Terms Of Use - www.community-responders.co.uk

Terms of Use

PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SITE. IT REGULATES YOUR USE OF THE SITE AND ALL MATERIAL WITHIN IT.

General
This website (excluding linked sites) is controlled by the Community-responders.co.uk, a division of Community Responders a registered charity of South Central Ambulance Service Trust, Registered charity no. 1057439. The site can be accessed from various other countries around the World. As each of these places has laws that may differ from those of England & Wales by accessing the site both you and we agree that the laws of England shall apply to all matters arising from or relating to the use and contents of this site. You also agree and hereby submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England & Wales with respect to such matters.

By accessing and using this website in any way, including, without limitation, browsing the website, using any information, using any content, using any services, downloading any materials, you agree to and are bound by these Legal Notices. If you do not accept these Legal Notices in full, please cease using this website immediately.

Copyright
Copyright © Community-responders.co.uk 2006. All rights reserved. All copyright and other intellectual property rights in all text, images, sound, software and other materials on this site are owned by Community-responders.co.uk and South Central Ambulance Service Trust or its affiliated companies or are included with permission of the relevant owner. References to affiliates or affiliated companies shall include all members of the Community-responders.co.uk and South Central Ambulance Service Trust. You are permitted to browse this site and to reproduce extracts by way of printing, downloading to a hard disk, and by distribution to other people, but in all cases for informational purposes only and for personal non-commercial use, and provided that the above copyright notice and any trade marks or other proprietary notices of Community-responders.co.uk and South Central Ambulance Service Trust or its affiliated companies appear in all such reproductions. No reproduction of any part of the site may be sold or distributed for commercial gain nor shall it be modified or incorporated in any other work or publication, whether in hard copy or electronic format, including posting to any other site. No other licence or right is granted.

Trade marks
All trade marks displayed on this site are either owned or used under licence by Community-responders.co.uk and South Central Ambulance Service Trust and its affiliates. Without limitation, these include the brand names and the logos. The unauthorized use of any trademark on this site is strictly prohibited.

Availability of Products
Reference to any product or service on the site does not constitute an offer to sell or supply that product or service.

Use
You agree not to use this site in such a way that disrupts, interferes with or restricts the use of this site by other users. In particular, you shall not reverse engineer, decompile, copy or adapt any software or other code or scripts forming part of this site nor attempt to transmit to or via this site any information that contains a virus, worm, Trojan horse, or other harmful or disruptive component. You shall not change, modify, delete, interfere with or misuse data contained on this site entered by or relating to any other user of this site.

If you post, upload or transmit any information to, on or through this site you shall ensure that the details you supply are accurate and kept up to date. You agree to ensure that any materials uploaded, displayed or transmitted by you to, on or through this site are not false, offensive, defamatory, threatening, obscene or unlawful and do not breach or infringe the rights of any person anywhere in the world.

Content
The information on this site has been included in good faith but is for general informational purposes only and is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. It should not be relied on for any specific purpose and no representation or warranty is given as regards its accuracy, completeness or fitness for a particular purpose. To the fullest extent permissible by law, neither the Community-responders.co.uk and South Central Ambulance Service Trust nor any of its affiliates nor its or their officers, employees or agents shall be liable for any loss, damage or expense arising out of any access to, use of or reliance on this site or any site linked to it including, without limitation, any loss of profit, indirect, incidental or consequential loss
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We reserve the right to make any changes and corrections to this site, including to any products or services marketed, offered or sold through this site, as and when we consider it appropriate and without notice.

Linked Sites
At various points throughout the site, you may be offered automatic links to other Internet sites relevant to a particular aspect of this site. This does not indicate that Community-responders.co.uk and South Central Ambulance Service Trust is necessarily associated with any of these other sites or their owners. Whilst it is the intention of Community-responders.co.uk and South Central Ambulance Service Trust that you should find these other sites of interest, neither the Community-responders.co.uk and South Central Ambulance Service Trust, its affiliates, nor its or their officers, employees or agents shall have any responsibility or liability of any nature whatsoever for these other sites or any information contained in them, none of which have been verified or endorsed by the Community-responders.co.uk and South Central Ambulance Service Trust or its affiliates. If at any time you find that you have accessed another site you may return to this site by clicking on the "backwards" arrow, or by keying in the address of this site in your browser address bar.

