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Terms of use

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By using robertlacey.com you agree to be bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of robertlacey.com. If you do not agree to be bound by all of the following terms please do not access, use and/or contribute to robertlacey.com.

robertlacey.com may change these terms from time to time and so you should check these terms regularly. Your continued use of robertlacey.com will be deemed acceptance of the updated or amended terms. If you do not agree to the changes, you should cease using this website. If there is any conflict between these terms and specific local terms appearing elsewhere on robertlacey.com then the latter shall prevail.

Use of robertlacey.com

You agree to use robertlacey.com 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 robertlacey.com. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within robertlacey.com.

Intellectual Property

All copyright, trade marks, design rights, patents and other intellectual property rights (registered and unregistered) in and on robertlacey.com and all content located on the site shall remain vested in robertlacey.com 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 robertlacey.com 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 robertlacey.com content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of robertlacey.com content requires the prior written permission of Robert Lacey.

The names, images and logos identifying the robertlacey.com, Robert Lacey or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of the robertlacey.com, Robert Lacey 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 robertlacey.com, Robert Lacey or any other third party.

Contributions to Robert Lacey

By sharing any contribution (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) with Robert Lacey you agree to grant to Robert Lacey , free of charge, permission to use the material in any way it wants (including modifying and adapting it for operational and editorial reasons) in any media worldwide (including on Robert Lacey 's site accessed by international users). In certain circumstance Robert Lacey may also share your contribution with trusted third parties*.

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.

In order that Robert Lacey 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 Robert Lacey 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.

Please do not endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or break any laws when creating content you may share with Robert Lacey.

If you do not want to grant Robert Lacey the permission set out above on these terms, please do not submit or share your contribution to or with robertlacey.com.

*In the case of news-related material please note that this may be shared with Robert Lacey 's media partners; these are all reputable foreign news broadcasters or journalists who are prohibited from altering the material in any way or providing it to other UK broadcasters or to the print media.

Contributing to robertlacey.com

In order to participate in and contribute to robertlacey.com you may be required to register with disqus.com. Any personal information supplied to disqus.com as part of this registration process and/or any other interaction with their service is also governed by their terms of service.

You agree to use robertlacey.com (including comments) in accordance with the following Community Rules. These apply across all robertlacey.com.

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.
  • Be patient: users of all ages and abilities may be taking part in the relevant robertlacey.com community.
  • No spamming or off-topic material: we don't allow the submission of the same or very similar contributions many times. Please don't re-submit your contribution to more than one discussion, or contribute off-topic material in subject-specific areas.
  • No advertising or promoting.
  • No spoilers: material which contains plot developments which haven't been transmitted on UK television will be deleted unless submitted in a designated 'spoilers' area or marked as a 'spoiler'.
  • Contributions containing languages other than English may be removed unless allowed in the relevant local house rules.
  • No impersonation.
  • No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names.
  • URLs (web site addresses) can only be posted if allowed under any relevant local house rules.
  • Deliberate misuse of the complaints facility is not permitted. If you persist in doing this, action may be taken against your account.

If you're under 16:

  • Please get a parent's or guardian's permission before taking part in any robertlacey.com community.
  • Never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example, school, telephone number, your full name, home address or email address).

If you breach these Rules:

If you fail to abide by these Rules when taking part in robertlacey.com or If you submit or share offensive or inappropriate content to robertlacey.com or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on robertlacey.com, and Robert Lacey considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, Robert Lacey 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 employer, school or email provider about the infringement(s).

Robert Lacey reserves the right to delete any contribution, or take action against any robertlacey.com contributor, at any time, for any reason.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability:

The majority of content posted in robertlacey.com is created by Robeer Lacey and he assumes his rights and responsibilities.

The views expressed in comments made by members of the public are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of Robert Lacey and Robert Lacey is not responsible for any content posted by members of the public on robertlacey.com or for the availability or content of any third party sites that are accessible through robertlacey.com. Any links to third party websites from robertlacey.com do not amount to any endorsement of that site by Robert Lacey and any use of that site by you is at your own risk.

robertlacey.com content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to Robert Lacey and/or robertlacey.com, 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, Robert Lacey 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. Robert Lacey does not guarantee the timeliness, completeness or performance of the website or any of the content. While we try to ensure that all content provided by Robert Lacey is correct at the time of publication no responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of Robert Lacey for any errors, omissions or inaccurate content on the website.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes Robert Lacey's liability for death or personal injury caused by its proven negligence. Subject to the previous sentence, Robert Lacey shall not be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such damage or losses were foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise):

  • Loss of data;
  • Loss of revenue or anticipated profits;
  • Loss of business;
  • Loss of opportunity;
  • Loss of goodwill or injury to reputation;
  • Losses suffered by third parties; or
  • Any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of robertlacey.com regardless of the form of action.

Robert Lacey dose not warrant that functions available on robertlacey.com will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that robertlacey.com 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 for the accuracy of data input and output.

General:

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.

The failure or delay of Robert Lacey to exercise or enforce any right in these terms does not waive Robert Lacey's right to enforce that right.

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.



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