Terms of Use
These TERMS OF USE set out important information regarding your rights, obligations and the restrictions that may apply when you use our website at literatureworks.org.uk/, including its constituent multi-site pages at Read South West, Reading Passport and One Giant Read, (the “Website”).
We recommend that you read these terms of use carefully before using the Website.
Any reference to “you” or “your”, means you as a user of our Website. Any reference to “we”, “us” or “our” is to Literature Works.
These terms of use govern the relationship between you and us when you access and use our Website. By accessing and continuing to use the Website, you agree to be legally bound by these terms of use. Please note that we may update and amend these terms of use from time to time and any changes will be posted on the Website. However, it is your responsibility to ensure you review these terms of use regularly to familiarise yourself with any changes. If you do not agree with any of our terms of use then you should not use our Website.
You may be asked to agree to further terms and conditions when using specific services, for example making online donations via Just Giving, and will be governed by their terms and conditions.
ELIGIBILITY FOR JOINING SOUTH WEST WRITERS’ COMMUNITY
All forms submitted to our site for inclusion in our South West Writers’ Community here are reviewed according by our internal panel, and Literature Works reserves the right not to include a writer in our online community for reasons which will be explained in writing. Guidelines for inclusion in our South West Writers’ Academy, our platform for established writers in the South West can be viewed here. Submissions to our Writers’ Register are subject to editing to comply with our house style. This is outlined on our submission form here.
SOUTH WEST WRITERS’ Community DISCLAIMER: WRITERS
Inclusion on our South West Writers’ Community does not constitute a recommendation of any kind. You may be required to provide professional references and supporting information about your experience of events and project work to any outside party who contacts you as a result of your listing. You may be asked to complete appropriate disclosure checks before undertaking work with young people or vulnerable adults. Inclusion on our Community does not constitute a contract of any kind with Literature Works and Literature Works accepts no responsibility for any outcome pertaining to inclusion on our Community .
USE OF OUR SOUTH WEST WRITERS’ COMMUNITY BY ANY PARTY: DISCLAIMER
Our South West Writers’ Community is for information purposes only. Literature Works accepts no responsibility for any outcome of any communication, contract or other engagement with any writer featured and inclusion of a writer on the community does not constitute a recommendation by Literature Works or a contract with the writer of any kind. Any individual or organisation is wholly responsible for all legal, health and safety, safeguarding and all other legal responsibilities that are necessary for any interaction or activity or engagement of any kind with any writer on this community.
Our South West Writers’ Community is for information purposes only. Literature Works accepts no responsibility for any outcome of any communication, contract or other engagement with any writer featured on this list, and inclusion of a writer in the community does not constitute a recommendation by Literature Works or a contract with the writer of any kind. Any individual or organisation is wholly responsible for all legal, health and safety, safeguarding and all other legal responsibilities that are necessary for any interaction or activity or engagement of any kind with any writer on this community.
INFORMATION ABOUT US
We operate the Website literatureworks.org.uk/ and its constituent multi-site pages. We are Literature Works, a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales under company number 06858956 and a registered charity under charity number 1132586. Our registered office is at Literature Works, c/o Griffin Chartered Accountants, Silverdown Office Park, Exeter Airport Business Park, Exeter, EX5 2UX.
ACCESSING OUR WEBSITE AND AVAILABILITY
Access to our Website is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our Website without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our Website is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our Website, or our entire Website, to users who have registered with us.
While we endeavour to ensure that this Website is normally available 24 hours a day, we cannot promise that our Website will be free from errors or omissions nor that it will be available uninterrupted and in a fully operating condition. The Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons reasonably beyond our control. We will not be liable to you or to any other person in the event that all or any part of the Website is discontinued, modified or changed in any way.
We shall not be liable for any failure, any suspension or any termination of access to the Website in connection with or arising out of a force majeure event. In these terms of use, a “force majeure event” shall include, without limitation, strikes, lock-outs or other industrial disputes, nuclear accident or acts of God, war or terrorist activity, riot, civil commotion, malicious damage, compliance with any law or government order, rule regulation or direction, accident or breakdown of plant or machinery, interruption or failure in communications networks and facilities (including the internet), fire, flood, storm or default of suppliers, and where they are beyond our reasonable control, any other acts, events, omissions or accidents.
You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our Website. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Website through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.
SUBSCRIPTION
If you want to subscribe to our newsletters you will be required to send us your details. You may be required to register your details and/or open an account to access some areas of the Website (such as the Just Giving donations service). You undertake to complete any subscription / registration form fully, and that all information provided is up to date, true, accurate and complete.
Each subscription / registration is for a single user only. We do not permit you to share your user details with any other person nor with multiple users on a network.
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
USE OF OUR CALENDAR AND DISCLAIMER
Literature Works provides this calendar to offer the most up to date information on events around the region – the information provided is user-generated and we encourage all event leaders to use this free resource. All information and imagery provided about events remains the liability of the provider and we advise readers to contact the individual event organisers for any information relating to the events.
