Terms of use

The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners Limited (“STEP”, “We”, “us”, “our”) is committed to protecting and respecting your personal information. You should agree to the terms of use set out at the bottom of this page before using this website.

Your use of this website

By using this website, you are agreeing to the terms of use for this website and related applications as set out below. If you do not agree to these terms, you should not use this website. All rights are expressly reserved unless where stated.

Intellectual property rights

© 2021 Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), all rights in and relating to the contents of the STEP website are expressly reserved. Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all material on the STEP website (including, but not limited to, written text, photographs and graphical images, videos, and audio) is owned by STEP. No part of this website and its contents may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the STEP. The contents of the STEP website are provided as a service to STEP members and to interested non-members. You may print or download material from this site only if:

  • it is for non-commercial or personal use
  • it is not stored on any medium other than for subsequent viewing or for personal use
  • it is not reproduced, modified, adapted or processed
  • your membership status allows you to use the specific resource i.e. logo, badge or document

Liability

Whilst STEP takes every care in compiling the contents of this website to seek accuracy or completeness, STEP (including our publishers) does not accept liability or responsibility for errors or omissions therein, however caused. STEP does not endorse or approve any advertisement and has no liability for any loss caused by any reliance on the content of any such advertisement. In addition, the views expressed on articles on this website are not necessarily those of STEP, and readers should seek the guidance of a suitably qualified professional before taking any action or entering into any agreement in reliance upon the information contained in articles found on this website.

STEP seeks to make this website available at all times but reserves the right to delete, change, move or suspend the entire website or any of its contents without notice at any time and accepts no liability for any error or omission, inconvenience or any consequences resulting from it doing so.

Your use of this website is at your own risk. STEP accepts no liability for any damage or loss caused by computer malware while on this website or after following links from this website to other websites.

Links to third-party websites from our website are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you will leave STEP’s website (links to external sites will generally open a new window, and our website will remain open). The update and review of any third-party sites are beyond our control and we are not responsible for these websites or their content or availability. STEP does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third-party websites linked to our website, you do so entirely at your own risk.

STEP reserves the right to amend or alter these guidelines from time to time. If you have any questions about these guidelines please email web@step.org