TERMS OF WEBSITE USE

This Website is operated by Shelf Drilling (North Sea), Ltd. (“Shelf Drilling”, “we” or “our”). By using this “Website” (www.shelfdrillingnorthsea.com) you agree to the terms and conditions expressed here (“Terms of Use”), together with any documents referred to below and agree to abide by them.   Please read these Terms of Use carefully before you start to use the Website. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, please refrain from using our Website.

 

Privacy
We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy.  By using our Website, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

 

Submissions

Certain features of our Website allows you to submit information and materials to us.  When you submit such information and materials, you must comply with the content standards set out herein.  You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you indemnify Shelf Drilling for any breach of that warranty.

Any material you submit through our Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our Website constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials submitted by you or any other user of our Website.

 

Copyrights, Trademarks and Permissions

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Website, and in the material published on it.  The Website and these materials are protected by various intellectual property rights, including copyright laws. All rights are reserved. Such materials include but are not limited to design, text, graphics, files, photographs, video and audio clips, and the selection and arrangement thereof.  Shelf Drilling authorizes you to view and use the Website, provided that materials cannot be modified, or published in any media without the prior written permission of Shelf Drilling. The use of automated systems (robots, spiders, or any other data-mining or similar data-gathering and extraction tools) to access, acquire, or download information on this Website is expressly prohibited where such systems are employed in connection with commercial objectives.

The words “Shelf Drilling (North Sea), Ltd.”, Shelf Drilling (North Sea), Ltd. logo, and the names and logos of products and services described in this Website are either trademarks, trade names, or service marks of Shelf Drilling and its licensors, or are the property of their respective owners.  You may not copy or use these marks, or any marks that are confusingly similar, in whole or in part, without the express prior written permission of Shelf Drilling or the respective owners of the marks. If such permission is granted, you must provide proper acknowledgment each time you use the mark.  In addition, page headers, custom graphics, button icons, and scripts may be service marks, trademarks, or trade dress of Shelf Drilling , and are subject to the foregoing terms and restrictions.

 

Links

Shelf Drilling makes no claim or representation regarding, and accepts no responsibility for, the quality, content, nature, or reliability of Websites accessible by links from this Website, or Websites linking to this Website.

 

Accessing our Website

We will not be liable if for any reason our Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our Website, or our entire Website, to users who have registered with Shelf Drilling 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, and 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 Shelf Drilling, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms of Use.

When using our Website, you must comply with the provisions set out herein.

 

Limitation of Liability

Any and all material displayed on our Website is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to Shelf Drilling . hereby expressly exclude:

• All conditions, warranties and other terms, which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
• Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our Website or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our Website, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for loss of income or revenue; loss of business;  loss of profits or contracts; loss of anticipated savings; loss of data; loss of goodwill; wasted management or office time; and  for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable, provided that this condition shall not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your tangible property or any other claims for direct financial loss that are not excluded by any of the categories set out above.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our Website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

The foregoing does not affect any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

 

Viruses, Hacking and Other Offences

You must not misuse our Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. 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. You must not attack our Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

Breaching this provision may constitute a criminal offense. 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.

 

Linking our Website

You may not link to our Website in any way to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

Where our Website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

If you wish to make any use of material on our Website other than that set out above, please address your request to [email protected].

 

Applicable Laws

The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our Website although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country.

These Terms of Use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.

 

Disclaimer

Materials posted by us on our Website are not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely.  We disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our Website, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

We may update our Website, including by changing the content at any time. We may suspend access to, or shut down, our Website at any time.  Any of the material on our Website may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

 

Termination

Notwithstanding any of these Terms of Use, we reserve the right, without notice and in our sole discretion, to block or prevent future access to and use of this Website by you.

 

Technical Questions 

Any technical questions or comments about the Website should be addressed to our Web Team, please contact [email protected]. For other communications, direct as indicated in the following paragraphs.

 

Severability

If any provision of these Terms of Use shall be deemed unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms of Use and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

 

Changes to these Terms

We reserve the right to make changes and corrections to our Website and our Terms of Use at any time, without notice. We indicate the date of the current Terms of Use below, so you know when it was last updated. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these Terms of Use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

October 12, 2022