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TERMS
OF USE
IMPORTANT NOTICE: YOU MUST CAREFULLY READ
AND THEN AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET OUT BELOW BEFORE
ACCESSING AND USING THE SITE. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY
THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SITE.
Welcome to The Slough & Windsor Observer website (the "Site")
owned and made available by Clyde & Forth Press Limited t/a
Slough Observer, a company incorporated under the Companies Acts
(registered number SC132609) with its registered office at Pitreavie
Business Park, Dunfermline, Fife KY11 8QS (referred to in these
Terms and Conditions as "we" and "us"). The
Terms and Conditions (the “Terms”) form part of an agreement
between you, the end-user, and us and sets out the conditions under
which you may access the information, products, services and advertisements
(the "Material") available through the Site. By accessing,
viewing or using the Material on the Site you have indicated to
us that you both understand and agree to be bound by these Terms.
1. Terms and conditions:
These Terms govern your use of the Site, including any readers’
forum, message/comments board and blogs. Your use of the Site is
also subject to our Privacy Policy. [insert a link to the Privacy
Policy]
You must read the Terms and Privacy Policy. If you do not agree
with them, do not use the Site. If you do use the Site, your conduct
indicates that you agree to be bound by the Terms and Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to amend or replace these Terms from time to
time. Any such amendment or replacement will be applicable to all
persons accessing the Site once the revised Terms have been posted
on the Site. You should therefore check the Site from time to time
to review the current Terms. If you do not agree to any amendments
or replacements that we have made, you should stop accessing the
Site immediately.
We do not actively moderate, monitor or edit contributions to the
readers’ forum, message/comments board or blogs. If you have
any concerns over the Material on the Site, please contact us.
2. No warranty
The Site and the Material are for general information only and are
provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis
and in particular we make no warranties, representations or undertakings
that:
• the Site will continue to be available to you in either
its current format or from its current domain name;
• the Site or any software available from the Site will be
uninterrupted or free of errors, from so called computer viruses,
bugs or defects
• the Site will be accessible at any time - access may be
suspended temporarily without notice for technical reasons or for
reasons over which we have no control;
• the Material on the Site will be suitable, reliable, compatible,
accurate, complete or of good quality. Any implied warranties are
excluded to the extent permitted by law.
You acknowledge
that:
• the contributions to the Site and its readers’ forum,
message/comments board 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 Site before entering into any
commitment based upon them;
• any third parties advertising on our Sites, or external
(or link) sites accessible via our Site, 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 Site.
3. Liability
Except for death or personal injury arising from our negligence,
we shall not be liable for any claims, penalties, direct, indirect
or consequential loss, damage or expenses (including without prejudice
to the foregoing generality, any lost business opportunities, loss
of profit or goodwill) arising from: (a) any reliance placed on
the Material on the Site (b) your inability to use the Site, (c)
the downloading of any Material from the Site or (d) any unauthorised
access to or alteration to the Site.
4. Downloadable Material
All Material downloadable from the Site is checked for viruses before
being uploaded onto the Site. However, we recommend that, as an
extra precaution you run your own virus check on any Material you
download before saving it to your disk or hard drive.
5. Use of the Site
You undertake and warrant to us:
• not to use the Material for any unlawful purpose;
• that you shall not make any use of the Site so that the
Site is interrupted, damaged, rendered less efficient, or the functionality
of the Site is in any way impaired; in particular that you shall
not run any automated scripts on any part of the Site without our
express authorisation;
• not to use the Site for the transmission or posting of any
computer viruses or any material which is defamatory, offensive
or of an obscene or menacing character, or in such a way as to cause
annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
• not to use the Site in a manner which constitutes a violation
or infringement of any person, firm or company (including but not
limited to rights of copyright, confidentiality or privacy);
• that you shall not use the Site to transmit any material
for the purposes of publicity, promotion and/or advertising without
our prior written consent; and
• that in the event that you may have any right, claim or
action against any other user arising out of the use of the Site
you shall pursue such right, claim or action independently of, and
without recourse to, us.
• that you will indemnify and defend us against all claims,
liability, damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees, arising
out of a breach of these Terms or any use of the Material on the
Site.
