Carver Media Group :: Terms and Conditions of Use

Disclaimer

Whilst Carver Media Group, and its agents, affiliates and partner solution providers have done their best to ensure the accuracy of data and information contained within this web site, it does not assume, and hereby disclaims any liability for any loss or damage caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions resulted from negligence, accident or other causes. This web site is offered to you conditional on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein. Your use of this web site constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices in addition to the Carver Media Group Privacy Policy. This web site contains links to web sites, web pages and services also operated by Carver Media Group, its affiliates and partner solutions providers. Your use of each Carver Media Group web site is also subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use and other terms and guidelines, if any, contained within each Carver Media Group web site. In the event that any of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein conflict with the Terms and Conditions of Use or other terms and guidelines contained within any particular Carver Media Group web site, then the Terms and Conditions of Use and other terms and guidelines for such Carver Media Group web site shall control. You agree to familiarize yourself with the Terms and Conditions of Use and to abide by them if you choose to use the sites, pages or services to which they apply.

Use limitation

This web site is for your personal use and you may copy data and information from it, distribute, transmit and/or reproduce content provided appropriate citation, acknowledgment and or brand association regarding origin of source within the web site, electronic web link(s) to the web site and copyright notices are included. Also permitted is limited not-for-financial-reward reproduction and transmission to colleagues, coworkers & other industry members. You may not modify, create derivative works, transfer, or sell any data or information from it to third parties without prior written permission from a senior officer within Carver Media Group. If the web site is developed to contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, vertical communities and/or other message or communication facilities (collectively known as "Communities"), you agree to use the Communities only to send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular forum and you agree by way of example, not as a limitation, that when using a Community, you will not: defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others; publish, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material, data or information; upload files that contain material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents to upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer conduct; forward or link Carver Media Group information or data to pyramid schemes or chain letters.

Third-party content

The Carver Media Group web site offers access to a number of third-party web pages and content. The company has no control whatsoever over the content of such sites. In other instances, including but not limited to, web pages hosted on the web site or provided to Carver Media Group by third parties, the company may set guidelines for what may appear on such web pages and may engage in certain screening, but generally exercises no control over the content of such web pages and is unable to police all such content. Third-party content accessible through the web site from such sources is developed by people over whom Carver Media Group exercises no control.

Privacy

Certain areas of the Products and Services on this web site may request the user to register, subscribe or to provide feedback as well as providing certain data. Upon registering, subscribing or entering feedback information you may receive other access codes to which the user is responsible for maintaining confidentiality. Carver Media Group hereby undertakes to respect the privacy of personal data and contact information thereby received and to only pass on such data and information to other parties where distribution consent has been given or implied.

We may collect information about your interaction with Carver Media Group sites and services. For example, we may use website analytics tools on our site to retrieve information from your browser, including the site you came from, the search engine(s) and the keywords you used to find our site, the pages you view within our site, your browser add-ons and your browser's width and height. We may also use technologies, such as cookies and web beacons, to collect information about the pages you view, the links you click and other actions you take on our sites and services. Additionally, we collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times and referring Web site addresses.

General

These Terms and Conditions of Use are governed by the laws of England. You hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in the United Kingdom in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of this web site. Carver Media Group's performance under these Terms and Conditions of Use is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this herein is in restriction of Carver Media Group's right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of this web site or information provided to or gathered by the company with respect to such use. If any part of these Terms and Conditions of Use are determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the Terms and Conditions of Use shall continue in effect. The above provisions constitute the entire agreement between the user and Carver Media Group with respect to this web site and it supersedes all prior communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and the company in respect to this web site. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved. Carver Media Group and logo, and all portfolio company names and logos are trademarks of Carver Media Group.

Security of Your Personal Information

Carver Media Group is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential information over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

If a password is used to help protect your accounts and personal information, it is your responsibility to keep your password and navigation to your secure area confidential. Do not share this information with anyone. If you are sharing a computer with anyone you should always log out before leaving a site or service to protect access to your information from subsequent users.

