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General Provisions Your conduct online Online Content (stuff on the site) Proprietary rights (who owns the rights to what) Information supplied by a member Complaints Disclaimer & Limit of Liability (what we're not responsible for) General Provisions (General remarks) Copyright Policy E-zine editors

THIS SERVICE IS FOR LATE TEENS AND ADULTS ONLY. YOU MUST BE AT LEAST 16 YEARS OLD TO USE IT.

Please read the following Terms and Conditions carefully before joining (registering with) studentUK.com. These Terms and Conditions apply equally, in so far as they may be relevant, to all users of the Site

GENERAL

1. The studentUK.com and studentUK.co.uk services (hereafter jointly known as "the Service" or "the Site") are provided by StudentUK Limited (Company Number 03466851), whose registered office is at Frogmore Park, Watton-at-Stone, Hertford SG14 3RU, UK ("studentUK", "studentUK.co.uk" or "studentUK.com").

2. The Site is an online community for late teens & adults.

3. By registering with studentUK you become a member of the service ("Member") and agree to be bound by these terms and conditions ("Terms"). As a member, these Terms represent the agreement between you and studentUK (the "Agreement"). If you do not agree to the Terms, you will not be able to register with studentUK.

4. The Terms also apply to anyone who merely browses the Site, even if they do not register. Your continued use of the Service constitutes your acceptance of the Terms.

5. These Terms are subject to change by studentUK at any time. Any changes will appear on the terms and conditions page, which can be accessed from any page on the studentuk site. If the Terms change your continued use of the Service constitutes your acceptance of the amended Terms.

6. You may terminate your studentUK membership at any time for any reason. studentUK reserves the right to immediately, without notice or reason, suspend or terminate your access to the Service or your membership.

7. Your membership of studentUK is for your sole, personal use only. You may not authorise others to use your membership, and you may not in any way transfer or assign your membership to any other person or entity.

8. INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless studentUK, its employees, agents, representatives, officers, directors and third parties, for any losses, costs, liabilities, damages to or actions and /or claims against studentUK.com and expenses (including legal fees) relating to or arising out of your use of the Service, including any breach by you of the terms of this Agreement.

9. YOUR CONDUCT ONLINE

9.1 As a Member, you agree:

9.1.1 that you are solely and entirely responsible for any content or information you post on the Site, or any content or information you transmit or otherwise communicate to other studentUK members;

9.1.2 that you will not post on the Site, or transmit or otherwise communicate to other studentUK members or studentUK employees, any defamatory, inaccurate, harassing, threatening, racist, abusive, obscene, profane, illegal or offensive sexually-oriented material, or any material that violates or infringes another party's rights (including, but not limited to, rights of privacy and publicity, and intellectual property rights);

9.1.3 to use the Service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations;

9.1.4 not to include on your personal studentUK page any telephone numbers, addresses, surnames (family names), URLs, email addresses or other information that could be used to identify you

9.1.5 not to include offensive sexual references, or offensive sexually suggestive language, or offensive anatomical references, and you will not post any photos containing nudity, lewd or obscene behaviour or personal information;

9.1.6 not to engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other members to buy or sell any products or services through the Service, except in areas designated specifically for this purpose. You will not send or transmit any chain letters or circular (junk) email to other studentUK members;

9.1.7 not to post, distribute or reproduce or communicate in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining full, valid and verifiable prior consent of the owner of such proprietary rights;

9.1.8 that you are solely responsible for your interactions with other studentUK members. studentUK reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other members;

9.1.9 Not to disrupt, modify or interfere with the Service or its associated software, hardware and servers in any way, and you agree not to impede or interfere with the other users of the Service. You also agree not to alter or tamper with any information or materials on, or associated with, the Service.

9.2 studentUK reserves the right, but is under no obligation, to reject any personal page or photograph that does not comply with these Terms.

10 ONLINE CONTENT

10.1 All information or other content, including, but not limited to, opinions, offers, statements and advice, made available through the Service are those of their respective authors and not of studentUK, and should not necessarily be relied upon.

10.2 studentUK does not necessarily endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or agree with the comments, opinions or statements of any information or other content on the site and does not in any way guarantee the accuracy, reliability, usefulness or completeness thereof.

10.3 Under no circumstances will studentUK be responsible for any damage or loss arising or resulting from anyone's reliance on information or other content shown on the Site, or transmitted or otherwise communicated to studentUK members.

10.4 WARNING
It remains possible:

10.4.1 that some studentUK members or "hackers" may post, transmit or otherwise communicate offensive or obscene materials on the Service and that you may involuntarily be exposed to such materials.

