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DATA RECOVERY & COMPUTER FORENSICS TERMS & CONDITIONS
1. General
1.1 Within these terms and conditions references to "Apex" are to "Apex Technology Limited" and "client" means any person, company or any other party with whom Apex enters into any contract whether directly or indirectly. "Confidential information" as used herein shall mean, any electronic data, media, software, computer hardware and firmware, supplied to Apex for the purpose of Data Recovery. "Contract" means any contract entered into by Apex and the client. "Service" shall be taken to include, but shall not be limited to, the assessment and recovery of electronic data from the hardware or firmware supplied by the client.
1.2 Working days are defined as Monday to Friday excluding public holidays, and working hours shall be defined as 09:00 to 17:00 at Apex premises.
1.3 All reasonable efforts to meet relevant response times by Apex are not fundamental in nature to any contractual obligations.

2. Arrangement of Contract
2.1 Apex will commence work when confidential information is received or when any agreed payments received. Receipt of the item will be taken as the client's wish for Apex to proceed in line with quote.
2.2 Apex reserves the right to cancel the contract without any liability to the client when, and shall not be limited to, when the confidential information appears to breach any related laws or regulations. The client shall withstand any loss, costs, damages and/or charges incurred by Apex in respect thereof.
2.3 The client understands that Apex does not offer guarantees or warranties of any kind.
2.4 The extent of Apex's liability to you for the service, including negligence on its part, is strictly limited to the fees you pay Apex for its services in data recovery.
2.5 Apex will not be liable for any loss of data, loss of revenue or profits or any consequential damages, however caused, in connection with any service provided by Apex
2.6 The client understands that confidential information you are making available to Apex is already damaged, that data recovery efforts can result in further damage, that your media and/or equipment warranties may become void and that Apex is not responsible for this or any other type of damage.
2.7 Under the contract no other party shall have any rights or obligations. Nor will the said party be at liberty to take legal action or become liable for legal action.

3. Service and Completion
3.1 Subject to provisions of 3.1.1, all reasonable efforts shall be made to meet the time of service and dispatch in accordance with the contract.
3.1.1 Apex shall not be liable for any failure or delay in the service where any circumstances outside its reasonable control, but shall not be limited to, industrial action, transport delays, fire, strikes, war, shortage of supplies, lockouts, criminal acts, government action, extreme weather conditions, accidents, or breakdown.
3.2 Apex only takes responsibility for the client's confidential information when received at Apex premises.
3.3 Responsibility for the client's confidential information is passed back to the client after invoice issue date for work.
3.4 Apex will, as default, return the confidential information via Recorded Delivery Royal Mail, unless otherwise instructed and paid for by the Client.

4. No Recovery - No Fee
4.1 "No Recovery - No Fee" shall mean that Apex concludes that no files are recoverable, and therefore the client will incur no other costs except for those stated in 5.3.
4.2 "Recovery" will mean that Apex concludes files are recoverable and the client is liable for the recovery costs.

5. Payment
5.1 The return of the client's confidential information will not commence until Apex has received payment in full.
5.2 Although every effort will be made to recover the data in a complete form, no warranty shall be given to the correctness of such data.
5.3 The client shall undertake the full responsibility for arranging and paying for packaging, carriage and insurance of the client's confidential information to Apex and back to the client, unless otherwise agreed in writing.
5.4 Apex will not be liable for any loss of profits or business related to the client, directly or indirectly.

6. Confidentiality
6.1 Apex agrees to return the clients confidential information upon the request of the client providing it has not already been destroyed after being found to be unrecoverable by Apex, and due payments were settled.
6.2 Apex agrees to make no permanent copies of, or retain any, confidential information supplied by the client outside of any contract term. Copies/Downloads kept in case of delivery problems will be destroyed 7 days from invoice date.
6.3 Subject to provisions of 6.2, confidential information will be kept confidential and shall not be disclosed by Apex in any manner whatsoever, in whole or in part. This confidential information shall not be used by Apex for any other purpose than data recovery. Apex agrees to transmit the confidential information only to those officers, employees, agents and representatives of the client for the purpose of any contract, and agree not to disclose the confidential information to any other party.
6.4 The provisions of 6.3 shall not apply to any confidential information that Apex cannot confirm:6.4.1 At any time was in the public domain or which afterwards became part of the public domain through no violation of any contract between Apex and the client.6.4.2 At any time was lawfully acquired by Apex from others who had full rights to disclose it to Apex.
6.5 The confidentiality statement obligations shall be deemed to relate to the employees, contractors and ex-employees of Apex.
6.6 If Apex is legally compelled to disclose any part of the confidential information, Apex may disclose such information without any liability hereunder.

7. Provisions
7.1 If any term of this statement is held by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable then this statement including all the remaining terms, will remain in full force and effect as if such invalid or unenforceable term had never been included.

8. Trademarks
8.1 The trade marks and logos (the Trademarks) used and displayed on this Site are registered and unregistered trademarks of Apex Technology and others and may not be used in any advertising or other publicity materials in relation to the distribution of any information or materials obtained from this Site without the prior written consent of the Trademark owner.