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Acceptable Use Policy
Last updated: 16 January 2012
If you are viewing this Website you are a 'Visitor'. You may use the facilities of a Visitor subject to this Acceptable Use Policy.
Please read this Acceptable Use Policy carefully before you start to use the website. By using our Website you indicate that you accept the Acceptable Use Policy and that you agree to abide by it. If you do not agree please refrain from using our Website.
1. Application of this Acceptable Use Policy
- This Acceptable Use Policy (the 'Policy') sets out the terms between you and us under which you may access the services provided through our website at www.cswp.org.uk (“our Website”). If you are viewing this Website you are referred to as a 'Visitor' in this Policy.
- This Policy applies to all persons who may from time to time have the facility to upload material or post material including text of any description to our Website. Any and all such material shall be called 'contributions' in this Policy.
- If you make a contribution to our Website this signifies your acceptance of and agreement to the provisions of this Policy. The terms of this Policy are additional to the Terms and Conditions of our Website and any other agreement that may exist between us.
2. Prohibited uses
- You may use our Website only for lawful purposes. You may not use our Website:
- in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
- in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
- for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way;
- to make any contribution which does not comply with our Content Standards;
- to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam);
- to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
- You may not:
- attempt to penetrate or obtain details of security measures of the Website or of another Visitor, or obtain or bypass any security or Account of another Visitor; or
- otherwise to gain unauthorised access to the Website, the server on which the Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to the Website.
- You also agree:
- not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our Website in contravention of the provisions of our Terms and Conditions of our Website;
- not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
- (i) any part of our Website;
- (ii) any equipment or network on which our Website is stored;
- (iii) any software used in the provision of our Website; or
- (iv) any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party; or
- not to engage in denial of service attacks or distributed denial of service attacks being actions designed to impair network access by flooding the Website or any other site with useless traffic.
3. Services
- We may from time to time provide services on our Website, including, without limitation:
- Interactive Blogs
- Discussion Forums
- Feedback Forms
- Comment Forms and Polls
- We will endeavour to provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered, whether it is moderated and what form of moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical).
- We will do our best to assess any possible risks for Visitors (and in particular, for children) from third parties when they use any service provided on our Website, and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any service we provide on our Website, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any service by a Visitor in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.
- The use of any of our services by a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. We advise parents who permit their children to use a service that it is important that they communicate with their children about their safety online, as moderation is not foolproof. Minors who use any of our services should be made aware of the potential risks to them.
- Where we do moderate a service, we will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.
4. Content standards
- These content standards apply to all contributions to our Website and to any services associated with it.
- You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.
- Contributions must:
- be accurate (where they state facts);
- be genuinely held (where they state opinions);
- comply with applicable law in England & Wales and in any country from which they are posted.
- Contributions must not:
- contain any material which is defamatory of any person or of any business entity;
- contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
- promote sexually explicit material;
- promote violence;
- promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
- infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person;
- be intended to or likely to deceive any person;
- be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
- promote any illegal activity;
- be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
- be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;
- be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person;
- give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case;
- advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
5. Suspension editing and termination
- This Policy is in addition to the Terms and Conditions of our Website.
- We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this Policy through your use of our Website. When a breach of this Policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate, including the editing of any contributions or the withdrawal of any contribution or a part of it.
- Failure to comply with this Policy constitutes a material breach of the Terms and Conditions of our Website which apply to your use of our Website, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
- immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to visit our Website;
- immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our Website;
- issue of a warning to you;
- legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach;
- further legal action against you;
- disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.
- You agree that we may disclose your identity or any details known about you to any third party who claims that any contribution by you to the Website constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy or any breach of law or regulation in any jurisdiction.
- We exclude liability for our actions taken in response to breaches of this Policy. The responses described in this Policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
6. Changes to the policy
- We may revise this Policy at any time by amending this page. You should check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in this Policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our Website.
