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Legal Information This page states the Terms and Conditions under which you may use this Web Site. Please read this page carefully. If you do not accept the Terms and Conditions stated here, do not use the Web Site. L. Davies ("Administrator") may revise these Terms and Conditions at any time by updating this posting. You should visit this page periodically to review the Terms and Conditions, because they are binding on you.
Section 1. Use of Material.
The Administrator authorizes you to view and download a single copy of the material on this Web site ("www.uk-yankee.com") solely for your personal, noncommercial use. Special rules may apply to the use of certain software and other items provided on the Web Site. Any such special rules are listed as "Legal Notices" on this Web Site and are incorporated into this Agreement by reference.
The contents of this Web Site, such as text, graphics, images and other material ("Material"), are protected by copyright under both United States and foreign laws. Unauthorized use of the Material may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. You must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original Material on any copy you make of the Material. You may not sell or modify the Material or reproduce, display, publicly perform, distribute, or otherwise use the Material in any way for any public or commercial purpose. The use of the Material on any other Web site or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited.
If you violate any of these Terms, your permission to use the Material automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any copies you have made of the Material.
Section 2. Administrator's Liability.
The Material may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. The Administrator makes no representations about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of the Material or about the results to be obtained from using the Web Site and the Material. The use the Web Site and the Material is at your own risk. Changes are periodically made to the Web Site and may be made at any time.
THE ADMINISTRATOR DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE WEB SITE WILL OPERATE ERROR-FREE OR THAT THIS WEB SITE AND ITS SERVER ARE FREE OF COMPUTER VIRUSES AND OTHER HARMFUL GOODS. IF YOUR USE OF THE WEB SITE OR THE MATERIAL RESULTS IN THE NEED FOR SERVICING OR REPLACING EQUIPMENT OR DATA, COMPANY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE COSTS.
THE WEB SITE AND MATERIAL ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. THE ADMINISTRATOR AND ITS SUPPLIERS, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTIES RIGHTS, AND THE WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE. COMPANY AND ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO WARRANTIES ABOUT THE ACCURACY , RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, OR TIMELINESS OF THE MATERIAL, SERVICES, SOFTWARE TEXT, GRAPHICS, AND LINKS.
Section 3. Disclaimer of Consequential Damages.
IN NO EVENT SHALL ADMINISTRATOR, ITS SUPPLIERS, OR ANY THIRD PARTIES MENTIONED AT THIS SITE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) RESULTING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEB SITE AND THE MATERIAL, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT ADMINISTRATOR IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES
Section 4. User Submissions.
Generally, any communication which you post to the Web Site is considered to be non-confidential. If particular Web pages permit the submission of communications which will be treated by Administrator as confidential, that fact will be stated in "Legal Notices" on those pages. By posting communications to the Web Site, you automatically grant Company a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable nonexclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform, and display the communication alone or as part of other works in any form, media, or technology whether now known or hereafter developed, and to sublicense such rights through multiple tiers of sublicensees.
As a User, you are responsible for your own communications and are responsible for the consequences of their posting. You must not do the following things: Post material that is copyrighted, unless you are the copyright owner or have the permission of the copyright owner to post it; post material that reveals trade secrets, unless you own them or have the permission of the owner; post material that infringes on any other intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others; post material that is obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, or embarrassing or causing distress or inconvenience to another User or any other person or entity; post a sexually-explicit image; post advertisements or solicitations of business; post chain letters or pyramid schemes; or impersonate another person.
The Administrator does not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any of communications posted by other Users or endorse any opinions expressed by Users. You acknowledge that any reliance on material posted by other Users will be at your own risk.
Administrator does not screen communications in advance and is not responsible for screening or monitoring material posted by Users. If notified by a User of communications which allegedly do not conform to this Agreement, Administrator may investigate the allegation and determine in good faith and its sole discretion whether to remove or request the removal of the communication. Administrator has no liability or responsibility to Users for performance or nonperformance of such activities. Administrator reserves the right to expel Users and prevent their further access to the Web Site for violating this Agreement or the law and the right to remove communications which are abusive, illegal, or disruptive.
