Terms and conditions

Conditions of Service

The rules of engagement

Terms and Conditions

This service is operated by Danchima Media Group (we, us, or our). We are registered under company number [Insert Danchima Media Group company number] and have our registered office at [Insert Danchima Media Group registered office address]. Our VAT number is [Insert Danchima Media Group VAT number].

Please read these terms and conditions (the Terms) carefully. By accessing and using our website and any content and features therein (including without limitation any games, widgets, embeddable media players, and RSS feeds) (together, our Services), you indicate your acceptance of these Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Code of Conduct, and any other notices, guidelines, and rules published by us on our Services from time to time (each of which is incorporated into the Terms by this reference). The Privacy Policy and Code of Conduct can be accessed from links at the bottom of our webpages.

If you do not accept these Terms, please do not access and/or use our Services. We may update these Terms at any time. Please review the Terms regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes. Your continued access to and/or use of our Services after changes have been made to the Terms indicates your agreement to be legally bound by the updated and/or amended Terms.

Use of our Services

You agree to use our Services for lawful purposes only and in a way that does not infringe the rights of or restrict or inhibit any person’s use and enjoyment of our Services and in compliance at all times with these Terms and with all laws and regulations that apply.

In accessing our Services, you agree that you will only access its contents for your own personal and non-commercial use and not for any commercial or other purposes, including advertising or selling any goods or services. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any content on our Services except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You will need our prior written permission if you want to use any content on our Services for any other reason.

From time to time, we may make available some parts of our Services (including without limitation forums or communities) or all of our Services only to those users who have registered with us. 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. Any personal information supplied to us as part of this registration process and/or other interaction with our Services will be collected, stored, and used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. 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.

If you are under 16, you will need to obtain your parent’s or guardian’s permission before using any interactive features of our Services, such as transmitting or uploading any content onto our Services. If you are under 16, you must not reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else, including your telephone number, home address, or email address, to us or to any other user of our Services.

We make no representation that any of the content on our Services is appropriate or available for use in your country. You are responsible for ensuring that your use of our Services is in compliance with all applicable local laws and regulations.

Intellectual Property Rights

All information, data, text, documents, graphics, logos, designs, images, pictures, photographs, videos, podcasts, weblogs, RSS feeds, widgets, embeddable media players, software, interactive features, advertisements, or other content, services, or materials (or any part of them) accessible on our Services (Materials) are protected by copyright, trademarks, database rights, and other intellectual property rights and are owned by or licensed to us or are otherwise used by us as permitted by applicable law or regulation. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use the Materials other than as permitted in these Terms.

Except as specifically permitted on our Services, you undertake not to copy, store in any medium (including on any other website), distribute, transmit, re-transmit, re-publish, broadcast, modify, or show in public any part of our Services without our prior written permission (and the prior written consent of the owner of the relevant intellectual property rights as and if applicable) in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

User Contributions to our Services

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY BEFORE UPLOADING OR OTHERWISE TRANSMITTING ANY CONTENT TO THE SITE. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO GRANT US THE PERMISSIONS SET OUT IN THESE TERMS, PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE SITE.

We may now or in the future enable users to transmit and/or submit (submit) contributions (including without limitation any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio material) to our Services (User Contributions).

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to submit User Contributions or to make contact with other users of our Services, you must comply with the content standards set out in the Code of Conduct. You promise that any User Contribution complies with the Code of Conduct and you will fully reimburse us for any costs arising from breach of your promise.

You remain the owner of the copyright in any original User Contribution that you submit. By submitting any User Contribution to any of our Services (including without limitation any forum, blog, social network, discussion page, photo album, or video uploading facility) and in consideration of us making available to you the opportunity to upload any User Contribution (which you acknowledge as a sufficient benefit to you), you irrevocably and unconditionally grant us free of charge a non-exclusive, Danchima Media Studio, royalty-free, sublicensable license of the entire right, title, and interest in and to such User Contribution so that we and any successor may use the User Contribution in any way, including without limitation the right to copy, reproduce, modify, edit, adapt, reformat, translate, create derivative works from, incorporate into other works, transmit, distribute, perform, play, broadcast, commercialize, and otherwise make available to the public such User Contribution (whether in whole or in part or copies of the same) in any format or medium currently known or developed in the future for the full period during which such rights subsist (including all renewals, revivals, reversions, and extensions of the same) and thereafter to the fullest extent possible in perpetuity.

The permission you have granted to us is not exclusive, and therefore you may continue to use the User Contribution in any way in any medium, including allowing others to use it, provided such use does not interfere with or impair the rights you have granted to us.

