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These Terms and Conditions set out the terms of use for users of the HSE Research Projects Directory.

Terms of use

Please read these user terms and conditions carefully. They set out the terms under which we provide the advanced Registered User features of the HSE Research Projects Directory to you. By accessing the HSE Research Projects Directory Registered User features you agree to be bound by these user terms and conditions.

Privacy

HSE takes the security of users information extremely seriously. We have an active anti-Spam policy to prevent you from receiving unsolicited commercial email.

Registration

To gain access to some of the additional features of the HSE Research Projects Directory (Add Comments, Email Reports) you need to Register. The details provided by you on registration are important and should be correct and complete.

If we believe that you have provided false information we reserve the right to terminate your participation in the advanced Registered User features of the HSE Research Projects Directory without notice.

Our Obligations to You

We agree to use our reasonable endeavours to maintain the HSE Research Projects Web Site services in fully operational condition. However we cannot guarantee that this will always be the case and we do not accept responsibility for any defects that may exist, or for any costs, loss of profits, loss of data, or consequential losses arising from your use of, or inability to access this service even where any such loss arises through our negligence. We also exclude any liability (including liability for negligence) for the accuracy, suitability, quality or completeness of any information or material of whatever nature appearing on or available through the HSE Research Projects Directory and the value and integrity of information, advice, goods or services offered by third parties over or through the HSE Research Projects Directory.

The HSE Research Projects Directory is provided without any warranties or guarantees unless specifically stated.

Any pages in, or any information derived from the HSE Research Projects Directory (including emails and downloaded files) may contain links to other websites or resources. We are unable to accept responsibility for these nor can we be deemed to have endorsed their content.

We reserve the right at any time and without any notice or explanation to suspend, restrict, reduce or terminate your access to the HSE Research Projects Directory for any reason and to delete any data and files in any part of the HSE Research Projects Directory Web Site. We may modify or discontinue the HSE Research Projects Directory temporarily or permanently, with or without notice to you. You agree that we shall not be liable to you or any third party for any modification to or discontinuance of the HSE Research Projects Directory or for any deletion or corruption of any data contained in the HSE Research Projects Directory, even where such modification, discontinuance, deletion or corruption is due to our negligence.

In order to maintain the integrity of the HSE Research Projects Directory, we reserve the right to forward details to the Police, or other Regulatory Authorities where requested to do so. We may also forward contact details where a complaint arises concerning your use of this service and where the use is deemed by us to be inconsistent with these terms and user conditions or illegal.

We do not engage in the screening of information (Comments) submitted by users prior to it appearing on the HSE Research Projects Directory. However, we reserve the right, but shall be under no obligation, to remove any such information at any time at our sole discretion and in particular, (but not limited to), any material which is offensive or unlawful and we reserve the right to terminate your use of the HSE Research Projects Directory in the event that you place such material on the HSE Research Projects Directory.

You acknowledge that we have no control over user comments in the HSE Research Projects Directory. We cannot and shall not be held liable or otherwise responsible for the content on the HSE Research Projects Directory. By using the HSE Research Projects Directory, you accept that we shall not be liable or otherwise responsible and agree to waive any claims against us for any distress, injury, loss, liability, damage and expense arising from or in connection with your use of the service, or its contents. This exclusion also applies to any loss, damage, liability, distress and expense arising from our negligence. You agree to indemnify HSE, any HSE employee and HSE's sub-contractors from and against any liability for losses, damages, expenses and claims arising from your use of the HSE Research Projects. You specifically agree that we are not responsible for or liable to you or anyone else for any threatening, defamatory, libellous, obscene, offensive or illegal conduct of any other party or you or any infringement of another's rights, including intellectual property rights.

We do not exclude any liability for death or personal injury caused through our negligence.

Your Obligation to Us

You agree that you will only use the HSE Research Projects Directory in a manner that is consistent with these user terms and conditions and in such a way as to ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. In particular: You will not use the HSE Research Projects Directory to transmit or post any material which is (or which we believe is) defamatory, offensive, obscene, menacing, hateful or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable, or which may, in our judgement, cause annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety to any person.

Please notify us, by writing to Health and Safety Executive, Internet Communications, Trinity Road, Bootle Merseyside, L20 3TW or sending an email to support@webcommunities.hse.gov.uk, of any material contained in the HSE Research Projects Directory that you believe infringes these rules:

You will not impersonate any person or entity;
You will not forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any information transmitted through the HSE Research Projects Directory;
You will not upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any material that you so not have a right to transmit under any law or contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under non-disclosure agreements);
You will not post, email or otherwise transmit any material that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
You will not post to the HSE Research Projects Directory any information that may constitute investment advice under the Financial Services Act 1986. Under this Act, restrictions are placed on who may or may not pass on investment advice;
You will not provide or offer to exchange passwords for commercial sites;
You will not include direct personal promotion or commercial advertising;
You will not post, email or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail", "spam", "chain letters", "pyramid schemes" or any form of solicitation;
You will not knowingly post, email or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.

