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Forum Terms of Use

(1) Introduction

These terms of use govern your use of this forum; by using this forum, you accept these terms of use in full. If you disagree with these terms of use or any part of these terms of use, you must not use this forum.

(2) Licence to use Forum

Unless otherwise stated, we the licensors own the intellectual property rights in the forum and material on the forum. Subject to the licence below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the forum for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms of use.

You must not:

(a)   republish material from this forum (including republication on another website);

(b)   sell, rent or sub-license material from the forum;

(c)   show any material from the forum in public;

(d)   reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this forum for a commercial purpose;

(e)   edit or otherwise modify any material on the forum; or

(f)   redistribute material from this forum except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution (such as our newsletter).

Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed within your organisation.

(3) Acceptable use

You must not use this forum in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the forum or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the forum; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this forum to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not use this forum for any purposes related to marketing without our express written consent.

(4) Comments feature

In order to use the reply to thread feature on our forum, you must register with the forum by completing the following steps: [REGISTER].

Access to certain areas of this blog is restricted. We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of this forum, or indeed our whole forum, at our discretion.

We will provide registered users with a user ID and password.

You must ensure that your user ID and your password password are kept confidential.

We may disable your user ID and password in our sole discretion without notice or explanation.

(5) User generated content

In these terms of use, “your user content” means material that you submit to this forum, for whatever purpose.

You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to us the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

Your user content (and its publication on this forum) must not:

(a)   be libellous or maliciously false;

(b)   be obscene or indecent;

(c)   infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right;

(d)   infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy, or right under data protection legislation;

(e)   constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;

(f)   constitute an incitement to commit a crime;

(g)   be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order;

(h)   be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;

(i)   be blasphemous;

(j)   be in breach of official secrets legislation;

(k)   be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;

(l)   depict violence in a explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;

(m)   be pornographic or sexually explicit;

(n)   be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;

(o)   consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;

(p)   constitute spam;

(q)   be offensive, deceptive, threatening, abusive, harassing, or menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or

(r)   cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.

Your user content must be appropriate, civil, tasteful and accord with generally accepted standards of etiquette and behaviour on the internet.

You must not use this forum to link to any website or web page consisting of or containing material that would, were it posted on this forum, breach the provisions of these terms of use.

You must not submit any user content to the forum that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

We reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this forum, or stored on our servers, or hosted or published upon this forum.

Notwithstanding our rights under these terms of use in relation to user content, we do not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on this forum.

(6) Limited warranties

Whilst we endeavour to ensure that the information on this forum is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we commit to ensuring that the forum remains available or that the material on the forum is kept up-to-date.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to this forum and the use of this forum (including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care and skill).

(7) Limitations of liability

Nothing in these terms of use (or elsewhere on this forum) will exclude or limit our liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Subject to this, our liability to you in relation to the use of this forum or under or in connection with these terms of use, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, will be limited as follows:

(a)   to the extent that the forum and the information and services on the forum are provided free-of-charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature;

(b)   we will not be liable for any consequential, indirect or special loss or damage;

(c)   we will not be liable for any loss of profit, income, revenue, anticipated savings, contracts, business, goodwill, reputation, data, or information;

(d)   we will not be liable for any loss or damage arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control;

You agree to the publication of comments, reviews and/or feedback relating to you, by others, on this forum. You acknowledge that such comments, reviews and/or feedback may be critical or defamatory; and you agree that you will not hold us liable in respect of any such comments, reviews and/or feedback, irrespective of whether we are aware or ought to have been aware of such comments, reviews and/or feedback.

(8) Indemnity

You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers) incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms of use, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms of use.

(9) Breaches of these terms of use

Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms of use, if you breach these terms of use in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms of use in any way, we may:

(a)   send you one or more formal warnings;

(b)   temporarily suspend your access to the forum;

(c)   permanently prohibit you from accessing the forum;

(d)   block computers using your IP address from accessing the forum;

(e)   contact your internet services provider and request that they block your access to the forum;

(f)   bring court proceedings against you for breach of contract or otherwise;

(g)   suspend and/or delete your account with the forum; and/or

(h)   delete and/or edit any or all of your user generated content.

Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to this forum or a part of this forum, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).

(10) Third party websites

This forum includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties. These links are not recommendations. We have no control over the contents of third party websites, and we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

(11) Variation

We may revise these terms of use from time-to-time. Revised terms of use will apply to the use of this forum from the date of the publication of the revised terms of use on this forum. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

(12) Assignment

We may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms of use without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms of use.

(13) Severability

If a provision of these terms of use is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

(14) Exclusion of third party rights

These terms of use are for the benefit of you and us, and are not intended to benefit any third party or be enforceable by any third party. The exercise of our and your rights in relation to these terms of use is not subject to the consent of any third party.

(15) Entire agreement

These terms of use, together with our privacy policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of this forum, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this forum.

(16) Law and jurisdiction

These terms of use will be governed by and construed in accordance with English law, and any disputes relating to these terms of use will be subject to jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.