Terms & Conditions

These are the terms and conditions on which you may use this site and dobney.com research website (the Website - which includes scripts, code, images and database content used to create the webpages) in general. In accessing any part of this site you are agreeing to these terms and conditions. dobney.com is the trading name of The Dobney Corporation Limited registered at 27 Grange Park, St Arvans, Chepstow, UK (see section 10). If you do not agree with the terms and conditions (or are not authorised to do so) you must not use this site. If you have any questions please contact help@dobney.com.

  1. Access and Use
  2. Privacy Policy and Registration
  3. Community Forums
  4. Technical Requirements and Site Security
  5. Warranties and Limitation of Liability
  6. Third Party Sites and Services
  7. Choice of Law and Jurisdiction
  8. General
  9. Paid for Services
  10. Corporate information
  11. Changes to Terms and Conditions

Terms and conditions - general notices

These terms and conditions were last updated on 19th March 2025 and replace all previous terms and conditions for this site.

1. Access and Use

All material available on dobney.com (the "Content") belongs to The Dobney Corporation Limited (the Site Owner) including scripts, code, images and database data. The Dobney Corporation Limited own all intellectual property rights (including copyright and database rights) in the contents on this site (the Content) and any selection or arrangement of the Content. You may retrieve and display Content on a computer screen, PDA or mobile telephone, print individual pages on paper (but not photocopy them) and store such pages in electronic form on disk or on your mobile telephone (but not on any server or other storage device connected to a network) for your personal, non-commercial use.

Code, script, knowledge and intellectual property in the The Dobney Corporation Limited website remain the sole ownership of The Dobney Corporation Limited, licenced to Notanant Limited. You may not copy, decompile, amend or otherwise use the intellectual property without express permission of The Dobney Corporation Limited.

You may not use the Website for any unlawful purpose. Except as expressly set out above, you may not reproduce, publish, broadcast, transmit, modify, adapt, create derivative works of, store, archive or in any way commercially exploit any of the Content without the express permission of the Site Owner or, where materials are owned by Notanant Limited, Notanant Limited. Without limitation, you may not do any of the following without prior written permission from Notanant Limited (and neither may you allow a third party to do any of the same):

  • redistribute any of the Content; or
  • remove the copyright or trade mark notice from any copies of Content made under these terms and conditions; or
  • create a database in electronic or structured manual form by systematically downloading and storing all or any of the Content; or
  • deep link to, frame, spider, harvest or scrape the Content or otherwise access the Content for similar purposes; or
  • use any machine, electronic, web based or similar device to read or extract the Content by automated or machine based means.

If you would like to link to any part of the Website, please read and comply with the following guidelines and all applicable laws. A site or service that links to the Website:

  • may display a dobney.com logo to our design standard but must not otherwise use any dobney.com trade marks without permission from Notanant Limited;
  • may not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of the logo;
  • must not in any way imply that Notanant Limited is endorsing it or its products or services;
  • must not misrepresent its relationship with Notanant Limited or The Dobney Corporation Limited or present false information about Notanant Limited or The Dobney Corporation Limited;
  • must not be a site or service that infringes any intellectual property or other right of any person or that otherwise does not comply with all relevant laws and regulations;
  • must not be a site or service that contains content that could be construed as distasteful or offensive.

The Site Owner expressly reserves the right to require that any link in breach of these terms and conditions be removed and to take whatever other action it deems appropriate.

2. Privacy Policy and Registration

All information received by you from your use of the Website will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy below. This Privacy Policy does not affect your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For queries under GDPR contact help@dobney.com

