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Please read these terms carefully. They apply whenever you use standpointmag.co.uk. They include a disclaimer at clause 12 and limits on our liability at clause 13.
1. Who we are
standpointmag.co.uk (the Site) is operated by Briarwood International LLC (“we”, “us”, “our”), a limited liability company formed under the laws of Belize, registration number 000055766, whose registered office is at 3301 Chetumal Street, Belize City, Belize.
You can reach us at hello@standpointmag.co.uk. We aim to answer within five working days.
Standpoint is published by Briarwood International LLC. ISSN 1757-1111.
2. These terms
By accessing or using the Site you agree to these terms. If you do not agree to them, please do not use the Site.
These terms should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. If you take out a paid subscription, separate subscription terms will also apply and will be provided to you before you pay.
3. Changes to these terms
We may amend these terms from time to time — to reflect changes in the law, in our services, or in how the Site works. The version in force is the one published on this page, and the date it was last changed appears at the top.
Please check this page from time to time. If we make a change that materially affects your rights, and we hold your email address, we will tell you about it directly. Your continued use of the Site after a change takes effect means you accept the revised terms.
4. The Site
We may change, suspend or withdraw all or any part of the Site without notice. We do not guarantee that the Site, or any content on it, will always be available or uninterrupted.
We do not guarantee that the Site will be free from bugs, errors or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your own device, software and internet connection, and for using your own virus protection.
You are responsible for making sure that everyone who accesses the Site through your internet connection is aware of these terms and complies with them.
5. Registration and accounts
Some parts of the Site may require you to register, subscribe to a newsletter, or create an account.
If you register, you must give accurate information and keep it up to date. If you are given, or choose, a password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat it as confidential and must not disclose it to anyone else. You are responsible for all activity carried out under your account.
We may disable any account, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with these terms. If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your login details, tell us immediately at hello@standpointmag.co.uk.
6. Acceptable use
You may use the Site only for lawful purposes. You must not:
- use the Site in any way that breaks any applicable law or regulation, or that has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
- use the Site to send, knowingly receive, upload, download or otherwise transmit any material that does not comply with our content standards at clause 9;
- knowingly transmit any data, or send or upload any material, that contains viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware, or any other harmful programs or code;
- attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Site, the server on which it is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to it;
- attack the Site by means of a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack;
- interfere with, damage or disrupt any part of the Site or any equipment or network on which it is stored;
- use any automated system — including robots, spiders, scrapers, crawlers or offline readers — to access the Site in a way that sends more requests to our servers than a human could reasonably produce in the same period using a conventional browser, other than a search engine crawler operating in accordance with our robots.txt; or
- carry out any systematic extraction, harvesting or copying of content from the Site, including for the purposes described at clause 7.4.
Unauthorised access to computer systems is a criminal offence in most jurisdictions, including under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 in the United Kingdom and the Cybercrime Act 2020 in Belize. We may report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and will cooperate with them, including by disclosing your identity. Where we consider it appropriate, we will withdraw your right to use the Site immediately.
7. Intellectual property
7.1 Our rights
We, or our licensors, own all intellectual property rights in the Site and in the material published on it. That material is protected by copyright, database rights and trade mark law throughout the world. All such rights are reserved.
Copyright in individual articles may rest with the author or with a previous publisher. Where an article carries its own copyright notice, that notice takes precedence.
The name Standpoint, the Standpoint logo, and our section names are marks of Briarwood International LLC and its licensors.
7.2 What you may do
You may:
- read the Site and print or download one copy of any page for your own personal, non-commercial use;
- share links to any page on the Site;
- quote reasonably short extracts, with clear attribution to the author and to Standpoint and, where the platform allows it, a link to the original page.
Nothing in these terms is intended to restrict any fair dealing, fair use or equivalent exception available to you under the copyright law that applies to you — including, for readers in the United Kingdom, fair dealing for criticism, review, quotation and the reporting of current events under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
7.3 What you may not do
You must not:
- modify any copy of any material you have printed or downloaded;
- use any illustration, photograph, video, audio or graphic separately from the text it accompanies;
- reproduce a whole article, or a substantial part of one, on another website, in a newsletter, in print, or in any other medium, without our written permission;
- use any material from the Site for a commercial purpose without a licence from us;
- remove or obscure any copyright, byline or other proprietary notice.
Authors’ moral rights are asserted. You must always acknowledge the author of any material you use.
For permissions, syndication and reprint enquiries, write to hello@standpointmag.co.uk with the article title, the URL, the intended use and the intended audience.
7.4 Text and data mining, and AI training
We expressly reserve all rights in the content of this Site in respect of text and data mining, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
No content on the Site may be used to train, develop, fine-tune, evaluate or ground any machine learning model, large language model, generative artificial intelligence system, or any similar technology, and no content may be extracted, reproduced or stored for those purposes, without our prior express written permission.
