Aye Write! Terms & Conditions
By accessing this site, blogs, discussion forums and other interactive facilities, the user agrees to be bound by our terms and conditions which are set out below. If you do not agree to these, please do not access, use or contribute to this site.
If you fail to abide by these terms and conditions, your content will be removed immediately and without notice or explanation.
Culture and Sport Glasgow reserve the right to change these terms and conditions at any time. It is your responsibility to check the terms and conditions regularly to ensure you agree to any such amendments. If you do not agree to any changes we have made, you should stop accessing the site immediately.
The failure or delay of Culture and Sport Glasgow to enforce these terms and conditions does not waive Culture and Sport Glasgow's right to enforce that right.
These terms and conditions are governed by the laws of Scotland which shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes.
Disclaimer
Culture and Sport Glasgow does not guarantee the timeliness, completeness or performance of the website or any of the content. While we try to ensure that all content provided by Culture and Sport Glasgow is correct at the time of publication, no responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of Culture and Sport Glasgow for any errors, omissions or inaccurate content on the site.
The content in the discussion forums and blogs is created by members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless expressly stated are not those of Culture and Sport Glasgow.
Culture and Sport Glasgow will not be liable for any loss caused as result of your doing or not doing anything as result of viewing, reading or listening to the material on this site, except for death or personal injury attributable to our negligence and to the extent permitted at law. Subject to the above, Culture and Sport Glasgow shall not be liable for any of the following losses, whether foreseen or otherwise:
- loss of data
- loss of revenue or anticipated profits
- loss of business
- loss of opportunity
- loss of goodwill or injury to reputation
- losses suffered by third parties
- any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of the site regardless of the form of action.
The contents of the site do not constitute advice and should not be relied upon in making or referring from making, any decision. There is no guarantee that the site will be free of infection by viruses or anything else which may be harmful or destructive. We have placed links on this site to other sites which we think you may want to visit. These links are solely for the convenience of users and do not constitute any endorsement by Culture and Sport Glasgow of the sites linked or referred to, nor does Culture and Sport Glasgow have any control over the content of such sites.
Copyright
The design, images and content of the site are, unless otherwise stated, the property of Culture and Sport Glasgow. For the purpose of this agreement, "material" means material including, without limitation, text, video, graphics and sound.
Material on this site is intended for personal use only and the reproduction of the whole or any part of the site for any other purpose is prohibited. The distribution, displaying or copying of the site is also prohibited unless for personal and private use by a third party.
No part of the site can be reproduced on, transmitted to or stored on any other web site or other form of electronic retrieval system, nor may any part of the site be accessed in such a manner that it appears on any third party's web site without our written consent.
Much of the material on the site may be reproduced free of charge for educational non-commercial purposes provided that the source is acknowledged and that it is reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. This permission does not extend to material copyrighted to third parties. You must obtain authorization from the copyright holders to reproduce such material.
All names, images and logos identifying Aye Write or Culture and Sport Glasgow or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of Aye Write, Culture and Sport Glasgow and/or third parties. Nothing in these terms shall be construed as conferring any licence or right to use any trade mark, design or copyright of Aye Write, Culture and Sport Glasgow or any other third party.
Registration
Some areas of the site require registration. Any personal information provided to Culture and Sport Glasgow as part of this registration process and/or any other interaction with the site will be collated, stored and used in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
By completing the initial registration form and entering your email and password, you will be deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions. When you subscribe to any of our email services, you are deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions.
Access to the registration areas of the site is allowed provided that:
- You register with a valid email address that you access regularly
- Your email address and password are personal to you and may not be used by anyone else
- You will not do anything which would assist anyone who is not a registered user to gain access to the registration area
- You do not register additional accounts for the purpose of abusing the function of the site or other users; nor should you attempt to pass yourself off as another user
- You comply with our terms and conditions
If we believe, for any reason, that you have not complied with these terms then we may, at our discretion, cancel your access to the registration areas of the site immediately and without any advance notice.
If we wish to bring the agreement to an end, we will do so by emailing you at the address you have registered stating your agreement has been terminated. Your email address and password will be invalid on the site immediately.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account and any activities that occur within your account. Culture and Sport Glasgow shall not be liable to any person for any loss or damage which may arise as a result of any failure on your part to protect your password or account.
