Member guidelines

Welcome to our site! We want UK Sea Angling Club to be a friendly place for everyone.

As a member you are expected to abide by our rules and guidelines. These are designed to ensure that our community is at all times fun, educational and healthy. We want it to be inclusive and for everyone to be able to participate in a safe and enjoyable manner, respectfully.

Behaviour that affects your rights to be a member

Member guidelines

Spreading of harmful advice, hoaxes, or other disinformation is unacceptable.
Whilst members can provide negative reviews and criticism, trying to leverage the site for the purpose of harming a business or person is not.
Personal attacks, harassment and threats are not permissable.
Hate speech and hateful imagery is not pemissable.
Adult language in avatars or usernames, and nudity or graphic violence in avatars or other photos, is not permissable.
Extreme or use of excessive adult language on the site is considered inappropriate.
Privacy of others should be respected at all times so sharing of private information is not permissable.
Unsolicited promotional messages are considered spam and not permitted.
A sock puppet account is an additional account used in a deceptive fashion and is not permitted. They are not permitted and any involvement will affect your right to be a member.

Do you need to tell somebody about a problem?

To report any problem on the Club website or with your member account, please get in contact by email, with the heading Problem. The contact email is: jon@ukseaanglingclub.com, I'm Jon, the Clubs' founder, and will be pleased to help you with your issue. Thanks!

Terms and Conditions

These terms cover any use by you of UK Sea Angling Club (the Club) and all of the products, software and services it makes available.

By accessing and/or joining the Club and using any of the Services, you agree to be bound by all of the Terms and Conditions of this Agreement. Use of services the Site may link you to it may be governed by additional guidelines, rules or agreements. The Club reserves the right to modify these Terms.

Eligibility/Registration

You agree that your activity on our website shall be in accordance with (a) these Terms (b) the Member Guidelines and (c) any applicable law.

You agree that you will not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the services, the servers and networks which are connected to the services, or the activities of others on our website or the quiet enjoyment of others on the site. Your failure to comply with this requirement may result in immediate suspension of your right to access the services. You acknowledge and agree that in the event of such suspension, you may be prevented from accessing the services, your account details or any files or other content.

If you are acting on behalf of a company, you represent that you are authorized to bind your company. You agree to provide accurate and complete information, and to update such information as necessary to keep it accurate. The Club reserves the right to review all membership applications, and to accept or reject any applicant(s) in its sole judgment. You may not transfer or assign your membership to any other party.

You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any password associated with any account you use to access the Club and for any and all activities that occur under your account. If you become aware of any unauthorized use of your password or of your account, or of any other breach of security, you must notify the Club immediately.

Services

The Services include access to a collection of resources. Services outside those provided directly by the Club may be governed by additional rules and guidelines and you must pursue any access to these taking appropriate care – they are outside our control and not warrantied by the Club.

The Club does not guarantee continuous, uninterrupted or secure access to the Service or the Site.

Data management

Through your use of the services you consent to the Club’s collection and use of your registration data and certain other information about you, all as set forth in the Club’s Privacy Policy.

The Club may access, preserve, and/or disclose your account information if required to do so by law, or in a good faith belief that such access is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, enforce the terms, respond to your requests for customer services or protect the rights, property, or personal safely of the Club, its users and the public.

At any time you can choose to give up your membership and ask for all detail on you to be removed from our records.

Acceptable Behaviour

Without limiting any other provision of these Terms, you agree that you will not:

Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.
Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual relationships.
Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials and other form of solicitation.
Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
Impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a Company official, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
Forge or manipulate information.
Act in a manner that negatively affects other users’ quiet enjoyment of the Services.
Interfere with or disrupt the service or servers or networks connected to the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service.
Stalk or otherwise harass another.
Collect or store personal data about other users.
Set up additional account(s) to be used for deceptive purposes.

Content

The Club is not responsible for any information, data, text, photographs, graphics, video, messages, tags, advertised goods and services or other material (collectively referred to herein as “Content”) posted by members or advertisers. The Club makes no representations with respect to the accuracy, integrity, or quality of any such Content, and shall not in any way be liable for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available through the Club.

You are solely responsible for any Content posted by you on the web site or offered by you through a service, including, without limitation, for any errors or omissions in any Content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed, transmitted, or otherwise made available via the services. You represent that you have the right to post or transmit such Content, and, by posting or transmitting such Content, you give the Club a license to publish and distribute such Content though the services and to incorporate such Content into other works in any format or medium. You are solely responsible for protecting and enforcing any intellectual property and other rights in your Content; the Club shall have no obligation to do so on your behalf.

