The term ‘allaboutorkney.com' or ‘us’ or ‘we’ refers to the owner of the website, Steven Heddle, Newington, Holm Road, Kirkwall.
Access to and use of 'www.allaboutorkney.com' ('the website') is provided on the following terms:
1. By using www.allaboutorkney.com you agree to be bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of www.allaboutorkney.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 website.
2. These terms may change from time to time and so you should check these terms regularly. Your continued use of www.allaboutorkney.com will be deemed acceptance of the updated or amended terms. If you do not agree to the changes, you should cease using the website. If there is any conflict between these terms and specific local terms appearing elsewhere on www.allaboutorkney.com (for example related to use of the Shopping pages) then the latter shall prevail.
Use of www.allaboutorkney.com
3. You agree to use www.allaboutorkney.com only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of the website. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within the website.
Intellectual Property
4. All copyright, trade marks, design rights, patents and other intellectual property rights (registered and unregistered) on and in www.allaboutorkney.com and all content originated specifically for www.allaboutorkney.com ('original content') shall remain vested in allaboutorkney.com and where applicable the author of the content. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use www.allaboutorkney.com original content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any www.allaboutorkney.com original content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of www.allaboutorkney.com original content requires the prior written permission of the copyright holder.
Contributions to www.allaboutorkney.com
5. By sharing any contribution (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) with allaboutorkney.com you agree to grant to allaboutorkney.com, free of charge, permission to use the material in any way it wants (including modifying and adapting it for operational and editorial reasons).
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 allaboutorkney.com 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 allaboutorkney.com permission to use it for the purposes specified above.
8. Please do not endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or break any laws when creating content you may share with allaboutorkney.com.
Registration as a Registered User
9. In order to participate in and contribute to selected features of the website you may be required to register as a Registered User. Any personal information supplied as part of this registration process and/or any other interaction with www.allaboutorkney will be collected, stored and used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. In particular, information supplied will not be shared with a third party.
10. All accounts must be registered with a valid personal email address that you access regularly so that moderation emails can be sent to you. Accounts registered with someone else's email address, or with temporary email addresses may be closed without notice. We may require users to re-validate their account if we believe they have been using an invalid email address.
11. Allaboutorkney.com reserves the right to close user accounts at any time without explanation.
Comments and other public postings
12. You agree to use www.allaboutorkney.com in accordance with the following rules.
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.
No spamming or off-topic material: we don't allow the submission of the same or very similar contributions many times. Please do not re-submit your contribution to more than one discussion, or contribute off-topic material in subject-specific areas.
No advertising or promoting.
No impersonation.
No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names.
Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability
13. No warranty is given as to the availability, accuracy and completeness of the information and material published on www.allaboutorkney.com and liability is expressly disclaimed for any damage or loss resulting from the use of, or reliance on, the information and material published on www.allaboutorkney.com.
14. We give no warranties of any kind concerning www.allaboutorkney.com or the material appearing on it. In particular, we do not warrant that www.allaboutorkney.com or any of its contents are virus-free. You must take your own precautions in this respect as we accept no responsibility for any infection by virus or other communication, or by anything which has destructive properties
15. The views expressed by third parties are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of allaboutorkney.com. Allaboutorkney.com is not responsible for any content posted by members of the public on the website or for the availability or content of any third party sites that are accessible through the website. Any links to third party websites from allaboutorkney.com do not amount to any endorsement of that site by allaboutorkney.com and any use of that site by you is at your own risk.
General
16. 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.
17. Third party content is used on the basis that the copyright of the owner of the material is not infringed, and that the owner consents to its use. If this is not the case for any content, we will remove it as soon as possible upon notification.
Privacy Policy
18. Allaboutorkney.com is committed to protecting users privacy. All user information held by allaboutorkney.com will only be used in accordance with applicable legislation, and will not be shared with third parties.
19. If you believe that the information the website holds is inaccurate, please contact us.
20. The website installs ‘cookies’ on registered users computers. A cookie is a small amount of data, including an anonymous unique identifier sent to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive to enable functions such as auto login, if your browser's preferences allow it. To protect your privacy your browser only permits www.allaboutorkney.com to access the cookie it has already sent you.
21. Allaboutorkney.com allows third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain information when you visit the website. These third-party companies may use cookies or web beacons to collect anonymous information during your visit to this website in order to help show advertisements which may be relevant to you. To learn more about this “behavioral advertising” practice or to opt-out of this use of your anonymous information please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org
