Terms & Conditions

Access to and use of this site (‘fird.org.uk’) is provided by the Forum for International Relations Development subject to the following terms:

1. By using fird.org.uk you agree to be legally bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of fird.org.uk. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all the following terms please do not access and/or use fird.org.uk.
2. The FIRD may change these terms at any time by posting changes online. Please review these terms regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes made by the FIRD. Your continued use of fird.org.uk after changes are posted means you agree to be legally bound by these terms as updated and/or amended.

Use of fird.org.uk

3. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use fird.org.uk content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any fird.org.uk content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of fird.org.uk content requires the prior written permission of the FIRD.
4. You agree to use fird.org.uk only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else’s use and enjoyment of fird.org.uk. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within fird.org.uk.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

5. fird.org.uk content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to the FIRD and/or its products and services (or to third party products and services), is provided “AS IS” and on an “IS AVAILABLE” basis without any representations or any kind of warranty made (whether express or implied by law) to the extent permitted by law, including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.
6. Under no circumstances will the FIRD be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such losses where foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (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 fird.org.uk regardless of the form of action.
7. The FIRD does not warrant that functions contained in fird.org.uk content will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that fird.org.uk or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.

Intellectual Property

8. The names, images and logos identifying the FIRD or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trademarks of the FIRD and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise any licence or right to use any trademark, patent, design right or copyright of the FIRD or any other third party.

Contributions to fird.org.uk

9. Where you are invited to submit any contribution to fird.org.uk (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant the FIRD a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in the FIRD’s Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant to the FIRD the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to fird.org.uk.
10. Further to paragraph 9, by submitting your contribution to fird.org.uk, you:
10.1 warrant that your contribution;

10.1.1 is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to the FIRD for all the purposes specified above;

10.1.2 is not defamatory; and

10.1.3 does not infringe any law; and

10.2 indemnify the FIRD against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by the FIRD as a result of your breach of the above warranty; and

10.3 waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on fird.org.uk and the purposes specified above.

General

11. If there is any conflict between these terms and specific terms appearing elsewhere on fird.org.uk then the latter shall prevail.
12. 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.
13. These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.

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