Protecting the confidentiality of your data
The Community-responders.co.uk and South Central Ambulance Service Trust is committed to protecting your personal data. By sending us any details online you consent to us processing your personal information (“Personal Information”) in accordance with our privacy policy.

Requirements for Registration / Access / Access-Data
Certain community-responders.co.uk services can only be used after registering as a member. A member is restricted to employees of South Central Ambulance Service Trust who has fully and truthfully completed the registration form ('Registration Data'). During registration you must choose a member name and a password ('Access Data'). You must keep the Registration Data up to date. The registration and the membership itself are free of charge. You can only have one membership and claim the advantages associated with it. The membership and services associated with community-responders services are not transferable.

You undertake to protect your Access Data against unauthorised use by third parties. You must keep the Access Data confidential and must not disclose it or share it with anyone. You will be responsible for all activities and transactions that occur or are submitted under your Access Data. If you know or suspect that someone else knows your Access Data you should notify community-responders.co.uk at admin@community-responders.co.uk immediately.
If community-responders has reason to believe that there is likely to be a breach of security or misuse of the community-responders.co.uk services, community-responders may require you to change your Access Data. In the event that it is impossible for you to do so, you must immediately inform Community-responders.co.uk by email to admin@community-responders.co.uk

Responsibility for Minors
In the event that parents or guardians consent to minors using the community-responders.co.uk services for which registration is compulsory, they accept their responsibility for the conduct of minors online, the access controls, as well as for the consequences arising from misuse of community-responders.co.uk services by minors. The parents or guardians acknowledge that some offers made by community-responders.co.uk network comprise contents which are unsuitable for minors.

User-Content
Community-responders.co.uk offers you the possibilities for publishing (e.g. weblogs, linklists, discussion forums) and exchanging (e.g. via email or chat) information, data, data banks, texts, links, software, music, sounds, photos, graphics, videos, news or other material (“Content”). In most cases your Content is displayed together with advertisements for goods or services of community-responders.co.uk or third parties.

1.   Accessibility
You acknowledge that community-responders.co.uk cannot control internet traffic. Accordingly, community-responders.co.uk cannot guarantee that access to your Content will be uninterrupted or entirely error free. Community-responders.co.uk will not be liable for any damage which may arise from interrupted access to your Content or from the loss of Content.
2.   Responsibility
You are fully responsible for your Content. Community-responders.co.uk does not monitor or endorse your Content and explicitly disclaims responsibility for your Content.
3.   Publication of Content
You authorise the use of your Content for the purpose of publishing, displaying and advertising the Content within - and associated with - the service selected by you, or within the whole community-responders.co.uk service or third party networks.

