This acceptable use policy sets out certain principles which we expect you to observe when using our website. In the event of non-adherence a warning will be issued. Where a breach of these principles is considered sufficiently serious (in our complete discretion) we may edit or remove material posted by you on any part of our website and/or terminate and/or suspend your membership.

 

Your use of our site means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the policies in this acceptable use policy, which supplements our terms and conditions [LINK TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS] .

 

In the event of termination and/or suspension we will not be liable to you for any refund or for any other loss, injury or damage whatsoever which you may incur (including without limitation any direct, indirect or consequential loss, costs, loss of expenses or injury). We will following termination delete all personal information held by us relating to you.

 

While you are a member of SCOTSIN and when using our website, and by way of example, you agree not to use our site to:

(a)    Commit a criminal offence;

(b)    Promote sexually explicit material;

(c)    Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, upset, embarrass, alarm, threaten or otherwise violate the rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others;

(d)    Publish, distribute and /or disseminate any harmful, obscene, indecent, unlawful, libellous, profane, defamatory, infringing, inappropriate, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable material or information;

(e)    Use other Members' or Users personal data for purposes other than establishing contact that is reasonably expected to be welcomed by such other Members or Users;

(f)    Submit materials that are unlawful or promote or encourage illegal activity that would violate the property rights of others;

(g)    Submit materials of any third party without such third party's prior consent, or materials that falsely express or imply that such materials are sponsored or endorsed by SCOTSIN;

(h)    Create a false or misleading identity of, including, but not limited to, a SCOTSIN employee, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity, for the purpose of misleading others as to the identity of the sender or the origin of a message or to harvest or otherwise collect information about others;

(i)    Transmit, email or post any material that contains in any form, software or such programs as including but not limited to, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel-bots, computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of the computer software or hardware or the telecommunications equipment;

(j)    Damage, disable, overburden or impair the website in an unlawful manner;

(k)    Attempt to gain unauthorised access to the SCOTSIN website and service, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the SCOTSIN website or service, through password mining or any other means;

(l)    Modify, adapt, translate, or reverse engineer any portion of the SCOTSIN service, or use any robot, spider, site search / retrieval application, or other device to retrieve or index any portion of the SCOTSIN website or service;

(m)    Reformat or frame any portion of the web pages that are part of the SCOTSIN website and service;

(n)    Disseminate content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, design right, registered design right, rights of privacy or publicity, or any other proprietary or  intellectual property law rights or any other applicable law;

(o)    Remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices contained in or on the SCOTSIN website or service;

(p)    Disseminate any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid scheme, or any other form of such solicitation;

(q)    Harvest or collect email addresses or other contact information of Members or Users, including usernames, from SCOTSIN website or service, by electronic or other means.

You may not use the website or services for any illegal or unauthorised purpose. International users agree to comply with all local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable conduct, including laws regulating the export of data from your country of residence. You are solely responsible for your conduct and any data, text, information, graphics, photos, profiles, audio and video clips, links and other content that you submit post and display on the SCOTSIN website and service.

 

While our website is as accurate as possible, we cannot accept responsibility for any inaccuracies or errors beyond our reasonable control. Further, under no circumstances does SCOTSIN have any obligation to check the accuracy or truthfulness of any materials, nor to monitor any member’s use of the website.

We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site, including without limitation:

•    Chat rooms and forums;

•    Bulletin boards;

•    Classified Advertisements;

•    Blog entries;

•    Online booking and shopping;

•    Newsletter (Integrated Email);

•    Image and photo gallery

Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of moderation is used. Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.

 

We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our site, and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service in light of those risks. We expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.

Changes to our acceptable use policy may be made from time to time and will be notified to you by the posting of updated versions of our policy on our website.

All notices given by you to us must be given to SCOTSIN at our registered office at Scots in London Ltd, Q Court, 3 Quality Street, Edinburgh, EH4 5BP, Scotland. We may give notice to you at either the e-mail or postal address you provided to us at registration. Notice will be deemed received and properly served immediately when posted on our website, 24 hours after an e-mail is sent, or three days after the date of posting of any letter. In proving the service of any notice, it will be sufficient to prove, in the case of a letter, that such letter was properly, stamped and placed in the post and, in the case of an e-mail, that such e-mail was sent to the specified e-mail address of the addressee.

If you have any questions about the services SCOTSIN provides, wish to make a complaint, or wish to report a violation then please contact our office at Scots In London Ltd, Scotsin.com, 37 King Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 8JS. Telephone 07748 148080 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

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