Inclusion of any event in the calendar does not constitute Literature Work’s endorsement, recommendation or contract with the event or its organisers of any kind.
TWITTER COMPETITIONS
From time to time Literature Works will run Twitter competitions.
The prize is usually a book or books, and the nature of the prize will be stipulated in any release on the competition. If you are in any doubt about the prize available in one of our Twitter competitions and wish to confirm, please contact us.
All entrants in our Twitter competitions must follow these guidelines:
- You must not create multiple accounts to enter our competitions. Anyone found to use multiple accounts to enter will be deemed ineligible.
- Only tweet your entry once; posting the same Tweet repeatedly will lead to disqualification.
- You must include an @reply in your update. We want to see everyone who has entered.
YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE
You agree that you will not use the Website in any way that may lead to the encouragement, procurement or carrying out of any criminal or unlawful activity or that is fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect. Furthermore, you agree not to do anything that may cause damage to the Website or our servers, systems or equipment or those of third parties, nor access any users’ data or penetrate or circumvent any Website security measures or attempt to do any such acts.
You agree not to give any indication that you have any commercial relationship with us, or that you are our agent or that we have endorsed any of your activities, unless otherwise expressly permitted by us.
You accept that you are able to stop using the Website at any time and at your sole discretion. We reserve the right to suspend, restrict or terminate your access to the Website or any part of it at any time at our sole discretion.
We may also ban or suspend you as a user of the Website if you do not comply with these terms of use and, in such an event, your permission to use this Website shall terminate and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from this Website.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
We, and/or our featured authors, publishers and/or their agents, are the owner or the licensee of all copyright and other intellectual property rights in our Website, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
The names, images and logos identifying us, companies in our group, our partners or third parties and our/their products and services are proprietary marks and may not be reproduced or otherwise used without express permission.
The contents of the Website including (without limitation) web pages, computer codes of elements comprising the Website, and any software provided to you by us may not be copied, reproduced, communicated and/or made available to the public, republished, downloaded, posted, recorded, broadcast or transmitted or used in any other way except for your own personal, private and non-commercial use, unless otherwise expressly permitted by us.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our Website for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our Website.
You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our Website must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the materials on our Website for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
If you print off, copy or download any part of our Website in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
We use the text and images on our site in good faith, e.g. in promoting opportunities to our readers. If, however, we have used any image or text belonging to a third party without their approval, we will endeavour to remove these aspects from our website within 24 hours upon notification to info@literatureworks.org.uk
OUR WEBSITE CHANGES REGULARLY
We aim to update our Website regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our Website, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our Website may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.
NO RELIANCE ON INFORMATION POSTED AND DISCLAIMER
The content on our Website is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our Website. While we endeavour to ensure that the content on our Website is correct, we make no promise, warranty or guarantee that the information is accurate, complete or up-to-date.
We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such information, commentary and materials by any visitor to our Website, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
OUR LIABILITY
Nothing in these terms of use shall restrict your statutory rights (including your rights to receive a reasonable standard of service, more details about which can be obtained from your local Trading Standards Office or Citizen’s Advice Bureau), nor shall anything in these terms of use exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or from any fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
If we fail to comply with these terms of use, we shall only be liable to you for any losses that you suffer as a result of our failure to comply (whether arising in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise) which are a foreseeable consequence of such failure. We will not be liable for losses that result from our failure to comply with these terms of use that fall into the following categories: loss of income or revenue; loss of business; loss of profits; loss of anticipated savings; loss of data; or waste of management or office time. However, this will not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your tangible property that are foreseeable or any other claims for direct loss that are not excluded in the former categories.
The material displayed on our Website is provided “as is” without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR VISITS TO OUR WEBSITE
We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. By using our Website, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
VIRUSES, HACKING AND OTHER OFFENCES
You must not misuse our Website 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 Website, the server on which our Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Website. You must not attack our Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.
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 Website will cease immediately.
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 Website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
LINKING TO OUR WEBSITE
We encourage you to link to our home page if you gain our express permission prior to doing so, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
Our Website must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any part of our Website other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
If you wish to link to our home page or make any use of material on our Website other than that set out in these terms of use, please address your request to info@literatureworks.org.uk.
LINKS FROM OUR WEBSITE
Where our Website contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
SEVERANCE
If any provision of these terms of use shall be found by any court or administrative body of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the other provisions of these terms of use which shall remain in full force and effect.
APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION
The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our Website although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these terms of use in your country of residence or any other relevant country.
These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.
This Website is based in England and is intended for users in the United Kingdom. We make no representations that the materials and Website are suitable for users outside the United Kingdom, and if you choose to access the Website from outside of the United Kingdom you are solely responsible for ensuring compliance with all relevant local laws.
VARIATIONS
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our Website.
YOUR CONCERNS
If you have any concerns about material which appears on our Website, please contact info@literatureworks.org.uk.
These terms of use were last updated on 30th July 2020.