Privacy Policy

  • It is the responsibility of the Site Owner to ensure any personal details held on this site are treated in compliance with this Privacy Policy and GDPR. Your privacy is important to us!
  • The Site Owner is required to comply with the UK's 1998 Data Protection Act and GDPR even if they are based outside the UK. This includes registration where applicable.
  • As a matter of principle treat your visit to this website as anonymous unless you explicitly agree to share data with us by using our contact form or explicitly registering with us. We do use Cookies to help with the operation of the site, but not to track individuals for other purposes
  • Active members on the Website are able to set preferences for how personal data is to be shared with others and how that information will be used. These preferences must be complied with at the date that the information is used. This includes control over the use of details for mailing, telephone and email purposes by the Site Owner, other members or any third parties.
  • If, on registration, you say you would like to receive newsletters from this site via email, the site owner can use your email address separately from the Notanant system but explicit consent must be given.
  • Active members may be invited to join other Sites on Notanant through the Notanant communication system. Active members must approve the request before becoming a member of any other Site.
  • The Site Owner may make copies of any information on the Website for the purpose of back-up or to enhance the way the Website works but will not supply private information to third parties where permission has not be granted by the information owner.

If you are registered on the Site, it is your responsibility to include accurate, complete registration information and it is your responsibility to update and maintain changes to that information on the applicable Website pages. This is particularly important if you subscribe to receive any Paid For Services. The Site Owner is entitled to rely on any information you provide to us.

Each registration is for a single user only. On registration, you will choose a user name and password ("ID"). The Site Owner does not permit any other person sharing your user name and password or access through a single name and password being made available to multiple users on a network. The Site Owner may cancel or suspend your access if you do this without further obligation to you.

You are responsible for all use of the Website made by you or anyone else using your ID and for preventing unauthorised use of your ID. If you believe there has been any breach of security such as the disclosure, theft or unauthorised use of your ID or any payment information, you must notify Notanant.com immediately by e-mailing help@dobney.com. We recommend that you do not select an obvious user password (such as your name) and that you change it regularly.

If you provide the Site Owner with an email address or mobile phone number that will result in any emails or SMS messages the Site Owner may send you being sent to you via a computer network or telephone operated or owned by a third party (e.g. your employer or college) then you warrant that you are entitled to receive those messages. You also agree that the Site Owner may refrain from sending messages to you without notifying you, even if you have subscribed to receive them, if we receive a request from a third party to stop sending emails or SMS messages to you.

Where you come across information about other individuals or businesses on the Website you must heed the wishes expressed by the Site Owner by individuals not to be contacted. In particular where information on the Website shows that someone chooses not to receive information or communications in one form or another, you may not contact that person in that form, either through the website or through alternative methods. You may not use information on the Website to build lists that are not held on the website itself, or to scrape personal information.

The Site Owner itself does not use any personal information for marketing purposes. We may log and monitor IP addresses to prevent mis-use of our systems. We do not use IP addresses to identify individuals.

Requests for copies of personal data held on the Website should first go through the Site Owner. Notanant acts as a sub-contractor on their behalf. If the Site Owner does not respond within the legal timeframe, Notanant will provide necessary data.

Any person signed up to the website, eg by making a purchase from the Site Owner, can have their data removed by sending a copy of the assigned username and the word REMOVE to help@dobney.com

3. Content

Registered Users and members may also add content to the Website on their own profile pages, and to areas inviting content to be added

You must not add, either on personal page or on a Site

  • post, link to or otherwise publish information that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, indecent, infringe copyright or other rights of third parties or which contain any other form of illegal content;
  • post or transmit any information to Notanant that contains software viruses, files or code designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of Notanant or any computer software or equipment;

Individual users are solely responsible for the content they post to their personal pages. By including information, users agree to indemnify the Site Owner from all claims, costs and expenses (including legal expenses) arising out of the content posted or published by you that are in breach of this Section 3.

Parts of the Website may contain information submitted by users over whom the Site Owner has no control. The Site Owner cannot guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of any such content. Some users may breach these terms and conditions and include information in Sites that are misleading, untrue or offensive. You must bear all risk associated with your use of this Website and should not rely on any information on this Website in making (or refraining from making) any specific investment or other decisions.

It is not possible for the Site Owner to fully and effectively monitor when Sites, or personal pages infringe these conditions or the copyright of a third party or other third party rights. If you believe that an Site or personal page infringes any legal rights that you may have, you should notify Notanant Limited immediately with specific details by contacting help@dobney.com.

