NSPCC

Weston House

42 Curtain Road

London EC2A 3NH

Registered Charity Numbers 216401 and SC037717

Access to and use of this site is provided by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) subject to the following Terms and Conditions:

1. Your use of this site constitutes acceptance of these Terms and Conditions, which take effect on the date of your first use of the site.
   
   
2. The NSPCC reserves the right to change these Terms and Conditions at any time by posting changes online. Your continued use of Your family site (as defined below) after changes are posted will be deemed acceptance of the updated or modified terms.
   
   Use of www.yourfamily.org.uk
   
   
3. You agree to use www.yourfamily.org.uk (“Your family site”) only for lawful purposes and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of Your family site. Such restriction and inhibition includes, without limitation, conduct which is unlawful or which may harass or cause distress or inconvenience to any person and the transmission of obscene or offensive material or disruption of normal flow of dialogue within Your family site. 
   
   
4. All copyright, trademarks, design rights, patents and other intellectual property rights (registered and unregistered) in and on Your family site and all content located on Your family site shall remain vested in the NSPCC or its licensors (which includes other users). You may not copy, reproduce, republish, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use Your family site content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any of Your family site’s content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of Your family site’s content requires the prior written permission of the NSPCC.
   
   
5. Opinions expressed in articles and advertisements are those of the author or advertiser and not necessarily of the NSPCC.
   
   
6. The names, images and logos identifying the NSPCC, Your family site, ChildLine service or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of the NSPCC and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring any licence or right to use any trade mark, design right or copyright of the NSPCC or any other third party.
   
   Contributions to site discussion/message boards on Your family site
   
   
7. By sharing any contribution (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) with the NSPCC you agree to grant to the NSPCC, free of charge, permission to use the material in any way it wants (including modifying and adapting it for operational and editorial reasons) for NSPCC services in any media worldwide (including on the NSPCC's site accessed by international users).
   
   
8. Copyright in your contribution will remain with you and this permission is not exclusive, so you can continue to use the material in any way including allowing others to use it.
   
   
9. In order that the NSPCC can use your contribution, you confirm that your contribution is your own original work, is not defamatory and does not infringe any UK laws, that you have the right to give the NSPCC permission to use it for the purposes specified above, and that you have the consent of anyone who is identifiable in your contribution or the consent of their parent / guardian if they are under 16.
   
   
10. We normally show your screen name with your contribution, unless you request otherwise, but for operational reasons this is not always possible. The NSPCC may need to contact you for administrative or verification purposes in relation to your contribution. For full details of when and how we may contact you please see the NSPCC's Privacy Policy plus any local terms where applicable.
    
    
11. If you do not want to grant the NSPCC the permission set out above on these terms, please do not submit or share your contribution to or with Your family site.
    
    
12. If you have any questions about contributing content to Your family site or NSPCC, please contact yourfamily.online@redwoodgroup.net.
    
    
13. You agree to use Your family site (including message boards) in accordance with the following Rules:
    
    (i) About your posts
    
    
    • Contributions must be civil and tasteful
    • No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour: contributions must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble
    • No unlawful or objectionable content: unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable
    • No spamming or off-topic material
    • No advertising or promoting
    • No impersonation
    • No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names
    • No use of NSPCC, ChildLine service or Your family names and/or logos
    
    Deliberate misuse of the complaints facility is not permitted. If you persist in doing this, action may be taken against your account.
    
    (ii) Safety
    
    We advise that you never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example: telephone number, postal address, home address or email address or any other details that would allow you to be personally identified).
    
    (iii) Your legal requirements:
    
    
    • You may not submit or share any defamatory or illegal material of any nature in Your family site. This includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio
    • Contributing material to Your family site with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act is strictly prohibited.
      
      
    You must not violate, plagiarise, or infringe the rights of the NSPCC or third parties including copyright, trade mark, trade secrets, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights.
    
    (iv) If you breach these Rules:
    
    If you fail to abide by these Rules when taking part in a discussion/message board, you will be sent an email which informs you why your contribution has been refused or edited
    
    If you submit or share offensive or inappropriate content or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour anywhere on Your family site and the NSPCC considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, the NSPCC may use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop any further such infringements. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your email provider about the infringement(s).
    
    The NSPCC reserves the right to delete any contribution, or take action against any NSPCC account, at any time, for any reason.
    
    External links to Your family site
    
    
14. Any person or organisation wishing to set up a link to Your family site must complete a link request form and confirm agreement to the terms and conditions attached to the form. Email newmedia@nspcc.org.uk to obtain a request form plus Terms and Conditions.
    
    The existence of a link from any organisation's site to Your family site does not imply that the NSPCC endorses the activities or views of that organisation.
    
    Disclaimers and limitation of liability
    
    
15. The content posted on Your family site message boards is created by members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of the NSPCC. The NSPCC is not responsible for any content posted by members of the public on Your family site or for the availability or content of any third party sites that are accessible through Your family site. Any links to third party websites from Your family site do not amount to any endorsement of that site by the NSPCC and any use of that site by you is at your own risk.
    
    
16. Your Family site content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to the NSPCC, its products and services (or to third party products and services), is provided 'AS IS' and on an 'AS AVAILABLE' basis. To the extent permitted by law, the NSPCC excludes all representations and warranties (whether express or implied by law), including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.
    
    
17. Nothing in these terms limits or excludes the NSPCC's liability for death or personal injury caused by its proven negligence. Subject to the previous sentence, the NSPCC shall not be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such damage or losses were foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties; or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of Your family site regardless of the form of action.
    
    
18. The NSPCC does not warrant that functions available on Your family site will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that Your family site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to implement sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements of use.
    
    General
    
    
19. If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive and continue to be binding and enforceable.
    
    
20. If there is a conflict between these terms and any rules and/or specific terms of use appearing on this site relating to specific material then the latter shall prevail.
    
    
21. The failure or delay of the NSPCC to exercise or enforce any right in these terms does not waive the NSPCC's right to enforce that right.
    
    
22. These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales which shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes.
    
    
23. Any questions regarding this site should be sent to the New Media Department, NSPCC, Weston House, 42 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3NH, or emailed to newmedia@nspcc.org.uk.