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1. Acceptance of Terms
Thank you for using Aurora. Aurora provides its services to you
subject to the following "Terms and Conditions" which
may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you.
2. Description of Service
Aurora currently provides or allows browsing and/or access to
a number of online Services and resources (such as discussion
forums, directory services, online business services, email lists
("Service") and enables you to access this as a "User".
Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new features that augment
or enhance the current Service, including the release of new services
or resources, shall be subject to the "Terms and conditions".
We may add, delete or change some or all of the services provided
for free as part of the Service at any time. Unless otherwise
stated these terms and conditions apply to you as a user of this
site.
3. Submission of Content
By submitting information, you are stating that you are at least
18 years of age or a minor with parental consent to use the Service,
that you are eligible to use the Service, and that you agree to
be bound by all of these Terms and conditions.
PLEASE NOTE: All minors are recommended to consult with their
parents in respect of these Terms and conditions before using
the Service.
In consideration of your use of the Service, you agree to: (a)
provide true, accurate, current and complete information about
yourself as required by the type of data requested for submission
and (b) maintain and promptly update the data to keep it true,
accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information
that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or Aurora
has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue,
inaccurate, not current or incomplete, Aurora has the right to
suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current
or future use of the Service (or any portion thereof). Please
remember that the Service is designed to appeal to a broad audience.
Aurora cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising
from your failure to comply with this Section 3.
4. Code of Conduct
You agree that all information, data, text, software,
music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or other
materials ("Content"), whether publicly posted or privately
transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which
such Content originated. This means that you, and not Aurora ,
are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post,
email or otherwise transmit via the Service. Users are fully responsible
for the copyright status of any items uploaded by themselves or
people you authorise to upload materials under your account (i.e.
using your User ID and Password)
Aurora does not control the Content posted via the Service and,
as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality
of such Content. You understand that by using the Service, you
may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable.
Under no circumstances will Aurora be liable in any way for any
Content, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions
in any Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred
as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed or otherwise
transmitted via the Service.
You agree not to use the Service to:
(a) upload, post, publish, distribute, disseminate or otherwise
transmit any Content (hereinafter "post") that is unlawful,
tortuous, defamatory, harmful or invasive of another's privacy,
or otherwise objectionable, including but not limited to material
that promotes or provides instructional information about illegal
activities or promotes physical harm or injury against any group
or individual;
(b) promote events without seeking and gaining written permission
from Aurora to do so. This particularly relates (but is not limited)
to the Aurora Discussion Forums and Aurora Directory Listings;
(c) upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that you do
not have a right to transmit under any law or 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);
(d) upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that infringes
any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary
and intellectual property rights of any party, or rights of publicity
or privacy of any party, unless you are the owner of such rights
or have the permission of the owner to post or transmit such material,
including but not limited to offering pirated computer programs
or links to such programs;
(e) harm minors in any way, or is deemed culturally inappropriate,
or is gender-discriminatory;
(f) transmit Content containing nudity, or pornographic material,
or sexual material of a lewd, lecherous or obscene nature and
intent, or material of a vulgar, profane or obscene nature;
(g) impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited
to, an Aurora official or user, or falsely state or otherwise
misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
(h) forge or manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the
origin of any Content transmitted through the Service;
(i) post or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorised
advertising (including the promotion of events not authorised
in writing by Aurora ), promotional materials, "junk mail,"
"spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes,"
or any other form of solicitation;
(j) post or otherwise transmit any material that 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;
(k) interfere with or disrupt the Service, or infringe any requirements,
procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the
Service, or interfering with another user's use and enjoyment
of the Service, including but not limited to (a) transmitting
any material that contains viruses, trojan horses, worms, time
bombs, or other computer programming routines that are intended
to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept
or expropriate any system, data or personal information, or (b)
attempting to gain unauthorised access to the Service, other's
accounts on the Service, or private mailing lists on the Service
through password mining or any other means;
(l) intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local,
state, national or international law, including, but not limited
to, UK legislation such as the Data Protection Act, Consumer Protection
Act, or Financial Services Act, or any amendments or replacements
of such acts;
(m) defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate
the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of
others;
(n) collect, store, or distribute personal data about other users
without their consent;
(o) promote or provide instructional information about illegal
activities, promote physical harm or injury against any group
or individual, or promote any act of cruelty to animals. This
may include, but is not limited to, providing instructions on
how to assemble bombs, grenades and other weapons, and creating
"crush" sites;
(p) violate any law or regulation (including without limitation
those governing export control, unfair competition, discrimination
or false advertising);
(q) Discussion Forum postings:
By registering for a discussion forum, you understand and agree
to our terms of use and that how this service is managed and conducted
is at the sole discretion of Aurora . Competitive behaviour, blatant
promotions and/or elements that we consider in anyway to be detrimental
to our business will not be allowed.
