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Terms and Conditions of Service

A Message from Graduatesunited:

Please read the following terms and conditions carefully, by registering with us you are agreeing to these terms and conditions. We are confident that the information that we provide on our website is accurate at the time of going to publication. However, we cannot guarantee its accuracy. Any information that we provide on Graduatesunited.co.uk has been supplied in good faith and Graduatesunited Ltd accepts no responsibility or liability with respect to any loss or damage arising from the advice or information on this website.

The majority of this site contains information that has been posted by other registered members. We monitor these postings and reserve the right to remove any offensive information without any prior warning or consent from the author. The information contained in these postings represent the views of the individual and not the views of Graduates United Ltd.

Membership and Registration:

Graduatesunited.co.uk offers two types of membership. Firstly, 'Free' registration and secondly, 'Full' annual subscription.

Free registration allows you to: Post a personal profile, Search for fellow Graduates (by University, Course or Halls of Residence), read message boards and member profiles, receive e-mails from friends who contact you, post a profile of the University that you went to, view the useful links pages. Optionally, you can agree to receive a personalised e-mail that will be distributed when a new member joins your University, Course or both.

Full annual subscription, in addition to the above: Includes the contact facility that allows you to e-mail any other registered Graduate from the site. Additionally, subscribers are entitled to full use of the message boards (including posting comments to all board sections) and all future site features. Full membership status is a £5.00 (UK Sterling) annual fee and refunds will be given at the discretion of the Company Management. This fee allows you to contact an unlimited amount of Graduates for one year. Your membership will last for 12 months and on expiry you may chose to continue with your Full Membership. However, this will continue under the current prices and terms and conditions of service at that time. In some circumstances we may allow payment to be made by cheque, in which case, please contact us at:
General@graduatesunited.co.uk

The Detailed Legal Terms You Agree to Upon Registration:

I agree to supply accurate and current information about myself and understand that registration can only be completed through a verification email process.

I will be asked to choose a password that is personal to me. I understand that the responsibility of all written communication sent from my account under my password & login details rests with me and hence I will not disclose this personal information to any other user.

I agree not to post any false, misleading, libelous, slanderous or malicious information about anyone on Graduatesunited.co.uk. Such activity is a serious offence and can result in prosecution from the Police. Graduates United Ltd may in its sole discretion remove or request the removal of any offensive communication on the website. However, Graduates United Ltd has no liability or responsibility to ensure its removal.Graduates United Ltd may also chose to discontinue my membership.

I agree not to post my, or anyone else's private details anywhere on the site. Therefore I will not post email addresses, URL's, postal addresses or phone numbers anywhere on the site, additionally my profile information will only be posted in the allocated section. I agree to not use an incognito name when communicating via the website.

I agree not to use the site for commercial use or to send unsolicited email of any nature to other members.

I agree that by submitting any personal, reunion and related information to Graduates United Ltd, that I am granting Graduates United Ltd a royalty-free, worldwide, nonterminable, exclusive license to use this information and your exact words (and excerts and edited versions of your submissions) in all media now known or hereinafter developed, and in promotions, and to sublicense and transfer this right to third parties, and you waive all claims against Graduates United Ltd for any violations of copyright, rights of privacy, publicity, and defamation or other personal torts arising from Graduatesunited.co.uk use of the information in such media. No payments shall be due to you for such grant of rights, and you may or may not receive credit as the author of such works in any use of them.

I agree not to reproduce any information found on the site without obtaining written permission from Graduates United Ltd.

Whilst using Graduatesunited.co.uk I agree to follow all national and international laws and regulations and all proprietary rights laws. This will mean content found on the site cannot be transferred, licensed, distributed, sold, reproduced, republished, copied, or adapted without written permission from Graduates United Ltd.

What we may do:

The license granted in this agreement shall terminate automatically without notice from Graduates United Ltd if you fail to comply with any provision of this agreement. Graduates United Ltd may terminate a free membership at its sole discretion. We reserve the right to cancel membership without refund should you fail to comply with any of the terms and conditions of service.

Swearing, obscenities and inappropriate behaviour anywhere on the website will not be tolerated. Membership will be terminated if necessary and this inappropriate use of language is solely determined by Graduates United Ltd.

We have the right to request edits or make edits to your personal information at our discretion and on occasions we may need to amend your login and password details.

Graduates United Ltd reserves the right to discontinue, delete and change the content or purposes of the site from time to time. Graduates United Ltd also reserves the right to change the Terms and Conditions of Service. The Terms and Conditions of Service in effect at the time of your use shall govern your use of the site.