4. Technical Requirements and Site Security

The Site Owner is able to restrict access to certain parts and areas of the site. We do not guarantee that information held on the Website is secure or that the access controls cannot be breeched, whether maliciously or by accident, but we do make endeavours to keep the Website safe. You must bear all risk associated with including information on the Website and accept that we cannot guarantee the security of any information in any form on the Website.

Should you come across any breech of security you will report it to the Site Owner who will take steps to prevent such a breech happening again.

The Site Owner provides no guarantee over the availability of the Website or the ability of users to access the Website. Whilst we will endeavour to ensure the on-going provision of the Website you accept that computers and networks fail, crash or otherwise breakdown and that it may not be possible to restore the Website within any specific length of time.

From time to time the Site Owner or Notanant Limited will make back-ups of the Website and associated files and databases. You allow these parties to copy any information held on the Website for the purpose of back-up. These back-ups may be used to restore Notanant to working order or to enable the development or implementation of new Notanant features and services. The Site Owner does not provide any guarantee that information provided to on the Website will be backed up. You bear the entire risk that information on the Website may be corrupted or deleted and we recommend that you maintain your own back-up data.

5. WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

The Site Owner is not responsible for any use of the Content by you outside its scope as stated in these terms and conditions.

LIMITED WARRANTY

What we can guarantee: The Site Owner SHALL DEVELOP AND OPERATE the Website WITH REASONABLE SKILL AND CARE AND HAS REASONABLE SECURITY PROCEDURES IN PLACE.

What we cannot guarantee: EXCEPT AS SET OUT IN THE PARAGRAPH ABOVE, The Site Owner DOES NOT GIVE ANY WARRANTIES IN RESPECT OF the Website. TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW, The Site Owner HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, CONDITIONS OR DUTIES OF EVERY NATURE WHATSOEVER (EXCEPT ANY DUTIES OF GOOD FAITH), INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY, MERCHANTABILITY OR OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ANY EXPRESS OR STATUTORY WARRANTIES, AND ANY WARRANTIES OR DUTIES REGARDING ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, COMPLETENESS, PERFORMANCE, AVAILABILITY, LACK OF NEGLIGENCE OR OF WORKMANLIKE EFFORT. NEITHER DO WE PROVIDE ANY WARRANTY THAT the Website IS FREE FROM INFECTION BY VIRUSES OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT HAS CONTAMINATING OR DESTRUCTIVE PROPERTIES.

OUR LIABILITY EXCLUSION

TO THE FULL EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOU AGREE THAT the Site Owner WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY LOSSES WHICH RELATE TO YOUR BUSINESS OR WHICH ARE NOT A DIRECT CONSEQUENCE OF YOUR USE OF the Website (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS OR LOSS OF PRIVACY OR LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO DATA) OR WHICH ARISE AS A RESULT OF YOU USING NOTANANT OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

IN ADDITION TO BUT SEPARATE FROM THE ABOVE SPECIFIC EXCLUSION AND TO THE FULL EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOU ALSO AGREE THAT The Site Owner WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY OTHER INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER THAT ARISE OUT OF OR ARE RELATED TO YOUR USE OF NOTANANT.

YOUR REMEDIES

The Site Owner SHALL USE REASONABLE ENDEAVOURS TO PROMPTLY REMEDY ANY FAULTS IN the Website OF WHICH IT IS AWARE.

