Community.Businessballs terms and
conditions
businessballs community terms of use and privacy policy
These terms and conditions are for the
Businessballs
Community free publishing area.
Here are the terms
and conditions for the main
Businessballs website.
This page shows the latest version of the Businessballs Community terms
and conditions, and details of significant
changes.
While you use the site you effectively agree to these terms of use.
index to community website terms and conditions
- Acceptance and
definitions
- Modification, notification and
acceptance
- Age limit
- Privacy policy
- Content and
responsibilities
- Advertising,
affiliateships and e-commerce
- Endorsement
- Liability for services
- Website functionality and
code
- Linking to Businessballs
- Copyright infringement claims and
process
- Termination and waiver
- General
Significant changes are detailed
below.
please note
- Please ensure any files you upload are safe to use.
- Downloading files carries risks. Ensure your computer has up-to-date
protection against viruses, etc.
quick summary
- The purpose of the Businessballs Community website is primarily to
improve and extend free learning and development.
- In helping to do this you may publicize your own services,
including linking to your own website(s).
- You must own the content you upload or post onto the website, or have
permission or be within your rights to do so.
- Each registered user account and its content should be clearly
identifiable with the user's business or interests. An account should not be
used to promote multiple businesses that do not belong to you.
- You can choose to keep your registered email address private.
- Registration is for over 16s - or older if your national law says
so.
- Registration and presence on the Businessballs Community are
free.
- Your username for login should be something you have a right to
use.
- Other people's use of uploaded content for personal learning and
teaching/developing/helping others is free.
- Publishing or sale of uploaded content is not permitted unless
approved by the owner of the content.
- The website accepts no liability for issues arising from your use of
the website.
- You accept liability for any issues arising from content you create
or upload.
- You can place revenue-generating adverts on your Community pages,
provided they accompany genuine content, and your adverts only account for a
small proportion of the page(s) concerned.
- The use of a single Community user account in providing SEO (Search
Engine Optimization) services for other businesses is not permitted. See the
Content and Responsibilities section
below for further clarification.
- A Community account should represent an individual or business.
Therefore if you provide SEO services in helping others make use of
self-publishing websites you must create a different account on behalf of each
client.
The above summary is not the terms and conditions. See the terms and
conditions in detail below.
If after reading the terms and conditions you still have a query please
contact us.
businessballs community website terms and conditions
- If you use the Community.Businessballs.com website then effectively
this will be taken to mean you agree to these Terms and Conditions (referred to
here as "Terms"). If you do not agree with the Terms please don't please don't
use the Community.Businessballs website.
- This agreement is between you and the Businessballs.com website,
which is owned by Alan Chapman, a partnership based in Leicester UK, whose
contact details are
here.
- The Businessballs.com website including the subdomain
Community.Businessballs.com are also referred to as "Businessballs" and also
"the Website".
- The terms "Community", "Community on Businessballs" and
"Businessballs Community" refer to the community self-publishing subdomain
Community.Businessballs.com.
- You are referred to also as the "User", or the "Registered User" (if
registered with the Community on Businessballs).
- A "User" of the website is someone who views and may download
accessible Content and/or who uses other functionality of the website not
requiring registration.
- A "Registered User" is someone who can create a personal profile and
post/upload Content onto the Website.
- The Businessballs Community enables you to seek and offer various
things; to communicate and engage with other Businessballs users; to use, share
and provide resources, materials and ideas.
- The Businessballs services that enable this are referred to as
"Service" or "Services".
- The ideas, materials, information and resources, etc., that are
posted onto the Businessballs Community are referred to as "Content".
- Where the words 'link' and 'links' are used in the context of linking
to websites this refers to navigation links, not 'content links' or
'hotlinking' of the sort that uses bandwidth belonging to others.
- These Terms apply especially to the use of the Community subdomain on
the Businessballs website, and may be transferred to any replacement or
alternative self-publishing community positioned elsewhere within the
Businessballs website, for example if resulting from and required by the
improvement and development of technology and services.
- There are separate and different
terms of the use for the
content on the www.Businessballs.com website, which act as default terms of
use for Content posted/uploaded onto the Businessballs Community subdomain.
