Terms & Conditions
(1) Introduction
By registering an account with The Environmental Illness Resource, whether to post written content (comments, reviews etc.) or make a purchase, you agree to the following terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, we kindly ask you refrain from using our website.
Rest assured, any and all data you provide, or is otherwise collected by The Environmental Illness Resource (e.g. cookies for optimising your visitor / customer experience) are safely handled under the associated data protection laws applicable to your country and / or region. This includes but is not limited to the GDPR (UK & Europe), CCPA (California, USA), and VCDPA (Virginia, USA). As new regulations continue to be implemented in other regions, we shall also comply with these.
(2) Product / Merchandise Fulfillment & Your Consumer Rights
As a customer of the EiR Store you have full consumer rights protection, under the jurisdiction of both our base of operation (UK) and your own country and / or region.
We, under all circumstances, endeavor to comply 100% with the Terms and Conditions of the Shopify platform on which The Environmental Illness Resource is hosted.
You may find your rights and our obligations concerning but not limited to product description and advertising, order fulfilment, shipping, returns and refunds etc. on the Shopify website here:
Shopify's In-Depth Guide for Customers
(3) Content Ownership and Copyright
This website contains material which is owned by or licensed to The Environmental Illness Resource. This material includes, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance and graphics. Reproduction in any form is prohibited without prior consent.
The information presented on this website is owned and copyrighted by The Environmental Illness Resource and Matthew Hogg, unless stated otherwise (e.g. articles written by other authors/contributors). In which case copyright remains with the original author and you should contact them if you wish to use their material.
Content owned and copyrighted by The Environmental Illness Resource and Matthew Hogg must not be reproduced in their entirety without prior written permission in any form (including but not limited to websites, blogs, online forums and groups, social media sites, offline publications). Please contact us to obtain permission to publish our material prior to doing so - failure to comply may result in legal action. Please keep in mind that we will more often than not be more than happy to grant such requests to use our content.
You may publish small snippets/introductions of up to 500 words if a link to the full article is provided.
You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages and files from the website for your own personal use.
The content of the pages of this website is for your general information and use only. It is subject to change without notice.
Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website for any particular purpose, especially as it pertains to what may be construed as ‘medical advice’.
You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website meet your specific requirements.
In no circumstances should the information presented on this website be used as a substitute for personal medical advice provided by a licensed medical professional.
From time to time this website may also include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse the website(s). We have no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s).
(4) User Generated Content (UGC)
In these terms and conditions, "your user content" means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to our website, for whatever purpose.
You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to us the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.
Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).
You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
We reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to our website, or stored on our servers, or hosted or published upon our website.
Notwithstanding our rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, we do not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on our website.
(5) Conduct and Behaviour
By using this website you agree to:
1. Refrain from the use of foul language.
2. Be civil to other users and members of the website when leaving comments and / or product reviews. Abuse of any kind will not be tolerated.
3. Not use this website as an advertising platform to promote your business interests.
(6) Breaches of these terms and conditions
Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, we may take such action as we deem appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.
(7) Variation
We may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on our website. We will always notify anyone who has submitted an email address to us via this route in advance. So, please check your email and / or this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.
(8) Legal and Jurisdiction
Your use of this website and any dispute arising out of such use of the website is subject to the laws of the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Unauthorised use of material contained on this website may result in legal action being taken against you.
(9) Entire agreement
These terms and conditions, together with our privacy policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.
(10) Our Details
The Environmental Illness Resource
c/o Mr Matthew Hogg
9 Newby Crescent
Harrogate
North Yorkshire
HG3 2TS
UNITED KINGDOM