TERMS OF WEBSITE USE
This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website www.ourwritinggroup.com (“theSite”),
whether as a guest or a member. Please read these terms of use
carefully before you start to use the Site. By using the Site, you
indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide
by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from
using the Site. By
clicking that you agree to our terms on the Site membership
registration page you signal that you have read and agreed to what is
below.
INFORMATION ABOUT US
www.ourwritinggroup.comis a site operated by Writing4all Limited ("We" or the “Company”).
We are registered in Ireland under company number 478884 and have our
registered office at 28 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2, Ireland. We are a limited company. Writing4all Limited also runs the well known site www.writing4all.ie.
ACCESSING THE SITE
Access to the Site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve
the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on the Site
without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason the
Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of the Site, or our entire Site, to users who have registered with us.
You must be at least 13 years old to use the Site. Any
registration by, use of or access to the Site by anyone under 13 is
unauthorized, unlicensed and in violation of these Terms. By using the
Site, you represent and warrant that you are 13 or older and that you
agree to abide by these Terms. Minor children under the age of 18 who
wish to use the Site must obtain permission from their parents and
their parents must agree to these Terms. You (the parent) must register
an account on the Site and add your child or children to your (the
parent's) account and certify that you are the legal guardian of the
child/children listed on the account. By adding a child to your
account, you also give your child permission to access all of the Site
and to use all of the services offered on the Site. Please remember
that the Site and its services are designed to appeal to a broad
audience. Accordingly, as the legal guardian, it is your responsibility
to determine whether any of the services and/or Site Content (as
defined below) are appropriate for your child.
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code,
password or any other piece of information as part of our security
procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you
must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable
any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or
allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to
comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
When using the Site, you must comply with the provisions of our acceptable use policy
You must provide accurate, current and complete information about yourself when registering for an account on the Site ("Registration Data").
You must also update your Registration Data, and any other information
you provide to the Company, to keep it accurate, current and complete.
You alone are responsible for keeping your password secure. You are
responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have
access to the Site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all
persons who access the Site through your internet connection are aware
of these terms, and that they comply with them.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
You are solely responsible for any activity and content (including,
without limitation, data, text, information, screen names, graphics,
photos, profiles, audio and video clips, and links to third-party
content) that is posted under your screen names (collectively, "User Content").
You own your User Content, not us. User Content is defined
as text, pictures, video, sound and other files legally posted by you
on the Site. You grant us and our affiliates a perpetual, irrevocable,
worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free right to display your User
Content (in whole or in part) on the Site or on the site of our
affiliates that bear the Writing4all or ourwritinggroup name -
Facebook, Twitter. You also grant each user of the Site the right to
access, display, view, store and reproduce such your User Content for
personal use. You represent and warrant to the Company that you have
the right to grant the licenses stated above.
All content (excluding User Content as defined above) on the Site,
including but not limited to designs, text, graphics, pictures, video,
information, applications, software, music, sound and other files, and
their selection and arrangement (the "Site Content"), are the proprietary property of the Company, and its licensors with all rights reserved.
No Site Content may be modified, copied, distributed, framed,
reproduced, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted, transmitted, or
sold in any form or by any means, in whole or in part, without the
Company's prior written permission, except that the foregoing does not
apply to your own User Content that you legally post on the Site.
Provided that you are eligible for use of the Site, you are granted a
limited license to access and use the Site and the Site Content and to
download or print one copy of any portion of the Site Content to which
you have properly gained access solely for your personal,
non-commercial use, provided that you keep all copyright or other
proprietary notices intact. Any use of the Site or the Site Content
other than as specifically authorized herein, without the prior written
permission of Company, is strictly prohibited and will terminate the
license granted herein. Such unauthorized use may also violate
applicable laws including without limitation copyright and trademark
laws and applicable communications regulations and statutes. Unless
explicitly stated herein, nothing in these Terms of Use shall be
construed as conferring any license to intellectual property rights,
whether by estoppel, implication or otherwise. This license is
revocable at any time without notice and with or without cause
You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you
have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any
illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics
separately from any accompanying text. Our status (and that of any
identified contributors) as the authors of Site Content on the Site
must always be acknowledged.
If you print off, copy or download any part of the Site in breach of
these terms of use, your right to use the Site will cease immediately
and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the
materials you have made.
Except for your own User Content, you may not upload or republish
Site Content on any Internet, Intranet or Extranet site or incorporate
the information in any other database or compilation, and any other use
of the Site Content is strictly prohibited.
UPLOADING MATERIAL TO THE SITE
We reserve the right to remove content and accounts that we
determine in our sole discretion are or may be unlawful, threatening,
offensive, obscene or in violation of any party's intellectual property
rights or these Terms of Use.
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload
material to the Site, or to make contact with other users of the Site,
you must comply with the content standards set out in our acceptable
use policy. You warrant that
any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you
indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. Any material you upload
to the Site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary,
and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third
parties any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to
disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any
material posted or uploaded by you to the Site constitutes a violation
of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the
content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of
the Site.
