Good afternoon, the new season starts today. Welcome back to the users that have come back after the Winter.
During the offseason the Admin of RLFans have updated the Acceptable Usage Policy for the site, can you please have a quick read through to refresh yourselves with the do's and don'ts.
Quote:ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
This acceptable use policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you may access our
website. This acceptable use policy applies to all users of, and visitors to, our site.
Your use of our site means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the policies in this acceptable
use policy.
1.0 Prohibited Uses
You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:
In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not
comply with our content standards set out below.
To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or
promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan
horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs
or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software
or hardware.
You also agree:
Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the
provisions of our terms of website use.
Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
any part of our site;
any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
any software used in the provision of our site; or
any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.
2.0 Interactive Services
We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site, including, without limitation:
Chat rooms.
Bulletin boards.
Forums
Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind
of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of moderation is used (including whether it is
human or technical).
We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users (and in particular, for children) from third
parties when they use any interactive service provided on our site, and we will decide in each case
whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of
moderation to use) in the light of those risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee,
monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our
liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in
contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.
The use of any of our interactive services by a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or
guardian. We advise parents who permit their children to use an interactive service that it is
important that they communicate with their children about their safety online, as moderation is not
fool proof. Minors who are using any interactive service should be made aware of the potential risks
to them.
Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with a means of
contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.
3.0 Content Standards
These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site
(contributions), and to any interactive services associated with it.
You must comply with the spirit and the letter of the following standards. The standards apply to
each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.
3.1 Contributions must:
a. Be accurate (where they state facts).
b. Be genuinely held (where they state opinions).
c. Comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.
3.2 Contributions must not:
a. Contain any material which is defamatory of any person.
b. Contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
c. Contain any personal details, whether your own or otherwise.
d. Contain any signature files larger than 50 KB.
e. Promote sexually explicit material.
f. Promote violence.
g. Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation
or age.
h. Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
i. Contain spam, whether repeated across message boards, pages, other websites or
otherwise.
j. Be likely to deceive any person.
k. Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a
duty of confidence.
l. Promote any illegal activity.
m. Be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or
needless anxiety.
n. Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
o. Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any
person.
p. Give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.
q. Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright
infringement or computer misuse.
r. Contain any material promoting third party businesses without prior approval from us.
s. Sell or offer to sell match tickets without prior approval from us.
3.3 Suspension & Termination
We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this acceptable use policy
through your use of our site. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as
we deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the terms of use
upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following
actions:
a. Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
b. Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting, material or discussion thread
uploaded by you to our site.
c. Issue of a warning to you.
d. Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis
(including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the
breach.
e. Further legal action against you.
f. Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is
necessary.
We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The
responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably
deem appropriate.
3.4 Complaints
If you wish to make a complaint against us in relation to any decision we take based on this
Acceptable Use Policy, then you should inform us at
http://support.rlfans.com/ with the relevant
details.
Starting public threads or otherwise uploading content onto our site criticising, complaining about,
defaming or slandering us in relation to any decision taken by us based on this Acceptable Use Policy
is prohibited.
3.5 Changes to the Acceptable Use Policy
We may revise this acceptable use policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to
check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding
on you. Some of the provisions contained in this acceptable use policy may also be superseded by
provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.
Many thanks for your attention.