Terms & Conditions
- Please read these terms and conditions (the Terms) carefully. By accessing and using our website and any content and features therein (including without limitation any games, widgets, embeddable media players and RSS feeds) (together, our website), you indicate your acceptance of these Terms, the Privacy Policy, and any other notices, guidelines and rules published by us on our website from time to time (each of which is incorporated into the Terms by this reference). The Privacy Policy can be accessed from links at the bottom of our webpages.
- If you do not accept these Terms please do not access and/or use our website.
- We may update these Terms at any time. Please review the Terms regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes. Your continued access to and/or use of our website after changes have been made to the Terms indicates your agreement to be legally bound by the updated and/or amended Terms.
Use of our Website
- You agree to use our website for lawful purposes only and in a way that does not infringe the rights of or restrict or inhibit any person’s use and enjoyment of our website and in compliance at all times with these Terms and with all laws and regulations that apply.
- In accessing our website, you agree that you will only access its contents for your own personal and non-commercial use and not for any commercial or other purposes, including advertising or selling any goods or services. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any content on our website except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You will need our prior written permission if you want to use any content on our website for any other reason.
- We make no representation that any of the content on our website is appropriate or available for use in your country. You are responsible for ensuring that your use of our website is in compliance with all applicable local laws and regulations.
Intellectual Property Rights
- All information, data, text, documents, graphics, logos, designs, images, pictures, photographs, videos, podcasts, weblogs, RSS feeds, widgets, embeddable media players, software, interactive features, advertisements or other content, services or materials (or any part of them) accessible on our website (Materials) are protected by copyright, trade marks, database rights and other intellectual property rights and are owned by or licensed to us or are otherwise used by us as permitted by applicable law or regulation. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any licence or right to use the Materials other than as permitted in these Terms.
- Except as specifically permitted on our website, you undertake not to copy, store in any medium (including on any other website), distribute, transmit, re-transmit, re-publish, broadcast, modify, or show in public any part of our website without our prior written permission (and the prior written consent of the owner of the relevant intellectual property rights as and if applicable) in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
User Contributions to our website
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY BEFORE UPLOADING OR OTHERWISE TRANSMITTING ANY CONTENT TO THE SITE. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO GRANT US THE PERMISSIONS SET OUT IN THESE TERMS, PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE SITE.
- We may now or in the future enable users to transmit and/or submit (submit) contributions to our website (User Contributions).
- The permission you have granted to us is not exclusive and therefore you may continue to use the User Contribution in any way in any medium, including allowing others to use it, provided such use does not interfere with or impair the rights you have granted to us.
- You shall be solely responsible for your User Contributions and the consequences of submitting them to our website. You promise that:
(a) you have all necessary licences, rights, consents and permissions to use and to authorise us to use any and all intellectual property rights (including without limitation copyright) in such User Contribution to enable us to use the User Contribution in the manner contemplated by these Terms;
(b) nothing in the User Contribution is defamatory, obscene, indecent, pornographic, sexually explicit, harassing, threatening or offensive, incites racial, cultural or religious hatred, impersonates or appears to impersonate any other person, is in contempt of court, violates any law or regulation or encourages conduct that would amount to a criminal offence (including without limitation any conduct that would be considered an offence under the Terrorism Act 2006) or give rise to a civil liability and/or is otherwise objectionable and/or an infringement of any UK or other applicable law or regulation;
(c) you will not collect, obtain, compile, gather, transmit, reproduce, delete, revise, view or display any material, data or information, whether personally identifiable or not, posted by or concerning any other person, firm or enterprise, in connection with your User Contribution or in connection with your use of our website, unless you have obtained the express, prior permission of such other person (or their parent or guardian if such other person is under 16), firm or enterprise to do so;
(d) the User Contribution does not contain any virus, corrupt file, cancelbot, worm programme or other malicious code designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of or disrupt any software, hardware, telecommunications, networks, servers or other equipment, nor any adware, spy ware, Trojan horse or any other material designed to damage, interfere with, wrongly intercept or expropriate any data or personal information;
(e) you shall not forge any TCP/IP packet header or part of the header information in any User Contribution for any reason;
(f) you shall not submit any material or perform any actions that result in the transmission of junk email, chain letters, surveys, contests, pyramid selling schemes, duplicative or unsolicited messages or so-called “spamming” and “phishing”; and
(g) we shall not be required to pay or incur any sums to any person or entity as a result of our use or exploitation of any User Contribution.
