Please read these terms of use carefully before using our website, apps, and other digital channels.

Information about us

Think Marketing Group Limited trading as Think Boats, is the owner and operator of www.think-boats.com (our website) and any applications and/or digital channels provided by us for the purpose of accessing our website, digital magazine, or other services (our apps and digital channels) (together our digital services). We are a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales under company number 12924441. Our registered company address is:  23 Victoria Place, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, ST4 2LX.

Contact us

If you would like any information about the Think Boats and its activities, you can contact us by telephone on 0330 179 0224 or email ahoy@think-boats.com. You can also write to Think Boats, The Court House, Mill Brow, Kirkby Lonsdale, LA6 2AT. If you have any queries relating to these Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy, or Use of Cookies policy, please contact us by letter at the address above.

OUR contact telephone number and email address can be found on our website on our Contact us page.

Thank you for using our digital services.

Terms of use

3.1. Terms

This Terms of Use policy (together with the documents it refers to) tells you the Terms of Use on which you may make use of our digital services, whether as a guest, member, or a registered user. Use of our digital services includes accessing, browsing, or registering to use our digital services.

Please read these Terms of Use carefully before you start to use our digital services, as these will apply to your use of our digital services. Our digital services have certain areas that only members can access so if you are not a member, or if your membership expires or otherwise ends, you will not be able to access those areas.

By using our digital services, you confirm that you accept these Terms of Use and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, you must not use our digital services.

3.2. Other applicable terms

These Terms of Use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our digital services:

a) Our Privacy Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you or that you provide to us. By using our digital services, you consent to such processing, and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

b) Our use of cookies policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our digital services.

3.3. Changes to our digital services

We may update our digital services from time to time and may change the content at any time. However, please note that any of the content on our digital services may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.

Although we take care to ensure accuracy, we do not guarantee that our digital services, or any content on them, will be free from errors or omissions.

3.4. Accessing our digital services

Due to the nature of digital services, we do not guarantee that our digital services, or any content on them, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue, or change all or any part of our digital services without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our digital services are unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our digital services through your internet connection are aware of these Terms of Use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

In most cases, if our digital services are temporarily unavailable, you may still be able to access our services by contacting us by telephone.

3.5. Your account and password

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password, or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms of Use.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at the address set out in Section 2 of this policy.

We will only use any information you provide to us in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

3.6. Reliance on information

We endeavour at all times to ensure that the information on our digital services is complete, accurate and up to date. However, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our digital services will be accurate, complete or up to date nor that it may be relied on for any particular purpose. The content on our digital services is provided for general information only, it is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely.

Separate terms and conditions may apply to certain products, services and materials available through our digital services. If this is the case this will be brought to your attention in the relevant part of the website or app.

3.7. Limitation of our liability

Nothing in these Terms of Use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations, or other terms which may apply to our digital services or any content on them, whether express or implied.

We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

a) use of, or inability to use, our digital services, or

b) use of or reliance on any content displayed on our digital services

If you are a business user, please note that in particular, we will not be liable for:

c) loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue
d) business interruption
e) loss of anticipated savings
f) loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation, or
g) any indirect or consequential loss or damage

We endeavour at all times to protect our services from malicious material and attack but we will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our digital services or to your downloading of any content on them, or on any website or app linked to them.

We assume no responsibility for the content of websites or apps linked on our digital services. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites or apps. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

3.8. Intellectual property rights

All logos, trademarks and copyrights contained in our digital services are and remain the property of their respective owners. Use of these materials does not imply endorsement by these companies. No licenses or other rights in or to such logos and/or trademarks are granted.

You must not use any part of the content on our digital services for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

You may print copies and download extracts of any page(s) from our digital services for your own personal, non-commercial use and you may draw the attention of others to content posted on our digital services.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our digital services must always be acknowledged. If you print off, copy or download any part of our digital services in breach of these Terms of Use, your right to use our digital services may be withdrawn and you may be required, at our option, to return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

3.9. Prohibited uses

You may use our digital services only for lawful purposes. You may not use our digital services:

a) in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation 
b) in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect

c) to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam)
d) to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

You also agree:

e) not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our digital services in contravention of the provisions of these Terms of Use 

f) not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:

i. any part of our digital services. 

ii. any equipment or network on which our digital services are stored, any software used in the provision of our digital services, or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party in the provision of our digital services.

3.10. Viruses and other malware

We do not guarantee that our digital services will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platforms in order to access our digital services. You should use your own anti-virus protection and internet security software and ensure the software is kept up to date at all times.

You must not misuse our digital services by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our digital services, the servers on which our digital services are stored or any server, computer or database connected to our digital services. You must not attack our digital services via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities, and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our digital services will cease immediately.

3.11. Linking to our digital services

You may post or create a link on another website or app to any of the pages on our website, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. However, you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our digital services in any website that is not owned by you unless such linking is permitted by the website owner.

Our digital services must not be framed on any other site or app.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

If you wish to make any use of content on our digital services other than that set out above, please contact us using the details provided in Section 2.

3.12. Third party links and resources in our digital services

Our digital services contain links to other sites, apps and resources provided by third parties that offer products, services and materials we think will be of interest to you. Please note that these links are provided for your information only and we have no control over the content of those sites, apps or resources.

3.13. Applicable law

If you are a consumer, please note that these Terms of Use, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree to that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction. However, if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, these Terms of Use, its subject matter and its formation (and any non contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

3.14. Changes

We may change the terms of this Terms of Use policy from time to time. By continuing to use our digital services any changes will be deemed to have been accepted by you.

Any changes we may make to our Terms of Use policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Terms of Use.