Terms of Use

This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use by which you may make use of our website www.hymans.co.uk. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use this website. By using our website, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our website.

This page was last updated: 18 September 2024

Who we are

This website is operated by Hymans Robertson LLP ("We").  We are a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under LLP registration number OC310282 and have our registered office at One London Wall London EC2Y 5EA.

We are VAT registered. Our VAT Registration Number is GB 918394102.

Hymans Robertson LLP is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and is licenced by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries for a range of investment business activities.

Related terms 

There are other terms that may apply to your use of our website.

Our Privacy Policy. See how we may use your personal information.

Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.

If you access our Online Services via a secure portal, we will agree a client service agreement with you separately.

Accessing our website

This website is intended for use by UK residents only.  

Access to our website is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our website without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our website, or our entire website, to users who have registered with us. If 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, and you must not disclose it to any third party. If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify your Hymans’ consultant or email marketing@hymans.co.uk.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our website. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our website through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use, and that they comply with them.

Intellectual property rights

The copyright and other intellectual property rights in the pages of our website, the information and content they contain and their design and layout (including software, databases, data and other information) belong(s) to us and/or our licensors. Certain images are reproduced under licence. All such rights are reserved.

You may print or download one copy of pages from our website for your personal, non-commercial use only. Any other reproduction of any part of our website is prohibited. Printed or downloaded copies of any pages on this website must be referred in the full and complete form it was published here (including any accompanying text or caveats) and you may not make any modifications to its contents.  In particular, you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

If you refer to or quote any information on our website you must acknowledge us (and any identified contributors) as the source.

Hymans Robertson, PRISM, Guided Outcomes, Guided DC and FocalPOINT are registered trade marks of Hymans Robertson LLP.

FTSE is a registered trade mark of London Stock Exchange plc.

If you breach any of these terms of use, your right to use our website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of any pages of the website you have made.

© 2024 Hymans Robertson, images reproduced under licence. All rights reserved.

Reliance on information posted

Commentary and other materials posted on our website are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our website, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

The information contained in this website should not be regarded as advice or an offer, invitation or solicitation to enter into any financial obligation, activity or promotion of any kind as defined by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. 

No Text, data mining or web scraping

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our  website or any services provided via, or in relation to, our  website. This includes, but is not limited to:

• 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; and
• 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. 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 of England and Wales.

Our website changes regularly

We aim to update our website regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our website, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our website may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

Our liability

The material displayed on our website is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy or completeness. To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:

• all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
• any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our website or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our website, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for:
  • loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
  • loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation;
  • business interruption;
  • loss of anticipated savings;
  • loss of data; and
  • for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.

This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Acceptable use

You may use our website only for lawful purposes. You may not use our website:

• In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
• In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
• To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
• To knowing 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 must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our website, the server on which our website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our website. You must not attack our website 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 website will cease immediately.

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You should use your own virus protection software. We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

You also agree:

• Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our website in contravention of the provisions of these terms of use.
• Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
  • any part of our website;
  • any equipment or network on which our website is stored;
  • any software used in the provision of our website; or
  • any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Linking to our website

You may link to any public web page 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 which suggests any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists or which bypasses our branding and/or legal information.

You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you, however you may link from websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking, provided you do so in accordance with the relevant terms of use for those websites and applications.

Our website must not be framed on any other website. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website or application from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in these terms of use.
If you wish to make any use of material on our website other than that set out above, please address your request to marketing@hymans.co.uk.

Links from our website

Where our website contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Suspension and termination

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of these terms of use through your use of our website. When a breach has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.

Failure to comply with these terms of use constitutes a material breach of the terms upon which you are permitted to use our website, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

• immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our website;
• immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our website;
• issue of a warning to you;
• legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach;
• further legal action against you; and/or
• disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.

We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of these terms of use. The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

Jurisdiction and applicable law

The English and Welsh courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our website although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country. These terms of use are governed by the laws of England and Wales.

Changes to these terms of use

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our website.  

Your concerns

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our website, please contact marketing@hymans.co.uk.