Introduction

By using or accessing www.thepoetryhour.com (the “Website”) and/or the Poetry App mobile application (the “App”) (or by downloading the App), you agree to be legally bound by these terms and conditions. If you do not wish to be bound by these terms and conditions, please do not use the Website or App: Privacy Policy, Cookies Policy, About us

The Website and the App are owned and operated by The Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation; a company registered in England and Wales with company number 07867493, registered charity number 1145062 and registered address of 128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX.

Use of the website/app

We may, at our sole discretion and without prior notice to you, modify or revise these terms and conditions at any time by updating the text of this page. Your continued use of this Website/the App after amendments are made means you accept the terms and conditions as updated. Therefore, please visit this page regularly to review these terms and conditions. You may not alter the Website or the App in any way or do anything that might or will damage or disrupt their good working order. We do not sell the App to you. We remain the owners of the App at all times. We permit you to use the App on the basis of these terms and conditions and subject to any rules or policies applied by any appstore provider or operator from whose site you downloaded the app (e.g. iTunes Store or Google Play).

Accuracy and changes

Whilst we aim to provide you with accurate information on this Website and via the App, we are unable to guarantee that the information and content contained therein is accurate, verified or complete. We accept no liability if you or any person or organisation relies on or uses the information and/or content. We may update the Website and the App from time to time, and may change the content at any time. However, please note that any of the content may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it. Depending on updates to the App, you may not be able to use the App until you have downloaded or streamed the latest version of the App and accepted any new terms.

Intellectual property rights and use of content

The content on this Website and the App, including any User Content, is owned by us or third parties (such as users of the Website/App). No content from the Website or the App may be copied, used or reproduced without our prior written consent, except: where extracts are downloaded or printed for personal and non-commercial use; or where text is reproduced for the purpose of reporting in news publications provided that the text is reproduced accurately and fairly and not in a manner that could confuse or mislead others or cause damage to the Foundation or its reputation and provided that the Website or App is acknowledged as the source of the information However, in no circumstances may you use graphics, trade marks, logos, designs, images or photographs from the Website or the App except with our consent. Please send your written requests to use such content to: [email protected]. By posting any User Content via the Website and/or App, you expressly grant, and you represent and warrant that you have a right to grant, to us and any users of the Website/App a royalty-free, sub-licensable, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, list information regarding, edit, translate, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, and make derivative works of all such User Content and your name, voice, and/or likeness as contained in your User Content, if applicable, in whole or in part, and in any form, media or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed, for use in connection with the Website and/or the App.

Liability

We cannot guarantee that the Website or the App will be uninterrupted or error free, or that your use of them will be free of viruses or harmful material. You are responsible for ensuring that your computer, mobile device and operating system is suitable to use, and compatible with, the Website and/or the App. It is your responsibility to ensure that your computer or mobile operating system (including, but not limited to, your hardware, software and data) is not damaged by your use of the Website and/or the App. You will be assumed to have obtained permission from the owners of any mobile device that are controlled, by not owned, by you and are used by you to download or stream a copy of the App onto that device. You and they may be charged by your and their service provider for internet access on that device, and you accept responsibility in accordance with these terms and conditions for the use of the App or Website on or in relation to any device, whether or not it is owned by you. We take no responsibility and assume no liability for any User Content that you or any other user or third party posts or sends using the Website or the App. Though we strive to enforce these terms and conditions, you may be exposed to User Content that is inaccurate or objectionable. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor the materials posted via the Website and App or to limit or deny your access or take other appropriate action if you violate these terms and conditions or engage in any activity that violates the rights of any person or entity or which we deem unlawful, offensive, abusive, harmful or malicious. In circumstances where you suffer loss or damage arising out of or in connection with the use of the Website or the App, we accept no liability. The limitations and exclusions above only apply to the extent permitted by law.

Use from outside the UK

Whilst we welcome all visitors to this Website and users of the App, we cannot guarantee that the Website and the App are appropriate or available for use in any territory. Those who visit the Website or access the App from outside the UK are responsible for complying with all applicable laws. If use of the Website or App breaches any law in your jurisdiction(s), you may not use them and you must exit immediately.

House Rules

If you upload any User Content to the Website or the App, you agree to comply with the following terms of use at all times:

    1. You must not post or upload any User Content or use the Website or App in a way that breaches any law.
    2. You must not post or upload any personal information about other individuals, including any photographs or video footage of them, without their full consent for such personal information being posted/uploaded to the Website and/or App and used by the Foundation in accordance with these terms and conditions (and our Privacy Policy).
    3. You must not post or upload any User Content or use the Website or App in a way that is malicious, offensive, threatening, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, harassing, false, misleading or unreliable, or that brings or is likely to bring the Website, App or the Foundation into disrepute.
    4. You will not submit content that is subject to third party proprietary rights, including privacy, publicity, trade secret, etc., unless you are the owner of such rights or have the appropriate permission from their rightful owner to specifically submit such content.
    5. The Foundation may moderate and review any User Content that is submitted to be posted or is automatically posted/uploaded to the Website or App. However, the Foundation accepts no responsibility for any User Content and reserves the right to remove/edit any User Content at any time.
    6. You are wholly responsible for all User Content posted by you (including but not limited to emails sent by you in connection to the Website or the Ap
    7. Using your access to the Website to send unsolicited bulk email or spam is forbidden.
    8. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Website and/or App immediately at any time.
    9. We reserve the right to remove or edit, or require you to edit, User Content posted to the Website and/or App at any time.
    10. Any User Content you post to the Website or the App may be used by the Foundation for any purpose subject to our Privacy Policy.
    11. You agree that we have the right to determine whether any of your User Content submissions are appropriate and comply with these terms and conditions, remove any and/or all of your submissions, and terminate your account with or without prior notice.
    12. You understand and agree that any liability, loss or damage that occurs as a result of the use of any User Content that you make available or access through the Website or App is solely your responsibility. We are not responsible for any public display or misuse of your User Content. We do not, and cannot, pre-screen or monitor all User Content. However, at our discretion, we, or technology we employ, may monitor and/or record your interactions via the Website/App.
    13. You will indemnify the Foundation against all losses, damages, proceedings, actions, legal costs (including but not limited to legal costs and disbursements on a solicitor and client basis) expenses and any other losses or liabilities arising from your posting of User Content to or use of the Website or the App or your breach of these terms and conditions.
    14. If your access to the Website or the App is terminated or suspended for any reason, you must not access the Website or App or attempt to create a new profile without our prior written consent.

Please let us know immediately by contacting us at [email protected] if any of these rules are broken by you or other users, or if you have any other concerns about material posted to the Website or the App.

Linked sites

We make no representations about any other websites. When you access any other website through links on the Website or the App you understand that it is independent from us and that we have no control over that website and can accept no responsibility in relation to its content or the way you interact with it.

Linking to the Website

You may link to any part of this Website, or to the App, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must ensure that by linking you breach no law or rights of others, and that the linking does not suggest any association, patronage, approval or endorsement, except with our prior written consent. We reserve the right to withdraw this linking permission without notice.

Applicable Law

English law and the jurisdiction of the English Courts will apply to these terms and conditions, save where you live in any other part of the United Kingdom, in which case the law and courts of that place shall apply.

Contact

You can contact us by writing to us at [email protected] if you have any questions or concerns about this Website or the App. You can also contact us by writing to us at

128 City Road
London
EC1V 2NX

If you contact us or we contact you in relation to the Website/App, we will do so in accordance with our Privacy Policy

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