Legal

Please enjoy using the Parish Council website, we hope you find it to be a useful tool for information and communication. When you are using the site please be aware of the terms of use and relevant legal information set out below, constituting the CopyrightTerms and Conditions and the Privacy Statement

The terms ‘Middleton Parish Council’, ‘us’ and ‘we’ refer to the owner of this website. The terms ‘you’ and ‘your’ refers to the user or viewer of our website.

Copyright

This website and its content is copyright of Middleton Parish Council – © Middleton Parish Council 2015. All rights reserved. Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following:

  • you may print or download to a local computer extracts for your personal and non-commercial use only;
  • you may copy the content to individual third parties for their personal use, but only if you acknowledge the website as the source of the material.

You may not modify, publish, republish, distribute, redistribute, broadcast, rebroadcast, show in public or commercially exploit the content, except with our express written permission, . Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.

Terms and Conditions

Welcome to our website. If you continue to browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy policy govern Middlestone Parish Council’s relationship with you in relation to this website. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website.

Parish Council reserves the right to change these Terms and Conditions at any time and will inform users via notices on the website.  You are expected to regularly review such notices and continued use of this site after changes are made constitutes your acceptance of the modified Terms and Conditions.

License to use website

Unless otherwise stated, Middleton Parish Council and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages or documents from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

Without the written content of Middleton Parish Council, you must not:

  • republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
  • sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
  • show any material from the website in public;
  • reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose;
  • edit or otherwise modify any material on the website;
  • redistribute material from this website (except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution).

Acceptable use

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without Middleton Parish Council’s express written consent.

Restricted Access

Middleton Parish Council reserves the right to restrict access to areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at Middleton Parish Council’s discretion.

If Middleton Parish Council provide you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.

Middleton Parish Council may disable your user ID and password in Middleton Parish Council’s sole discretion without notice or explanation.

User content

In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose. You grant to Middleton Parish Council a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media.  You also grant to Middleton Parish Council the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights. Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or Middleton Parish Council or a third party (in each case under any applicable law). You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint. Middleton Parish Council reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on Middleton Parish Council servers, or hosted or published upon this website. Notwithstanding Middleton Parish Council’s rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, Middleton Parish Council does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.

Warranties

This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. Middleton Parish Council makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.

Middleton Parish Council does not warrant that this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or that the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.

Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind.

Limitations of liability

Middleton Parish Council will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:

  • to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;
  • for any indirect, special or consequential loss;
  • for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

These limitations of liability apply even if Middleton Parish Council has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

Exceptions

Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit Middleton Parish Council’s liability in respect of:

  • death or personal injury caused by Middleton Parish Council’s negligence;
  • fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of Middleton Parish Council;
  • any matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for Middleton Parish Council to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability

Reasonableness

By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable. If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.

Other parties

You accept that Middleton Parish Council has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its members. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against Middleton Parish Council’s members in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website.

You agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect Middleton Parish Council’s members, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as Middleton Parish Council.

Unenforceable provisions

If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.

Indemnity

You hereby indemnify Middleton Parish Council and undertake to keep Middleton Parish Council indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by Middleton Parish Council to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of Middleton Parish Council legal advisers) incurred or suffered by Middleton Parish Council arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions (or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions).

Breaches of these Terms and Conditions

Without prejudice to Middleton Parish Council’s other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, Middleton Parish Council may take such action as Middleton Parish Council deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

Revision of Terms and Conditions

Middleton Parish Council may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

Assignment

Middleton Parish Council may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with Middleton Parish Council’s rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent. You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

Severability

If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

Agreement

These terms and conditions, together with the Copyright notice above and the Privacy Statement below, constitute the entire agreement between you and Middleton Parish Council in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

Law and Jurisdiction

These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the [non-]exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Credit

This document was created using a Contractology template available at http://www.freenetlaw.com.

Privacy Statement

This privacy policy sets out how Middleton Parish Council uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website. Middleton Parish Council is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected.

Middleton Parish Council may change this policy at any time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

Security

Middleton Parish Council will take all reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of personal information or any other information provided to us. We will not pass on information to third parties unless permission is specifically given to do so by the provider of the information.

Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. Once you have used these links to leave our site 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.

Cookies

This site does not create cookies on your computer.

Website Monitoring

We may monitor and/or record which webpages have been visited in order to analyse the overall use of the site and help us to improve the site. No personal information is collected in this process which could identify individual users, only the actions of our website visitors is logged (for instance we might count how many users have visited a page over a given time).

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