1. About Us

1.1 www.csd.org.uk is a web site owned by Chartered Society of Designers (“we”/”us”) whose aim it is to promote design, to further design practice and encourage the study of design techniques for the benefit of the community. We act as a professional body of designers regulating and controlling the design practice for the benefit of industry and the public.

1.2 These terms and conditions apply to all and any use of the web site. If you do not accept these terms and conditions please do not use the web site and leave now.

1.3 Since the web site is principally aimed to the UK designers, we cannot guarantee that the web site accords with local laws of any other countries. You are therefore responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction.

2. Intellectual Property Rights

2.1 We do not give you any right or interest in any copyright or other intellectual property rights in any text, images, tables, compilations or other works featured on the web site nor do we give you right to reproduce the same in any form.

2.2 Copyright in all software relating to the design, development or maintenance of the web site is owned by or licensed to us, unless otherwise specified, and may not be used, replicated, copied, modified, distributed, adapted, printed or downloaded without our express permission.

2.3 We may provide links to web sites controlled and owned by third parties. All text, images, tables, compilations or other works featured on such web sites belong to third parties and you should obtain consent from such third parties before reproducing any part of their works.

2.4 Our name, the web site and logos are our trade names and/or trade marks and may not be used by you or anybody else without our express permission.

2.5 We do not make any warranty or representation in respect of any other trade marks other than those owned by us. Any other trade marks featured on the web site are featured at their owners' risk.

3. Services

3.1 We may provide certain services via the web site for the benefit of our members and other people visiting the web site. We have the right at any time at our sole discretion to stop providing any such services previously available via the web site.

3.2 We may also promote services provided by third parties on our web site when we consider that such services are useful to our members and add value to our aims. Reasonable efforts are made to ensure that such third party providers are legitimate and proper and that the standard of the services they provide is satisfactory.

3.3 We will try to keep our web site as up to date as reasonably possible but cannot guarantee all services and functions featured on the web site will always be available.

4. Joining as a member

4.1 You can join us as a member by submitting an application form fax or by post. By submitting a membership form you are demonstrating your willingness to join us, subject to these terms and conditions.

4.2 Once you have submitted a membership form we will confirm its receipt by email. We may also advise you on the assessment dates available.

4.3 In order to be admitted as a member you may be required to attend an assessment, during which you will need to provide evidence proving your suitability to qualify as a member.

4.4 Once you have successfully passed assessment you become our member upon your acceptance of our bylaws and subject to the prompt payment of the annual membership fee.

4.5 We may refuse your request to join as a member or cancel your membership at any time. We may also refuse your entry to the members' area of the web site at any time at our sole discretion.

5. Membership benefits

5.1 As a member you will be entitled to certain membership benefits which are outlined in more detail on the web site.

5.2 You will be entitled to enter the members' area of the web site when available by entering your username and password, which we will verify before allowing you access. The username and password are for your personal use only and you are not allowed to let anybody else access the members' area without our consent.

5.3 You will be entitled to the membership benefits for the duration of your membership but we reserve the right to withdraw any of the benefits at any time.

6. Payment

6.1 You may pay the membership fee online when available using a credit or debit card, currently VISA, MasterCard, Delta, VISA Electron and Switch/Solo. We also accept orders by telephone and you may choose to pay by cheque.

6.2 Your credit card company may do an additional security check to confirm it is you who is making the payment.

6.3 All orders and invoices will be sent to the credit or debit card billing address and not the shipping or delivery address where the two addresses differ.

6.4 All information that you supply to us whilst placing an order via the web site is encrypted prior to transmission to protect your details and your privacy.

7. Privacy

7.1 We recognise the importance of protecting your privacy whilst you use the web site. Therefore we do not collect information for purposes other than keeping accurate records of our members, distribution of email newsletters, informing you of events that might be of interest and monitoring training programmes. We may also collect information to enable us to process your order and to provide you with an up to date, efficient, and reliable service.

7.2 In order to improve our services and the web site we may use cookies to store certain type of information each time you interact with the web site. Cookies are a means by which information relating to your internet activity is recorded and used by us to improve the web site and the information and products features and promoted on the web site. If you do not wish to use cookies we cannot guarantee that you will be able to use the web site in the same way (or at all).

7.3 We will not provide any of the personal information you give to us to any third party, except with your prior express consent.

7.4 We will retain the personal information you provide within the United Kingdom, and will not transfer it to any other country or any other person, except with your prior and express consent.

7.5 We are committed to the security of your personal information and we have security procedures in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control. We have security measures in place to protect our user database and access to this database is restricted. All information collected or processed via our web site in encrypted making it secure and unaccessible and unrecognisable to any third parties.

7.6 We may amend these terms and conditions from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will make that information available by posting a notice on our web site.

8. Guarantees and Liability

8.1 We have used our best efforts to ensure that all information on our web site is correct but make no guarantee and accept no liability as to the correctness of any such information. Use of and reliance on any information will be entirely at your own risk.

8.2 We have tried to make the descriptions of the services offered via the web site as accurate as possible. However, the services may differ slightly from the descriptions featured.

8.3 We use reasonable efforts to make the web site available at all time and ensure that all services and functions are available. However, we cannot guarantee that the web site/services/functions are always available and retain the right to withhold any functionality at our sole discretion.

8.4 We will not be liable for any indirect or consequential loss to you.

8.5 We will have no liability in respect of any other web site or page on the internet accessible from our web site

8.6 Except as provided above we give no other warranties, conditions or other terms, express or implied, statutory or otherwise and all such terms are hereby excluded to the maximum extent permitted by law, subject to your statutory and common law consumer rights which remain in full force and effect.

9. General

Our web site and these terms and conditions are subject to the laws of England and any disputes must be brought in English Courts.

You can contact us at 1 Cedar Court, Royal Oak Yard, Bermondsey Street, London SE1 2ED You may also contact us by email at info@csd.org.uk or by telephoning us during office hours at 020 7357 8088.