You acknowledge that Aurora does not always pre-screen Content,
but that Aurora and its designees shall have the right (but not
the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse or remove any
Content that is available via the Service. Without limiting the
foregoing, Aurora and its designees shall have the right to remove
any Content that violates the Terms and conditions or which is
otherwise in our opinion, objectionable. You agree that you must
evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content,
including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness
of such Content. In this regard, you acknowledge that you may
not rely on any Content created by Aurora or submitted to Aurora
, including without limitation information in Aurora discussion
forums, directory listings, notice boards and in all other parts
of the Service. Aurora will have no liability or responsibility
for performance or non-performance of such activities. Aurora
reserves the right to terminate your participation in the Services.
You acknowledge and agree that Aurora may preserve Content and
may also disclose Content if required to do so by law or in the
good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably
necessary to: (a) comply with any applicable law; (b) enforce
the Terms and conditions; (c) respond to claims that any Content
violates the rights of third-parties; or (d) protect the rights,
property, or personal safety of Aurora , its users and the public.
You understand that the technical processing and transmission
of the Service, including your Content, may involve (a) transmissions
over various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to
technical requirements of connecting networks or devices.
5. Proprietary Rights and Licences
You acknowledge and agree that Content, including but
not limited to text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics,
video, page layout and design or other material contained in the
Service or information presented through the Service by Aurora
or by advertisers is protected by ours or their copyright, trademarks,
service marks, patents, or other proprietary rights and laws.
You acknowledge and agree that Aurora can display images and text
throughout the Service, including the insertion of sponsor messages
into messages distributed on Aurora mailing lists. Content received
and accessed through the Service may be displayed, reformatted,
and printed by you for your personal, non-commercial use only.
You acknowledge and agree that Aurora owns or is licensed to
use all intellectual property rights (including without limitation
all copyrights, patents, trademarks and trade secrets) in connection
with and in all versions of the Service, any Aurora Content and
any data (including Submission Data) generated by Members.
Aurora will not pass your personal data to any third party or
to any company for the purposes of such party processing your
personal data. All data held about users is as supplied upon registration.
If you have any questions about the registration process, or our
holding of your data under the Data Protection Act 1998, please
please email us at admin @ auroravoice.com . Except as expressly
authorised by Aurora or advertisers, you agree not to modify,
copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, rent, loan,
sell, lease, licence, sub-licence, distribute or create in any
way content and/or derivative works based on the Service or Content,
in whole or in part.
6. Advertisements and Promotions
Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation
in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the Service,
including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and
any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated
with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser.
You agree that Aurora shall not be responsible or liable for any
loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such
dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers
on the Service.
7. External links
The Service may provide, or third parties may provide, links to
other World Wide Web sites or resources. These links are provided
solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by Aurora
of the contents on such third-party web sites. As Aurora has no
control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree
that Aurora is not responsible for the availability of such external
sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible
or liable for any Content, advertising, products, services or
other materials on or available from submission (eg. in discussion
forum). You further acknowledge and agree that Aurora shall not
be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage
or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with
use of or reliance on any such Content, goods or services available
on or through any such site or resource. If you decide to access
linked third-party Web sites, you do so at your own risk. Any
concerns regarding any external link should be directed to its
respective site administrator or web master.
8. Privacy Policy
Registration Data and certain other information about you is subject
to our privacy policy. For more information, please see our full
privacy policy below:
We may disclose to third parties certain aggregate information
contained in your Registration Data or related data, except as
specifically authorised by you or in the good faith belief that
such action is reasonably necessary to comply with applicable
law, legal process, to enforce the Terms and conditions, or under
any of the other circumstances set forth in our privacy policy,
as may be amended from time to time.
Messaging including email, voicemail, fax, and instant messaging
is private correspondence between the sender and the recipient.
Aurora strictly respects the privacy of its users.
You acknowledge and agree that Aurora neither endorses the contents
of any user communications nor assumes responsibility for any
threatening, liabellous, obscene, harassing or offensive material
contained therein, or any infringement of third party intellectual
property rights arising therefrom or any crime facilitated thereby.
9. Disclaimer of Warranties
You expressly understand and agree that:
a) your use of the Service is at your sole risk. The Service
is provided on an "as is" and "as available"
basis. Aurora and its suppliers, to the fullest extent permitted
by law, disclaim all warranties, including but not limited to
warranties of title, fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability
and non-infringement of proprietary or third party rights. Aurora
and its suppliers make no warranties about the accuracy, reliability,
completeness, or timeliness of the material, services, software,
text, graphics, and links.
(b) Aurora is not responsible for the content of users, or messages
distributed through mailing lists, and assumes no responsibility
for and makes no warranty or representation as to the accuracy,
currency, completeness, reliability or usefulness of information
distributed through this Service.
(c) Aurora makes no warranty that (i) the Service will meet your
requirements, (ii) the service will be uninterrupted, timely,
secure, or error-free, (iii) the results that may be obtained
from the use of the service will be accurate or reliable, and
(iv) the quality of any products, services, information, or other
material purchased or obtained by you through the Service will
meet your expectations. Further, if your use of the web site or
the material results in the need for servicing or replacing equipment
or data, Aurora is not responsible for those costs.
(d) any material downloaded or otherwise obtained through the
use of the Service is done at your own discretion and risk and
that you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer
system or loss of data that results from the download of any such
material.
(e) no advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained
by you from Aurora or through or from the Service shall create
any warranty not expressly stated in the Terms and conditions.
