Member Agreement/Terms and Conditions
Terms and Conditions
PLEASE
READ THESE TERMS OF USE ("TERMS") CAREFULLY. THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT
INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR AND C Space's AND OUR CLIENT’S LEGAL RIGHTS
AND OBLIGATIONS, INCLUDING LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS.
Version date: 27 February 2012
References in these Terms and related documents to our “CLIENT” means Orange and its related entities and companies.
By
using or visiting a Site or a Community (as defined below), you (also
referred to as the "User", "Participant" or "Member") signify that you
have read, understood and agree to be bound by this legal agreement with
C Space Corporation Ltd* of Bankside 2, 90-100 Southwark Street, London
SE1 0SW, trading as C Space (also referred to as "C Space", "C
Space Communities", "C Space" or "the Company") and our CLIENT (and
collectively referred to as "us" or "we") under the terms set out in
this document, including its three sections: 'TERMS AND CONDITIONS',
'NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT' AND 'PRIVACY POLICY' (the "Agreement").
This
service is operated by C Space Corporation on behalf of the Client.
(For more information about C Space, see its website at www.cspace.com)
The service is operated through the site cspace.com and/or
http://vision.orange.com ("Site(s)"). The service ("Service")
consists of communities which are online closed discussion sessions
("Community(ies)"), with an unlimited number of participants who will
join, so long as they meet pre-defined screening criteria. Communities
shall be run by C Space on behalf of its CLIENT.
We reserve the
right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or delete
portions of this Agreement at any time without further notice. If we do
this, we will post the changes to this Agreement on this page and will
indicate at the top of this page the date the Agreement was revised and
the amendments become effective. Your continued use of the Service or
the Site after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new
Agreement. If you do not agree to abide by these or any future
Agreement, do not use or access (or continue to use or access) the
Service or the Site. It is your responsibility to regularly check the
Site to determine if there have been changes to the Agreement and to
review such changes.
Terms and Conditions
Proprietary Rights and trademarks
All
content available through the Site and its Communities, including
designs, text, graphics, pictures, video, information, applications,
software, music, sound and other files or information appearing on the
Site ("Site Content") are subject to copyright and other intellectual
property rights belonging to the Company, its licensors, Users or its
CLIENT, with all rights reserved. No Site Content may be modified,
copied, distributed, framed, reproduced, republished, downloaded,
displayed, posted, transmitted, or sold in any forms or by any means, in
whole or in part, without the owner's prior written permission.
C
Space and the CLIENT are registered trademarks in their respective
countries of incorporation and may not be used, including as part of
trademarks and/or as part of domain names, in connection with any
product or service in any manner that is likely to cause confusion and
may not be copied, imitated, or used, in whole or in part, without the
prior written permission of the Company or the CLIENT as appropriate.
Community Users - Eligibility and User Data
All
members of the public are eligible to apply to enter one Community at a
time provided they are over 18 years old, but are subject to a
screening process. Members of the public will only be eligible to join a
Community if they meet the screening criteria. Users are not eligible
to join if they are in any way associated with the marketing, PR and
market research fields, or any of our, or our CLIENT's, competitors.
When you join a Community, you agree to 1) provide accurate, true and
complete answers to the screening questionnaire; 2) ensure the security
of your password, identification and account details, or 3) keep your
registration details up to date and notify us of any changes in your
circumstances. Failure to provide any of the aforementioned information
may void your eligibility to participate in a Community.
In
addition, you agree not to 1) register for more than one User account
per Community, or more than one Community at a time; 2) register for a
User account on behalf of an individual other than yourself; 3) register
for a User account on behalf of any group or entity; 4) impersonate any
person or entity, or 5) falsely state or otherwise misrepresent
yourself.
Community Users - User Submissions and user content
For
clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in material you submit
to the Site or to a Community ("User Submissions" or "Submissions"),
which include, without limitation designs, text, graphics, pictures,
video, information, applications, software, music, sound or any other
files. However, by submitting User Submissions to a Community, you
hereby grant (and you hereby warrant that you have the full authority
together with all necessary consents to grant) CLIENT and its associated
companies a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive,
royalty-free license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative
works of, display, and perform your Submissions in connection with the
CLIENT’s business. The CLIENT further retains the right to retain your
Submissions even after they have been removed from the Community or Site
or the Community has ended.
