These terms of use apply to your use and viewing of our website at www.rsdmanchester.org (the ‘Website’). Your use of our Website indicates your acceptance of the terms of use set out below. If you do not agree to these terms of use you must not use our Website.
We may update or revise these terms of use at any time without notice. You are responsible for reviewing these terms of use on each occasion that you visit our Website and if you continue to use our Website after changes are made you are deemed to have accepted them. Certain provisions of these terms of use may be supplemented or superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages of our Website.
Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in the Website (including without limitation all content, materials and technology used or appearing on the Website) belong to us or our licensors. All rights are reserved.
You may print off or download content on our Website as permitted under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended) (sections 28 to 30) for the purposes of viewing it on your computer, research for non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news reporting, provided that you do not alter it in any way and acknowledge us as the source of the content and the copyright owner.
All other use or copying of any of the contents of our Website, other than as expressly permitted by us or permitted by law, is prohibited.
Nothing in our Website should be taken as conferring any licence or right to use any trademark displayed on our Website without the prior written approval of the trademark owner.
Registration
Whilst you may access many areas of our Website without registering with us, certain areas of our Website may only available to registered users. In addition to these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy use of those areas may be subject to additional legal terms applicable to those registered users.
User Material and Conduct
You agree to comply with all applicable laws and regulations when using this site. You are responsible for all material and content sent from your computer. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from our Website any material:
that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience; or for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals; or which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party, in the UK or any other country in the world; or which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).
You may not misuse our Website (including, without limitation, by hacking).
If we, in our absolute discretion, consider that you have made improper use of Website or any part thereof, we reserve the right to remove without notice any unacceptable or undesirable content or material and to block, suspend or terminate without notice your access to our Website or any part thereof.
We shall fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of these terms of use.
Availability
Whilst we take reasonable steps to ensure that our Website is available and accessible to permitted users, we do not warrant that our Website will be continuously available, or that your use of our Website will be uninterrupted or error free or that the Website or servers will be free from attack. Access to our Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond our control.
Content
Whilst we endeavour to ensure that the content and information on our Website is correct, we do not warrant the accuracy and completeness of such material. We may make changes to the material on our Website and to the services described in it, at any time without notice. The material on our websites may be out of date and we make no commitment to update such material.
The material on this site is provided “as is”, without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, we provide you with this Website on the basis that we exclude all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) which but for these terms of use might have effect in relation to this Website.
Liability
We exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits or goodwill, loss of data, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, and whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise) in connection with our Website in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of our Website, any website linked to our Website or the content of such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses or other harmful programs that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of or browsing our Website or your downloading of any material from our Website or any websites linked to our Website.
Nothing in these terms of use shall exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury due to our negligence or for fraudulent misrepresentation. If you are a consumer your statutory rights are not affected by these terms of use.
Links
Links to our Website are permitted provided that links are only made to the home page of our Website. We reserve the right, in our absolute discretion, to withdraw such permission at any time,
Our Website includes links that allow you to leave our Website and visit third party sites. We have no control over and are not responsible for the content, use by you or availability of third party sites, for any products or services you buy through third party sites or for the treatment of any personal information you provide to any third party.
Privacy
Our Website includes areas where you are requested to input information about yourself. Any information you submit to us through our Website shall be subject to the terms of our Privacy Policy and you grant us a perpetual royalty free licence to use such information for the purposes set out in that policy.
Cookies
We may use cookies on our Website. Further information about cookies can be found in our Privacy Policy.
Statutory Information
This website is operated by the Royal School for the Deaf & Communication Disorders, whose registered office is at Stanley Road, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, SK8 6RQ. Please see the Contact Us link for our contact information.
General
If any provision of these terms of use is held by any court or other competent authority to be void or unenforceable in whole or part, the other provisions of these terms of use and the remainder of the affected provisions shall continue to be valid.
The failure to exercise or delay in exercising a right or remedy provided by these terms of use or by law does not constitute a waiver of other rights or remedies.
