Notice

This legal notice applies to the entire contents of the website under the domain name www.activecanterbury.org.uk and to any correspondence between you and us and to any newsletters or publications downloaded by you or sent to you by us (the "Site").

The Canterbury City Council whose address is Military Road, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 1YW ("CCC") is responsible for the Site.

In consideration of CCC allowing you access to the Site you are deemed to accept our terms and conditions of use. Please read them carefully. If you do not accept these terms and conditions of use, do not use the Site.

Our terms and conditions of use may be changed. Please review them regularly. If you continue to use the Site after a change has been made to the terms and conditions of use you are deemed to have accepted it.

Contact with CCC for issues relating to the Site should be made through the Sports Development section.

Use of the Site

You may browse, view and use material and information on the Site for your own personal, non-commercial, purposes. You may also make contributions to the Site in accordance with the Terms of Use set out below. Use for purposes other than those stated requires prior written consent from CCC.

You agree only to use the Site for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not disrupt, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of the Site or infringe anyone else's rights. You may not harass or cause distress or inconvenience to any person or transmit obscene or offensive content.

Contributions

By submitting any contribution to the Site (including any text, photographs, graphics, video, or audio) you:

• Grant the Council a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive and worldwide licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, perform, play, communicate to the public, and exercise all other rights in your contribution and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any such rights, and in accordance with the Privacy Statement;
• Accept that your contribution will be subject to pre-moderation and editing at the discretion of CCC;
• Warrant that your contribution:
  • Is your own original work and that you have the right to submit it to CCC for all the purposes specified above;
  • Is not defamatory;
  • Is not contributed with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act; and
  • Does not infringe any law;
• Warrant that you have obtained all permissions and consents necessary to allow the Council to exercise the rights granted above, and have otherwise complied with the Contributors' Guidelines or equivalent published on the Site from time to time;
• Indemnify CCC against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred as a result of your breach of the above warranties;
• Waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on the Site and the purposes specified above.

Site Rules

You also agree in relation to anything you may post on the Site:

• Contributions must be constructive and polite, and not contributed with disruptive intent.
• Unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not permitted.
• You may not post any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, 'junk mail', 'spam', 'chain letters', 'pyramid schemes', or any other form of personal or commercial soliciting.
• You must not post any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
• Contributions containing languages other than English will be removed.
• Impersonation is not allowed and material submitted under inappropriate or offensive names may be removed or modified.
• Links to other websites or URLs may be removed by the moderators.
• Not in any way act that might bring CCC into disrepute.
• You must be at least 18 years of age or be accessing the Site with the full consent of a parent or guardian.

Safety

Do not disclose any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example: telephone number, home address or e-mail address)

Should we hold personal information about you, for example through the registration process, then this information will be held by CCC in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and any amendments made thereto.

Breaking the Site Rules

If you break any of these Site Rules, you may have your contributions removed from the Site.

If you post or send offensive or inappropriate content anywhere on or to the Site or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on the Site, and CCC consider such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, CCC may use whatever information that is available to them about you to stop any further such infringements. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school, police or e-mail provider about the infringement/s.

CCC reserve the right to moderate or delete any contribution, at any time, for any reason.

Disclaimer

Every effort has been made to ensure the information contained on this website is correct and up to date, including hyperlinks to other organisations' websites. However no warranty is given as to its accuracy, suitability or completeness and ;

