General Terms & Conditions
These Terms and Conditions and Our Privacy Policy govern your use of Our website www.experiencemyculture.com (the “Website”) and your relationship with Experience Your Culture Limited (the “Company”, “we” or “us”). Please read them carefully as they affect your rights and liabilities under the law. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, please do not register for or use the Website. If you have any questions on the Terms and Conditions, please contact info@experiencemyculture.com.
1. Use of the Website
1.1. The Website is provided to you for your personal use subject to these Terms and Conditions. By using the Website you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.
2. Amendments
2.1. We may update these Terms and Conditions from time to time for legal or regulatory reasons or to allow the proper operation of the Website. Any changes will be notified to you via the e-mail address provided by you on registration or via a suitable announcement on the Website. The changes will apply to the use of the Website after we have given notice. If you do not wish to accept the new Terms and Conditions you should not continue to use the Website. If you continue to use the Website after the date on which the change comes into effect, your use of the Website indicates your agreement to be bound by the new Terms and Conditions.
3. Registration
3.1. To register on the Website you must be over eighteen years of age.
3.2. You must ensure that the details provided by you on registration or at any time are correct and complete.
3.3. You must inform us immediately of any changes to the information that you provided when registering by updating your personal details in order that we can communicate with you effectively.
3.4. You can control how we share your material through your privacy and application settings.
4. Password and security
4.1. When you register to use the Website you will be asked to create a password. In order to prevent fraud, you must keep this password confidential and must not disclose it or share it with anyone. If you know or suspect that someone else knows your password you should notify us by contacting password@experiencemyculture.com immediately.
4.2. If the Company has reason to believe that there is likely to be a breach of security or misuse of the Website, we may require you to change your password or we may suspend your account.
5. Intellectual property
5.1. The content of the Website is protected by copyright, trade marks, database right and other intellectual property rights. You may retrieve and display the content of the Website on a computer screen, store such content in electronic form on disk (but not any server or other storage device connected to a network) or print one copy of such content for your own personal, non-commercial use, provided you keep intact all and any copyright and proprietary notices. You may not otherwise reproduce, modify, copy or distribute or use for commercial purposes any of the materials or content on the Website without written permission from the Company.
5.2. You will not infringe the intellectual property rights of any other users of the Website.
6. Your use of the Website
You understand that all data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or other materials (‘content’), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which the content originated. This means that you, and not Us, are entirely responsible for all content that you upload, post or e-mail via our discussion forum and our Website. We do not control the content posted via any discussion forum and therefore do not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of the content.
6.2. Under no circumstances will We be liable in any way for any content, including (without limitation) any errors or omissions in any content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of Your use of any content. You agree that You must evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any content including any reliance on its accuracy, integrity, quality or completeness. You also understand that by using our discussion forum and our Website You may be exposed to content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable. We do not endorse any of the materials published by any others on the Website.
6.3. You may not use any discussion forum or part of the Website for any of the following purposes:
6.3.1. advertising or promoting any goods or services; or
6.3.2. revealing any confidential or sensitive information; or
6.3.3. impersonating any person or entity, falsely state or otherwise misrepresenting your affiliation with a person or entity or disguise the origin of any content; or
6.3.4. ‘stalk’ or otherwise harass another; or
6.3.5. collect, or store personal data about other users; or
6.3.6. interfering with any other person’s use or enjoyment of the Website; or
6.3.7. making, transmitting or storing electronic copies of materials protected by copyright without the permission of the owner; or
6.3.8. disrupting the normal flow of dialogue, causing a screen to ‘scroll’ faster than other users of the discussion forum are able to type, or otherwise acting in a manner that negatively affects other users’ ability to engage in real time exchanges; or
6.3.9. violate any applicable national or international laws or regulations; or
6.3.10. upload, post or e-mail any content which:
6.3.10.1. contains any unlawful, harassing, libellous, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, defamatory, libelous, hateful or otherwise racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable material or otherwise breaching any laws;
6.3.10.2. contains links to any unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory or indecent material or material which is deliberately intended to upset other users;
6.3.10.3. encourages conduct that constitutes a criminal offence, or otherwise breaches any applicable laws, regulations or code of practice;
6.3.10.4. harms minors in any way;
6.3.10.5. contains any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, ‘junk mail’, ‘spam’, ‘chain letters’, or any other form of solicitation;
6.3.10.6. contains computer viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software, hardware or telecommunications equipment;
6.3.10.7. you do not have permission to use (including material which may be protected by copyright, trade marks, database rights or any other form of intellectual property right);
6.3.11. encouraging any breaches of these Terms and Conditions.
