This website is operated by Portman Healthcare Limited (“Portman or Portman Dental Care” or “We” or “Us”) which is registered and incorporated in England and Wales under company number 06740579. Our registered office is at Rosehill, New Barn Lane, Cheltenham, GL52 3LZ.

These terms of use (together with the documents referred to in it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website [www.portmandentalcare.com]  (https://www2.dalkeyclinic.com/), as a guest . These terms of use govern your use of our site which includes accessing, browsing, and/or submitting information via our site. By using our site, 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 site. You should print or save a local copy of these terms of use for your own records.

Other applicable terms

These terms of use refer to and include the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

  • 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 site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
  • Our Cookie Policy , which sets out information about the cookies on our site.

Changes to our site

We reserve the right at any time and without notice to enhance, modify, alter, suspend or permanently discontinue all or any part of our site and/or to restrict or prohibit access to it. However, please note that any of the content on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it. We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will be free from errors or omissions.

Accessing our site

Our site is made available free of charge. We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our site without notice and without compensation or payment to you. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them. Except as expressly provided for on our site, we are not responsible for the content or use of any web pages or information on our site which is used by you.

Your use of our site

You may use our site at no charge for your own personal and non-commercial use. You shall not use our site for any illegal purposes and you agree to always comply with applicable law when you use our site. In particular you agree that you shall not send or transmit any information or materials via our site which is defamatory or obscene or which is abusive, indecent or in breach of the privacy of any person. You agree not to send us any unsolicited promotional or advertising material, spam or similar materials or any volume messages via our site which may interfere with the operation of our site or with the enjoyment of this website by other visitors. You must not use our site or take any action that causes or may cause damage to our site or the impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of our site.

Intellectual property rights

All present and future copyright, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights in our site and the material published on it are vested in us and our licensors. All such rights are reserved. You acquire no rights in our site other than the limited right to use our site in accordance with these terms of use. You agree to protect our proprietary rights and those of our licensors and agree to promptly notify us in writing (contact details below) upon becoming aware of any unauthorised access or any use of our site that infringes upon any proprietary rights.

You are permitted to print out or download information and content from our site only for your own personal non-commercial use or for the non-commercial use of your organisation. You must not modify any copies you have printed 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. You may not offer for sale or sell or distribute over any medium any part of our site or its content. You may not make any part of our site available as part of another website, whether by hyperlink framing on the Internet or otherwise unless you have been authorised to do so in writing by us.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these Terms of Use your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):

  • Any “robot”, “bot”, “spider”, “scraper” or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of the site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.
  • Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.

The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).

This clause shall not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.

Our site, its content and any services provided in relation to the same are only targeted to, and intended for use by, individuals located in the Republic of Ireland. By continuing to access, view or make use of this site, you hereby warrant and represent to us that you are located in the Republic of Ireland. If you are not located in the Republic of Ireland, you must immediately discontinue use of our site.

By sending us any information or material, you grant Portman an unrestricted, irrevocable, royalty free, worldwide licence to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, transmit and distribute that material and you also agree that we are free to use any feedback, ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques that you send us for any purpose.

No reliance on information

The content on our site is provided for general information only and does not constitute individual professional advice. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. For any professional dental guidance, we strongly recommend that you book a consultation in one of our dental practices.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up-to-date.

Limitation of our liability

Nothing in these terms of use shall affect your statutory rights that you are always entitled to as a consumer and that you cannot contractually agree to alter or waive.

Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by Irish law. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our site or any content on it, 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: use of, or inability to use, our site; use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site; loss of profits, sales, business or revenue; business interruption; loss of anticipated savings; loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

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 site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.

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

Viruses

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your own information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access the website. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site 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 site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

Linking to our site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. 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 site in any website that is not owned by you. Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. If you wish to make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact [email protected].

Third party links and resources in our site

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for information only. While our site may provide links to other websites we have no control over such sites. We cannot accept any liability for the accuracy or otherwise of any content, or the security of any activity carried out on other such sites. Your use of such sites is at your sole risk.

Breach and indemnity

If you are in breach of these terms we may restrict or suspend your access to our site and/or refuse to provide you with any further access to it. You must not circumvent or bypass or attempt to circumvent or bypass any access restriction measures on our site.

To the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, you hereby agree to indemnify us against any costs, claims, losses and damages (including legal fees) incurred by or awarded against us as a result of your misuse of our site or your breach of these terms.

Assignment

You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these Terms of Use.

You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms of use.

Severability

If a provision of these terms of use is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms of use would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

Entire Agreement

These terms of use, together with our privacy and cookies policies, shall constitute the entire agreement between You and Us in relation to your use of our site and shall supersede all previous agreements between You and Us in relation to your use of our site.

Amendment

These terms of use may be amended by us from time to time. Your use of our site following such changes constitutes your acceptance of these changes.

Applicable law

These terms and conditions, its subject matter, its formation and the content of this website are governed by Irish law and the courts in Ireland shall have exclusive jurisdiction.

Contact us

To contact us, please e-mail [email protected].