This legal notice applies to the entire contents of this website and to any correspondence between you and us and to any newsletters or publications downloaded by you or sent to you by us (the "Site").

In consideration of BOOKHAM VISION allowing you access to the Site you are deemed to accept our terms and conditions of use. Please read them carefully. If you do not accept these terms and conditions of use, do not use the Site.

Our terms and conditions of use may be changed. Please review them regularly. If you continue to use the Site after a change has been made to the terms and conditions of use you are deemed to have accepted it.

BOOKHAM VISION or its licensors or contributors own the copyright and all other intellectual property rights in the material on the Site. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, transmit, adapt or otherwise use any material on the Site other than for your own personal non-commercial use.

You may not use the Site:- 

• for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any material, the publication, dissemination, use or possession of which infringes the rights of any person or which is unlawful in any other respect;

• in any way which is abusive, defamatory or obscene or which will harass, distress or inconvenience any person or which might restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of the Site by any person;

• for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation or commercial exploitation;

• for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;

• to create a database (electronic or otherwise) that includes material downloaded or otherwise obtained from the Site, without written permission from BOOKHAM VISION;

• to transmit or re-circulate any material obtained from the Site to any third party, without written permission from BOOKHAM VISION;

• in such a way so as to remove the copyright or trade mark notice(s) from any copies of any material made in accordance with these terms; or in any way that might bring BOOKHAM VISION into disrepute.

• BOOKHAM VISION shall have the right to refuse to allow you access to the Site or any part of it at any time and for any reason without giving you any advance notice.

• BOOKHAM VISION shall have the right at any time and for any reason to remove from the Site any material posted, uploaded, emailed or otherwise transmitted by you without giving you any advance notice.

Whilst effort has been taken to ensure that the Site is free from viruses, BOOKHAM VISION gives no warranties that it is indeed free from viruses and you are responsible for ensuring that you have installed adequate virus checking software.

• BOOKHAM VISION shall not be responsible for any viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment or other material transmitted with or as part of the Site or any other internet site.

Some of the pages on the Site include links to external websites. These are for your convenience only. BOOKHAM VISION does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of these external websites.

BOOKHAM VISION may publish any material you submit, post, upload, email or otherwise transmit to it or to the Site at its sole discretion and it shall be entitled to make additions or deletions to any such material prior to publication.

• You hereby grant BOOKHAM VISION a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual and worldwide licence to republish any material you submit, post, upload, email or otherwise transmit to them or to the Site in any format including (without limitation) print and electronic format.

• You hereby waive all of the moral rights that you have under Chapter IV of the of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988 in respect of any material you submit, post, upload, email or otherwise transmit to BOOKHAM VISION or to the Site.

You agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself in any registration form you complete.

BOOKHAM VISION will process your personal data in accordance with our Pricacy Policy.

When you visit the Site we may send you a cookie. Cookies may be used in the following ways:

• to help us recognise you as a unique visitor (just a number) when you return to the Site and to allow us to tailor content or advertisements to match your preferred interests or to avoid showing you the same adverts repeatedly; or

• to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use the Site and to help us improve the structure of the Site (we cannot identify you personally in this way).

Two types of cookies may be used on the Site, session cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site, and persistent cookies, which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of the Site if cookies are disabled. If you want to find out more about how to disable cookies please see this external third party website:

Whilst every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information on the Site, no warranty is given as to its accuracy or completeness.

• BOOKHAM VISION cannot guarantee that you will have uninterrupted access to the Site.

• Notwithstanding anything else in these terms and conditions of use, to the fullest extent permitted by law BOOKHAM VISION excludes all warranties (whether express or implied) and all liability to you in respect of the Site, its content and your use of it.

These terms and conditions of use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any disputes arising in relation to the Site shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

• If any of these terms or conditions of use should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable, it shall be deemed deleted and the remaining terms and conditions of use shall survive and continue to be binding and enforceable.