Acceptable Use Policy

Our full website Terms & Conditions can be found here

1. General

a) This policy provides only general guidance with regard to the use of this website by you.

b )We permit you to use the website only for the commercial purposes for which it is intended and which have been described to you. Use of the website in any other way, including in contravention of any restriction on use set out in this Policy, is not permitted. If you do not agree with the terms of this Policy, you may not use the website.

2. Restrictions on use

As a condition of your use of the website, you agree:

a) not to use the website for any purpose that is unlawful under any applicable law or prohibited by this Policy or our website terms and conditions of use;

b) not to use the website to commit any act of fraud;

c) not to use the website to distribute viruses or malware or other similar harmful software code;

d) not to use the website for purposes of promoting unsolicited advertising or sending spam;

e) not to use the website to simulate communications from us or another service or entity in order to collect identity information, authentication credentials, or other information (‘phishing’);

f) not to use the website in any manner that disrupts the operation of our website or business or the website or business of any other entity;

g) not to use, or permit to be used, the website if you are a minor, i.e. less than eighteen (18) years of age;

h) not to use the website in any manner that harms minors;

i) not to promote any unlawful activity;

j) not to represent or suggest that we endorse any other business, product or service unless we have separately agreed to do so in writing;

k) not to use the website to gain unauthorised access to or use of computers, data, systems, accounts or networks;

l) not to attempt to circumvent password or user authentication methods; and

m) to comply with the provisions relating to our intellectual property rights and software contained in our terms and conditions of use.

3. Copyright

a) If you place material, including software, on the website you will automatically grant to us the right, at no cost, to copy, adapt, edit, publish, distribute, translate and otherwise use all such material and to grant to its other customers the right to print copies of the material for their own use. Subject to this grant, you will retain all rights in the material.

b) You may not place copyright material on the website without the written permission of the owner of the copyright or of some person authorised by the owner to give such consent. You must, if requested to do so by us, provide written proof of such consent.

c) You may not use our logos or trade names (except with our prior written permission) in accordance with this Policy and our general website terms and conditions of use.

4. Content

a) When posting any advertisement or other commercial solicitation or material to any special interest group or website or app it is your obligation to comply with all applicable laws. In particular, the advertisement or commercial solicitation must comply with all relevant legislation statutes, regulations and codes in any relevant jurisdiction.

b) Posting private or other confidential material to any special interest group is prohibited.

c) Impersonating another business or person or otherwise falsifying your business or other name in any post to any group is prohibited.

d) Any communication or posting which may be perceived or construed by us to be harassment of a third party by e-mail is prohibited as is the use of the website for sending computer viruses or the like.

e) You must not publish on the website any material which infringes the rights of any person (including, without limitation, their copyright, trademark, confidential information or other intellectual property rights) or which is, in our sole and absolute opinion, abusive, blasphemous, obscene, pornographic, defamatory, vitriolic, discriminatory, menacing in character, illegal or deliberately inflammatory. We consider the publication of such materials and other inappropriate materials to be severe abuses of the website.

f) You must not use the website to perform or to solicit the performance of any illegal activity or any activity that is contrary to generally accepted convention or is intended to solicit membership or sale of any services competing with the website.

g) We reserve the right in its sole and absolute discretion to delete any material on the website without prior notice whether or not it violates any of the standards set out in this Policy.

5. Consequences of Ignoring the Policy 

a) If we in our sole discretion consider that you are in breach of any of this Policy then we may take such action as we, in our sole discretion, considers appropriate. This may include (but shall not be limited to), the editing or deletion of any material appearing on the website or the termination of your rights of access to any service. You will not be entitled to any credit or compensation for any loss of access to any service which results from any such action taken by us under this Policy.

(b) You accept that we give no undertaking to you that we will take any action to ensure compliance with the Policy by any other customer and that we are entitled to take such action as we consider appropriate under the Policy or to refrain from doing so at our absolute discretion.

(c) Whilst we do not have any obligation to monitor the website we reserve the right to prohibit activities which in our absolute judgement may cause harm of any kind to other customers, third parties, the website, or us.