Terms of Use

1. Introduction

1.1 These terms and conditions govern your use of this website (dupliexir.com, associated and sub-domains thereof and the associated application, all owned and managed by Dry Hill Ventures Limited).  By using this website you accept these terms and conditions.  If you disagree with these terms and conditions, or part thereof, you must not use this website.

2. Use of website

2.1 You may view pages from this site in a web browser, print pages from this site and download pages for caching in a web browser, subject to all other provisions of these terms and conditions.

2.2 You may not download any material (except for Excel or PDF files specifically created to be dowloaded by us (Dry Hill Ventures Limited), our clients (trial or paying), survey respondents or the respondent's relevant ,governance officers/departments) from this website or save any other material to your internet enabled device except for the purposes of caching in a web browser.

2.3 We reserve the right to restrict access to all or part of this website at our discretion.  You must not attempt to bypass or circumvent any restrictions to access on this website.

3. Acceptable use

3.1 You must not use the website in any way or take action that may or does cause damage to the website or impairs its performance, appearance, accessibility or availability. 

3.2 You must not use, or attempt to use, this website that is unlawful, fraudulent, illegal or harmful in any way and you must not use it in any connection with any such activity or intention.

3.3 You must not undertake any automated or systematic data collection with respect to this website.

3.4 You must not access or interact with this website using any automated means, including robots and spiders.

3.5 Use any information from this website with regard to marketing purposes.

4. Provision of information

4.1 You must ensure that any information that is provided to us (Dry Hill Ventures Limited) is true, accurate, not misleading and complete.

4.2 We do not guarantee the accuracy and completeness of all information on this website or that it is up to date or that this website, and any services linked to it, will remain available indefinitely.

5. Limitations and exclusions of liability

5.1 We will not be liable to you, your employers, your clients or any agents with regard to any losses due to any event or events that are beyond our reasonable control.  We will not be liable to you with respect to any personal, commercial or business losses including but not limited to profits, income stream, revenues, production, savings, contacts, contracts or reputation.

6. Variation

6.1 We may alter these terms and conditions from time to time and the revised terms and conditions will apply to the website’s use from the time of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website. In accepting these terms and conditions you waive any rights to have to be notified of changes in these terms and conditions.

7. Assignment

7.1 In accepting these terms and conditions you agree that we may transfer, sub-contract or assign or deal in any other way with our obligations and/or rights under these terms and conditions.

7.2 You may not transfer, sub-contract, assign or deal in any other way with your obligations and/or rights under these terms and conditions.

8. Severability

8.1 If any court or other lawful authority determines that any part or provision of these terms and conditions to be unlawful and/or unenforceable , the other parts and provisions will continue to stand.

8.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable part or provision of these terms and conditions were to be lawful or enforceable if part of it were to be deleted then that part will be deemed to be deleted and the rest of the part or provision will continue to stand.

9. Third Party Rights

9.1 The terms and conditions are for the benefit of you and Dry Hill Ventures Limited and these terms and conditions are not intended to be for the benefit of or enforceable by any third party.

9.2 The exercise of the parties’ rights under these terms and conditions is not subject ot the conent of any third party.

10. Copyright

10.1 Copyright © 2013-2018 Dry Hill Ventures Limited (and DuplexIR).

10.2 Dry Hill Ventures Limited together with its service providers and partners owns controls all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in and material on our website subject to any disclosure of other rights or ownership within or alongside the content.

10.3 All the copyright and other intellectual property rights and material in the website are reserved.

11. Entire Agreement

11.1 Subject to the limitation and exclusions of liabilities set out in 5 these terms and conditions together with our privacy policy shall constitute the entire agreement between and you and Dry Hill Ventures Limited relating to your use of the website.  This agreement supersedes and previous agreements between you and Dry Hill Ventures Limited with regard to your use of this website.

12. Law and jurisdiction

12.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English Law.

12.2 Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be the subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.

13. Statutory and regulatory disclosures

13.1 This website is owend and operated by Dry Hill Ventures Limited under the trade names DuplexIR and/or Duplex Investor Relations

13.2 Dry Hill Ventures Limited is registered in England and Wales under registration number 08617130 and the registered office, an principal place of business is at The Coppice, Goodley Stock, Kent, TN8 6TA.

13.3 You can contact DuplexIR in writing to the address above, via the form, telephone number or email given on the contacts page.

13.4 Our VAT number is 188 0970 67

Dated 5th June 2018

We conclude that the quality – and not the amount – of engagement by shareholders determines whether the influence of equity markets on corporate decisions is beneficial or damaging to the long-term interests of companies. And we conclude that public equity markets currently encourage exit (the sale of shares) over voice (the exchange of views with the company) as a means of engagement, replacing the concerned investor with the anonymous trader.

Professor John Kay

Kay review of UK equity markets and long-term decision making. November 2012

...when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind;

Lord Kelvin

Physicist

E.1.1 The Chairman should ensure that the views of shareholders are communicated to the Board as a whole. E.1.2 The Board should state in the annual report the steps they have taken to ensure that the members of the Board, and in particular the non-executive directors, develop an understanding of the views of major shareholders about their company...

Financial Reporting Council

The UK Corporate Governance Code. September 2012

In God we trust, all others (must) bring data

W. Edwards Deming

Engineer, statistician, academic and management consultant

'Know what you own and know why you own it

Peter Lynch

Manager of the Magellan Fund

Honest, nuanced, constructive and, as necessary, challenging feedback is best for all parties

Enhancing stewardship dialogue

The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators

Contact Us

DuplexIR
The Coppice, Goodley Stock, Edenbridge, TN8 6TA, UK

Telephone 0203 865 1582
Email Address info@duplexir.com