Terms and Conditions

Introduction

Applicants unsure of their visa requirements for their visit to United Kingdom, should check before making an application on the UK visa site. You can do this by using the questionnaire 'Do I need a visa' on the UK visas' website.

The terms and conditions for use of this website are as follows:

This website is maintained for your personal use and viewing. Access and use by you of this site constitutes acceptance by you of these Terms & Conditions, which take effect from the date of first use. Throughout this document, the terms 'we', 'us' and 'our' refer to Service Provider and the terms 'you' and 'your' refer to you the user.

Important Note:
VF Worldwide Holdings Ltd ("the Service Provider") is authorised to provide visa processing services in Japan. The UK Visa Application Centre is a service provided for British Embassy in Japan by the Service Provider.

General
These Terms & Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute arising under these Terms & Conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales. Please direct any queries to www.ukvisas.gov.uk/enquiries

Refund policy
The application processing fee, shipping and handling fees once paid is non-refundable regardless of the outcome of the application.

Hyper linking by You
You do not have to seek permission to link directly to pages hosted on this site. However, we do not permit our pages to be loaded to frames on your site. The website's pages must load into the user's entire window.

Hyper linking by Us
It is expressly understood that the information and contents provided on the Web Site to which we link either generally or specifically to you, should not be construed as any legal advice, guidance, opinion or views of the service provider and it hereby completely disclaims and does not represent or warrant the accuracy, completeness and reliability of any such advice, opinions, recommendations, guidance and views. Any reliance or act or omission on the basis of the information provided on the Web Site or such advice etc. shall be entirely at your risks and consequences.

Intellectual property
All Intellectual Property Rights including trademarks, copyrights, designs, logos with regards to the Authority or Service Provider are the proprietary rights of the Authority and the Service Provider accordingly. All rights of the Web Site are reserved and no part of the Web Site shall be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means - electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, printing, photocopying, recording or otherwise including the right of translating in any language without the prior written consent of the Service Provider. Copying or deceptively using the Intellectual Property Rights in any manner including using it via this website is not permitted in any manner whatsoever and all infringers shall be prosecuted under Law including penal consequences.

Virus protection
Adequate effort shall be made to check and test material at all various stages of production. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus programme on all material downloaded from the Internet. We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption, or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived form this website. The Service Provide and the Authority shall not be liable to you or any other person or Authority, for any loss of use, revenue or profit, loss or damage or for whatsoever reasons due to your use or even if such damages are foreseeable.

Declaration
Before final submission of your application, you will be required to confirm that you have read the Declaration Section by signing in the box provided. You should do this by entering your signature. This Declaration Section must be signed by you, the applicant, personally, and not by a representative or other person acting on your behalf. An application for a person under the age of 18 may be completed by the parent or legal guardian.

All sections of the revised Visa Application Form need to be completed. Failure to do so could result in the application being rejected, causing further delays.

Disclaimer
This website and material relating to Government information, products and services (or to third party information, products and services) is provided 'as is' without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. We do not warrant that the functions contained in the material contained in this website will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or represent the full functionality, accuracy, reliability of the materials. In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including, without limitation, indirect or consequential use or damage, or any loss or damage including, whatsoever arising from use of or loss of use of data or profits arising out of or in connection with the use of this website.

Privacy policy
The Service Provider has entered into a contract with the Authority. The Service Provider has assigned to the Authority, all Intellectual Property rights owned by the Service Provider in any material, which is generated by them and delivered to the Service Provider in the performance of the contract, and have waived all moral rights relating to such material. The Service Provider has contracted not to reproduce, publish or supply any such material to any person other than the Authority without prior approval. This page explains how the Service Provider and the Authority uses any information you give to us, and the ways in which we protect your privacy.

The Data Protection Act
Under the Data Protection Act, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. The Authority is processing the personal data on these electronic application forms and related data for the purpose of promoting and protecting the interests of the UK and its citizens abroad. The data may be disclosed to other UK Government Departments and public authorities and companies assisting in the processing and production of your visa.

The Service Provider shall not disclose or allow access to any personal data provided by the Authority or acquired by the Service Provider during the execution of the contract, other than to the Service Provider's personnel or those otherwise lawfully concerned with the execution of the contract.

Cookies
Cookies are pieces of data that are often created when you visit a website and which are stored in the cookie directory of your computer. This site does not use cookies.

What happens when I link to another site?
This website contains links to other websites, both those of government departments and of other organizations. This privacy policy applies only to our site so you should always be aware when you are moving to another site and read the privacy statement of any site, which collects personal information.

Changes to this privacy policy
If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.

Restriction
You shall not directly or indirectly modify, attempt or translate or reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble any part of the information being available in this website.