Website Terms of Use

ATTENTION: These website terms of use apply to the entire contents of the Website under the domain name www.truemeaning.co.uk (Website) and to any correspondence by e-mail between EIO and you. Please read these terms carefully before using the Website. Using the Website indicates that you accept these terms. If you do not accept these terms, do not use the Website. This Website is operated, and this notice is issued, by Ecclesiastical Insurance Office plc (Reg. No. 24869) of Beaufort House, Brunswick Road, Gloucester GL1 1JZ UK (EIO).

Our VAT number is 477724800. We are regulated by the Financial Services Authority.

  • 1.
    INTRODUCTION


  • 1.1
    You may access most areas of the Website without registering your details with EIO. Certain areas of the Website are only open to you if you register. Any personal data that you submit to this Website shall be subject to EIO’s privacy policy.


  • 1.2
    By accessing any part of the Website, you shall be deemed to have accepted this legal notice in full. If you do not accept this legal notice in full, you must leave the Website immediately.


  • 1.3
    EIO may revise this legal notice at any time by updating this posting. You should check the Website from time to time to review the then current legal notice, because it is binding on you. Certain provisions of this legal notice may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages at the Website.


  • 2
    LICENCE
  • 2.1
    2.1Users of this website are permitted to view audio-visual and visual content submitted by entrants to EIO’s “True Meaning of Christmas” film competition and other materials submitted by such persons (“Content”) subject to these terms and conditions. By viewing any Content you agree and acknowledge that:


    • (i)
      you are permitted to view Content in real time during the normal course of your use of this Website only. Except as may be expressly permitted by applicable law, you are not entitled to download, copy, store, distribute, amend or otherwise deal with any Content without EIO’s express written consent;


    • (ii)
      Content has been submitted to EIO for inclusion on this website from a number of sources, and while EIO use reasonable endeavours to ensure that no material will be included on this website that may cause offence or other harm to users, EIO is not responsible for Content, including its accuracy or the views or comments expressed in any Content. In addition EIO is not responsible for, and subject to clause 2.2 you hereby waive any entitlement to make any claim against EIO in respect of, any defamation or any infringement of your intellectual property rights or other rights, that may have occurred through EIO’s storing and making available to view Content submitted to it.


  • 2.3
    If in good faith you consider that any Content is defamatory of you or infringes your intellectual property rights or other rights you should immediately contact EIO at the address provided above (marked for the attention of Bruce Rickard), setting out full details of the alleged defamation or infringement and the nature of your rights. Subject to your submission of the required information, EIO will as soon as practicable on receipt of your notice disable the Content in question from further viewing and will notify the alleged infringer of your notice. If EIO receives a counter-notice from such alleged infringer claiming that no defamation or infringement has in fact taken place, EIO will notify you of such counter-claim. If within 10 days of EIO’s notice of a counter-claim to you have not commenced court action against the alleged infringer EIO reserves the right to restore the Content in question to this Website.


  • 2.4
    EIO’s liability to you in respect of any claim that it has failed to act in accordance with clause 2.3 will in each case be limited to the sum of £100.


  • 3.
    SERVICE ACCESS


  • 3.1
    While EIO will endeavour to ensure that this Website is normally available 24 hours a day, EIO shall not be liable if for any reason the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.


  • 3.2
    Access to this Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond EIO's control.


  • 4
    VISITOR MATERIAL AND CONDUCT


  • 4.1
    EIO will prior to posting any material submitted by you review such material. In any event and despite EIO’s review, whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to comment on any materials (including Content) on this Website, or to make contact with other users of this Website, you must comply with the standards set out below. Comments and correspondence with other users must not:


    • Contain any material which is defamatory or potentially defamatory of any person.


    • Contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.


    • Promote or contain sexually explicit material.


    • Promote violence.


    • Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.


    • Infringe any copyright, database right, trade mark or any other right of any other person.


    • Be likely to deceive any person.


  • 4.2
    EIO will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any comments posted by you or any other user of this Website.


  • 4.3
    EIO has the right to remove any posting you make on this Website or to refuse to post any material you submit to EIO if, in EIO’s opinion, such material does not comply with the content standards set out above.


  • 4.4
    In addition to EIO’s other rights, if EIO considers that there has been a breach of these terms of use, EIO may at its option:


    • Immediately withdraw your right to use this Website, whether permanently or temporarily.


    • Issue a warning to you.


    • Take legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.


    • Take further legal action against you.


  • 4.5
    Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered under EIO’s privacy policy, any comments or material you post to this Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. EIO will be entitled to notify the appropriate authorities should EIO consider any comments posted by you to this Website to be in breach of any applicable law. EIO also has the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any comments posted by you to this Website constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy or are defamatory of them.


  • 4.6
    Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all material on the Website (including without limitation photographs and graphical images) are owned by EIO or its licensors


  • 4.7
    You may not misuse this Website (including, without limitation, by hacking) or by uploading any material which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).


  • 5
    LINKS TO AND FROM OTHER WEBSITES


  • 5.1
    Links to third party websites on this Website are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave this Website. EIO has not reviewed all of these third party websites and does not control and is not responsible for these websites or their content or availability. EIO therefore does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to this Website, you do so entirely at your own risk.


  • 5.2
    If you would like to link to the Website, you may only do so on the basis that you link to, but do not replicate, the home page of this Website, and subject to the following conditions:


    • 5.2.1
      you do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of EIO’s logo;


    • 5.2.2
      you do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around this Website;


    • 5.2.3
      you do not in any way imply that EIO is endorsing any products or services other than its own;


    • 5.2.4
      you do not misrepresent your relationship with EIO nor present any other false information about EIO;


    • 5.2.5
      you do not otherwise use any of EIO’s trade marks displayed on this Website without express written permission from the Company;


    • 5.2.6
      you do not link from a website that is not owned by you; and


    • 5.2.7
      your website does not contain content that is distasteful, offensive or controversial, infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or otherwise does not comply with all applicable laws and regulations.


  • 5.3
    EIO expressly reserves the right to revoke the right granted in clause 5.2 for breach of these terms and to take any action it deems appropriate.


  • 6.
    REGISTRATION


  • 6.1
    If you register your details with us EIO does not permit you to share your user name and password with any other person nor with multiple users on a network.


  • 6.2
    Responsibility for the security of any passwords issued rests with you.


  • 7
    LIABILITY


  • 7.1
    Except as provided above in clause 2.4, EIO excludes all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you in connection with this Website in any way or in connection with your use, inability to use or the results of use of this Website, any websites linked to this Website or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing this Website or your downloading of any material from this Website or any websites linked to this Website.


  • 7.2
    Nothing in these terms of use shall exclude or limit EIO's liability for:


    • 7.2.1
      death or personal injury caused by EIO’s negligence; or


    • 7.2.2
      fraud; or


    • 7.2.3
      misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter; or


    • 7.2.4
      any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.


  • 8
    GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

    These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising under them are governed by English law and the English courts shall have non-exclusive jurisdiction to settle any such disputes or claims.