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TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Effective from October 15th 2008

Definitions of BUAFL, BAFA and Partners appear in our Privacy Policy.

The following Website Terms and Conditions Agreement (the Agreement) governs your use of the Website] accessible at www.buafl.net and linked from a series of other websites including those of our National Governing Body and its constituent associations. Your use of the Service constitutes your acceptance of the Agreement. Your acceptance of the Agreement provides you with a limited and temporary license and permission to use the software and other resources of the Service, which license and permission are freely revocable at any time, with or without cause, and with or without notice, by the BUAFL or BAFA, as described more fully below.

NEWSLETTER AND FORUM

The BUAFL offers users of the service the opportunity to access an electronic newsletter and a forum. From time to time we may share information relating to these services with BUAFL partners. Please review our Privacy Policy prior to agreeing to use these services. The way in which we hold and transfer your information is described there.

PRIVACY POLICY

We are committed to protecting your privacy and security and have explained in detail the steps we take to do so in the Service Privacy Policy, a copy of which you should review by clicking here. You in turn agree and consent to the terms of the Service Privacy Policy by your use of the Service.

COPYRIGHT

All copyright rights in the text, images, photographs, graphics, user interface, and other content provided on the Service, and the selection, coordination, and arrangement of such content, are owned by the BUAFL or persons / companies described either on the photo or when you scroll over it Under applicable copyright laws, you are prohibited from copying, reproducing, modifying, distributing, displaying, performing or transmitting any of the contents of the Service for any purposes without prior consent of a member of the Board of the BUAFL or the relevant copyright holder. The Service and the information contained in reference herein are for informational purposes only. Any reproduction, copying, or redistribution for commercial purposes of any materials or design elements of the Service is strictly prohibited, without the prior written consent of the BUAFL Chief Executive or the Chairman of BAFA. Systematic retrieval of data or other content from this Service to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database or directory without written permission from the BUAFL is prohibited. If your logo or photo has been used and you are not credited accordingly or wish to have an image removed then please contact either andy.fuller@buafl.net or martin.boffey@buafl.net

TRADEMARK

All rights in the product names, company names, trade names, logos, product packaging and designs of the BUAFL and all the BUAFL Partners (as defined in the Privacy Policy) or third-party products or services, whether or not appearing in large print or with the trademark symbol, belong exclusively to the copyright holder, as applicable, or their respective owners, and are protected from reproduction, imitation, dilution or confusing or misleading uses under national and international trademark and copyright laws, as applicable. The use or misuse of these trademarks or any materials is expressly prohibited and nothing stated or implied on this Service confers on you any license or right under any patent, copyright or trademark of the BUAFL / BAFA or any third party.

AGREEMENT CHANGES

The BUAFL reserve the right to amend this Agreement at any time. You are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the then-current Terms and Conditions to which you are bound. Your use of the Service after the posting of modifications to this Agreement will constitute your acceptance of this Agreement, as modified. If, at any time, you do not wish to accept this Agreement, you may not use the Service.

LINKS

This Service may contain links to other services (Linked Services). The Linked Services are not under the control of the BUAFL, and the BUAFL PARTNERS are not responsible for the contents of the Linked Services, including, without limitation, links contained on Linked Services, or any changes or updates to Linked Services. The BUAFL provide any Linked Services to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any such Linked Services is not an endorsement by the BUAFL or necessarily any of its partners in favor of any company offering Internet services, products or services on the Linked Services. Our teams have the opportunity to provide news articles on their respective sections which may or may not mention third parties. This does not constitute any endorsement of those third parties by the BUAFL. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, we reserve the right to deny or rescind permission to link to the Service from any Website, and to require termination of any link to the Service, for any reason in our sole and absolute discretion.

OBLIGATIONS

You are required to comply with all applicable law in connection with your use of the Service, and such further limitations as may be set forth in any written or on-screen notice from the BUAFL or its partners. As a condition of your use of the Service, you represent and warrant that you will not use the Service for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by this Agreement.

PROHIBITED USES

Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to transmit, distribute, post, communicate or store information or other material on, to or through the Service that: (a) is copyrighted, unless you are the copyright owner or valid licensee to such materials and / or you have express permission from a member of the BUAFL or BAFA Board. (b) reveals trade secrets, unless you own them, or you are the valid licensee to such materials (c) infringes on any other intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others; (d) is obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, slanderous or embarrassing to any other person or entity or in violation of applicable law as determined by the BUAFL and / or BAFA Board in their sole discretion; (e) is sexually-explicit; (f) constitutes advertisements or solicitations of business, surveys, contests, chain letters or pyramid schemes; or (g) contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, or other computer programming routines or engines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or information. You further agree not to: (h) use any incomplete, false or inaccurate biographical information or other information for purposes of registering as a user of the Service, or for purposes of registering for any promotions offered through the Service; (i) delete or revise any material or other information of any other user of the Service; (j) harvest, collect, or send information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent; (k) take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Service’s infrastructure; (l) use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Service or any activity being conducted on this site; (m) use or attempt to use any engine, software, tool, agent or other device or mechanism (including without limitation browsers, spiders, robots, avatar’s or intelligent agents) to navigate or search the Service to harvest or otherwise collect information from the Service to be used for any commercial purpose; (n) allow any other person or entity to use your username or password for posting or viewing comments or sending or receiving materials; or (m) attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Service. You further agree not to violate or attempt to violate the security of the Service, including, without limitation: (o) accessing data not intended for you or logging into a server or account that you are not authorized to access, in particular those of a BUAFL Board member or another team; (p) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; (q) attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, by way of submitting a virus to, or overloading, "flooding", "spamming", "mailbombing" or "crashing", the Service; (r) sending unsolicited e-mail, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services.

The BUAFL and its partners reserve the right (but do not have the obligation) to review postings on its Service, to remove any postings, and to terminate your ability to post to the Service at any time without notice, in its sole discretion. The BUAFL also reserve the right to disclose any information necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part.

CONDUCT

You are responsible for, and assume all liability associated with, any material you make available or transmit through the Service, whether through chat rooms, messages boards or other forums, including liability for claims of infringement, libel and slander. You may not post, transmit through or otherwise make available on or through the Service (i) any material that violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others, that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, abusive, profane, vulgar, sexually explicit, racist, threatening, hateful or otherwise objectionable or that encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law.

Although the BUAFL do not and cannot review every message posted on or transmitted through the Service, the BUAFL shall be under no obligation to permit any material posted or transmitted to remain on the Service, and may remove from, or refuse to display on the Service any material that the BUAFL, in the exercise of their sole discretion, believe violates this Agreement.

COMPLAINTS

Any complaints regarding the content of this site can be addressed to andy.fuller@buafl.net or martin.boffey@buafl.net or chairman@bafa.org.uk