17.1. You retain all intellectual property rights in your material and grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, store and maintain your material on our servers and publish it on the Internet to provide the Hosting Service to you.

17.2. You warrant that your material does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party, and you have the authority to grant the licence to us. We may make such copies as may be necessary to perform our obligations, including making backup copies of your material.

17.3. You will defend, indemnify and hold us harmless against claims, actions, proceedings, losses, damages, expenses and costs (including, without limitation, court costs and reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in connection with your use of the Services or of any claim or action that your material infringes, or allegedly infringes, the intellectual property rights of a third party.

17.4. If you download software from our website, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free licence to use that software for the purpose set out on our website in relation to that software. Such a licence will automatically terminate when we terminate the provision of Hosting Services to you.

17.5. Any third-party software you download from our website shall be licensed to you on the standard software licence terms of the owner of the intellectual property rights in that third-party software, as those licence terms are notified to you when you download such software.

17.6. We retain all intellectual property rights in the Hosting Services (other than in your material) and our software. You must not decompile or disassemble the Hosting Services or our software.

17.7. We will defend you against any claim that the Hosting Services infringe any United Kingdom intellectual property rights of a third party and shall indemnify you for any amounts awarded against you in judgment or settlement of such claims, provided that:

  • 7.1. You should give prompt notice of any such claim.
  • 7.2. you make no admissions or settlements without our prior written consent.
  • 7.3. you provide reasonable cooperation to us in the defence and settlement of such a claim at your expense.
  • 7.4. we are given sole authority to defend or settle the claim.