Terms & Conditions

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE - PLEASE READ BEFORE ACCESSING the Learning Disability Wales WEBSITE ("the Website")

EASY TO READ VERSION

YOU
You must not:

  • copy anything from this website.
  • rely on any information on this site.
  • disrupt other people's use of the Website.
  • use this website for any illegal purpose.

put anything on this website which is:

  1. indecent, obscene, vulgar or pornographic.
  2. illegal, threatening, abusive or harassing.
  3. racially or ethnically hateful or objectionable.
  4. defamatory or seditious.
  5. blasphemous.
  6. a chain letter, pyramid scheme or un asked for advertising or anything that breaches anyone's rights such as copyrights or moral rights.

You must
look at the website's terms and conditions regularly because they may change.
Obey the site rules.

Everything you put on this website belongs to Learning Disability Wales
What you post is your opinion not ours.
If you do not obey the website rules you agree to pay any legal costs that might arise as a result.

US
We can:
stop you using this website if you break its rules.

We cannot

  • guarantee to protect you from computer viruses or bugs.
  • guarantee that the website runs smoothly or is uninterrupted.
  • guarantee that all the information on this website is correct.
  • be responsible for what you put on this website.
  • be responsible if you rely on information on this website and get
  • into trouble as a result.

We are not:
responsible for the content of any linked pages.

FULL VERSION

Your access to the Website is subject to the following terms and conditions. By accessing the Website, you agree without qualification to such terms and conditions. If you do not agree to them, please do not enter the Website.

  1. All rights, including copyright and database right in the Website and its contents, are owned by or licensed to Learning Disability Wales, or otherwise used Learning Disability Wales as permitted by applicable law.

  2. All material contained on the Website including text, images, trademarks, logos, service marks and personal likenesses is proprietary or copyright material and unless otherwise specified may not be copied, reproduced, downloaded, posted, transmitted, distributed or interfered with in any way except that you may however download a single copy of material displayed on the Website on your home computer for non commercial, personal use only provided that you retain all copyrights, credits and other notices contained on the material. You will not modify such material or use it for any other purpose.
  3. Except as permitted above, you undertake not to copy, store in any medium (including in any other website), distribute, transmit, re-transmit, broadcast, modify, or show in public any part of Website without the prior written permission Learning Disability Wales or in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as amended by the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 1996.
  4. Learning Disability Wales does not warrant that the functions contained in the material contained in this Website will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this Website or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs or represents the full functionality, accuracy and reliability of the materials.
  5. Although Learning Disability Wales will use its reasonable endeavours to monitor and review any discussion chat, postings, transmissions and other dialogue on the Website periodically and generally to follow best practice, Learning Disability Wales is not capable of monitoring all such material continuously and Learning Disability Wales shall not have and hereby expressly disclaims so far as may be permitted by law all responsibility and liability whatsoever for any error, inaccuracy, misrepresentation, defamation, omission, falsehood, obscenity, profanity, pornographic material, dangerous material or any other material contained within the Website. Furthermore, Learning Disability Wales does not review or monitor the content of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to the Website and does not assume and shall have no responsibility or liability for any of the content thereof.
  6. Although Learning Disability Wales has made every effort to ensure that the information on the Website is accurate and up-to-date, the information contained on the Website should not be treated as complete and authoritative statements Learning Disability Wales has made every effort to ensure that the information is kept up-to-date but it is only intended to be offered as guidelines. If you wish to know more about any of the topics covered on the Website we recommend that you contact the specialist organisations that are listed or referred to on the Website or Learning Disability Wales direct who will be able to direct you to specialist organisations that may be able to help you.
  7. Learning Disability Wales welcomes receiving your corrections, comments and any supplementary information you may have regarding the Website. Please contact Learning Disability Wales at the following e-mail address: enquiries@learningdisabilitywales.org
  8. No part of this Website can be made available as part of another Website without the written permission of Learning Disability Wales.
  9. Other than as specified in paragraph 2 above, to request authority (such authority to be given at Learning Disability Wales’ sole discretion) to reproduce any material or content included on this Website, please contact enquiries@learningdisabilitywales.org For more information about the hyperlinks to and from the Website, please contact enquiries@learningdisabilitywales.org

Forums and chatrooms

You may not:

  1. post or transmit at any time on the Website any of the following material:
    2. • indecent, obscene, vulgar or pornographic material;
    • material which is illegal, threatening, abusive or harassing;
    • material which is racially or ethnically hateful or objectionable;
    • material which is defamatory or seditious;
    • material which is blasphemous;
    • chain letters, pyramid schemes or unsolicited advertising or any material that breaches another person's rights such as copyrights or moral rights;
  2. do anything which restricts another user's use or enjoyment of the Website;
  3. use the Website for any unlawful purpose;
  4. disrupt the Website by, for example, making the screen scroll too quickly for other users to type their messages, or suddenly changing the subject matter in order to stop the flow of dialogue (if applicable).
  5. Learning Disability Wales reserves the right to terminate your access to the Website immediately and may take legal action against you if you breach these rules for online conduct.
  6. All opinions and views included in any messages posted within any chatroom or forum included on the Website shall at all times be the opinions of those persons posting the messages and shall at no time be posted as or be the views and opinions of Learning Disability Wales unless noted otherwise by Learning Disability Wales.

Reliance

You agree not to act or rely upon any information or material contained on the Website, which is provided by Learning Disability Wales for your general interest, guidance, information and entertainment only. Learning Disability Wales shall not have and hereby expressly disclaims so far as may be permitted by law all liability arising from your reliance upon such information of any nature whether direct or indirect.