Section 5. Links to Other Sites.
The Web Site contains links to third party Web sites. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by Administrator of the contents on such third-party Web sites. Company is not responsible for the content of linked third-party sites and does not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such third party Web sites. If you decide to access linked third-party Web sites, you do so at your own risk.
Section 6. Software Licenses.
All software that is made available for downloading from the Web Site ("Software") is protected by copyright and may be protected by other rights. The use of such software is governed by the terms of the software license agreement or designated "Legal Notice" accompanying such software ("License Agreement"). The downloading and use of such software is conditioned on your agreement to be bound by the terms of the License Agreement.
Section 7. Indemnity.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Administrator, employees and agents, from and against any claims, actions or demands, including without limitation reasonable legal and accounting fees, alleging or resulting from your use of the Material (including Software) or your breach of the terms of this Agreement. The Administrator shall provide notice to you promptly of any such claim, suit, or proceeding and shall assist you, at your expense, in defending any such claim, suit or proceeding.
Section 8. Export Control.
The United States controls the export of products and information. You agree to comply with such restrictions and not to export or re-export the Materials (including Software) to countries or persons prohibited under the export control laws. By downloading the Materials (including Software), you are agreeing that you are not in a country where such export is prohibited or are a person or entity to which such export is prohibited. You are responsible for compliance with the laws of your local jurisdiction regarding the import, export, or re-export of the Product.
Section 9. User Information.
The Administrator may use the information it obtains relating to you, including your IP address, name, mailing address, email address and use of the Web Site, for its internal business and marketing purposes and will not disclose the information to third parties for such purposes.
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Forum:
1.You agree to use UK Yankee forum in accordance with the following Rules:
About your posts:
· Contributions must be civil and tasteful;
· No rude or abusive behaviour (flaming or trolling)- postings must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or posted with the intention of causing trouble;
· Unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable;
· Be patient - users of all ages and abilities may be taking part in the relevant UK Yankee community;
· No spamming - don't cross post your messages to more than one discussion;
· No advertising or commercial solicitation without prior arrangement; Responses to direct enquiries IS welcome, for example "where can I find a _____ service?" making excessive, inappropriate and unnecessary references to your products and services is self promotion and not allowed. Discreet links in your signature are permitted.
· Posts containing languages other than English may be removed
· No impersonation. Adopting an inappropriate user name (one that is vulgar, offensive, etc.) is also unacceptable;
About the law:
· You may not post any defamatory or illegal material of any nature in UK Yankee Communities. This includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio. Posting a message with the intention of committing an illegal act is strictly prohibited.
· You agree to only post materials to which you have the copyright or other permission to distribute electronically. You may not violate, plagiarise, or infringe on the rights of third parties including copyright, trade mark, trade secrets, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights.
If you breach these Terms of Use:
If you fail to abide by these terms, you may be formally warned by personal message or email. This warning may also include a temporary or permanent suspension of your ability to participate in any or all of UK Yankee's Community areas.
If after a warning you continue to breach these terms, you will be prohibited from using UK Yankee Communities for an extended period of time or indefinitely.
If you post or send offensive or inappropriate content anywhere on or to UK Yankee Communities and the UK Yankee considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, UK Yankee may use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop any further such infringements. This can include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school, ISP or email provider about the infringements.
UK Yankee reserves the right to delete any posting, at any time, for any reason, without explanation.
The use of the site is at the discretion of the owner, and that any use may be terminated by the owner at any time.
Privacy Policy/GDPR
Your privacy is important to us and we give consideration to what we ask you to provide and how we collect personal data through the operation of our services.
You must accept this Privacy Policy to use this website and participate in the discussion forums. UK Yankee may change this policy from time to time by updating this page, available via link in the forum footer or menu. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 25 May, 2018.
The EU laws regarding privacy are known as GDPR, which defines personal data as:
..‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;
We only collect information if we need to, such as to provide a service or communications that you have requested. You can cancel these services and communications at any time in your account settings.
Information you provide
Account information is needed to set up an account, requiring a username and email address, as well as a birthdate to confirm that you are an adult. You may add more information to your profile, but it is not required, we hold this information as long as your account exists. When deciding what additional information to include, please remember that this additional information is public.
