These terms tell you the rules for using our website: by continuing to access our website, you expressly acknowledge that you have read and understood these terms and conditions (“Terms”) and agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to our Terms, please do not use our website.
This website is operated by Liontrust Asset Management Plc for The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc ("we", "us", "our", "the Company"). We are an investment trust managed by Liontrust Fund Partners LLP ("Liontrust").
These Terms are ancillary to additional terms which also apply to your use of the website:
- Our Privacy Notice, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us: Privacy Notice | Edinburgh Investment Trust
- Our Cookie Policy, which explains our use of cookies: Cookie Policy | Edinburgh Investment Trust
Contacting us
The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc is registered in Scotland with company number SC001836, having its registered office address at First Floor, 9 Haymarket Square, Edinburgh, EH3 8RY.
Please contact the Company in writing at First Floor, 9 Haymarket Square, Edinburgh, EH3 8RY or at marketing@edinburghinvestmenttrust.com.
To contact Liontrust, please email info@liontrust.co.uk or telephone +44 (0) 207 412 1700.
Changes to our website and these Terms
We may make changes to these Terms from time to time, for example to comply with new or updated laws or regulations or new functions on our website. If these Terms are updated, the new version come into force, and will be enforceable, from the day it is uploaded on this website. Whenever you access the website, please check these Terms to read the version which applies to you at that time. We recommend that you print a copy of these Terms for future reference.
Our website is made available for information purposes and access to it is free of charge. We may update and change our website from time to time, although please note that we are under no obligation to update it. We do not guarantee that our website or any content on it will always be available, uninterrupted or error free.
We reserve the right to suspend or withdraw access to any page(s) or the website as a whole without notice at any time and we accept no liability if, for any reason, these pages are unavailable at any time or for any period.
However, where it is practicable for us to do so, we will try to give you reasonable notice of any major changes to our website, or proposed suspension or access restrictions, which may impact your use.
Access to this website
By accessing this website, you have indicated your country of residence. Your selection will be used to determine the information that you will be able to access on this website. Certain information on this website may not be available in all geographical locations and the information on this website has been tailored accordingly. We do not represent that content available on or through our site is appropriate for use or available outside of the United Kingdom. You agree that you will not attempt to gain access to areas of this website other than those made available to you.
Offering and selling restrictions
The distribution of shares in the Company in certain jurisdictions may be restricted. Accordingly, persons accessing information on this website are required to inform themselves about, and to observe, such restrictions. Specifically, this website is not intended for use by any person in the United States.
No advice
The information provided on our website is for general information only and is not intended to be relied upon. Liontrust and the Company do not offer investment advice nor recommendations and the investment products detailed in this website may not be suitable for you. Any prices and other information on this website are provided for your information only and does not constitute a personal recommendation or advice. If you are in any doubt about the information detailed on this website then you should consult your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant or other financial adviser duly authorised in this regard.
Any decision to invest in the Company should be based solely on the prospectus, key investor information document, the annual report and the annual and half-yearly accounts or equivalent documents of the Company.
Tax Implications
Investing can involve complex tax structuring, which should be reviewed carefully by clients and investors. Furthermore, certain investments may result in income tax payments becoming due and owing. The Company and Liontrust do not provide any advice on tax as relating to investment products as this will depend on your own circumstances, and tax rules may change in the future.
Past performance
Past performance does not predict future returns and performance is not guaranteed. The value of an investment and the income from it can fall as well as rise and you may not get back the amount originally invested.
Pricing
The price of shares of the Company and the income from them can fall as well as rise and is not guaranteed, and investors and clients may not get back the amount originally invested.
An investor who sells shares in the Company after a short period may not realise the amount originally invested in view of any initial payments which may have been made.
