Terms of Use

Welcome to our website. If you continue to browse and use this website, whether as a guest or a registered user, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy policy and acceptable use policy govern Mapping for Change CIC’s relationship with you in relation to this website. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website. The use of this website is subject to the following terms of use:

Our Site

www.mappingforchange.org.uk and www.communitymaps.org.uk are operated by Mapping for Change CIC. The term 'Mapping for Change' or ‘Mapping for Change CIC’ or 'us' or 'we' refers to the owner of the website whose registered office is The Network Building, UCL, 97 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 4TP. Our company registration number is 06756486, registered in England. The term 'you' refers to the user or viewer of our website.

The content of the pages of this website is for your general information and use only. It is subject to change without notice. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us.

When using our site, you must comply with the provisions of our acceptable use policy. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them. Unauthorised use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.

The English courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site and we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country. These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

Cookies

This website uses cookies to monitor browsing preferences. Some cookies are necessary to help you access and move around our site and use all its features. Without these cookies, our website would not work properly and you would not be able to use certain important features. For example, we use a cookie to keep you logged in during your visit, so the site does not require you to log in repeatedly to access different pages. We also use cookies to help us understand how our website is being used and how we can improve your experience on it. This provides us with anonymous information to help us understand which parts of our site are of most interest to our visitors and monitor how our visitors reach us. You can find out more about the cookies on our website by reading our cookie policy.

Our Content

Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain

inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website meet your specific requirements.

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved. This material includes, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance and graphics. Reproduction is prohibited other than in accordance with the copyright notice. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged. All trademarks reproduced in this website which are not the property of, or licensed to us, are acknowledged on the website. If you wish to make any use of material on our site, please address your request to info@mappingforchange.org.uk

You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors. You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others to material posted on our site. You must not modify any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

This website may include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse the website(s). We have no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s).

Your Contributions

If you register with our site, you are responsible for keeping your user identification and password confidential, and you must not share it or disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification or password, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

By registering with our site, you warrant that:

  • You are legally capable of entering into binding contracts;
  • You are at least 18 years old or have the consent of your legal guardian.

By contributing to our site, you grant us a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to use and to sub-licence any material posted, comment made, information shared by you on our site. We may use this to, amongst other things, raise awareness of an issue, provide information to parties that might have an interest, to enable analysis for feedback and response, and to promote our services. You also agree and accept that other users may repost your material.

Whenever you upload material to our site you must comply with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy. You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with the content standards.

Any material you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential. We have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

Privacy

We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

Viruses

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

If you have any concerns regarding our site, please contact info@mappingforchange.org.uk