Please read these terms of service (referred to below as "terms" and "terms of service") carefully before using the 'From Feed the Birds to Do Not Feed the Animals' website (the "website") operated by the project team ("us", 'we", "our") and delivered by Heritage Technology.
1. The Website
animalfeeding.org is a website site owned and operated by the 'Feed the Birds to Do Not Feed the Animals' project team, who can be contacted at the email address info@animalfeeding.org. Please see our About us page for more information on who we are and what we do. By accessing and using the website you agree to be bound by the terms detailed below.
2. Use of Content
All text, data, charts, tables, software, video, music, sound, graphics, photographs, illustrations, artwork, names, logos, trademarks, service marks and other material on the website (the “Content”) may be retrieved and displayed from the website on a computer screen, printed as individual pages on paper and stored in electronic form on disk for your personal use. Press releases and digital images may be copied by members of the project team and the broadcast media and press. Permission should be sought from other users by contacting us at info@animalfeeding.org
3. Unlawful Use
You agree to use the website only for lawful purposes and in a manner that does not infringe the rights of or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of the website by any third party. Such restriction or inhibition includes, but is not limited to, conduct which is defamatory, or which may harass, cause distress or inconvenience to any person and the transmission of obscene or offensive content or the disruption of normal flow of dialogue within the website.
4. Uploading content to our site
Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of our site a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. The rights you license to us are described in “Rights you are giving us to use material you upload” in Section 5 of these website terms.
5. Rights you are giving us to material you upload
When you upload or post content to our site, you grant us the following rights to use that content:
a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the website and across different media including to promote the site or the service forever; and
a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence for other users, partners or advertisers to use the content in accordance with the functionality of the site forever.
6. We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them
6.1 We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
6.2 You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.
6.3 You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.
7. Rules about linking to our site
7.1 You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
7.2 You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
7.3 You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.
7.4 Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.
7.5 We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
8. Account details
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.
We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
9. Intellectual property rights
9.1 All copyright, trade marks, database rights and other intellectual property rights that may exist within the content and structure of this website shall remain at all times the property of the project team (unless where stated).
9.2 The trademarks, service marks and logos used and displayed on this website (“trade marks”) are registered or unregistered trademarks. Nothing on this website should be construed as granting, by implication or otherwise, any licence or right to use any trade mark without written permission.
10. Liability
10.1 The website and content is provided “as is” and on an “as available” basis and the project team does not guarantee the accuracy, timeliness, completeness, performance or fitness for a particular purpose of the website or any Content. All implied warranties, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy are excluded from these terms to the extent that they may be excluded as a matter of law.
10.2 In no event will the project team be liable for any loss including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss, or any damages arising from loss of use, data or profits, whether in contract, tort or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with the use of the website
10.3 The project team has tried to ensure that all the content provided on the website is correct at the time of publication. The content is provided on an information basis only and should not be relied upon. No responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of the project team for any errors, omissions, or misleading content on the website or on any other websites to which this website connects.
10.4 The project team does not warrant that the website or content will be uninterrupted or error free, that any defects will be corrected, or that this website or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.
11. Privacy
Please read the privacy policy which details the forms of information we may collect from you when you visit the website. It also details how this information may be stored and used in accordance with the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
12. Changes to the terms
The project team reserves the right, at its discretion, to make changes to any parts of the website or these terms. When these terms are amended, the project team will publish details of the amendments on the website. Your continued use of the website is taken as your agreement to be bound by these terms as amended.
13. Jurisdiction
If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.
If you are a business, these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
14. Severability
If these terms or any part of them should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable under the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent that they are so illegal, invalid or unenforceable, they shall in that state or country be treated as severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive and remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable in that state or country.
15. Conflict
If there is any conflict between these terms and any other written agreement between you and the project team then the latter shall prevail.
16. Events beyond our control
The project team will not be responsible for any breach of these terms caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control.
17. Links
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.
We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
18. File Downloads
Certain files of content are available for download from the website. These files of content are subject to these terms.
19. Email
The project team complies with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 in the United Kingdom.
We respect the privacy of personal email addresses and email content sent to any animalfeeding.org email address. We store your email address as securely as any other personal information we hold. We will not send you unwanted email messages or junk mail and your details will not be passed to any third-party organisation without your explicit permission.
If you have given us permission, we may use email to send you messages to keep you up to date with news about ourselves, as well as anything you express an interest in, either online or through other contact.
20. Third party sites
Third party internet sites that you can link through to from our website are not covered by our privacy policy, so we accept no responsibility or liability for these sites.