Removal of Materials
- We are entitled at our option, but are not obliged to (a) actively review User Contributions to our website; and/or (b) remove any User Contributions submitted to our website by you or any other user if, in our opinion, such User Contributions do not comply with these Terms.
- We reserve the right in our sole discretion at any time without liability and with or without prior notice (a) not to post any User Contribution on our website; (b) to remove or suspend or disable access to any User Contributions; (c) to revoke your registration (where applicable) and right to access and/or use our website or submit any User Contributions; and (d) to use any technological, legal, operational or other means available to enforce these Terms, including without limitation blocking specific IP addresses or deactivating your registration and/or user name and password (where applicable).
- If you are a rights-owner (or an agent acting for a rights-owner) and believe that any content (including any User Contribution) appearing on our website infringes your rights and you wish us to remove it or suspend or disable access to it, please send a notice by email with the subject line “Removal request” to the general e-mail address listed on the Contact Us page of the website on which the content appears.
In your e-mail, you need to provide us with the following information:
- details of the content that you claim is infringing or which is the subject of infringing activity, together with information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the content (including a URL and/or screen shot);
- information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as a postal address, telephone number and, if available, an e-mail address; and
- a statement by you that:
- you are the rights-owner or are duly authorised to act on the rights-owner’s behalf;
- you believe in good faith that use of the content in the manner complained of is not authorised by the rights-owner or the rights-owner’s agent or by law; and
- the information in the notification is true and accurate.
Warranties and Disclaimer
- Our website is provided “AS IS” and on an “AS AVAILABLE” basis without any representation or endorsement of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, conditions and other Terms of any kind, express or implied, in connection with our website and your use of our website (including, without limitation, as to satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy).
- We do not warrant that the functions contained in any Materials on our website will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected or that our website or the servers that makes them available are free of viruses or bugs.
Limitation of Liability
- We accept no liability in respect of any User Contributions submitted by any of our users. Your use of our website, the Materials and/or any User Contributions is entirely at your own risk.
- We shall not be responsible for any breach of these Terms caused by circumstances beyond our control.
Reimbursement by you
- You agree to reimburse us in full and any of our officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, licensors, suppliers and operational service providers on demand in respect of any and all claims, actions, proceedings, demands, damages, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses suffered or reasonably incurred by us as a result of, or in connection with, your access to and use of our website other than in accordance with these Terms or any applicable law or regulation.
Viruses, Hacking and Other Offences
- You must not misuse our website by introducing, transmitting or arranging the sending of any viruses, corrupt file, cancelbot, Trojan horse, worm, time or logic bomb, keystroke logger, spyware, adware or other material designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software, hardware or telecommunications equipment or interfere with, wrongly intercept or expropriate any data or personal information. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our website, the servers on which they are stored or any server, computer or database connected to our website. You must not attack our website via a denial-of-service, distributed denial-of service or other type of attack.
- Any breach of this provision constitutes a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
- We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-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 website, your downloading of any Materials on our website or on any materials on any other website linked to it.
Advertising and Sponsorship
- Parts of or all of the website may from time to time contain advertising and sponsorship. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that any materials submitted for inclusion on our website comply with relevant laws, regulations and codes and these Terms. We shall not be responsible for any error or inaccuracy in such advertising or sponsorship materials.
Software
- From time to time certain software which is our protected work or the protected work of our suppliers may be made available to download via our website. You are licensed to use the software on a non-exclusive basis only for the purposes for which it is indicated. You may not use the software for any other purpose and may not redistribute, sell, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise deal with the software.