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Citywire is a company registered in England and Wales (company number 3828440), with registered office at 3 Spring Mews, London, SE11 5AN.</p> <p>By using or accessing our Site or services, including the Citywire Feed,  (whether as a guest or a Member) you confirm your agreement to these terms of service (‘Terms’). Your use of our Site is at all times subject to these Terms (which form a binding contract between Citywire and you). If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use our Site. Where you are accessing this Site in a Professional Business Capacity other terms may also apply to your use of our Site and services as set out in a separate agreement between us or between us and your employer.</p> <p>The Citywire Privacy Policy forms a part of this Agreement and explains how information collected while becoming a Member or, in limited circumstances, whilst using our Site as a non-Member, may be used by Citywire and its partners. By using our Site, you confirm that you have read the Citywire Privacy Policy and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.</p> <p><strong>1.   Terminology</strong></p> <p>‘App’ means the Citywire software application from time to time downloadable from a third party app store (whether or not for payment) to enable you to use our Site from the device to which the software application is downloaded.</p> <p>‘Citywire’, ‘we’ or ‘our’ – Citywire Financial Publishers Limited.</p> <p>‘Citywire Feed’ – any Content downloaded for display on your website in accordance with the licence set out in section 5 below.</p> <p>‘Citywire Privacy Policy’ – our privacy policy available at <a href="https://citywire.com/wealth-manager/privacy?utm_medium=website&utm_source=citywire_funds_insider&utm_campaign=article-in-body">https://citywire.com/wealth-manager/privacy</a> as amended from time to time.</p> <p>‘Content’ – All information, content, data, graphics and services found on our Site, including without limitation, Feed Content.</p> <p>‘Content Standard’ – the content standard set out at Clause 8.</p> <p>‘Contribution’ – any (i) uploading, editing, modification or submission of material or information to our Site that you carry out or cause to be made; and/or (ii) contact that you make or cause to be made through our Site with any other user(s) of our Site.</p> <p>‘Feed Content’ – any headlines, active links or other source identifiers that you specifically select to receive via the Citywire Feed.</p> <p>‘Intellectual Property Rights’ – all proprietary and/or intellectual property rights including, without limitation, copyright (including rights in databases), know-how, trade secrets, trademarks, patents, trade names and other similar rights in each case whether registered or not and as may be exercised in any part of the world. </p> <p>‘Member’ - A user of our site who has created an account.</p> <p>‘site’ – the sites listed here together with any other sites operated by Citywire or its affiliates</p> <p><strong>2.   Membership</strong></p> <p>2.1 Members must protect and keep secret their password at all times and must not allow any third party directly or indirectly to use their membership, username or password. </p> <p>2.2    You warrant that the registration information you have provided is complete and accurate.</p> <p><strong>3.   The Site</strong> </p> <p>3.1 Citywire reserves the right to modify, alter, change or withdraw any part of the site, whether temporarily or permanently, with or without notice to you and you confirm that any such modification, alteration, changes or withdrawal by Citywire shall be without any liability to you.</p> <p><strong>4.   Intellectual Property Rights</strong></p> <p>4.1 Subject to the licence set out in clause 5 you must not copy, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, transmit, distribute, publish, summarise, adapt, paraphrase or otherwise publicly display any Content or the App without the specific written consent of a director of Citywire.  This includes, but is not limited to, the use of Content for any form of news aggregation service or for inclusion in services which summarise articles, the copying of any fund manager data (career histories, profiles, ratings, rankings etc) either manually or by automated means (‘scraping’).</p> <p>4.2 All Intellectual Property Rights in and to our site (including the Content) is owned by Citywire or our third party licensors. No rights are granted to you in relation to such Intellectual Property Rights other than the limited licence rights expressly set out in clause 5.</p> <p>4.3 Content is protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved. 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