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Terms and Conditions

About the terms

Access to and use of 'ecow.co.uk' both within the UK and internationally is provided by eCow Ltd on the following terms:

1. By using ecow.co.uk you agree to be bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of ecow.co.uk. If you do not agree to be bound by all of the following terms please do not access, use and/or contribute to ecow.co.uk.

2. eCow may change these terms from time to time and so you should check these terms regularly. Your continued use of ecow.co.uk will be deemed acceptance of the updated or amended terms. If you do not agree to the changes, you should cease using this website. If there is any conflict between these terms and specific local terms appearing elsewhere on ecow.co.uk (including house rules) then the latter shall prevail.

Use of ecow.co.uk

3. You agree to use ecow.co.uk only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of ecow.co.uk. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within ecow.co.uk.

Intellectual Property

4. All copyright, trade marks, design rights, patents and other intellectual property rights (registered and unregistered) in and on ecow.co.uk and all content (including all applications) located on the site shall remain vested in eCow or its licensors (which includes other users). You may not copy, reproduce, republish, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use ecow.co.uk content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any ecow.co.uk content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of ecow.co.uk content requires the prior written permission of eCow.

5. The names, images and logos identifying eCow ot third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of eCow, and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring any licence or right to use any trade mark, design right or copyright of eCow, or any other third party.

Contributions to eCow

6. By sharing any contribution (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) with eCow you agree to grant to eCow, free of charge, permission to use the material in any way it wants (including modifying and adapting it for operational and editorial reasons) for eCow services in any media worldwide (including on eCow's site accessed by international users). In certain circumstance eCow may also share your contribution with trusted third parties*.

7. Copyright in your contribution will remain with you and this permission is not exclusive, so you can continue to use the material in any way including allowing others to use it.

8. In order that eCow can use your contribution, you confirm that your contribution is your own original work, is not defamatory and does not infringe any UK laws, that you have the right to give eCow permission to use it for the purposes specified above, and that you have the consent of anyone who is identifiable in your contribution or the consent of their parent / guardian if they are under 16.

9. We normally show your name with your contribution, unless you request otherwise, but for operational reasons this is not always possible. eCow may need to contact you for administrative or verification purposes in relation to your contribution, or in relation to particular projects. For full details of when and how we may contact you please see eCow's Privacy Policy plus any local terms where applicable.

10. Please do not endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or break any laws when creating content you may share with eCow.

11. If you do not want to grant eCow the permission set out above on these terms, please do not submit or share your contribution to or with ecow.co.uk.
*In the case of news-related material please note that this may be shared with eCow's overseas partners;

12. If you have any questions about contributing content to eCow, please see our FAQs

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

15. The views expressed are those of the authors and unless specifically stated are not those of eCow . eCow is not responsible for any content posted by members of the public on ecow.co.uk or for the availability or content of any third party sites that are accessible through ecow.co.uk. Any links to third party websites from ecow.co.uk do not amount to any endorsement of that site by eCow and any use of that site by you is at your own risk.

16. ecow.co.uk content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to eCow, its products and services (or to third party products and services), is provided "AS IS" and on an "AS AVAILABLE" basis. To the extent permitted by law, eCow excludes all representations and warranties (whether express or implied by law), including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. eCow does not guarantee the timeliness, completeness or performance of the website or any of the content. While we try to ensure that all content provided by eCow is correct at the time of publication no responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of eCow for any errors, omissions or inaccurate content on the website.

17. Nothing in these terms limits or excludes eCow's liability for death or personal injury caused by its proven negligence. Subject to the previous sentence, eCow shall not be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such damage or losses were foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties; or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of ecow.co.uk regardless of the form of action.

18. eCow does not warrant that functions available on ecow.co.uk will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that ecow.co.uk or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to implement sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements for the accuracy of data input and output.

General

19. If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive and continue to be binding and enforceable.

20. The failure or delay of the eCow to exercise or enforce any right in these terms does not waive the eCow's right to enforce that right.

21. These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of Scotland which shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes.

Contacting eCow about these Terms of Use:

Toby Mottram
eCow Ltd
Unit 1.2 61 Greendyke St
Glasgow
G1 5PX
United Kingdom

Privacy Policy

1. Introduction and General Terms

eCow Ltd is committed to protecting you and your family's personal information when you are using eCow services. We want our services to be safe and enjoyable environments for our audience. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us through eCow.co.uk websites.