You authorize us to grant and we hereby grant to each user of our Services a non-exclusive license to view, hear, read, stream, download, link to, and otherwise access your User Contributions to our Services through our Services and otherwise to use such User Contributions as permitted through the functionality of our Services and in accordance with these Terms.

You shall be solely responsible for your User Contributions and the consequences of submitting them to our Services. You promise that:

(a) the User Contribution is your own original work and you own the entire right, title, and interest in and to the User Contribution and/or you have all necessary licenses, rights,

consents, and permissions to use and to authorize us to use any and all intellectual property rights (including without limitation copyright) in such User Contribution to enable us to use the User Contribution in the manner contemplated by these Terms;

(b) nothing in the User Contribution is defamatory, obscene, indecent, pornographic, sexually explicit, harassing, threatening or offensive, incites racial, cultural or religious hatred, impersonates or appears to impersonate any other person, is in contempt of court, violates any law or regulation or encourages conduct that would amount to a criminal offense (including without limitation any conduct that would be considered an offense under the Terrorism Act 2006) or give rise to a civil liability and/or is otherwise objectionable and/or an infringement of any UK or other applicable law or regulation;

(c) you will not collect, obtain, compile, gather, transmit, reproduce, delete, revise, view, or display any material, data or information, whether personally identifiable or not, posted by or concerning any other person, firm or enterprise, in connection with your User Contribution or in connection with your use of our Services, unless you have obtained the express, prior permission of such other person (or their parent or guardian if such other person is under 16), firm, or enterprise to do so;

(d) the User Contribution does not contain any virus, corrupt file, cancelbot, worm program, or other malicious code designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of or disrupt any software, hardware, telecommunications, networks, servers, or other equipment, nor any adware, spyware, Trojan horse, or any other material designed to damage, interfere with, wrongly intercept or expropriate any data or personal information;

(e) you shall not forge any TCP/IP packet header or part of the header information in any User Contribution for any reason;

(f) you shall not submit any material or perform any actions that result in the transmission of junk email, chain letters, surveys, contests, pyramid selling schemes, duplicative or unsolicited messages or so-called “spamming” and “phishing”; and

(g) we shall not be required to pay or incur any sums to any person or entity as a result of our use or exploitation of any User Contribution.

You hereby waive all moral rights or similar rights now existing or created in the future in any part of the world in respect of any User Contribution and grant to us the non-exclusive, royalty-free Danchima Media Studio right to use any name, user name, screen name, likeness, photograph, signature, and/or biographical material submitted to us by you.

You shall, and will procure that any necessary third parties shall, do all such further acts and execute and deliver all such other documents as may be reasonably requested by us to confirm the licenses and rights granted under these Terms.

All User Contributions will be considered non-confidential, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute, and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose relevant information to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, their right to privacy or any UK or other applicable law or regulation.

Removal of Materials

We are entitled at our option, but are not obliged to (a) actively review User Contributions to our Services; and/or (b) remove any User Contributions submitted to our Services by you or any other user if, in our opinion, such User Contributions do not comply with these Terms.

We reserve the right in our sole discretion at any time without liability and with or without prior notice (a) not to post any User Contribution on our Services; (b) to remove or suspend or disable access to any User Contributions; (c) to revoke your registration (where applicable) and right to access and/or use our Services or submit any User Contributions; and (d) to use any technological, legal, operational or other means available to enforce these Terms, including without limitation blocking specific IP addresses or deactivating your registration and/or user name and password (where applicable).

If you are a rights-owner (or an agent acting for a rights-owner) and believe that any content (including any User Contribution) appearing on our Services infringes your rights and you wish us to remove it or suspend or disable access to it, please send a notice by email with the subject line “Removal request” to the general email address listed on the Contact Us page of the website on which the content appears.

In your email, you need to provide us with the following information:

details of the content that you claim is infringing or which is the subject of infringing activity, together with information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the content (including a URL and/or screenshot);
information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as a postal address, telephone number and, if available, an email address; and
a statement by you that:
you are the rights-owner or are duly authorized to act on the rights-owner’s behalf;
you believe in good faith that use of the content in the manner complained of is not authorized by the rights-owner or the rights-owner’s agent or by law; and the information in the notification is true and accurate.
Reliance on information on our Services

Information published via our Services is intended solely for the purpose of providing general information and is not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We do not warrant that any Materials are accurate or free from error, and we disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on any content on our Services by you or by anyone who may be informed of any of the contents of our Services.

You acknowledge that when using our Services you may be exposed to Materials from a variety of sources and that we are not responsible for the content, truth, accuracy, usefulness, or safety of such Materials. We do not endorse any User Contributions or any opinion, recommendation, or advice expressed in any User Contribution, and we disclaim any and all liability in connection with such User Contributions or other material.

We aim to update our Services regularly and may change the content at any time