(This is further clarified below in Content
and Responsibilities, point 9. Basically as a Registered User, your content
is subject to the same terms that apply to Alan Chapman's content on
Businessballs.com, i.e., your Content is free for others to use in learning and
teaching, but it is not to be sold or published elsewhere by others without
your permission.)
- Businessballs reserves the right to change these Terms.
- This page will always show the most up-to-date Terms.
- Notification of significant
changes to these Terms will be posted clearly on this webpage. (A
significant change is one which affects the meaning of these Terms, as opposed
to insignificant changes such as spelling, grammar, presentation, etc.)
- Notification might be communicated to you directly if you are a
Registered User where changes are significant, but you must not rely on this;
it is your responsibility to check and stay up to date with the latest Terms.
- By continuing to use the site as a User or Registered user it will be
taken that you accept the changes to the Terms.
- There is no lower age limit for Users who seek to view and download
learning materials featured on this website.
- The minimum age for becoming a Registered User of this Website is 16.
- The Website accepts no liability for any User registering under age
and thereby giving false information about his/her age, and all users of this
Website are required to exercise suitable caution in communications and
dealings with other Website users so as to guard (as far as is reasonably
possible) against problems arising in this regard.
- Cookies are used on the Community Website to aid functionality (log
in for example), but not to store personal private information.
- Other than (point 1) above, Users of the Website who wish only to
view and download available materials - and who do not seek to register - are
not recorded or monitored personally and individually.
- Users who want to enjoy the additional Services such as creating a
personal profile and uploading resources, etc., must become Registered
Users.
- You can choose to keep your registered email address private.
- Other than information that you as a Registered User choose to make
public within your chosen privacy settings for this Website, Businessballs will
not divulge any information about you to anyone else, unless we are required by
law to do so.
- In turn you agree not to divulge any private information about
another user to another party unless permitted by the person concerned to do
so, or compelled by law to do so.
- Businessballs might from time to time analyse collective data
provided by all users or certain groups of users, in order to better understand
the Businessballs user-base, or to produce and publish surveys about usage
statistics and user demographics, but at no stage would any personal
information about you as a user be released to anyone else or be identifiable
as relating to you as an individual, without your permission to do so.
- Users and registered users of Businessballs must extend the above
privacy considerations to other users. Abuse of or interference in the privacy
of users by another user is not permitted.
- Users should use the Website with sufficient care concerning their
own personal private information and any private personal Content created or
uploaded, and Businessballs accepts no responsibility for any liabilities
arising from a User's negligence in this regard.
- Businessballs does not place advertising on the Businessballs
Community website, but Google adverts do appear on the main Businessballs
website, and some Users' Content on Businessballs Community may contain Users'
own Google adverts, or other adverts. Google operates 'interest-based
advertising' methods, as do other advertising providers, which may use
anonymous information (i.e., not including visitors' names, addresses, email
addresses or telephone numbers) about your visits to this and other websites in
order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you and
other visitors. See
Google's information about interest-based advertising, and
see Google's
privacy information and opt-out option in this regard. Other advertising
organizations, should you see any represented on Users' Content within the
Businessballs Community website, generally provide equivalent information and
options.
- You use this Website as a User or Registered User entirely at your
own risk.
- You are not permitted to create or upload any Content that is
intended to be harmful, damaging, threatening, or otherwise unacceptable to
reasonable sensitivities, for which Businessballs will be the sole arbiter.
Such Content will be removed.
- If you wish to report any Content as being unacceptable please report
it via the website 'flagging' system or
contact us. (See also
the notes about copyright infringement
notification process.)
- Despite the above when you use the Website it is possible you might
find some Content unacceptable to you in one way or another, in which event
Businessballs is not liable for any problems or damages arising.
- Assuming Content belongs to you, you retain copyright ownership of
any Content that you make available on the Businessballs Community.
- Given the nature of Businessballs Services you effectively grant
Businessballs free licence to display your Content on the Businessballs website
and its subdomains and folders and to provide other users with access to it by
using the Services, including displaying extracts and descriptions your
Content.
- You must ensure that when you upload or create any Content on
Businessballs that you are entitled to do so. This particularly means that you
must not make any Content available on Businessballs (including names given to
files or folders) which breaches rights belonging to someone else.
