Terms of UseWednesday, 08 July 2009 23:00 |
Terms & Conditions related to your use of suignite.org.uk
1. Description of Service
suignite.org.uk is run by Scripture Union Scotland. Scripture Union Scotland is registered in Scotland as a charity (no SC035168) and as a company limited by guarantee (no. SC54297).
suignite.org.uk is a social networking site for teenagers of secondary school age. Our aim is to provide a safe and secure environment where teenagers can socialise online. For this reason membership can only be gained through participation within event/s linked with the offline work of Scripture Union Scotland.
2. Acceptance of Terms
This agreement sets out the legally binding terms and conditions of your use of suignite.org.uk website and your membership to ignite. These terms and conditions are designed to protect ignite members and create a safe and fun environment at suignite.org.uk. By using suignite.org.uk you agree to adhere to these terms and conditions.
3. Your Account
3.1. Registration
Membership is only offered to secondary school aged teenagers who are linked with the services of Scripture Union Scotland. In order to verify your identity, online registration uses a unique Activation keycode that has been generated by Scripture Union Scotland. Scripture Union Scotland reserves the right (but not the obligation) to invite you to become a member of suignite.org.uk when you physically attend a Scripture Union Scotland event.
If you book and attend one of Scripture Union Scotland’s residential holidays or weekends away, an Activation keycode will be automatically generated for you. If you are attending one of SU Scotland’s non-residential events you will need to fill in an Identity Verification form. This can be obtained through an Event leader and must be signed by an authorised SU staff member or volunteer. You do not pay for this service. You are also under no obligation to use suignite.org.uk and its services.
To register visit www.suignite.org.uk/index.php/register and enter your unique Activation keycode along with the other requested information. If this code matches our records you will be invited to continue the registration process. Without a valid keycode you will not be allowed to register on ignite. Each key code is unique and can only be used once. This keycode expires one month after it has been communicated to you. If you do not want to be a member of ignite, either (a) inform support(at)suignite(dot)org(dot)uk; or (b) once you receive your automatically produced key code, shred it and allow it to expire.
If you do not want to be automatically offered membership of ignite and are attending a Scripture Union Scotland Holiday or Weekend Away, you may email support(at)suignite(dot)org(dot)uk and we will not produce an activation keycode for you.
Scripture Union Scotland pre-registers suignite.org.uk members by generating unique Activation keycodes to make certain that all users are who they say they are. Your name and date of birth will be read-only fields within your contact information. This is to prevent users altering their identity. If there is a mistake within these read-only fields please inform support-at-suignite-dot-org-uk.
Membership is personal to you. You must not allow any other person access to the site using your account or allow anyone else to register using your Activation keycode. This is necessary to preserve the safety and security of the site.
3.2. Login Details
You must take all necessary steps to make sure that your password remains confidential. Please take extra precautions when accessing your account through a shared computer and we advise against using a browser’s password manager to remember your login details. You agree to accept responsibility for any activities that occur under your account. You should inform us immediately if you suspect any unauthorised use of your account or access to your password.
3.3. Cancellation of Membership
Scripture Union Scotland reserves the right to terminate your membership, remove or edit content associated to your account, or restrict your access to parts of the site at our discretion and without notice. You may cancel your membership at any time for any reason by sending an email to support(at)suignite(dot)org(dot)uk. Should your account be terminated, you will not be given back any content you uploaded to ignite, nor will you be given access to those materials.
3.4. Membership End Date
You agree that your membership will end on the first 28th February after your 18th birthday, or the first 31st December after you have left your sixth year at school (physically or theoretically), whichever comes sooner.
This end date can be obtained by emailing support(at)suignite(dot)org(dot)uk.
3.5. Your Contact Information
You agree to keep your contact information up to date on the site at all times, including a valid email address. By using the site you are confirming that you are eligible to use it and that all your contact information is up to date and accurate.
4. Adult Membership
Adult membership is restricted on suignite.org.uk to registered SU Scotland staff and volunteers. All adult users are subject to two character references and enhanced CRBS Disclosure Scotland checks. Adult Members are also required to fill in a Volunteer Update form and supply a reference once a year in order to stay a member of ignite. Adult members are also given a unique Activation keycode by which to register online. This code is not automatically generated and must be requested by emailing volunteers(at)suscotland(dot)org(dot)uk.
Adult members will be clearly identifiable on suignite.org.uk.
5. Privacy
Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs your use of www.suignite.org.uk.
6. Access to suignite.org.uk
We will do our utmost to ensure that availability of suignite.org.uk will be uninterrupted. However, due to the nature of the internet, this cannot be guaranteed. Also, your access to the website may also be occasionally suspended or restricted to allow for repairs, maintenance, or the introduction of new facilities or services. We will attempt to limit the frequency and duration of any such suspension or restriction.
7. Your Conduct
You must not use suignite.org.uk in any way that causes, or is likely to cause, the website or access to it to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way.