Content presented to you as part of the Services, including but not limited to advertisements, may be protected by intellectual property rights which are owned by the sponsors or advertisers who provide that Content and you must respect this.

You understand that by using the Services we provide you may be exposed to Content that you may find offensive, indecent or objectionable and that, in this respect, you use the Services at your own risk. The Club shall have the right, but not the obligation, to remove any Content that is violative of any law, regulation or guideline, or that it deems offensive, in its sole discretion.

With respect to any Content that you have submitted to the Site, you have the right to request the Company remove such Content, thus revoking any rights the Club has with respect to such Content.

You may be exposed to advertising on the Site or through a service or related communication from the Club. The Club may also provide one or more Services through which users can transact with one another. Other than as explicitly set forth in a particular agreement or governing guideline, your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers or other users found on or through a Service, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such other party. You agree that the Club shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers or other users on the Site or Service.

Because the club is not involved in transactions between members and any advertiser or other user, if a dispute arises between you and an advertiser or other user, each of you acknowledge that the Club and those involved with running it are to be free from claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.

Limitation on Membership

You acknowledge that the Club reserves the right to log off accounts that are inactive for more than a year.

You agree that the Club may, under certain circumstances, and without prior notice, immediately terminate your account, any associated account(s), and access to any Service indefinitely or for a set period of time. A termination of an account, whether temporarily or permanent, may include limitations to accessing any Service(s), but your profile, including your posts, will not be deleted unless you instruct the Club to remove your profile. Cause for such termination shall include, but not be limited to, (a) breaches or violations of the Terms or other incorporated agreements or guidelines, (b) requests by law enforcement or other government agencies, (c) a request by you (self-initiated account deletions), (d) discontinuance or material modification to the Service (or any part thereof), (e) unexpected technical or security issues or problems, (f) extended periods of inactivity, (g) engagement by you in fraudulent or illegal activities, and/or (h) nonpayment of any fees owed by you in connection with the Services. Further, you agree that any termination by the Club shall be at the Club’s sole discretion and that the Club shall not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your account, any associated Content, pattern(s) or access to a Service.

You may terminate your account and delete your account data at any time for any reason by navigating to your profile page, choosing “edit profile” and using the “delete Ravelry account” link at the bottom of the page.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold the Club and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, employees, partners and licensors harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable legal’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of any Content you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Service, your use of any Service, your connection to the Service, your violation of the Terms, or your violation of any rights of another user.

Warranties

You expressly acknowledge and agree that:

Your use of the Service is at your sole risk. The Service are provided on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis. The Club expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied including, but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement.
The Company makes no warranty that (i) a Service will meet your requirements; (ii) a Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free; (iii) the results that may be obtained from the use of a Service will be accurate or reliable; (iv) the quality of any products, services, information or other material purchased or obtained by you through a Service will meet your expectations; and (v) any errors in the Site, a Service or any software will be corrected.
Any material downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of a Service is accessed at your own discretion and risk, and you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the download of any such material.
No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from the Company or through or from the service shall create any warranty not expressly stated in these Terms.

Limitation of Liability

The Club will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising out of or in connection with these terms, the Site, the Services, the inability to use any Service, or those resulting from any goods or services purchased or obtained or messages received or transactions entered into through the Services.

Copyright

If you believe that the Club or any user of it has infringed your copyright in any material way, please notify us and provide the following information:

An identification of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed.
An identification of the material that you claim is infringing or is subject to infringing activity, with enough detail so that we can locate the material on our site.
Your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address.

The contact email is: jon@ukseaanglingclub.com, I'm Jon, the Clubs' founder, and will be pleased to help you with your issue. Thanks!

Proprietary Rights

You acknowledge and agree that the Services and any necessary software used in connection with the Services contain proprietary and confidential information that is protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws. You further acknowledge and agree that content or other information presented to you through the Services or by advertisers is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws.

Unless you have agreed otherwise in writing with the Club, nothing in these Terms gives you a right to use any of the Club’s domain names, or other distinctive brand features.

Survivorship and Non-Transferability

You agree that your account is non-transferable and any rights to your ID, pattern(s) or Content within your account terminate upon your death. Upon receipt of a copy of a death certificate, your account may be terminated and all contents therein permanently deleted.