This reservation applies to any automated collection, whether by crawler, scraper, API, browser extension, dataset compilation or any other means, and applies regardless of any signal or absence of a signal in our robots.txt file.
Limited statutory exceptions for text and data mining exist in some jurisdictions — for example, section 29A of the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, which permits computational analysis for non-commercial research by a person with lawful access. Such exceptions do not permit commercial mining, redistribution of the underlying works, or use in the development of commercial models.
If you wish to license this archive for research or model training, we are willing to have the conversation. Write to hello@standpointmag.co.uk.
8. Contributions and submissions
If you send us an unsolicited pitch, article, letter or other material, you confirm that it is your own original work, that you are free to offer it to us, and that publishing it will not infringe anyone else’s rights or break the law.
We cannot undertake to read, acknowledge, return or preserve unsolicited material, and we accept no liability for its loss. Sending us material does not create a contract, and does not oblige us to publish it or to pay for it.
If we agree to publish your work, we will agree separate terms with you covering rights, fee and credit before publication.
Please do not send us confidential or sensitive material without agreeing terms with us first. Where you send us an idea we are already pursuing, or one that is not capable of protection, we will not be liable to you for developing it.
9. Comments and other user content
Where the Site allows you to post comments or other material, this clause applies.
9.1 Content standards
Anything you post must be accurate where it states facts, genuinely held where it states opinions, and must comply with the law applicable to you and to the place from which you post it. It must not:
- be defamatory of any person, or malicious or knowingly false;
- be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
- promote sexually explicit material, violence, or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
- infringe any copyright, database right, trade mark or other right of any other person;
- be likely to deceive any person, or breach any legal duty owed to a third party;
- promote any unlawful activity, or be threatening, abusive, harassing, or invasive of anyone’s privacy;
- be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;
- impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation;
- give the impression that it comes from us, where it does not; or
- advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act.
9.2 Your licence to us
You retain ownership of what you post. By posting, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual licence to use, store, reproduce, publish and display that material on the Site and in connection with the promotion of the Site, and to make it available to others under the same terms.
You waive any moral rights in your posted material to the extent permitted by law.
9.3 Moderation
We do not pre-moderate comments, and we are not responsible for material posted by users. Views expressed by users are theirs and not ours.
We may remove any posting, at our sole discretion and without notice, if we consider it to breach these terms — or for any other reason.
9.4 Reporting content
If you believe something posted on the Site is unlawful, defamatory, infringes your rights, or otherwise breaches clause 9.1, please tell us at hello@standpointmag.co.uk. Mark your message “Content complaint” and include:
- the URL of the page and, where you can, a quotation identifying the material;
- your name and contact details;
- why you say the material is objectionable and, if you say it is inaccurate, what the correct position is;
- if you are complaining about infringement of your rights, enough information for us to identify the work and confirm your interest in it.
We will look at every complaint we receive, and we will act promptly on complaints that appear to be well founded. We will normally acknowledge within five working days.
10. Links and third parties
Where the Site links to other websites or resources, those links are provided for information only. We have no control over their contents and we do not endorse them. We accept no responsibility for any loss or damage arising from your use of them.
You may link to our homepage or to any article, provided you do so fairly and lawfully, in a way that does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, and in a way that does not suggest any association, approval or endorsement by us where none exists. You must not frame the Site on any other site, and you must not link from any site you do not own or control. We may withdraw linking permission at any time.
11. Advertising and commercial content
The Site may carry advertising, sponsored content or affiliate links. Where content is paid for, sponsored, or produced in partnership with a third party, we will label it clearly.
Advertisements are the responsibility of the advertiser. Including an advertisement does not mean we endorse the advertiser, its products or its claims. Any dealings you have with an advertiser are between you and them.
12. Disclaimer
Please read this clause carefully.
12.1 Content is published for general information
The content on the Site is published for general information and interest. It is not advice, and you should not rely on it as advice. In particular, nothing on the Site is legal, financial, investment, tax, medical, or other professional advice, and nothing on it is a recommendation to take or refrain from taking any course of action.
If you need advice on a specific matter, consult an appropriately qualified professional. We disclaim all liability arising from reliance placed on the Site by anyone who has not taken that step.
12.2 Opinion
Standpoint publishes opinion, argument, criticism and polemic. Views expressed in articles, columns, reviews, letters and comments are those of their authors and are not necessarily shared by Briarwood International LLC, by the editor, or by other contributors.
We publish writers who disagree with each other. Publication of a view is not endorsement of it.
Reviews and criticism are the honest opinion of the reviewer, based on facts believed to be true at the time of writing.
