Terms and Conditions
Wednesday, August 20 2008, 7:48 AM
Please read the following Terms and conditions carefully before accessing www.wbazone.com, including any subsidiaries and affiliates, as a non-registered guest or registered member. If you do not agree to the following Terms and Conditions You SHOULD NOT continue to access this website and should navigate away immediately.
1. Introduction
The Website Owner, including subsidiaries and affiliates ("Website", "the website", "this website" or "Website Owner" or "we" or "us" or "our") provides the information contained on this website or any of the pages comprising the website ("website") to visitors ("visitors") (cumulatively referred to as "you" or "your" hereinafter) subject to the terms and conditions set out in these website Terms and Conditions, the Privacy Policy and any other relevant terms and conditions, policies and notices which may be applicable to a specific section or module of this website.
These Terms and Conditions apply to all those who access this website. If you access, or register with the Site, you will be deemed to have agreed to be legally bound by these Terms and Conditions.
2. Age Policy
The website may at times contain information, content, features, language, opinions, information, suggestions, pictures, products, services and references or other matters which are suitable only for persons over 18 years of age. Therefore elements of this website are deemed suitable only to those who are over 18 years of age or have the permission or supvervision of a legal guardian to use the website and any associated features.
By visiting, using or viewing the whole or any part of or having any involvement whatsoever with this website you are confirming that you are over 18 years of age or have explicit permission from a legal guardian to use this website.
By accessing this website, you warrant and represent to the Website Owner that you are legally entitled to do so.
3. Alteration
The Website Owner may at any time modify any relevant terms and conditions, policies or notices. You acknowledge that by visiting the website from time to time, you shall become bound to the current version of the relevant Terms and Conditions (the "current version") and, unless stated in the current version, all previous versions shall be superseded by the current version. You shall be responsible for reviewing the then current version each time you visit the website.
4. Information on the Website
Whilst every effort is made to update the information contained on this website, neither the Website Owner nor any third party or data or content provider make any representations or warranties, whether express, implied in law or residual, as to the sequence, accuracy, completeness or reliability of information, opinions, any financial information, research information, data and/or content contained on the website (including but not limited to any information which may be provided by any third party or data or content providers) ("information") and shall not be bound in any manner by any information contained on the website. The Website Owner reserves the right at any time to change or discontinue without notice, any aspect or feature of this website. No information shall be construed as advice and information is offered for information purposes only and is not intended for any trading purposes. You and your company rely on the information contained on this website at your own risk. If you find an error or omission on this site, please contact us.
5. Warranties
The Website Owner makes no warranties, representations, statements or guarantees (whether express, implied in law or residual) regarding the website, the information contained on the website, your or your company's personal information or material and information transmitted over our system.
6. Acceptable Use
The website endeavours to put in place all responsible measures to ensure all material hosted upon its servers does not breach UK Law. The site operates a strict disciplinary policy in conjunction with other measures and the use of moderation staff to ensure best practice and compliance.
The Website Owner is not responsible for any material submitted to the public areas by you (which include bulletin boards, hosted pages, chat rooms, or any other public area found on the website. Any material (whether submitted by you or any other user) is not endorsed, reviewed or approved by the Website Owner. The Website Owner reserves the right to remove any material submitted or posted by you in the public areas, without notice to you, if it becomes aware and determines, in its sole and absolute discretion that you are or there is the likelihood that you may or have attempted to, including but not limited to -
6.1 Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the rights of other users or any third parties;
6.2 Publish, post, distribute or disseminate any defamatory, obscene, indecent or unlawful material or information;
6.3 Violate any copyright, trademark, other applicable Great Britain or international laws or intellectual property rights of the Website Owner or any other third party;
6.4 Use foul, threatening or offensive language including, without limitation, racist, sexist, ageist, homophobic or sexually explicit language where inappropriate;
6.5 Distribute illegal, copyright infringing, indecent or offensive material or any messages or content that may incite disorder or encourage illegal activities or that causes or may cause harm;
6.6 Advertise or promote third party or your own products or services including by way of the distribution of 'spam' mail or otherwise;
6.7 Impersonate another person or user of the webSite;
6.8 Use the Site to conduct any fraudulent activity;
6.9 Access or attempt to access the accounts of other site Members or to penetrate or attempt to penetrate the website security measures;
You may not, without limitation, copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, record, transmit, commercially exploit, communicate to the public, or otherwise use the content included in or provided via the website except for your own personal, non-commercial use.
