Website Terms of Use, Acceptable Use and Privacy Policies

 

Terms of Use

This section tells you the terms of use on which you may view and make use of our websites www.heromedia.tv which is our main website, and our other websites www.hero-media.co.uk and www.hero-media.com which simply link to our main site. All these sites will be referred to on this page as “our site”.

Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use our site. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.

 

Intellectual Property Rights

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

 

Our Liability

The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:

• All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.

• Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for:

• - loss of income or revenue;

• - loss of business;

• - loss of profits or contracts;

• - loss of anticipated savings;

• - loss of data;

• - loss of goodwill;

• - wasted management or office time; and

• - for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.

This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

 

Website 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, which supplement our terms of website use above.

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;

• - 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, or content/material/media obtained from it in contravention of the provisions of our terms of website use detailed above;
You also agree 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.

 

Privacy Policy

 

Information We May Collect From You

We may collect and process the following data about you:

• - Information that you provide by contacting us or adding comments or posting links on our site.

• - If you contact us, we may keep a record of all the details you give us.

• - Details of your visits to our site (including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own purposes or otherwise) and the resources that you access.

 

IP Addresses and Cookies

We may collect information about your computer, including where available – your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our Web Designers and Marketing Consultants. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. This is done using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer, which you can delete at any time. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:

• - To estimate our audience size, usage pattern and geographical position.

  • - To recognise you when you return to our site.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.

 

Uses Made of the Information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

• - To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

• - To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.

• - To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.