Terms and conditions of use
Welcome to the Asians in Media website terms and conditions. These apply whenever you use the website, and through whatever device or platform you choose to access our content through. By using our website, you are deemed to have accepted these conditions.
Some areas of Asians in Media require registration. By completing the initial registration form and by entering the details required, you will be deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions. Also, by subscribing to any of our email services, you are deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions. If you register with the website, you should read our privacy policy.
Any changes we make to the terms and conditions will be reflected on this page.
1. Registration
When you register, you are registering as a personal user of Asians in Media. Access to registration areas is via your username and password. We allow you to post information using your registration information on the basis that:
(i) Your email address, username and password are personal to you and may not be used by anyone else to access Asians in Media website.If, for any reason, we believe that you have not complied with these requirements, we may, at our discretion, cancel your access to the registration areas of the Asians in Media website immediately and without giving you any advance notice.
(ii) You will not do anything which would assist anyone who is not a registered user to gain access to any registration area of the Asians in Media website.
(iii) You do not maliciously create additional registration accounts for the purpose of abusing the functionality of the site, or other users; nor do you seek to pass yourself off as another user.
(iv) You comply with these terms and conditions.
2. Termination of registration
If we wish to bring the agreement to an end, we will do so by emailing you at the address you have registered stating that the agreement has terminated. The agreement will terminate and your username and password will become invalid on the Asians in Media website immediately.
3. Use of material appearing on the Asians in Media website.
For the purposes of this agreement, "material" means material including, without limitation, text, video, graphics and sound material, published on the Asians in Media website, whether copyright of Asians in Media or a third party.
You may download and print extracts from the material and make copies of these for your own personal and non-commercial use only. You are not allowed to download or print the material, or extracts from it, in a systematic or regular manner or otherwise so as to create a database in electronic or paper form comprising all or part of the material appearing on the Asians in Media website.
You must not reproduce any part of the Asians in Media website or the material or transmit it to or store it in any other website or disseminate any part of the material in any other form, unless we have indicated that you may do so.
We may be prepared to allow you to distribute or reproduce other parts of the Asians in Media website or the material in certain circumstances. Please contact us if you wish to apply for permission to do so.
4. Disclaimer of liability
To the extent permitted at law, we do not accept any responsibility for any statement in the material. You must not rely on any statement we have published on the Asians in Media website without first taking specialist professional advice. Nothing in the material is provided for any specific purpose or at the request of any particular person.
For the avoidance of confusion, we will not be liable for any loss caused as a result of your doing, or not doing, anything as a result of viewing, reading or listening to the material or any part of it (except for death or personal injury attributable to our negligence and to the extent permitted at law).
You can access other sites via links from the Asians in Media website. These sites are not under our control and we are not responsible in any way for any of their contents.
We give no warranties of any kind concerning the Asians in Media website or the material we publish. In particular, we do not warrant that the Asians in Media website or any of its contents is virus free. You must take your own precautions in this respect as we accept no responsibility for any infection by virus or other contamination or by anything which has destructive properties.
5. Third party material on the Asians in Media website
You will see advertising material submitted by third parties on the Asians in Media website. Individual advertisers are solely responsible for the content of advertising material which they submit to us, including ensuring that it complies with relevant legislation. We accept no responsibility for the content of advertising material, including, without limitation, any error, omission or inaccuracy therein.
6. Submitting graphical material and photography for publication on the Asians in Media website
When you send a photograph or other graphical material to us you do so in accordance with these Terms of service.
This means that you hereby agree that you have taken the photograph(s) you have sent to us or you have permission from or are authorised by the owner of the photograph(s) to send it (them) to us, and you are granting us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to publish or otherwise use the photograph(s) in any way and at any time we want on the Asians in Media website.
Selected photographs and graphical material will be published at the discretion of the editor and you will not be paid, even if your photograph(s) is (are) published.
We may cut, edit, crop or arrange your photograph(s) or graphic as we think fit to appear on the Asians in Media website, and we may remove your photograph(s) or graphics at any time.
