Terms and Conditions

ATTENTION: This legal notice applies to the entire contents of this Website under the domain name of www.edss.org.uk ("the Website") and to any correspondence by email between us and you. Please read these Terms and Conditions ("Terms") carefully before using this Website. Using this Website indicates that you accept these Terms regardless of whether or not you choose to register with us for further information. If you do not accept these Terms, please do not use this Website. This notice is issued by EDSS (Essex Down's Syndrome Support Group) ("the Charity").

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 You will be able to access all areas of this Website without registering your details with us. You will be invited to register with us in order to receive further information about our services.
  • 1.2 By accessing any part of this Website, you shall be deemed to have accepted this legal notice in full. If you do not accept this legal notice in full, please leave this Website immediately.
  • 1.3 The Charity may revise this legal notice at any time by updating this posting. You should check this Website from time to time and the then current legal notice because it is binding on you. Certain provisions of this legal notice may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages at this Website.
• 2. Licence
  • 2.1 You are permitted to print and download extracts from this Website on the following basis:-
    (a) no documents or related graphics on this Website are modified in any way;
    (b) no graphics on this Website are used separately from accompanying text; and
    (c) the Charity's copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
  • 2.2 Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all material on this Website (including without limitation, photographs and graphic images) are owned by the Charity or its licensors. For the purposes of this legal notice, any use of extracts from this Website other than in accordance with paragraph 2.1 above for any purpose is prohibited. If you breach any of the Terms in this legal notice, your permission to use this Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from this Website.
  • 2.3 Subject to paragraph 2.1, no part of this Website may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without the Charity's prior written permission.
  • 2.4 Any rights so expressly granted in these Terms are reserved.
• 3. Service Access
  • 3.1 While the Charity endeavours to ensure that this Website is normally available 24 hours a day, the Charity will not be liable if for any reason this Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.
  • 3.2 Access to this Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond the Charity's control.
• 4. Visitor Material and Conduct
  • 4.1 Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered under the Privacy Policy any material you transmit or post to this Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. The Charity will have no obligations with respect to such material. The Charity and its designees will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use such material and/or data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and/or commercial or non-commercial purposes.
  • 4.2 You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Website any material:
    (a) that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy, or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience;
    (b) for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approval;
    (c) which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party, in the UK or any other country in the world; or
    (d) which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).
  • 4.3 You may not misuse the Website (including, without limitation, by hacking).
  • 4.4 The Charity will fully co-operate with law enforcement authorities or court orders requesting or directing the Charity to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of paragraphs 4.2 or 4.3.
• 5. Links to and from other Websites
  • 5.1 Links to third party websites on this Website are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave this Website. The Charity has not reviewed all of these third party websites and does not control and is not responsible for these websites or their contents. The Charity therefore does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any result that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to this Website, you do so entirely at your own risk.
  • 5.2 If you would like to link to this Website, you may only do so on the basis that you link to, but do not replicate, the home page of this Website, and subject to the following conditions:
    (a) you do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of the EDSS logo;
    (b) you do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around this Website;
    (c) you do not in any way imply that the Charity is endorsing any products or services other than its own;
    (d) you do not misrepresent your relationship with the Charity nor present any other false information about the Charity;
    (e) you do not otherwise use any EDSS trade marks displayed on this Website without express written permission from the Charity;
    (f) you do not link from a website which is not owned by you; and
    (g) your website does not contain content that is distasteful, offensive or controversial, infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or otherwise does not comply with applicable laws and regulations.
  • 5.3 The Charity expressly reserves the right to revoke the right granted in paragraph 5.2 for breach of these terms and to take any action it deems appropriate.
  • 5.4 You shall fully indemnify the Charity for any loss or damage suffered by the Charity for breach of paragraph 5.2.
• 6. Registration
  • You will be invited to insert your details should you require further information about services offered by EDSS.
• 7. Disclaimer
  • 7.1 While the Charity endeavours to ensure that the information on this Website is correct, the Charity does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on this Website. The Charity may make changes to the material on this Website at any time without notice. The material on this Website may be out of date, and the Charity makes no commitment to update such material.
  • 7.2 The material at this Website is provided "as is" without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Charity provides you with this Website on the basis that the Charity excludes all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms, (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) which but for this legal notice might have effect in relation to this Website.
• 8. Liability
  • 8.1 The Charity, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering this Website), and any of the Charity's trustees, officers, employees, or agents of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage which may result to you or a third party (including, without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss of damages arising from or in connection in any way to business interruption, and whether in tort (including without limitation, negligence), contract or otherwise) in connection with this Website in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of this Website, any websites linked to this Website or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing this Website or your downloading of any material from this Website or any websites linked to this Website.
  • 8.2 Nothing in this legal notice shall exclude or limit the Charity's liability for (i) death or personal injury caused by negligence (as such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms Act l977); (ii) fraud; (iii) misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter; or (iv) any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable laws.
  • 8.3 If your use of material in this Website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you assume all costs thereof.
• 9. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
  • This legal notice shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with this legal notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

Issued on 18th July 2009

Privacy Policy

We understand that the information you are providing on this website is confidential and private to you. We are committed to protecting your privacy. Our Privacy Policy is set out below.

Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted here and you should regularly check the Privacy Policy for any changes that may affect you. If you continue to use EDSS's website (www.edss.org.uk) after the date on which the change comes into effect, your use of the Website indicates your agreement to be affected by the new terms.

You should also refer to the Terms and Conditions on this website.

References to "we/our/us" means EDSS (Essex Down's Syndrome Support Group). References to "you" means you as an individual or company.

• Collection of information about you
  • In order to provide you with further information about our services we require information from you in order to properly analyse your requirements and to offer you the best possible service. The type of information we require includes, for example, but is not limited to, your name, e-mail address, mailing address and telephone number.
  • This information will only be used in order to provide information about our services and will not be used for any other purpose.
• Your consent
  • We will not disclose or make use of your personal information for direct marketing activities, or supply this information to third parties for their direct marketing activities without your consent.
• How we ensure privacy is maintained
  • We endeavour to ensure that your data is stored securely and to prevent unauthorised access. Although we have security measures in place to protect your information which we monitor regularly, because of the internet and its worldwide accessibility, we cannot guarantee that your information will remain at all times 100% secure. We therefore take no responsibility in relation to the secure storage of your personal information.
  • Our policy is to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 at all times and any subsequent legislation which governs the maintenance of privacy of your personal information. We also require third parties who may offer services on this Website to comply completely with relevant current and subsequent legislation.
  • This Website may provide links to other websites which are not operated by us or by companies associated with us. We cannot be held responsible for the use of any information about you which is collected as a result of your use of those websites and this Privacy Policy will not extend to any website operated by a third party other than us.
• Children
  • We do not specifically collect information from children. We believe that children should obtain their parent's consent before providing personal information. If you are concerned about your child's use of this Website, you are encouraged to use a web filtering device.

Thank you for using this Website. We constantly aim to please and to improve our service. If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us

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