UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FALMOUTH Profwriting.com: Terms of Use

General Information

Please read these Terms of Use carefully as they govern your use of The University College Falmouth (UCF) Profwriting.com site and create a legal agreement between you and UCF.  From time to time, these Terms of Use may be updated or modified. We therefore suggest that you visit this page regularly, and note changes thereto. If you do not agree and accept without modification the notices, terms and conditions set forth herein, do not use this site.

Intellectual Property
All material on or available through this site, including text, images, data and illustrations (collectively, the "Material"), is protected by UK and international copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws and is owned, controlled, or licensed by UCF.

HOWEVER, authors of writing posted on the Peer Review area of the site own copyright of their work. Authors are free to remove their content at any time.

Unauthorized copying, reproduction, republishing, uploading, manipulation, downloading, posting, transmitting or duplicating the material, in whole or in part, is prohibited. Provided that you agree to and accept without modification the notices, terms and conditions set forth in these Terms of Use, UCF grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-assignable and non-transferable licence to visit, view, and retain a copy of pages of this site for your own personal, educational, non-commercial use only. You may not modify, copy (except as set forth in the preceding sentence), distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, create derivative works from, license or sublicense, assign, or otherwise transfer this licence or any of the Material or any information, material, software, products or services from this site. You may not link to or frame the Material, the site, or any portion thereof, for any purpose unless specifically authorized in writing by UCF.

Nothing herein grants you any licence, express or implied, to use any of UCF’s official or common-law trademarks except as such trademarks may be embedded in the link itself. Moreover, you may not visit or use the site to appropriate UCF’s trademarks and/or to copy or imitate the “look and feel” of the site, or any portions thereof, for any reason.

Access and Interference

You will not use any robot, spider, crawling, scraping, or other automated device, process, or means to access this site. Nor will you use any manual process to monitor or copy the site or the content contained thereon for any unauthorized purpose without UCF’s prior written permission. You will not use any device, software, routine, or take any action that interferes with the proper working of the site.

Partner Sites and Third-Party Sites

UCF partners with a range of other sites (namely for MA Professional Writing: www.falmouth/learningspace.ac.uk, www.bloc-online.com, professionalwriting.falmouth.ac.uk/research, www.creativefalmouth.org and professionalwriting.falmouth.ac.uk)  by sharing some site content. All affiliated UCF sites are covered by these Terms of Use.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, for your convenience, this site may reference or link to other third-party sites throughout the Web (“Third-Party Sites”). UCF has no control over Third-Party Sites or the content within them. Accordingly, UCF cannot guarantee, represent, or warrant that the content contained on such Third-Party Sites is accurate, legal, and/or inoffensive. These Terms of Use do not extend to your use of Third-Party Sites, and your use of Third-Party Sites is solely at your own risk.
By using the UCF Profwriting.com site to search for or link to Third-Party Sites, you understand and agree that you may not make any claim against UCF for any damages or losses whatsoever, resulting from your use of the UCF Profwriting.com or affiliated sites to obtain search results or to link to Third-Party Sites.

Suspected Violation of these Terms of Use

Violations of these Terms of Use, including unauthorized use of this site, may be investigated and appropriate legal action may be taken, including civil, criminal and injunctive redress.

Forums and Public Communication

For your convenience, UCF Learning Space may offer forums, chat rooms and other opportunities (Forum Content) to facilitate your socializing, learning and networking with peers and the public. You agree that all Forum Content is the sole responsibility of the individual or entity from whom such Forum Content originated.

This means that you (and not UCF Learning Space) are entirely responsible for all Forum Content that you submit via the Forum or elsewhere on the site. UCF does not control or guarantee the accuracy, completeness, usefulness, integrity, or quality of Forum Content. You understand and agree that you may be exposed to Forum Content that is offensive, indecent, or objectionable.

Under no circumstances will UCF Learning Space be liable in any way for any Forum Content, including any errors or omissions in any Forum Content or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Forum Content submitted via this site.

Registration and Account Security

You represent and warrant that the registration information you provide to UCF is and will remain true and accurate. You are solely responsible for the security and confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are solely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to immediately notify UCF of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security with regard to your use of the site of which you become aware.
Your Participation in the Forums
You agree that you will not use a Forum or this site to submit or otherwise make available Forum Content that:

1. Is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libellous, invasive of another’s privacy, racially or otherwise hateful, or otherwise objectionable;
2. Harms minors;
3. Impersonates any person or entity or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity;
4. Conflicts with any obligations you have under law including under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under non-disclosure agreements);
5. Infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade-secret, or other proprietary rights of any third party;
6. Constitutes or contains unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of unauthorized solicitation;
7. Constitutes or contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
8. Interferes with or disrupts the site, related services, or servers or networks connected thereto or disobeys any requirements, procedures, policies, or regulations of networks connected to this site or related services;
9. Violates any applicable local, state, national, or international law or any regulations having the force of law;
10. Is used to stalk or otherwise harass another.

Forum Content Posted to Forums

You acknowledge that UCF Learning Space may or may not pre-screen Forum Content, but that UCF will have the right in its sole discretion, for any reason whatsoever (or for no reason) to pre-screen, refuse, move, or remove any Forum Content that is available via the site. Without limiting the foregoing, UCF may remove any Forum Content that violates the Terms of Use or is otherwise objectionable in UCF’s sole discretion.

UCF asserts no ownership rights over the Forum Content you post, transmit, or otherwise make available for inclusion on the Forums or elsewhere on the site. With respect to such Forum Content, however, you grant UCF a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive license to use such Forum Content on the Forums, anywhere on the site, or elsewhere and in any media for the purpose of providing, promoting, or advertising the site and related services; such license will survive the termination, for any reason, of these Terms of Use.

General Legal

Warranty Disclaimers

Your use and browsing of this site and the co-branded sites are solely at your own risk. The site, and everything on this site, including the materials and the co-branded sites, are provided “as is” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied by UCF, its affiliates and agents, specifically disclaim all warranties and conditions of any kind, including all implied conditions of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, title, or non-infringement.
Without limitation, UCF, its affiliates and agents make no warranties or representations that the site will be error-free or uninterrupted, that defects will be corrected, or that this site, or its server are or will be free of viruses or other harmful components. In addition, UCF, its affiliates and agents make no warranties or representations regarding the use or results of the use of the content on this site or on any co-branded site.

Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold UCF, its affiliates and agents harmless from: (i) your use of and access of the site; (ii) your violation of any of these Terms of Use; (iii) your violation of any third-party right including any copyright, trademark, trade secret, or privacy right of content available on the Site. This defence and indemnification obligation will survive these Terms of Use and your use of the site.

Limitation of Liability

In no event will UCF Learning Space  or its affiliates or agents be liable for any indirect, consequential, special, incidental or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, this site or the content or materials therein including any co-branded site, whether in a contract action or based on negligence, or other tort action, or any other claim whatsoever, even if UCF  has been advised of the possibility of such damages.