Term of Use

Girlguiding Hertfordshire and its affiliates provide access to the Girlguiding Hertfordshire web site (the “web site”) to you subject to the conditions set out on this page. Please read these conditions carefully before using the web site. By using the web site, you signify your agreement to be bound by these conditions.

1. Your Account

If you use the Web site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer to prevent unauthorised access to your account. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You should take all necessary steps to ensure that the password is kept confidential and secure and should inform us immediately if you have any reason to believe that your password has become known to anyone else, or if the password is being, or is likely to be, used in an unauthorised manner. Please ensure that the details you provide us with are correct and complete and inform us immediately of any changes to the information that you provided when registering. We reserve the right to refuse access to the web site, terminate accounts, remove or edit content at our discretion.   Please note only Girlguiding Hertfordshire members over the age of 18 are permitted to have access to the members area.

2. Privacy

Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs your visit to our website, to understand our practices.

3. Access to Our Website

We will do our utmost to ensure that availability of the web site will be uninterrupted and that transmissions will be error-free. However, due to the nature of the Internet, this cannot be guaranteed. Also, your access to the web site may also be occasionally suspended or restricted to allow for repairs, maintenance, or the introduction of new facilities or services. We will attempt to limit the frequency and duration of any such suspension or restriction.

4. Licence for Web site access

We grant you a limited licence to access and make personal use of this web site, but not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent by us. This licence does not include any resale or commercial use of this web site or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of this Web site or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. This web site or any portion of this web site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without our express written consent. You may not frame or use framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of us and its affiliates without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilising on our website or its affiliates’ names or trademarks without the express written consent. Any unauthorised use terminates the permission or license granted by us. You are granted a limited, revocable, and non-exclusive right to create a hyperlink to the Welcome page of our website as long as the link does not portray us or our affiliates, or their products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without our express written consent.

5. Your conduct

You must not use the Web site in any way that causes, or is likely to cause, the Web site or access to it to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way.

You understand that you are responsible for all electronic communications and content sent from your computer to us and you must use the Web site for lawful purposes only. You must not use the Web site for any of the following:

• for fraudulent purposes, or in connection with a criminal offence or other unlawful activity
• to send, use or reuse any material that is illegal, offensive, abusive, indecent, defamatory, obscene or menacing; or in breach of copyright, trademark, confidence, privacy or any other right; or is otherwise injurious to third parties; or objectionable; or which consists of or contains software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any "spam"
• to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety

6. Copyright and database rights

All content included on the web site, such as text, photographs, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is our property, its affiliates or its content suppliers and is protected by United Kingdom and international copyright and database right laws. The compilation of all content on this web site is our exclusive property of and its affiliates and is protected by United Kingdom and international copyright and database right laws. All software used on this web site is our property, our affiliates or our software suppliers and is protected by United Kingdom and international copyright laws. You may not systematically extract and/or re-utilise parts of the contents of the Web site without express written consent. In particular, you may not utilise any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools to extract (whether once or many times) for re-utilisation of any substantial parts of this web site, without our express written consent. You also may not create and/or publish your own database that features substantial parts of this web site without our express written consent.