Terms and Conditions
These terms and conditions apply to the use of this website, including participation in our online forum. In using this website, you agree to comply with and be bound by these terms and conditions. If you do not accept these terms and conditions, you must refrain from using the website. These terms and conditions must be read in conjunction with any other applicable terms and conditions, including the copyright notice, the disclaimer and privacy statement published on this website. Player Rater may change the terms and conditions from time to time at Player Rater’s sole discretion. Your continued use of the website represents an agreement by you to be bound by the terms and conditions as amended. In these terms and conditions, the terms “we”, “us” and “our” are a reference to Player Rater.
1. Membership
In order to be able to post information in the discussion forum, you must become a member of the Player Rater website. To become a member, you must complete your registration details in the manner described on the website. Your personal information will be used in the manner outlined in our
Privacy Statement. Membership is free but non-transferable. We reserve the right to terminate your membership at any time including if we become aware of any defamatory you breach these terms and conditions. Non-Members are able to view all areas of the website including the discussion forum for reading purposes only. Non-Members are classified as "guests" of the website.
2. Members’ Obligations
By registering as a member of our discussion forum, you agree to abide by the following terms and conditions:
- you acknowledge that any information or material submitted by you to the discussion forum is and will be treated by us as non-confidential and nonproprietary and we may use such material without restriction (including permanently deleting such information or material from Payer Rater);
- when you submit material to the discussion forum, you assign all copyright which subsists in such material to us;
- you are responsible for protecting the confidentiality of your password;
- you will not post or transmit any material or information which is offensive, defamatory, obscene, unlawful, vulgar, harmful, threatening, abusive,
harassing or ethnically objectionable; - you agree not to post or transmit any material or information which you know to be the private or personal information of another;
- you will not post or transmit in any form on Player Rater including its online forums, any postings of unauthorised advertising material and
unauthorised hyperlinks to other websites; - you agree not to enable or facilitate the posting of any randomly generated SPAM contributions to the Player Rater website online forums;
- you agree not to disrupt the flow of dialogue or otherwise act in a manner which may negatively affect other members;
- you agree not to impersonate any other person;
- you agree to provide current, accurate and up-to-date information about yourself as required under these terms and conditions;
- you agree not to post or transmit any unsolicited advertising or promotional materials;
- any material which you post may be removed by us from the discussion forum without notice at any time (we are not required to keep a copy of
deleted material); - you will not post or transmit any material in which the copyright is owned by another person or entity and you warrant that all material posted is your
original work and not sourced from any third party; - you will not post any material which contains viruses or other computer codes, files or programs which are designed to limit or destroy the
functionality of other computer software or hardware; - you accept that any material or information provided by you in an online forum may be posted in the discussion forum for any other members or
guests to read; - all information provided by us in our discussion forum is provided in good faith. You accept that any information provided by us is general
information and is not in the nature of advice. - We derive our information from sources which we believe to be accurate and up to date as at the date of publication and we reserve right to update
this information at any time; - we do not make any representations or warranties that the information we provide in the discussion form is reliable, accurate or complete or that your access to the discussion forums will uninterrupted, timely or secure. We are not liable for any loss resulting from ay action taken or reliance made by you on any information or material posted by us. You should make your own inquiries and seek independent advice from relevant industry
professionals before acting or relying on any information or material which appears in the discussion forum; - we do not accept any liability for the accuracy or content of any material posted by other members of the discussion forum. We are not liable for
any loss resulting from any action taken or reliance made by you on any information or material posted by another member of the Payer Rater
website; - we do not accept any responsibility or liability for any information or material which you submit to the discussion forum, nor do we accept any
responsibility for any use or misuse which you or any other members or guests make of information or material which you submit to the discussion forum; - we do not warrant that we will respond to questions or comments submitted by you to our discussion forums;
- if you download any material from the discussion forum, you acknowledge that we are not liable to you for any loss or damage, however caused,
arising from the downloading or subsequent use of the downloaded material. You may not adapt, reproduce, store, distribute, transmit, print, display, publish or create derivative works from any downloaded material. In addition, you may not commercialise any information, products or
services from the downloaded material.