These terms and the use of our Website and their content shall be governed by and construed in all respects in accordance with English law, and you agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
Privacy Policy
We are committed to preserving the privacy of all visitors to our website at www.rsdmanchster.org (the “Website”). Please read the following privacy policy to understand how we use and protect information that you provide to us.
By registering with us or using our Website you agree to the collection, use and disclosure of your information under the terms of this policy.
Who we are
This Website is operated by the School for the Deaf & Communication Disorders, whose registered office is at Stanley Road, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, SK8 6RQ.
Please see the Contact Us link on our homepage for our contact information.
How we collect information
When you visit our Website or register with us you may be asked to provide certain information about yourself such as your name, company, contact details and areas of interest.
We may also collect information you submit via any online forms, surveys, message boards, forums or other interactive areas that appear on our Website from time to time.
We may collect information about you if you contact us offline, for example by telephone, fax, email or post.
We may collect information about your usage of our Website.
We also use Cookies.
What we use your information for
Your information will be used to provide you with access to our Website and to supply you with any information or services you request.
Where you have consented, we may use your information for marketing purposes by the methods you indicate are acceptable.
We may use your information to contact you for feedback on your use or our services or Website.
We may also use and analyse the information we collect so that we can administer, support, improve and develop our Website and the services we offer.
With whom we may share your information
We may share your information with our partners and funding bodies for administrative purposes and so they can provide you with any information, products or services you have requested.
Where you have consented when providing us with your details, we may share your information with carefully selected third parties for direct marketing purposes.
We may allow third party providers and contractors who supply services to us or who process information on our behalf (for example our website-hosts) incidental access to your information. We will ensure that they keep your information secure and do not use it for their own purposes.
We may share your information with another organisation which buys our company or our assets or to whom we transfer our agreement with you and in the course of any negotiations which may or may not lead to such a transfer or sale.
We may pass aggregate information about the usage of our Website to third parties but this will not include information that can be used to identify you.
We will disclose your information if we are required to by law. We may disclose your information to enforcement authorities if they ask us to, or to a third party in the context of actual or threatened legal proceedings, provided we can do so without breaching data protection laws.
Unless permitted or required to do so by law, we will not otherwise share sell or distribute any of the information you provide to us without your consent.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files which are transferred from our website and stored on your computer's hard drive. They enable our website to “remember” who you are.
We may use cookies from time to time to verify your username and password and to provide you with tailored content. We may also use Cookies to track how our Website is used so we may improve and update our content.
Most browsers are automatically set to accept cookies but if you are using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, you should be able to configure your browser to restrict cookies or block all cookies if you wish. However, this may affect your ability to use certain areas of our Website.
More information about cookies, including browser-specific instructions on how to restrict or block cookies may be found on the IAB’s website at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
Your Rights
You have the right to see any information we hold about you on payment of a statutory fee, which is currently £10.
You have the right to correct any errors in information we hold about you. Please inform us about changes to your details so that we can keep our records accurate and up to date.
You have the right to opt out of receiving any marketing material from us or any third party at any time.
Security and retention of information
We will keep your information secure by taking appropriate technical and organisational measures against its unauthorised or unlawful processing and against its accidental loss, destruction or damage. We will retain your information for as long as we need it for the purposes set out in this policy, or as otherwise required by law.
Changes to our privacy policy
We will from time to time update and make changes to this policy. We recommend that you revisit this privacy policy frequently, and ideally each time you visit our websites.
Links
If you follow a link from any of our websites to another site, this policy will no longer apply. We are not responsible for the information handling practices of third party sites and we encourage you to read the privacy policies appearing on those sites.
Further Information
If you have any queries about the information we hold on you, or would like to exercise your rights set out above, please contact us by email via Contact Us section.
Further information about data protection issues including the online Register of Data Controllers can be found on the Information Commissioner’s site at http://www.ico.gov.uk.