Legal Terms and Conditions
 Your use of this Web Site ("the Trade Web Site") is expressly conditional on your acceptance of the following terms and conditions and will form the agreement between British Airways plc ("BA") and you ("these Terms and Conditions"). Having accepted the Terms and Conditions on the 'Gateway' page you are consenting to be bound by these Terms and Conditions both in a personal capacity and where relevant on behalf of any organisation you represent or by which you are employed. 1. Ownership The Trade Web Site is the intellectual property of BA. Much of the content found on the Trade Web Site may be owned by third party providers and distributors. None of the content or data found on the Trade Web Site may be copied, reproduced, sold, transferred or modified without the express written permission of BA and/or its third party providers and distributors. 2. Use of Trade Web Site Your access to the Trade Web Site is conditional on you being a user authorised by your employer . In the event that you cease to be such an authorised user you shall cease to access the Trade Web Site. You may only use the Trade Web Site to make legitimate reservations or purchases for the use of your customers. You must not use the Trade Web Site to make any speculative, false or fraudulent reservation or any reservation in anticipation of demand. You must follow all additional instructions contained on the Trade Web Site. Although BA provides free access to this Trade Web Site you may be incurring telephone charges for the time spent viewing it. BA cannot and will not provide the detail of the cost of this charge for you and shall not be responsible for such costs. 3. Responsibility You represent that you are over 18, and where you are contracting on behalf of an organisation that you are authorised by your organisation to bind it legally to these Terms and Conditions and that you and where relevant your organisation will be responsible for any liability that may be incurred as a result of your use of the Trade Web Site or the use of your organisation's IATA/TID, ABTA or ATOL numbers. You understand that you and where relevant your organisation are responsible for all uses of the Trade Web Site by you and those using your organisation's IATA/TID, ABTA or ATOL numbers. 4. Data Protection Notice (a) The information you provide during the registration process for the Trade Web Site will be used by BA to enable BA and any member of BA's group of companies to monitor the use of the Trade Web Site, generate automated reports, provide details or relevant promotions, appoint appropriate key contacts and to further develop these areas for the benefit of users of the Trade Web Site. Some of this information may also be gathered and retained by the use of "Cookies" and will enable BA to recognise which organisation you are from. (b) Your data will be held by BA in the United Kingdom and may be passed to other countries outside Europe in order to fulfil the purposes set out above. Those countries may not have adequate data protection laws. 5. Customer Information Please remember that your or your organisation's customer data is confidential and must be kept secure and not disclosed to third parties. You must comply with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998. 6. Hypertext Links The Trade Web Site may contain hypertext links to Web sites owned or operated by third parties. Such links are provided for information only. BA does not control them. BA does not accept liability for material on such Web sites or endorse or associate itself with their owners or operators. No hypertext link to the Trade Web Site is permitted by BA without express consent. The Trade Web Site may also contain interactive sites provided by BA. Such sites will contain their own separate terms and conditions. Your or your organisation's access to and use of these interactive sites will require acceptance of these separate terms and conditions. 7. Promotions From time to time BA may include certain promotions on the Trade Web Site. The terms and conditions relating to these promotions shall be posted on the Trade Web Site. 8. Modification BA may at any time modify the Terms and Conditions and your continued use of the Trade Web Site will be conditional upon the Terms and Conditions in force at the time of your use. BA will take reasonable steps to bring these changes to your attention. No purported alteration or variation of these Terms and Conditions by you shall be effective unless it is in writing, refers specifically to these Terms and Conditions and is countersigned by BA. 9. Waiver The rights and remedies of either party in respect of these Terms and Conditions shall not be diminished, waived or extinguished by the granting of any indulgence, forbearance or extension of time granted by such party to the other nor by any failure of, or delay by the said party in ascertaining or exercising any such rights or remedies. The waiver by either party of any breach of these Terms and conditions shall not prevent the subsequent enforcement of that provision and shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any subsequent breach of that or any other provision. 10. Amendment and Termination BA reserves the right to suspend/withdraw access to the Trade Web Site without notice at any time and accept no responsibility for these pages not being available at all times. BA reserves the right to amend and remove the content of these pages without notice at any time. 11. Liability BA has taken all reasonable care to ensure that the information contained within the pages of the Trade Web Site is accurate. However, BA does not accept liability for any errors or omissions, or for information which is out of date. BA will use all reasonable commercial endeavours to ensure that the information contained in the Trade Web Site is accurate and updated regularly. In no event will BA be liable to you or your organisation for any economic loss, loss of profit (direct or indirect), indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss arising out of, or in any way connected with the use of the Trade Web Site, its lack of availability, or for any information on services obtained through the Trade Web Site or otherwise arising out of use of the Trade Web Site whether based in contract, tort or otherwise. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall exclude or limit the liability of BA for death or personal injury caused by its negligence or for fraudulent misrepresentation. 12. Severability If at any time any part of these Terms and Conditions (including any one or more of the clauses of these Terms and Conditions or any sub-clause or paragraph or any part of one or more of these clauses) is held to be or becomes void or otherwise unenforceable for any reason under any applicable law, the same shall be deemed omitted from these Terms and Conditions and the validity and/or enforceability of the remaining provisions of these Terms and Conditions shall not in any way be affected or impaired as a result of that omission. 13. Entire Agreement These Terms and Conditions contain all the terms of your contract with BA relating to your use of the Trade Web Site only. No other written or oral statement including statements in any brochure or promotional literature published by BA will be incorporated into that contract or have any legal effect, and no party shall have any liability for such statement, unless they were made fraudulently. 14. Governing Law These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of England. All disputes arising out of or relating to this Agreement shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts. 15. Cookies Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work or work more efficiently, as well as to provide business and marketing information to the owners of the site. Click here for further information. |
