Acceptable Use Policy

What's in these terms?

This acceptable use policy sets out the content standards that apply when you upload content to any of our platforms (including our website), submit a review or interact with our platforms in any other way.

Your use of our platforms means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the policies in this acceptable use policy, which supplement our terms of website/platform use and which can be found .

Prohibited uses

You may use our platforms only for lawful purposes. You may not use our platforms:

• 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 which are 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); or

• 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 platforms, including any content or source code;

•Not scrap or otherwise extract by automated means, any data, content or material of any kind from any platform of ours;

•Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:

Any part of our platforms;
Any equipment or network on which our platforms are stored;
Any software used in the provision of our platforms; or
Any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Content standards

These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our platforms, including reviews submitted by you (contributions). The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

Contributions must:

•Be accurate (where they state facts);

•Be genuinely held (where they state opinions);

•Comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.

Contributions must not:

•Be defamatory of any person;

•Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;

•Promote sexually explicit material;

•Promote violence;

•Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;

•Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person;

•Be likely to deceive any person;

•Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;

•Promote any illegal activity;

•Be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;

•Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;

•Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person;

•Give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case;

•Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse;

•Contain any advertising or promote any services or web links to other sites or platforms.

Suspension and termination

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this acceptable use policy through your use of our platforms. 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 platforms, and may result in the immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our platforms or removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our platforms.

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.

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 platforms.