Terms of Use

Introduction

Welcome to aimhigherhumber.org, the next generation website where members can stay in touch with Aimhigher Humber members, meet new Aimhigher Humber people and share ideas and experiences.
aimhigherhumber.org is operated by Aimhigher Humber and may be accessed through the Internet. By using aimhigherhumber.org you accept and agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions (the 'Terms of Use').
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY AS THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, REMEDIES AND OBLIGATIONS.

Eligibility and Registration

To be eligible to use the restricted access areas of this site you must be either a designated practitioner or coordinator related to the work of Aimhigher Humber or a registered Aimhigher Humber learner attending a school, academy or college in one of the 4 local authorities that make up the Humber sub region. They are, City of Kingston upon Hull, North East Lincolnshire, East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. Learner registration is done through the school, academy or college based Aimhigher co ordinators or practitioners. Practitioners and coordinators of Aimhigher are required to have enhanced CRB disclosures verified through their employing institutions.

Member Conduct and Appropriate Content

We expect that all users of this site will recognise that being courteous and showing respect for other people, themselves and any content added to the site will form part of a code of conduct which keeps users safe, and should be good practice in using any similar web sites.

Conditions for Use

You agree to abide by all applicable local, national and international laws and regulations and are solely responsible for all acts or omissions that occur under your account made by you including the content of your transmissions through aimhigherhumber.org. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree NOT to:

Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
Publish, distribute and/ or disseminate any harmful, obscene, indecent, unlawful, libelous, profane, defamatory, infringing, inappropriate, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable material or information.
Use other members' personal data for purposes other than establishing contact that is reasonably expected to be welcomed by such other members
Submit materials that are unlawful or promote or encourage illegal activity or that would violate the rights of others.
Submit materials of any third party without the third party's prior written consent, or materials that falsely express or imply that such materials are sponsored or endorsed by aimhigherhumber.org
Create a false or misleading identity of, including, but not limited to, an Aimhigher Humber employee, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your relationship with a person or organisation, for the purpose of misleading others as to the identity of the sender or the origin of a message or to harvest or otherwise collect information about others.
Transmit, email or post any material that contains in any form software viruses or such programs as including but not limited to, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel-bots, computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
Use aimhigherhumber.org in any unlawful manner or in any other manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the website.
Attempt to gain unauthorised access to aimhigherhumber.org, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to aimhigherhumber.org, through password mining or any other means.
Modify, adapt, translate, or reverse engineer any portion of aimhigherhumber.org, or use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other device to retrieve or index any portion of aimhigherhumber.org.
Reformat or frame any portion of the web pages that are part of aimhigherhumber.org.
Disseminate content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, rights of privacy or publicity, or other proprietary right of any party or infringes any intellectual property law or any other applicable law.
Remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on aimhigherhumber.org.
Disseminate any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, 'junk mail', 'spam', 'chain letters', 'pyramid schemes', or any other form of such solicitation.
Interfere with another member's use and enjoyment of aimhigherhumber.org.
Harvest or collect email addresses or other contact information of members, including usernames, from aimhigherhumber.org by electronic or other means.

User Disputes

You are solely responsible for your interactions with other aimhigherhumber.org users. We reserve the right to monitor disputes between you and other users and report inappropriate use to members’ home institutions.

Privacy Policy

Aimhigher Humber will not use or disclose confidential information or data for use beyond the monitoring and tracking requirements as are part of the delivery of the programme as required by the funding bodies.
You as a user of aimhigherhumber.org will not disclose your personal log on details to other people and you will not make use of any personal information gathered from using the site belonging to another person or related to a school, academy or college or institution related to Aimhigher Humber.
You agree to be fully responsible for all use of your account and for any actions that take place using your account.

User Content Posted on the Site

You are solely responsible for the photos, profiles (including your name, image, and likeness), messages, notes, text, information, and other content that you upload, publish or display (hereinafter, "post") on or through aimhigherhumber.org, or transmit to or share with other users (collectively the "User Content"). You may not post, transmit, or share User Content on the Site that you did not create or that you do not have permission to post. You understand and agree that Aimhigher Humber may, but is not obligated to, review the Site and may delete or remove (without notice) any Site Content or User Content in its sole discretion, for any reason or no reason, including User Content that in the sole judgment of Aimhigher Humber violates this Agreement, or which might be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of users or others. You are solely responsible at your sole cost and expense for creating backup copies and replacing any User Content you post or store on the Site or provide to aimhigherhumber.org.
When you post User Content to the Site, you authorise and direct us to make such copies thereof as we deem necessary in order to facilitate the posting and storage of the User Content on the Site. Aimhigher Humber does not assert any ownership over your User Content; rather, as between us and you, subject to the rights granted to us in these Terms, you retain full ownership of all of your User Content and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with your User Content.

Copyright Complaints

We respect the intellectual property rights of others and we prohibit users from uploading, posting or otherwise transmitting on aimgherhumber.org any materials that violate another party's intellectual property rights. When we receive proper Notification of Alleged Copyright Infringement as described in our aimgherhumber.org Copyright Policy, we promptly remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material and terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. If you believe that any material on the Site infringes upon any copyright which you own or control, you may send a written notification of such infringement to our Designated Agent. Please see our Copyright Policy for more information on how to report infringement of your copyright.

