WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
15 July 2010
Please read these terms and conditions carefully before you start to use this website (“Site”). By using this Site, you indicate that you accept these terms and conditions and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please do not use this Site.
We may revise these terms and conditions so you should review them regularly. Your use of this Site will be deemed an acceptance of the terms and conditions existing at that time.
INFORMATION ABOUT US
This Site is operated by Northcliffe Media Limited (“We”). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 00272225 and have our registered office at Northcliffe Accounting Centre, PO BOX 6795 Leicester LE1 1ZP. Our VAT number is GB 243 571 174
ACCESSING THE SITE
If you are under sixteen years of age, you may only use this Site with the consent of a parent or guardian.
Subject to any contractual obligations we may owe to any users of our paid for services, we shall not be liable if for any reason the Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of the Site, or our entire Site, to users who have registered with us.
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms and conditions.
When using the Site, you must comply with the provisions of our Acceptable Use Policy.
We reserve the right to restrict or deny you access to all or some parts of the Site if you act in breach of these terms and conditions.
UPLOADING MATERIAL TO THE SITE
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to the Site, or to make contact with other users of the Site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy. You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.
Any material you upload to the Site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose.
We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of the Site.
We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on the Site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
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 and download extracts of any page from the Site for your own personal non-commercial 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 material on the Site must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the materials on the Site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
RELIANCE ON INFORMATION POSTED
Commentary and other materials posted on the Site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to the Site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
Any of the material on the Site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.
OUR LIABILITY
The material displayed on the Site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:
all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity;
- any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with the Site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of the Site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for:
loss of income or revenue;
loss of business;
loss of profits or contracts;
loss of anticipated savings;
loss of data;
loss of goodwill;
wasted management or office time; and
for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.
This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR VISITS TO THE SITE
We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By using the Site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate to the best of your knowledge and belief.
SALES TRANSACTIONS VIA THE SITE
Where We sell goods or services on the Site, such transactions are governed by the E-Commerce Terms.
VIRUSES, HACKING AND OTHER OFFENCES
You must not misuse the Site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Site, the server on which the Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to the Site. You must not attack the Site (e.g. via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack).
We will report any such abuse to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our Site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
LINKS FROM THE SITE
Where the Site contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
LINKING TO THE SITE
You may link to the Site, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
The Site must not be framed on any other website.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission.
JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW
The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to or use of the Site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these terms and conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country. These terms and conditions are governed by English law.
ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
15 July 2010
This website (“Site”) is operated by Northcliffe Media Limited (“We”). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 00272225 and have our registered office at Northcliffe Accounting Centre, PO BOX 6795 Leicester LE1 1ZP. Our VAT number is GB 243 571 174
By using this Site, you agree to abide by this acceptable use policy.
PROHIBITED USES
You may use this Site only for lawful purposes. You may not use this Site:
(a) in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
(b) in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
(c) for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way;
(d) to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with the content standards set out below;
(e) to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam);
(f) to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
You also agree:
not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of the Site in contravention of the provisions of the Website Terms and Conditions;
(h) not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt any part of the Site, any equipment or network on which the Site is stored, any software used in the provision of the Site or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.
INTERACTIVE SERVICES
We may from time to time provide interactive services on the Site including, without limitation, chat rooms and bulletin boards (“Interactive Services”).
Where we do provide any Interactive Services, we will do our best to assess any possible risks for users (and in particular, for children) and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks.
The use of any of our Interactive Services by a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. We advise parents who permit their children to use any Interactive Services that it is important that they communicate with their children about their safety online, as even where provided, moderation is not foolproof.
CONTENT STANDARDS
These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to the site (“Contribution”), and to any Interactive Services associated with it.
You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any Contribution as well as to its whole.
A Contributions must:
(a) be accurate (where it states facts);
(b) be genuinely held (where it states opinions);
(c) comply with applicable law in the United Kingdom and in any country from which it is posted.
A Contribution must not:
(a) contain any material which is defamatory of any person;
(b) contain any material which is obscene, offensive or hateful;
(c) promote sexually explicit material;
(d) promote violence;
(e) promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
(f) infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person;
be likely to deceive any person;
(h) be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
(i) promote any illegal activity;
(j) be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause needless anxiety;
(k) be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person;
(l) give the impression that it emanates from us;
(m) advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION
We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this acceptable use policy through your use of the Site. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the Website Terms and Conditions upon which you are permitted to use the Site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
(a) immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use the Site;
(b) immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to the Site;
(c) issue of a warning to you;
legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach;
(e) further legal action against you;
(f) disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.
We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
CHANGES TO THE ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
We may revise this acceptable use policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in this acceptable use policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on the Site.
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