Businessballs will remove Content which does this.
- You are responsible for any consequences or damages arising from any
Content your create or upload on to Businessballs that infringes copyright or
is otherwise unacceptable. This responsibility does not rest with
Businessballs, and you agree to indemnify Businessballs, its staff, suppliers
and associates, from any claims resulting from your use of the Businessballs
website.
- The Community on Businessballs (the subdomain
Community.Businessballs.com) enables community self-publishing and uploading of
resources onto the Businessballs website for sharing and use by others. Alan
Chapman's content is largely contained on the Businessballs.com website, not in
the Community subdomain. As a Registered User you may stipulate your own terms
and conditions applying to other Users for using your Content, which must be
fair and ethical and clearly stated within the Content concerned, and which
must be within and not conflicting with these Terms. Where no such terms of use
are stated by the Registered User, the default Terms shall be those applicable
to Alan Chapman's content on the Businessballs.com website. Here are the
specific terms of use
relating to Alan Chapman's materials and webpages on the Businessballs
website.
- You are not permitted to engage in any 'e-commerce' selling or
trading of products or services or memberships, or engage in 'white label'
micro-site arrangements, on the Businessballs Community website.
- Businessballs is not liable for disputes, remedial action or any
damages arising from the use of one User's Content by another User.
- As a Registered User you are responsible for resolving any disputes
arising from use of your Content. (See the notes about
infringement notification.)
- Inappropriate techniques to improve popularity, visibility and
ranking on the Community subdomain are not permitted, and Users who employ such
methods are liable to be removed from the Community subdomain without warning.
Examples are: disproportionate loading of keywords alongside minimal genuine
content; abuse of page-views mechanisms; abuse of update mechanisms, spamming
and similar nuisance-causing SEO (search engine optimization) techniques, and
any other tactics designed to gain unfair popular advantage.
- The use of a Registered User account solely or mainly for the
revenue-generating promotion of businesses owned by other people or
organizations is not permitted, and Users who employ such methods are liable to
be removed from the Community subdomain without warning. The Businessballs
Community is for educating, informing, and promoting your own interests - not
other people's - and as such each Registered User account must be easily and
clearly identifiable with an individual person or business.
- You are permitted to include within your Content any ethical
advertising, links, promotions, offers, etc., for your own products and
services.
- This includes freedom to include links to your own website, within
your Content, provided your activities are ethical.
- You may also recommend, promote, publicize and include links to other
ethical providers, charities, organisations, within your Content, including
links and other adverts which generate revenue for you. Such recommendation and
promotion of other providers must be secondary to your own Content, and where
this rule is ignored the User is liable to be removed without warning.
- Revenue-generating advertising and affiliate arrangements are
permitted subject to advertised products and services being lawful and ethical,
and in support of and secondary to relevant content. Revenue-generating
advertising and affiliate arrangements which cause offence and generate
reasonable complaints, or which are not in support of and secondary to relevant
content will be liable for removal.
- You are not permitted to upload onto the Website any code or
functionality enabling 'shopping cart' or direct money transactions, e-commerce
or 'micro-site' or 'white-label' e-commerce arrangements, although you can link
to your own external webpages or other external webpages offering such
functionality.
- Other than where stated clearly by Alan Chapman or within the
Content of Alan Chapman's own webpages, Businessballs does not endorse or
recommend any Registered Users or their Content featured on the Businessballs
website, including Content of Registered Users which appears on the
Businessballs website in listings and categories designed to assist browsing
and navigation.
- Where Businessballs Content posted by Registered Users features other
Registered Users, businesses, organisations, website links, products, services,
ideas., this does not mean that Businessballs endorses or supports the items or
organisations concerned.
- As a Registered User you must not imply or state that Businessballs
endorses you or your Content, either directly or indirectly, or by using any
logos or other inferences.
- Other than where specifically agreed or where it appears for
navigation purposes as part of the Website's functionality, the use of
Businessballs logo(s) is not permitted in your Content.
