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TERMS AND CONDITIONS
FOR THE TIMES
& THE SUNDAY TIMES ONLINE
Please read this carefully. By
accessing this website you are agreeing to the
terms and conditions that appear below. If you
have any comments or questions, please contact
us at Customer Services, NI Connect, News International
plc, 1 Virginia Street, London E98 1NN, United
Kingdom.
This website is run by Times Newspapers
Ltd which is owned by News International plc.
Introduction
Acceptable Use Policy
Registration
E-mail Policy
Liabilities
Indemnity
Software and Security
Changes to these Terms and
Conditions
Advertising and Sponsorship
Competitions and Prize
Draws
Termination
Additional Services
E-commerce
Choice of Law and Jurisdiction
General
Contact
Data Protection
Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
By accessing this website you
confirm that you are an individual of at least
18 years of age, or, if under 18, that you accessing
the Website with full parental/guardian consent.
In making use of the Website you agree to abide
by any and all of the following terms and conditions
governing use of the Website ("Acceptable
Use Policy").
No charge is made by Times Newspapers
Limited for your use of the Website, though
you should be aware that local telephone call
charges at rates as publicised by your telephone
operator may apply.
2. Acceptable Use Policy
You agree to abide by all applicable
laws, regulations and codes of conduct and ensure
that any content uploaded or distributed or
stored by you does not infringe the rights of
others.
All material on the Website and
any material sent to you by e-mail or any other
form ("the content") belongs to us or our licensors.
You may retrieve and display content from the
Website on a computer screen, print individual
pages on paper, photocopy and store such pages
in electronic form on disk (but not on any server
or other storage device connected to the network)
for your personal, con-commercial use..
We own the copyright and all other
intellectual property rights associated with
the content, save where otherwise stated.
Except as specifically stated
in these terms, you may not do any of the following
without prior written permission from us:
reproduce, modify
or in any way commercially exploit any of the
content;
redistribute any
of the content (including by using it as part
of any library, archive or similar service);
remove the copyright
or trade mark notice(s) from any copies of content
made in accordance with these terms;
create a database
in electronic or structured manual form by systematically
downloading and storing all and any of the content.
Requests to republish, redistribute or syndicate
content should be addressed to News International
Syndication at enquiries@syndication.newsint.co.uk.
You acknowledge that The Times
and The Sunday Times are trade marks and that
you may not use them without the written permission
of News International plc, acting either as
owner of the trade marks or as agent on behalf
of Times Newspapers Limited.
You agree not to:
Impersonate another person or
use a false name or a name you are unauthorised
to use or create a false identity or e-mail
address or try to mislead others as to the
identity or origin of any communications;
Modify, access or make available
data stored on a computer device which you
have accessed through our network, when either
the owner of the data, computer or device
has taken steps to prevent you from doing
this or the owner has expressed a wish that
you do not do this;
Make available or upload files
that contain software or other material, data
or information not owned or licensed to you
or collect information about others (eg names/addresses)
without their prior consent;
Damage, interfere with or disrupt
access to the Website or do anything which
may interrupt or impair their functionality;
Save as authorised in these
terms, make any commercial or business use
of the Website or resell or commercially benefit
from any part or aspect of the Website;
Publish, post, distribute, disseminate
or otherwise transmit defamatory, offensive,
infringing, obscene, indecent or other unlawful
or objectionable material or information;
Threaten, harass, stalk, abuse,
disrupt or otherwise violate the rights (including
rights of privacy and publicity) of others;
Make available, upload or distribute
by any means any material or files that contain
any viruses, bugs, corrupt data, 'trojan horses',
'worms' or any other harmful software;
Falsify the true ownership of
software or other material or information
contained in file made available via the Website;
Obtain or attempt to obtain
unauthorised access, through whatever means,
to the Website, other services or computer
systems or areas of our or any of our partners'
networks which are identified as restricted;
We retain the absolute right to
prevent you accessing the Website, without prejudice
to any of our accrued rights, where we in our
sole discretion consider that you are contravening
our Acceptable Use Policy or any other aspect
of these terms.
3. Registration
Where the Website requires that
you register in order to use it, you are obliged
to provide accurate and complete registration
information. It is your responsibility to update
and maintain any changes to that information
(including your e-mail address) by altering
your details as appropriate.
Registration is for a single user
only. On registration, you should choose a user
name and password. We do not allow any of the
following:
any other person sharing your
user name and password;
access through a single user
name and password being made available to
multiple users on a network.
When you register to use the Website,
you will be obliged to click on an icon indicating
that you have read, understood and accepted
these terms and conditions. You will not be
allowed to register unless you indicate your
acceptance of these terms and any other terms
and conditions that may apply.
4. E-mail Policy
We will not respond unless required
to do so by law to any electronic mail ('e-mail')
which contains threatening, abusive, malicious,
pornographic, obscene, defamatory or otherwise
illegal or inappropriate material. We reserve
the right to take such action as we in our sole
discretion deem fit in respect of such material.
Unless you indicate to the contrary
all e-mails received will be taken to be submitted,
where appropriate, for publication, free of
charge. If we decide to publish an e-mail from
you on the Website we will incur no liability
to you by doing so, unless you clearly state
that the material contained in your e-mail has
been submitted for the purposes of negotiating
a fee for the publication of that material.
In that event you must include your name, address
and a contact telephone number in your e-mail.
We will not disclose any personal
information under any circumstances of any Times
Newspapers Limited and/or News International
and/or any of their associate companies' staff.
Where appropriate we will endeavour to respond
to e-mails with 3 days of receipt, but we cannot
and do not guarantee to respond to e-mails.
E-mails will generally be stored for 12 months
after which time they will automatically be
deleted. An e-mail sent to the incorrect destination
is liable to be deleted immediately and if you
are unsure of the correct destination for your
e-mail please contact webmaster@the-times.co.uk.
