Terms of Use for www.ethical-junction.org These Terms and Conditions shall apply to your use of the website located at www.ethical-junction.org and its related domains (Ethical Junction). We may change these Terms and Conditions from time to time and you should check them regularly. By using Ethical Junction You agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set out below. If You do not wish to be bound by these terms and conditions then You should not use Ethical Junction. Your use of Ethical Junction will be deemed an acceptance of the terms existing at that time. 1. Acceptable Use By using Ethical Junction You agree to remain in accordance with the following conditions: 1.1 You will always treat other users of Ethical Junction with respect and will not express opinions deemed sexist, racist, ill mannered or otherwise offensive. 1.2 You will refrain from posting or transmit on or through Ethical Junction any slandering, harmful, pornographic, obscene or otherwise illegal material or material which would violate or infringe in any way upon our rights or the rights of others. This includes any and all intellectual property rights and without limitation the rights of privacy and confidentiality. 1.3 You will not knowingly post or transmit any data, either though sending and or uploading material that contains viruses, spyware, adware or any other monitoring or harmful programs or similar computer code to adversely affect the operation of Ethical Junction or our Users computer software or hardware. 1.4 You agree that any copy that you post has the express permission of the owner of the material, including any copyright or trademarks. 1.5 You will not undertake any activity either on Ethical Junction or otherwise that affects the operation or security of our Service or our Members Service or inconvenience or cause offence to our Staff. 2. Third Party Websites 2.1 You acknowledge and agree that Ethical Junction is not responsible for the availability of any third party Websites or material You access through Ethical Junction. 2.2 Ethical Junction does not endorse and shall not be held responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products or services on or available from such Websites or material. 2.3 Any dealings between You and any third party advertisers or merchants found on or via Ethical Junction, including payment for and delivery of products, services and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are made between You and the relevant advertiser or merchant. Therefore, Ethical Junction is not responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as the result of any such dealings. 3. Liability and Indemnity 3.1 Ethical Junction is not responsible for and do not endorse material which is posted or transmitted by Users. We reserve the right to monitor the contributions made and may respond to or comment upon communications made by You and edit, refuse to post, or remove any content from the bulletin boards and chat forums in our absolute discretion. No failure to remove particular material constitutes an endorsement or acceptance of it by Ethical Junction. 3.2 Ethical Junction will not be held responsible or liable for the content, accuracy, timing or reliability of any information or statements contained within Ethical Junction or for statements, advice and/or opinions made or given by Users. If You have any claim arising from the actions or statements of another User, You agree to pursue such a claim only against that User and not from Ethical Junction. 3.3 Ethical Junction shall not be liable for any loss suffered or be deemed to be in default for any delays or failures in performance hereunder resulting from acts or causes beyond its reasonable control or from any acts of God, acts or regulations of any governmental or supra-national authority. 3.4 Ethical Junction will not be responsible or liable for any other loss or damage that You or any third party may suffer as a result of using or in connection with your use of Ethical Junction. 3.5 You expressly agree that use of Ethical Junction is at your sole risk. 3.6 Ethical Junction makes no warranty that it will meet your requirements, or that Ethical Junction will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error free; nor do we make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from the use of Ethical Junction or as to the accuracy or reliability of any information obtained through Ethical Junction or that defects in the software will be corrected. 3.7 You understand and agree that any material and/or data downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of Ethical Junction is done at your own discretion and risk and that you will be solely responsible for and damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the download of such material. 3.8 No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by You from Ethical Junction or through the use of Ethical Junction shall create any warranty not expressly made herein. 3.9 Ethical Junction is not responsible for and material and/or information provided by Users and or any third party who uses Ethical Junction. 3.10. Ethical Junction shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, resulting from the use or the inability to use Ethical Junction or for cost of procurement of substitute goods and services or resulting from any goods or services purchased or obtained or messages received or transactions entered into through the service or resulting from unauthorised access to or alternation of your transmissions or data, including but not limited to, damages for loss or profits, revenue, use, data, goodwill or other intangible, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. 4. Privacy Ethical Junction is registered with the Data Protection Registrar. Ethical Junction respects your rights to privacy and to choose what information You would like to receive or to choose not to receive any at all. The nature of the service provided by Ethical Junction means that we may obtain, certain information about You. Ethical Junction will use the data you supply to communicate with You and improve the service. We will not sell or make available in any way your personal information except where You have consented. By using Ethical Junction You agree to this use: 4.1 When you register and use Ethical Junction You to provide certain Data, such as your contact details and demographic information. We will store this Data and use it to contact You, provide You with details of services and otherwise for the normal use and improvement of Ethical Junction, unless You have expressly asked us not to do so. 4.2 Ethical Junction will offer You a number of options to receive general and specific information and will ask for Your permission to send information on Your chosen options. 4.3 Ethical Junction may use the Data You provide us with in response to surveys and to aggregate User profiles. 4.4 Ethical Junction may gather certain information about You as a User to enable the continued monitoring and future development of Ethical Junction, including details of your operating system, browser version, domain name and IP address, the details of the web site You came from. 4.5 Ethical Junction may use cookies to shortcut your access to the site and make your login easier. We will only store information such as your User ID and your session identifiers to enable us to identify whether you are registered on to the site. We will only read cookies from your cookie file placed there through your web browser's interaction with the site. 4.6 Ethical Junction will not pass Data to any third parties except in the following circumstances; a) When You have requested information to be sent by one of our partners. b) In the event of us outsourcing any marketing or technical operations such as mail-outs, and then Ethical Junction will only use reputable organisations who strictly abide by the relevant Data Protection legislation. c) In the event of Ethical Junction merging with another organisation and then only for the same purpose as originally specified unless Ethical Junction asks for permission to change this usage. d) To enable you to gain access to the restricted parts of certain Service Providers' Information. 4.7 Ethical Junction may link to other web sites and Ethical Junction is not responsible for their data policies or procedures or their content. Ethical Junction will however encourage Member organisations to adopt appropriate Data Protection policies. 4.8 Ethical Junction endeavours to take all reasonable steps to protect your personal Data including where appropriate, the use of encryption technology, but cannot guarantee the security of any Data You disclose online. You accept the inherent security implications of on-line data transfer over the Internet and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security unless we have been negligent or in wilful default. 4.9 You have the right to receive information about the personal information Ethical Junction maintains on You. 4.10 You agree that Ethical Junction may disclose to any person empowered to require such information by or under any legal enactment, any information they may request or require relating to You. 4.12 Ethical Junction allows the British Library Archive project to keep copies of the public website. 5. Termination 5.1 Ethical Junction reserves the right to suspend or terminate You use of Ethical Junction if You breach or if Ethical Junction has reasonable grounds to believe that You are likely to breach these terms and conditions or You otherwise engage in conduct which Ethical Junction determines in Our sole discretion to be unacceptable. 6. Definitions You: means you User: means the user of Ethical Junction Ethical Junction: means the domain and the organisation Ethical Junction CIC
