Friday, 25th July, 2008
Terms of use
Section 2: Community
- Registration
When seeking access to parts of the website, such as community forums, reader comments or blogs, you may be asked to register if you want to submit a contribution.
You must then supply certain details if requested, such as your email address and a password. If you are under 16 you must get the consent of a parent or guardian before registering.
You can only access the registration areas of the site if:
- your email address and password (if requested) are personal and may not be used by anyone else to access the site;
- you do not do anything to allow anyone who is not a registered user to access any registration area of the site;
- you do not create additional registration accounts which may cause disruption or abuse of the site; and
- you do not supply us with false or misleading information or pass yourself off as another user.
If we believe that you have not complied with these requirements, we may cancel your access to the site immediately and without notice.
- Cancellation or suspension
We can suspend or cancel this agreement and your ability to use the website and its community forums, reader comments and blogs with immediate effect at any
time for any reason, including but not restricted to your serious or repeated breach of these Terms or any conduct in connection with your use of this site that we
consider inappropriate or disruptive and which is serious or persistent. We will notify you of such termination at your registered email address and invalidate your access to the site.
- Your responsibilities
You are legally responsible for material you post or submit and you understand that by doing so you intend it to be published on the website. Such material may
include without limitation words, artwork, pictures (still or moving) and sound. You give us free of charge the non-exclusive, sub-licensable right to edit,
delete, copy, translate, create derivative works from, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, make available to the public or otherwise use and re-use
material contributed by you (or not use it) on the website and its community forums, reader comments and blogs and associated publications, and in any other media
(now known or later developed) worldwide for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution (including any renewals or extensions) and you waive
any moral rights in your contribution for these purposes.
- By publishing or posting material on this website, you warrant to us that:
You do not infringe the rights of any individual, corporation or organisation, including but not restricted to the owners of any copyright and other intellectual
property, confidentiality or privacy right, and you have obtained any necessary permissions.
The material is your own original work or you have the right to make it available to use for the purposes in 11 above.
You have not defamed any individual, corporation organisation or otherwise affected their legal rights. This may include but is not restricted to: comment which
cannot be justified; facts which are untrue or unprovable; statements breaching an individual´s™s privacy; statements which may prejudice a court case; images or statements which are obscene, pornographic or illegal; statements which are offensive on grounds of race, religion, creed, colour or which may
incite hatred or disrespect in any third party; statements which breach the criminal law, whether or not known to be illegal; statements which may breach professional ethics or standards.
- Copyrights
You acknowledge that all rights, including copyright and database rights, for any content on the website (including Clyde & Forth trade names and logos)
or which is submitted by you belong to us or are licensed by you to us for the purposes in 11 above. You may read and contribute to the website and its
communities, comments and blogs for your own private purposes but not for any advertising or other commercial purpose (which includes junk mail, spam, chain
letters, pyramid schemes or any other form of solicitation or commercial exploitation). For private purposes, you may download and use reader-generated content
on a single PC and you may print out (but not photocopy) one hard screen copy of contributions to the website and its communities, comments or blogs for your
personal use only. But you will not otherwise copy, store, distribute, publish, broadcast, transmit, show in public, create a database (in electronic or any other
medium) from downloaded materials or otherwise use any part of this website without our written permission, except that you may reproduce reasonable extracts of
any contribution to the website and its community, comments and blogs without our prior permission for non-commercial purposes provided that you deal fairly with
the material and you properly accredit any original work to its author and the name of this site.
- Indemnity
You indemnify and will keep indemnified Clyde & Forth Press, its holding companies and subsidiaries of Clyde & Forth or any of its holding companies,
together with their respective directors, employees and shareholders, from and against all claims, actions, proceedings, liabilities, losses, damages, expenses
and costs (including legal costs) arising from any breach of these Terms by you or from the publication of any posting or submission whatsoever contributed by you
or on your behalf. We reserve the right to take over the exclusive defence of any claim, action or proceeding for which you shall be financially responsible, and
for which we are entitled to indemnity from you. In such event, you shall provide us with all co-operation as may reasonably be requested by us.
- Contents
You acknowledge that:
- the contributions to the website and its community forums, reader comments and blogs are the statements and views of the contributors and not of us or
any of our connected companies, directors employees or shareholders;
- it is your sole responsibility to check the accuracy of any facts and opinions given on this website before entering into any commitment based upon them;
- we do not, as a matter of course, actively moderate, monitor or edit the contributions to the website and its community;
- any third parties advertising on our websites, or external (or link) sites accessible via our websites, are not under our control and we are not responsible
in any way for any of their contents or for any agreement you may enter into with a third party arising from your visit to our websites.
- Loss or damage - disclaimer
We are not liable for any loss or damage, howsoever arising, from contributions to the website and its community by other parties, your use of this site or
inability to use this site, or any errors and omissions on this site, whether in contract, tort or otherwise and whether such loss or damage is foreseen or
forseeable. This includes but is not restricted to indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages, loss of business, loss of profit, loss of revenue,
loss of opportunity, loss of reputation, loss of data and loss suffered by third parties. This does not exclude our liability for fraud, or for death or personal
injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited by law.
- We make no representations and give no warranties with regard to the quality, suitability, reliability, compatibility, accuracy, non-infringement or completeness
of the contents of this website, and any implied warranties are excluded to the extent permitted by law.
- We do not warrant that this website, the server that supplies it or any other of our systems will be uninterrupted or free of errors, viruses or bugs and we shall
not be liable if this site is inaccessible at any time. Access may be suspended temporarily without notice for technical reasons or for reasons over which we
have no control.
- Data protection
We will use your personal details to administer this site. From time to time, we may send direct marketing or promotional material information from us or selected
third parties. You can indicate you do not wish to receive such material by electing a preference at the time of supplying details or by contacting us.
- Conduct
If we find your use of this site seriously inappropriate, offensive or disruptive, we may use information we have about you to stop such conduct, and this may
include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school, email provider or, in the case of any suspected unlawful activity, the police.
- Further privacy terms are given in the Privacy Policy.
- Jurisdiction
These Terms & Conditions shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with Scottish Law and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of Scotland.
- If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by any court then, to the extent to which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these Terms and the remaining terms shall remain in full force and effect.
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