These terms tell you the rules for using our website [myhss.org.uk]
(our site).
myhss.org.uk is a site operated by Hindu Swayamsewak Sangh (UK), hereinafter “HSS (UK) and/or ("We"). We are registered in England and Wales under charity number 267309 and have our registered office at 46-48 Loughborough Road, Leicester, LE4 5LD. We are a registered charity in England and Wales.
To contact us, please email webmaster@hssuk.org or write to
By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms
of use and that you agree to comply with them.
If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our
site.
We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for
future reference.
These terms of use refer to the following additional terms,
which also apply to your use of our site:
·
Our Privacy Policy [INSERT AS LINK TO SITE'S PRIVACY
POLICY]. See further under ‘How we may
use your personal information’.
·
Our Acceptable Use Policy [INSERT AS LINK TO
ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY], which sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses
of our site. When using our site, you must comply with this Acceptable Use
Policy.
·
Our Terms of Use of the Portal [INSERT AS LINK
TO TERMS OF USE], which sets out information about the terms upon which the
Portal can be used.
We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish
to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms
that apply at that time. [These terms were most recently updated on 15th September 2019].
We may update and change our site from time to time [to reflect
changes to the marketing of our charity, users’ needs and charity priorities.
Our site is made available free of charge. We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.
You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.
We may transfer our rights and obligations under these
terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this
happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under
the contract.
Our site is directed to people residing in the United
Kingdom. We do not represent that content available on or through our site is
appropriate for use or available in other locations.
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification
code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security
procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not
disclose it to any third party. You do have the ability to change your password at any time.
We have the right to disable any user identification code
or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our
reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of
these terms of use.
If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows
your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at webmaster@hssuk.org.
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual
property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws
and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of
any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention
of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.
You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any
materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use
any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics
separately from any accompanying text.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the
authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the content on our site for
commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our
licensors.
If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in
breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately
and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you
have made.
The content on our site is provided for general information
only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must
obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any
action on the basis of the content on our site.
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the
information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees,
whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete
or up to date.
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources
provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only.
Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites
or information you may obtain from them.
We have no control over the contents of those sites or
resources.
This website may include information and materials uploaded
by other users of the site, including to bulletin boards and chat rooms. This
information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The
views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or
values.
If you wish to complain about content uploaded by other
users, please contact us on webmaster@hssuk.org
We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would
be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury
caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or
subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
Please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use.
You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we
have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business
interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
If defective digital content that we have supplied, damages a device or
digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use
reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you
compensation. However, we will not be liable for damage that you could have
avoided by following our advice to apply an update offered to you free of
charge or for damage that was caused by you failing to correctly follow
installation instructions or to have in place the minimum system requirements
advised by us.
We will only use your personal information as set out in
our Privacy Policy [LINK TO PRIVACY POLICY].
Whenever you make contact with other users of our site, you
must comply with the content standards set out in our Terms of Use of the
Portal. [INSERT AS LINK TO Terms of Use].
You warrant that any such contribution does comply with
those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach
of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we
suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.
Any content you upload to our site will be considered
non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights
in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of our site a
limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make
it available to third parties.
We also have the right to disclose your identity to any
third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our
site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their
right to privacy.
We have the right to remove any posting you make on our
site if, in our reasonable opinion, your post does not comply with our values
and the principles of our organisation.
You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your
content.
We do not store terrorist content.
We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from
bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information
technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use
your own virus protection software.
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing
viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or
technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to
our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or
database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a
denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By
breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the
Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law
enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by
disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to
use our site will cease immediately.
Our Use of Cookies
We employ the use of Cookies. By accessing the Portal, you
agree to use cookies in agreement with the HSS (UK) Privacy Policy.
Cookies are used by our Portal to enable the functionality
of certain areas to make it easier for people visiting our Portal. Some of our
affiliate partners may also use cookies.
You can use your browser settings to accept or reject new
Cookies and to delete existing Cookies. If you choose to disable some or all
Cookies, it may adversely impact the usability of the system and your experience
using the system. We will not be responsible for any adverse effect in your
usability of the system, if it is attributable to your election of rejecting,
disabling and/or deleting any Cookies that are required for full functionality
of the Portal.
You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way
that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of
it.
You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest
any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
You must not establish a link to our site in any website
that is not owned by you.
Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you
create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without
notice.
If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our
site other than that set out above, please contact [EMAIL ADDRESS].
These terms of use, their subject matter and their
formation, are governed by English law. You and we both
agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction
except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring
proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may
also bring proceedings in Scotland.