You understand that all User
Submissions and Site Content, whether publicly posted or privately
transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the person from which the
User Submission or Site Content originated. This means that you, and not
the Company or the CLIENT, are entirely responsible for all content
that you upload, post or e-mail via this Site. We do not control User
Submissions posted via this Site and therefore we do not guarantee the
accuracy, integrity or quality of the User Submission or Site Content.
Community Users - User Conduct
You
are solely responsible for all and any User Submission that you add or
upload to the Site or its Communities. You represent, warrant and agree
that no materials of any kind submitted through your account or
otherwise posted, transmitted, or shared by you on or through the
Service will violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party,
including copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights,
privacy, publicity, confidentiality or other personal or proprietary
rights; or contain libellous, defamatory, discriminatory, obscene or
otherwise unlawful material.
In addition, you agree not to use the Service or the Site to:
1) harvest or collect email addresses or other contact information of
other users of the Service or the Site by electronic or other means for
the purposes of sending unsolicited emails or other unsolicited
communications;
2) use the Service or the Site in any unlawful
manner or in any other manner that could damage, disable, overburden or
impair the Site;
3) use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Service or the Site;
4) upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available any
content that we deem to be harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory,
infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, obscene,
fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or
racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
5) upload,
post, transmit, share or otherwise make available any unsolicited or
unauthorized advertising, solicitations, promotional materials, "junk
mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of
solicitation;
6) upload, post, transmit, share, store or
otherwise make publicly available on the Site any private information of
any third party, including, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses,
National Insurance numbers and credit card numbers;
7) solicit
personal information from anyone under 18 or solicit passwords or
personally identifying information for commercial or unlawful
purposes;
8) upload, post, transmit, share 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;
9) intimidate or harass another user;
10) upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available
content that would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a
criminal offense, violate the rights of any party, or that would
otherwise create liability or violate any local, national or
international law;
11) upload, post, transmit, share, store or
otherwise make available content that, in our sole judgment, is
objectionable or which restricts or inhibits any other person from using
the Site, or which may expose the Company, its CLIENT or its users to
any harm or liability of any type;
12) impersonate any person or
entity, falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a
person or entity or disguise the origin of any content;
13)
upload, post or e-mail any content that you do not have a right to
transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary
relationships;
14) upload, post or e-mail any content that infringes any intellectual property rights of any party;
15) solicit any business from other members of the Community.
You
acknowledge that the Company does not pre-screen content but that the
Company shall have the right (though not the obligation) in our sole
discretion to move, modify or remove any content that is available on
the Site generally.
The Company, reserves the right to remove any
user content from the Site or any of its Communities, at any time,
without notice and at its own discretion or on request by the CLIENT.
Repeat Infringer Policy
We
may terminate the use of the Site, in appropriate circumstances and at
our sole discretion, by users who infringe this Agreement in any way. We
reserve the right to report any illegal activity or use of Site to the
appropriate authorities without notice to the user.
Third Party Websites and Content
The
Site contains (or you may be sent through the Site or the Service)
links to other websites ("Third Party Sites") as well as articles,
photographs, text, graphics, pictures, designs, music, sound, video,
information, applications, software and other content or items belonging
to or originating from third parties (the "Third Party Applications,
Software or Content"). Such Third Party Sites and Third Party
Applications, Software or Content are not investigated, monitored or
checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness by us, and we are
not responsible for any Third Party Sites accessed through the Site or
any Third Party Applications, Software or Content posted on, available
through or installed from the Site, including the content, accuracy,
offensiveness, opinions, reliability, privacy practices or other
policies of or contained in the Third Party Sites or the Third Party
Applications, Software or Content. Inclusion of, linking to or
permitting the use or installation of any Third Party Site or any Third
Party Applications, Software or Content does not imply approval or
endorsement thereof by us.
If you decide to leave the Site
and access the Third Party Sites or to use or install any Third Party
Applications, Software or Content, you do so at your own risk. You
should review the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and
data gathering practices, of any site to which you navigate from the
Site or relating to any Third Party Applications, Software or Content.
