1. About these terms and conditions
1.1. Access to and use of cheshirescouts.org.uk (the website)
both within the UK and internationally is provided by Cheshire
Scouts (CS). These terms apply to your use of the website and shall
take effect immediately from your first use of the website and
thereafter. Please note, in order to use the website you must agree
to be bound by all the terms provided (Please note, if you do not
agree to be bound all the terms herein, CS does not permit you to
access, use and/or contribute to the website).
1.2. CS may change these terms from time to time and so you should
check these on a regula basis. Your continued use of the website
will be deemed acceptance of any updated or amended terms. If you
do not agree to the changes, you should cease using the website. If
there is any conflict between these terms and specific local terms
appearing elsewhere on the website then the latter shall prevail in
relation to the matter to which it specifically relates.
2. Use of the website and the community rules
2.1. You agree to use the website only for lawful purposes and
in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit
anyone else's use and enjoyment of the website. Prohibited
behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience
to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or
disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within the website.
2.2. You agree to use the website (including communication tools
e.g. message boards/email facilities) in accordance with the
following community rules which apply across all the website
community sites and services (Please note, you should read the
local house rules of the particular site or service you are using
for any local variations to the following COMMUNITY RULES:
(i) Your posts/messages/contributions:
- (a) MUST be civil and tasteful;MUST be patient: remember users
of all ages and abilities may be taking part in the relevant
website community;
- (b) MUST NOT be disruptive, offensive or abusive: contributions
must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed
with the intention of causing trouble;
- (c) MUST NOT be unlawful or objectionable: unlawful, harassing,
defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane,
sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable
material is unacceptable;
- (d) MUST NOT contain spam or off-topic material: CS does not
allow the submission of the same or very similar contributions many
times. Please do not re-submit your contribution to more than one
discussion, or contribute off-topic material in subject-specific
areas;
- (e) MUST NOT contain advertising or promotions of a business or
commercial nature;
- (f) MUST NOT be an impersonation of another or purport to be
contributed by another;
- (g) MUST NOT use inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc)
user names;
- (h) MUST NOT deliberately misuse the complaints facility. If
you persist in doing this, action may be taken against your
account;
- (i) MUST NOT contain URLs: website addresses can only be posted
if allowed under any relevant local house rules;
- (j) MAY BE REMOVED if containing languages other than English
unless this is specifically allowed in the relevant local house
rules.
(ii) Safety:
We advise that you never reveal any
personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example:
telephone number, postal address, home address or email address or
any other details that would allow you or that other person to be
personally identified) in any website community.
(iii) Legal requirements. You:
- (a) MUST NOT submit or share any defamatory or illegal material
of any nature in the website communities. This includes text,
graphics, video, programs or audio;
- (b) MUST NOT contribute material to any website community with
the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act;
- (c) MUST NOT violate, plagiarise, or infringe the rights of CS
or third parties including copyright, trade mark, trade secrets,
privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights;
- (d) MUST ONLY submit or share only contributions which are your
own original work.
(iv) If you are under 16 years old:
- (a) Please get a parent's or carer's permission before taking
part in any website community;
- (b) Never reveal any personal information about yourself or
anyone else (for example, school, telephone number, your full name,
home address or email address).
(v) Breach of these of website or community rules:
- (a) If you breach the use of website or community rules upon
request you will be sent an email which informs you why your
contribution has been refused or edited. This email will also
include a warning that continuing to break the rules may result in
action being taken against you. This action may include any content
posted by you being checked before being allowed to go on the site
or a temporary or permanent suspension of your ability to
participate in any or all of the website community areas.
- (b) If you submit or share offensive or inappropriate content
to with any website communities or anywhere else on the website or
otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on the website, and CS
considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repetitive, CS may
use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop
any further such infringements. This may include informing relevant
third parties such as your employer, Scouting line-manager, school
or email provider about the infringement(s).
- (c) CS reserves the right to delete any contribution at any
time, for any reason.
3. Intellectual Property
3.1. All copyright, trade marks, design rights, patents and
other intellectual property rights (registered and unregistered) in
and on the website and all content (including all applications)
located on the website shall remain vested in CS or its licensors
(which includes other users).
