Terms and Conditions
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE. BY
USING THIS SITE, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT
AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE, PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS SITE.
1. General
This site is operated by LONDON SOCIETY OF RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION
REFEREES (referred to as "LONDONRUGBY.COM").
LONDONRUGBY.COM has the right at any time to change or discontinue
any aspect or feature of the site, including, without limitation,
the content, hours of availability, and equipment needed for access
or use of the site.
2. Restrictions on Use
2.1 You shall use the site for lawful purposes only. You shall not
post or transmit through the site any material which violates or
infringes in any way upon the rights of others, which is unlawful,
threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity
rights, vulgar, obscene, profane or otherwise objectionable, which
encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, gives
rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law. Without the
express prior approval of LONDONRUGBY.COM, you shall not post or
transmit through the site any material which contains advertising
or any solicitation with respect to products or services. You shall
not use the site to advertise or perform any commercial
solicitation, including, without limitation, the solicitation of
users to become subscribers of other on-line information services
competitive with the site. Any conduct by you that in the
discretion of LONDONRUGBY.COM, restricts or inhibits any other user
from using or enjoying the site will not be permitted.
2.2 The site contains copyrighted material, trademarks and other
proprietary information, including, without limitation, text,
software, photos, video, graphics, music and sound, and the
contents of the site are copyrighted under the United Kingdom
copyright laws. You may not modify, publish, transmit, display,
participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in
any way exploit, any of the content, in whole or in part. You may
download one copy of any copyrighted material for your personal,
non-commercial home use only. Except as otherwise expressly
permitted under copyright law, no copying, redistribution,
retransmission, publication or commercial exploitation of
downloaded material will be permitted without the express written
permission of LONDONRUGBY.COM and the copyright owner. In the event
of any permitted copying, redistribution or publication of
copyrighted material, no changes in or deletion of author
attribution, trademark legend or copyright notice shall be made.
You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by
downloading copyrighted material.
2.3 You shall not upload, post or otherwise make available on the
site any material protected by copyright, trademark or other
proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of
the copyright, trademark or other proprietary right and the burden
of determining that any material is not protected by copyright
rests with you. You shall be solely liable for any damage resulting
from any infringement of copyrights, proprietary rights, or any
other harm resulting from such a submission. By submitting material
to any public area of the site, you automatically grant, or warrant
that the owner of such material has expressly granted
LONDONRUGBY.COM the royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual,
irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce,
modify, adapt, publish, display, translate and distribute such
material (in whole or in part) and/or to incorporate it in other
works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter
developed. You also permit any other user of the site to access,
view, store or reproduce the material for that user's personal use.
You grant LONDONRUGBY.COM the right to edit, copy, display, publish
and distribute any material made available on the site by
you.
2.4 The foregoing provisions of Section 2 are for the benefit of
LONDONRUGBY.COM, its subsidiaries, affiliates and its third party
content providers and licensers and each shall have the right to
assert and enforce such provisions directly or on its own
behalf.
3. Disclaimer of Warranty and Limitation of
Liability
3.1 You expressly agree that use of the site is at your sole risk.
Neither LONDONRUGBY.COM, its affiliates nor any of their respective
members, employees, agents, third party content providers or
licensors warrant that the site will be uninterrupted or error
free; nor do they make any warranty as to the results that may be
obtained from use of the site, or as to the accuracy or reliability
of any information, service or merchandise provided through the
site.
3.2 The site is provided on an "as is" basis without warranties of
any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to,
warranties of title or implied warranties of merchantability or
fitness for a particular purpose, other than those warranties which
are implied by and incapable of exclusion, restriction or
modification under applicable law. Additionally, there are no
warranties as to the results obtained from the use of the
site.
3.3 This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages or injury
caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, inaccuracy,
interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission,
computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or
unauthorised access to, alteration of, or use of this site, whether
for breach of contract, tortuous behaviour (including strict
liability), negligence, or under any other cause of action. You
specifically acknowledge that LONDONRUGBY.COM is not liable for the
defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of other users or
third-parties and that the risk of injury from the foregoing rests
entirely with you.
3.4 In no event will LONDONRUGBY.COM, or any person or entity
involved in creating, producing or distributing the site or the
content included therein, be liable in contract, in tort (including
for its own negligence) or under any other legal theory (including
strict liability) for any damages, including, without limitation,
direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive, consequential or
similar damages, including, without limitation, lost profits or
revenues, loss of use or similar economic loss, arising out of the
use of or inability to use the site. You hereby acknowledge that
the provisions of this section shall apply to all use of and
content on the site. Applicable law may not allow the limitation or
exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so
the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. In no event
shall LONDONRUGBY.COM's total liability to you for all damages,
losses and causes of action whether in contract, tort (including
its own negligence) or under any other legal theory (including
strict liability) exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for
accessing this site.
