Please read these Terms of Service before using this site

1. Who we are and how to contact us

https://www.swimathonfoundation.org/ is a site operated by The Swimathon Foundation (We). We are a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales under company number 04684234 and have our registered office at C/O Cox Costello & Horne Batchworth Lock House, 99 Church Street, Rickmansworth, England, WD3 1JJ.

We are regulated by the Charity Commission under registered charity number 1123870.

To contact us, please emailinfo@swimathon.org

2. By using our site you accept these terms 

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of service and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.

We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

3. There are other terms that may apply to you

Our Privacy & Cookie Policy (Privacy Policy - Swimathon 2025), which explains how we collect, use and store your personal data and provides information about the cookies on our site, will also apply to your use of our site.

4.We may make changes to these terms

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.

5. We may make changes to our site 

We may update and change our site from time to time to reflect changes to our products, our users' needs and our business priorities.

6. We may suspend or withdraw our site

Our site is made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of service and other applicable terms of service, and that they comply with them.4.We may make changes to these terms

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.

7. We may transfer this Agreement to someone else

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always

tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under

the contract.

8. Our site is only for users in the UK

Our site is directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that content

available on or through our site is appropriate for use or available in other locations.

9. How you may use material on our site

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.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your

personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on

our site.

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.

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Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always

be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated).

You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a

licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our site in breach of these terms of

service, 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 (except that you are permitted to print off a copy of these

terms of service).

10. No text or data mining, or web scraping

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation

to our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site for any purpose, including the

development, training, fine-tuning or validation of AI systems or models. This includes using (or

permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):

Any "robot", "bot", "spider", "scraper" or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code,

process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of our site or any

data, content, information or services accessed via the same.

Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate

information or develop, train, fine-tune or validate AI systems or models which includes but is not

limited to patterns, trends and correlations.

The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard,

including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of the Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).

You shall not use, and we do not consent to the use of, our site, or any data published by, or

contained in, or accessible via, our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site for the

purposes of developing, training, fine-tuning or validating any AI system or model.

This clause will not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text

or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.

11. Rules about 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.

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 to our site in 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.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact well.

12. Do not rely on information on this site

The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice

on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining

from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no

representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is

accurate, complete or up to date.

13. We are not responsible for websites we link to

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are

provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those

linked websites or information you may obtain from them.

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

14. We are not responsible for viruses

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform to

access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

15. You must not introduce viruses

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other

material that is malicious or technologically harmful, or otherwise harmfully interacting with our site or

any part of it. 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 or any other equipment or

network connected with our site. You must not interfere with, damage or disrupt any software used in

the provision of our site or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party on

which this site relies in any way. 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.x

16. Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

Whether you are a consumer or a business user:

We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This

includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our

employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

17. If you are a business user

We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our

site or any content on it.

We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence),

breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

use of, or inability to use, our site; or

use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.

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 or damage.

17. If you are a consumer user

We only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any

commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of

business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

If defective digital content that we have supplied damages a device or digital content belonging to you

and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or

pay you compensation. However, we will not be liable for damage that you could have avoided by

following our advice to apply an update offered to you free of charge or for damage that was caused

by you failing to correctly follow installation instructions or to have in place the minimum system

requirements advised by us.

How we may use your personal information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy - Swimathon 2025.

Which country;s laws apply to any disputes?

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If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of service, their subject matter and their

formation, are governed by English law. We both agree that the courts of England and Wales will

have exclusive jurisdiction, except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring

proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are a resident of Scotland, you may also bring

proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, these terms of service, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-

contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive

jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

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