Terms & conditions

Terms and Conditions for Dartington Employee Benefits and site

By accessing this website you consent to the following terms and conditions of use.

In these terms and conditions Dartington Employee Benefits and its associated companies that may provide content on this website.

Security and privacy

Dartington Employee Benefits takes the security and privacy of its systems and its customers' data very seriously. We constantly review our systems and data to ensure the best possible service to our customers.

By using this website, you agree to the capture and use of your data in accordance with the terms laid out in our Privacy Policy.

Exclusions and limitations

The information on this website and portal is provided on an "as is" basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law Dartington Employee Benefits:

1. excludes all representations and warranties relating to this website and its contents, including in relation to any inaccuracies or omissions in this website; and
2. excludes all liability for loss or damage arising out of or in connection with your use of this website and portal. This includes, without limitation, direct loss, loss of business or profits (whether or not the loss of such profits was foreseeable, arose in the normal course of things or you have advised Dartington Employee Benefits of the possibility of such potential loss) and indirect, consequential and incidental damages.

Dartington Employee Benefits does not however exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence.

The above exclusions and limitations apply only to the extent permitted by English law. None of your statutory rights as a consumer that cannot be excluded or limited under English law are affected.

Information and guidance

Dartington Employee Benefits may provide information or guidance on, via, or as a result of you accessing, the website or portal. Any such information or guidance is broad in nature and may not be tailored to your specific requirements and as a result it should not be relied upon in making or refraining from making any decision. Dartington Employee Benefits does not accept any liability (except to the extent that such liability cannot be excluded by law) in relation to any information or guidance provided via or as a result of you accessing the website or portal.

Applications for Benefits and Salary Sacrifice

Your benefit selections may determine your annual benefit entitlement and fix your contractual salary for the year, subject to your employers’ approval. This is an HM Revenue & Customs requirement. In addition, your employer has the right to recover payments from you if your salary is insufficient to cover the benefits you have chosen in the Employee Benefits portal, for example, on leaving the company. At certain points, you may have the opportunity to redesign your benefits package (subject to your employers’ approval). You may however, be able to change your benefit selections during the year if you experience a Life Event. Please note that your benefit selections may impact your Income Tax and National Insurance position and/or your entitlement to certain State Benefits.

By agreeing to these terms and conditions you agree to the variation to your terms and conditions of employment and hereby authorise your employer to reduce your salary accordingly by the value of any benefits that you select. You also agree that you comply with the rules and regulations (statutory or company) of any benefits which you have chosen to receive.

Content changes and accuracy of information

Dartington Employee Benefits reserves the right to withdraw, suspend or modify this website and portal or certain parts of this website or portal, including to any descriptions or prices of goods and services advertised, with or without notice to you. There may also be times when this website or portal or certain parts of this website or portal become unavailable. You agree that Dartington Employee Benefits will not be liable to you or to any third party for any withdrawal, modification, unavailability, suspension or discontinuance of this website or portal or any service available on or through this website and portal. Personalisation of the site based on user activity and preferences may change the appearance and contents of this website or portal at any time.

Accessing this website

Dartington Employee Benefits cannot guarantee that this website and portal will operate continuously, without interruptions or be error-free. You must not attempt to interfere with the proper working of this website and, in particular, you must not attempt to circumvent security, tamper with, hack into, or otherwise disrupt this website or any computer system, server, router or any other internet-connected device.

You are responsible for ensuring that your computer system meets all relevant technical specifications necessary to use the website. Dartington Employee Benefits cannot and does not guarantee or warrant that any content of the website or portal will be free from infection, viruses and/or other code that has contaminating or destructive properties. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements for the safety and reliability of data input and output.

Dartington Employee Benefits restricts access to certain features or parts of the website and portal to users who have been registered with Dartington Employee Benefits. If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of Dartington Employee Benefits’s security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. Dartington Employee Benefits has the right to disable any user identification code or password, at any time, if in the opinion of Dartington Employee Benefits you have failed to comply with these terms and conditions.

You must use this website and portal and the information available from this website and portal responsibly. No such information may be used for or in connection with any unlawful, immoral or anti-social purpose, or in a manner which is or may be damaging to the name and reputation of Dartington Employee Benefits or its related companies.

In summary

As a registered user of the website you are responsible for:

• Ensuring you create and use a strong unique password for this website.  Useful guidance about how to create strong passwords can be found here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/top-tips-for-staying-secure-online/use-a-strong-and-separate-password-for-email
• Keep this password confidential, do not share it with anyone else.
• Only using the website for its designated purpose according to these terms and conditions.

Trademark and copyright notices

The names, images and logos identifying Dartington Employee Benefits and its employee benefits brand names are the intellectual property rights (whether registered or unregistered) Dartington Employee Benefits, its related companies or their licensors.

All website and portal design, text, graphics, the selection and arrangement thereof, and all software compilations, underlying source code, software (including applets) and all other material on this website is copyright of Dartington Employee Benefits, its related companies or their licensors.

You may download information from the website or portal for your own personal non-commercial use only. Except as otherwise expressly permitted under English copyright law, no copying, redistribution, retransmission, publication or commercial exploitation of downloaded material will be permitted without Dartington Employee Benefits’s express permission and/or that of the copyright owner. In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution or publication of copyright material, no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trademark legend or copyright notice shall be made. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading copyright material.

Cancellation or suspension of registration

Dartington Employee Benefits may cancel or suspend your registration for this website or portal or any service hosted on it if you breach these terms and conditions or the terms and conditions for any service

Third party services

Dartington Employee Benefits may provide you access to third-party websites using links on Our website to make benefit selections or access a service, the operators of such sites are not controlled by Dartington Employee Benefits and Dartington Employee Benefits cannot be held responsible for their content or actions. The third parties may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their own privacy policies, which may differ from ours. It is your responsibility to check and evaluate their privacy policy and terms and conditions.  In some cases, we may supply personal information to a third-party service via an integration when you use a link for that benefit provider on our website, this allows you to make a benefit selection on the third party service and for this information to be returned to Dartington Employee Benefits.

Availability

Unless otherwise stated, the products and services featured on this website and portal are only available within the United Kingdom.

General

These terms and conditions are governed by the laws of England and Wales. All disputes arising out of your access to this website are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English and Welsh courts. If any of these terms or conditions is deemed invalid or unenforceable for any reason (including, but not limited to the exclusions and limitations set out above) then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be severed from these terms and conditions and the remaining provisions will continue to apply.

 Please review and amend this section according to your benefits offerings.