Terms of Use
These terms set out how you may use dubaiprofessionals.com and our regional and international websites, whether as a visitor, a free member or a paying member. By registering or using our websites, you accept these terms, our Acceptable Use Policy and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use our websites.
About us
Dubai Professionals (part of Professionals UK) is a trading name of Net Trading Solutions Limited, registered in England and Wales under company number 06391258, with its principal office at 7-8 Stratford Place, London, W1C 1AY.
Dubai Professionals (part of Professionals UK) is a business networking and professional services platform. Members can publish profiles, find and recommend other professionals, share articles and events, and send and receive service enquiries.
Who can use our websites
Our websites are for business use by people aged 18 or over. You must give accurate information when you register and keep it up to date.
Regional and international websites
Profiles and posts on a regional website also appear on Dubai Professionals (part of Professionals UK), and members of Dubai Professionals (part of Professionals UK) appear on the regional website for their postcode. This gives members wider exposure while still being found in their chosen location. The same log-in, terms and policies apply across all our websites. You can choose which locations your articles and events appear on, and you can remove the association in your privacy settings.
Your account
Keep your log-in details confidential and do not share them. We may disable any account or log-in if we believe you have broken these terms. You are responsible for activity on your account.
Free and paid membership
Free members can create a profile, post content, submit service enquiries and reply to introductory messages from paying members. Paid memberships include additional features, such as receiving service enquiries and sending introductory messages. The features of each membership are shown on our website or in your membership agreement and may change from time to time. If you take a paid membership, it is your responsibility to activate it using the details we provide and to make use of its features. If you have any difficulty activating or using your membership, please contact us promptly so we can help. Your membership agreement sets out the full details.
Enquiries are shared as described in our Privacy Policy. A paid membership is for the wider benefits of our service, such as the visibility of your profile and content, promotion of your services to other members and the ability to make introductions, as well as receiving enquiries. Its value does not depend on inbound enquiries alone. Enquiries and introductions are not pre-qualified leads, and our membership is not a lead generation service. We do not guarantee any particular number or quality of enquiries, responses, introductions or business results. Response varies between members, depending on their sector and services, the appeal of their content and their level of activity.
Fees and membership terms
- Paid memberships and advertising are charged at the rates shown on our website or in your membership agreement. Where you agree to pay in instalments, on a deferred date or on a payment schedule, you authorise us and our payment provider to take each payment when it is due, using the payment details you provided.
- You accept your membership agreement by signing it, by replying “Agreed” to the email it was sent with, by making payment, or by activating or accessing your upgraded membership. Your membership runs for the term shown on the website or in your membership agreement. Once ordered, it cannot be cancelled during that term.
- All membership and advertising fees are non-refundable, including for any unused part of the term, as full access to the service is provided from the start and we invest in setting up and promoting your account.
- Memberships do not renew automatically. A new term starts only when you sign a new agreement or place a new order.
- If payment is late, we may suspend paid features until it is received, and we may apply late payment charges as set out in your membership agreement, or as otherwise allowed by law.
- If we end your membership, or restrict features on your account, because you have broken these terms or our Acceptable Use Policy, you are not entitled to a refund.
- We may change our fees from time to time. Changes do not affect a term you have already paid for or signed up to.
- Where your membership agreement and these terms differ, the membership agreement applies.
Profiles, posts and messages
You are responsible for what you publish and send. It must meet our Acceptable Use Policy.
Our websites are for business purposes: making connections and gaining clients and referrals. Messaging is for business communication, not for private, personal or sensitive messages. We may review messages, posts and other content and the responses to them, track response levels, and review any message that is reported to us or that we suspect breaks our terms. Our Privacy Policy explains this.
You keep ownership of the content you post. You give us a licence to display it on our websites and to feature public profile content and posts in our newsletters and social media. This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, although newsletters and social media posts already published may remain.
We may remove profiles, posts or messages, restrict account features such as posting or messaging, disable accounts or refuse membership if we believe a profile or its content is not relevant to the business purpose of our websites, breaks these terms, is inappropriate for our members, or promotes a service that we consider competes with ours, such as business networking, lead generation, referral or advertising services. We do not have to give a reason, though we may choose to.
If someone claims your content infringes their rights or privacy, we may disclose your identity to them.
Our intellectual property
We own or license the intellectual property in our websites and the material we publish. You may print or download extracts for your own reference and share them within your organisation. You must not copy, resell or use our material for commercial purposes without our permission, and you must credit us as the source.
Contracts between members
Any agreement for goods or services between members, or between a member and a visitor, is between those parties. We are not a party to it and are not responsible for it. We do not check the accuracy of members' profiles or the websites they link to.
Availability of our websites
We aim to keep our websites available and up to date, but we do not guarantee it. We may change, suspend or withdraw any part of them. Material on our websites may be out of date at any time.
Our liability
Nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law.
Subject to that, we exclude all implied conditions and warranties to the extent the law allows. We are not liable for any indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of profit, income, business, contracts, goodwill or wasted management time, arising from use of our websites, whether in contract, negligence or otherwise.
Our total liability to a paying member in any year is limited to the membership fees that member paid us in that year.
We are not responsible for viruses or other harmful material that may affect your devices through using our websites or websites linked from them.
Viruses, hacking and misuse
You must not introduce viruses or other harmful material, try to gain unauthorised access to our websites or servers, or attack our websites, including through a denial-of-service attack. This may be a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the authorities and may disclose your identity to them.
Linking to our websites
You may link to our home page or your own profile, as long as you do so fairly and legally and do not suggest any association or endorsement that does not exist. You must not frame our websites on another site. Contact us through our contact page about any other use.
Links from our websites
Links to other websites, including members' and advertisers' websites, are for information only. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms from time to time by changing this page. The latest version is always shown here. Your continued use of our websites after a change means you accept the updated terms. Changes do not affect a membership term already agreed.
Law and jurisdiction
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction, although we may bring proceedings for a breach of these terms in your country of residence or any other relevant country.
Contact
If you have a question or a concern about anything on our websites, please contact us.