Please take time to read this important information carefully before you start to use this
website, as these Terms of Use will apply to your use of the Site.
These Terms of Use set out the terms and conditions on which we provide the text, software, database, format,
documents, graphic and written work and all other materials published on this website www.mybapension.com (the
“Site”) and the basis on which we allow access to it.
By using the Site, you confirm that you accept these Terms of Use and that you agree to comply with them. If you do
not agree to these Terms of Use, you must not use the Site.
Note that no information contained in the Site alters any member’s benefits or entitlement under the
Scheme’s trust deed and rules which can be amended from time to time. If there is any difference or conflict
between the information set out on the Site (including the retirement planning tools) and the provisions of the
Scheme’s current trust deed and rules, the Scheme’s current trust deed and rules will take precedence.
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Information about us
- The Site is hosted and maintained by British Airways Pension Services Limited (BAPSL, company number
3123736) on behalf of the Trustees of the Airways Pension Scheme (APS) and of the New Airways Pension
Scheme (NAPS). The Management Trustee of APS is Airways Pension Scheme Trustee Limited (company number
10300010). The Management Trustee of NAPS is New Airways Pension Scheme Trustee Limited (company number
10299954). The Custodian Trustee of APS and NAPS is British Airways Pension Trustees Limited (company
number 453632). The Management Trustees and Custodian Trustee are together referred to as the
“Trustees”. All companies referred to in this paragraph are registered in England and Wales
and have their registered office at Waterside, HAA1, Harmondsworth, UB7 OGB.
- BAPSL administers APS and NAPS on behalf of the Trustees.
- References in these Terms of Use to “we” and “us” are references to each or all
of the Trustees and BAPSL as the context permits.
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Privacy
- We take your privacy seriously. Please read the Privacy Policy to
understand how we process the information that you provide to us.
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Accessing the site
- You should access the Site through the homepage at www.mybapension.com . If you access online forms or
services directly you may not see important material and information including links to important legal
or regulatory information which should be read in conjunction with these Terms of Use, our Privacy
Policy and other relevant information. We will not be liable if a user suffers loss or damage as a
result of failing to see relevant legal or regulatory information displayed on the Site.
- Throughout the Site there are words highlighted in bold, underline and /or colour that are links that
will take you to another page of the Site or part of that page. Depending on your screen resolution, the
text and materials on one page of the Site may not fit entirely into one screen. Where this occurs, you
should use the vertical and/or horizontal scroll bars in order to access the entire content of the page.
If you do not do this you may not see important material and information. We will not be liable if a
user of the Site suffers loss or damage as a result of failing to use and access the Site properly.
Please also refer to section 7 below.
- You should ensure that your access to the Site is secure. Therefore you should, where possible, access
the Site via your own personal device which is kept up to date with the latest anti-virus software and
firewalls.
- You should ensure that you securely log off the Site when you have finished accessing your personal
pension information.
- You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Site.
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Availability of the site
- We do not guarantee that the Site, or any content on it, will always be available or that you will have
uninterrupted access to it. For example, the Site may be temporarily unavailable or restricted for
administrative or other reasons. Access to the Site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve
the right to amend, update, suspend or withdraw all or any part of the Site without notice. We will not
be liable if for any reason the Site is not available at any time or for any period.
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You must keep your account details safe
- If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code (e.g. membership reference number),
password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such
information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party. You should ensure the
confidentiality and proper use of your user identification code and password and not disclose it to
anyone else. You should restrict access to any devices used to access the Site, or any other device
which stores your details. You should not leave any device unattended whilst that device is logged on to
the Site. We will not be liable if a user suffers loss or damage as a result of failing to comply with
this section 5(1).
- We may have to suspend the use of your user identification code and password from time to time if in our
reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms of Use, or due to
security or other concerns, and we will inform you of this as soon as we can. Please then request a new
user identification code and password following the procedures advised by us.
- If you know or suspect that anyone other than you know your user identification code or password, you
must promptly notify us via the Contact us form through our website.
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Amendments
- We amend these Terms of Use from time to time. Every time you wish to use the Site, please check these
Terms of Use to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. These terms were most recently
updated on 05 December 2023.
- We aim to update the Site regularly and may change the content at any time to reflect changes to the
Site, our members’ needs and the Scheme’s priorities. However, any of the material on the
Site may be out of date at any given time and we make no commitment to update the content and materials
on the Site.
- If you choose to keep a hard or soft copy of all or any of these pages (including parts of pages) please
ensure that you are relying on the most up-to-date version of that information available, by accessing
the Site and refreshing or updating any cached copy of the Site or relevant part of it.
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Do not rely on information on the site
- The content on the Site is provided for general information and illustrative purposes only. The
information on the Site does not take into account your personal circumstances and does not constitute
financial advice or a recommendation to make (or refrain from making) any kind of investment,
pension-related, or other decisions. It does not, and is not intended to, amount to advice on which you
should rely.
- Any estimate, calculation table or facility on the Site has been provided for guidance only and should
not be relied upon. Any actions or decision taken as a result of using such information are taken
entirely at your own risk. Before making any investment or pension-related decisions you should seek
independent financial advice. Information and figures provided by the retirement planning tools on this
portal are illustrative only and are based on the information you enter or information held by BAPSL
(the Scheme’s administrators) and on various estimates and assumptions about the future.
