Terms of Service

Contributions

In this section ‘Contributions’, means information including data, text, video, still images, audio or other material that STRAND has permitted you to host, share, publish, post, store or upload on our website as permitted under these terms. 

STRAND may at any time, without liability to you, remove, alter or disable access to any or all of your Contributions in its sole discretion without prior notice to you. Without limiting the previous sentence, STRAND may remove or disable access to any or all your Contributions if it considers that:

(a)  those Contributions are in breach of any law or regulation; 

(b)  those Contributions infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party; 

(c)  it is required to do so by a regulatory body or any relevant authority pursuant to an interim or final take-down notice;

(d)  those Contributions are:

(i) misleading or deceptive;

(ii) inappropriate having regard to the purpose of our website;

(iii) likely to cause offence;

(iv) materially incorrect;

(v) obscene;

(vi) defamatory; 

(vii) otherwise unlawful; or

(viii) corrupted, due to the presence of a virus or other disabling code.

You retain all of your ownership rights in your Contributions. STRAND is under no obligation to treat your Contributions as proprietary information.

To the extent that any Contributions are proprietary in nature, you grant STRAND a worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable and irrevocable licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, publish, create derivative works from and display and publicly perform your Contributions throughout the world in any medium, whether currently in existence or not. You also grant each user of our website a nonexclusive licence to use, reproduce, adapt, translate, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform your Contributions as permitted by STRAND and these terms.

You grant STRAND, in respect of Contributions to its website the right to use your name or the name you submit with the Contribution, and, the right to represent and warrant that:

(a)  you own and control all of the rights to the Contributions; or 

(b)  you have the lawful right including all necessary licences, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorise STRAND to display the Contributions.

For any Contributions that you may retain moral rights in, you declare that:

(a)  you do not require that any personally identifying information be used in connection with the Contribution, or any derivative work, upgrade or update of the Contribution; and

(b)  You understand that when accessing our website, you may be exposed to the Contributions of other users of our website. You acknowledge and agree that STRAND does not have control of and is not responsible for these other Contributions. You release STRAND from any claims that you could assert against STRAND relating to or in connection with these other Contributions.

You represent and warrant that:

(a)  you have the lawful right including all necessary licences, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorise STRAND to display your Contributions; and 

(b)  you will not make any Contributions that:

(i)  infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party, and you agree to pay all royalties, fees or other monies payable by reason of any Contributions made by you; 

(ii)     are misleading or deceptive; 

(iii)    are materially incorrect; 

(iv)    are likely to cause offence;

(v)     directly or indirectly involve the advertising or marketing of any products or services; 

(vi)    are obscene, including pornographic, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive material; 

(vii)   are defamatory; 

(viii)  are otherwise unlawful or encourage unlawful conduct; or 

(ix)   are otherwise inappropriate having regard to the purpose of our platform.