15.1

These Content Standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our Site (including but not limited to articles, media, photographs, blog posts and videos) (Contributions), and to any Interactive Services associated with it.

15.2

You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The Content Standards apply to each part of any Contribution as well as to its whole.

15.3

Contributions must:

15.3.1

be accurate (where they state facts);

15.3.2

be genuinely held (where they state opinions); and

15.3.3

comply with all applicable laws in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.

15.4

Contributions must not:

15.4.1

contain any material which is defamatory of any person;

15.4.2

contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;

15.4.3

promote sexually explicit material;

15.4.4

promote violence;

15.4.5

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

15.4.6

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

15.4.7

be likely to deceive any person;

15.4.8

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

15.4.9

promote any illegal activity;

15.4.10

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

15.4.11

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

15.4.12

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

15.4.13

give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case; or

15.4.14

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

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to our Site, or to make contact with other users of our Site, you must comply with the content standards set out in clauses 13 to 17 of these Terms (Content Standards). You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.

8.2

 We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our Site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

8.3

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our Site.

8.4

We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on our Site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with the Content Standards.

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9 - VIRUSES, HACKING AND OTHER OFFENCES

9.1

You must not misuse our Site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Site, the server on which our Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Site. You must not attack our Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

9.2

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Site will cease immediately.

9.3

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our Site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.