- In particular, information and guidance provided on the Site may be based on current factors which are
subject to change at any time as they take into account, for example, age, inflation, increase in
earnings and current market conditions. The values cannot be guaranteed and your actual pension will be
dependent upon the rules and regulations in force when your pension comes into payment, which will
include any overriding HMRC or other legislative requirements.
- We strongly recommend that you speak to an independent financial adviser (“IFA”) before
making a decision either in relation to your investments, your pension choices or on the basis of the
content on the Site.
- Whilst we have taken reasonable care to make sure that the information and functions contained or
displayed on the Site are complete and correct, we do not warrant or represent that the information or
functions on the Site is or are free from errors or omissions, or that the information contained or
displayed on the Site is accurate, complete or up-to date. We therefore strongly recommend that you do
not rely on the information or functions available on the Site. We will not be liable or responsible for
any reliance placed by either any visitor to the Site, or by anyone who may be informed of the
Site’s contents, on the information or functions available on the Site.
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How you may use material on our site
- Note that no information contained in the Site alters any member’s benefits or entitlement under
the Scheme’s trust deed and rules which can be amended from time to time. If there is any
difference or conflict between the information set out on the Site (including the retirement planning
tools) and the provisions of the Scheme’s current trust deed and rules, the Scheme’s current
trust deed and rules will take precedence.
- We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in the Site, and in the material
published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such
rights are reserved.
- You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from the Site for your personal
use. You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded
in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any
graphics separately from any accompanying text. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as
the authors of content on the Site must always be acknowledged.
- You must not use any part of the content on the Site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence
to do so from us or our licensors.
- If you print off, copy or download any part of the Site in breach of these Terms of Use, your right to
use the Site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the
materials you have made.
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No text or data mining, or web scraping
- You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in
relation to our Site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our Site for any purpose,
including the development, training, fine-tuning 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 site 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.
The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard,
including for the purposes of all copyright law including 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.
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Your instructions
- As you are responsible for the reliability and accuracy of the details you provide to us in relation to
the Site, when you use the Site please be sure to check the details you enter, or which we hold on the
Site, carefully. If any information is incorrect please inform us as soon as possible.
- You will be deemed to have authorised us to act on any instructions initiated or sent through the Site
without further written confirmation to us. These instructions will be treated as your instructions even
if you can prove they were not initiated or sent by you or with your authority, provided that we or our
employees were not guilty of negligence, fraud or wilful default. This authorisation remains in force
until we have received notice from you of its termination (given in writing or by means of the Site).
Such notice will not affect the completion of transactions already initiated by us pursuant to this
authority.
- We may need to obtain from you written confirmation of any instruction sent through the Site.
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Limitation of liability
- All warranties and conditions, whether implied by statute, common law or otherwise (including but not
limited to satisfactory quality and fitness for purpose), are excluded to the fullest extent permitted
by law. In particular, the Site is provided on an "as is, as available" basis and we do not guarantee
the availability, accuracy, timeliness, completeness, performance or fitness for a particular purpose of
the Site or any of its content. All implied warranties are excluded to the extent that they may be
excluded as a matter of law.
- Nothing in these Terms of Use shall limit or exclude our liability to you in respect of (i) death or
personal injury; (ii) fraud including, without limitation, fraudulent misrepresentation; or (iii)
liability which may not otherwise be lawfully limited or excluded.
- As we provide the Site to you without charge, we accept no responsibility and will not be liable (to the
fullest extent permitted by law) for any losses, costs, damages or expenses, incurred as a result of
negligence or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with, any interruption, suspension or loss of
use of the Site.
- We do not represent or warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted or error-free, or free of bugs,
viruses, Trojans, worms, logic bombs or other impairing or harmful components.
- As we provide the Site without charge to you, we accept no responsibility and will not be liable (to the
fullest extent permitted by law) for any direct or indirect loss, cost, damage or expense (in each case
whether arising in contract, tort (including negligence), or otherwise) which you suffer:
- as a result of your use or inability to use the Site, or as a result of your reliance on any
content or materials displayed on or accessible through the Site; or
- as a result of any inaccuracies or omissions in the Site that arise in connection with:
- any inaccurate or incomplete information provided by you;
- the acts or omissions of any person other than us, including, without limitation, the
incorrect use of the Site by you, or your failure to correctly input any data and/or
information;
- any data transmission, machine or software error; or
- your operating error.
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We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them
- You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to
access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.
- You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other
material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access
to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our
site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service
attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act
1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate
with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to
use the Site will cease immediately.
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Rules about linking to our site
- You may not create or allow any links to the Site to exist on any websites. You may create a link to the
Site as a "favourite" on your personal computer for as long as you have access to the Site.
- Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other
than as set out above.
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Severance
- Each provision in these Terms of Use is enforceable independently of each other provision. The validity
of a provision will not be affected if any of the other provisions are invalid. If any provision is
void, but would be valid if some part of it were deleted, then the provision in question will apply with
such modification as may be necessary to make it valid.
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Governing law and jurisdiction
- These Terms of Use, their subject matter and their formation, (and any non-contractual obligations
arising out of or in connection with any of them) are governed by English law. You and we both agree
that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction.
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Contact us
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Contact us via our website: www.mybapension.com, or call:
+44 (0)20 8538 2100
- Please note the phone lines are open Monday to Friday between 9am and 1pm (excluding Bank Holidays).