Terms & Conditions

RIAS-regs is provided to you as a joint venture between RIAS Services Limited and Home Energy and Data Services Ltd.

1. Your Account

If you use the website, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer to prevent unauthorised access to your account. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You should take all necessary steps to ensure that the password is kept confidential and secure and should inform us immediately if you have any reason to believe that your password has become known to anyone else, or if the password is being, or is likely to be, used in an unauthorised manner. Please ensure that the details you provide us with are correct and complete and inform us immediately of any changes to the information that you provided when registering. You can access and update much of the information you provided us with in the Your Details area of the website. Home Energy and Data Services Ltd. reserves the right to refuse access to the website, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders at our discretion. If we cancel an order, it will be without charge to you.

2. Access to RIAS-regs

We will do our utmost to ensure that availability of the website will be uninterrupted and that transmissions will be error-free. However, due to the nature of the Internet, this cannot be guaranteed. Also, your access to the website may also be occasionally suspended or restricted to allow for repairs, maintenance, or the introduction of new facilities or services. We will attempt to limit the frequency and duration of any such suspension or restriction.

3. Licence for website access

Home Energy and Data Services Ltd. grants you a limited licence to access and make personal use of this website, but not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of Home Energy and Data Services Ltd. This licence does not include any resale or commercial use of this website or its contents; any collection and use of any descriptions, any derivative use of this website or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another company; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. This website or any portion of this website may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without our express written consent. You may not frame or use framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of Home Energy and Data Services Ltd. and its affiliates without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilising Home Energy and Data Services Ltd. or its affiliates’ names or trademarks without the express written consent of Home Energy and Data Services Ltd. Any unauthorised use terminates the permission or license granted by Home Energy and Data Services Ltd. You are granted a limited, revocable, and non-exclusive right to create a hyperlink to the Main page of www.RIAS-regs.co.uk as long as the link does not portray Home Energy and Data Services Ltd., its affiliates, or their products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any Home Energy and Data Services Ltd. logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without our express written consent.

4. Your conduct

You must not use the website in any way that causes, or is likely to cause, the website or access to it to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way. You understand that you, and not Home Energy and Data Services Ltd., are responsible for all electronic communications and content sent from your computer to us and you must use the website for lawful purposes only. You must not use the website for any of the following:

  • for fraudulent purposes, or in connection with a criminal offence or other unlawful activity
  • to send, use or reuse any material that is illegal, offensive, abusive, indecent, defamatory, obscene or menacing; or in breach of copyright, trademark, confidence, privacy or any other right; or is otherwise injurious to third parties; or objectionable; or which consists of or contains software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any “spam”
  • to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety

5. Copyright, authors’ rights and database rights

All content included on the website, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of Home Energy and Data Services Ltd., its affiliates or its content suppliers and is protected by copyright, authors rights and database right laws. The compilation of all content on this website is the exclusive property of Home Energy and Data Services Ltd. and its affiliates and is protected by United Kingdom and international copyright and database right laws. All software used on this website is the property of Home Energy and Data Services Ltd., our affiliates or our software suppliers and is protected by international copyright and authors rights laws. You may not systematically extract and/or re-utilise parts of the contents of the website without Home Energy and Data Services Ltd.’s express written consent. In particular, you may not utilise any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools to extract (whether once or many times) for re-utilisation of any substantial parts of this website, without Home Energy and Data Services Ltd.’s express written consent.

6. Copyright claims

Home Energy and Data Services Ltd. and its affiliates respect the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please follow our Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement.

7. Our contract

When you place an order to purchase a certificate from Home Energy and Data Services Ltd., we will send you an e-mail confirming receipt of your order and containing the details of your order. Your order represents an offer to us to purchase a certificate, which is accepted by us when we send e-mail confirmation to you

8. Electronic communications

When you visit www.RIAS-regs.co.uk or send e-mails to us, you are communicating with us electronically. We communicate with you by e-mail or by posting notices on the website. For contractual purposes, you consent to receive communications from us electronically and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. This condition does not affect your statutory rights.

9. Losses

We will not be responsible for any business loss (including loss of profits, revenue, contracts, anticipated savings, data, goodwill or wasted expenditure) or any other indirect or consequential loss that is not reasonably foreseeable to both you and us when you commenced using the website or when a contract for the sale of goods by us to you was formed.

10. Alteration of Service or Amendments to the Conditions

We reserve the right to make changes to our website, policies, and these Conditions of Use & Sale at any time. You will be subject to the policies and Conditions of Conditions of Use & Sale in force at the time that you use the website or that you order goods from us, unless any change to those policies or these conditions is required to be made by law or government authority (in which case it will apply to orders previously placed by you). If any of these conditions is deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.

11. Events beyond our reasonable control

We will not be held responsible for any delay or failure to comply with our obligations under these conditions if the delay or failure arises from any cause, which is beyond our reasonable control. This condition does not affect your statutory rights.

12. Waiver

If you breach these conditions and we take no action, we will still be entitled to use our rights and remedies in any other situation where you breach these conditions.

13. Governing law and jurisdiction

These conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the England.

14. Our details

RIAS-regs.co.uk is a trading name for RIAS Services Limited and Home Energy and Data Services Ltd.

For the www.RIAS-regs.co.uk website please contact:

Home Energy and Data Services Ltd.
1 Carlaverock Farm Cottages
Tranent
EH33 2NF