Demeter Reports Ltd's Terms of Website Use

This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website www.livericeindex.com (our "site"), whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.

Information About Us

www.livericeindex.com is a site operated by Demeter Reports Limited ("we", "us" or "our"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 8119033 and have our registered office at 4 St Georges Yard, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7LW. Our VAT number 138192211.

Accessing Our Site

Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

We may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us. As part of the registration processes, you must select a user name and password and provide us with accurate, complete and up to date information. Failure to do so constitutes a breach of these terms, which may result in immediate termination of your access to the site without any refund (if applicable).

If you choose, or you are provided with, a personal user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of your security procedures (the "Security Information"), you must keep your personal Security Information secure and treat it as confidential. You must not disclose your personal Security Information to any third party or allow any third party to access the restricted part of the site using your personal Security Information. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use without refund (if applicable).

When using our site, you must comply with the provisions of our acceptable use policy.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site.

Intellectual Property Rights

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

We hereby grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable limited licence to access and use the site for the registration fee (if applicable) as follows: you may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference only.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged.

You must not use all or any part of the materials published or available on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you use, print off, copy or download all or any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

Reliance on Information

Our policy is to conduct our business at all times in a professional manner and to best practice standards and provide our services with reasonable skill and care. We use our reasonable endeavours to maintain up to date Content. However, you should note in particular:

• We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness or timeliness of any of the Content.
• We do not warrant that the Content provided by us is either sufficient or appropriate for any particular actual circumstances;
• The Content includes archived reports, information and resources, which may be incorrect or out of date.

Our Site Changes Regularly

We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the Content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

Our Liability

The Content displayed on our site is provided "as is" without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, 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 site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including:
  1. loss of income or revenue;
  2. loss of business;
  3. loss of profits or contracts;
  4. loss of anticipated savings;
  5. loss of data;
  6. loss of goodwill;
  7. wasted management or office time;

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.

This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us in relation to any damages, liabilities, costs, charges and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) that we may incur as a result of your breach of these terms of use or any material uploaded on to the site using the Security Information.

Information about You and Your Visits to Our Site

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

Uploading Material to Our Site

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy. You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.

Any material you upload to our site 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 site 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 posted by you or any other user of our site.

We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy.

Viruses, Hacking and Other Offences

You must not misuse our site 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 site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. 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 site will cease immediately.

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 site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

Linking to Our Site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy.

If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please address your request to .

Links from Our Site

Where our site 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.

Jurisdiction and Applicable Law

These terms of use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales and you and we both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

Trade Marks

"LRI", "Live Rice Index", "LIVERICEINDEX.COM" “LRI Report” "Demeter Reports Limited", “Demeter Reports”  and "Demeter" are trade marks of Demeter Reports Limited.

Variations

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. 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.

General

You may not licence or transfer any of your rights under these terms and conditions. 

If any provision of these terms and conditions is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of that provision will not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these terms and conditions, which will remain in full force and effect.

Failure by either party to exercise any right or remedy under these terms and conditions does not constitute a waiver of that right or remedy. Headings in these terms and conditions are for convenience only and will have no legal meaning or effect.

Your Concerns

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact .

Thank you for visiting our site.

Demeter Reports Limited's Subscription Services Terms and Conditions (Applicable to subscribers to our subscription services only)

We offer subscription services through the Site. The subscription services are subject to Demeter Reports Limited's general terms of website use above and Demeter Reports Limited's subscription terms and conditions set out below.

Types of Subscription

We offer two levels of annual subscription service called Individual Subscription and Corporate Subscription. We reserve the right to vary the amount of content and types of service that we make available to different categories of user which means that we may increase or reduce the content and services that are only available to paying subscribers from time to time.

The subscription services are available worldwide, subject to local internet access. We reserve the right to offer any subscription packages to residents of certain territories only. We may terminate subscriptions or registrations of anyone who is not a resident of those territories.

Subscribers must be aged 18 years or over.

Individual Subscription:

The Individual Subscription allows only the individual subscriber with access to the restricted areas of the Site via the internet and via mobile devices to include access to the following (without limitation):

• - LRI Reports;
• - The Live Rice Index;
• - The latest country specific rice market news;
• - The rice price history; and
• - Archive of rice market news.

(the "Restricted Content")

Corporate Subscription:

The Corporate Subscription allows the corporate subscriber to offer to its Staff (as defined below) access to the restricted areas of the Site via the internet and via mobile devices to include access to the Restricted Content.

We will provide the corporate subscriber with an access code which will allow its Staff access to the restricted areas of the Site as "Registered Users".

