The
Hanover Community Association (HCA) runs this web site and community forum.
We
hope to give you as much control and ownership over this site as possible and
encourage you to express yourself freely in comments on posts and on the forum.
However, be responsible in what you publish. Remember that you are writing
publicly, and avoid content that you would not like to read (things like spam
or hate content).
We
use Google Analytics (www.google.com/analytics/) to try to understand how you
are using our site. This involves a cookie being stored by your browser. You
can block this by instructing your browser not to store cookies for our site.
However, we would appreciate it if you did not. We do not aquire any personal information
from this service, but we do gain useful information about what you find
interesting and helpful.
We
will be responsible in our custodianship of personal information lodged with us
during the operation of the web site and forum.
Privacy Statement:
The
HCA is committed to protecting your privacy. We will only use the information
that we collect about you lawfully in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
We
may collect information for a number of reasons, including:
·
entering into
a room hire agreement with you,
·
enrolling you
on a mailing list,
·
enrolling you
as a volunteer or member, or
·
tracking how
you use our web site.
By
entering into these relationships with the HCA, you agree and accept that we
may hold personal data about you and that we may contact you by virtue of the
relationship we have established.
You
may instruct us at any time to cease contacting you and we will do so
immediately.
We
will not share or disclose your personal information with any third party
unless required to do so by law.
The
type of information we will collect about you may include:
·
your name
·
address
·
phone number
·
email address
If
you enter into a financial agreement with us, we may also collect:
·
bank account
details
·
credit/debit
card details
We
will never collect sensitive information about you without your explicit
consent. We will delete financial information when the relevant transaction has
been completed unless you grant us permission to retain the information.
The
information we hold will be accurate and up to date. You can check the
information that we hold about you by contacting us. If you find any
inaccuracies we will delete or correct them promptly.
The
personal information which we hold will be held securely in accordance with our
internal security policy and the law.
We
may use technology to track the patterns of behaviour of visitors to our web
site. This can include using a "cookie" which would be stored by your
browser. You can usually modify your browser to prevent this happening.
Information collected in this way will only be used to improve the usability of
the web site.
1. By accessing or using any part of the
website, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.
2. If you create an account or password for
access to any element of the website, you are responsible for maintaining the
security of your account or password, and you are fully responsible for all
activities that occur using your account or password. You must immediately
notify the HCA of any unauthorised uses of your account or password.
3. If you comment on a post or post material
or links ("Content") on the website, or otherwise make (or allow any
third party to make) Content available by means of the website, you are
entirely responsible for the Content and any harm resulting from that Content.
By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:
(a)
the
downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the rights of any
third party;
(b)
the Content
does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other
harmful or destructive content;
(c)
the content
is not offensive, discriminatory, pornographic, libelous or defamatory, does
not contain threats or incite violence, and does not violate the privacy of any
third party;
(d)
the Content
is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain
unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third
party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to
further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source
of the material (such as spoofing); and
(e)
you do not
represent yourself in a manner that misleads your readers into thinking that
you are another person or company.
4. The HCA has the right, in HCA’s sole
discretion, to:
(a)
alter, refuse
or remove any content that, in HCA’s reasonable opinion, violates any HCA
policy or is in any way illegal, harmful or objectionable, or
(b)
terminate or
deny access to the website to any individual or entity for any reason.
5. HCA has not reviewed, and cannot review,
all of the material posted to the website, and cannot therefore be responsible
for that material’s content, use or effects. By operating the website, HCA does
not represent or imply that it endorses Content posted by other parties, or that
it believes such Content to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are
responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your
computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or
destructive Content. HCA disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting
from the use of the website by visitors, or from any downloading of Content
from the website by those visitors.
6. HCA has not reviewed, and cannot review,
all of the material made available through the websites and webpages to which
the website links, and that link to the website. HCA does not have any control
over those websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or
their use. By linking to a non-HCA website or webpage, HCA does not represent
or imply that it endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for
taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems
from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content.
HCA disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of
non-HCA websites and webpages.
7. HCA asks you to respect its intellectual
property rights. HCA respects the intellectual property rights of others. If
you believe that material located on or linked to by the website breaches
copyright, you are encouraged to notify HCA. HCA will respond appropriately to
all such notices, including removing the infringing material or disabling links
to the infringing material. In the case of a visitor who infringes or repeatedly
infringes the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of HCA or
others, HCA may, in its discretion, terminate or deny access to the website.