Terms and Conditions

General

This site is managed by the South West Public Health Observatory (SWPHO).

By using the Healthy Weight for Children Hub website, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set out here. If you do not agree, please do not access, use or contribute to the site. These terms may be amended over time. As long as you continue to use the site, you are deemed to accept the revised terms.

Copyright

All material on these pages, including, without limitation, text, logos, icons and other artwork, is, except where another publisher or copyright holder is indicated, copyright material of the South West Public Health Observatory. Use may be made of these pages for non-commercial purposes without permission from the SWPHO (except where it is indicated that a third party owns the copyright). Commercial use of SWPHO-owned material may only be made with the express, prior written permission of the SWPHO.

Contributions to the Healthy Weight for Children Hub

By contributing any content to the Hub (e.g. by adding a resource, contributing to a discussion forum or the noticeboard, or adding an Intervention), you are giving the SWPHO permission to make that content publicly available, free of charge, on www.healthyweight4children.org.uk

When adding content to the Hub you will be asked to confirm that you have read the Healthy Weight for Children Hub terms and conditions. By accepting these terms and conditions when adding content, you are providing us with the assurance that you are doing so within the law and that correct and lawful permissions have been given where necessary (e.g. for use of photographs of individuals).

In order that the SWPHO can use your contribution, you confirm that it is either your own or your organisation's original work, is not defamatory and does not infringe any UK laws, and that you have the right to give us permission to use it.

When making a contribution, we will ask for your name and email address so that we can contact you with any queries if necessary. We do not usually show your name, unless you have given us permission to do so. For more about privacy on www.healthyweight4children.org.uk see our privacy policy.

You or your organisation will retain the copyright in your contribution.

Rules for contributors

You agree to abide by the following rules for contributing to the www.healthyweight4children.org.uk (e.g. adding resources, posting messages on the noticeboard and discussion forums, adding details to the Interventions database):

1. If you are under the age of 16, you must get the permission of a parent/guardian to contribute to www.healthyweight4children.org.uk

2. Never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (including full name, email address, telephone number etc.) in any postings on the noticeboard or discussion forums.

3. You agree to use the Healthy Weight for Children Hub lawfully. Contributions must not be defamatory, or violate or infringe the rights of others, including copyright, trade mark, privacy or data protection rights.

4. Do not contribute photographs or audio/visual material of anyone without correct and lawful permission to do so. For photographs, you must have a signed and appropriately worded model release form (i.e. that specifically includes a statement giving permission to use the photograph on third party websites). In the case of photographs of children, the release form must be signed by a parent/guardian. By accepting these terms and conditions when adding photographs to the Healthy Weight for Children Hub, you are providing us with the assurance that the correct permissions have been given.

5. Only contribute material in which you or your organisation owns the copyright.

6. Posts on the Healthy Weight for Children Hub noticeboard and discussion forums must be civil, tasteful and relevant.

They must not:

be defamatory (damaging to the reputation of a person or organisation);
be offensive or abusive (sexually, racially), unlawful, harassing, threatening, obscene, profane or otherwise objectionable;
incite people to commit a crime;
advertise or promote a commercial product;
impersonate someone;
be in a language other than English;
be content that you have copied from someone else;
contain swear words;
be spam - don't repost the same message lots of times;
contain personal information (yours or anyone else's) - including names, email addresses etc.

Moderation of contributions

The Healthy Weight for Children Hub Team moderates all user contributions. This means that we will check, sometimes edit and either approve or reject your contribution. Contributions will be rejected if they violate any UK laws or are not in accordance with the Healthy Weight for Children Hub 'Rules for Contributors'. Whenever possible, we will contact you to let you know when we have edited or rejected a contribution.

The SWPHO reserves the right to delete any contribution on the Healthy Weight for Children Hub website at any time, for any reason.

Disclaimer

Whilst reasonable care has been taken to confirm the accuracy of the information presented at the date of its publication, the authors, editors, publishers and web designers accept no liability whatsoever in contract, tort or otherwise for any loss or damage caused or arising directly or indirectly in connection with any use of or reliance on the contents of this site except to the extent that such liability cannot be excluded by law.

The authors, editors, publishers and web designers do not give any warranty, either express or implied, with respect to the contents of this site. Any disputes in relation to this site shall be determined in accordance with English law.

In the case of contributions made by users of the website, the views expressed in the contributions are theirs and, unless specifically stated, are not those of the SWPHO.

Browser compatibility

This site works optimally with Microsoft Internet Explorer v6 or above. We cannot guarantee the correct appearance of the site with other browser systems. This website is best viewed at a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 or more in high colour. Some pages on this website use JavaScript. You must have a JavaScript enabled browser for these pages to function correctly.

Cookies

A "cookie" is a small text file, held on a users local computer, which may be used to store information and identify that specific users computer to our server. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, merely the computer used. This website does not write or store any non-session related cookies on your computer; this includes "first-party cookies" and "third-party cookies". Web pages on this site use session variables to pass data between pages; you must, therefore, have session cookies enabled on your browser.

For further information on cookies, you may wish to visit CookieCentral FAQ.

Links to other websites

Links are provided for information and convenience only. The South West Public Health Observatory does not accept responsibility for the availability, reliability or content of the linked websites and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them. Listing shall not be taken as endorsement of any kind; likewise, not linking to a particular site does not imply lack of endorsement. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time, and we have no control over the availability of linked pages.

If you have any queries relating to the Healthy Weight for Children Hub Terms and Conditions, please use the feedback form.