Links:

There are many links to outside companies and affiliated organisations on this website. Graduated United Ltd does not endorse any organisation, product, or service advertised in the pages linked from Graduatesunited.co.uk nor does it accept any responsibility for any loss or damage resulting. If you have any problems or concerns regarding other sites, please contact us at:
General@graduatesunited.co.uk

Copyright:

The content of Graduatesunited.co.uk is the property of Graduates United Ltd and under no circumstances can information from any of its pages be copied or reproduced without prior permission from Graduates United Ltd (which will usually be given). All logos and trademarks displayed are the property of Graduates United Ltd, our affiliates, and third parties. To use these without authorisation is a violation of our rights. For publicity articles, extracts from the website may be taken, but again, please contact us for permission before using the information.

Privacy and Information Security:

At Graduatesunited.co.uk, we respect the privacy of our members. We do our best to safeguard your privacy and the security of any information that you provide us with. However, privacy over the Internet cannot be guaranteed and it is for this reason that we ask you not to post detailed personal contact information in your personal profile. This is to protect you from receiving unsolicited email. It is for this reason, that your e-mail address is never displayed on the website. Likewise, if somebody contacts you, your e-mail address is never displayed until you respond to the e-mail personally. Once you have been connected with your Graduate friend it is at your discretion as to what information you provide them with (for example your mobile number, home address).

Once you have registered, you will receive an email confirmation.

The Data Protection Act 1998

The Data Protection Act has been introduced to protect and regulate the storage of your individual personal information.The Data Protection Act ensures that companies do not abuse any of your personal information and that information is captured fairly and lawfully.

Some organisations collect information about you and are not registered under the Data Protection Act 1998. However, Graduates United Ltd feels that it is important to protect your privacy and the security of the information that we hold about you. Therefore, Graduatesunited.co.uk is registered under the data protection Act 1998 (Registration Number:PZ6108886) and observes all of the Data Protection Principles and other provisions of the Act. If you have any questions about our service or the information that we hold about you, please feel free to contact us at:
DPA@graduatesunited.co.uk

What do we do with your information?

We only store two types of information about you. Firstly, specific personal details which you provide us with upon registration and secondly, general website data. The personal details that you supply to us, allow us to run this website and allow you to display your selected personal information to your Graduate friends. Your details are managed by you, via your personalised logon ID and this can be changed by yourself at any time. We only personal details for these purposes and we will never pass your details to outside parties without your explicit permission. Obviously, these parties may benefit you in terms of offers and services. The general website data allows us to run our service. For example, we will monitor the amount of pages that you look at and use this site information to produce reports for our business development. Occasionally Graduates United Ltd will communicate with you via e-mail about website development, updates, and relevant information deemed of interest to our users. Graduates United will also include you in occasional newsletters in which your details are never passed onto third parties.

If you have any enquiries about our Data Protection Act registration, please contact:

The Data Protection Registrar
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Security

Whilst Graduatesunited.co.uk has industry standard data protection and credit card security features built into the site, security when using the internet can never be guaranteed. However, in order to upgrade to full membership status your credit/debit card details are entered into World Pays Secure Server (worldwide secure Internet transaction provider). These details are never revealed to Graduates United Ltd and we will not keep any credit card details (except the receipt issued by World Pay).

YOUR USE OF THE SITE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR SOLE RISK. GRADUATES UNITED LTD AND GRADUATES UNITED DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, LICENSORS, AGENTS OR AFFILIATES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTIES FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER FROM USE OF THE SITE OR VIRUSES, OR DIRECT OR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES OR LOSSES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOST PROFITS OR LOST SAVINGS), WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, WHICH YOU MAY INCUR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR NONPERFORMANCE OF THE SITE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF REVENUES, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION OR OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS EVEN IF GRADUATES UNITED LTD HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR LOSS. Your sole and exclusive remedy for any breach of this agreement by Graduates United Ltd shall be a refund of the fees paid for membership. Graduates United Ltd is not responsible for, and shall have no liability with respect to, the content of third party Web sites that are linked to or from the site. Graduates United Ltd is not responsible for the user generated content on the site. If you are dissatisfied with the website, the terms and conditions or the content, your sole remedy is to discontinue use of the website.

Please understand that all of the above Terms and Conditions of Service are agreed to upon registration and are outlined to protect the integrity of all of our members. We hope that you enjoy using Graduatesunited.co.uk.

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