Terms, Conditions & Disclaimer Regarding Acceptance Of User Content

Submission of User Content

In addition to the general terms, conditions and disclaimer which all users (including those submitting user content) are subject to, user submitting content for the purpose of publication undertake to be bound by the following additional terms, conditions and disclaimer, and they are deemed to have accepted these terms, conditions and disclaimers in the submission of their content.

Submission Standards

'The site' is under no obligation to accept any content from its users and publishes solely at its discretion. Where 'the site' decides to publish content which a user has forwarded for the purpose of publication, it does so on the understanding that the user submitting the content has read and accepts the terms and conditions governing submission. The forwarding of such content is taken as full acceptance of these terms, conditions and disclaimers and is taken as acknowledgment that the user accepts full liability for the content of their submission. Submission Standards include: (i) ensuring that your content does not breach advertising legislation or seek to advertise products banned from advertising or promotion (ii) that the user content complies with any previous ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority (iii) that the user content is suitable for family viewing (iv) that the user content does not seek to use offensive language or seek to express offensive material in the form of innuendo (v) that no user content contains sexual material or reference such material (vi) that the user content does not make false or misleading statements, editorial or comment (vii) that all claims contained within the user content can be substantiated to the satisfaction of 'the site' before publication (viii) that the user content contains no reference to competitions, lotteries, raffles, premium phone lines or any get rich schemes (including pyramid schemes) (ix) that the user content does not seek to represent their enterprise, trade or business as part of 'the site' (x) that the user content provides valid contact details and complies with legal requirements such as displaying your company's legal status (i.e. limited company status and company number).  

Users submitting content for the purpose of publication, including advertising content should ensure that it does not contain content of a defamatory, libelous, inaccurate, misleading, fraudulent, dishonest or obscene nature. Any user submitting such content may be prosecuted by the party damaged by their statement and by ‘the site’ for damages and costs. Users should ensure the integrity of their submission as all liability for user content rests with the user. Failure to do so may result in the user being pursued through civil or criminal court.

Period of Publication

User content is accepted or rejected solely at 'the sites' discretion. Where an article is published it is done so on the understanding that the user accepts that it is for 'the site' to determine how long the article should run, its positioning within 'the site' and on the understanding that the content may remain on 'the site' indefinitely.

Suspension of Service

User generated content provided to 'the site' for publication is deemed to be a privilege and not a contractual obligation. 'The site' reserves the right to withdraw this facility without notice and reserves the right to withdraw a users submission without notice or without providing reasons to the said user. Where the user is deemed to hold an undeclared conflict of interest, their content will also be withdrawn without notice and without reasons being provided to the said user. Users can however provide articles for consideration within their sphere of knowledge, for example an estate agent can submit an article on issues pertaining to estate agency and the market in which they operate, so long as they declare in the article their professional status. Such an inclusion is in the users best interests and where published provides the user with a form of free publicity. 

User Generated Content

In forwarding or submitting content to 'the site' for publication you automatically grant 'the site' the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, edit, adapt, publish, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display all such material (in whole or part) on the worldwide web and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology as decided by 'the site'. You acknowledge that 'the site' is not obliged to publish any material submitted by you, however by submitting any content to 'this site' including advertising you automatically agree to be bound by the sites terms, conditions and disclaimers

In submitting user content to 'the site' you: (i) warrant that your content is your own original work (ii) that you have the full rights to make it available to 'the site' (iii) you indemnify 'the site' against all damages, legal fees and others expenses that may be incurred by 'the site' as a result of any breach of warranty, legislation, terms, conditions or disclaimers.

Copyright

Private users and business users submitting 'user content' must accept full responsibility and liability for the material they submit for publication, in particular for ensuring that they do not infringe copyright, intellectual property rights or trademarks. In addition, such users accept through the submission of their content to be bound by the copyright statement listed within the general terms, conditions and disclaimer of this site.

Disclaimer

'The site' has the absolute right to reject any request to list user content without providing reasons to the user and extends that right to remove any content it has already published without providing any reason. The user accepts that 'the site' has no obligation to publish any user generated content  'The site' disclaims any liability for an loss, perceived or otherwise the user might suffer and the user must accept this disclaimer before attempting to furnish user generated content to 'the site'.

'This site' acts in good faith in publishing user generated content, as such disclaims all liability and responsibility for the conduct of others using 'the site'. Users whose conduct falls short of reasonable will be banned from using 'the site', where such behaviour is considered criminal, details may be passed to the police to pursue criminal charges. 'This site' reserves the right to pursue such users for damages, compensation and costs. 'This site' is not responsible for any item of content provided by its users. 

Making A Complaint

'The site' endeavours to maintain a healthy business relationship with all users including those using our 'free' services. Unfortunately on occasion, a dispute can arise, in such circumstances 'the site' will seek to meet your concerns in an informal way, however, if such an approach fails we would invite you to forward to us, your complaint using our formal complaints procedure.

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