Acceptable Use Terms and Conditions

This acceptable use policy sets out the terms between you and Your Learning Days (we, us, our) under which you may access and use the interactive features of our website www.your-learning-days.co.uk (our site). This acceptable use policy applies to all users of, and visitors to, our site and is governed by and construed in accordance with English law and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Please read these terms and conditions carefully as your use of our site means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the policies in this acceptable use policy, which supplement our terms of website use (accessible via www.your-learning-days.co.uk/acceptable-use-policy) and privacy policy (accessible via www.your-learning-days.co.uk/privacy-policy) and any other terms and conditions set out on or accessible via our site. 

If any one of these terms and conditions is held invalid by any law, rule, order or regulation of any government, or by the final determination of any court of a competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not affect the enforceability of any other provisions not held to be invalid. 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 Some of the provisions contained in this acceptable use policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

We reserve the right at any time to terminate or temporarily suspend our site and related services at our absolute discretion and you agree and acknowledge that we shall not be liable to you in any way should we do so.  Please be aware that nothing appearing on oursite shall be deemed advice applicable to any particular person or situation such that it could be relied upon and the information is supplied for general illustrative purposes only.  To the fullest extent permitted by law, we shall not be liable to you for any loss (whether direct, indirect, consequential or economic) caused to any person through any action or omission made in reliance on the information appearing onour site.

Registration and General

You may be required to sign in in order to use part of our site. We may at our own discretion, bar registration from any specific emailservice or ISP.

  • Any content posted expresses only the views of the author of the message and does not necessarily reflect our views or any other person or entity. Any content posted is moderated; however, considering the real-time nature of the comment facility, it is impossible to monitor or review every comment and therefore, you agree that neither we nor any person or entity associated with us, will be held responsible for the contents, accuracy, completeness or validity of any information posted.
  • We have the ability to edit and/or remove objectionable content – please see Moderation below for further information.
  • We reserve the right to edit or delete any content for any reason whatsoever, at our sole discretion. You agree that you are solely responsible for your content and that you will indemnify us, keep us indemnified and hold us harmless with respect to any claim based upon the appearance and/or transmission of your content.
  • In the event of any complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by you, we reserve the right to reveal your identity and any other information we may know about you.
  • Users must not submit any content that does not comply with these terms and conditions – see Prohibited Uses and Content Standards below.

Prohibited Uses

You may use our site only for lawful purposes.  You may not use our site:

  • In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation or encourages others to break any such law or has the purpose of doing so.
  • To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards, asset out below.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Copyright Ownership

We do not lay claim to any content users submit and the posting user continues to own all rights in that content. By submitting to or making available any content you agree to grant us a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive, sub-licensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to the content worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your content as we may require.

By submitting or making available any content, you also agree to waive all moral rights in that content. We may (without notice to you) grant the same or other rights in respect of your content to third parties without payment to you and sell, distribute or otherwise publish your content. If you do not want to grant us the rights set out above, please do not submit your content.

Interactive Services

We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our site, 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 interactive service we provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.

The use of any of our interactive services by a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. We advise parents who permit their children to use an interactive service that it is important that they communicate with their children about their safety online, as moderation is not fool proof. Minors who are using any interactive service should be made aware of the potential risks to them.

Content Standards

These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (contributions), and to any interactive services associated with it. You must comply with the spirit and the letter of the following standards. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

Before posting content which contains an image of another person(s); property owned by another person(s); and/ or reference to another person which might be used to identify them (either alone, or in combination with any other content), you must get that person’s consent before you post it.

Contributions must:

  • Be in English.
  • Be accurate (where they state facts).
  • Be genuinely held (where they state opinions).
  • Comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.

Contributions must not:

  • Contain any material which is defamatory of any person.
  • Contain any material which is profane, vulgar, obscene, offensive, hateful, inflammatory or otherwise offensive in our reasonable opinion.
  • Contain or promote sexually explicit material.
  • Promote violence.
  • Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
  • Infringe any copyright, database right, trademark or other rights (whether in intellectual property or otherwise) of any other person or legal entity.
  • Infringe any contractual agreement to which you are a party.
  • Be 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.
  • Infringe the privacy or confidentiality of any person or legal entity including (but not limited to) posting location and/or contact details of another person.
  • Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
  • Promote your business, including advertising or soliciting business.
  • 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.
  • Be otherwise is persistently abusive, threatening, repeatedly a cause of nuisance or annoyance or otherwise illegal towards other users.

Moderation

We may operate automated or manual moderation features which may block or modify content, as is deemed appropriate or necessary and at our (or the automated systems) absolute discretion based on:

  • Specified words or phrases.
  • Email address, domain, member ID or IP address.
  • Size or type of attachments.
  • Breach of the content standards set out above.

We reserve the right to edit or delete any content for any reason whatsoever, at our sole discretion. You agree that you are solely responsible for the content of your posts and comments and other content, and that you will indemnify us and hold us harmless with respect to any claim based upon the appearance and/or transmission of your content.

Should you find any content that you feel is inappropriate or not in line with these rules, please let us know immediately. Upon receipt of such notification, we will make every effort to take such action as we deem necessary within a reasonable period of time. Since this is a manual process, you are advised that we may not be able to remove or edit particular content immediately but if we agree that it should be removed, we shall do so although it may take one or more days for the content to be removed.

Any user found posting unsuitable material or breaking any of the rules may be removed and prevented from using our site.

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 may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

  • Moderation of any of the content which you post on our site.
  • Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
  • Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material 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.

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

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