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AOP Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

The following terms apply to your use of the UK Association of Online Publishers (AOP) website ('the Website'). By using the Website you acknowledge and agree that:

Terms of use

1. Copyright in the Website and all its content, including databases, is owned by AOP and its licensors. You are permitted to download and print content from the Website for your own personal use. The Website content must not be copied or reproduced, used or otherwise dealt with for any other reason. You are not entitled to modify or redistribute the content of the Website or reproduce, link, frame, or deep link it in any other Website without the express written permission of AOP. You are not entitled to use the content of the Website for commercial exploitation in any circumstances.

2. The names, images and logos identifying AOP or third parties and their products and services, are proprietary marks of AOP, and/or may be the proprietary marks of third parties. Any use made of these marks without obtaining prior permission may be an infringement of rights in those marks and AOP reserves all rights to enforce such rights.

3. Content on the Website is provided for general information purposes only to inform you about AOP and any legal or commercial developments which may be of interest. It does not constitute legal advice or any other type of advice and should not be relied upon for this purpose.

4. AOP is providing the content in good faith but no warranty or representation is given that the content is accurate, complete or up to date. Use of content on the Website is at your own risk. While AOP takes reasonable precautions to prevent computer viruses and other malicious programs on the Website no liability is accepted for them.

5. The Website and the information, names, images, pictures and logos are provided by AOP without any warranty, whether express or implied. In no circumstance will AOP be liable in contract, tort, negligence, or otherwise for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential loss or damage whatsoever, or for any economic loss whatsever arising from the use of in connection with the use or loss of use of the website.

6. The Website and all of the content is only to be used for lawful purposes.

7. AOP may terminate, change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Website at any time and without giving notice.

8.  Information transmitted via this Website will pass over public telecommunications networks. AOP makes no representation or warranty that the operation of this Website will not be interrupted or will be error free and disclaims all liability in respect thereof.

9. This Website contains links to other websites. AOP accepts no responsibility or liability for any material supplied by or contained on any third party website which is linked from or to this, or any use of personal data by such a third party. The inclusion of any link on the Website does not imply endorsement by AOP of the linked site. If you decide to access linked third party websites, you do so at your own risk.

10. AOP reserves the right, at its sole discretion to change the terms and conditions by posting changes online. Any subsequent use of the Website is deemed to amount to acceptance of those revised terms and conditions.

11. The above terms of use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and the parties agree to irrevocably shall submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

Registration to members only area

Access for employees of AOP member companies (including associate members) to the AOP members' area is controlled by username and password. We allow you to access the members' area of the site on the basis that: 1. Your username and password are personal to you and shall not be used by anyone else to access the AOP members' area;

2. You provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as requested by AOP in the registration form;

3. You do not do anything that would assist anyone who is not an AOP member to gain access to the AOP members' area or any documents contained therein;

4. You do not maliciously create additional registration accounts for the purpose of abusing the functionality of the site, or other users; nor do you seek to pass yourself off as another user;

5. You have read and understood the Website Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy.

Termination of registration to members only area

AOP reserves the right to cancel your registration to the site and/or refuse you access to the secure pages. AOP shall not be liable for any loss or damages whatsoever arising from your inability to access any pages on the site.

Message forum

1. Users of the AOP site may submit material for publication in the message forum section of the Website. AOP accepts no liability in respect of any material submitted by users and published by AOP and AOP is not responsible for its content or accuracy.

2. If you want to submit material to the message forum you may do so on the following terms and conditions:

 i. Publication of any material you submit will be at the sole discretion of AOP and AOP is entitled to make additions or deletions to any such material prior to publication, after publication or to refuse publication.

ii. You grant AOP a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free license to republish any material you submit in any format, and you warrant to AOP that any material you submit is your own work and that you own the copyright and all relevant rights.

iii. You warrant that the material you submit is not obscene, offensive, defamatory or otherwise illegal.

iv. You agree not to post material that is deliberately intended to upset other users.

v. You acknowledge that any breach of these warranties may cause AOP damage or loss and agree to indemnify and hold harmless AOP in full and permanently against any third party liabilities, claims, costs, loss or damage incurred by AOP as a result of publishing any material you submit to us, including consequential loss.

