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Terms of Use

These terms and conditions ("Terms"), together with the privacy policy, govern your use of the website which we, Brother International Europe Limited ("Brother"), operate from the URL "http://www.brother.eu" ("Website").
Brother is a company incorporated in England and Wales with company number 664172, whose registered office is at Brother House, 1 Tame Street, Audenshaw, Manchester M34 5JE. Our VAT number is GB864450220.
The Website may be used for informational purposes only. By using the Website or downloading materials from the Website, you agree to be bound by the Terms. If you do not agree to be bound by the Terms, do not use the Website or download materials from the Website. If you have any comments or questions about the Terms or the Website, please contact the BIE Web Administration Team
The Website includes links to other web sites operated by affiliates of Brother. Use of such other web sites shall be subject to the terms and conditions particular to such other web sites (including, but not limited to, those of an End User License Agreement when you download certain content). For the avoidance of doubt, such other terms and conditions will prevail over the Terms when using such other web sites.

Use of Materials

Brother or third parties who have licensed Brother shall reserve all intellectual property rights (the rights which could be protected by the copyright law, the design law, the trademark law and other intellectual property laws) concerning any documents, programs, movies, animations, articles, sketches, drawings, software, databases, trademarks, logos and other materials available on the Website ("the Information"). Except to enable your personal use of the Information, as well as rights granted to you under applicable mandatory law, you are prohibited from reproducing, distributing, modifying displaying, showing, publicly transmitting or otherwise creating derivative products of any of the Information, in whole or in part, regardless of medium, without prior written permission from the intellectual property right owner(s).

Disclaimer

While Brother uses its best efforts to include accurate and up-to-date content on the Website, Brother makes no warranties or representations of any kind, expressed or implied, as to its accuracy or appropriateness (including warranties or representations that any particular content fits your purpose or that the content is free from bugs or computer viruses.) Brother assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content on the Website. In no event shall Brother be liable for any infringement, loss or damages of any kind, including but not limited to PC trouble, loss of data, loss of profits, loss of business opportunities, interruption of business, or for indirect, special, incidental, punitive, exemplary or consequential damages any kind that results from your use of the Website, your use of any information obtained from web sites linked from the Website, or inability to use the Website or other web sites linked from the Website. Please note that the content of the Website may be modified or deleted without prior notice. This disclaimer is not intended to limit the liability of Brother in contravention to any mandatory requirements laid down in applicable law.

Links to Other Sites

Any web sites operated by third parties which are linked to or from the Website are not under the control of Brother and Brother is not responsible for the content of any such linked site. Brother provides such links to you only for your convenience, and the inclusion of a link to any such site does not imply endorsement by Brother of such site.

Protection of Personal Data
Brother respects your privacy. You can access and browse most of the Website without disclosing your personal data or saving information collected by cookies that we use. When we collect or use your personal data, we will protect your privacy and adhere to all legislation, including but not limited to the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Privacy and Electronic Communication Regulations 2003. As the Website may contain links to web sites operated by third parties, Brother shall not be held responsible for how your personal information may be used when accessing or browsing these linked sites.

Use of Cookies

A cookie is a text file that a web site transfers to your computer's hard disk to make a web site work more efficiently.
This Website uses the following two types of cookies:
Session Cookies: these are temporary cookies which remain on your computer until you leave the Web site.
Persistent Cookies: these remain on your computer after you leave the Web site
Those cookies are used for:

• Recording settings/changes made by you
• Storing information locally rather than on the Website for faster access
• Storing persistent information to be passed between two or more pages
• Recording what section/language of the Website you visit (so to return you directly there before)
• Helping us to recognise you when you return to the Website and allow us to tailor content or advertisements to match your preferred interests or to avoid showing you the same adverts repeatedly

We may use third parties to assist in this monitoring and analysis. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the setting in your browser. If you would like to do this, please see the help menu of your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of the Website if cookies are disabled.

Trademarks

Brother and the brother logo (  ) are both trademarks of Brother Industries, Ltd., registered in Japan and certain other countries. Any trade names, logos and product names of other companies appearing on the Website are trade names or trademarks of those respective companies.

Severability

If any provision of the Terms is found to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which the Terms are intended to be effective then, within such state or country, to the extent such provision is illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable it shall be severed from the Terms. Any such illegality, invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the other provisions of the Terms, which shall remain in full force and effect.

Governing Law

The Terms and any matter arising from or in connection with the Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales, and the courts sitting in England shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim or matter arising from or in connection with the Terms and/or use of the Website.

Contact Details

Please email BIE Web Administration Team

Alternatively please write to us at
BIE Web Administration Team
Brother House
1 Tame Street
Audenshaw
Manchester
M34 5JE

Telephone Number 0161 330 6531