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Web-site Terms and Conditions
1. Acceptance of Terms and Conditions
familyfutures.co.uk is provided by Family Futures Consortium
Ltd (Company Registered Number 3571649) under these Terms and
Conditions. These Terms and Conditions govern your use of familyfutures.co.uk
and govern all services provided to you by Family Futures Consortium
Ltd in connection with familyfutures.co.uk, such as access
to message boards.
2. Amendments
We reserve the right to amend these Terms and Conditions from
time to time without notice to you. Please check the Terms
and Conditions periodically to see whether a change has been
made to them. Occasionally Family Futures Consortium Ltd may
supplement these Terms and Conditions.
3. Bulleting Board Access
Some elements of familyfutures.co.uk may be viewed by anyone,
however, to access some services, e.g. our bulleting board
for parents and children. These sites are exclusively
for parents and children who are currently receiving a service
from Family Futures Consortium Ltd and can only be accessed
via a password.
4. Password
Families who are currently receiving services from Family
Futures Consortium Ltd will be given a password which must
be kept confidential at all times. Password holders will
be deemed responsible. You will be deemed responsible for all
activities that occur under your password. If you know or suspect
that someone else knows your password you should notify us
immediately.
5. Your use of familyfutures.co.uk
5.1 Family Futures Consortium Ltd does not
necessarily endorse the views expressed by users, on our
bulleting boards. You alone are responsible for the content
of any bulletin’s posted on familyfutures.co.uk and the
consequences of any bulletins. By using familyfutures.co.uk you
agree to comply with the following guidelines:
(a) familyfutures.co.uk is to be used for
your personal use only and cannot be used for commercial, political,
illegal or any spurious reasons.
(b) familyfutures.co.uk may not be used to
send chain letters, junk mail, 'spam', solicitations or bulk
communications of any kind unless the recipient has given specific
permission to be included in such a list.
(c) You may not post to familyfutures.co.uk
any message or material that is unlawful, harassing, defamatory,
abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, profane, threatening,
racially or sexually or otherwise discriminatory, offensive,
inaccurate, in breach of confidence or a third party's intellectual
property rights or which otherwise includes objectionable material
of any kind or nature, that encourages or engages in conduct
that could constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil
liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, national
or international law or regulation or which has a disruptive
influence on the normal flow of a bulletin board. You must
not impersonate any other person or entity, whether actual
or fictitious. If you feel that any of the terms and conditions
have been broken by users please inform us immediately via
our Office Manager.
(d) You must not post any identifying information
other than a first name and an email address at which you would
be happy to be contacted by other viewers of the bulletin board.
No identifying information, land addresses or telephone numbers
pertaining to yourself, any of your family members or children
who are adopted or fostered, or any individual at all should
be posted on any bulletin board on familyfutures.co.uk.
(e) You must not use familyfutures.co.uk
in a way that might reasonably be expected to cause the same
to be interrupted, damaged, rendered less efficient or which
could in any way damage the operation of another's computer.
(f) familyfutures.co.uk reserves the right
in its absolute discretion at any time to edit, alter, delete
or move any material whatsoever posted to, appearing on or
distributed by familyfutures.co.uk and you.
6. Intellectual Property
(a) Family Futures Consortium Ltd owns the
copyright of, and other intellectual property rights, in familyfutures.co.uk
and its contents. "Rights" means copyright, database
rights, trade marks, design rights and other intellectual and
proprietary rights of whatever nature, anywhere in the world.
You acknowledge that (i) familyfutures.co.uk is protected by
these Rights; (ii) these Rights are valid and protected in
all media and technologies existing now or later developed;
and (iii) except as explicitly provided otherwise, these Terms
and Conditions and applicable copyright, trademark and other
laws govern your use of such Rights.
(b) You may view, print, download or store
extracts from familyfutures.co.uk for your personal, non-commercial
reference without alteration, addition or deletion. You may
not otherwise copy, replicate, retransmit, distribute, publish,
commercially exploit or otherwise transfer any familyfutures.co.uk
material or content without prior consent.
7. Non-Personally Identifiable Information
Aggregate or summary information is collected automatically
by our system e.g. number of visitors to the site. In order
to do this we may need to send cookies to your PC. This
information is used to monitor use of the web site and will
not contain information that can identify you as an individual.