Your name will be published alongside your photograph(s) or graphic, but we may edit or delete any comments which you submit along with your photograph(s) or graphic.
You or the owner of the photograph(s) still own the copyright in the photograph(s) sent to us and are free to republish the photograph(s) wherever you or the owner wish and in whatever medium you or the owner want.
7. Discussion Forum and Classified ads
Users of our site may submit material for publication in various areas of the site, including classified advertisements and posting information on the Forums. We accept no liability in respect of any material submitted by users and published by us and we are not responsible for its content and accuracy.
If you want to submit material to us for publication on the Forum section or as a classified advertisement, you may do so on the following terms and conditions, where relevant:
(i) Publication of any material you submit to us will be at our sole discretion. We reserve the right to make additions or deletions to the text or graphics prior to publication, or to refuse publication.All website users should also read guidelines for each section, found from the main page of the Forums section and the classifieds section.
(ii) You grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide licence to republish any material you submit to us in any format, including without limitation print and electronic format.
(iii) You warrant to us that any material you submit to us is your own original work and that you own the copyright and any other relevant rights.
(iv) You warrant that the material you submit is not obscene, offensive, defamatory of any person or otherwise illegal.
(v) You agree not to post material which is deliberately intended to upset other users
(vi) You acknowledge that any breach of these warranties may cause us damage or loss and you agree to indemnify us in full and permanently against any third party liabilities, claims, costs, loss or damage we incur as a result of publishing material you submit to us, including consequential losses.
(vii) We reserve the right to remove your access to the Forums completely if we believe you are abusing the guidelines in any way.
8. The Media Directory
We also ask of our users to submit information about their media company for the Asians in Media online media directory. Submitting information to the directory is not compulsory for website users.
However, if you do submit material to us using the form in the Directory section of the website, you are bound by these terms and conditions:
(i) Publication of any material you submit to us will be at our sole discretion. We reserve the right to make additions or deletions to the text or graphics prior to publication, or to refuse publication.
(ii) You grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide licence to republish any material you submit to us in any format, including without limitation print and electronic format.
(iii) You warrant to us that any material you submit to us is factually correct, and that you own the copyright to what you claim for.
(iv) You warrant that the material you submit is not obscene, offensive, defamatory of any person, libellous or otherwise illegal.
(vi) You acknowledge that any breach of these warranties may cause us damage or loss and you agree to indemnify us in full and permanently against any third party liabilities, claims, costs, loss or damage we incur as a result of publishing material you submit to us, including consequential losses.
9. Data protection
If you have indicated that you wish to receive email updates only from Asians in Media, your personal details will be included on a database compiled for this specific purpose.
If you have indicated that you wish to receive direct marketing material or email updates from Asians in Media but subsequently change your mind, you should notify us by email. As soon after this as is reasonably practicable, we will remove your name details from the relevant database.
There is currently no provision on the registration form for third-party direct marketing material, and therefore the personal details collected will not be passed to anyone without explicitly asking for your consent. Please see our privacy policy for more on this.
10. Variations
These terms may be varied from time to time. Please ensure that you review these terms and conditions regularly as you will be deemed to have accepted a variation if you continue to use the site after it has been posted. Details of variations will be posted in section 11 below.
11. Regular access
Although we will do our best to provide constant, uninterrupted access to the Asians in Media website, we do not guarantee this. We accept no responsibility or liability for any interruption or delay.
12. Governing Law & Jurisdiction
This agreement is governed by English law and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
13. Details of Variations.
10th March 2006
Slight adjustments to the wording of the Data Protection section. Added wording for classified advertisements to the Forum sub-section above.
Legal information under the Data Protection Act
For the purposes of the Data Protection Act of 1998, the Data Controller for this website is Asians in Media, PO Box 478, Hayes, Middlesex, London, UB4 0YT. Any queries regarding AIM's user of data and data policies should be addressed to the editor.