You understand that you, and not Scripture Union Scotland, are responsible for all electronic communications and content sent from your computer to us and you must use the website for lawful purposes only.
You must not use the website for any of the following (“the Prohibited Uses”):
· for fraudulent purposes, or in connection with a criminal offence or other unlawful activity;
· to send, use or reuse any material that is illegal, offensive, abusive, indecent, defamatory, obscene or menacing; or in breach of copyright, trademark, confidence, privacy or any other right; or is otherwise injurious to third parties; or objectionable; or which consists of or contains software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any “spam”
· to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
· to solicit personal information from any member
· to disclose personal information relating to any other person.
· to impersonate any person or body or falsely misrepresent yourself.
· to harvest or collect email addresses or other contact information of other users from the Service or the Site by electronic or other means for the purposes of sending unsolicited emails or other unsolicited communications
· to use the Site in any unlawful manner or in any other manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the Site;
· to upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available any videos other than those of a personal nature that: (i) are of you or your friends, (ii) are taken by you or your friends, or (iii) are original art or animation created by you or your friends;
· to spread viruses or other computer programs codes or files which are designed to interrupt , destroy or impair the functionality of any computer equipment.
8. Communications, comments, reviews and other posted content
Members of ignite may post comments, reviews and other content and send communications, as long as the content does not fall within the Prohibited Uses. Scripture Union Scotland reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit any content.
If you do post content or submit material (text, files, images, photos, video, audio, musical works, works of authorship, or any other materials - collectively, “ User Content”) and unless we indicate otherwise, you:
(a) retain ownership of the User Content you create, upload, transmit or make available in any way on ignite. After posting your User Content to ignite, you continue to have the right to use your User Content in any way you choose; and
(b) grant Scripture Union Scotland a non-exclusive, fully-paid, royalty-free worldwide license to copy, use, translate, modify, adapt, store, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, distribute and transmit such User Content through Scripture Union Scotland services. If you remove your User Content from ignite, this license will be terminated in respect of any further use of the material but shall not require recall or removal of any such User Content already distributed or transmitted. The license does not grant Scripture Union Scotland the right to sell your User Content.
You may only post User Content that you have personally created or have permission to post.
You may download content from suignite.org.uk for private use only but you may not modify or alter it. You may not use, copy, transmit, publish, distribute, modify, broadcast, or sell any content published on ignite that was not created by you.
You may not use, copy, transmit, publish, distribute, modify, broadcast, or sell any information related to the identity of members on ignite.
You acknowledge that ignite does not pre-screen the majority of content but that Scripture Union Scotland and its designees have the right (but not the obligation) to remove or refuse to remove any User Content on ignite. Scripture Union Scotland also has the right to remove any content that violates these terms.
9. Defamation Claims
Because of the nature and potential volume of user-generated content on suignite.org.uk, Scripture Union Scotland operates a reactive moderation policy. If you believe that any content on suignite.org.uk contains defamatory text, images or video, please notify us immediately using the ‘Report to Moderator’ links you will find where ever there is user-generated content. Once you have clicked on this link, instructions will appear along with a feedback form. Once this procedure has been followed, Scripture Union Scotland are under no obligation to remove this content, but will make all reasonable endeavours to investigate the defamatory content complained about within a reasonable time and remove it at their own discretion.
10. Scripture Union Scotland Intellectual Property
The content, arrangement and layout of suignite.org.uk, including, but not limited to, service marks, package designs, text, art work, graphics, images, buttons, screen shots, music, digitally downloadable files, other content, and the compilation of the foregoing excluding only the User Content, are the property of Scripture Union Scotland or used by them under licence and are protected from copying, imitation, communication, or simulation under domestic and international laws and are not to be reproduced, communicated, displayed, distributed, or transmitted without the express written permission of Scripture Union Scotland or the owner.
11. Copyright Claims
Scripture Union Scotland respects the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please contact us at support(at)suignite(dot)org(dot)uk.
12. Electronic Communication
We will communicate with you by email or through private messaging on ignite or by posting notices on the website. For contractual purposes, you consent to receive communications from us electronically and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. This condition does not affect your statutory rights.
13. Alteration of Service or Amendments to the Terms & Conditions
Scripture Union Scotland reserves the right to modify these terms and conditions at any time, without notice. The most recent terms and conditions can be located within the footer menu of suignite.org.uk under the heading ‘Terms of Use.’ You should revisit this page occasionally to review the terms and conditions.
14. Disclaimers and limitation of liability
Scripture Union Scotland is not responsible for any User Content or any third Party Applications or Software posted on the site. Scripture Union Scotland is not responsible for any technical malfunction of the site or for any occasions when the service may not be available for any reason whatsoever.
The liability of Scripture Union Scotland in respect of any claim arising out of this agreement or the use of the site shall be limited to a maximum of Five hundred pounds sterling.
15 Governing Law
This agreement and the use of the site is subject to and interpreted in accordance with the Laws of Scotland and in the event of any dispute the matter shall be determined by the Scottish courts.
July 2009