About the terms
Access to and use of the family business place is provided subject to the following conditions:
1. By using the family business place you agree to be bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of www.thefamilybusinessplace.com. If you do not agree to be bound by all of the following terms please do not access, use and/or contribute to the family business place.
2. We may change these terms from time to time and so you should check these terms regularly. Your continued use of the family business place will be deemed acceptance of the updated or amended terms. If you do not agree to the changes, you should cease using this website.
3. You agree to use the family business place for legal purposes only and in a manner that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit the use or enjoyment of the site by anyone else. It is not permitted for users of the site to harass or cause distress of inconvenience to any person or to submit offensive content to the site.
Intellectual Property
4. The names, images and logos of the family business place, third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring any licence or right to use any trade mark, design right or copyright.
Contributions to the family business place
5. By sharing any contribution (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) with the family business place you agree to grant to the family business place, free of charge, permission to use the material in any way it wants (including modifying and adapting it for operational and editorial reasons) In certain circumstance the family business place may also share your contribution with trusted third parties.
6. Copyright in your contribution will remain with you and this permission is not exclusive, so you can continue to use the material in any way including allowing others to use it.
7. In order that the family business place can use your contribution, you confirm that your contribution is your own original work, is not defamatory and does not infringe any UK laws, that you have the right to give the family business place permission to use it for the purposes specified above, and that you have the consent of anyone who is identifiable in your contribution or the consent of their parent / guardian if they are under 16.
8. If you do not want to grant the family business place the permission set out above on these terms, please do not submit or share your contribution to or with the family business place.
9. If you have any questions about contributing content to the family business place, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Communities within the family business place
10. In order to participate in and contribute to selected family business place communities you may be required to register with the family business place. Any personal information supplied to the family business place as part of this registration process and/or any other interaction with the family business place will be collected, stored and used in accordance with the appropriate privacy policy
11. You agree to use the family business place communities (including message boards) in accordance with the following Community Rules.
(i) About your posts:
- Contributions must be civil and tasteful.
- No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour: contributions must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble.
- No unlawful or objectionable content: unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable.
- Be patient: users of all ages and abilities may be taking part
- No spamming or off-topic material: we don't allow the submission of the same or very similar contributions many times.
- No advertising or promoting.
- No spoilers: material which contains plot developments which haven't been
- Contributions containing languages other than English may be removed unless allowed in the relevant local house rules.
- No impersonation.
- No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names.
- URLs (web site addresses) can only be posted if allowed under any relevant local house rules.
- Deliberate misuse of the complaints facility is not permitted. If you persist in doing this, action may be taken against your account.
(ii) Your account:
The family business place reserves the right to close accounts if any user is seen to be abusing their access rights.
(iii) Legal requirements:
- You may not submit or share any defamatory or illegal material of any nature. This includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio.
- Contributing material to the family business place with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act is strictly prohibited.
- You agree to submit to or share with the family business place only contributions which are your own original work.
(iv) If you breach these Community Rules:
The family business place reserves the right to delete any contribution, or take action against any account, at any time, for any reason.
Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability
12. The majority of content posted in bbc.co.uk communities is created by members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of the family business place.
The family business place is not responsible for any content posted by members of the public or for the availability or content of any third party sites that are accessible through the family business place. Any links to third party websites from the family business place do not amount to any endorsement of that site and any use of that site by you is at your own risk.
13. The family business place does not warrant that functions available on the family business place will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to implement sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements for the accuracy of data input and output.
General
14. If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive and continue to be binding and enforceable.
15. These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales which shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes.