Much of the material on Aurora is provided by third parties and
Aurora shall not be held responsible for any such third party
material.
10. Indemnity
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Aurora , its
officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any
claims, actions or demands, including without limitation reasonable
legal and accounting fees, alleging or resulting from your use
of the Content, the Service, your connection to the Service or
your breach of the terms of these Terms and conditions. Aurora
shall provide notice to you promptly of any such claim, suit,
or proceeding and shall reasonably assist you, at your expense,
in defending any such claim, suit or proceeding.
11. No Resale of Service
You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit
for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Service, use of
the Service, or access to the Service.
12. Limitation of Liability
Your use of the Service is at your own risk. If you are dissatisfied
with any of the Content or the Service or with these Terms and
conditions, or any other rules or policies, your sole remedy is
to discontinue use of Aurora .
You expressly understand and agree that Aurora shall not be liable
for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or
exemplary damages, including but not limited to, damages for loss
of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses (even
if Aurora has been advised of the possibility of such damages),
resulting from: (i) the use or the inability to use the Service;
(ii) the cost of procurement of substitute goods and services
resulting from any goods, data, information or services purchased
or obtained or messages received or transactions entered into
through or from the Service; (iii) unauthorised access to or alteration
of your transmissions or data; (iv) statements or conduct of any
third party on the service; or (v) any other matter relating to
the Service.
In no event will Aurora accept liability arising out of or in
respect of these Terms and Conditions.
Aurora has the right to alter elements in relation to the services,
both on and offline, including aspects such as speaker deletions
or changes at events; changes of services offered; changes in
access to services.
User's proprietary rights: You agree that upon posting any material
within a group open to the public on the Service, you grant Aurora
, and its successors and assigns, a non-exclusive, world-wide,
royalty free, perpetual, non-revocable licence under your copyrights
or other intellectual property rights, if any, in such material,
to use, distribute, display, reproduce, and create derivative
works from such material in any and all media, in any manner,
in whole or part, without any duty to account to you. You also
grant Aurora the right to authorise the downloading and printing
in whole or in part of any material that you have posted to a
group on the Service, by end-users for their personal use.
13. Modifications to the Terms and conditions or to the
Service
Aurora reserves the right to change the Terms and conditions at
any time without notice. Aurora also reserves the right at any
time and from time to time to modify or discontinue the Service,
temporarily or permanently, with or without notice to you. You
agree that Aurora shall not be liable to you or any third party
for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.
14. Use and Storage
You acknowledge that Aurora may establish general practices and
limits concerning use of the Service, including without limitation
the maximum number of days that directory listings or other supplied
Content will be retained by the Service. You agree that Aurora
has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure
to store any content and other communications or other Content
maintained or transmitted by the Service. You further acknowledge
that Aurora reserves the right to change these general practices
and limits at any time, in its sole discretion, with or without
notice.
15. Termination
You agree that Aurora , in its sole discretion, may terminate
your submission of content (or any part thereof) or use of the
Service, and remove and archive or discard any Content within
the Service for any reason, including, without limitation, if
Aurora believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently
with the letter or spirit of the Terms and Conditions. Aurora
may also in its sole discretion and at any time discontinue providing
the Service, or any part thereof, with or without notice. You
agree that any termination of your access to the Service under
any provision of these Terms and conditions may be effected without
prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that Aurora may immediately
deactivate, archive or delete your Content and all related information
and/or bar any further access to the Service. Further, you agree
that Aurora shall not be liable to you or any third-party for
any termination of your access to the Service.
16. Aurora Identifiers
Aurora , Aurora Gender Capital Management, Aurora Women's Network,
Auroravoice.com , 'Where women want to work', www2wk and other
Aurora logos and product and service names belong to Aurora .
Without Aurora 's prior permission or pre-authorised access, you
agree not to display or use in any manner, the Aurora identifiers.
17. General
The Terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between
you and Aurora and govern your use of the Service, superseding
any prior agreements between you and Aurora (including, but not
limited to, any prior versions of the Terms and conditions). You
also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may
apply when you use affiliate or other Aurora services or third-party
content.
Aurora makes no claims that the Content is appropriate for any
particular purpose or audience, or that it may be downloaded outside
of the United Kingdom. Access to the Content may not be legal
by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access the
Aurora site from outside of the United Kingdom, you are responsible
for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction.
Aurora is headquartered in London, England. All legal issues
arising from or related to the use of the Service shall be construed
in accordance with and determined by the laws of the England.
By using Aurora , you agree that the exclusive forum for the bringing
of any claims or causes of action arising out of or relating to
your use of Aurora are the English courts. You hereby accept and
submit to the jurisdiction of such court in any such proceeding
or action, and irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent permitted
by law, any objection which you may have now or hereafter have
to be laying of the venue of any such action or proceeding brought
in such a court and any claim that any such action or proceeding
brought in such a court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
If any provision of these Terms and conditions is found to be
invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity
of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining
provisions of these Terms and conditions, which shall remain in
full force and effect. No waiver of any term of these Terms and
conditions shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such
term or any other term.
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