Scout Group
1.1. Access to and use of this website both within the UK and
internationally is provided by The UK Scout Association (TSA). These terms
apply to your use of the website and shall take effect immediately from your
first use of the website and thereafter. Please note, in order to use the
website you must agree to be bound by all the terms provided (Please note, if
you do not agree to be bound all the terms herein, TSA does not permit you to
access, use and/or contribute to the website).
1.2. TSA may change these terms from time to time and so you should check these on a regular basis. Your continued use of the website will be deemed acceptance of any 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 the website then the latter shall prevail in relation to the matter to which it specifically relates.
2.1. You agree to use the website 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.
2.2. You agree to use the website (including communication
tools e.g. message boards/email facilities) in accordance with the following
community rules which apply across all the website community sites and services
(Please note, you should read the local house rules of the particular site or
service you are using for any local variations to the following COMMUNITY RULES:
(i) Your posts/messages/contributions:
(a) MUST be civil and tasteful; MUST be patient: remember
users of all ages and abilities may be taking part in the relevant website
community;
(b) MUST NOT be disruptive, offensive or abusive:
contributions must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed
with the intention of causing trouble;
(c) MUST NOT be unlawful or objectionable: unlawful,
harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane,
sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is
unacceptable;
(d) MUST NOT contain spam or off-topic material: TSA does not
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;
(e) MUST NOT contain advertising or promotions of a business
or commercial nature;
(f) MUST NOT be an impersonation of another or purport to be
contributed by another;
(g) MUST NOT use inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc)
user names;
(h) MUST NOT deliberately misuse the complaints facility. If
you persist in doing this, action may be taken against your account;
(i) MUST NOT contain URLs: website addresses can only be
posted if allowed under any relevant local house rules;
(j) MAY BE REMOVED if containing languages other than English
unless this is specifically allowed in the relevant local house rules.
(ii) Safety:
We advise that you never reveal any personal information
about yourself or anyone else (for example: telephone number, postal address,
home address or email address or any other details that would allow you or that
other person to be personally identified) in any website community.
(iii) Legal requirements. You:
(a) MUST NOT submit or share any defamatory or illegal
material of any nature in the website communities. This includes text,
graphics, video, programs or audio;
(b) MUST NOT contribute material to any website community
with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act;
(c) MUST NOT violate, plagiarise, or infringe the rights of
TSA or third parties including copyright, trade mark, trade secrets, privacy,
publicity, personal or proprietary rights;
(d) MUST ONLY submit or share only contributions which are
your own original work.
(iv) If you are under 16 years old:
(a) Please get a parent's or carer's permission before taking
part in any website community;
(b) Never reveal any personal information about yourself or
anyone else (for example, school, telephone number, your full name, home
address or email address).
(v) Breach of these of website or community rules:
(a) If you breach the use of website or community rules upon
request you will be sent an email which informs you why your contribution has
been refused or edited. This email will also include a warning that continuing
to break the rules may result in action being taken against you. This action
may include any content posted by you being checked before being allowed to go
on the site or a temporary or permanent suspension of your ability to
participate in any or all of the website community areas.
(b) If you submit or share offensive or inappropriate content
to with any website communities or anywhere else on the website or otherwise
engage in any disruptive behaviour on the website, and TSA considers such
behaviour to be serious and/or repetitive, TSA may use whatever information
that is available to it about you to stop any further such infringements. This
may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, Scouting
line-manager, school or email provider about the infringement(s).
(c) TSA reserves the right to delete any contribution at any
time, for any reason.
3.1. All copyright, trade marks, design rights,
patents and other intellectual property rights (registered and unregistered) in
and on the website and all content (including all applications) located on the
website shall remain vested in TSA or its licensors (which includes other
users).
3.2. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, disassemble,
decompile, reverse engineer, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make
available to the public, or otherwise use website content in any way except for
your own personal, non-commercial use or non-commercial use directly related to
Scouting within the UK. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative
work from any website content except for your own personal use. Any other use
of the website content requires the prior written permission of TSA.
3.3. The names, images and logos identifying TSA, Scout
Shops, Unity Insurance Services, Scout Activity Centres or third parties and
their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade
marks of TSA and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be
construed as conferring any licence or right to use any trade mark, design
right or copyright of TSA or any other third party.
4.1. By sharing any contribution (including any text,
photographs, graphics, video or audio) with TSA you agree to grant to the TSA,
free of charge, permission to use the material in any way it wants (including
modifying and adapting it for operational and editorial reasons) for TSA’s
services in any media worldwide (including on TSA’s site accessed by
international users). In certain circumstance TSA may also share your
contribution with trusted third parties.
