These are our terms and conditions for use of the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT network, which you may access through several ways, including but not limited to the World Wide Web via FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT, smart television, PDA, mobile phone and RSS feeds. In these terms and conditions, when we say the “FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site” we mean the digital information network operated by or on behalf of FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT or its parent company, subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively “Football News Scotland”), regardless of how you access the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT network, as well as any FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT apps, whether you access those via the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site or a third party site. However, when you are accessing the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site, you agree to be binded by these terms and conditions.
1. Registration
You could access areas of the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site that could require a registration by becoming a registered member and creating an account with us. You agree to be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your passwords or other account identifiers which you choose and all activities that occur under your account.
By registering on the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site, you agree to:
(i) your account and password are personal to yourself and cannot be used by anyone else to access the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site;
(ii) you will not do anything that would assist anyone who is not a registered user to get access to any registered area of the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site; and
(iii) you will not create registration accounts for the purpose of abusing the functionality of the site, or other users; nor will you seek to pass yourself off as a different user.
You agree to notify us immediately if you become aware of any unlawful or unauthorised use of your password or account identifiers by others.
2. Termination of registration
If you no longer wish to have a registered account, you may terminate your account by contacting us via the contact form on our Site. If you no longer accept these terms and conditions, or any future modification to these terms and conditions, you must cease using the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site. Continued use of the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site indicates your ongoing acceptance of these terms and conditions.
If, for any reason, we believe that you have not complied with these terms and conditions, we may, at our sole discretion, cancel your access to the registration areas of FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site immediately and without giving you prior notice or explanation.
We may terminate your registered account, at our sole discretion, by emailing you at the address you have registered stating that the agreement has terminated.
3. Use of content appearing on the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site
Your use of the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site is for your own personal and non-commercial use only. You acknowledge that, as between FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT and you, except for user content and advertisements (as discussed below), FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT is the sole owner of all content on the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site, including, without limitation, all applicable copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, trade names, logos, and other intellectual property rights thereto, as well as any text, images, graphics, logos, audio, video and other material appearing on the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site. The FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site and associated content is protected by the copyright laws and other intellectual property laws of Scotland and the United Kingdom, and are protected globally by applicable international copyright treaties.
You can download and print extracts from the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site for your own personal and non-commercial use only, provided you maintain and abide by any author attribution, copyright or trademark notice or restriction in any material that you download or print. You may not use any FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT content for any other purpose without our prior and clearly written approval. Except as expressly authorised by FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT, you are not allowed to create a database in electronic or paper format comprising all or part of the material appearing on the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site.
If you wish to use our content other than as permitted by these terms and conditions, please contact us via the contact page form on this Site. For all other inquiries about distribution or reproduction of the materials, please contact us via the contact from on this Site.
4. Disclaimer of liability
To the extent permitted at law, we do not accept any responsibility for any statement in the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT content. Nothing of the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT content is provided for any specific purpose or at the request of any particular person. For the avoidance of confusion, we will not be liable for any loss caused as a result of your doing, or not doing, anything as a result of viewing, reading or listening to FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT content or any part of it. You can access other sites or apps via links from the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site. These sites are not under our control and we are not responsible in any way for any of their content.
We give no warranties of any kind concerning the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site or the content on FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT. In particular, we do not warrant that the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site or any of its contents is completely virus free. You must take your own precautions in this respect, as we accept no responsibility for any infection by any virus or other contamination that has destructive properties.
Although we will do our best to provide constant, uninterrupted access to the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site, we do not provide any guarantee of this. We accept no responsibility or liability for any interruptions or delays.
5. Third party advertisements on the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site
You may see advertisement materials submitted by third parties on the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site. Each individual advertiser is solely responsible for the content of its advertising material. We accept no responsibility for the content of the advertising material, including, without limitation, any error, omission or inaccuracy presented.
6. User content
Users of our site could be allowed to submit content for publication in various areas of the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site. When you submit content through us, you agree and represent that you have created that content, or you have received permission from, or are authorised by, the owner of any part of the submitted content to the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site.
You or the owner of the content still own the copyright in the content sent to us, but by submitting content to us, you are granting us an unconditional, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, perpetual international licence to use, publish and/or transmit, and to authorise third-parties to use, publish and/or transmit your content in any format and on any platform, either now known or hereafter invented.
