Terms and Conditions
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Please read carefully
1. Terms of Use ("Terms")
Welcome to
agathachristie.com. By using agathachristie.com, you agree to be
legally bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to be legally bound
by all these Terms, you may not access or use Agathachristie.com and
should exit immediately. If you are below the age of 13 then please get
a parent's or guardian's permission before using Agathachristie.com.
2. Introduction
Agathachristie.com is owned
and managed by Agatha Christie Limited (an Acorn Media Group company)
("ACL"). ACL is a company registered in England, (registered number
00550864), whose registered office is at 161 Drury Lane, Covent Garden,
London, WC2B 5PN and telephone number is 020 3793 6560. ACL shall have
the right, at its sole discretion to modify, add or remove any terms or
conditions of these Terms without notice or liability to you. Any
changes to these Terms shall be effective immediately following the
posting of any such changes on Agathachristie.com. Please review these
Terms regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes made by ACL.
Your continued use of Agathachristie.com after changes are posted means
you agree to be legally bound by these Terms as updated and amended.
3. Ownership and Restrictions
Agathachristie.com, its design and contents including all text based,
still and motion video, audio and audio visual material, code and / or
software (“the Materials”) are owned by ACL or its applicable third
parties. You agree not to modify, copy, reproduce, broadcast,
republish, sell, resell, exploit, create derivative works or distribute
in any way any portion of Agathachristie.com or the Materials. Nothing
contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring by
implication, estoppel or otherwise any licence or right to use any
trade mark, patent, design right or copyright of ACL or of
Agathachristie.com. ACL, Agatha Christie™ and any other copyrights,
trademarks and proprietary rights on Agathachristie.com are the
property of ACL unless otherwise stated. Any unauthorised use of these
marks is unlawful. All content on this web site, including, without
limitation, all programs, interface layout, interface text,
documentation and graphics, animations, video clips, downloadables is
the copyrighted protection of ACL (or as otherwise stated) and is
protected by international copyright law. The content on
Agathachristie.com may be used by you only for your personal use as
provided in these Terms, but may not be taken out of context or
presented in a misleading or discriminatory manner. If you download any
Material from this Site, the Material, including any images or files
included in or generated by the Material and data accompanying the
Material is subject to the limited licence set out below. You may not
distribute, sell or transmit the Material and you are not permitted to
alter, modify or adapt it. You are granted a personal, limited,
non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to access Agathachristie.com
and use Agathachristie.com and the Materials, provided that you do not,
and do not allow any third party, to modify or create a derivative work
of, reverse engineer, or otherwise attempt to discover any source code
in software available on Agathachristie.com. The grant of this limited
licence is conditional upon your agreement to and compliance with all
of these Terms. ACL may revoke this licence at any time and in their
absolute discretion. If you upload any Material to this site, you shall
be deemed to grant ACL full ownership of the Material including
worldwide copyright. ACL shall be entitled to make use of the uploaded
Material as it sees fit, without any need to obtain your permission.
4. Privacy Statement
For UK users: ACL are
keen to strike a fair balance between your personal privacy and
ensuring you obtain full value from Agathachristie.com. We are fully
registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 (the "Act") and to ensure
we comply with the protection the Act affords to you we have set out
how we intend to utilise the information provided by you and when you
register via Agathachristie.com. If you wish to know more about your
rights and/or the Act please visit the Information Commissioner's
website at www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk/. What
Information is Collected. When you register as a user with
Agathachristie.com, we ask you to provide us with your name, email
address and other personal information that will be needed to supply
the services to you. You can "unsubscribe" at any time. We may use your
personal data for contacting you via letter or email for newsletters,
support, notification of new products or new versions, general
correspondence regarding Agathachristie.com and correspondence which
may relate to you. If you would rather not receive future marketing
emails from us once you have registered please inform us by updating
your details on the registration page. In accordance with statutory
obligations, we only collect personal information from you which is
necessary for us to supply the services to you. You have the option at
any time to request that we: (a) remove details from our database; (b)
update the information we hold about you or your child; (c) request a
copy of the information that we hold subject to the payment of a
requested fee; or (d) stop receiving data. ACL does not pass any
information about you to any third parties without your express
consent. We never give or sell our user lists to third parties.
5. Cookies
Agathachristie.com uses cookies to
provide an enhanced experience for users of Agathachristie.com. A
cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to
the cookie folder of the browser of your computer's hard disk so that
the website can remember who you are. You have the ability to accept or
decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you
may not be able to use all of the interactive features of
Agathachristie.com if cookies are disabled. To find out more about
cookies and how to disable them, please visit
http://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/.
