, train, fine-tune or validate AI systems or models which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.
The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of the Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).
You shall not use, and we do not consent to the use of, our website, or any data published by, or contained in, or accessible via, our website or any services provided via, or in relation to, our website for the purposes of developing, training, fine-tuning or validating any AI system or model.
This clause will not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.
Linking to our website
You must not establish a link to our website in any website that is not owned by you.
Our website must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any part of our website other than the home page.
If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our website other than that set out above, please contact us using the contact details at the foot of the website.
Uploading content to our website
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to create content directly on our website, upload or share content to our website, or to make contact with other users of our website, you must comply with the standards set out in the ‘Acceptable use’ section below.
You warrant that any such contribution complies with those standards, and you are liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.
We will consider any content you upload to our website to be non-confidential and not protected by any trade mark, patent or copyright, that is, in the public domain. You own your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of our website a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to others. The rights you license to us are described in the ‘Rights you are giving us to use material you upload’ section below.
We also have the right to disclose your identity to anyone who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our website violates their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy.
We have the right to remove any posting you make on our website if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the acceptable use standards set out in the ‘Acceptable use’ section below.
If you wish to contact us in relation to content you have uploaded to our website and that we have taken down, please call the contact number at the foot of the website.
Rights you are giving us to use material you upload
When you upload or post content to our website, you grant us the following rights to use that content:
· A worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the website and across different media including to promote our website or the service forever.
· A worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence for other users, partners or advertisers to use the content for their purposes forever.
User-generated content is not approved by us
Our website may include information and materials uploaded by other users. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our website do not represent our views or values.
Acceptable use
These acceptable use standards apply to any material you upload or share to our website or generate on our website (“User Content”). They also apply to any contact you make with other users on our website, links to our website, and any other ways you use our website.
We will determine, in our discretion, whether any User Content or your use of our website breaches these acceptable use standards.
You may not use our website:
· In any way that breaches any 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 bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person.
· To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, share, post, 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.
User Content:
· Must be accurate (where it states facts) and genuinely held (when expressing opinions).
· Must comply with applicable laws and not infringe any third party rights.
· Must not be defamatory of any person, obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
Reliance on information on this website
The content on our website is provided for general information only. The content on our website is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely.
We make no representations about the suitability of the information contained in the documents and related graphics published on our website for any purpose. All such documents and related graphics are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind.
In particular, the information contained on this website should not be construed as technical advice for dealing with the management of any particular land contamination/contaminated land website or area or waste or risk management activity or situation.
You should verify any information obtained from this website before acting upon it. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our website. Any decision or action taken by you on the basis of information provided on or via our website is at your sole discretion and risk.
No representations, warranties or guarantees
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our website, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our website is accurate, complete or up to date.
Third party website links
Where our website contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.
We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources and accept no responsibility for them. In addition, we are not responsible for any webcasting or other form of transmission from any linked website or providing any endorsement of the linked website and content. We will not be a party to any contract you enter into with a third-party website and shall not be liable for any loss or damage suffered by you as a result of the use of any linked website. You are responsible for using any linked website in accordance with its terms and policies.
Viruses and misuse
We do not guarantee that our website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our website. You should use your own virus protection software.
You must not attempt to circumvent our content security technology. You must not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our network or infrastructure.
You must not misuse our website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful, or otherwise harmfully interacting with our website or any part of it. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our website, the server on which our website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our website or any other equipment or network connected with our website. You must not interfere with, damage or disrupt any software used in the provision of our website or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party on which this website relies in any way. You must not attack our website 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 website will cease immediately.
Loss or damage suffered by you
We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any products to you, which will be set out in our Products and Events Terms and Conditions. In the event of any conflict between a provision in the Products and Events Terms and Conditions and a provision in these terms and conditions of use, the Products and Events Terms and Conditions shall take priority.
Loss or damage suffered by you: liability to consumer users
If you are a consumer user, you agree not to use our website for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
If defective digital content that we have supplied damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation. However, we will not be liable for damage that you could have avoided by following our advice to apply an update offered to you free of charge or for damage that was caused by you failing to correctly follow installation instructions or to have in place the minimum system requirements advised by us.
Loss or damage suffered by you: liability to business users
We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our website or any content on it.
We will not be liable to you 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, our website; or
· use of or reliance on any content displayed on our website.
In particular, we will not be liable for:
· 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.
Indemnity
You warrant that your use of our website will comply with these terms and conditions of use and agree to indemnify us and any member of a CL:AIRE project team or supplier project team for any loss or damage we and or they suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.
How we may use your personal information
We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy.
Applicable law
If you are a consumer, please note that these terms and conditions of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction, except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are a resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.
If you are a business, these terms and conditions of use, their subject matter and their 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.