All information, 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 such content originated.
7. Website Disciplinary Code
Disciplinary action may be invoked as detailed in, but not limited by section six. The severity of any breach will determine the level of action taken by Moderators and/or Administrative staff. The Website team may take any or all of the following action at our discretion;
7.1 Issue members with written or visual warnings and may take such further action as we deem appropriate under this paragraph if such warnings are not heeded;
7.2 Suspend or terminate a Member's access to the members' areas of the website or a Member's Account without notice at any time;
7.3 Inform the appropriate authorities and provide them with information regarding any suspected illegal activity; or
7.4 Bring legal action against a Member or other user of the website in relation to any breach of these Terms of Use or any illegal or suspected illegal activity.
You acknowledge that we may be required by law or regulation to access, monitor, store or copy material sent by, or to, members without further notice to you.
The failure or delay of the website to exercise or enforce any right in these terms does not waive the website's right to enforce that right.
You reserve the right to contact the website and request removal of your account.
8. Forum Etiquette
In additions to section six the website requests members to follow specific articles in relation to providing content;
8.1 Any linked content, subject to appropriate standards under section 6.3, should be linked in a specific way to ensure continuity and conformity, namely;
Website link
Author
Linked Article
Your comments
8.2 All fair effort should be made to ensure any contributed material is well constructed and formatted;
8.3 Specific moderation and administrative actions and requests are not considered appropriate articles of discussion upon the website;
8.4 No attempt should be made to spoil threads or forums via the use of spamming or contribution of off-topic material;
9. Specific Use
You further agree not to use the website to send or post any message or material that is unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, indecent, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, sexually orientated, racially offensive, profane, pornographic or violates any applicable law and you hereby indemnify the Website Owner against any loss, liability, damage or expense of whatever nature which the Website owner or any third party may suffer which is caused by or attributable to, whether directly or indirectly, your use of the website to send or post any such message or material.
10. External Links
External and/or affiliate links or content may be provided for your convenience, but they are beyond the control of the Website Owner and no representation is made as to their content. Use or reliance on any external links and the content thereon provided is at your own risk. When visiting external links you must refer to that external websites terms and conditions of use. No direct hypertext links shall be created from any website controlled by you or otherwise to this website without the express prior written permission of the Website Owner. Please contact us if you would like to link to this website or would like to request a link to your website.
11. Disclaimer of Liability.
The Website Owner shall not be responsible for and disclaims all liability for any loss, liability, damage (whether direct, indirect or consequential), personal injury or expense of any nature whatsoever which may be suffered by you or any third party (including your company), as a result of or which may be attributable, directly or indirectly, to your access and use of the website, any information contained on the website, your or your company's personal information or material and information transmitted over our system(s). In particular, neither the Website Owner nor any third party or data or content provider shall be liable in any way to you or to any other person, firm or corporation whatsoever for any loss, liability, damage (whether direct or consequential), personal injury or expense of any nature whatsoever arising from any delays, inaccuracies, errors in, or omission of any information or the transmission thereof, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon or occasioned thereby or by reason of non-performance or interruption, or termination thereof.
Whilst We will use all reasonable endeavours to correct any errors or omissions as soon as practicable once they have been brought to Our attention, We do not warrant that the webSite will be available, uninterrupted and in a fully operating condition nor that the information on and provided via the Site will be free from errors or omissions.
Access to this Site and associated contents may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, necessary maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond our control.
To the extent permitted by law, the website excludes all representations and warranties (whether express or implied by law), including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. The website does not guarantee the timeliness, completeness or performance of the website or any of the content.
12. Applicable laws.
Any relevant terms and conditions, policies and notices shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England without giving effect to any principles of conflict of law. You hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the High Court of the United Kingdom in respect of any disputes arising in connection with the website, or any relevant terms and conditions, policies and notices or any matter related to or in connection therewith.
13. Security and Privacy
Your security and those of all Our Members and visitors is very important to us. Please read Our Privacy Policy for important information regarding the use of your personal data and your rights in relation to this.
14. Complaints, Resolution and Comments
If you have any questions, comments or concerns arising from the website, the Privacy Policy or any other relevant terms and conditions, policies and notices or the way in which we are handling your personal information please contact us. The website endeavours to put in place all responsible measures to ensure the full satisfaction of all parties in relations to the website. All efforts will be made to resolve any complaint or request which relates from the site in a lawful, professional and timely manner upon contact.