You acknowledge and agree that when you are posting content on the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site or view content provided by others, you are doing so at your own discretion and risk, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, of that specific content. You further acknowledge and agree that the views expressed by you and other users in that content do not reflect views of FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT, and we do not support or endorse any user content. You acknowledge that we have no obligation to pre-screen, monitor, review, or edit any content posted by you and by other users on the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site.
We, or authorised third parties, reserve the right to cut, crop, edit or refuse to publish, your content at our or their sole discretion. We may also remove your content from use at any time.
We accept no liability in respect of any content submitted by users and published by us or by authorised third parties.
You warrant that the content you submit to us is not obscene, threatening, harassing, libellous, deceptive, fraudulent, offensive, invasive of another’s privacy, defamatory of any person or against the law. You warrant that the content you provide to us does not infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other intellectual or proprietary or privacy right of any party or individual. You agree not to (i) post content which is deliberately intended to upset or harm other users; (ii) use the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site to post or otherwise transmit content that victimises, harasses, degrades, or intimidates an individual or a group of individuals on the basis of any impermissible classification, including, without limitation, religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, creed, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, military status or disability; (iii) post or otherwise transmit any content that contains a virus or any other coding, files, or programs designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site or any software, hardware or telecommunications equipment; (iv) upload or otherwise transmit any content, or take any other actions with respect to your use of the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site, that would constitute, or would otherwise encourage, criminal conduct or give rise to civil liability; or (v) use the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site for commercial purposes, including, without limitation, submitting any material to solicit funds or to promote, advertise or solicit the sale of any goods or services.
You understand that the technical processing and transmission of the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site may involve (i) transmissions over other networks; and (ii) changes to content to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices. FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT assumes no responsibility for the deletion or failure to store postings of content or other information submitted by you or other users to the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site.
If you are under 16, you confirm that you have permission of your parent or FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT to submit content.
7. Applications
You may download certain FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT applications or apps (“Apps”) either from the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site or from third party app stores or shops. All of these terms apply to the maximum extent relevant to your use of the Apps (and in particular, the terms of section 6 apply where you are using an App to submit user content to the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Sites).
In addition to the limitations on our liability set out in Section 4, we shall not be liable for any damage caused to or interference with any equipment or other Apps or content of any description.
8. Data protection
To find out what personal data we collect and how we use it, please visit our privacy policy page for more information.
9. Changes to these terms and conditions of use
Please note that we may change these terms and conditions at our sole discretion and we reserve the right to do so without your prior consent. Any revised terms and conditions will be applicable at the time of posting on the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site. Please ensure that you review these terms and conditions regularly as you will be deemed to have accepted a variation if you continue to use the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site after it has been posted.
10. Governing law & jurisdiction
These terms and conditions are governed by United Kingdom law and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the United Kingdom courts.
11. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT, its parents, subsidiaries, and/or affiliates, and each of their respective officers, directors, and employees from any and all claims, liabilities, costs, and expenses, including, but not limited to, attorneys’ fees and expenses, arising out a breach by you or any user of your account of these terms and conditions or privacy policy or arising out of a breach of your obligations, representation and warranties under these terms and conditions presented.
12. No waiver
Our failure to insist upon or enforce any provision of these terms of service shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right of FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT.
13. Additional disclaimers
Individuals that visit the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site agree that their use of the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site is at their own sole risk. The FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied including but not limited to: (i) any warranties concerning the availability, accuracy, appropriateness, reliability, timeliness, or usefulness of the content of the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site; and (ii) any warranties of title, warranty of non-infringement, or warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT also makes no representations and warranties as to any linked sites and FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT has no liability or responsibility with respect to your use of such sites. In some instances, content made available on the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site may represent the opinions and judgments of providers or users, such as user content. FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT and its affiliates do not endorse nor shall they be responsible or liable for the accuracy or reliability of any statement made on the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site by anyone other than authorised FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT employees acting in such capacity.
This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages or injuries caused by the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site, including, without limitation, those damages or injuries occurring as a result of: (i) any error, omission, deletion, or defect in the content available on the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site; or (ii) any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction of records, information or data, unauthorised access to, alteration of, or use of records, information or data, whether for breach of contract, tort, negligence, defamation, or any other cause of action. FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT does not warrant or guarantee that access to the FOOTBALLNEWS.SCOT Site will be uninterrupted or error-free.
Applicable law may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you.