We shall have the
sole discretion to immediately suspend or remove your rights of
access to the Site if you commit a breach of these Terms.
6. Rights
The design, images and content of the Site (including, but not limited
to all text and artwork) are, protected by copyright and other intellectual
property rights. The copyright and intellectual property rights
are owned by us or are otherwise licensed from a third party for
use by us.
You may view or download any part Material on the Site for private
and personal purposes, but you are not permitted without our permission
to:
• store the Site, or any part of the Site, for any other purpose;
• print copies of the Site, or any part of the Site, for any
other purpose;
• reproduce, copy, distribute, publish, broadcast, transmit,
or show in public the Site, or any part of the Site, in any way,
for any other purpose or in any other medium; and/or
• create a database (in electronic or any other medium) from
Materials downloadable from the Site.
All other rights which are not specifically granted are reserved.
7. Links to other Web Sites
Any web sites to which you link through the Site (“Third Party
Websites”) (including, without limitation, any web site provided
by a third party but co-branded web site) are independent of the
Site. We have no control over Third Party Websites and accept no
liability in respect of your use or inability to use them or any
of the content of them.
8. Content
We accept no liability with respect to any of the products, information,
material or services offered or provided on Third Party Websites,
nor do we endorse any of the products or services offered on such
sites. Should you decide to contract with any of these organisations,
the contract will be directly between you and the relevant third
party organisation. We will have no contractual involvement, and
will not be liable in contract or otherwise for any products, information,
materials or services provided to you by any of these third party
organisations.
9. Registration
When seeking access to parts of the Site, such as the readers’
forum, message/comments board 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 kept
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;
• 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.
10. Cancellation or suspension
We can suspend or cancel this agreement and your ability to use
the Site and its readers’ forum, message/comments board 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 the Site that we consider
(in our sole discretion) to be inappropriate or disruptive or which
is serious or persistent. We will notify you of such termination
at your registered email address and invalidate your access to the
Site.
11. Your responsibilities
You are legally responsible for material you post or submit to the
Site and you understand that by doing so you intend it to be published
on the Site. Such material may include without limitation words,
artwork, pictures (still or moving) and sound. You hereby, give
us, free of any charge, the non-exclusive perpetual, 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 Site and its readers’ forum, message/comments
board 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.
12. By publishing or posting material
on the Site, you warrant to us that:
• You do not and will 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 all necessary permissions.
• The material is your own original work or you have the right
to make it available to us to use for the purposes set out in Clause
11 above.
• You have not defamed and will not defame any individual,
corporation organisation or otherwise affect their legal rights.
This may include but is not restricted to: comment which cannot
be justified; facts which are untrue or un-provable; statements
breaching an individual’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, age 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.
13.
You acknowledge that all rights,
including copyright and other intellectual property rights and database
rights, for any content on the Site (including our trade names and
logos) or which is submitted by you belong to us or are licensed
by you to us for the purposes set out in 11 above. You may read
and contribute to the Site and its communities, message/comments
board 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).
14. Indemnity
You indemnify and will keep indemnified us, its holding companies
and subsidiaries of us 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.
15. Privacy Policy
Please read our Privacy Policy (below) for details of how we use
information about you.
16. Jurisdiction
These Terms shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales and
any disputes will be submitted to and resolved by the exclusive
jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
17. 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.
18. Contact us
If you have any queries about these Terms you may contact us at:
Clyde and Forth Press Ltd t/a Slough Observer, a company registered
in Scotland (SC132609) with its registered office at Pitreavie Business
Park, Dunfermline, Fife, KY11 8QS.
Privacy Policy
Clyde & Forth Press Limited t/a Slough Observer a company incorporated
under the Companies Acts (registered number SC132609) and having its
registered office at Pitreavie Business Park, Dunfermline, Fife KY11
8QS (“we” or “us”) is committed to preserving
your privacy. Please read the following Privacy Policy to understand
how we use and protect the information that you provide to us.
