Terms and Conditions
Use of our site
Please read this information carefully. Access to and use of our site is confirmation that you have read, understood and agreed to be bound by all of these terms and conditions. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please refrain from using our site.
Information about us
www.mizuho-im.com (our site) is a site operated by Mizuho Investment Management (UK) Ltd. (MIMUK). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 5655607 and have our registered office at Bracken House, One Friday Street, London EC4M 9JA. This is our main trading address.
MIMUK is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. itself a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., a Japanese company.
MIMUK is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.
Accessing our site
Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us.
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, and 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 opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms and conditions.
Intellectual Property Rights
The copyright and all other rights in all of the material on our site including without limitation; text, graphics, icons, images, audio clips and software, are owned by us or are included with the permission of the rights owner. No permission is granted to you to print, copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, upload, store, display, broadcast in public, alter, or modify the content contained on our site. However, you may make one copy of our site for your own private use only.
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 material on our site must always be acknowledged.
If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms and conditions, 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.
Trade Marks
The Mizuho Trade Mark is a registered trade mark and is owned by Mizuho Financial Group, Inc, 1-5-5 Otemachi Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Reliance on information posted
The pages of our site are for information only and do not constitute financial, investment or other professional advice in any way. Please contact your Financial or Investment Advisor, broker, legal or tax advisor, or other professional advisor. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any user of our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
The information contained on our site does not constitute an offer or solicitation to you to invest in our funds, whether or not referred to on our site.
Our site changes regularly
We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site 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 site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. 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 site or in connection with the use of our site, or with the inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for:
- Loss of income or revenue;
- Loss of business;
- Loss of profits or contracts;
- Loss of anticipated savings;
- Loss of data;
- Loss of goodwill
- Wasted management or office time; and
For any other loss or damage of any kind, howsoever 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.
Viruses, Hacking and other offences
You must not use 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.
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 site will cease immediately.
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 site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
Links to our site
You may not create any web links to our site.
Links from our site
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
Applicable law
Our site is established by us in the UK. Any use of it shall at all times be governed by the laws of England and Wales and, in the event of any dispute, all relevant parties shall irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales. The pages of our site are prepared and issued in the UK.
Data Protection and Privacy Statement
We process information about you in accordance with our
Privacy Policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is true and accurate.