We may collect the following information when you use our website:
-Username
-Email Address
-Date of Birth
-IP Address
-Other data collected that could directly or indirectly identify you.
Cookies and other tracking scripts
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
Like most websites, we use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website as site logins need cookies to function.
If at any time you have questions about our privacy practices or any of your rights described below, you may reach us via our contact form page.
How we use information we collect
Our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that:
(1) The use is necessary in order to fulfil our commitments to you under our Terms of Service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account–for example, in order to enable access to our website on your device or charge you for a paid plan; or
(2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or
(3) The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or
(4) We have a legitimate interest in using your information–for example, to provide and update our Services, to improve our Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience, to safeguard our Services, to communicate with you, to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising, and better understand user retention and attrition, to monitor and prevent any problems with our Services, and to personalize your experience; or
(5) You have given us your consent–for example before we place certain cookies on your device and access and analyze them later on, as described in our Cookie Policy.
Sharing with trusted third parties
We may share your personal data with third parties with which we have partnered to allow you to integrate their services into our own Services, and with trusted third party service providers as necessary for them to perform services on our behalf, such as:
-Serving advertisements
-Performing analysis of our Services and customers demographics
We do not sell our users’ information for mailing lists or any other purpose. Ever.
Third-party services we use are:
- Google Analytics, used to track website use in anonymized statistics, deleted after 14 months
- Google AdSense/DFP, displays advertisements earn revenue and cover running costs
- Paypal, used as a payment processor if you donate or subscribe
- AddThis, to track sharing of content
- Social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, to track social engagement
- YouTube, to host/display videos
- TMDHosting, for website hosting services
Data about Usage of Services
Data is automatically collected when you use and interact with our Services, including metadata, log files, cookie/device IDs and location information. This information includes specific data about your interactions with the features, content and links (including those of third-parties, such as social media plugins) contained within the Services, Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and settings, the date and time the Services were used, information about browser configuration and plugins, language preferences and cookie data, information about devices accessing the Services, including type of device, what operating system is used, device settings, application IDs, unique device identifiers and error data, and some of this data collected might be capable of and be used to approximate your location. We use this information to help us understand how people use our site, in order that we can make improvements, understand errors, and prevent malicious activity against the service or its users.
How we store and secure the information we collect
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard.and secure the information we collect online.
While we implement safeguards designed to protect your information, no security system is impenetrable and due to the inherent nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that data, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, is absolutely safe from intrusion by others.
Compliance with legal, regulatory and law enforcement requests
We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We will disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (such as subpoena requests), to protect our property and rights or the property and rights of a third party, to protect the safety and well-being of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we consider to be illegal or unethical.
Communicating with you
We may contact you directly such as necessary to deliver transactional or website related communications that you have requested. This includes the topic/post notifications you may have subscribed to. You may update your subscription preferences with respect to receiving communications from us and/or our partners by signing into your account and visiting your Profile -> Notifications page.
Transfer of personal data abroad
If you utilize our Services from a country other than the country where our servers are located, your communications with us may result in transferring your personal data across international borders. Some of our third-party service providers may also be located abroad.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling your personal information
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
In connection with any sale or acquisition of any portion of this site, or in the unlikely event that UK Yankee was to close down permanently, user information would be transferred to a third party and this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your account and information.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under by visiting your profile and clicking export data. Private messages may include personal data about others and therefore cannot be exported, in order to protect their rights as well.
Content: We encourage users to take care in what information they share, in both their member profile, which can be updated yourself, and in public forum posts.
Questions/answers/public discussions are not “personal data” as defined by GDPR. If you have shared personal data within posts and wish to remove it, please contact a moderator or use the contact form to request assistance, if you have not edited the post within the allowed edit time.
Please remember that public information contained in profiles and forum discussions may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties.
You must accept this Privacy Policy to use this website and participate in the discussion forums. UK Yankee may change this policy from time to time by updating this page, available via a link in the forum footer or top menu. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 25 May, 2018.
EU individuals also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority, in the UK this is the ICO and will still apply after Brexit.