Please notify us by writing to Health and Safety Executive, Internet Communications, Trinity Road, Bootle Merseyside, L20 3TW or sending an email to support@webcommunities.hse.gov.uk, of any material contained in the HSE Research Projects Directory that you believe infringes this rule;

You will not interfere with or disrupt the HSE Research Projects Directory or servers or networks connected to the HSE Research Projects Directory, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the the HSE Research Projects Directory;
You will not "stalk" or otherwise harass any person; and
You will not collect or store personal information about other users whether or not for commercial purposes, without their consent.

To the extent to which your use, or the use by any person who may be authorised by you or for whom you are responsible (for example, as the parent or guardian of a child or otherwise under these user terms and conditions) causes loss, damage or expense to any person (including us), you agree to indemnify HSE, any HSE employee and HSE's sub-contractors from and against any liability for such losses, damages and expenses.

Where applicable, you are responsible for maintaining the full and total confidentiality of your username and password chosen by you on registration. As a result, you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under them. You must notify us immediately of any unauthorised use to which you become aware.

You are responsible for obtaining the equipment and paying all telephone charges necessary to access and use the HSE Research Projects Directory. You are also responsible for making your own back-up arrangements of any important data that you place on the HSE Research Projects Directory as although we maintain back-up facilities for data on the HSE Research Projects Directory, we cannot guarantee that these facilities are fail safe.

Your use of the HSE Research Projects Directory carries with it no rights in relation to copyright, trade and service marks or other intellectual property in the HSE Research Projects Directory. You agree not to display or use in any manner the HSE Research Projects Directory trade and/or service marks or otherwise infringe the Rights. You agree that we can display images and text throughout the HSE Research Projects Directory, including on any emails or within any other data processed by the HSE Communities system. Any content contained in or presented through the HSE Research Projects Directory by us is protected by our or their proprietary rights. You will not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, sell or distribute in any way such content including all code and software, unless you are explicitly authorised by us or them (as the case may be) to do so.

The HSE Research Projects Directory allows registered users to submit comments to a discussion facility where registered users can exchange information freely. By using the comments facility you consent to participating in such an environment where it cannot be guaranteed that information you submit will not be reproduced elsewhere, including outside the HSE Research Projects Directory.

You agree that we are in no way liable for unauthorised reproduction or distribution of information that you submit to the service. Information you submit will be displayed on the service and can be printed out and distributed by users.

You agree not to use the HSE Research Projects Directory or the services made available to you on the HSE Research Projects Directory such that you cause the whole or part of the HSE Research Projects Directory to be interrupted, damaged, rendered less efficient or in any way impaired.

We do not exclude any liability for death or personal injury due to our negligence.

Copyright

We respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. If you believe that a copy of your work is available on the HSE Research Projects Directory without your consent or that a copyright infringement has otherwise occurred, please supply us with the following information:

A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
Details of where the infringing material is located on the HSE Research Projects Directory;
Your address, telephone number and email address;
A statement by you that you believe in good faith that the use of the work on the HSE Research Projects Directory is not authorised by the copyright owner or any person entitled to act on their behalf or by law;
An affidavit executed by you that the information you provide concerning the copyright infringed is accurate and that you are the copyright owner authorised to act on their behalf.

Please deliver this information to Health and Safety Executive, Internet Communications, Trinity Road, Bootle Merseyside, L20 3TW.

Amendments

These user conditions may be amended from time to time. If we do amend them, the new terms and conditions will be available on the HSE Research Projects Directory.

Our agreement with you, set out in these user terms and conditions is governed by English law and you and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

Any notice sent to us should be sent by email to support@webcommunities.hse.gov.uk unless otherwise provided in these user terms and conditions.

Privacy Policy

The HSE Research Projects Directory takes the security of our users' information extremely seriously. We have an active anti-Spam policy to prevent you from receiving unsolicited commercial email. Any users found to be sending Spam to the HSE Research Projects Directory will be removed from the system and barred. If you have any comments about misuse of the HSE Research Projects Directory please email us at: support@webcommunities.hse.gov.uk.

The HSE Research Projects Directory complies with UK data protection legislation in its treatment of all personal data provided by members. You can edit the personal information held by the HSE Research Projects Directory at any time by going to the "Update your details" area and editing your personal profile. You can also de-activate yourself from the HSE Research Projects Directory by mailing: support@webcommunities.hse.gov.uk. We will delete all your personal information from our system six months after you have done so.

The HSE Research Projects Directory takes comprehensive measures to provide a secure environment for your use of the HSE Research Projects Directory. However we cannot guarantee the absolute security of information posted to the HSE Research Projects Directory.

The HSE Research Projects Directory is equipped with backup equipment to maximise service availability and to minimise the impact of unforeseen events. We strive to ensure that any files stored on the service are thoroughly backed up. We recommend however, that you also keep your own copies of any important files as we cannot guarantee that our back-up facilities are fail safe.

What does HSE Web Communities do with my registration information?

The information you provide about yourself is held securely on the HSE Research Projects Handbook. This information is used to assist us in the development of our policies and guidance, and provides us with the ability to seek your opinion on future initiatives and proposals appropriate to your interests.

Moderation Policy for User Contributions

HSE does not check user contributions to the HSE Research Projects Handbook before they are published but reserves the right to remove any comments that breach our Terms and Conditions. Remember that you are fully responsible for what you write.