Terms & conditions
Conditions Relating to Your Use of the Congregational Federation Website
Please ensure that the details you provide us with are correct and complete and inform us immediately of any changes to the information that you provided when contacting us.
The Congregational Federation reserves the right to refuse access to the website, remove or edit content at our discretion.
1. Privacy
Please review our Privacy Notice, which also governs your visit to our website, to understand our practices.
2. Access to the Congregational Federation Website
We will do our utmost to ensure that availability of the website will be uninterrupted and that transmissions will be error-free. However, due to the nature of the Internet, this cannot be guaranteed. Also, your access to the website may also be occasionally suspended or restricted to allow for repairs, maintenance, or the introduction of new facilities or services. We will attempt to limit the frequency and duration of any such suspension or restriction.
3. Licence for website access
The Congregational Federation grants you a limited licence to access and make personal use of this website, but not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of the Congregational Federation.
This website or any portion of this website may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without our express written consent.
You may not frame or use framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of the Congregational Federation website without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilising the Congregational Federation's names or trademarks without the express written consent of the Congregational Federation. Any unauthorised use terminates the permission or license granted by the Congregational Federation.
You are granted a limited, revocable, and non-exclusive right to create a hyperlink to the Welcome page of the Congregational Federation website as long as the link does not portray the Congregational Federation, its churches, or their products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any Congregational Federation logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without our express written consent.
4. Your conduct
You must not use the website in any way that causes, or is likely to cause, the website or access to it to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way.
You understand that you, and not the Congregational Federation, are responsible for all electronic communications and content sent from your computer to us and you must use the website for lawful purposes only.
You must not use the website for any of the following:
- for fraudulent purposes, or in connection with a criminal offence or other unlawful activity.
- to send, use or reuse any material that is illegal, offensive, abusive, indecent, defamatory, obscene or menacing; or in breach of copyright, trademark, confidence, privacy or any other right; or is otherwise injurious to third parties; or objectionable; or which consists of or contains software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any "spam".
- to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
5. Reviews, comments, communications and other content
Users of this website may post reviews, comments and other content; send communications; and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information, as long as the content is not illegal, obscene, abusive, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties, or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of "spam." You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of any content. The Congregational Federation reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit any content.
If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you
- (a) grant the Congregational Federation a non-exclusive, royalty-free and fully sublicensable rights to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media; and
- (b) the Congregational Federation and sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose.
You agree that the rights you grant above are irrevocable during the entire period of protection of your intellectual property rights associated with such content and material. You agree to waive your right to be identified as the author of such content and your right to object to derogatory treatment of such content. You agree to perform all further acts necessary to perfect any of the above rights granted by you to the Congregational Federation, including the execution of deeds and documents, at the request of the Congregational Federation.
You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post; that, as at the date that the content or material is submitted to the Congregational Federation: (i) the content and material is accurate; (ii) use of the content and material you supply does not breach any applicable Congregational Federation policies or guidelines and will not cause injury to any person or entity (including that the content or material is not defamatory). You agree to indemnify the Congregational Federation for all claims brought by a third party against the Congregational Federation arising out of or in connection with a breach of any of these warranties.
6. Alteration of Service or Amendments to the Conditions
We reserve the right to make changes to our website, policies, and these Conditions of Use at any time. You will be subject to the policies and Conditions in force at the time that you use the website, unless any change to those policies or these conditions is required to be made by law or government authority. If any of these conditions is deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.