In these terms and conditions "Staff" means any employees of the corporate subscriber only and does not include, in relation to associations and trade bodies, members of that association or trade body.

By subscribing to the Corporate Subscription you warrant that you have the necessary authority to bind the company.

Contract Formation

We will try to process your subscription promptly but we do not guarantee that your subscription will be activated by any specific time. By submitting your payment and other subscription details, you are making an offer to us to buy a subscription on these terms and condition. Your offer will only be accepted by us and a contract formed when we provide you with access to your subscription or the access code as appropriate by email, which will be after we have verified your payment details. We reserve the right to reject any offer in our sole discretion, for any reason.

Payment

When you subscribe you must provide us with complete and accurate payment information. By submitting payment details you confirm that you are entitled to purchase a subscription using those payment details. If we do not receive payment authorisation or any authorisation is subsequently cancelled, we may immediately terminate or suspend your access to your subscription.

If you are entitled to a refund under these terms and conditions we will credit that refund to the card or other payment method you used to submit payment, unless it has expired in which case we will contact you.

Pricing

The annual subscription price will be made clear to you on our sign-up pages or otherwise during the sign-up process and may vary from time to time or by country. You agree to pay the annual subscription fees at the rates notified to you at the time you take out your annual subscription. We will charge you in British Pounds Sterling. You may also have to pay any applicable local taxes. We reserve the right to increase the price of the subscription services. However, we will always tell you in advance of any increase in the price of your subscription and offer you an opportunity to cancel it if you do not wish to pay the new price.

Pricing Errors

If we incorrectly state a price to you whether online or otherwise, we are not obliged to provide you with a subscription at that price, even if we have mistakenly accepted your offer to buy a subscription at that price, and reserve the right to subsequently notify you of any pricing error. If we do this, you may cancel the subscription without any obligation to us and we will refund you any money you have paid us in full or you may pay the correct price. If you refuse to exercise either of these choices then we may cancel your subscription and will refund you any money you have paid to us in full. We will always act in good faith in determining whether a genuine pricing error has occurred.

Other Costs

In addition to any annual subscription fees you pay, you are responsible for paying any internet connection or other telecommunications charges that you may incur by accessing the Site or using the services available on it.

Trials

We may from time to time and at our discretion make a trial available to users, in which case we will only charge you for your subscription with effect from the expiry of the trial period. No more than one trial per subscriber is allowed in any twelve month period.

Your Cancellation Rights and Refunds

If you cancel your subscription before we have started providing any part of it to you (in which case we will provide you with a full refund., If you cancel your subscription after we have started providing any part of your subscription to you, you agree that your subscription will continue (unless otherwise terminated in accordance with these terms) for a period of 12 months. This means that you are not entitled to a refund once we have started providing any part of your subscription to you, except in the very limited circumstances which are referred to in these terms and conditions.

Renewals

We will use reasonable endeavours to notify when your annual subscription is close to expiry. If you wish to renew your subscription, you will be required to re-subscribe by providing your up to date and valid payment details as well as any further subscription details that we may require and in accordance with the then current subscription process. We reserve the right not to renew your annual subscription for any reason.

Our Cancellation Rights

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your subscription if you breach these terms and conditions, with or without notice and without further obligation to you. You will not be entitled to any refund in these circumstances.

If however we terminate or suspend your subscription for any other reason and/or permanently cease publishing the Site, the content or cease to provide subscription services then, unless there are exceptional circumstances, we will provide you with a pro rata refund to your credit card or other payment method you used to submit payment, which means that we will refund you with any amounts that you have paid us in advance that relate to any remaining and unexpired period of your subscription.

Disclaimer

The information provided by us is for guidance only and should not be regarded as an offer or solicitation to conduct investment business as defined by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the "Act") nor does it constitute a recommendation. Opinions expressed do not constitute legal, financial or investment advice nor should they be taken as such. If you require investment advice we recommend that you contact an independent adviser who is authorised by the Act to conduct such services.

Liability

To the extent permitted by law, we, hereby expressly exclude any liability for loss or damage incurred by you in connection with our Site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including:

1. loss of income or revenue;
2. loss of business;
3. loss of profits or contracts;
4. loss of anticipated savings;
5. loss of data;
6. loss of goodwill;
7. wasted management or office time; and
8. indirect or consequential loss

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 (a-h) set out above.

In circumstances where we have not effectively excluded liability to you under or in connection with these terms and conditions, our total liability to you in respect of all other direct losses arising under or in connection with these terms and conditions, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, shall in no circumstances exceed the price paid by you for the annual subscription fee.

Nothing in this agreement affects our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.