10.4.2 for others to obtain some personal information about you through your use of the Service, and that the recipient may use any such information to harass or injure you. studentUK is not responsible for the use of any personal information that you may choose to disclose on the Service.

10.5 Please carefully select the type of information that you post on the Site or release to others.

10.6 studentUK reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor any materials posted in the public areas of the Site and retains the right to remove any such material that violates, or is alleged to violate, the law, or this Agreement.

10.7 Notwithstanding this right of studentUK, you remain solely responsible for the content of the materials you post in the public areas of the Service and in your private email correspondence.

10.8 The Service will treat emails sent between you and other studentUK members that are not readily accessible to the general public as private.

11 PROPRIETARY RIGHTS

11.1 studentUK owns or has the right to use all proprietary rights in studentUK.com and studentUK.co.uk. The Service contains the copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information of studentUK and its licensors.

11.2 In addition, other members may post copyrighted information, which has copyright protection, whether or not it is identified as copyrighted. Except for that information for which you have been given verifiable permission to use, you will not copy, modify, display, publish, perform, transmit, distribute or sell any such proprietary information.

11.3 By posting information or content on any public area of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant, that you have the right to grant:

11.3.1 the Service and its designees a perpetual, world wide, royalty-free, licence to use, reproduce, modify, translate, transmit, and distribute any information or material that you supply or communicate to the Service, in any such medium now in existence or hereafter developed, for any purpose, including commercial uses.

11.3.2 to other studentUK members, subject to the provisions of 10.1, a licence to use such information and content.

12 External links on studentUK

The Service may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other World Wide Web sites or resources. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by studentUK of the contents on such third-party web sites. As we have no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that studentUK is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, services or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that studentUK shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such site or resource. If you decide to access linked third party Web sites, you do so at your own risk. Any concerns regarding any external link should be directed to its respective site administrator or web master.

13 INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY A MEMBER

We respect your privacy, particularly as we are an on-line community, and will deal with all information provided by you in line with our Privacy Policy, which is accessible at any time from any page on the site while you use the Service.

14 COMPLAINTS

If you have a complaint or would like to contact studentUK, please contact the Service at hello@studentuk.com.

15 DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

15.1 You acknowledge that you are using the service at your own risk.
15.2 studentUK provides the Service on an "as is" basis and grants no warranties of any kind - express, implied or statutory - in any communication with studentUK or its representatives, or otherwise with respect to the Service. studentUK specifically disclaims any implied warranties of fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability or non-infringement.
15.3 The Service does not warrant that your use of the Service will be secure, always available, uninterrupted, or error-free or that their will be no loss of transmitted information or will meet your requirements, or that any defects in the Service will be corrected, or that no viruses will be transmitted on the service.

16 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

In no event will studentUK be liable:

16.1 to you for any consequences, incidental, consequential or indirect, arising out of the use of or inability to use the Service.
16.2 in addition, studentUK disclaims all liability, regardless of the form of action, for the acts or omissions of other members or users (including "hackers") of the Service.

17 GENERAL PROVISIONS

17.1 You agree that this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English Law and the you hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England and Wales in relation to any dispute or matter arising our of or connected with this Agreement.
17.2 This Agreement, accepted by you upon registering with or using the Service, contains the entire agreement between you and studentUK regarding the use of the Service.
17.3 The invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of any provision of this Agreement shall not affect or impact the continuation in force of the remainder of this Agreement.

18 COPYRIGHT POLICY

18.1 studentUK will terminate the privileges of any user who uses this Site to unlawfully transmit copyrighted material without a licence to do so.

18.2 In particular, members who submit content to the Site, whether images, articles, stories, software or other copyrightable material, must ensure that the content they upload does not infringe privacy or publicity rights.

18.3 Upon receiving proper notification by the copyright holder or its agent, and confirmation through court order or admission by the member that they have used this Site as an instrument of unlawful infringement, we will terminate the infringing member's rights to use and/or access the Site.

19 E-ZINE EDITORS

19.1 E-zine editors are members with enhanced administrative privileges. As an e-zine editor, you are bound by the same terms and conditions as other members.

19.2 Failure to comply with the above stated terms and conditions may result in the removal of e-zine editor privileges, suspension or termination of membership.

19.3 studentUK is under no obligation to provide artwork to e-zine editors.

19.4 student UK is under no obligation to save or otherwise archive or preserve e-zines.

19.5 studentUK is under no obligation to provide e-zine editors with a reference. References will be supplied at the discretion of the studentUK Editor.

19.6 studentUK is providing enhanced administrative privileges to e-zine editors on the understanding that the role of e-zine editor carries an additional responsibility to uphold the standards of the studentUK website. Any e-zine that deviates from the spirit of this agreement may be removed at the discretion of the studentUK Editor and without notice.