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Since 1822 The Sunday Times has been at the forefront of bringing top-quality journalism to the peoples of Britain and Ireland. Since January 1996, we and our colleagues at The Times have published editions of the world's greatest newspapers on the World Wide Web.

As the first British newspapers to publish truly comprehensive Internet editions, we have taken advantage of technology by providing links from our news and feature articles to related items. We provide a comprehensive and detailed archive of material for background and research that no single printed edition could ever hope to match.

As a time-saving aid, The Sunday Times allows the busy reader the chance to delve into the background via the Back Issues facility, our drop-down archives (see home page for example), search and breaking news services.

And all this is free. We bring maximum benefit to anyone with access to the Internet: we aim to be a benchmark and an example to other organisations and businesses at home and abroad.

We hope you enjoy the unique content and the clean and uncluttered look of the site. We hope you find it useful and easy to use.

We will make it grow and evolve, and to help us improve we invite your constructive comments and suggestions.

1. In return for Times Newspapers Ltd allowing you access to the internet editions of The Sunday Times you accept the following terms and conditions;

2. You acknowledge that all intellectual property rights including copyright in the internet edition belong to or have been licensed to Times Newspapers Limited;

3. You are permitted to display extracts from the internet edition on your screen and print on paper one copy of such extracts solely for your own personal non-commercial use. For this purpose alone you may copy the extracts on to disk or other storage media provided that any such copies may be used only to facilitate subsequent viewing by you or to print a single copy of an extract on paper for personal use;

4. Except as permitted in clause 3 above you undertake not to copy, store in any medium (including any other web site), distribute, transmit, re-transmit, modify, or show in public any part of the internet edition without the prior written permission of Times Newspapers Ltd or in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988;

5. You may not set up links to the internet edition except to the index page of The Sunday Times website at http://www.sunday-times.co.uk, without the express written permission of the Webmaster.

6. "The Sunday Times" is a trade mark of Times Newspapers Ltd. You may not use these marks without our express written permission.

7. Times Newspapers Ltd excludes any warranty, express or implied, as to the quality, accuracy, timeliness, completeness or fitness for a particular purpose of the internet edition. Times Newspapers Ltd will not be liable for any claims, penalties, losses, damages, costs or expenses arising from the use of or inability to use the internet edition or from any unauthorised access to or alteration of the internet edition. Times Newspapers Ltd makes no warranty that the contents of The Sunday Times website are compatible with all computer systems and browsers.

8. You accept that after you leave our site (whether knowingly or not) we can no longer be responsible in any way for any material that you encounter and we exclude to the fullest extent permitted by law all liability that may arise with respect to or as a result of such material causing any damage, costs, injury or financial loss of any kind.

9. Permission to access the internet edition is granted at the sole discretion of Times Newspapers Limited and such permission may be withdrawn at any time without notice.

10. We reserve the right to add to or change the terms of this agreement. It is your responsibility to refer to and comply with these terms on accessing the internet edition. Failure to comply may lead to action being taken against you.

11. These terms and conditions are governed by and will be interpreted in accordance with English law.

12. We will only use your personal data collected through this site in accordance with UK data protection legislation. See our Privacy Policy for further details.

NOTE. These terms and conditions last updated: October 3 2000

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