Privacy policy

The privacy of your personal data is important to AOP. The following sets out what we do and what we do not do with the information we collect using this Website:

Cookies

1. The Website will give the user, on sign-in, the option to be remembered automatically. If this option is selected, a cookie (a small piece of computer code) is sent to and stored on your computer containing a unique session identifier. The identifier is used to record site usage statistics. AOP does not recommend that the option to accept the cookie is taken if the computer is shared.

2. In a separate automatic operation the webserver will collect your IP address and details of the Website where you came from before entering the AOP Website. This information is used to:

i) Work out how many times the Website has been visited;

ii) Record which parts of the Website have been visited so we can improve the content and layout of the Website.

Paragraphs 2 i) and ii) apply to all visitors on the Website whether or not they have registered. The information collected is not linked to you as an individual unless you choose to register.

Cookies stored on your computer will automatically be deleted if you do not revisit the Website for 90 days.

Personal data

If you submit your details to AOP via this site, we may write to/email you about other AOP events and information, or pass your name and address to other reputable companies whose products and services may be of interest to you or your company. On each form where personal or work details are submitted, and on each subsequent email communication, a facility to unsubscribe is offered, which we will action as soon as is reasonably practicable.

Newsletter

The following terms apply to your use of the UK Association of Online Publishers (AOP) fortnightly newsletter ('the Newsletter'). By using the Newsletter you acknowledge and agree that:

Terms of use

1. Copyright in the Newsletter, including all content is owned by AOP and its licensors. You are permitted to download and print content from the Newsletter for your own personal use. The Newsletter content must not be copied or reproduced, used or otherwise dealt with for any other reason. You are not entitled to modify or redistribute the content of the Newsletter or reproduce, link, frame, or deep link it in any other Newsletter without the express written permission of AOP. You are not entitled to use the content of the Newsletter for commercial exploitation in any circumstances.

2. The names, images, pictures and logos identifying AOP or third parties and their products and services, are proprietary marks of AOP, and/or may be the proprietary marks of third parties. Any use made of these marks without obtaining prior permission may be an infringement of rights in those marks and AOP reserves all rights to enforce such rights.

3. Content on the Newsletter is provided for general information purposes only to inform you about AOP and any legal or commercial developments which may be of interest. It does not constitute legal advice or any other type of advice and should not be relied upon for this purpose.

4. AOP is providing the content in good faith but no warranty or representation is given that the content is accurate, complete or up to date. Use of content on the Newsletter is at your own risk. While AOP takes reasonable precautions to prevent computer viruses and other malicious programs on the Newsletter no liability is accepted for them.

5. The Newsletter and the information, names, images, pictures and logos are provided by AOP without any warranty, whether express or implied. In no circumstance will AOP be liable in contract, tort, negligence, or otherwise for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential loss or damage whatsoever, or for any economic loss whatsoever arising from the use or in connection with the use or loss of use of the Newsletter.

6. The Newsletter and all of the content is only to be used for lawful purposes.

7. AOP may terminate, change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Newsletter at any time and without giving notice.

8. Information transmitted via this Newsletter will pass over public telecommunications networks. AOP makes no representation or warranty that the operation of this Newsletter will not be interrupted or will error free and disclaims all liability in respect thereof.

9. This Newsletter may contain news stories sourced from third party Websites. News stories sourced from a third party site will be clearly marked and a link to the source website will be provided. AOP accepts no responsibility or liability for any material supplied by or contained on any third party website which is linked from or to this Newsletter, or any use of personal data by such a third party. The inclusion of any link on the Newsletter does not imply endorsement by AOP of the linked site. If you decide to access linked third party websites, you do so at your own risk.

10. The above terms of use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and the parties agree to irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

RSS feed

Certain terms apply to your use of the UK Association of Online Publishers (AOP) RSS feed. Please click here for details.

Contact

If you have any questions in relation to the above please do not hesitate to contact AOP on 020 7400 7566 or email info@ukaop.org.uk or write to AOP at: The UK Association of Online Publishers, Queens House, 28 Kingsway, London WC2B 6JR.