8. Third Party Sites
This web site may contain links to other web sites. Please
be notified that Family Futures Consortium Ltd cannot be held
responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We
encourage all visitors to be aware and read the privacy statements
of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable
information.
9. Cookies
A cookie is a small text file on the user’s browser
and hard drive that uniquely identifies the user’s browser. There
are two types of cookies: persistent cookies and session cookies. Session
cookies are temporary and are erased when the browser exits.
Persistent cookies remain on the user’s hard drive until
the user erases them or until they expire.
10. Disclaimer of Warranties
Familyfutures.co.uk will make every effort to ensure that
all information given is true, accurate and complete however
Family Futures Consortium is not responsible for any errors
or omissions or for the results obtained from the use of such
information. Your participation in familyfutures.co.uk is solely
at your own risk. No advice or information, whether oral or
written, obtained by you from Family Futures or through familyfutures.co.uk
shall create any warranty not expressly made in these terms
of service or imposed by law
11. Limitations of Liability
Except as required by law, Family Futures Consortium Ltd shall
not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential
losses or damages or loss of profits, data, goodwill, revenue
in each case regardless of whether such losses or damages arise
in the normal course of events or whether Family Futures Consortium
Ltd has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Family Futures Consortium Ltd will not be liable for any such losses or damages
whether arising in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise arising
out of or in connection with this website including without limitation the
use or the inability to use familyfutures.co.uk, or bulletin’s received,
or transactions entered into through familyfutures.co.uk, or resulting from
unauthorised access to or alteration of your transmissions or data
12. Breach of these Terms and Conditions
Family Futures Consortium Ltd will be entitled to deny you
access to familyfutures.co.uk or take such other action if
you are in breach of any of the Terms and Conditions or if
your use of familyfutures.co.uk is deemed inappropriate. The
termination of our service pursuant to this section will be
without prejudice to any rights which Family Futures Consortium
may have against you in respect of your breach of these Terms
of Service. Family Futures shall be entitled to disclose your
user identity and details if required or requested by the courts
or other law enforcement authorities and/or agencies or in
such other circumstances as Family Futures Consortium Ltd in
its sole discretion considers reasonably necessary or appropriate.
13. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold each of Family Futures Consortium
Ltd, employees and consultant, harmless from any claim, including
reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to
or occurring out of your use of familyfutures.co.uk the violation
of these Terms and Conditions by you, or the infringement by
you, or any other person found to be using your password, or
of any intellectual property or other right of any other person
or entity.
14. Applicable Law
These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed
in accordance with the laws of England and any dispute shall
be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
15. Complaints policy
Please contact us for details of our complaints policy.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- Services will only be provided by Family Futures on the
following conditions:
- A contract of engagement has been completed and payment
for fees authorised.
- Payment of our invoice is made in advance of services
being provided (unless otherwise negotiated)
- Payment of Invoice is made within 30 days of receipt.
- Agencies agree to provide Family Futures with case material
and information as required.
- Family Futures seek to provide open access to services.
- Information shared with Family Futures staff by an individual
receiving our services is to be regarded as confidential. Only
matters relating to child protection concerns would be conveyed
to the relevant authorities without the consent of the individual
concerned.
- Parents are regarded by Family Futures to be responsible
for the care of their children or children in their care
at all times.
- A copy of any report, assessment or evaluation commissioned
by any agency will also be sent to the family concerned.
- Staff of Family Futures have professional indemnity insurance
cover.
- Premises used by Family Futures are covered by Public Liability
Insurance to the value £5,000,000 (Five Million Pounds)
and Professional Indemnity Insurance to the value of £2.000.000
(Two Million Pounds) Any higher amount required by a commissioning
agent should be negotiated at the point of commissioning.
- Family Futures Consortium Ltd is a Registered Adoption
Support Agency and adheres to the Adoption Support Agencies
(England) and Adoption Agencies (Miscellaneous Amendments)
Regulations 2005 No.2720. Anyone wishing to see copies
of any of our polices covered by these regulations should
contact our Office Manager.
- All staff at Family Futures are professionally supervised
and supported and are in therapy themselves in order to ensure
the highest standards of professional practice.
- Family Futures adheres to the British Association of Counsellors
Code of Ethics.
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