TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE OF THE HAVEBURY TENANTS FORUM WEBSITE & DISCUSSION BOARD

 

In these Conditions of Use:-

 

• 'We' means Havebury Housing Partnership Limited Tenants Forum.
• 'You' means the user of this website and/or discussion board hosted on this website.
• 'Website' means this website including public discussion boards hosted on this website.

 

1. Conditions of Use:

 

If you wish to upload or post information on the Website, you must first register such information as is required by us. No information can be posted on the Website without first obtaining such registration.

 

2. Personal Information/Data Protection:

 

We will respect your personal information in accordance with all applicable UK Data Protection legislation. All personal information which you provide will be stored on computer. No information so collected will be used for any marketing purposes other than for communicating to registered members from time to time and even then only for purposes related to the Website. If you object to such use of your information, you must inform us in writing. All information may be retained for up to six months after you provide it and used for the same purposes.

 

3. Uploading or posting to this Website:

 

• You agree not to upload or post on to this Website information, files or software or any other materials:-
• containing pornography;
• containing sexually explicit or offensive content;
• containing vulgar or obscene language;
• containing racially or ethnically offensive content;
• containing material which is illegal or criminal or regarding illegal activity or designed to encourage illegal activity or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatsoever;
• intended to harass or threaten any party;
• which offer products or services or contain advertising for any products or services or promote any party's commercial interests in any manner whatsoever. We shall have the right to determine what constitutes the promotion of a commercial interest;
• which infringe any copyright, design rights, database rights or other intellectual property or proprietary rights of any third party without the consent of that third party;
• containing defamatory or libellous content;
• which have been manipulated in order to disguise the origin of any uploaded/posted material;
• which may interfere with or disrupt the services provided by us.


• If you post or upload onto this Website any information, files, software or other materials or provide any links to other sites or materials, you are responsible for such and for any claims which may be made by third parties in that respect. Furthermore, you agree to indemnify us against any claims, damages, costs, losses, expenses or liabilities which we may incur as a result of any misuse or unlawful use of this Website by you including, without limitation, arising from any breach of the rules set out in this Condition 3 carried out by you or by a third party for whom you are responsible.

 

• If you contribute information, files, software or other materials to this Website, you hereby grant us and other users of this Website, a royalty free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right to edit, amend, reformat, copy, publish (in any medium whether paperbased or electronic), sub-licence and distribute any such materials. You will not submit any such materials unless you are able to grant such rights. You will indemnify us against any claims, damages, costs, losses, expenses or liabilities which we may incur if you do not have such rights to grant.

 

4. Use of this Website:

• You agree not to do anything which is likely to, or intended to, disrupt use by others of this Website or which amounts to spamming.
• You agree to use all reasonable endeavours not to upload or post onto this Website any materials which contain viruses, worms, logic bombs or other destructive features or contaminants.
• You agree not to falsely impersonate another person when using this Website.

 

5. Removal of Materials:

 

We reserve the right at any time to edit or remove any information, files, software or other materials from this Website which are or may be in our opinion, in breach of any of the rules set out in Condition 3 or are otherwise harmful or offensive in any way to any person or where complaints are received in respect of such materials. We will not be liable to any person who has placed such materials on this Website, irrespective of any such editing or removal. We do not, however, guarantee prompt editing or removal of any such material from this Website in such circumstances.

When using the discussion boards, in the top right corner of each post are a number of icons, and you will need to click this one - . This will open a form you can fill in and send to the administrator of the board.

 

6. Exclusion of Liability for materials on the Site:

 

THE INFORMATION, FILES, SOFTWARE AND OTHER MATERIALS CONTAINED WITHIN THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED BY INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS. WE DO NOT NECESSARILY MONITOR OR EDIT SUCH MATERIALS NOR DO WE MONITOR CONDUCT ON THE DISCUSSION BOARD. ANY VIEWS, OPINIONS OR STATEMENTS MADE IN SUCH MATERIALS ARE THOSE OF THE CONTRIBUTORS AND WE DO NOT ENDORSE THOSE. WE DO NOT ACCEPT ANY RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY TO ANY PERSON IN RESPECT OF ANY MATERIALS CONTAINED WITH THIS WEBSITE AND IN PARTICULAR, WITHOUT LIMITATION, FOR:

• ANY INACCURACY OR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN SUCH MATERIALS;
• THE INCOMPLETENESS OF ANY SUCH MATERIALS;
• ANY SOFTWARE, INFORMATION OR PRODUCTS WHICH MAY BE PROVIDED OR OFFERED FROM SUCH MATERIALS;
• ANY USE WHICH MAY BE MADE OF SUCH MATERIALS;
• DEFAMATORY, HARMFUL, CRIMINAL, PORNOGRAPHIC OR OFFENSIVE CONTENT IN SUCH MATERIALS; OR
• THE CONDUCT OF ANY USERS OF THE DISCUSSION BOARD.

 

7. Accessible/Linked Third Party Materials and Sites:

 

ANY THIRD PARTY SITES, BULLETIN BOARDS, MATERIALS, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE OR FILES WHICH MAY BE ACCESSED FROM THE MATERIALS CONTRIBUTED TO THIS WEBSITE OR WHICH ARE LINKED TO THE MATERIALS CONTRIBUTED TO THIS WEBSITE ARE THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE THIRD PARTY PROVIDING SUCH ACCESS OR LINK OR OPERATING OR OFFERING SUCH. WE GIVE NO WARRANTY IN RESPECT OF SUCH AND ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY TO ANY PERSON FOR SUCH OR FOR ANY USE WHICH MAY BE MADE OF SUCH.

 

8. Copyright and other rights:

 

We own the content of this Website (other than the content submitted by contributors) together with all copyright and other intellectual rights therein and the design and presentation of this Website. Individual contributors retain copyright to any messages or information posted in the Discussion Board using their respective login information.

In both cases the use or copying or publishing, in whole or in part, without our express written consent is prohibited.

 

9. Right to Ban Use:

 

Without prejudice to any other rights which may be available to us, we reserve the right to cancel the registration of any user of the Discussion Board or to ban any user from this Website if that user fails to comply with these Conditions of Use.

 

10. Amendments

 

These Conditions of Use may be amended from time to time and, if such amendments are made, the amended Conditions of Use will be placed on this page and will be binding on each user of this Website.

 

11. Passwords.

 

Where applicable, you are responsible for maintaining confidentiality of any user name and password provided to you on registration. You shall not disclose your user name or password to any third party. You are responsible for all activities which occur under your user name and/or password. If you become aware that any third party has obtained access to your user name or password or of any unauthorised use of your user name or password, you must report such to us immediately.

 

12. Law

 

These Conditions of Use shall be construed in accordance with English law. If there is any dispute arising out of these Conditions or use of the Board, the English Courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction.