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Drumlin Security

 

About Drumlin Security and this web site

Drumlin stands for Digital Rights, Usage Management and Licensing.

The Drumlin Reader/Publisher product and associated service has been established to provide completely secure PDF document distribution for individuals, corporates and publishing enterprises. It is operated using UK- and US-based computer server farms in secure datacentres.

The standard service offering provides a free, simple and extremely secure means of publishing commercially valuable or sensitive PDF documents. Tailored and private (e.g. intra-corporate) service offerings are available - for more details please contact us by email

For a more detailed description of the Drumlin Service, please see the Features and Benefits page or email us for more details. Drumlin Security is a product and service offering from The Winchelsea Press Ltd, an independent publishing business based in the UK. Drumlin Security and The Winchelsea Press Ltd are enterprises established and run by Dr Mike de Smith - see www.desmith.com/MJdS for more about Mike's background in the commercial and academic world.

Editorial content:
Suggestions for improvements, corrections and recommendations are very much welcomed. All information provided on this site should be considered as copyright of drumlinsecurity.co.uk unless otherwise stated. The editors are not repsonsible for the content of any other sites to which links are provided. We do not accept payment for links, entries or advertising.

Website and Associated Service terms and conditions:
Use: In using this website and associated software and services the User and/or Publisher indicates his agreement to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. In agreeing to be bound by the Terms and Conditions, the User agrees to be bound by the Terms and Conditions of the other documents referred to and incorporated into these Terms and Conditions, and the expression 'Terms and Conditions' shall be deemed to include these other materials.

Changes to the website and services: The User acknowledges and accepts that Drumlin Security may from time to time alter any aspect of the Website, or any of the services or products provided through the Website, as it thinks fit and without notice to the User. Further, Drumlin Security may alter the Terms and Conditions at any time without notice. The User accepts that it will have no claim for breach of contract or otherwise in respect of any such alteration.

User Conduct: The User warrants that in its use of the Website and associated services it shall:
(a) use the Website and associated services only for lawful purposes, and in a manner which does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use of the Website by any third party;
(b) not engage in any conduct which is unlawful, or which may harass or cause distress or inconvenience to any person;
(c) without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (b) above, not upload, post, transmit or distribute any material or information in which the User does not own the intellectual property rights, or any material which is in any way unlawful or which is potentially harmful, threatening, abusive, libellous, pornographic or otherwise obscene, or racially or ethnically or otherwise objectionable; and
(d) not upload, post, transmit or distribute any material or information which contains a computer virus, or other code, files or programs intended or having for effect to disrupt or otherwise adversely affect the operation of the Website or of other Users' computer systems
(e) not directly or indirectly resell any of the content of the Website and associated services for commercial gain, other than in pursuit of its own legitimate publication activities or with the prior written agreement of Drumlin Security as part of an Enterprise or Resale Agreement

Drumlin Security shall be entitled to remove any material or restrict or terminate your access to the Website and associated services in the event that any of the above warranties are breached.

Disclaimer: The contents of the Website and associated services (the 'Contents') are provided to the User by way of general background information only. The User should not rely on the accuracy of any part of the Contents. The User accepts and acknowledges that Drumlin Security, its representatives and advisers, shall not in any way be liable for any damage, loss, costs or expenses arising directly or indirectly from the User's downloading of any of the Contents from the Web Site, or its reliance on or use of any of the Contents for any purpose.Without prejudice to the foregoing generality, Drumlin Security hereby excludes, insofar as permitted by law, all warranties and representations, express or implied, in respect of any of the Contents, including but not limited to any information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons forming part of them, including but not limited to warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement of third party rights or any law, compatibility, security and accuracy.

Hypertext links: The Website and its Contents may incorporate links to the websites and services of third parties. Such links are provided for the User's convenience only, and their provision does not constitute an authorisation by Drumlin Security to the User to access such third-party websites, nor an endorsement of the content of such third party websites by Drumlin Security. The User acknowledges and accepts that Drumlin Security is not, and shall not be held responsible for any damages, loss, costs or expenses arising from the use of such third party web sites, or products or services available through such third party web sites.

Copyright: Except where expressly indicated otherwise, copyright in all of the Contents of the Website belongs to Drumlin Security.

Form of acknowledgement required where the Contents (or any of them) are reproduced: '© 20** Drumlin Security. Reproduced with permission.' [** = year of reproduction]

Trade marks: The names and logos identifying the Website and Drumlin Security and its products and services are either (a) proprietary marks of Drumlin Security or (b) marks which Drumlin Security is licensed to use, and nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall confer on the User any licence of any such mark or of any other intellectual property right of Drumlin Security (subject always to the above provisions relating to copyright).

Termination: Drumlin Security reserves the right to terminate forthwith, or to refuse to permit, the use of the Website and associated services by any User, at any time and at Drumlin Security's absolute discretion.

General: These Terms and Conditions shall be deemed to include any other policies contained on the Website from time to time, including but not limited to rules relating to the data protection policy of Drumlin Security. These Terms and Conditions, the Privacy Policy and any other specific terms of use appearing anywhere on the Website and associated services constitute the entire agreement of the parties in relation the use of this site, and the Terms and Conditions supersede any other agreements between the parties in this matter. If any of these Terms and Conditions should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these Terms and Conditions are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term or condition is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from the Terms and Conditions and the remaining Terms and Conditions shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable. The rights of Drumlin Security and the User under these Terms and Conditions may be exercised as often as necessary. They are cumulative and not exclusive of either party's rights under the general law, and may be waived only in writing. Delay in exercising or non-exercise of any right is not a waiver of that right.

Governing law: These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England. Any disputes arising here from shall be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England.

Non-acceptance of the terms and conditions: If you do not accept these terms and conditions in full, you do not have permission to access the Contents of the Website and associated services and therefore should cease using the Website and these associated services immediately.