By submitting Content for publication within a community-responders.co.uk service, you grant community-responders.co.uk an unlimited, world-wide, non-exclusive licence free of charge, including the right to grant sub licences, to copy, transmit, disseminate and make publicly available, integrate in compilations and distribute the Content and extracts of the Content. This licence includes without limitation the right to make the Content and extracts of the Content accessible via mobile devices through WAP, MMS, SMS, I-mode and comparable formats and the right to adapt the Content to such data formats.
4.   Blocking and Deletion of Content
community-responders.co.uk reserves the right to reject Content. Community-responders.co.uk reserves the right to block access to Content if community-responders.co.uk reasonably believes that such Content breaches applicable laws, infringes third party rights or violates these terms and conditions. As far as economically reasonable and technically feasible blocking will be limited to the relevant Content. Such blocking may persist until the matter is resolved. In such an event you will have the opportunity to give your views on the matter. Community-responders.co.uk reserves the right to delete Content if required by a court or a public authority.
Further Responsibility and Obligations of the User
When using the community-responders.co.uk services you have to comply with the following rules:
You have to comply with the applicable laws, including but not limited to provisions on the protection of minors, provisions on the protection of intellectual property rights and provisions on the protection of personal rights. Content of a third party protected by copyright may only be used with consent of the right holder. In particular you must not offer music or software for download or copy which is protected by a third party’s copyright or patent without the consent of the right holder.
·community-responders.co.uk services must not be used for the collection or dissemination of illegal Content.
·You must not make requests for and commit criminal offences, or contribute to them by using comuity-responders.co.uk services. You must not provide instructions for committing criminal offences.
·You must not disseminate, publish or communicate Content which is defamatory, libellous, obscene, racial, violent, discriminating, pornographic or threatening. You must treat other persons and their cultural, religious and philosophical concerns with respect.
·Community-responders.co.uk services must not be used for any form of commercial advertisement (including commercial links and telephone numbers).
·You are requested to make backup copies of your Content.
·You must not hack and disseminate viruses. You must not use scripts to manipulate any service. You must not send spam emails.
·You may not use the free services of Community-responders.co.uk for initiating or entering into legal transactions in a commercial or professional capacity.
Warranty Exclusions / Limitation of Liability
The Community-responders.co.uk services are provided by Community-responders.co.uk without any warranties or guarantees. You must bear the risks associated with the use of the internet.
The Community-responders.co.uk services include content from other internet sites or resources and while Community-responders.co.uk tries to ensure that material included as part of the Community-responders.co.uk services is correct, reputable and of high quality, it cannot accept responsibility if this is not the case. Community-responders.co.uk will not be responsible for any errors or omissions or for the results obtained from the use of such information or for any technical problems you may experience with the Community-responders.co.uk services.
In particular, Community-responders.co.uk disclaims all liabilities in connection with the following:
·incompatibility of the Community-responders.co.uk services with any of your equipment, software or telecommunications links
·technical problems including errors or interruptions of the Community-responders.co.uk services
·unsuitability, unreliability or inaccuracy of the Community-responders.co.uk services
·inadequacy of the Community-responders.co.uk services to meet your requirements
To the full extent allowed by applicable law, you agree that Community-responders.co.uk will not be liable to you or any third party for any consequential or incidental damages (including but not limited to loss of revenue, loss of profits, loss of anticipated savings, wasted expenditure, loss of privacy and loss of data) or any other indirect, special or punitive damages whatsoever that arise out of or are related to the Community-responders.co.uk services.
Nothing in these general terms and conditions of business shall exclude Community-responders.co.uk’ liability for personal injury or death caused by its negligence.

Change of Service or Provider
For free services, Community-responders.co.uk can determine at its discretion which services are to be provided and to what extent. Limitations, extensions and other modifications of these services by Community-responders.co.uk are permissible at any time and they will be subject to the applicable conditions for subscribers.

Community-responders.co.uk reserves the right to assign the rights and obligations pursuant to this contract to a third party.
Change of Terms and Conditions
Community-responders.co.uk reserves the right to modify these general terms and conditions of business. You are requested to regularly check for updates of these terms and conditions on Community-responders.co.uk´ web pages.
Any changes to these terms and conditions will be notified to you via the e-mail address provided by you on registration or via a suitable announcement on Community-responders.co.uk´ web pages. The changes will apply to the use of the Community-responders.co.uk services after Community-responders.co.uk has given notice. If you do not wish to accept the new terms and conditions you should not continue to use the Community-responders.co.uk services. If you continue to use the Community-responders.co.uk services after the date on which the change comes into effect, your use of the Community-responders.co.uk services indicates your agreement to be bound by the new terms and conditions.

