Legal Notice

1. Website Presentation

Owner: PRSM – Richmond House, Ann’s Place, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 2NU.
Represented by: Colette MALLARD
Designer: Agence Martingale
Publication manager: Colette Mallard
Webmaster: Agence Martingale – contact@agence-martingale.fr
Hosting provider: TIRCIS – 543, avenue Eugénie Raiberti – 06450 SAINT MARTIN
Credits: Agence Martingale: réalisation – Architecte/image 3D: SimpsonHaugh – Photos: Adobestock, Gettyimages, Shutterstock, Alamy

2. Website Terms & Conditions & Offered Services

By using the www.the-met-offices.uk website, the user is deemed to have implicitly and unreservedly agreed to these terms and conditions of use.
These terms and conditions of use may be modified or supplemented at any time. Users of the www.the-met-offices.uk website should regularly review these terms and conditions. The website is normally available to users at all times. Nonetheless, PRSM may decide to prevent access to perform technical maintenance, in which case every effort will be made to notify users in advance of the time and date of the interruption.
PRSM updates the www.the-met-offices.uk website on a regular basis. The legal notice may also be modified at any time. It will be binding on the user, who should regularly read the legal notice in order to be aware of any changes.

3. Description of Provided Services

The purpose of the www.the-met-offices.uk website is to provide information about the company’s activities. PRSM endeavours to provide accurate information on the www.the-met-offices.uk website, insofar as is possible. However, it may not be held liable for any omissions, inaccuracies or lack of updates whether of its own doing or of that of partner third parties providing the information concerned. All information provided on www.the-met-offices.uk is for information purposes only and is subject to modifications. Moreover, the information on www.the-met-offices.uk is not exhaustive. It may be subject to changes made after the website was published online.

4. Contractual Limitations on Technical Aspects

This website uses WordPress technology.
The website may not be held liable for any material damages linked to its use. The website user agrees to access the website using modern equipment that does not contain any viruses and with an up-to-date web browser.

5. Intellectual Property and Counterfeits

PRSM is the owner of the intellectual property and usage rights pertaining to all elements accessible on the website, including texts, images, graphics, logos, icons, audio and software.

Except where authorised in writing beforehand by PRSM, it is prohibited to reproduce, depict, modify, publish or adapt any element of the website, in whole or in part, regardless of the means or procedure used.

Any unauthorised exploitation of the website or of an element contained therein will constitute an infringement of intellectual property rights and will be prosecuted in accordance with Articles L.335-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code.

6. Liability Disclaimer

PRSM may not be held liable for any direct or indirect damages caused to the user’s equipment during access to the www.the-met-offices.uk website and resulting from either the use of equipment not fulfilling the specifications set out in point 4 above or the occurrence of a bug or incompatibility. Furthermore, PRSM may not be held liable for any indirect damages ensuing from the use of the www.the-met-offices.uk website.

7. Data Protection

PRSM does not store the personal data of users who connect to the www.the-met-offices.uk website

8. Hyperlinks and Cookies

When browsing the www.the-met-offices.uk website, cookies may be installed on the user’s computer.
A cookie is a small text file. It does not identify the user but it records information relating to the user’s browsing of a website. The data obtained is used to facilitate subsequent browsing of the website and enable various measurements of visit frequency.

However, the user may change the settings of the computer to reject cookies as follows:

On Internet Explorer: Select the tools button (gear cog icon on upper right) / ‘Internet options’. Click ‘Privacy’ and select ‘Block all cookies’. Click Ok.

On Firefox: at the top of the browser, click the menu button and go to ‘Options’. Select ‘Privacy and security’. Set ‘Firefox will choose:’ to ‘Use custom settings for history’. Uncheck cookies to deactivate them.

On Safari: Click on the menu icon at the top-right of the browser (gear cog symbol). Select ‘Preferences’. Click ‘Display advanced settings’. In the ‘Privacy’ section, click on ‘Content settings’. Under ‘Cookies’, you can choose to block cookies.

On Chrome: Click on the menu icon at the top-right of the browser (three horizontal lines). Select ‘Preferences’. Click ‘Display advanced settings’. In the ‘Privacy’ section, click on ‘Preferences’. Under ‘Privacy’, you can choose to block cookies.

Users must not create hyperlinks to all or part of the website without the prior written consent of PRSM.

PRSM is free to refuse to grant permission without any obligation to provide a reason. If PRSM grants permission, it is only on a temporary basis and can be withdrawn at any time, with no obligation for PRSM to provide a reason. In all circumstances, links must be removed at PRSM’s request. PRSM has no control over any links to external websites, and cannot be found liable for their content.

9. Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

Any dispute in relation to the use of the www.the-met-offices.uk website is subject to French law. The competent courts of Paris shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear such disputes.

10. Principal Legislation

Law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978, as amended by Law no. 2004-801 of 6 August 2004, on computer technology, files and freedoms.

11. Glossary

User A person who connects to and browses the above-mentioned website. Personal data: “information of any form that allows the direct or indirect identification of a natural person to whom the data refers” (Article 4 of Law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978).