Disclaimers
We
are not responsible or liable in any manner for any User Submissions or
Third Party Applications, Software or Content posted on the Site or in
connection with the Service, whether posted or caused by users of the
Site, by us, by third parties or by any of the equipment or programming
associated with or utilized in the Site or the Service.
Although
we provide rules for user conduct and postings, we have no obligation to
review and vet any information uploaded nor are we responsible for any
offensive, inappropriate, obscene, unlawful or otherwise objectionable
content you may encounter on the Site or in connection with any User
Submission or Third Party Applications, Software or Content. We are not
responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of
the Site or Service. Under no circumstances will we be liable in any way
for any User Submission, including (without limitation) any errors or
omissions in any User Submission, or for any loss or damage of any kind
incurred as a result of your use of any Site Content. You agree that you
must evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any Site
Content including any reliance on its accuracy or completeness. You also
understand that by using this Site, you may be exposed to content that
is offensive, indecent or objectionable.
The Site and the Service
may be temporarily unavailable from time to time for maintenance or
other reasons. Neither the Company nor the CLIENT assume responsibility
for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in
operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or
destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, User
communications or connectivity to the Site.
We are not
responsible for any technical malfunction or other problems of any
telephone network or service, computer systems, servers or providers,
computer or mobile phone equipment, software, failure of email or
players on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the
Internet or at any Site or combination thereof, including injury or
damage to User's or to any other person's computer, mobile phone, or
other hardware or software, related to or resulting from using or
downloading materials in connection with the Web and/or in connection
with the Service insofar as it is permissible to exclude and limit such
liability by law. Nothing in this Agreement affects your statutory
rights as a consumer.
Under no circumstances will we be
responsible for any loss or damage, including any loss or damage to any
User Submission or personal injury or death (other than personal injury
or death directly caused by the our negligence), resulting from your use
of the Site or the Service, any User Submission or Third Party
Applications, Software or Content posted on or through the Site or the
Service or transmitted to Users, or any interactions between users of
the Site, whether online or offline.
We reserve the right to
change any and all Site Content, software and other items used or
contained in the Site and any Services and platform applications offered
through the Site at any time without notice.
Reference to any
products, services, processes or other information, by trade name,
trademark, manufacturer, supplier, or otherwise does not constitute or
imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation thereof, or any
affiliation therewith, by the Company or the CLIENT.
Limitation on Liability
In
no event shall C Space's or the CLIENT’s officers, directors,
employees, or agents, be liable to you for any direct, indirect,
incidental, special, punitive, or consequential damages including but
not limited to loss of profits, loss of opportunities, diminution in
share value, loss of reputation, defamation, making ideas or trade
secrets public, publishing personal information or otherwise, whatsoever
resulting from any 1) errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies of Site
Content; 2) personal injury or property damage (other than personal
injury or death directly caused by the our negligence or any strict
liability under statute or for fraud), of any nature whatsoever,
resulting from your access to and use of the Site; 3) any unauthorized
access to or use of our secure servers and/or any and all personal
information and/or financial information stored therein; 4) any
interruption or cessation of transmission to or from the Site; 5) any
bugs, viruses, trojan horses, or the like, which may be transmitted to
or through the Site by any third party, and/or 6) any errors or
omissions in any content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred
as a result of your use of any Site Content posted, uploaded,
downloaded, emailed, transmitted, or otherwise made available via the
Site, whether based on warranty, contract, tort, or any other legal
theory, and whether or not we are advised of the possibility of such
damages. The foregoing limitation of liability shall apply to the
fullest extent permitted by law in the applicable jurisdiction.
You
specifically acknowledge that we shall not be liable for User
Submissions or Site Content or the defamatory, offensive, or illegal
conduct of any third party, or breach of any intellectual property
rights or confidentiality from either you posting Submissions or using
Site Content and that the risk of harm or damage from the foregoing
rests entirely with you.
Indemnity
You agree to
indemnify and hold the Company and the CLIENT and their subsidiaries and
affiliates, and each of their directors, officers, agents, contractors,
partners and employees, harmless from and against any loss, liability,
claim, demand, damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal
fees, arising out of or in connection with any User Submissions or Site
Content, any Third Party Applications, Software or Content you post or
share on or through the Site, your use of the Service or the Site, your
conduct in connection with the Service or the Site or with other users
of the Service or the Site, or any violation of this Agreement or of any
law or the rights of any third party.