By registering with us or by posting information on this website (the
“Site”) you consent to the collection, storage, use and
transfer of your information under the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Information that
we collect from you:
We collect information about you:
• when you register with us, request services, participate
in promotions, enter competitions or otherwise provide us with your
personal details (such as your name, contact details, e-mail address
etc); and
• from your usage of the Site and any other information you
post on the Site, e-mail or otherwise send to us.
Statement
In general use of the Site we do not store or capture data about
you, other than to log your IP address and session details, like
the number of pages you view and the type of browser you use.
Your IP address and session details are automatically recognised
by the Web server and we use such information only for system administration
and to help us evaluate use of the network so that we can continue
to develop and improve our online services.
Where any personal data, like your name and address, is requested
you will always be advised why it is needed, what it will be used
for and how you can contact us to have the details amended or deleted.
We are registered with the Data Protection Commission in the UK
and adhere to the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “DPA”).
Personal responsibility and choice
Disclosure of personal, private and confidential material is at
your own risk. Any information you choose to disseminate on the
Site, the readers’ forum, message/comments board or blogs
becomes public information and, subject to our Terms, remains online.
We cannot control site users and advise you to exercise care in
disclosing personal information on the internet. Persons under 16
should not disclose to us any personal information without first
getting the permission of a parent or guardian
Changes
of policy
This policy may be revised or updated at any time and we encourage
you to familiarise yourself with it and read it frequently to keep
yourself updated.
Cookies
A "cookie" is a piece of software which can stick to a
computer's hard drive and recalls details about how your computer
operates. We reserve the right to use this information to track
your movements through our Site. Personal information about you
is not collected during this process. You can disable the cookies
if your browser allows this. For further information on how to do
this, please refer to www.aboutcookies.org. We have no control over
any cookies sent by Third Party Websites.
You can decide if you want to accept cookies by changing the settings
on your computer. If you do not accept cookies some features on
our sites will not work as we intend. This will include the use
of forums and message boards. You can reset your browser to refuse
all cookies, or allow your browser to show you when a cookie is
being sent. For precise instructions appropriate to your web browser
select "help" from your menu bar and search for cookies.
Third Party Websites
Because we want
your experience of our Site to be as informative and useful as possible,
we provide a number of links to Third Party Websites. Please be
aware that we do not control such Third Party Websites and that
such Third Party Websites may send their own cookies to users, or
otherwise collect data or solicit personal information. We assume
no responsibility for the information gathering practices of Third
Party Websites that you are able to access through our Site, and
we encourage you to review each Third Party Website's privacy policy
before disclosing any personally identifiable information.
Use of your personal
information
Your personal information, including contact information such as
postal and email addresses and telephone numbers will be treated
as confidential, however, it may be used by us or by one of our
connected companies for any of our internal purposes, including:
• to analyse the information we collect so that we can administer,
support and improve and develop our services that we offer;
• enable us to supply you with the good, services and information
which you requested;
• to contact you in order to send you details of our Site
which may be of interest to you;
• to provide you with access to certain parts of our Site;
• to contact you for your views of our Site.
Disclosure of personal
information to third parties
Your personal information will be disclosed where we are obliged
or permitted to do so by law, or in the circumstances described
in this Privacy Policy. We may disclose your personal information
to selected third parties who may then send information to you about
goods and services. You can indicate you do not wish to receive
such material by contacting us here[update link].
In addition, if our business enters into a joint venture with or
is sold to or merged with another business entity your information
may be disclosed to our new business partner or owners.
Retention of personal information
We will keep your personal information securely on our systems for
as long as may be necessary for the purposes described in this policy.
At any time you can tell us if you do not want us to continue to
store and use your details and we will erase them and cancel your
registration for the Site, although we may need to keep for a minimum
of 12 months thereafter any messaging transcript data in connection
with the use of the readers’ forum, message/comments board
or blogs or any other part of the Site.
Data protection
You are entitled to request personal data that we hold about you
for a small charge. You can insist that we correct any information
about you.
Contact us
If you have any
queries concerning your person information or any questions on our
use of the information then please contact Clyde and Forth Press
Ltd t/a Slough Observer, a company registered in
Scotland (SC132609) with its registered office at Pitreavie Business
Park, Dunfermline, Fife, KY11 8QS.