Disclaimer of Warranties

Aimhigher Humber and its affiliates, partners, members, suppliers, employees, consultants and agents disclaim any and all responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, completeness, legality, reliability, or operability or availability of information or materials displayed on aimhigherhumber.org.
Aimhigher Humber further expressly disclaims (1) that aimhigherhumber.org will meet your requirements and will be uninterrupted, error-free, timely, or secure, (2) that defects or errors will be corrected, (3) that aimhigherhumber.org or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components, and (4) that the use of or the results of the use of aimhigherhumber.org or the content made available as part of aimhigherhumber.org will be correct, accurate, timely, or otherwise reliable.
Aimhigher Humber expressly disclaims any and all responsibility and liability for the conduct of any other member, and expressly disclaims that the content and materials of aimhigherhumber.org input by other members is correct or accurate.
Aimhigher Humber reserves the right to change any and all content, software and other items used or contained in the Site and any Services and Platform Applications offered through the Site at any time without notice.

Limitation on Liability

In no event will Aimhigher Humber or its directors, employers or agents be liable to you or any third person for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages, including for any lost profits or lost data arising from your use of the site, any platform applications or any of the site content or other materials on, accessed through or downloaded from the site, even if Aimhigher Humber is aware or has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Termination of the Aimhigher Humber Service

These Terms of Use will apply to your use of aimhigherhumber.org. At any time, you can terminate your account which will remove your profile and other personal information from view. To cancel your account, send a notice to: aimhigherhumber.org. We may terminate your membership immediately at any time, for any reason. Once your membership terminates, you will have no right to use aimhigherhumber.org. Our proprietary rights, disclaimer of warranties, shall survive any termination of your membership.
Aimhigher Humber may also, in its sole discretion and at any time, discontinue temporarily or permanently providing aimhigherhumber.org, or any part thereof, with or without notice. You agree that any termination of access to aimhigherhumber.org under any provision of the Terms of Use may be effected without notice, and acknowledge and agree that Aimhigher Humber may immediately deactivate or delete your account and all related information and files in your account and/or bar any further access to such files or aimhigherhumber.org. Where possible, Aimhigher Humber will use reasonable efforts to give members fair notice of termination or suspension of their access to aimhigherhumber.org. Further you agree that Aimhigher Humber shall not be liable to you or any third party for any termination or suspension of access to aimhigherhumber.org or modification of aimhigherhumber.org.

Copyright Policy

You may not post, modify, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyright material, trademarks, or other proprietary information belonging to others without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. Aimhigher Humber respects the intellectual property rights of others and will terminate any user's access to aimhigherhumber.org according to these terms of use if Aimhigher Humber is notified that such user's activities infringe the rights of third parties on more than one occasion. If you believe that your work (or the work of a third party on whose behalf you are entitled to act) has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please file a copyright infringement notification (Notice) with us, by sending a written communication which should include the following information, in the same order as is set out in (i) to (x) below:
(i) statement that you have identified material on aimhigherhumber.org which infringes your copyright (or infringes the copyright of a third party on whose behalf you are entitled to act, if applicable); (ii) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, which should include the type of work (such as a book or a sound recording) and any relevant further details (such as the title and date of publication, as applicable); (iii) the country or countries to which your copyright applies; (iv) a description of the way in which the copyright material has been infringed; (v) a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on aimhigherhumber.org (including a URL and/or screen shot); (vi) your address, telephone number, and email address so that we may get in contact with you; (vii) the contact details that you would like us to provide to the alleged infringer so that they may contact you directly, in order to attempt to resolve the complaint; (viii) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the copyright work is not authorized by the copyright owner (or by a third party who is legally entitled to do so on behalf of the copyright owner) and is not otherwise permitted by law; (ix) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in the Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf and (x) an electronic or physical signature (which may be a scanned copy) of the copyright owner.
Once you have completed the Notice, having included all of the information set out above, please send it to: [Attn: Aimhigher Humber Copyright Infringement Notification] Email: aimhigherhumber@hull.ac.uk

If you are unsure as to your rights in respect of your copyright material, or whether there has been an infringement of your rights, we suggest that you take legal advice before sending a Notice to Aimhigher Humber. This 'notice and takedown' process is regulated by statute. There may be negative consequences if you falsely allege copyright infringement or send a Notice to Aimhigher Humber in bad faith.
If you believe that any material that you have uploaded on to aimhigherhumber.org website has been removed in error, or that the content in question does not infringe the copyright of any third party, you may file a counter-notice (' Counter-Notice') with us, by sending a written communication which should include the following information, in the same order as is set out in (i) to (iv) below:
(i) specific details of the material that has been removed or to which Aimhigher Humber has disabled access and the accompanying location of such material; (ii) your name, address, telephone number, email address and a statement that you will accept service from the person (or an authorized representative of such person) who provided Aimhigher Humber with the complaint in question; (iii) a statement by you that you believe (acting in good faith) that the material identified above was removed as a result of a mistake or incorrect identification of the material to be removed and (iv) an electronic or physical copy of your signature (which may be a scanned copy).
Once you have completed the Counter-Notice, having included all of the information set out above, please send it to: [Attn: Aimhigher Humber Copyright Infringement Counter-Notification] Email: aimhigherhumber@hull.ac.uk