3.2. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, disassemble,
decompile, reverse engineer, download, post, broadcast, transmit,
make available to the public, or otherwise use website content in
any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use or
non-commercial use directly related to Scouting within the UK. You
also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any
website content except for your own personal use. Any other use of
the website content requires the prior written permission of
CS.
3.3. The names, images and logos identifying CS, The Scout
Association (TSA), or third parties and their products and services
are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of CS/TSA
and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be
construed as conferring any licence or right to use any trade mark,
design right or copyright of CS/TSA or any other third party.
4. Your contributions to CS and/or the website
4.1. By sharing any contribution (including any text,
photographs, graphics, video or audio) with CS you agree to grant
to the CS, free of charge, permission to use the material in any
way it wants (including modifying and adapting it for operational
and editorial reasons) for CS's services in any media worldwide
(including on CS's site accessed by international users). In
certain circumstance CS may also share your contribution with
trusted third parties.
4.2. Copyright in your contribution will remain with you and
this permission is not exclusive, so you can continue to use the
material in any way including allowing others to use it.
4.3. In order that CS can use your contribution, you confirm
that your contribution is your own original work, is not defamatory
and does not infringe any UK laws, that you have the right to give
CS permission to use it for the purposes specified above, and that
you have the consent of anyone who is identifiable in your
contribution or the consent of their parent/carer if they are under
16.
4.4. CS normally shows your name with your contribution, unless
you request otherwise, but for operational reasons this is not
always possible. CS may need to contact you for administrative or
verification purposes in relation to your contribution, or in
relation to particular projects.
4.5. Please do not endanger yourself or others, take any
unnecessary risks or break any laws when creating content you may
share with CS.
4.6. If you do not want to grant CS the permission set out above
on these terms, please do not submit or share your contribution to
or with the website.
5. The Website Communities
5.1. In order to participate in and contribute to selected
website communities you may be required to register with the
website. Any personal information supplied to the website as part
of this registration process and/or any other interaction with the
website will be collected, stored and used in accordance with CS's
website privacy statement.
6. Disclaimers and limitation of liability
6.1. The majority of content posted in the website communities
is created by Scouting volunteers and members of the public. The
views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not
those of CS. CS are not responsible for any content posted by
Scouting volunteers or members of the public on the website or for
the availability or content of any third party sites that are
accessible through the website. Any links to third party websites
from the website do not amount to any endorsement of that site by
CS and any use of that site by you is at your own risk.
6.2. The website content, including the information, names,
images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to CS, its
products and services (or to third party products and services), is
provided 'AS IS' and on an 'AS AVAILABLE' basis. To the extent
permitted by law, CS excludes all representations and warranties
(whether express or implied by law), including the implied
warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular
purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. CS
does not guarantee the timeliness, completeness or performance of
the website or any of the content. While we try to ensure that all
content provided by CS is correct at the time of publication no
responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of CS for any errors,
omissions or inaccurate content on the website.
6.3. You agree to indemnify CS and/or CS's officers, directors
and employees, immediately on demand, against all claims,
liability, damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees,
arising out of any breach of these terms and conditions by you or
any other liabilities arising out of your use of the website.
6.4. Nothing in these terms limits or excludes CS's liability
for death or personal injury caused by its proven negligence.
Subject to the previous sentence, CS shall not be liable for any of
the following losses or damage (whether such damage or losses were
foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise):
- (a) loss of data;
- (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits;
- (c) loss of business;
- (d) loss of opportunity;
- (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation;
- (f) losses suffered by third parties; or
- (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages
arising from the use of scouts.org.uk regardless of the form of
action.
6.5. CS does not warrant that functions available on the website
will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be
corrected, or that the website or the server that makes it
available are free of viruses or bugs. You acknowledge that it is
your responsibility to implement sufficient procedures and virus
checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy
your particular requirements for the accuracy of data input and
output.
7. General
7.1. If any of these Terms and Conditions are determined to be
illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws
of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be
effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which
that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed
and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive
and continue to be binding and enforceable.
7.2. The failure or delay of CS to exercise or enforce any right
in these terms does not waive CS's right to enforce that right.
7.3. These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in
accordance with the laws of England and Wales which shall have
exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes.
If required, please contact CS about these terms of use
at:
Cheshire Scouts Web Team
Willow Tree Park
Booths Lane, Lymm
Warrington
Cheshire, WA1 0PQ