TERMS OF USE
Contents
Our details
Changes to these terms
Additional terms
Changes to this website
Use of website materials
Reliability of information
External links
Responsibility for loss or damage
Prohibited uses
Interactive services
Uploading content
Content standards
Suspension and termination
Viruses and malware
Linking to this website
Jurisdiction
Waiver and severability
Last revised: June 29, 2024
The following terms and conditions (“terms”) govern your use of www.reconnectyouth.org.uk (“our website”). By using our website, you accept these terms in full and agree to comply with them.
If you do not agree with these terms, you must not use our website or any of the services, functionality, or content available through it. You are also responsible for ensuring that anyone who accesses our website through your internet connection is aware of and complies with both these terms and any other terms and conditions that apply to using our website and services.
Our details
Our website is operated by ReConnect ("we"/"us"/"our"). ReConnect is a platform that helps teens start independent, local youth clubs focused on fitness and wellbeing, nature, service, and culture and education.
To contact us, please email info@reconnectyouth.org.uk.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms at any time by amending this page. The amended terms will apply to your use of our website as soon as they are published. Please review these terms regularly to make sure you understand which terms apply to you.
Additional terms
The additional terms and conditions below may apply to your use of our website and related services:
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ReConnect Privacy Policy: Our privacy policy governs how we collect and use your personal data and explains the use of cookies on our website. By using our website, you agree that you are accepting ReConnect’s privacy policy in full.
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Chapter Policies: To learn about the structure and responsibilities of independent ReConnect chapters, please view our Chapter FAQs.
We may change, suspend, or withdraw our website
Our website is provided free of charge.
We may change or update our website at any time, and we make no guarantee that our website or any of its content will always be available or accessible. We may suspend, limit, or withdraw all or part of our website at any time and for any reason.
How you may use material on our website
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our website, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our website for your personal use only. In addition, you may print or download ReConnect's leader guides for use with independent ReConnect chapter organisations.
You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way. ReConnect leader guides may be shared with members of independent ReConnect chapter organisations only if the materials are shared free of charge and full attribution is given to ReConnect. You may not share any other site materials with anyone else.
You must not use any part of the content on our website for any other purposes whatsoever without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
If you print off, copy, download or otherwise use any part of our website in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
Do not rely on information on this site
All content on our website is provided for general information only and is not medical, professional, or specialist advice. Nothing on this site is intended to amount to advice on which you should rely in relation to medical diagnosis or treatment, educational choices, personal decisions, or anything else. You must obtain professional, medical or other specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our website.
ReConnect does not recommend or endorse any specific organisations, professionals, products, procedures, opinions, or other information that may be mentioned on our website. Reliance on any information provided by our website, employees, or contracted writers is solely at your own risk.
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our website, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our website is accurate, complete or up-to-date.
We are not responsible for websites we link to
Where our website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.
We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you
We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any services to you, which will be set out in the terms and conditions applicable to such services.
To the extent permitted by law we exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our website or any content on it.
We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
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use of, or inability to use, our website; or
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use of or reliance on any content displayed on our website.
In particular, we will not be liable for:
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loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
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business interruption;
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loss of anticipated savings;
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loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
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any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our website or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.
Prohibited uses
You may use our website only for lawful purposes.
You may not use our website:
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in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
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in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
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for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way;
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to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards below;
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to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam); or
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to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, trojans, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
You also agree:
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not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our website in contravention of the provisions of these terms; and
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not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
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any part of our website;
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any equipment or network on which our website is stored;
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any software used in the provision of our website; or
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any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.
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Interactive services
We may from time to time provide interactive services on our website or through social media functions which allow you to upload content or contact other users.
Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered and if it is moderated. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our website, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.
Any interactive services we may provide are only for users aged at least 18 years old.
Where we do moderate an interactive service, that does not mean that we have verified or approved the material contributed by our users. The views expressed by users of our website do not reflect our views or values.
If you wish to complain about any information or materials uploaded by users of our website you can email us at info@reconnectyouth.org.uk.
Uploading content to our services
Whenever you make use of any interactive services via our website, you must comply with the content standards set out below.
You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.
Any content you upload to our website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you grant us a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties.
We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our website constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
We have the right to remove any posting you make on our website if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out below.
You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.
Content standards
These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our website and to any interactive services associated with them.
You must comply with the spirit and the letter of the following standards. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.
All materials contributed must:
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be accurate (where they state facts);
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be genuinely held (where they state opinions); or
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comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.
All material contributed must not:
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contain any material which is defamatory of any person;
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contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
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promote sexually explicit material;
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promote violence;
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promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
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infringe any copyright, database right or trademark of any other person;
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be likely to deceive any person;
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be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
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promote any illegal activity;
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be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
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be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;
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be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person;
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give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case; or
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advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
Suspension and termination
We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of these terms through your use of our website. When a breach has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate, including all or any of the following:
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immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our website;
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immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our website;
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issue of a warning to you;
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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;
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further legal action against you; and/or
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disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.
We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of these terms. The responses described in this paragraph are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them
We do not guarantee that our website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our website. You should use your own virus protection software.
You must not misuse our website 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 our website, the server on which our website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our website. You must not attack our website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. 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 our website will cease immediately.
Linking to our website
You may link to our website as long as you do so in a fair and lawful manner that does not harm or exploit our reputation. Unless granted explicit written permission, you must not link to our website in a way that may imply any form of affiliation, approval, or endorsement on our part. In addition, you must not create a link to our website in any website that is not owned by you. The website in which you are linking must adhere fully with the content standards set out above.
We have the right to revoke linking permission at any time and without notice.
Our website must not be framed on any other site.
If you wish to link to or use any content on our website in a manner other than that set out above, please email info@reconnectyouth.org.uk.
Jurisdiction
These terms are governed by and shall be construed in accordance with English law. You and we both agree to that any disputes relating to these terms will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
Waiver and severability
ReConnect’s failure to exercise or enforce any provision of these terms does not constitute a waiver of that provision. If any provision of these terms is found by a court or other competent authority to be unlawful or unenforceable, the other provisions will remain in effect. If any unlawful or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were removed, that part will be deemed removed and the rest of the provision will remain in effect.