Terms
Who we are
1.'This website at www.btbetterworld.com (“website”) is operated by British Telecommunications PLC (“we”, “BT”) as part of our Better World campaign. BT is registered in England and Wales under company number 1800000. Our registered office is at 81 Newgate Street, London, EC1A 7AJ.
Terms and Conditions
2. These Terms and Conditions set out the terms on which you may use this website and any materials available from it, whether as a visitor or as a registered user. They take effect immediately on your first use of the website. You are responsible for reviewing these Terms and Conditions regularly because any changes to them will be posted online. Your continued use of this website after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions as modified by the posted changes.3. If you do not accept these Terms and Conditions in full, you do not have permission to access the contents of this website and therefore should stop using it immediately.
If you are under 18
4. You may not apply to become a registered user of this website to if you are under 18 unless we have first obtained written permission from your parent or guardian for you to do so.
Your personal information
5. If you want to make a contribution to this website, or order some of our materials, you will be required to register. Please see our privacy policy for details on how we deal with the personal information which we collect when you register.
Third party websites
6. Third party internet sites that you can link to from our website are not covered by our Privacy Policy or our Terms and Conditions, so we urge you to be careful if you enter any personal information online. We accept no responsibility or liability for these sites.
Copyright
7. All rights, including copyright and database rights, in this website and its contents, are owned by BT or its licensors. The trade marks, names, images and logos identifying BT or third parties and their products and services are proprietary marks of BT and/or those third parties.
8. By accessing the website you agree to access the contents solely for your own private use or for educational use and not for any commercial purpose.
9. Except as outlined in these Terms and Conditions, you agree not to copy, store in any medium, distribute, transmit, broadcast, modify, or show in public, any part of the website without the prior written permission of BT.
Use of BT's educational materials
10. Subject to these Terms and Conditions, individual pupils, students and teachers can download and print off documents and pages from this website and order materials from this website for educational purposes within a school or college .
11. Materials may not be used commercially (in part or whole) or have any copyright, trade mark or other proprietary markings removed when used.
12. Copies of material should not be modified, adapted, offered for sale, sold or hired out or shown to paying audiences.
Conditions for your Contributions
13. You will be required to register and confirm your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions if you submit any contribution to this website (including without limitation any text, graphics, video or audio) and in doing so you grant BT a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicenseable licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, perform, play, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and to incorporate it in other works in any media now known or later developed.
14. If you submit video content to us we may make it available on the website by first placing it on www.youtube.com (“YouTube”) and linking from YouTube to this website. As a result your content will be made available on both this website and YouTube. By submitting your contribution you acknowledge that you have read and agree to be bound by YouTube’s terms and conditions and you warrant that nothing in your contribution would cause BT to be in breach of YouTube’s terms and conditions. YouTube’s terms and conditions can be found at http://uk.youtube.com/t/terms.
15. You agree to waive all moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on the website.
16. BT reserves the right to refuse your contribution or edit it, whether because it is in breach of these Terms and Conditions or for any other reason. If your contributions are repeatedly in breach of these Terms and Conditions, BT may suspend or terminate your registration. If your contribution is subject to any complaint or dispute whether in relation to a breach of these Terms and Conditions or otherwise BT will have the right to remove your contribution immediately without notice.
17. Unless contributions have been submitted by the BT Better World Campaign staff, the views expressed in the contributions are not those of BT, nor is BT responsible for any material included in them.
Acceptable use policy for contributions
18. When making a contribution to this site, you must not:
- post material that you did not create, unless you have the permission of the copyright owner in that material
- transmit illegal material (for example indecent images of children) or material that may be deemed to be grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene nature or menacing in character
- include any images of people under 18 without their written permission and the written permission of their parent or guardian.
- send, with the intention of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety a message that you know to be false, or to cause such a message to be sent or to persistently make use of our service for that purpose
- make statements that are defamatory to or misrepresent others. Defamatory postings may include but are not limited to postings which harm the personal or business reputation of another or exposes him to hatred, contempt or ridicule, or lowers him in the estimation of his community, or deters other people from associating or dealing with him
- post chain letters or pyramid schemes messages or any other similar messages
- blatantly disregard the intended subject matter by making off topic postings with apparent malicious intent or in large volumes
- post binary attachments such as images or files not designed for that purpose
- post commercial advertisements or private promotional postings
- include in your contribution any information which could identify you or anyone else personally, such as your full name, home address, telephone number(s) or email address.
19. BT is obliged under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to disclose information to law enforcement agencies and public authorities that are legally entitled to obtain such information. Similarly BT must comply with court orders to disclose information. In serious instances of unlawful activity we may also notify the police or relevant law enforcement agency.
20. To report any breaches of these Terms and Conditions, please contact BT Better World Campaign team .
BT's disclaimer and limitation of liability
21. While BT aims to make sure that the information on this website and any material available from it are correct, we do not warrant their accuracy, suitability for any purpose or completeness. They are provided "as is", without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind.
22. To the maximum extent permitted by law, BT excludes all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill which, but for this legal notice, might have effect in relation to the website and any material available from it).
23. BT excludes all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, and whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise) in connection with the website and any material available from it in any way.
24. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall exclude or limit BT’s liability for (a) death or personal injury caused by negligence; or (b) fraud; or (c) any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
General
25. If any of these Terms and Conditions should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable then to the extent which that Term or Condition is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from the relevant clause and the remaining Terms and Conditions shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.
26. These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Disputes arising as a result of these Terms and Conditions shall be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
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