- Businessballs will endeavour to maintain high quality Services, to
protect the interests on the Website of all registered users, and to protect
and enhance the well-being of all other Website users, however Businessballs
cannot accept any liability for any of the following:
- interruption of Services
- level or lack of visibility of your Content within the Website
- loss of Services or deletion of Content
- any criticism of your Content by other Registered Users, or
ranking by the Website's automated displays
- accidental exposure of private Content or information
- intentional exposure of or interference in your Content by
others through illegal access
- damages or losses arising from any of the above
- consequences or losses arising from use of any Content, including
any losses or damages arising from viruses or other corrupt files downloaded
from the Website, or from any dealings you might have with other Users or
Registered Users, whether or not Businessballs endorses the person,
organisation, product, service or other Content concerned.
- Businessballs has no liability for backing-up and retrieving any lost
Content. You are responsible for keeping copies and back-up of your own
Content, and if your Content is important to you then you are strongly
recommended to keep your own copy of it.
- You must not interfere with the functionality or technical operation
of the Businessballs website in any way.
- You must not insert or upload any code onto the website that alters
the functionality of the website, or which employs any automated method to
register, upload, create, download or control Businessballs Content, files,
webpages or data in any way.
- Other than to a website belonging to you, links within your Content
must be navigation links, not 'hotlinks' or 'content links' because such links
utilize internet connectivity (bandwidth) belonging to another person or
organisation.
- 'Hotlinking' or 'content linking' from external websites to any
Content or other files on the Businessballs website is not permitted.
- Functional code on the Businessballs website belongs either to
Businessballs, or to its suppliers. It is not to be taken and used.
- You can link to any page or resource on the Businessballs website
provided that:
- there is no statement on the page or resource concerned that
forbids links to it
- the link is a navigation link, not a 'content link' or a
'hotlink'
- your link opens the linked page or resource in its own new
browser window, and is not framed or edged by a banner or part-frame in any
way.
- If you (whether you are a Registered User or not) believe that
Content has been made available on this website which breaches your
intellectual property rights, copyright or other rights belonging to you,
please follow this process:
- First, (if possible, and unless you have good reasons for
by-passing this stage) contact the person or organisation which has posted the
Content and try to clarify the ownership situation. It could be that they were
not aware they were doing any harm, in which case most people are happy to
remove the offending Content. It could be that the rights and usage situation
are not as clear as you first thought and it might help to listen to the other
person's point of view. In any event please try to resolve the matter with
whoever posted the Content before taking the next step. Simply talking to
people directly often saves time and expense.
- Second, if this fails to resolve the matter, or if the Registered
User's email address is not shown,
contact Businessballs
(you may also use the phone and postal address for serious matters), sending or
otherwise providing evidence of your ownership of the Content, full details of
where the offending Content is being made available, and your own contact
details. Assuming your claim is right and proper we will then remove the
offending Content.
- For the most serious and urgent matters you are entitled to
contact Businessballs in the first instance.
- You may terminate this agreement without notice for any reason
without penalty by the removing your Content (if you are a Registered User) and
ceasing to use the Website.
- In the above event the relevant sections of these Terms will continue
to apply retrospectively to any claims or disputes arising from when
registration and use of the Website was active.
- Where and if Businessballs fails to enforce any of these Terms, this
does not amount to a waiver.
- These Terms are governed by and interpreted according to the law in
England and Wales.
- As a Registered User you may include your own specific terms within
your own Content relating to the use of your Content (for example the type of
usage permitted), but your own specific terms relating to the use of your own
Content will not in any way alter or nullify the Businessballs Terms shown on
this page, and where there is any conflict, these Terms shall prevail.
- It is your responsibility to ensure you are acting within your local
country/regional/state law where this law has any implications for your use of
this Website aside from what is mentioned in these Terms.
- If any of these Terms are deemed unenforceable for any reason the
remainder of the Terms still apply.
- These Terms will transfer to any replacement or alternative
self-publishing community positioned elsewhere within the Businessballs
website, for example if resulting from and required by the improvement and
development of technology and services.
We welcome all suggestions and feedback
about these Terms.
The Terms on this page will always be the current version.
It is your responsibility to stay aware of them and any changes.
By continuing to use the Businessballs website you accept the Terms for
doing so.
Here are details of significant changes to these Terms.
'Significant changes' means those which affect meaning - not spelling,
grammar and presentation, etc.
No changes yet made since the introduction of
Community.Businessballs.com.
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