3. Disclaimer
We do not warrant that any material you submit to the discussion forum will be protected against loss, misuse or alteration by third parties. We do not
warrant that we will post your information or material in the discussion forum. If we elect in our sole discretion to post your information or material in the
discussion forum, we do not warrant that the material or information you submit will be posted within a certain timeframe. We do not accept responsibility for any loss or damage, however caused (including through negligence), which you may directly or indirectly suffer in connection with your use of this website or any linked website, nor do we accept any responsibility for any such loss arising out of your use of or reliance on information contained on or accessed through this website. To the maximum extent permitted by law, any condition or warranty which would otherwise be implied into these terms and conditions is hereby excluded. Where legislation implies any condition or warranty, and that legislation prohibits us from excluding or modifying the application of, or our liability under, any such condition or warranty, that condition or warranty will be deemed included but our liability will be limited for a breach of that condition or warranty to one or more of the following:
(a) if the breach relates to goods,
(i) the replacement of the goods or the supply of equivalent goods;
(ii) the repair of such goods;
(iii) the payment of the cost of having the goods repaired; and
(b) if the breach relates to services,
(i) the supplying of the services again; or
(ii) the payment of the cost of having the services supplied again.
4. Exception to Disclaimer
This disclaimer set out in these terms and conditions does not attempt or purport to exclude liability arising under statute if, and to the extent, such
liability cannot be lawfully excluded.
5. Specific Warnings
You must ensure that access to this website is not illegal or prohibited by laws which apply to you. You must take your own precautions to ensure that the process which you employ for accessing this website does not expose you to the risk of viruses, malicious computer code or other forms of interference which may damage your own computer system. For the removal of doubt, we do not accept responsibility for any interference or damage to your own computer system which arises in connection with your use of this website or any linked website. We do not accept liability for any losses arising directly or indirectly from a failure to provide the discussion forum facility, corruption to or loss of data, errors or interruptions, any suspension or discontinuance of the service, any transmissions by other members in contravention of the members’ obligations as set out in these terms and conditions or any content transmitted by a nonmember. We do not give you any assurances that any information contained on this website will be suitable for your purposes or that it will be error-free. You agree that you will not rely on any such information or its availability and that any reliance you make will be on your own independent assessments with the aid of qualified independent advice. You must indemnify us and our related bodies corporate and our directors and employees against any claim by a third party arising out of a breach of these terms and conditions either by you or by any person using your password or ID, whether or not you have authorised that person to use your password or ID. You acknowledge that we cannot confirm the identity of other members or prevent them acting under false pretences or aliases. Responsibility for the content of advertisements appearing on this website (including hyperlinks to advertisers’ own websites) rests solely with the advertisers. The placement of such advertisements does not constitute a recommendation or endorsement by us of the advertisers’ products and each advertiser is solely responsible for any representations made in connection with its advertisement. You must not post unauthorised advertisements on this website and any such material will be removed immediately when we become aware of.
6. Trade Marks
Except where otherwise specified, any word or device to which is attached the TM or ® symbol is a registered trade mark. If you use any of our trade marks in reference to our activities, products or services, you must include a statement attributing that trade mark to us. You must not use any of our trade marks:
- in or as the whole or part of your own trade marks;
- in connection with activities, products or services which are not ours;
- in a manner which may be confusing, misleading or deceptive;
- in a manner that disparages us or our information, products or services (including this website).
7. Security of information
Unfortunately no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as totally secure. Whilst we strive to protect such information, we do not warrant
and cannot ensure the security of any information which you transmit to us. Accordingly any information which you transmit to us is transmitted at your
own risk. Nevertheless, once we receive your transmission, we will take reasonable steps to preserve the security of such information.
8. Termination of access
Access to this website may be terminated by us at any time without notice. Our Copyright Notice, Disclaimer and Privacy Statement will nevertheless
survive any such termination.
9. General
We accept no liability for any failure to comply with these terms and conditions where such failure is due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control. If we waive any rights available to us under these terms and conditions on one occasion, this does not mean that those rights will automatically be waived on any other occasion. If any of these terms and conditions are held to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal for any reason, the remaining terms and conditions shall nevertheless continue in full force.
