BY USING OUR SITES YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS
By using our sites, you confirm that you accept these terms and conditions. These terms, together with the other terms and conditions referenced in these terms, will form the contractual relationship between us.
If you don’t agree to these terms, you must not use our sites.
Our sites are usually targeted at adults. If you are not legally considered an adult where you live (normally this will be the case if you are under the age of 18), please talk to your parent or legal guardian and ask them for help as only they are allowed to agree to these terms for you. If you’re a parent or legal guardian allowing a child to access our sites or interact with our content, then you agree these terms apply to you and that you’re responsible for their activity and yours. You are also responsible for any transactions undertaken by you or the child.
THERE ARE OTHER TERMS THAT MAY APPLY TO YOU
In addition to these Terms, you can find:
Our Privacy Notice, , which explains how we collect, use and store your personal data.
If additional terms and conditions do apply, we will provide you with them at the time you interact with the relevant part of our content.
We will do our best to ensure that our terms and conditions do not contradict one another. But if they do, the terms and conditions that are most relevant to the content you are engaging with will prevail. For example, if you enter into a prize draw, and a section of the Competition Rules conflicts with a section of these terms of service, the section of the Competition Rules will apply instead of the section of these terms of service. This will apply only to the conflicting terms. The rest of the parts of the terms and conditions that do not conflict will still apply.
WE MAY MAKE CHANGES TO THESE TERMS
These terms might not be as exciting as the content you’ll find across our sites. But they are important. And we may amend them from time to time, so please check them for updates. The terms that apply will be the ones that appear at the time you browse or engage with our sites. Changes will apply from the moment we make them. You can see the date of the latest version on this page.
WE MAY SUSPEND, WITHDRAW, OR CHANGE OUR SERVICES OR PARTS OF THEM
We do not guarantee that our sites, or any content on them, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may update, amend, or remove articles or areas of our sites.
Many of our sites are free to access. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our free-to-access sites at any time.
Some of our sites may be subject to subscriptions or sign ups. Those may be subject to additional terms and conditions, which will be presented to you at the time you sign up. If we have offered a paid subscription to a specific feature or access to categories of content, we will not withdraw that feature or access during your subscription in a way that would be unfair to you. However, we may make changes to our sites even for paid subscribers if those changes don’t worsen the service we offer for subscribers generally. For example, we may change the writers we use, or we may stop running particular columns, or we may focus on different things relevant to the particular publication, or other changes of that nature.
YOUR USER PROFILE
If you create a user profile for accessing our sites, you will be responsible for ensuring that you are the only person who accesses our sites using that profile. If you let other people use your profile, we may terminate your access to our sites or remove your profile. You must not create multiple user profiles except where we explicitly tell you that you can or must.
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 share it. 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 service.
YOUR INTERACTION WITH OUR SERVICES
You are responsible for the content you add to our sites. You must not post content that is untrue, could harm someone’s reputation, is obscene, offensive, hateful, or inflammatory, breaks any law of the country in which you are based or in which we are based, or incites others to break laws.
You must not use our sites to promote any commercial or business purposes, for example by advertising products in our comments section or promoting businesses or causes on our forums unless you have our agreement to do so.
COMMENTS
If you leave comments on any of our sites, then you must ensure that they are relevant, respectful, and true. You must not unnecessarily add the same comments repeatedly.
If you are confrontational to our writers, other staff members or freelancers, or other site users, we may remove your profile.
We may delete comments at our sole discretion.
RULES ABOUT LINKING TO OUR SITES
You may link to our pages, 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.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WEBSITES WE LINK TO
Where our sites contain links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Those links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or the information, or any products or services, you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources. There is more information about the links we include to other websites in our Privacy Policy.
OUR REVIEWS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
We review products and make recommendations. Our reviews and recommendations are unbiased and written by experts. But they are based on the subjective views of our writers, and you should not rely solely on these when making purchasing decisions. We hope to inspire and inform you, but your purchasing decisions are your own responsibility. You should keep in mind that the reviews and recommendations made on our sites might become old or out of date, or may not include some products or services that may better suit you. Your experience of something we have recommended may vary. So we don’t accept any liability if you purchase something based on our views, reviews, or recommendations.
WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR VIRUSES
We do not guarantee that our Services will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform to access our sites. You should use your own virus protection software.
YOU MUST NOT INTRODUCE VIRUSES
You must not misuse our sites by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful, or otherwise harmfully interacting with our sites or any part of it. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our sites, the server on which our sites are stored or any server, computer or database connected to our sites or any other equipment or network connected with our sites. You must not interfere with, damage or disrupt any software used in the provision of our sites or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party on which our sites rely in any way. You must not attack our sites 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 may 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 sites will cease immediately.
WE MAY TRANSFER THIS AGREEMENT TO SOMEONE ELSE
We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. If this happens, we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under the contract between us.