12.3 Archive content
A substantial part of the Site is an archive of material first published between 2008 and 2021.
Archive material is reproduced as it originally appeared. It has not been revised, updated, fact-checked against subsequent events, or reviewed against current editorial standards. It reflects the circumstances, information, law and language of the date on which it was first published, and in many cases refers to people, institutions and events whose position has since changed.
Republication of archive material on this Site is an act of preservation. It is not a restatement of the views expressed, and it should not be read as the current position of Briarwood International LLC, of the current editor, or of Standpoint.
Where an article is from the archive, its original publication date is shown. Where you are relying on anything in the archive, check the date first.
12.4 Accuracy
We take reasonable care over what we publish, but we do not warrant that content on the Site is accurate, complete, current or free from error. To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all warranties, conditions and other terms that might otherwise be implied by statute or at common law.
External figures, statistics, prices and third-party information may be out of date. Links may rot.
12.5 Corrections
If you believe we have published something factually inaccurate, tell us at hello@standpointmag.co.uk with the article title, the URL, the specific statement complained of and, where you can, the source that supports the correct position.
We investigate every complaint of factual inaccuracy. Where we are satisfied that something is wrong, we correct it promptly and add a note to the article recording what was changed and when. Where we are not satisfied, we will tell you why.
13. Our liability to you
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for:
- death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
- fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
- any matter for which it would be unlawful for us to exclude or limit liability.
If you are a consumer: we provide the Site for domestic and private use. We are not liable to you for loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity. We are liable for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breach of these terms or our failure to use reasonable care and skill, but we are not liable for loss or damage that is not foreseeable.
Nothing in these terms affects any statutory rights you have as a consumer under the law of the country in which you live, and nothing in these terms is intended to exclude or restrict those rights. Readers in the United Kingdom retain the protections of the Consumer Rights Act 2015, which applies to consumer contracts having a close connection with the United Kingdom irrespective of the choice of law at clause 19.
If you are a business user: we exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations and other terms to the fullest extent permitted by law. We will not be liable for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, arising under or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, the Site, or your use of or reliance on any content on it. In particular we will not be liable for loss of profits, sales, business or revenue; business interruption; loss of anticipated savings; loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or any indirect or consequential loss. Our total liability to you in respect of all losses arising in any twelve-month period will not exceed £100 or its equivalent.
We are not liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that infects your equipment as a result of your use of the Site or of your downloading of any content from it.
We are not liable for the content of any site we link to.
14. Indemnity
If you are a business user, you agree to indemnify us against all liabilities, costs, expenses, damages and losses (including reasonable legal fees) suffered or incurred by us arising out of or in connection with your breach of these terms or your misuse of the Site.
This clause does not apply if you are a consumer.
15. Events outside our control
We are not liable for any failure or delay in performing our obligations where that failure or delay results from something outside our reasonable control, including failure of public or private telecommunications networks, failure of a hosting or third-party service provider, power failure, industrial action, civil commotion, or an act of a public authority.
16. Privacy and cookies
We process personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy, and use cookies in accordance with our Cookie Policy. Please read both.
17. Suspension and termination
We may suspend or end your access to the Site, without notice, if you breach these terms. Where we do, you must stop using the Site immediately, and any licence granted to you under clause 7.2 ends.
Clauses 7, 9.2, 12, 13, 14, 18 and 19 survive termination.
18. General
Severability. If any provision of these terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in force.
No waiver. If we do not insist that you perform any of your obligations under these terms, or if we delay in enforcing our rights against you, that does not mean we have waived those rights.
Assignment. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will tell you in writing if we do, and this will not affect your rights. You may not transfer your rights or obligations without our written consent.
Third parties. These terms are between you and us. No person other than you and us has any right to enforce any of them.
Whole agreement. These terms, together with our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, are the whole agreement between us in relation to your use of the Site.
19. Governing law and jurisdiction
These terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter (including non-contractual disputes or claims), are governed by and construed in accordance with the law of Belize, and you and we agree that the courts of Belize shall have jurisdiction.
This clause is subject to the following, which apply notwithstanding anything else in these terms.
If you are a consumer, this clause does not deprive you of the protection of any mandatory provision of the law of the country in which you habitually reside, and does not prevent you from bringing proceedings in the courts of that country. In particular, where you are a consumer resident in the United Kingdom, the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and other mandatory United Kingdom consumer protections continue to apply to your use of the Site and to any contract you make with us, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of the part of the United Kingdom in which you live.
If you are a business user, the courts of Belize have exclusive jurisdiction.
20. Contact
Questions about these terms, complaints, corrections and permissions:
Briarwood International LLC
3301 Chetumal Street
Belize City
Belize