Rights and Non-Confidentiality

Subject to the terms of the Learning Disability Wales Privacy Policy document (also available on the Website), any information or data you transmit or post on the Website shall belong absolutely to Learning Disability Wales and may be used Learning Disability Wales for any purpose including without limitation for reproduction, disclosure to third parties, broadcasting, transmission, posting or otherwise Learning Disability Wales' absolute discretion, and in consideration of Learning Disability Wales permitting your access to the Website and for other good and valuable consideration the sufficiency of which you hereby acknowledge you hereby assign Learning Disability Wales by way of present assignment of present and future copyright all rights of any nature in and to such material throughout the world in perpetuity including all renewals and reversions thereof.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and keep indemnified Learning Disability Wales from and against any and all claims, damages, expenses, costs and liabilities arising in any manner from your entry to and use of the Website other than in accordance with these terms and conditions.

Revisions

Learning Disability Wales may periodically visit and revise these terms and conditions and you agree to be bound by such revisions and should therefore revisit this page periodically to re-acquaint yourself with the terms and conditions.

Updating

Learning Disability Wales accepts no obligation to maintain or update the Website.

Links

Although Learning Disability Wales will make every reasonable effort to ensure that other websites to which you can link to from the Website are appropriate Learning Disability Wales takes no responsibility whatsoever for the content of such websites or any website reached as a result of hyperlinks from the Website.

General

If any of these Terms and Conditions should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these Terms and Conditions are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction which that Term or Condition is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from this clause and the remaining terms and conditions shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable. These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Disputes arising here from shall be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales. If these Terms and Conditions are not accepted in full, you do not have permission to access the contents of Website and therefore should cease using the Website immediately.

Privacy Policy

Please see the privacy policy below for information about our policies on protecting the online privacy of children and young people.

Privacy Policy

Easy version

We will ask you for personal information on some parts of the site. Personal information is any thing that can identify you, like an address, telephone number or e-mail address.

WHY WE COLLECT INFORMATION

Contact us

If you need to ask us a question we need your e-mail address to reply.

THE LAW US

We can only use your information for the reasons we give on the site. If the reasons change we have to tell you. We have to give you a copy of your information if you ask for one. We can charge you for copies. We have to remove your information from our records if you stop using the site. We have to keep your information secure and not let anybody else see it without your OK.

THE LAW YOU

You can ask to see your information at any time. You can ask us to change the information we have about you at any time. You can tell us to delete your information at any time.

You can contact us at: enquiries@learningdisabilitywales.org.uk or at

Learning Disability Wales, 5 Dock Chambers, Bute Street, Cardiff, CF10 5AG

Full Version

Types of Information we collect and how we collect them.

Learning Disability Wales sometimes needs to know people's personal information. We only collect this type of information if it is essential information. We use electronic forms to collect information about you (including your e-mail address and mobile phone number) and it is up to the user ("you") of the Learning Disability Wales website ("the Website") if you want to complete such forms

Types of Information

Contact us via the website If you need an answer to your comment or question posted by you on the Website, you must let us have your e-mail address or other contact information, so that we can send a response. Do not post your email address or any other contact information on the website. Our contact details are in the "about us" section of the website. If you just want to make a comment and don't need an answer then you don't need to give us your contact information. If we can't answer your questions we will pass them on to someone who can. In this case, we will only let them know what the question was and nothing about who was asking it.

Chatrooms/Forums

We use our reasonable endeavours to monitor their content. The moderator will not censor your comments but will not post any comment that is offensive. We will ask you for a nickname so that you can chat without giving your name. Whilst using our chatroom please be careful not to give out any personal information for example your name, address, phone number, school or college or any other information that might let someone know who you are. You are reminded that chatrooms are forums for public discussion, and that any personal information supplied by you during these discussions is widely accessible. Powys Carers Service Ltd is not responsible for the content posted by users of these services.

Users Under 12

If you are under 12, please make sure that you obtain your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to Learning Disability Wales via the Website. Personal information is any information that can identify you such as a telephone number, e-mail address or postal address. Users under 12 without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

Who is collecting the Information?

All the information collected is managed by the Learning Disability Wales team and all files are only accessed with a password.

How the personal information is used?

All personal information is collected for a specific reason and we will tell you what that is, or it will be obvious to you in any event what that purpose will be. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our pages.

Data Security

We have taken all appropriate measures to keep you details secure and will not disclose any of it to any third party without your consent.

Links to other Websites

The Website contains links to other sites that are completely unrelated Learning Disability Wales This privacy statement does not apply to these sites nor Learning Disability Wales responsible for the content and practices of the Websites.

Your personal data

Learning Disability Wales will hold your personal information on its systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met or if you no longer wish to continue your registration as a personalised user. You have the right to request a copy of the personal Learning Disability Wales holds about you and you have the right to access your information held by Powys Carers Service Ltd and where necessary, to have it amended. You can also ask us to delete, change or update your data at any time. Learning Disability Wales reserves the right to charge for information requests.

You can do all of this yourself if you want. You can get to see the information we have about you by logging in then clicking on click here to update your details. If you want a copy, you can print straight off the screen. There is no charge for this.

If you have any comments, contact us through the site or at: enquiries@learningdisabilitywales.org.uk

If you want to write to us our address is:
Learning Disability Wales,
5 Dock Chambers,
Bute Street,
Cardiff,
CF10 5AG

Learning Disability Wales reserves the right, at any time, to modify, alter, or update this privacy policy. [1] A 'cookie' is a small text file that a website can place on your computer's hard drive in order, for example, to collect information about your activities on the site or to make it possible for you to use an online 'shopping cart' to keep track of items you wish to purchase. The cookie transmits this information back to the Web site's computer which, generally speaking, is the only computer that can read it. Most users do not know that 'cookies' are being placed on their computers when they visit websites. If you want to know when this happens, or to prevent it from happening, you can set your browser to warn you when a website attempts to place a 'cookie' on your computer.