5. Liabilities
You agree that we have no control
over third party content and information which
can be accessed using the Website and that we
do not examine or edit the use to which you
or others put the Website or the nature of the
content or information being accessed and that
we are excluded from all liability of any kind
arising from such content or information. You
agree that except for death or personal injury
arising through our negligence, we shall not
be liable whatsoever for any loss or damage
arising from use of the Website.You furthermore
agree to indemnify us in the manner set out
below in these terms in relation to your use
in any way of the Website.
We reserve the right to remove
any information/material we deem to be in breach
of any of these terms without notice, and without
prejudice to any other accrued rights, and/or
to make available such information/material
when required to do so by law or when requested
to do so by regulatory bodies or law enforcement
organisations.
We take all such steps as are
reasonably necessary to provide a fast and reliable
service, but exclude to the fullest extent permitted
by law any liability for the security of the
services on the Website or for any disruption
of the Website however caused, loss of or corruption
of any material in transit, or loss of or corruption
of material when downloaded onto any computer
systems.
Save unless otherwise stated,
we make no warranty whatsoever as to any goods
or services purchased or obtained or offered
to you through use of the Website, whether accessed
directly or otherwise.
We provide the Website on an 'as
is' basis and make no representations or warranties
of any kind as to the Website or the content.
We make no representations or warranties about
the accuracy, completeness or suitability for
any purpose of the content published on the
Website. Any liability, however it occurs, for
any inaccuracies or errors is expressly excluded
to the fullest extent permitted by law.
6. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold
us and any of our officers, employees and agents
harmless from and against all and any expenses,
losses, liabilities, damages and costs of any
character incurred or suffered and any claims
or legal proceedings which are brought or threatened,
in each case arising from your use of, or conduct
on, the Website and/or a breach of the Acceptable
Use Policy and/or any of these terms.
7. Software and Security
We are not responsible for any
technical or other issues that may arise if
you download software from external third party
websites (eg Acrobat Reader) or upgrade your
browser software to enhance your usage of the
Website.
8. Changes to these Terms and
Conditions
We reserve the right to make changes
to any part of the Website. Due to our policy
of updating and improving the Website, it may
therefore be necessary to change these terms.
In the event that we change the
terms, we will notify you by providing a clear
link within the relevant Website to the detailed
changes. If you use the Website after we have
published or notified you of the changes, you
will be agreeing to be bound by those changes.
If you do not agree to be bound by them, you
should not use the Website.
9. Advertising and Sponsorship
The Website may contain advertising
and sponsorship. Advertisers and sponsors are
responsible for ensuring that material submitted
for inclusion on the Website complies with applicable
laws, codes and regulations. We exclude to the
fullest extent permitted by law any responsibility
for any error or inaccuracy appearing in any
advertising or sponsorship material. Please
refer to our privacy
policy for the use of cookies in relation
to targeting potential advertisers.
10. Competitions and Prize
Draws
We may from time to time run competitions,
free prize draws and/or other promotions on
the Website. These will be subject to additional
terms and conditions that will be made known
to you at the relevant time.
11. Termination
We may terminate the provision
of the Website or restrict your access to them
without any prior notice to you where (by way
of example and without limitation): (1) there
is a regulatory or statutory change limiting
our ability to provide the Website; (2) any
event beyond our reasonable control prevents
us from continuing to provide the Website (for
example, without limitation, technical difficulties,
capacity problems and communications failures);
or (3) we consider in our sole discretion that
you are abusing the services provided by the
Website or are otherwise acting in breach of
these terms.
As this is a shared service with
other users, you agree that if the demand for
the services provided by the Website is in excess
of our ability to meet the capacity, we may
either share the capacity among all users or
we may give you notice by e-mail that the provision
of the Website will terminate. Any such termination
will not affect your accrued liabilities incurred
prior to any such termination.
12. Additional Services
From time to time we may provide
games or other content for your downloading.
However, the download time may vary considerably
between the types of content and you agree that
you are wholly liable and responsible for any
telephone call and/or other charges incurred
in downloading the same. However, we will use
of best endeavours to notify you of the size/amount
of the file/data and the likely download time
for your information.
13. E-commerce
Your dealings with any third parties,
in particular advertisers and/or merchants,
through the services provided by the Website
and any terms, conditions, warranties or representations
with such third parties are solely between you
and such third party. You agree that we are
not liable for such dealings, and you agree
to indemnify us in the manner referred to above
in these terms in relation to such dealings.
14. Choice of Law and Jurisdiction
These terms shall be governed
by and interpreted in accordance with English
law and you irrevocably agree that the courts
of England and Wales shall (subject to the paragraph
below) have exclusive jurisdiction to settle
any dispute which may arise out of, under, or
in connection with these terms.
Four our exclusive benefit, we
shall retain the right to bring proceedings
as to the substance of the matter in the courts
of your country of residence or, where these
terms are entered into in the course of your
trade or profession, the country of your principal
place of business.
15. General
You may not assign, sub-license
or otherwise transfer any of your rights under
these terms. If any part of these terms and
conditions is found to be invalid by any court
having competent jurisdiction the validity of
the remaining terms will be unaffected. If either
party does not exercise any right or remedy
under these terms, this will not be taken to
mean that they have been waived.
16. Contact
If you have any queries concerning
any part of these terms and the privacy and
e-mail policies contained in them, please contact
us at webmaster@the-times.co.uk.
17. Data Protection
Times Newspapers Limited will
only use any personal data collected during
your use of this website in accordance with
current UK data protection legislation. Please
look at our Privacy Policy
to find out what we propose to do with your
data and your options.
These
terms and conditions last updated: Aug 292000.
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Times Newspapers Ltd 1998-2000
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