Risk warnings
Investment in emerging markets or smaller companies involve risk factors and special considerations which may not be typically associated with investing in more developed markets. Political or economic change and instability may be more likely to occur and have a greater effect on the economies and markets of emerging countries. Adverse government policies, international sanctions, taxation, restrictions on foreign investment and on currency convertibility and repatriation, currency fluctuations and other developments in the laws and regulations of emerging countries in which investment may be made, including expropriation, nationalisation or other confiscation could result in loss.
Securities of smaller companies may, from time to time, and especially in falling markets, become illiquid and experience short-term price volatility and wide spreads between bid and offer prices. Investment in smaller companies may involve higher risk than investment in larger companies.
The above-mentioned risk factors are not to be considered exhaustive. For further information on specific products or services, please refer to the relevant prospectus, Key Investor Information Document (KIID) and/or investment management agreement.
Liability
No warranty, representation or guarantee, whether express or implied, is made by us regarding the accuracy of the content on our website or that the website is secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform to access our website. You should use your own virus protection software.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we shall not be liable for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising out of or in connection with your:
use of, or inability to use, our website; or
use of or reliance on any content or information displayed on our website.
In particular, we will not be liable for:
loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
business interruption;
loss of anticipated savings;
loss or corruption of data;
loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
any indirect or consequential losses, such as those which are not reasonably foreseeable by us.
For the avoidance of doubt, nothing within these Terms excludes or limits our liability to you for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or where such limitation or exclusion would be unlawful.
Malware
You must not misuse our website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful, or otherwise harmfully interacting with our website or any part of it. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our website, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our website or any other equipment or network connected with our website. You must not interfere with, damage or disrupt any software used in the provision of our website or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party on which this website relies in any way. You must not attack our website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack. In the event that you carry out such an attack, your right to use our website will cease immediately.
Intellectual property
All intellectual property rights in the website, and the content published on it, is owned by the Company or Liontrust Asset Management Plc, and all such rights are reserved. You may print pages and download documents for your own personal use only, but no part of this website may be reproduced for any other purpose. You must not:
modify or transmit the digital or paper copies of any content in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text; and/or
use the content available on the website for any commercial purpose.
If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our website in breach of these Terms, your right to use our website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the content you have made (except that you are permitted to print off a copy of these Terms).
You are not permitted to use our trademarks without our prior written approval, save to the extent that you are permitted to use the material (which may incorporate these trade marks) in accordance with these Terms.
No text or data mining, or web scraping
You may not conduct, assist, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to this website or any services provided through or in relation to it for any purpose, including the development, training or validation of AI systems or models. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):
- any "robot", "bot", "spider", "scraper" or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of our website or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.
- any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information or develop, train, fine-tune or validate AI systems or models which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.
This should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of the Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).
This clause will not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.
Data protection and security
The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc respects your data privacy. The Company is a data controller within the meaning of applicable data protection laws. Under data protection laws, you have a number of rights over your data, as set out in the Privacy Notice. We will only handle your personal data in accordance with the Privacy notice: Privacy Notice | Edinburgh Investment Trust
We cannot guarantee the security of any data transmitted by email or through this website and these are sent at your own risk. Please do not send us any confidential information, commercially sensitive information or sensitive personal data by email or through this website.
Cookies
We use "cookies" to distinguish you from other users of our website. A cookie is a small amount of data which is transferred to your browser by a web server. Cookies may be used to recognise you and facilitate your access to the website without the need for you having to state your preferences again.
To find out more about the cookies that we use, their purpose and how you can manage them, please refer to our Cookie Policy here: Cookie Policy | Edinburgh Investment Trust
Linked websites
This website may contain links to other sites provided by third parties. These links are provided for your information only and such links should not be interpreted as our approval of those sites or the information contained in them. We have no control over these sites and are not responsible for their content or privacy practices.
Applicable law
Your use of this website and any dispute arising out of the website is subject to the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute arising out of the use or publication of this website is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
If we do not exercise any right or remedy which we have under these Terms this does not mean we have waived our right to it or any other right or remedy of ours.