6. Disclaimer
This Site is provided for your
information and entertainment purposes only. It is provided to you for
your own personal, non-commercial use and not for purposes of resale,
distribution, public display or performance or any other uses by you in
any form or manner whatsoever. When you register on the Site, you
warrant that all the details you supply, including, without limitation,
your name and email address are accurate, that you are authorised to
use the email address that you give and that you are at least thirteen
(13) years old. If you are below the age of 13 then please get
a parent's or guardian's permission before using Agathachristie.com.
Agathachristie.com, information, names, images, pictures, logos and
icons regarding or relating to Agathachristie.com and/or ACL, (or to
third party products) and services is provided "as is" and on an "as
available" basis without any representation or any kind of warranty
made (whether express or implied by law) to the extent permitted by
law. Under no circumstances will ACL be liable for any of the following
losses or damage (whether such losses were foreseen, foreseeable, known
or otherwise): (a) loss of damage; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated
profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of
goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties;
or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages
arising from the use of Agathachristie.com regardless of the form of
action. ACL does not warrant that functions contained in
Agathachristie.com content will be uninterrupted or error-free, that
defects will be corrected or that Agathachristie.com or the server that
makes it available are free of viruses, worms, Trojan horses or bugs.
Nothing in these Terms shall exclude or limit ACL's liability for death
or personal injury resulting from negligence; for fraudulent
misrepresentation; or to the extent that liability cannot by law be
excluded or limited.
7. User Obligations
You agree to follow all applicable laws and regulations when using
Agathachristie.com. You agree that you shall not: i) upload, post or
transmit through or to Agathachristie.com any content that is unlawful
abusive or threatening; might infringe the intellectual property
rights, privacy rights or proprietary rights of others; ii) upload,
post or transmit through or to Agathachristie.com any viruses, worms,
Trojan horses, worms and any other harmful components; iii) disrupt or
interfere with or attempt to gain unauthorised access to any area of
Agathachristie.com, its computer systems or networks; iv) provide false
information about yourself to us, impersonate any other person or
otherwise attempt to mislead others about your identity or origin of
content; v) transmit junk mail, chain letters or other unsolicited bulk
email or duplicative messages; or vi) collect information about other
visitors to Agathachristie.com without their consent or otherwise
systematically extract data or data fields, including without
limitation any financial data or email addresses.
If
you use the Community Forums, you also agree to observe the Community
Forum Rules. The forum is moderated by Agatha Christie Limited.
Abusive posts will be taken down, and persistent abusers will be
permanently denied access to the forum, without notice.
Community
Forum Rules and Regulations
These rules have been
posted to protect users of the forum and to make things better for
everyone so please take time to read them.
- Please check to see if
there is already a topic started for the subject you want to talk about
and if there is then add to that one. If you start a new and very
similarly named one it will only be removed.
- Keep your
contribution to the topic being discussed. If you want to say something
else start a new topic.
- If you are starting a new topic make it a
descriptive, relevant and easily understood title. For instance
‘Discuss Tommy & Tuppence’ is more likely to get a response than
‘I wanna say something’.- Try to use proper punctuation and paragraphs:
it makes it much easier for people to read and understand.
- Don’t
copy chunks of previous postings and paste them into your posting. This
clutters up the topic so instead, if you need to, just refer to a
previous person’s posting.
- Keep things friendly – no swearing or
rudeness please. Objectionable posts are not acceptable.- Be patient
for a reply. If you don’t get one it’s probably because nobody knows
the answer.
- If you give away endings to books (Spoilers) please
tag your post as such. We are all huge Agatha Christie fans but we
haven’t all read every book.
- Be tolerant: not everyone on the
site has English as a first language.
- We advise that you never
reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for
example: telephone number, home address or email address), and please
do not include postal addresses of any kind.
- This site is for
Agatha Christie fans to talk to each other on all matters Christie.
Please don’t use this site as a personal forum.
- These guidelines
/ rules are subject to change without prior notice. Please check them
regularly.
8. For Parents
Agathachristie.com has been developed primarily as a fan site, and as a
safe place for your child to visit when they are online. As such ACL
does not intend to collect any personal information of children below
the age of 13 without parental consent. Should parents wish to access
their children's personal information held by Agathachristie.com then
they should contact ACL by post at: 'Agatha Christie Website', Agatha
Christie Ltd, 161 Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London, WC2B 5PN. Parents
are encouraged to review their children’s email and internet activities
to ensure that Agathachristie.com is being used in accordance with
these Terms.
9. Severance
If any of these
Terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable
by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these Terms are
intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the
jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable,
it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining
terms shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be
binding and enforceable.
10. Laws
These
Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of
England and Wales. Any dispute under these Terms shall be subject to
the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts. We recommend you
print out a full copy of these terms and conditions for your own
records. If you have any questions regarding these Terms or anything
relating to Agathachristie.com then please contact ACL by post at:
'Agatha Christie Website', Agatha Christie Ltd, 161 Drury Lane, Covent
Garden, London, WC2B 5PN
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