About Us

The term “St Albans Cathedral” refers to the owner of this website (“our site”). St Albans Cathedral is an ecclesiastical corporation established for charitable purposes. Our VAT number is GB 684 3664 01 and our office is at St Albans Cathedral, Sumpter Yard, St Albans, AL1 1BY. All trading activities are carried out by the company owned by St Albans Cathedral, called Cathedral Enterprises (St Albans) Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, company number 01642063, VAT number GB 684 3664 01, with registered office also at St Albans Cathedral, Sumpter Yard, St Albans, AL1 1BY. In this website, the term “we” “our” or “us” refers to both St Albans Cathedral and Cathedral Enterprises (St Albans) Limited.

1. Introduction

1.1 This disclaimer shall govern your use of our website.

1.2 By using our website, you accept this disclaimer in full; accordingly, if you disagree with this disclaimer or any part of this disclaimer, you must not use our website.

1.3 Our website uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to this disclaimer, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our privacy and cookies policies.

1.4 The terms and conditions of the use our online Box Office, operated by Spektrix is available here.

2. Credit

2.1 This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (https://seqlegal.com).

3. Copyright notice

3.1 Copyright (c) 2019 The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban.

3.2 Subject to the express provisions of this disclaimer:

  1. we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website;
  2. and all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.

4. Licence to use website

4.1    You may:

  1. view pages from our website in a web browser;
  2. download pages from our website for caching in a web browser; and
  3. print pages from our website,

subject to the other provisions of this disclaimer.

4.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 4.1 or the other provisions of this disclaimer, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.

4.3 You may only use our website for your own personal purposes, and you must not use our website for any other purposes, unless expressly permitted by the website operator.

4.4 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

  1. republish material from our website (including republication on another website);
  2. sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;
  3. show any material from our website in public;
  4. exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or
  5. redistribute material from our website.

4.5 We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.

5. Acceptable use

5.1 You must not:

  1. use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;
  2. use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;
  3. use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;
  4. conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;
  5. access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of [search engine indexing; or
  6. use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing).

5.2 You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.

5.3 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

6. Limited warranties

6.1 We do not warrant or represent:

  1. the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;
  2. that the material on the website is up to date; or
  3. that the website or any service on the website will remain available.

6.2 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in this disclaimer, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.

6.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 7.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of this disclaimer, our website and the use of our website.

7. Limitations and exclusions of liability

7.1 Nothing in this disclaimer will:

  1. limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
  2. limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
  3. limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
  4. exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

7.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 7 and elsewhere in this disclaimer:

  1. are subject to Section 7.1; and
  2. govern all liabilities arising under this disclaimer or relating to the subject matter of this disclaimer, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in this disclaimer

7.3 To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

7.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

7.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

7.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

7.7 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

7.8 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or this disclaimer (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).

8. Variation

8.1 We may revise this disclaimer from time to time.

8.2 The revised disclaimer shall apply to the use of our website from the time of publication of the revised disclaimer on the website.

9. Severability

9.1 If a provision of this disclaimer is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

9.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of this disclaimer would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

10. Law and jurisdiction

10.1 This disclaimer shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.

10.2 Any disputes relating to this disclaimer shall be subject to the exclusive OR non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.


Cookies Policy

1. Introduction

1.1 Our website uses cookies.

1.2 Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of [our website and services], we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.

2. Credit

2.1 This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (https://seqlegal.com).

3. About Cookies

3.1 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

3.2 Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

3.3 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

4. Cookies that we use

4.1 We use cookies for the following purposes:

  1. authentication - we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;
  2. status - we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our online Box Office;
  3. shopping cart - we use cookies to maintain the state of your Box Office shopping cart as you navigate our website;
  4. personalisation - we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise our website for you;
  5. analysis - we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services; and
  6. cookie consent - we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.

5. Cookies and our service providers

5.1 Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website

5.2 We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

6. Managing Cookies

6.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

  1. https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
  2. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
  3. http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
  4. https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
  5. https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and
  6. https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

6.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

6.3  If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

7. Cookie preferences

7.1 You can manage your preferences relating to the use of cookies on our website in your browser settings.