TERMS OF SERVICE

Welcome to Quartzantry. By using our website, you are agreeing to a set of shared understandings designed to keep this space secure, respectful, and functional for everyone. These terms outline what we ask of you, the steps we may take to protect the platform, and the boundaries of our responsibility.

What We Expect From You

Your use of this website is subject to the conditions described here. When you engage with our content and services, you accept the responsibility to do so in a lawful and considerate manner. A core part of this commitment involves respecting the integrity of our systems and the experience of other users.

Activities We Do Not Permit

To maintain a safe environment, certain actions are strictly off-limits. The following list details the specific activities that fall outside the bounds of acceptable use:

  • Attempting to access our underlying systems, or engaging in any reverse-engineering, decompilation, disassembly, or tampering with the website or its associated software.
  • Submitting or transmitting any material that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, offensive, discriminatory, inflammatory, blasphemous, criminal, or that breaches another person’s confidence or privacy.
  • Introducing any virus, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data, or other malicious software.
  • Using automated or manual methods to crawl, spider, monitor, or copy our web pages or the content within them.
  • Framing the site or otherwise simulating its appearance or function.
  • Any other action that imposes an unreasonable load on our infrastructure, including unsolicited communications or attempts to gain unauthorized access.

Engaging in fraudulent or criminal activity through the website is also a clear violation of these terms.

Steps We May Take

We take the integrity of our platform seriously. Should a breach of these terms occur, we may withdraw your access to the website. Additionally, we will fully co-operate with all law enforcement authorities and court orders that request or direct us to disclose the identity of or to locate anyone who has posted defamatory, obscene, or otherwise illegal material, or who has used the website for fraudulent activity.

There may also be times when the website becomes temporarily unavailable. Access can be suspended without notice due to system failure, maintenance or repair work, or for reasons beyond our control.

Content and Intellectual Property

All copyright, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights in the content on this website are owned by or licensed to us, and we hold all rights in them. For your own non-commercial use and in connection with receiving our services, you are permitted to print and download extracts from the site. This permission is conditional: you must not modify any of the content, you must not use any graphics or photographs separately from their accompanying text, and you must not remove any copyright or trade mark notification or other proprietary notices from those extracts.

Any other reproduction or use of content extracts is not allowed without our prior written permission. This includes storing content in another website or including it in any electronic retrieval system or service for commercial purposes.

External Links and Third Parties

Linking to our website from a site you own requires our prior written consent. If consent is granted, the link must go to the home page without replicating it, and you must not create a frame or any other browser environment around our site. The link must not imply that we endorse, approve, or are associated with any other products or services, nor misrepresent your relationship with us. You are not permitted to use our content or trademarks without our express written permission, and you must not link from a website that displays distasteful, offensive, or controversial content, or that infringes on any rights. We may revoke any linking permission without prior notice if you breach these terms.

Our website may contain links to resources provided by third parties for your information. We have no control over, and make no endorsement of, those external sites. We accept no liability for any statements, information, products, or services that are published on or accessible through them, and you rely on such third-party content at your own risk.

Where Our Responsibility Ends

The commentary and materials on our website are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all liability for communications that are lost, intercepted, altered, or otherwise accessed by third parties. We also exclude all liability for any direct, indirect, or consequential loss or damage incurred in connection with the website, including loss of income or revenue, loss of business, loss of profits or contracts, loss of anticipated savings, loss of data, loss of goodwill, and wasted management or office time. This exclusion applies whether the cause is tort (including negligence), breach of contract, or otherwise. Furthermore, we are not liable for any unauthorized access to or use of our servers, or for any interruption in the use of the website. Nothing in these terms, however, affects our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

General Provisions

If any part of these terms is determined by a competent authority to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, that specific provision will be severed from the remaining terms. The rest of the terms will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.

These terms may be revised and amended from time to time. The current version will always be posted on our website, so we encourage you to review it periodically.