YOU AGREE THAT YOUR ONLY OTHER REMEDY (INCLUDING FOR NEGLIGENCE) FOR ANY DAMAGES THAT YOU INCUR ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF the Website (TO THE EXTENT THAT the Site Owner's LIABILITY IS NOT EXCLUDED BY THIS SECTION 5) IS AS FOLLOWS:

  • IF YOU HAVE SUBSCRIBED TO RECEIVE ANY PAID FOR SERVICES, YOUR REMEDY IS LIMITED TO THE DIRECT DAMAGES YOU ACTUALLY INCUR ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF NOTANANT. THIS IS SUBJECT TO A LIMIT EQUAL TO THE ANNUAL FEE PAID BY YOU TO the Site Owner PURSUANT TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS DURING THE YEAR IN WHICH THE DAMAGE IS INCURRED. YOU MAY AT YOUR OPTION RECEIVE PAID FOR SERVICES TO THE EQUIVALENT VALUE OF THIS LIMIT IN PLACE OF MONETARY DAMAGES.
  • IF YOU HAVE NOT SUBSCRIBED TO RECEIVE ANY PAID FOR SERVICES, THEN TO THE EXTENT WE CANNOT REMEDY THE RELEVANT FAULT IN the Website, YOUR REMEDY IS LIMITED TO RECEIVING PAID FOR SERVICES AT NO COST UP TO THE VALUE OF THE DIRECT DAMAGES YOU ACTUALLY INCUR ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF the Website. THIS IS SUBJECT TO A LIMIT EQUAL TO THE VALUE OF THE HIGHEST THEN APPLICABLE ANNUAL Notanant SUBSCRIPTION FEE LISTED ON www.notanant.com/addmod_services.php?org_id=1. YOU MAY NOT RECEIVE MONETARY DAMAGES.

IF A COURT OF COMPETENT JURSIDICTION DETERMINES THAT EITHER OF THE ABOVE LIMITS ON OUR LIABILITY ARE UNENFORCEABLE, THEN YOU AGREE THAT IN ANY EVENT OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU SHALL NOT EXCEED DAMAGES GREATER THAN TWICE THE VALUE OF THE HIGHEST THEN APPLICABLE ANNUAL NOTANANT SUBSCRIPTION FEE LISTED ON www.notanant.com/addmod_services.php?org_id=1.

OTHER INFORMATION

Without limiting the above, The Site Owner is not liable for matters beyond its reasonable control. The Site Owner does not control telephones, third party communications networks (including your Internet Service Provider) or the Internet or the acts of third parties.

6. Third Party Sites and Services

The Website contains links to other Internet websites or online and mobile services provided by independent third parties ("Third Party Sites"), either directly or through frames. Notanant Limited is not responsible for the availability or content of Third Party Sites and will not be a party to, or in any way responsible for, any transaction concerning goods or services available from such Third Party Sites. If you purchase products or services from a Third Party Site your contract for such products or services will be with the third party and not with the Site Owner. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to Third Party Sites.

Copyright in any software, documents or other electronic data (Downloads) that is made available for download from the Website belongs to Notanant Limited or to the Site Owner. Your use of the Downloads is governed by the terms of any licence agreement that may accompany or be included with the Download. The Site Owner is not responsible for any technical or other issues that may arise from these Downloads. Do not install or use any Downloads unless you agree to such licence agreement.

If the Website contains advertising and sponsorship. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on the Website complies with international and national law. The Site Owner will not be responsible for any error or inaccuracy in advertising or sponsorship material.

7. Choice of Law and Jurisdiction

These terms and conditions shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, English law.

To the extent possible in the applicable jurisdiction, the parties irrevocably agree that the courts of England shall (subject to the paragraph below) have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute which may arise out of, under, or in connection with these terms and conditions, and for those purposes irrevocably submit all disputes to the jurisdiction of the English courts.

8. General

You may not assign, sub-license or otherwise transfer any of your rights under these terms and conditions.

If any provision of these terms and conditions is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of that provision will not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these terms and conditions, which shall remain in full force and effect.

Failure by either party to exercise any right or remedy under these terms and conditions does not constitute a waiver of that right or remedy. Headings in these terms and conditions are for convenience only and will have no legal meaning or effect.

9. Corporate Information

Company Name The Dobney Corporation Limited

Registered office: 27 Grange Park, St Arvans, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, UK

Registered in England No 04287937

10. Changes to Terms and Conditions

These terms and conditions were published on 19th March 2025 and supercede any previous terms and conditions. You should periodically check these pages for changes.