Termination
We
may terminate your membership, delete your profile and any content or
information that you have posted on the Site or through any platform
application and/or prohibit you from using or accessing the Service or
the Site or any platform application for any reason, or no reason, at
any time in our sole discretion, with or without notice.
Governing Law, Venue and Jurisdiction
This
Agreement shall be governed by, construed, interpreted and applied in
accordance with the laws of England, without regard to principles of
conflict of laws.
Non-Disclosure Agreement
In
this Non Disclosure Agreement ("NDA") 'Confidential Information' means
information relating to the actual or proposed products, processes,
techniques and business activities of C Space or the CLIENT whether
orally or in writing, online or offline, and including (but not limited
to) ideas, financial information, intelligence, drawings, sketches,
photographs, models and computer software, together with User
information of a similar nature uploaded onto the Site.
In
addition, all information produced, shared and gathered in any of the
Communities shall be considered Confidential Information and therefore
covered by the terms of this NDA.
Any Confidential Information
disclosed by us or appearing on the Site and uploaded by users of the
Site shall be disclosed or made available for access by you via the Site
strictly on the basis that the information is to be kept confidential
by you and will not in any way be described, used, charged, assigned or
otherwise disposed of or disclosed to any third party without the prior
written consent of the Company or the CLIENT or the user who uploaded
such Confidential Information as appropriate.
The provisions above shall not apply to any information which:
- is already known to the recipient at the time of disclosure; or
- is at the time of disclosure in public domain; or
- is
lawfully communicated to you by a third party who did not acquire it
directly or indirectly from us or the Site under an obligation of
confidentiality, or
- you are required by law to disclose.
The disclosure of Confidential Information on the terms
of this NDA shall not of itself amount to a license to you to use the
Confidential Information. Any related plans, drawings and other
documentation disclosed with or as part of the Confidential Information
shall remain the property of us or the third party who uploaded such
Confidential Information onto the Site. Nothing in this NDA shall affect
or lessen the license to use Site Content granted by a User to the
Company or its CLIENT as set out in the Agreement.
The provisions
of this non disclosure agreement is intended for the benefit of any
user who uploads content and makes such content available for other
Users. Any breach of the terms of this non disclosure agreement shall
entitle any user who has suffered loss or is likely to suffer loss to
enforce the terms of this agreement and to claim damages or other
compensation (including any injunctive relief) from the User who has
breached the terms of this agreement.
Privacy Policy
References in this Policy and related documents to our “CLIENT” means Orange and its related entities and companies.
We care about the privacy of our users. We ask that you read this Privacy Policy ('the
Policy') carefully as it contains important information about how we
will use your personal data. By using the Site or the Service, you are
consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in
the United Kingdom or forwarded to our CLIENT who may operate in various
jurisdictions (including outside the EEA) in accordance with this
privacy policy. Further C Space related entities (some of whom are
located outside the EEA) may have access to your personal data, although
they will not be processing it.
Please note this privacy policy
is only concerned with information you provide to us which is personal
to you i.e. information which is sufficient to identify you such as your
name and address and any other personally identifiable information. It
does not cover any other information you may contribute to a Community.
Data Protection Compliance
The
Company is committed to compliance with Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA).
For the purposes of the DPA, C Space Corporation Ltd is the 'data
controller' (i.e. the company who is responsible for, and controls the
processing of, your personal data).
You can find out about your rights at the ICO-Information Commissioner's Office website: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/principle-6-rights/.
Personal information and other data we collect
C Space collects personal information when you register for a Community.
The data we collect is of two kinds:
- general
personal data about you, such as name and address and any other
information that you voluntarily provide when completing a registration
form or other form online.
- data specific to a particular Community selection criteria, which may not be relevant to other Communities
In
addition, we will collect information and data about you during a
Community session. This may include a variety of types of information
and formats, and you are not under any obligation to provide it - this
is referred to above as User Content, for which you are fully
responsible.
