terms & conditions

The purpose of this agreement is to set out the terms and conditions on which we, Spectrum, 6 Bartholomews, Brighton , BN1 1HG, offer you access to our website (herein called our "Community").  Please make sure you take the time to read and understand these terms and conditions.  These terms and conditions set out your responsibilities to us, and our responsibilities to you in relation to your use of this website.

You may have to agree to additional conditions that may apply to access to some parts of our Community. These areas are clearly marked and by entering these parts of our Community, you agree to these additional conditions.

Privacy and Confidentiality
Spectrum will not share confidential/private information submitted via email or through the forms on our site. Spectrum is a signatory of the Data Protection Act 1998, which safeguards the confidentiality of any such information you provide.
Registration
You may also be required to register with us in order to be able to access certain parts of our Community. If you are required to register, you must:
(a) Provide us with accurate and complete registration information; and
(b) Safeguard any user name and password, which we give you.

For as long as you continue to use our Community, you must ensure that your registration
information remains current and update it as appropriate.

You authorise us to assume that any person accessing our Community is either you or
someone you have authorised to act for you.

If you provide information that is untrue, incomplete, inaccurate or incomplete, we
may suspend or terminate your access to our Community.
Copyright
Content that is posted to our Community or privately transmitted via our Community pages, is the sole responsibility of the person from whom that content originated.  This means that you are responsible for all content that you upload, post or otherwise transmit through our Community pages.  We do not monitor or control any content posted to or transmitted via our Community pages and therefore do not make any endorsement of or representations as to the legality, accuracy or quality of the content available at our Community pages.

When you post material to our Community, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to use, copy, reproduce, sub-licence, re-distribute, adapt, publish, transmit, communicate, broadcast, incorporate in other works, electronic or not, publicly perform and/or display such content in whole or in part.  You also warrant that the posting of Intellectual Property that material will not infringe the rights of any third party, and you indemnify Spectrum against any such claims made against Spectrum based on any such material you have posted.  You also waive in favour of us and any other party authorised by us all moral rights and any similar rights that you may have or acquire.  You agree to execute and deliver to us any documents necessary to give effect to this provision.

Copyright and, possibly, other intellectual property laws govern information, products and services available at our Community.  We own or are authorised to use all information, products and services made available at our Community.

When you access and use our Site, you agree that you do so on the following conditions:

You may retrieve, review or download a single copy of the material at our Site for your
personal information and entertainment only; You may save one local copy of or print one copy of material from it for your own personal information or entertainment and/or to inform others about it, but you may not charge any fee for any such use and all commercial exploitation of any material on our Site is expressly prohibited; Any copyright notice or mark appearing on any material which you copy or print from our Site must be included on any copy you make or download; You must keep all material you copy or print from our Site intact and in the same form as presented on our Site; and You may not modify any material taken from our Site without our express permission. You must not use our Community or any of the material contained at it for any purpose which is unlawful, prohibited under these terms, or which violates any of our right or the rights any other owner of any rights in the material contained in our Community.

Many of the logos, symbols and names that appear at our Community are registered trademarks or recognised business names or service marks.  None of these marks, which we either own or are authorised to use, may be used by you without our prior express and written permission.

If you have any enquiries about using any of the marks or the material that appears at our Community, please
contact webmaster@spectrum-lgbt.org

Advertisements
We may run advertisements and promotions through all parts of our Community.  Your correspondence and dealings with advertisers or participation in promotions are solely between yourself and the advertiser or promoter.  We are not liable for any loss or damage incurred as a result of such dealings or the presence of advertisements.  An advertisement on Spectrum's website is not an endorsement of a product or service offered by the advertiser.  However, if you feel you have been mistreated or misled by one of our advertisers, or you disagree about a review we have written about a company, product or service, we would like to hear from you.  Please contact webmaster@spectrum-lgbt.org
 
Suspending or Terminating your access to the Community
You may cancel your use of our Community at any time by sending an email to webmaster@spectrum-lgbt.org  We may suspend or cancel your registration if you do not visit our Community for an extended period of time or if we believe that you have violated the spirit or letter any of these Terms of Use or any applicable law,
regulation or industry code of practice. If your registration is suspended or cancelled, you will no longer be able to access any content that you have posted to our Community and we may delete such content.
Links to other sites
Parts of our Site contain hyperlinks to websites that are operated by third parties. We are not responsible for the content of any of these linked website or any hyperlink contained in the linked website. The inclusion of a link to another website does not imply our endorsement of the linked website nor of the content available at the linked website.  By including the link at our Site we are not making any representation in relation to the linked website or its content. You activate a link at our Site to any other website entirely at your own risk.

Indemnities
You agree that you are entirely responsible for all content that you make available on the Community areas.  Spectrum does not screen the content posted to the Community areas.  We make no warranties in respect of nor do we guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such content.  You understand that by using the Community areas, you may be exposed to content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable.

Opinions and views may be those of individuals submitting material to our online community.  Spectrum does not necessarily agree with all the opinions and views expressed on this site. Accordingly you expressly understand and agree that your use of the Community areas is at your sole risk and that these
areas are provided by Spectrum on an "as is" and "as available" basis.

Any content of the Community areas downloaded or otherwise obtained by you is done at your own discretion and risk and you agree that you will be solely responsible for the effects of any such content whether technical or otherwise.  Unless otherwise provided for in the Terms and Conditions of Use, you expressly understand and agree that Spectrum is not to be liable to you whatsoever for any loss or damage of whatever nature suffered by you in connection with your use of the Community areas.

You agree to indemnify and hold Spectrum and any related or connected entity or individual, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable legal costs and expenses, made by any third party due to or arising out of your posted content, your use of the Community areas, your breach of this agreement or infringement of any rights of another Community user.

Jurisdiction
British law will govern this agreement between you and us.  If any provision of this agreement is found to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of law, it will be severed and will not affect the remainder of the agreement that will continue in full force and effect.  All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
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