Sharing of Your Personal Information

Except as described in this statement, we will not disclose your personal information outside of Carver Media Group and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates without your consent. Some Carver Media Group sites allow you to choose to share your personal information with select Carver Media Group partners so that they can contact you about their products, services or offers. Other sites, do not share your contact information with third parties for marketing purposes, but instead may give you a choice as to whether you wish to receive communications from Carver Media Group on behalf of external business partners about a partner's particular offering (without transferring your personal information to the third party).

Some Carver Media Group services may be co-branded and offered in conjunction with another company. If you register for or use such services, both Carver Media Group and the other company may receive information collected in conjunction with the co-branded services.

We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, hosting websites, processing transactions or performing statistical analysis of our services. Those service providers will be permitted to obtain only the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are prohibited from using it for any other purpose. However, for credit card processing, our fraud detection vendors may use aggregate data to help improve their service. This helps them more accurately detect fraudulent use of credit cards. We may access or disclose information about you, including the content of your communications, in order to: (a) comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of Carver Media Group or our customers, including the enforcement of our agreements or policies governing your use of the services or (c) act on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of Carver Media Group employees, customers or the public.

Use of Cookies

Carver Media Group Web sites use "cookies" to enable you to sign in to our services and to help personalise your online experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to store your preferences and other information on your computer in order to save you time by eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information and to display your personalised content on your later visits to these sites.

When you sign in to a site using your credentials, we store your unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your hard disk. This cookie allows you to move from page to page at the site without having to sign in again on each page. When you sign out, these cookies are deleted from your computer. We also use cookies to improve the overall experience. For example, your user ID may be stored in a cookie that will remain on your computer after you sign out. This cookie allows your user ID to be pre-populated, so that you will only need to type your PID the next time you sign in. If you are using a public computer or do not otherwise want this information to be stored, you can select the appropriate radio button on the sign-in page, and this cookie will not be used.

You have the ability 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. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use other interactive features of Carver Media Group sites and services that depend on cookies, and some preferences that are dependent on cookies may not be able to be respected.

If you choose to accept cookies, you also have the ability to later delete cookies that you have accepted. In your browsers settings option. If you choose to delete cookies, any settings and preferences controlled by those cookies, will be deleted and may need to be recreated.

Controlling Unsolicited E-mail ("Spam")

Carver Media Group is concerned about controlling unsolicited commercial e-mail, or "spam." Carver Media Group has a strict policy prohibiting the use of a Carver Media Group e-mail account to send spam. Carver Media Group will not sell, lease or rent its e-mail subscriber lists to third parties. While Carver Media Group continues to actively review and implement new technology, such as expanded filtering features, there is no currently available technology that will totally prevent the sending and receiving of unsolicited e-mail. Using junk e-mail tools and being cautious about the sharing of your e-mail address while online will help reduce the amount of unsolicited e-mail you receive.

Anti-Spam Policy Directive

Carver Media Group does not authorise the harvesting, mining or collection of e-mail addresses or other information from or through the Services. Carver Media Group does not permit or authorise others to use the Services to collect, compile or obtain any information about Carver Media Group’s customers or subscribers, including but not limited to subscriber e-mail addresses, which are Carver Media Group's confidential and proprietary information. Use of the Services is also subject to the applicable Privacy Statement and Terms of Use.

Carver Media Group does not permit or authorise any attempt to use the Services in a manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair any aspect of any of the Services, or that could interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of any Service.

If Carver Media Group believes that unauthorised or improper use is being made of any Service, it may, without notice, take such action as it, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate, including blocking messages from a particular internet domain, mail server or IP address. Carver Media Group may immediately terminate any account on any Service which it determines, in its sole discretion, is transmitting or is otherwise connected with any e-mail that violates this policy.

Nothing in this policy is intended to grant any right to transmit or send e-mail to, or through, the Services. Failure to enforce this policy in every instance does not amount to a waiver of Carver Media Group's rights.

Unauthorised use of the Services in connection with the transmission of unsolicited e-mail, including the transmission of e-mail in violation of this policy, may result in civil, criminal or administrative penalties against the sender and those assisting the sender.