These terms and conditions (the "Terms") describe the terms and conditions applicable to your use of the Sheffield Forum website at www.sheffieldforum.co.uk (the "Website"). The Website is operated by X-Line Ltd of Unit 2 Capital Court, Bittern Road, Exeter, EX2 7FW, a company registered in England company number 03720415, VAT number: 763644706 (“we”, “us”, “our”). By using the Website you (“you”, “your”, “User”, "Users") accept the Terms and agree to be bound by them. We may amend the Terms at any time by posting the amended terms on the Website. All amendments will supersede the older version of the terms and be effective immediately upon posting.
Your Account
1. You agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information when filling out your registration form; and maintain, and promptly update, registration data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.
2. You agree to keep your username and password confidential and not to disclose your password and username to third parties, or grant access to third parties to post under your username.
3. You agree not to register, or use, more than one username.
4. You agree not to register a new account in the event that a first account has been terminated.
5. We may suspend or terminate your account and/or delete or amend any posts in the event that any Terms are breached or if we, in our sole discretion, deem it necessary to do so.
Privacy
6. In registering to use the Website, you must provide certain information. The information you provide is subject to the privacy policy
available on the Website (the “Privacy Policy”)
Acceptable Use
7. You must use this Website for lawful purposes only.
8. You agree to comply with the Sheffield Forum Rules, set out below (the “Rules”).
9. You must not post or transmit through the Website any material which violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others; which is unlawful, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, confidential, vulgar, obscene, profane, harms minors in any way or is otherwise objectionable; which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence; or which gives rise to civil liability or otherwise violates any law.
10. You must not use the Website to impersonate any person or entity, falsely state or otherwise misrepresent affiliation with a person or entity or disguise the origin of any content; to 'stalk' or otherwise harass another or to collect or store personal data about other users.
11. You must not post or transmit through this Website unsolicited advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
12. You must not post, send or transmit through this Website content which contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful material which is malicious or technologically harmful.
13. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the Website, the server on which the Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to the Website. You must not interfere with, or disrupt, the Website.
14. You must only post contributions to the Website which are factually accurate or which are your genuinely held opinions based on true facts.
15. You must not upload, post or otherwise make available on the Website any material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of the right and the burden of determining that any material is not protected by copyright or that such permission has been obtained rests with you.
Reliance on information posted
16. Commentary and other materials posted on the Website are not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely.
17. Any material on the Website may be out of date at any given time and we are under no obligation to update such material.
18. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to the Website, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
19. We recommend that you corroborate material on the Website with independent research.
Third party websites
20. The Website contains hyperlinks to websites operated by third parties. Such hyperlinks are provided for your reference and convenience only.
21. You acknowledge that use of any website controlled, owned or operated by third parties is governed by the terms and conditions for that website. You access these third-party websites at your own risk. We are not responsible for their content. We do not necessarily endorse any of the material on such websites, or have any association with their operators.
Moderation
22. The moderators and administrators on this forum are volunteers who help the Website run smoothly, by moving, editing and removing posts. However, it is not feasible for them to read every post. We have no control over what is posted and the views or opinions presented are solely those of the author.
Reporting abuse
23. Posts on the Website are not actively monitored. If you wish to report a post you should click “Report Post” under any post which you think breaches our Terms.
24. We are not liable for posts submitted by Users unless we are on notice of their unlawfulness. In order to put us on notice, you should properly substantiate reports, detailing the words or pictures you wish to report, their location on the Website and explaining to us why they are unlawful.
Linking
25. You may link to the Website provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. 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.
Intellectual Property Rights
26. We own the intellectual property rights in the Website.
27. You grant to us a world-wide, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive licence (including the right to sub-license) to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display any content (in whole or part) which you upload, post or e-mail and/or to incorporate such content in other works in any form, media or technology now known or developed.
28. You agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any of the material contained in the Website or use it for any other purpose other than for your personal non-commercial use. When quoting material contained on the Website, you should acknowledge the source.
Our liability
29. This Website is provided on an "as is" basis without any guarantees, conditions or warranties of any kind as to its accuracy, security or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Website will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that the Website or the server that makes it available is free of viruses or bugs.
30. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we expressly exclude on our own behalf and on behalf of any person or entity involved with the Website:
a. All conditions, warranties and other terms express or implied by statute, common law or equity;
b. Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by you in connection with the Website, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including but not limited to loss of income or revenue, loss of business, loss of profits or contracts, loss of anticipated savings, loss of data, loss of goodwill, wasted management or office time whether in action of contract, negligence or other tortious action.
31. Nothing in these Terms is intended to limit our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees or agents.
Your liability
32. You are solely liable for any damage resulting from your unlawful submission or use of the Website, or any submission or use of the Website which contravenes these Terms, the Privacy Policy and the Rules. You agree to indemnify us and keep us indemnified against any damage, harm or loss resulting from such a submission or use of the Website.
Miscellaneous
33. If any of these Terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable in any state or country in which they are intended to be effective, then to the extent that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable only, 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.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
34. These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Disputes arising in respect of the Terms shall be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
Sheffield Forum Rules
35. You agree to abide by the Sheffield Forum Rules available on the Website (the “Rules”). We may amend the Rules at any time by posting the amended Rules on the Website, and all amendments shall be effective regarding your use of the Website immediately upon posting.
36. Your postings on the forum should:
a. Comply with our Terms listed above;
b. Not contain multiple words in capital letters unless an acronym;
c. Not be written entirely in bold;
d. Be written in English and avoid excessive ‘txt’ speech (L8R, Wknd, etc);
e. Contribute to the discussion, personal messages to other users are not allowed;
f. Not be duplicated, i.e. posting the same message in multiple areas or times;
g. Not artificially ‘bump’ an existing topic to the top of the list of topics; and
h. Have, when starting a new discussion, a descriptive and informative subject.
37. Your profile on the forum should:
a. Have (when applicable) a signature added by the software and not manually added;
b. Have a signature which does not contain more than three colours (including black);
c. Not have a signature containing lines of symbols (-, ~, *, etc);
d. Not have a signature containing affiliate or any form of tracking variables;
e. Not have a signature that occupies more than 4 vertical lines (viewed at 1024x768); and
f. Not have a signature containing more than 4 links (including max of 2 commercial links).
