1. Your acceptance of these Terms
1.1 By using, visiting, accessing and/or registering with ourwebsite (including all content available through this Website), you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these Terms and the terms and conditions of our privacy policywhich can be found here. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms (as amended from time to time), then please do not use this Website.
1.2 We reserve the right to change, modify, add or delete parts of these Terms at any time and without further notice. Such amendments shall be effective upon posting the revised Terms on the Website.
1.3 These Terms are binding on Members and on non-Members who access and use the Website (“Users”)
2. Access and Use of this Website
We hereby grant you permission to use the Website in accordance with these Terms, provided that (a) you use the Website solely for non-commercial use (b) you will not copy or distribute any part of the Website without our prior written authorization (c) you will not alter, modify, edit or otherwise change any part of the Website other than as may be reasonably necessary to use the Website for its intended purpose and (d) that you will comply with these Terms.
3. Registration and account security
3.1 To post comments on articles published on the Website and to receive email subscriptions, you will need to create an account, registering as a member. You are not allowed to use another Member’s account unless you have his or her permission to do so.
3.2 You are solely responsible and liable for any activity occurring on your account, and you must keep your account password secret. You must inform us immediately of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your account by emailing us. We will investigate any security breaches and we have the right to suspend or terminate the account immediately. We will not be liable for any losses caused by the unauthorized use of your account, but you may be liable for our or other users’ losses caused by such unauthorized use.
4. Newsletter Subscription Emails
4.1 When you register an account with us, you will be asked whether you would like to receive different newsletter email subscriptions. If you do not want to receive such email subscriptions, please do not check any of the boxes.
4.2 If you want to unsubscribe from an email newsletter subscription, please use the unsubscribe link at the top of the newsletters or email us
5. Your obligations
5.1 You agree not to use the website for any illegal purposes and agree to use it in accordance with all the relevant laws.
5.2 You agree not to upload, post on or transmit through the website any computer viruses, macro viruses, Trojan horses, worms or anything else designed to interfere with, interrupt or disrupt the normal operating procedures of a website.
5.3 You will not post or otherwise disseminate on the website any material which is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially offensive, or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, violate any law, or is otherwise inappropriate.
5.4 You will not use the website in a manner that may cause the Website to be interrupted, damaged, rendered less efficient or such that the effectiveness or functionality of the website is any way impaired.
5.5 You agree that you will not collect, collate or gather any personally identifiable information from the website and agree that you will not use the communication systems provided by the Website for any commercial solicitation purposes.
5.6 You will not use the Website in any manner which violates or infringes the rights of any person, firm or company (including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, confidentiality rights and privacy rights).
5.7 You agree that in the event that you have any right, claim or action against any User arising out of the use of the website, then you will pursue such right, claim or action independently of, and without recourse to us, except that if you notify us of any abuse of the website which results in your right, claim or action (for example, you inform us of an offending article which is defamatory of or offensive about you, setting out the specific statement concerned, where it was posted and an explanation as to why it is defamatory or offensive about you), then we shall remove, delete, modify or alter (as appropriate) the posting in question and may terminate the offending User’s account if appropriate and at our sole discretion.
5.8 You agree that our content, trademarks, copyright, patents, logos, domain names and other related intellectual property rights belong to us and/or our affiliates or licensors and you will not do any act that infringes those rights.
6. Third Party Links
We may provide links to third party websites or resources on our website. You hereby agree that we are not responsible or liable for the availability of such external websites or resources and acknowledge that we do not endorse and are not responsible or liable for the practices and contents (including defamatory, and infringing content) in any the third party websites or resources, including (without limitation) any advertising, products or other materials or services on or available from such websites or resources, nor for any damage, loss or offence caused or alleged to be caused by, or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on such websites and resources.
7. Data Protection
7.1 We aim to comply with the applicable Data Protection legislation from time to time in place.
7.2 We will disclose your personal data if we are requested to do so by law or by any regulatory or governmental authority, or upon receipt of a court order or a legitimate request by a third party (for example, the police) in investigating illegal activities to provide information concerning your activities on the Website.
7.3 We reserve the right to notify or provide information to the relevant authority if we believe that you have carried out or are in the process of carrying out any illegal activity.
7.4 We reserve the right to store and use your personal data solely for our own internal purposes and we reserve the right to access, monitor and retrieve password protected information in order to fulfil our obligations, both legal and as established under these Terms.
8. Termination
8.1 We may terminate your registration and account with us immediately and without notice (without prejudice to our other rights and remedies).
8.2 You may terminate your account with us at any time on this page (you will have to log in to do so).