6.4. We may ban, delete or prohibit any content in breach of clause 6 or which relates to those breaches or that we in our discretion judge to be harmful to individuals or Our rights or any of our partners. If you witness any such breaches in the discussion forum or anywhere on Our Website, please notify legal@experiencemyculture.com immediately.
6.5. Any breaches may lead to us reporting your activities to your internet service provider, your employer, relevant authorities, or to legal action being taken against you, or both.
7. Licence to Use Material
7.1. By submitting material to the Website you are granting the Company a perpetual royalty-free non-exclusive licence to reproduce, modify, translate, make available, distribute and allow others to use any material you submit in whole or in part or in any form.
8. Availability of the Website
8.1. Although we aim to offer you the best service possible, we make no promise that the services at the Website will meet your requirements. We cannot guarantee that the services will be fault-free. If a fault occurs with the Website you should report it to fault@experiencemyculture.com and we will attempt to correct the fault as soon as
we reasonably can.
8.2. Your access to the Website may be occasionally restricted to allow for repairs, maintenance or the introduction of new facilities or services. We will attempt to restore the service as soon as we reasonably can.
9. Restricted Material
9.1. You will indemnify us and hold us harmless from and against any direct or indirect loss or damage (including consequential loss and loss of profits, goodwill or business opportunities arising from any third party claim in relation to any content you upload, post or e-mail on and/or though our discussion forum or our Website, your use of the discussion forum and our Website and/or your breach of the provisions of this clause 6.
10. The Company’s right to suspend or cancel your registration
10.1. We may suspend or cancel your registration immediately at our absolute discretion or if you breach any of your obligations under these Terms and Conditions.
10.2. You can cancel your registration at any time by informing us in writing at cancel@experiencemyculture.com. If you do so, you must stop using the Website.
10.3. The suspension or cancellation of your registration and your right to use the Website shall not affect either party’s statutory rights or liabilities.
10.4. We may at any time move, modify or remove any content or take further legal action as a result of breaches or suspected breaches of these Terms and Conditions, our Privacy Policy, any applicable laws or regulations or where our rights or third party rights are threatened or infringed.
11. The Company’s liability
11.1. The Website provides content from other Internet sites or resources and while the Company tries to ensure that material included on the Website is correct, reputable and of high quaity, it does not make any warranties or guarantees in relation to that content.
11.2. If we are in breach of these Terms and Conditions, we will only be responsible for any losses that you suffer as a result to the extent that they are a foreseeable consequence to both of us at the time you use the Website. Our liability shall not in any event include business losses such as lost data, lost profits or business interruption.
11.3. This clause 11 shall not limit or affect our liability resulting from any products sold through the Website being found to be unsafe or if something we do negligently causes death or personal injury.
12. Third Party Websites
12.1. As a convenience to customers, the Website includes links to other web sites or material which are beyond its control. The Company is not responsible for content on any site outside the Website.
13. Advertising and Sponsorship
13.1. Part of the Website may contain advertising and sponsorship. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on the Website complies with relevant laws and codes. We will not be responsible to you for any error or inaccuracy in advertising and sponsorship material.
14. Applicable Law
14.1. These Terms and Conditions will be subject to the laws of England. We will try to solve any disagreements quickly and efficiently. If you are not happy with the way we deal with any disagreement and you want to take court proceedings, you must do so within the United Kingdom.
15. International Use
15.1. We make no promise that materials on the Website are appropriate or available for use in locations outside the United Kingdom, and accessing the Website from territories where its contents are illegal or unlawful is prohibited. If you choose to access this Website from locations outside the United Kingdom, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.
16. Miscellaneous
16.1. These Terms and Conditions and Our Privacy Policy make up the entire agreement and understanding between the parties regarding the use of the Website and supersedes any previous agreement between the parties.
16.2. If any term or provision in these Terms and Conditions shall in whole or in part be held to any extent to be illegal or unenforceable under any enactment or rule of law that term or provision or part shall to that extent be deemed not to form of this agreement and the enforceability of the remainder of these Terms and Conditions shall not be affected.
16.3. This agreement does not create any right enforceable by any person who is not a party to it under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) act 1999.
16.4. You may not transfer any of your rights under these Terms and Conditions to any other person. We may transfer our rights under these Terms and Conditions to another business where we reasonably believe your rights will not be affected.
16.5. If you breach these Terms and Conditions and the Company chooses to ignore this, the Company will still be entitled to use its rights and remedies at a later date or in any other situation where you breach the Terms and Conditions.
16.6. The Company shall not be responsible for any breach of these Terms and Conditions caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control.
16.7. The Website is owned and operated by Experience My Culture Limited whose registered office is at 8-10 Bolton Street, Ramsbottom, Bury, BL0 9HX.
16.8. If you have any queries please contact info@experiencemyculture.com.
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