4.2. 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.
4.3. In order that TSA 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 TSA 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/carer if they are under 16.
4.4. TSA normally shows your name with
your contribution, unless you request otherwise, but for operational reasons
this is not always possible. TSA may need to contact you for administrative or
verification purposes in relation to your contribution, or in relation to
particular projects.
4.5. Please do not endanger yourself or
others, take any unnecessary risks or break any laws when creating content you
may share with TSA.
4.6. If you do not want to grant TSA the
permission set out above on these terms, please do not submit or share your
contribution to or with the website.
5.1.
In order to participate in and contribute to selected website communities you
may be required to register with the website. Any personal information supplied
to the website as part of this registration process and/or any other
interaction with the website will be collected, stored and used in accordance
with TSA’s website privacy statement.
5.2. The
Use of Personal Data: As
protecting privacy is very important to the Association, anyone using the
Association’s website or database facilities must also ensure that the privacy
of others is protected throughout. Therefore, any personal information (Personal
Data) about another accessed, downloaded or obtained via the Association’s
websites/databases must be handled in compliance with the Data Protection Act.
For more information about the rules please see here. In summary, Personal
Data is any information by which a person can be identified e.g. name,
address (including email address), telephone number or particular role within
scouting etc and when handling such data:
(a) YOU MUST only obtain and use it for the
legitimate scouting purpose as required and authorised by your role;
(b) YOU MUST only retain it for the legitimate
scouting purpose as required and authorised by your role and, where retention
is justified, must ensure that it is kept accurate, up-to-date and in a secure
manner so as to prevent accidental loss, theft or unauthorised access by others;
(c) YOU MUST only retain it for as long as legitimately required and thereafter
delete or destroy it safely and securely;
(d) YOU MUST NOT share it with any other party
unless you have the person’s express consent to do so – preferably in writing
wherever possible. This applies to sharing such data with any external party as
well as within scouting itself e.g. emails sent to more than one recipient
should, as a rule, be ‘blind copied’ (Bcc) so that the recipients do not
receive details of each other’s email addresses.
(e) YOU MUST NOT, in any event,
send it outside of the European Economic Association (EEA) unless you are sure
that the country you are sending it operates under Data Protection laws akin to
the UK and you have received assurance from them that the data will remain
protected by them.
6.1. The majority of content posted in the website
communities is created by Scouting volunteers and members of the public. The
views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of TSA.
TSA are not responsible for any content posted by Scouting volunteers or
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 the website do not amount to any endorsement of that site
by TSA and any use of that site by you is at your own risk.
6.2. The website content, including the information,
names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to TSA, its
products and services (or to third party products and services), is provided
‘AS IS’ and on an ‘AS AVAILABLE’ basis. To the extent permitted by law, TSA
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. TSA
does not guarantee the timeliness, completeness or performance of the website
or any of the content. While we try to ensure that all content provided by TSA
is correct at the time of publication no responsibility is accepted by or on
behalf of TSA for any errors, omissions or inaccurate content on the website.
6.3. You agree to indemnify TSA and/or TSA’s officers,
directors and employees, immediately on demand, against all claims, liability,
damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees, arising out of any breach of
these terms and conditions by you or any other liabilities arising out of your
use of the website.
6.4. Nothing in these terms limits or excludes TSA’s
liability for death or personal injury caused by its proven negligence. Subject
to the previous sentence, TSA shall not be liable for any of the following
losses or damage (whether such damage or losses were foreseen, foreseeable,
known or otherwise):
(a) loss of data;
(b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits;
(c) loss of business;
(d) loss of opportunity;
(e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation;
(f) losses suffered by third parties; or
(g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages
arising from the use of scouts.org.uk regardless of the form of action.
6.5. TSA does not warrant that functions available on the
website will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or
that the website 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.
7.1. If any of these Terms and Conditions 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.
7.2. The failure or delay of TSA to exercise or enforce any right in these
terms does not waive TSA's right to enforce that right.
7.3. 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.
7.4 When donating to
The Scout Association, we do not store credit card details nor do we share
customer details with any third parties with regard to any donation you make to
The Scout Association.
If required, please contact TSA about these terms of use at:
The Scout Association
Gilwell House
Gilwell Park
Bury Road
Chingford
London
E4 7QW
Email: info.centre@scouts.org.uk
Annunciation Church Hall
218 Charminster Road
Bournemouth
BH8 9RW