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• When you view our web pages as with most other websites, our webservers build logs of activity including a log of your computer’s IP address. This IP address will not be used by us for any purpose.

These are our Terms and Conditions for use of this website. These terms and conditions apply whenever you access the website, on whatever device.

By using the website, you are deemed to have accepted these conditions.

If, for any reason, we believe that you have not complied with these requirements, we may, at our discretion, cancel your access to the website immediately and without giving you any advance notice.

Disclaimer of liability

To the extent permitted at law, we do not accept any responsibility for any statement in the material. You must not rely on any statement we have published on ridleyhall.net without first taking specialist professional advice. Nothing in the material is provided for any specific purpose or at the request of any particular person.

For the avoidance of confusion, we will not be liable for any loss caused as a result of your doing, or not doing, anything as a result of viewing, reading or listening to the material or any part of it (except for death or personal injury attributable to our negligence and to the extent permitted at law).

We give no warranties of any kind concerning ridleyhall.net or the material. In particular, we do not warrant that ridleyhall.net or any of its contents is virus free. You must take your own precautions in this respect as we accept no responsibility for any infection by virus or other contamination or by anything which has destructive properties.

Submitting graphical material and photography for publication

You hereby agree that you have created the graphical works, or taken the photograph(s) you have sent to us, or you have permission from or are authorised by the owner of the material to send it (them) to us. By submitting the material, you are granting us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to publish or republish, or otherwise use any such graphical works or photography in any format, including without limitation in print and electronic formats.

Photographs and graphical material will be published at the discretion of the Aministrator. You will receive no payment.

We may cut, edit, crop or arrange your photograph(s) or graphic as we think fit to appear on the ridleyhall.net, and we may remove your photograph(s) or graphics at any time.

We may edit or delete any comments which you submit along with your photograph(s) or graphic.

IMPORTANT: You or the owner of the photograph(s) still own the copyright in the photograph(s) sent to us and are free to republish the photograph(s) wherever you or the owner wish and in whatever medium you or the owner want.

Submitting text for publication on ridleyhall.net

Users of our website may submit material for publication in various areas of the website, including News, Reminisences and Message Board. We accept no liability in respect of any material submitted by users and published by us and we are not responsible for its content and accuracy.

If you want to submit material to us for publication on rdielyhall.net, you may do so on the following terms and conditions:

1. publication of any material you submit to us will be at our sole discretion. We reserve the right to make additions or deletions to the text or graphics prior to publication, or to refuse publication
2. you grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide licence to republish any material you submit to us in any format, including without limitation print and electronic format
3. you warrant to us that any material you submit to us is your own original work and that you own the copyright and any other relevant rights
4. you warrant that the material you submit is not obscene, offensive, defamatory of any person or otherwise illegal
5. you agree not to post material which is deliberately intended to upset other users
6. you acknowledge that any breach of these warranties may cause us damage or loss and you agree to indemnify us in full and permanently against any third party liabilities, claims, costs, loss or damage we incur as a result of publishing material you submit to us, including consequential losses.
7. we reserve the right to remove your access to individual services completely if we believe you are abusing the services in any way.

You will be deemed to consent to these guidelines if you choose to post any content or comments to the website.

Variations

These terms may be varied from time to time. Please ensure that you review these terms and conditions regularly as you will be deemed to have accepted a variation if you continue to use the website after it has been posted.

Force majeure

Although we will do our best to provide constant, uninterrupted access to ridleyhall.net, we do not guarantee this. We accept no responsibility or liability for any interruption or delay.

Governing law & jurisdiction

This agreement is governed by English law and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.