4. Monitoring
LONDONRUGBY.COM shall have the right, but not the obligation, to
monitor the content of the site [including chat rooms and forums],
to determine compliance with these conditions of use and any
operating rules established by LONDONRUGBY.COM and to satisfy any
law, regulation or authorised government request. LONDONRUGBY.COM
shall have the right in its sole discretion to edit, refuse to post
or remove any material submitted to or posted on the site. Without
limiting the foregoing, LONDONRUGBY.COM shall have the right to
remove any material that LONDONRUGBY.COM, in its sole discretion,
finds to be in violation of the provisions hereof or otherwise
objectionable.
5. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless, LONDONRUGBY.COM
and its affiliates and their respective members, directors,
officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims,
actions, demands, damages, costs, liabilities, losses and expenses
(including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of your use of
the site.
6. User's Privacy and Data Protection
LONDONRUGBY.COM is committed to ensuring that any personal data
collected during your access to the site will be recorded
electronically and used only in accordance with the Data Protection
Act 1984 (or the Data Protection Act 1998 once in force).
7. Trademarks
LONDONRUGBY.COM logos are trademarks of LONDONRUGBY.COM. All rights
reserved. All other trademarks appearing on the site are the
property of their respective owners.
8. Third Party Content
LONDONRUGBY.COM is a distributor (and not a publisher) of content
supplied by third parties and users of the site. Accordingly,
LONDONRUGBY.COM has no more editorial control over such content
than does a public library, bookstore, or news-stand. Any opinions,
advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or
content expressed or made available by third parties, including
information providers and users, are those of the respective
author(s) or distributor(s) and not of LONDONRUGBY.COM. In many
instances, the content available through the site represents the
opinions and judgements of the respective information provider or
user. LONDONRUGBY.COM neither endorses nor is responsible for the
accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement made on
the site by anyone other than authorised LONDONRUGBY.COM members or
employee spokespersons while acting in their official
capacities.
9. Changed Terms
LONDONRUGBY.COM has the right at any time to change or modify the
terms and conditions applicable to use of the site, or any part
thereof, or to impose new conditions, including, without
limitation, adding fees and charges for use. Such changes,
modifications, additions or deletions shall be effective
immediately upon notice thereof, which may be given by any means
including, without limitation, posting on the site, or by
electronic or conventional mail, or by any other means. Any use of
the site by you after such notice shall be deemed to constitute
acceptance of such changes, modifications, additions or
deletions.
10. Miscellaneous
These terms of use constitute the entire agreement of the parties
with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all
previous written or oral agreements between the parties with
respect to such subject matter. These Terms are governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and you
hereby submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English
courts. No waiver by either party of any breach or default
hereunder shall be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or
subsequent breach or default. The section headings used herein are
for convenience only and shall not be given any legal import.
Privacy Statement
This privacy policy is applicable to any personal information,
which is given by you to LONDONRUGBY.COM ("User Information") via
the web site located at www.LONDONRUGBY.COM ("London Society of
Rugby Football Union Referees site").
"You" shall mean you, the user of the site, "LONDONRUGBY.COM" shall
mean the LONDONRUGBY.COM website and its associated members and
companies.
When using the London Society of Rugby Football Union Referees site
you will encounter areas of the site where you may be asked to
enter User Information. Such User Information will only be used in
accordance with this Privacy Policy.
LONDONRUGBY.COM shall not sell or otherwise transfer the User
Information to unaffiliated third parties without the approval of
You. If applicable, You will have the opportunity to indicate
whether You would like to "opt out" of receiving promotional and/or
marketing information about other products, services and offerings
from LONDONRUGBY.COM and/or any third parties.
LONDONRUGBY.COM reserves the right to perform statistical analyses
of user behaviour and characteristics in order to measure interest
in and use of the various areas of the site and to inform
advertisers of such information as well as the number of users that
have been exposed to or clicked on their advertising banners.
LONDONRUGBY.COM will provide only aggregated data from these
analyses to third parties.
LONDONRUGBY.COM is not responsible for any actions or policies of
any third parties that request personal information and users
should check the applicable privacy policy of such party.
You should be aware that information and data may be automatically
collected through the use of "cookies". "Cookies" are small text
files a web site can use to recognize repeat users and allow
LONDONRUGBY.COM to observe behaviour and compile aggregate data in
order to improve the London Society of Rugby Football Union
Referees site and to target its advertising. Cookies do not attach
to your system and damage your files. If You do not want
information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple
procedure in most browsers that allows You to deny or accept the
cookie feature.
You may notify LONDONRUGBY.COM of any updates, amendments and
corrections to previously collected User Information by email.
Further, upon your request, LONDONRUGBY.COM will use commercially
reasonable efforts to delete Your User Information from its
database; however, it may be impossible to delete a entry without
some residual information because of backups and records of
deletions.
LONDONRUGBY.COM reserves the right, at any time, to modify, alter,
or update this privacy policy and any changes shall be notified to
all users.