• We cannot accept responsibility for errors or omissions
• We do not endorse views or opinions expressed within these sites by contributors
• We cannot guarantee that any of these external links will work all of the time
• Notwithstanding anything else in these terms and conditions of use, to the fullest extent permitted by law CCC excludes all warranties (whether express or implied) and all liability to you in respect of the Site, its content and your use of it.
• Neither CCC nor any of its directors, employees or other representatives will be liable for loss or damage arising out of or in connection with the use of this site. This is a comprehensive limitation of liability that applies to all damages of any kind, including (without limitation) compensatory, direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of data, income or profit, loss of or damage to property and claims of third parties.
• Whilst effort has been taken to ensure that the Site is free from viruses, CCC gives no warranties that it is indeed free from viruses and you are responsible for ensuring that you have installed adequate virus checking software.
• CCC shall not be responsible for any viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment or other material transmitted with or as part of the Site or any other internet site.
• Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of the exclusions and limitations in the clause are intended to limit any rights you may have as a consumer under local law or other statutory rights which may not be excluded nor in any way to exclude or limit CCC's liability to you for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or that of our employees or agents.

You can help maintain the quality of our links to external sites by letting us know if you find the content of any site unacceptable or offensive. Please e-mail the Web and Intranet Team at wait@canterbury.gov.uk or the Sports Development team at sportsdevelopment@canterbury.gov.uk.

Copyright

Copyright of the Site and all its content remains the property of the Council, unless otherwise stated. You may not copy, download, transmit or communicate to the public content from the Site, unless expressly invited to do so on the Site.

Intellectual Property

The names, images and logos identifying CCC and/or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of the Council and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring any licence or right to use any trade mark, patent, design right or copyright of the Operators, their subsidiaries, and/or any other third party.

Privacy Statement

Data Protection Act 1998

Under the Data Protection Act 1998, we have a legal duty to protect any personal information we collect from you.

• We will only use personal information you supply to us for the reason that you provided it for.
• We will only hold your information for as long as necessary to fulfil that purpose.
• We will not pass your information to any other parties (including other Council departments) unless this is made clear to you at the time you supplied it.

All employees and contractors who have access to your personal data or are associated with the handling of that data are obliged to respect your confidentiality. You agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself in any registration or subscription form you complete ("the Registration Information").

You agree to maintain and promptly update the Registration Information to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.

CCC is registered under, and will process your personal data in accordance with, data protection legislation.

You hereby agree that the Registration Information (and all updates of the Registration Information) and any other information sent to CCC by you or otherwise obtained by CCC about you ("the Personal Data") may be processed by CCC for the purposes of:

1. processing your requests;
2. providing you with information by e-mail or other means;
3. providing you with information about products and services of CCC and other parties;
4. providing a personalised service;
5. maintaining accounts and records;
6. administration of membership records;
7. statistical analysis and conducting market research surveys;
8. assessing and evaluating the use that is being made of the Site; and
9. information and databank compilation and administration.

The processing of the Personal Data may involve CCC disclosing your details to regulatory bodies and/or other third parties. If you do not wish your Personal Data to be disclosed in this manner, please make this clear by sending an appropriately worded message to CCC.

You also consent to the transfer, storage and processing of the Personal Data to/in countries outside the European Economic Area. Your Personal Data may therefore be processed in countries where the rights and benefits conferred on data subjects may not be as favourable as in the UK and the European Union. If you would prefer not to have your Personal Data transferred in this way, please make this clear by sending an appropriately worded message to CCC.

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of information that is stored on your computer's hard drive by your web browser. This is used by computers which host our website to help us understand how the site is used. These cookies do not identify you, but help us to monitor the website usage so we can:

• See which pages are the most popular
• See which pages are seldom or never visited
• See how extensively the website is used

Any IP information is treated as strictly confidential and is not published or divulged to any third party.

If you have any query about personal information that we may hold, please write to:

Janet Taylor
Deputy Head of Legal Services
Canterbury City Council
Military Road
Canterbury
Kent CT1 1YW
Email: janet.taylor@canterbury.gov.uk

General

If there is any conflict between these terms and specific terms appearing elsewhere on the Site then these terms shall prevail.

If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable, 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, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.

These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.

Comments and Complaints

If you have any comments or complaints to make about the Site please send them to Customer Services at the Canterbury City Council, Military Road, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1YW or to Sports Development at the Canterbury City Council, Military Road, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1YW.