Other information we may collect
You may have heard of "cookies," which are files or pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. Community-responders.co.uk and South Central Ambulance Service Trust may use cookies to collect information about you and to identify you during your visit to our web site, such as the particular site areas you visit and the services you utilize through our web site. We collect this information to better tailor our site to your interests and needs. Cookies may also be used to help speed up your future activities at our site. For example, a site can recognize that you have provided Personal Information to us and refrain from requesting the same information a second time. Most browsers are initially set to accept a cookie. If you'd prefer you could set yours to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Refusal of cookies at the site you enter may result in an inability to visit certain areas of the site or to receive personalized information when you visit the site. For further information on “cookies” please consult the Help section of your browser.

In addition we are constantly trying to improve how we promote our web site. To help us do this, we may measure the effectiveness of our web presence by determining when you clicked on to get to our site. Site measurement statistics may be used to personalise your web site experience, as well as to evaluate - anonymously and in the aggregate - statistics about usage of the web site. Information about your computer, such as your IP address (a number assigned to your computer whenever you surf the Internet), the type of Internet browser you are using and the type of operating system you are using may also be collected and linked to your Personal Information. This is to ensure that our web site presents the best web experience for visitors, and that they are effective information resources.

Some of the pages you visit may also collect information through the use of pixel tags (also called clear gifs) that may be shared with third parties, which directly support Community-responders.co.uk and South Central Ambulance Service Trust promotional activities and web site development. For example, web site usage information about visitors to our web sites may be shared with our third party advertising agency in order to better target Internet banner advertisements on Community-responders.co.uk and South Central Ambulance Service Trust web sites. The information collected through the use of these pixel tags is not, however, personally identifiable, although it could be linked to your Personal Information.

Finally, we may supplement the information that you provided, with other information we hold or that we receive from third parties. We do this for marketing purposes in order to provide more targeted products and service to meet your needs.

Security of information
We take reasonable precautions to keep your Personal Information secure. All personally identifiable information is subject to restricted access to prevent unauthorised access, modification or misuse.

Who to contact
You can request access to Personal Information held by us by writing to us at

Data Protection Officer
South Central Ambulance Service Trust
Highcroft
Romsey Road
Winchester
Hampshire
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Terms of Use for Users of, community-responders.co.uk

In addition, the following terms apply:
We may amend these terms of use from time to time, and the revised version will be effective when displayed here.

Although we have taken precautions, you should note that the internet is not a secure medium, and any information sent through community-responders.co.uk may be intercepted and may not arrive safely at its ultimate destination.
If accessing any part of community-responders.co.uk that requires you to enter a password you agree:

a.to ensure that any details which you supply to us to register for such access are accurate and to let us know promptly if any of the details which you have supplied to us about you change;

b.to keep any personal login name and any password provided by us to you confidential, and to be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from use of your password by any third party; and

c.that we reserve the right to terminate your access to community-responders.co.uk should we consider that your use of community-responders.co.uk is detrimental to Community-responders.co.uk and/or South Central Ambulance Service Trust or to other users.

d.We make all reasonable efforts to ensure that all information provided by us in connection with the Portal is accurate at the time of its inclusion; however, there may be errors, inaccuracies or omissions in respect of which we exclude all liability. We make no representations or warranties about the information included on our web pages (including links to third parties' web pages). You shall be solely responsible for any decisions based on the information contained on such web pages

e.Various elements of the content, products and services accessible via this website are not provided by us but instead by other companies. Community-responders.co.uk is unable to guarantee that such products and services or any websites accessible via the Portal are virus or error free. You should check all emails, attachments and files before downloading them.

f.It is a condition of us allowing you access to the information on the Portal that you accept we will not be liable for any action you take relying on the information on community-responders.co.uk. Community-responders.co.uk will not be liable if your use of materials or information from community-responders.co.uk results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment or data, you assume any costs relating to the above. Community-responders.co.uk reserves the right to charge for access to certain information on community-responders.co.uk. Community-responders.co.uk will inform you where a charge will be incurred by you

g.If any part of these terms is found to be illegal or unenforceable, this will not affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder of these terms.