In order to provide you with the full range of eCow services, we are sometimes required to collect information about you.

This privacy policy explains the following:

As set out above, eCow Ltd is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the Data Protection Act 1998 (these laws are referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as the "data protection laws").

The websites contains hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit or are collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.

2. What information will eCow Ltd collect about me?

When you sign up to participate in or receive a service from any ecow.co.uk website, such as newsletters, competitions, live chats, message boards or register with the single universal online registration system used across different parts of eCow Ltd.co.uk called "Single Sign-On", we may ask for personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, e mail address, postal address, telephone or mobile number or date of birth. Different webpages may ask for different personal information.

By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable eCow Ltd and its service providers to provide you with the services you select.

Please note that sometimes on particular webpages we will require you to provide additional personal information, and sometimes sensitive personal information (e.g. if you're sending in an application to be a contributor on a political party we may need to know your political leanings). When we do this we will specify further on these webpages why we are collecting your information and how we will use it.

eCow Ltd also uses cookies (see paragraph 13 below for details) and collects IP addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet). We use analysis software to look at IP addresses and cookies for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you and the log files are regularly purged.

We also use your IP address to determine whether you are accessing the services from the UK or not. If not, you may be re-directed to the international version of eCow.co.uk site.

3. How will eCow Ltd use the information they collect about me?

eCow Ltd will use your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:

Where eCow Ltd proposes using your personal information for any other uses we will ensure that we notify you first. You will also be given the opportunity to withhold or withdraw your consent for your use other than as listed above.

4. When will eCow Ltd contact me?

eCow Ltd may contact you:

5. Will I be contacted for marketing purposes?

eCow Ltd may contact you for market research purposes.

6. Will eCow Ltd share my personal information with anyone else?

We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies). Generally, we will only use your information within eCow Ltd. However, sometimes eCow Ltd uses third parties to process your information. eCow Ltd will require these third parties to comply strictly with its instructions and eCow Ltd will require that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes.

7. Offensive or inappropriate content on eCow Ltd website

If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to ecow.co.uk, or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on ecow.co.uk, eCow Ltd may use your personal information to stop such behaviour.

Where eCow Ltd reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any of the laws of England or Wales (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), eCow Ltd may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.

8. What if I am a user aged 16 or under?

If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to eCow Ltd's website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

9. How long will eCow Ltd keep my personal information?

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with eCow Ltd or eCow Ltd's corporate retention schedule (this is a database that defines which documents should be kept and for how long). In the case that you wish to cancel your registration as a ecow.co.uk member, once an account is deleted a red flag goes on the database and, while people cannot use the personal information, it stays on the system for a period of one year for administration purposes before being deleted automatically.

Where you contribute to ecow.co.uk eCow Ltd will generally only keep your content for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted.

10. Can I find out what personal information eCow Ltd holds about me?

Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request a copy of the personal information eCow Ltd holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £10 for information requests and will require you to prove your identity with 2 pieces of approved photographic identification.) We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files.

11. What if I am accessing eCow websites outside the UK?

www.ecow.co.uk is published in the UK by eCow Ltd. For international users accessing the site from outside the UK, the site is made available to you by eCow on a commercial basis (ie some of the pages you access will have advertising on them) under licence from eCow Ltd. However all personal information submitted by you to the site goes directly to eCow Ltd and will be processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy (and any local terms that apply on websites) unless terms on sites specify otherwise.

12. Changes to eCow's Privacy Policy

This privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to any ecow.co.uk website. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page.

13. Cookies Policy -Information eCow Ltd collects from you

a. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a "device") browser from a website's computer and is stored on your device's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.

Cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor the websites to your interests. Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of eCow Ltd.co.uk features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

During the course of any visit to ecow.co.uk, the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

b. How does eCow Ltd use cookies?

Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience. For example: if on a previous visit you went to our education pages, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight educational information on your second and subsequent visits.

eCow Ltd also use a number of independent measurement and research companies. They gather information regarding the visitors to eCow sites on our behalf using cookies, log file data and code which is embedded on our website. eCow Ltd use this type of information to help improve the services it provides to its users. eCow Ltd strictly require that third parties do not use any information for their own business or other purposes. Certain other areas of ecow.co.uk may use cookies for a specific reason - for example, to help an online game work effectively on your device. If this is the case, the local terms for that area of the website will make this clear and you should refer to those local terms for additional information.

14. Contacting eCow Ltd about this Privacy Policy

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy please contact;

toby@ecow.co.uk