We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on the
Site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with the content
standards set out in our acceptable use policy.
Other than our right to display User Content as described above we
claim no intellectual property rights over User Content you provide to
the Site. Your profile and the materials you upload remain yours. You
can remove your profile at any time by contacting john@ourwritinggroup.comand requesting the deletion of your account. This will also remove any
text, images or other content you have stored on the Site. We encourage
users to contribute their creations to the public domain or consider
progressive licensing terms.
We undertake to obey all relevant copyright laws. We will review all
claims of copyright infringement received and remove content deemed to
have been posted or distributed in violation of any such laws. To make
a claim, please provide us with the following:
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A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or the person authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf;
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A description of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
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A description of the infringing material and information reasonably sufficient to permit the Company to locate the material;
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Your contact information, including your address, telephone number, and email;
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A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that use of the
material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright
owner, its agent, or the law; and
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A statement that the information in the notification is accurate,
and, under the pains and penalties of perjury, that you are authorized
to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
Claims can be submitted via email at john@ourwritinggroup.com.
RELIANCE ON INFORMATION POSTED
Commentary and other materials posted on the Site are not intended
to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore
disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance
placed on such materials by any visitor to the Site, or by anyone who
may be informed of any of its contents.
THE SITE CHANGES REGULARLY
We aim to update the Site regularly, and may change the content at
any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to the Site, or
close it indefinitely. Any of the material on the Site may be out of
date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such
material.
OUR LIABILITY
The material displayed on the Site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy.
THE COMPANY MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE SITE OR THE
SERVICES PROVIDED ON THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR
ERROR FREE, THAT THE SITE OR OUR SERVER IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER
HARMFUL COMPONENTS, THAT THE SITE, INCLUDING ANY SERVICES PROVIDED ON
THE SITE, WILL BE AVAILABLE, OR THAT DATA ENTERED WILL BE SECURE FROM
UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS.
To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of
companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:
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All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
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Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or
damage incurred by any user in connection with the Site or in
connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of the
Site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it,
including:
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loss of income or revenue;
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loss of business;
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loss of profits or contracts;
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loss of anticipated savings;
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loss of data;
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loss of goodwill;
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wasted management or office time; and
whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract copyright infringement or otherwise, even if foreseeable.
This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury
arising from our negligence nor any other liability which cannot be
excluded or limited under applicable law.
INDEMNIFICATION
You agree to indemnify and hold the Company, and its subsidiaries,
affiliates, officers, managers, members, agents, co-branders or other
partners, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including
reasonable legal fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of
your use of the Site, your violation of these Terms, or your violation
of any rights of another.
INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR VISITS TO THE SITE
We process information about you in accordance with our privacy
policy. By using the Site,
you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided
by you is accurate.
TRANSACTIONS CONCLUDED THROUGH THE SITE
Contracts for the supply of services, goods or information formed
through the Site or as a result of visits made by you are governed by
our terms and conditions of supply.
VIRUSES, HACKING AND OTHER OFFENCES
You must not misuse the Site by knowingly introducing viruses,
trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or
technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised
access to the Site, the server on which the Site is stored or any
server, computer or database connected to the Site. You must not attack
the Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of
service attack.
By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence.
We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement
authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing
your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use
the Site will cease immediately.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a
distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically
harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer
programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of the
Site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any
website linked to it.
LINKING TO THE SITE
You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is
fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of
it, but 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.
You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by
you. The Site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create
a link to any part of the Site other than the home page. We reserve the
right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from
which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content
standards set out in our acceptable use policy.
If you wish to make any use of material on the Site other than that set out above, please address your request to john@ourwritinggroup.com.
LINKS FROM THE SITE
Where the Site contains links to other sites and resources provided
by third parties, these links are provided for your information only.
We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and
accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may
arise from your use of them.
JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW
The Irish courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to the Site.
These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in
connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including
non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed
in accordance with the law of Ireland.
VARIATIONS
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page.
You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of
any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions
contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or
notices published elsewhere on the Site.
ADDITIONAL TERMS
These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and
the Company regarding the use of the Site, superseding any prior
agreements between you and the Company relating to your use of the
Site. The failure of the Company to exercise or enforce any right or
provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such
right or provision in that or any other instance. If any provision of
these Terms of Use shall be deemed invalid, unlawful, void or for any
reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable
from these Terms of Use and shall not affect the validity and
enforceability of any remaining provisions, which shall continue in
full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law
to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related
to the use of the Site or these Terms of Use must be brought, if at
all, within one (1) year from the accrual of the claim or cause of
action or be forever barred.
YOUR CONCERNS
If you have any concerns about material which appears on the Site, please contact john@ourwritinggroup.com.
Thank you for visiting the Site.