Culture and Sport Glasgow collects information on what pages are accessed or visited by customers, as well as information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registrations. Culture and Sport Glasgow uses this information for internal review and in order to improve the content of the site.
Discussion Forums and Blogs
Culture and Sport Glasgow is not responsible for any of the content contained in a discussion forum or blog, nor does Culture and Sport Glasgow assert any ownership rights over any content posted. There may be some exceptions to this where content is written by Culture and Sport Glasgow staff for our official purpose, but these will be identified and do not affect the general principle that ownership and responsibility rest with the author (s).
Culture and Sport Glasgow does not moderate content before it is posted but retains the right to delete, move, edit, update or otherwise alter content in any way, at our discretion and without notice.
Site visitors may not re-purpose, re-publish or re-present content on discussion forums or blogs in any medium or format without written permission. Such content is for private non-commercial use by site visitors only.
Culture and Sport Glasgow retains the right to delete any submitted content without notice, warning or explanation.
Culture and Sport Glasgow does not allow the posting of anonymous content. Each user understands that any comments can be traced to their specific user account containing their email address.
Users of discussion forums and blogs must observe reasonable standards of decency and respect for individual and community rights and sensibilities. Comments that do not comply with Culture and Sport Glasgow's interpretation of 'reasonable standards' will be subject to removal without notice.
Contributions should be civil, tasteful, constructive and polite. No offensive, disruptive or abusive behaviour will be tolerated. Any content which is unlawful, objectionable, harassing, abusive, defamatory, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexual or racially offensive is not acceptable.
Users should not post content in a language other than English.
Submitting the same or very similar contributions many times is not permitted.
Users should not post content with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act.
Site visitors are invited to notify Culture and Sport Glasgow of any comments posted on the site that do not, in their opinion, comply with the reasonable standards above.
Use of the discussion forums and blogs provided on this site does not indemnify the users from any responsibility under UK laws governing defamation, libel and contempt of court. Any content submitted should not infringe any UK laws and the user indemnifies Culture and Sport Glasgow from all incurred consequences that will result from any misuse.
If any content submitted causes damage or loss to Culture and Sport Glasgow, users agree to indemnify Culture and Sport Glasgow in full and permanently again any third party liabilities, claims, costs, we incur as a result of publishing such material.
Users are advised to never reveal any personal information about themselves or anyone else, for example, phone number, postal address or email address that would allow you to be personally identified.
Users should not choose vulgar or offensive user names.
Users undertake not to submit any material for commercial, promotional or advertising purposes. Culture and Sport Glasgow will remove any such content without notice and users are invited to notify Culture and Sport Glasgow of any such abuse.
URLs can only be posted if they relate constructively to the submitted content
Users who are under 16 years of age are urged by Culture and Sport Glasgow to get permission from a parent or guardian before using the discussion forum or blogs. They are strongly urged not to reveal any personal details such as home address, age, school attended or home/mobile phone numbers.
Users warrant that their contribution is their own original work and that they have the right to give Culture and Sport Glasgow permission to use it for the purposes specified above and that they have the consent of anyone who is identifiable in their contribution or the consent of their parent or guardian if they are under 16.
Users should not endanger themselves or others, take any unnecessary risks or break any laws when submitting content
Users should not post any content which is protected by copyright.
By posting comments on the discussion forums or blogs, users agree to allow this content to be re-used or quoted by Culture and Sport Glasgow without notification. If you do not wish to allow us to do this, please do not submit your comments to us.
Users must not post content that contains viruses that my damage Culture and Sport Glasgow's computers or any other computer.
Privacy
Culture and Sport Glasgow recognizes that your privacy is important to you and it committed to respecting online privacy. We will apply appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information you share with us. Any personal information you provide will not be passed on to a third party unless you give us permission to do so.
For more information see our Data Protection Statement on the Culture and Sport Glasgow Web site.
If you have indicated that you wish to receive email updates only from Culture and Sport Glasgow, your personal details will be included on a database compiled for this specific purpose.
Last updated January 2008.