Terms and Conditions
Welcome to Planet Science. This website is owned and operated by
Tinopolis Limited, known here as Tinopolis. By accessing this
website all users are deemed to accept the following terms and
conditions of use:
Ownership and Rights
This website and its materials (design, text, graphics,
illustrations, images and video and their arrangement) and software
are copyright of Tinopolis or its licensors. The trademarks
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licensors (including NESTA (the National Endowment for Science,
Technology and the Arts)) and they retain all rights in such
trademarks. Crown Copyright material is reproduced with the
permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for
Scotland.
Permitted Use
Materials from the website may only be downloaded, viewed,
listened to, printed, copied on the hard disk of your computer and
used for your own personal, non-commercial purposes as a personal
information resource. Any other type of use requires the prior
written agreement of Tinopolis.
You agree that where permitted by us to use extracts of texts
from news articles or other material that appear on this website
for educational purposes will acknowledge this website as the
source of the extract and include a prominent reference to this
website's URL. If the supply by you of the extract is via the
internet and for posting on social network sites etc such
acknowledgment must include a hypertext link to this website with
the copy of the extracted material and you should re-produce the
extracted material in unmodified form unless we agree
otherwise.
Restrictions
You may not use the website:
- For illegal posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission
of any material,
- In any way which is abusive, defamatory or obscene or which
will harass, distress or inconvenience any person or which might
restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of the website by any
person;
- For posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any
un-requested advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail,"
"spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of
commercial exploitation;
- For posting, uploading, emailing any material that contains
software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs
designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality
of or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware
or telecommunications equipment;
- To create a database (electronic or otherwise) that includes
material downloaded or otherwise obtained from the website;
- To transmit or re-circulate any material obtained from the
website to any third party other than for private, non-commercial
purposes;
- In such a way so as to remove the copyright or trade mark
notice(s) from any copies of any material made in accordance with
these terms;
- For tampering, hacking, modifying or otherwise corrupting or
breaching security or authentication measures without proper
authorization;
- For interfering with service to any user, host, or network
including, without limitation, by means of overloading, "flooding,"
"mailbombing," or "crashing" any computer system;
- To impersonate any individual or entity, falsely state or
otherwise misrepresent your identity or affiliation in any way, or
forge, delete or alter any part of TCP/IP packet header information
in any e-mail or other posting;
- In any way that might bring Tinopolis and/or NESTA into
disrepute.
Your Content
You are responsible for any material which we allow you to place
on or transmit to or through the website. You agree, represent and
warrant that any information you post to or transmit through the
website is truthful, accurate, not misleading and offered in good
faith, and that you have the right to post or transmit such
information. Such information (including without limitation, data,
text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video,
messages or any other materials whatsoever), whether publicly
posted or privately transmitted, is your sole responsibility. You
should not transmit any material to or through this website that
you consider to be confidential.
Violation of Your Obligations
We reserve the right to refuse or delete any of your content as
well as suspend or terminate without notice your access to the
website upon a violation or attempted violation of this Agreement
and, should we reasonably feel it is necessary, to bring legal
proceedings against you and/or to disclose details of the violation
or attempted violation of this Agreement to law enforcement
authorities.
Data Protection
The information and data which is provided by you in connection
with this website will be held on the computers and manual records
of Tinopolis Group and will be used for Planet Science only,
including the Planet Science Newsletter.
We may store some information (commonly known as a "cookie") on
your computer when you look at or use the website. This information
facilitates customizing your use of the website and ensures that
you do not need to re-enter your details every time you visit it.
You can erase or block this information from your computer if you
want to. (Your 'help' screen or user manual should tell you how to
do this.) Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it
will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on
to the website.
You can opt out of receiving the PlanetScience newsletter at any
time by going to our unsubscribe
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You have the right to access the personal information held by us
about you. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to
meet our costs in providing you with details about the information
we hold about you.
Please Note:
Any offers or prizes on the Planet-Science website or in the
newsletters are open only to UK residents unless otherwise
stated.
Forums and Chat Rooms
The website may contain areas where users communicate with each
other, including but not limited to bulletin boards, calendars,
chat areas, or personal web pages.
By submitting a contribution to any user communication areas you
agree to grant Tinopolis a non-exclusive licence to use that
contribution and Tinopolis will have the right to freely use, edit,
alter, reproduce, publish and/or distribute the material contained
in your contribution. This licence will be free of charge,
perpetual and capable of sub-licence. Tinopolis may exercise all
copyright and publicity rights in the material contained in your
contribution in all jurisdictions, to their full extent and for the
full period for which any such rights exist in that material.
Tinopolis has the right to oversee, monitor or moderate any part
of the website including the user communication areas, and
Tinopolis expressly excludes its liability for any loss or damage
arising from the use of the website including the user
communication areas by any person in contravention of these Terms
and Conditions, whether the website or user communication areas are
moderated or not.
The use of the website including the user communication areas by
a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. We
advise parents who permit their children to use an interactive
service that it is important that they communicate with their
children about their safety online.
Information and Liability
The information provided on or in the website is intended for
recreational, educational and non-commercial purposes only. Whilst
every reasonable effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of
the information provided by Tinopolis in these pages, the contents
of the website reflect the opinions of the writers; they are
personal to them and are naturally subject to change from time to
time. You should check the accuracy of relevant facts and opinions
given on the website before entering into any commitment based upon
them.
This website is provided "As Is" and without warranties of any
kind, whether "express" or "implied". To the fullest extent
permissible pursuant to applicable law, Tinopolis disclaims all
warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to,
implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular
purpose and non-infringement. Tinopolis does not represent or
warrant that the functions or services contained in the website
will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be
corrected, or that this website or the server that makes the
website available are free of viruses or other harmful components.
Tinopolis does not make any warranties or representations regarding
the use of contents of this website in terms of their correctness,
accuracy, adequacy, usefulness, timeliness, reliability or
otherwise. Some jurisdictions do not allow exclusion of implied
warranties, so the above limitations and exclusions may not apply
to you.
Links
Some of the pages on the website include links to external
websites. These links are included to give users the opportunity to
access other pages that it is felt may be of assistance to them.
Tinopolis is not responsible for the content of these Internet
websites or for any viruses or other damaging elements encountered
in linking to it.
Viruses
Whilst effort has been taken to ensure that the pages of the
website are free from viruses, Tinopolis gives no warranties that
they are indeed free from viruses and users are responsible for
ensuring that they have installed adequate virus checking
software.
Tinopolis excludes, in so far as it is legally possible, all
liability and responsibility for any viruses or any other computer
code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy,
limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any
computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment or
other material transmitted with or as part of:
(a) the pages on the website or any other Internet websites;
or
(b) any material downloaded from the website or any other Internet
websites.
Changes and Special Additional Terms and
Conditions
Tinopolis may revise these Terms and Conditions at any time
without notice. You should revisit the website periodically to make
sure you are aware of the most recent Terms and Conditions and
check each page you visit on the website as some locations may have
special additional terms and conditions that apply to use of or
interaction with that location. Your use of the website constitutes
your agreement to such changes and additional terms.
Indemnity
You agree to indemnify Tinopolis from and against any claim,
demand, cause of action, debt, loss or liability, including
reasonable attorneys' fees, to the extent that such action is based
upon, arises out of, or relates to your violation, or violation by
any other person using your password or account of the terms and
conditions of this Agreement.
Jurisdiction
The terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of England and Wales.
Tinopolis Limited
Tinopolis Centre Park Street
Llanelli
Carmarthenshire
SA15 3YE
Tel: +44 (0) 1554 880880
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