1. Introduction
1.1 These terms and conditions
shall govern your use of our website.
1.2 By using
our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full;
accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and
conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you
must not use our website.
1.3 If you [register
with our website, submit any material to our website ? or
use any of our website services], we will ask you to
expressly ? agree to these terms and conditions.
1.4 You must be at least [18] years of age to use our
website; by using our website or agreeing to these terms
and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you
are at least [18] years of age.
1.5 Our website
uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to these
terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in
accordance with the terms of our [privacy and cookies
policy].
2. Credit
2.1 This document was
created using a template from SEQ Legal
(http://www.seqlegal.com).
You must retain the
above credit. Use of this document without the credit is an
infringement of copyright. However, you can purchase from
us an equivalent document that does not include the credit.
3. Copyright notice
3.1 Copyright (c) [year(s) of
first publication] [full name].
3.2 Subject to the
express provisions of these terms and conditions:
(a) we, together with our licensors, own and control all
the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our
website and the material on our website; and
(b)
all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in
our website and the material on our website are reserved.
4. Licence to use website
4.1 You may:
(a) view pages from our website in a web browser;
(b) download pages from our website for caching in a web
browser;
(c) print pages from our website;
(d) [stream audio and video files from our website]; and
(e) [use [our website services] by means of a web browser],
subject to the other provisions of these terms and
conditions.
4.2 Except as expressly permitted by
Section 4.1 or the other provisions of these terms and
conditions, you must not download any material from our
website or save any such material to your computer.
4.3 You may only use our website for [your own personal and
business purposes], and you must not use our website for
any other purposes.
4.4 Except as expressly
permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit
or otherwise modify any material on our website.
4.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the
material, you must not:
(a) republish material
from our website (including republication on another
website);
(b) sell, rent or sub-license material
from our website;
(c) show any material from our
website in public;
(d) exploit material from our
website for a commercial purpose; or
(e)
redistribute material from our website.
4.6
Notwithstanding Section 4.5, you may redistribute [our
newsletter] in [print and electronic form] to [any person].
4.7 We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our
website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion;
you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent
or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.
5. Acceptable use
5.1 You must not:
(a)
use our website in any way or take any action that causes,
or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the
performance, availability or accessibility of the website;
(b) use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal,
fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful,
illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;
(c) use our website 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;
(d) [conduct any systematic or
automated data collection activities (including without
limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data
harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our
express written consent];
(e) [access or otherwise
interact with our website using any robot, spider or other
automated means[, except for the purpose of [search engine
indexing]]];
(f) [violate the directives set out
in the robots.txt file for our website]; or
(g)
[use data collected from our website for any direct
marketing activity (including without limitation email
marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct
mailing)].
[additional list items]
5.2
You must not use data collected from our website to contact
individuals, companies or other persons or entities.
5.3 You must ensure that all the information you supply to
us through our website, or in relation to our website, is
[true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading].
6. Registration and accounts
6.1 To be eligible
for [an account] on our website under this Section 6, you
must [be resident or situated in the United Kingdom].
6.2 You may register for an account with our website by
[completing and submitting the account registration form on
our website, and clicking on the verification link in the
email that the website will send to you].
6.3 You
must not allow any other person to use your account to
access the website.
6.4 You must notify us in
writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised
use of your account.
6.5 You must not use any
other person's account to access the website[, unless you
have that person's express permission to do so].
7. User login details
7.1 If you register for an
account with our website, [we will provide you with] OR
[you will be asked to choose] [a user ID and password].
7.2 Your user ID must not be liable to mislead and must
comply with the content rules set out in Section 10; you
must not use your account or user ID for or in connection
with the impersonation of any person.
7.3 You
must keep your password confidential.
7.4 You must
notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any
disclosure of your password.
7.5 You are
responsible for any activity on our website arising out of
any failure to keep your password confidential, and may be
held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.
8. Cancellation and suspension of account
8.1 We
may:
(a) [suspend your account];
(b)
[cancel your account]; and/or
(c) [edit your
account details],
at any time in our sole
discretion without notice or explanation.
8.2 You
may cancel your account on our website [using your account
control panel on the website].
9. Your content:
licence
9.1 In these terms and conditions, "your
content" means [all works and materials (including without
limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video
material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and
files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or
publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our
website].
9.2 You grant to us a [worldwide,
irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence] to [use,
reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute
your content in any existing or future media] OR
[reproduce, store and publish your content on and in
relation to this website and any successor website] OR
[reproduce, store and, with your specific consent, publish
your content on and in relation to this website].
9.3 You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights
licensed under Section 9.2.
9.4 You grant to us
the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights
licensed under Section 9.2.
9.5 You hereby waive
all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent
permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent
that all other moral rights in your content have been
waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
9.6 You may edit your content to the extent permitted using
the editing functionality made available on our website.
9.7 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms
and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms
and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that
you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we
may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.
10. Your content: rules
10.1 You warrant and
represent that your content will comply with these terms
and conditions.
10.2 Your content must not be
illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's legal
rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal
action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction
and under any applicable law).
10.3 Your content,
and the use of your content by us in accordance with these
terms and conditions, 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