These terms and conditions together with our privacy policy, and relevant laws, are the terms under which you agree to use our website.  

Please read them carefully. If you are not prepared to follow them please do not use the website.

Who are we?

Quaker Housing Trust is a charity created by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain as a channel through which Friends can give financial help to charitable social housing providers.

Our full address is Quaker Housing Trust, Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ. Our registered company number is 00924311 and our registered charity number is 254704.

We welcome comments and suggestions about our website, and are happy to deal with any complaints you may have.  Please contact us at the above postal address, email or telephone number with any comments, suggestions or complaints.

Use of our website

Our website is designed for anyone wanting to find out more about Quaker Housing Trust and our work.  

We try our best to ensure that the website is as accurate and up to date as possible but we are aware we may make mistakes. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information on our website or that you’ll always be able to access it. We don’t accept liability for errors or omissions or for any reliance you place on the information on our website.

You agree to use our website lawfully and ethically. In particular, you agree to not use our website in connection with:

• Surveys
• Contests
• Pyramid schemes
• Chain letters
• Junk or spam email, or
• Any unsolicited messages

Links and social media websites

Visitors use links to move from one website to another or from one page to another in the same website.  

Our website does contain links to websites of other organisations.  We do not endorse the views or accept liability for the contents of any of these external websites.  

Our website also links to pages we maintain on third party social media websites.  When you use those pages you must do so under the terms of use of those websites, and of these terms of use.

If you link to our website from any other website you must also abide by our terms of use.

Trade marks, logos and service marks

Trade marks, logos and service marks, together called “trade marks”, used on our website, whether registered or unregistered, are property of their owners.

Unless otherwise stated, we do not give you permission to use any trade mark on our website without its owner’s consent.

Copyright

Quaker Housing Trust owns the copyright to our website. All content is under copyright. You may not use it unless with our prior written consent or as allowed by these terms of use. Any unauthorised use of our website’s content may infringe third parties' rights.

Unless we agree, you must not use information or images in our website in any way, except:

• To ask about us and our services,
• To download and temporarily store one or more page of our website for your viewing on a personal computer or terminal, or
• For private or non-commercial use and not-for-profit use including academic research.

If you use any material on our website for any of these purposes you:

• Must not change documents or related images
• Must not use images separately from the accompanying text
• Must include our copyright and trade mark notices on all permitted copies.

You must include “© Copyright Quaker Housing Trust 2021. All rights reserved” if you quote our website’s content in a publication associated with your private or academic research.

If you wish to use any material on our website in any other way, please write to Quaker Housing Trust, Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ

Viruses

Our policy is to keep our anti-virus software as up-to-date as possible.  We cannot however guarantee that our website, its servers, downloadable files and emails are free from viruses or other harmful contents. You should take all reasonable steps including using suitable anti-virus and firewall systems to protect your computer and other equipment. We do not accept any liability for any loss or damage as a result of any corruption or infection of your computer and other equipment.

You must not:

• Introduce, or try to introduce, any virus or other contaminant to our website or any of its software or systems
• Try to access, alter, de-compile, reverse engineer, destroy or tamper with any part of our website, its software or our systems
• Interfere with anybody else’s use of our website
• Try to damage or interfere with the way our website works either by helping to organise, or taking part in a denial of service attack, or through any other method.

Liability

You use our website at your own risk. The information and materials on our website are general only and are not advice or recommendations, professional or otherwise.

We don’t accept liability for any loss or damage resulting from your use of our website:

• Where we comply with these terms of use,
• Where we do not comply with these terms of use and it is not reasonably foreseeable at the time when you use our website, and/or
• Where we do not comply with these terms of use and such loss or damage is indirect, such as loss of income, loss of profit, loss of contract, damage to reputation and waste of time.

We exclude all warranties, express or implied, relating to the information and materials on our website to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence, fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation or any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Privacy policy

We will only use any personal information provided by you in accordance with our privacy policy.

Connection and charges

You’re responsible for connecting with a telecommunications provider to access our website and for the costs you incur in using our website.

Changes to these terms of use

We may sometimes change these terms of use. If we make any significant changes we will post a notice on the homepage of our website.

By continuing to use our website you agree to be bound by any changes we make to these terms of use.

General

If we are prevented from enforcing any of these terms of use it will not mean we cannot enforce the rest of them, which will continue to apply.

These terms of use will be governed by English law. The English Courts will have exclusive jurisdiction to hear disputes about these terms.