Acceptable Use Policy

These are between you and Business Connect Publishing Ltd, owners of Business Connect Magazine (“the company”, “we”, “us” or “our”) and they govern you the customer (“you”, “your”, yours”) and our respective rights and obligations. 

Together with the below linked terms and notices (collectively, these “terms”), they constitute the agreement between you and us related to Business Connect Magazine situated on the website businessconnectmagazine.co.uk. Please read these terms carefully.

Prohibited Uses
Whether you are a visitor or registered user, you must comply with our terms and conditions (found on businessconnectmagazine.co.uk), and use our site for lawful purposes only. In particular, you must not use our site for the uses listed (without limitation) below:

1. any fraudulent activity;
2. any activity which breaches any applicable law or regulation, whether national or international;
3. any activity which may cause or result in harm to a child under 18 years of age;
4. sending unsolicited advertising or other content (spam), or entering into any arrangement for such material to be sent;
5. reproducing, selling or otherwise handling our site or its contents in breach of our terms of website use;
6. knowingly introducing to our site, or to transmit to any other site, computer or network, viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material, code or program which is malicious or technologically harmful;
7. attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, our software, our server, or any server, computer or database connected to our site; or associated platforms.
8. attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

Participation, contributing and interacting
Our site and our Social Media platforms relating to Business Connect Magazine offer users the facilities to upload or contribute content or other material, or to interact with other users. When making use of these facilities, it is your responsibility to ensure that any contribution or interaction is, as far as you are aware, factually correct, represents your honest opinion, and does not breach any applicable law or regulation.

In addition, any contribution or interaction must not include any material which (without limitation):

1. is defamatory, obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
2. is, or refers to material which is, sexually explicit;
3. promotes violence, illegal activity or any form of discrimination;
4. infringes any other person’s copyright, database right or trade mark;
5. threatens, harasses, upsets, embarrasses, alarms or annoys any other person, or is likely to do so;
6. advocates, promotes or assists any illegal activity;
7. is likely to deceive any person or is made in breach of a legal duty owed to a third party (such as a duty of confidence);
8. invades another’s privacy or cause inconvenience or anxiety to any person;
9. is used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person; or
10. gives the impression that the material emanates from us, if this is not the case.

Intellectual Property Rights
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site and the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without a license from us or our licensors. You may not reproduce in any format (including on another website) any part of our site (including content, images, designs, look and feel) without our prior written consent.

If, in our opinion, you are in breach of these provisions, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must either return or destroy (as required by us) any copies of the materials you have made.

Breaches of this Policy
Any breach of this acceptable use policy will be dealt with in the same way as breach of our terms and conditions, and we reserve the right to take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate, including taking legal action against you. We are not liable for any loss or damage caused by any breach of this acceptable use policy.

Amendments
Please check this page regularly, as we may revise this acceptable use policy at any time. We may also change or update our acceptable use policy at any time by means of notices published anywhere on our site.

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