We may also collect data when you send us feedback,
post material, contact us for any reason or sign up to a service. We may
also obtain sensitive personal data about you if you volunteer it
during the completion of an online form. If you volunteer such
information, you will be consenting to our processing it for the purpose
or the services for which such information was requested or given.
We
may monitor your usage of this website. This may include monitoring how
many times you visit, which pages you go to, traffic data, location
data and the originating domain name of a user's internet service
provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users.
This data will be aggregated which means that we will not be able to
identify you individually. Please see further the section on 'Use of
cookies' below.
Use of data
The Company will use personal information to screen and assess your eligibility to join a Community.
The Company may also use personal information for:
- auditing, research and analysis to operate and improve our technologies and services;
- helping us identify you and any accounts you hold with us;
- administration;
- statistical analysis;
- fraud prevention and detection and security vetting;
- customizing this Site and its content to your particular preferences, or
- notifying you of any changes to this Site or our services which may affect you.
The Company may share aggregated non-personal
information with third parties, including, but not only, our
CLIENT. The Company may use third parties to assist us in
processing your personal information; however the Company will require
that such third parties comply with our Privacy Policy and any other
appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
The Company
may also share information with third parties in limited circumstances,
including when complying with legal process, preventing fraud or
imminent harm, and ensuring the security of our network and services.
C
Space process personal information on our servers in the United Kingdom
and in other countries. In some cases, C Space process personal
information on a server outside your own country. Our CLIENT has
operations in the United Kingdom and elsewhere (including outside the
EEA) and you agree that the Company may transfer your personal data to
the CLIENT’s (and those of its affiliated companies) countries. Although
such countries may not have as stringent data protection laws as those
of the European Union rest assured that C Space will always ensure any
transfer is subject to contractual provisions that will safeguard your
personal data.
C Space will store your personal data for the
length of the online Community and one month after it closes, at which
point all Member personal data will be destroyed.
Information sharing
C
Space will only share personal information with other companies or
individuals outside of the Company in the following limited
circumstances:
- C Space have your consent. C Space require consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
- C
Space provide your information to third parties for the purpose of
giving you agreed participation rewards and incentives.
- C
Space provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies
or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing
personal information on our behalf. C Space require that these parties
agree to process such information based on our instructions and in
compliance with this Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality
and security measures.
- The Company will share with
our clients certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information,
resulting from the analysis of the Community outputs. Such information
does not identify you individually. If for any reason the client wants
to contact you directly, the Company will obtain your consent in
advance.
Information security
The
Company takes appropriate security measures to protect against
unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or
destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data
collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as
well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access
to systems where we store personal data.
The Company
restricts access to personal information to our employees, contractors
and agents who need to know that information in order to operate,
develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by
confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including
termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these
obligations.
Keeping your data secure
C Space will
use technical and organizational measures to safeguard your personal
data, for example: access to your membership is controlled by password
and username which are unique to you and the Company stores your
personal data on secure servers.
Whilst C Space will use all
reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal data, you acknowledge that
the use of the internet is not entirely secure and for this reason we
cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal data which is
transferred from you or to you via the internet.
Use of cookies
When
you use this Site, C Space may collect information about your computer,
such as your IP address and/or browser, which C Space will use for
administration purposes and statistical analysis. This information will
not usually identify you personally. C Space may use technologies to
learn about how you use our Site in order to improve the quality of our
services. Our servers automatically record information when you visit
our website or use some of our services, including the URL, IP address,
browser type and language, and the date and time of your request.
C
Space may also obtain information about your online movements and use
of the internet by placing a 'cookie', which is a small file, on your
computer's hard disk. Cookies may be used for several reasons:
- To recognize you whenever you visit this Site;
- to speed up access to this Site (so you do not have to log on each time);
- to store your personal preferences;
- to build a profile about you;
- to understand how you use the site and improve it.
The
vast majority of web browsers accept cookies. However, you can change
your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this,
you may lose some of the functionalities of this Site. For further
information about cookies and how to disable them please go to: http://www.aboutcookies.org
Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions about the management or use of personal data.
C Space
Bankside 2, 90-100 Southwark Street
London SE1 0SW
UK
*C Space is the trading name of Promise Corporation Ltd, registered
in England & Wales (Company Number 4905383) at 239 Old Marylebone
Road, London, NW1 5QT.