Acceptable Use Policy

Prohibited uses

You may not use our site:

•    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 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 also agree:

•    Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of our Website Terms and Conditions of Use.

•    Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt 

-    any part of our site;

-    any equipment or network on which our site is stored;

-    any software used in the provision of our site; or

-    any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party

Content standards

These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (Contribution). 

The Content Standards must be complied with in spirit as well as to the letter. The standards apply to each part of any Contribution as well as to its whole.

We will determine, in its discretion, whether a Contribution breaches the Content Standards.

A Contribution:

•    Must be accurate (where it states facts).

•    Only contain opinions that are genuinely held.

•    Must comply with the law applicable in any country from which it is posted and to
which the website is targeted.

A Contribution must not:

•    Be defamatory of any person.

•    Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.

•    Bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate.

•    Encourage, promote or provide instructions for deliberate self-harm.

•    Encourage, promote or provide instructions for suicide.

•    Encourage, promote or provide instructions for an eating disorder or behaviours associated with an eating disorder.

•    Promote sexually explicit material.

•    Include child sexual abuse material.

•    Incite violence or hatred against particular groups.

•    Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.

•    Include content that would be considered a criminal offence under laws relating to terrorism, child sexual abuse material, racism or zenophobia.

•    Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.

•    Include video content that has been or would be likely to be given an R18 certificate by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).

•    Include video content not suitable for BBFC classification.

•    Include material that might impair the physical, mental or moral development of persons under the age of 18.

•    Be likely to deceive any person.

•    Breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.

•    Contain illegal content or promote any illegal content or activity.

•    Be in contempt of court.

•    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.

•    Impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.

•    Give the impression that the Contribution emanates from us if this is not the case.

•    Advocate, promote, incite any party to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.

•    Contain a statement which you know or believe, or have reasonable grounds for believing, that members of the public to whom the statement is, or is to be, published are likely to understand as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.

•    Contain any advertising or promote any services or web links to other sites.

Suspension and Termination

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this acceptable use policy through your use of our site.  When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.  

Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of our Website Terms and Conditions of Use upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

•    Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.

•    Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any contribution uploaded by you to our site.

•    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 or as required by law.

We exclude our liability for all action we may take in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The actions we may take are not limited to those described above, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

Changes to the acceptable use policy

We may revise this acceptable use policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to 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 acceptable use policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.