(Effective December 19th. 2023)

www.bibritain.co.uk ("the Service") is an online information and communications service. By accessing or using the Service, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set forth below. If you do not wish to be bound by these terms and conditions, you may not access or use the Service. LabMedia, the administrators of this service, reserves the right to modify this Agreement at any time and such modifications shall be effective immediately upon posting of the modified agreement. You agree to review the Agreement periodically to be aware of such modifications and your continued access or use of the Service shall be deemed your conclusive acceptance of the modified Agreement.

The use of information and links provided on this site is at your own risk. While care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the data and advice, this is no warranty or representation express or implied by LabMedia or any other person giving their opinions and/or advice in respect of the site as to the accuracy, reliability or uninterrupted use of the site and they shall not, jointly or severally, be liable for any loss, injury, damage, costs or expense arising from any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, breach of contract, tort, negligence, defamation, copyright infringement, breach of intellectual property right or any other cause of action.

Submitters are solely responsible for their own submissions, and submitters agree not to include any content in their submissions that is unlawful, libellous, defamatory, grossly offensive, dangerous or false, or any content that is protected by copyright or other intellectual property right, without first obtaining permission of the copyright owner or copyright holder.

The submitter agrees to defend and hold LabMedia and any other person who give their opinions and/or advice on the site from and against all claims, losses, damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees on an indemnity basis, arising out of the use of the site.

LabMedia shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the content on the site, including chat rooms and forums, and LabMedia shall have the right to remove or delete any material that LabMedia, in its sole discretion, finds to be in violation of any applicable laws, codes, rules or regulations. LabMedia shall have the right to remove any material submitted to or posted on the Service. Without limitation to the foregoing, LabMedia shall have the right to remove any material that LabMedia, in its sole discretion, finds to be in violation of the provisions hereof or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate without having to assign any reason therefore.

The materials on the site are copyrighted by the respective copyright holders and may be downloaded and printed for personal use only. Permission to print or electronically reproduce any document or graphic in whole or in part for any reason is expressly prohibited, unless prior written consent is obtained from the respective copyright holder(s).

Conditions of Membership

-	You are over the age of 18 years!
-	Only one profile is permitted per person.
-	Your profile will appear on www.bibritain.co.uk and be accessible to all other members of the web site.
-	You can cancel or suspend your profile at any time.
-	You will not include your contact information (email addresses, website addresses, phone numbers, etc.) in your profile.
-	You will not promote any business or personal web sites without our prior consent.
-	You will use your own valid and active email address.
-	Any photos you upload will be of yourself and/or of persons who have given their consent for you to upload their photos to bibritain.co.uk.
-	Any persons depicted in photos you upload are over the age of 18 years.
-	You will not promote or endorse illegal activity.
-	You will not solicit other members to engage in illegal activity.
-	You will not provide, advertise, promote or sell any product and/or service for financial gain on the site, or promote any service that provide such services and/or products.
-	Use of this web site and the service it provides is subject to other Terms & Conditions as presented throughout the web site.
-	You will not use this service in an unfair and/or compromising way, against either this service, the providers of this service or persons using this service.
-	If you observe a breach of our Terms and Conditions of Service, you must report them to the site's administrators immediately via email at: members@bibritain.co.uk.
-	We reserve the right to suspend or cancel, without notice, your profile at anytime should we deem it inappropriate for this web site.

User Submitted Content Policy

LabMedia, as the providers and administrators of this Service. ("us", "our" or "we") provide tools that allow users ("you") of this web site to interact with other users of this web site by posting, viewing, commenting on, or participating in web logs, discussion forums, chat rooms, digital content sharing, and/or other such features (collectively, "Community Features" or "Community"). This Policy for User-Submitted Content ("Policy") describes the terms and conditions that are applicable to your use of the Community Features, including the submission of any content ("Content") that you provide to a Community. This Policy applies to any web site on which said content may be posted, including, but not limited to, www.bibritain.co.uk ("web site").

By submitting content to this web site, you acknowledge that the Terms and Conditions stated in this policy apply to your interactions with any web site community and that good and valuable consideration has been provided to you. If you do no agree with these Terms and Conditions, do not submit content to this web site.

Content Submissions

All Content to the Community and the comments or opinions expressed therein are those of their respective contributors and do not necessarily represent the views of LabMedia, its owners, management, or employees. LabMedia is not responsible and expressly disclaims all liability for the content of any contribution submitted by users of the Community. Without limiting the foregoing, LabMedia will not be held liable for Content that may infringe a third party’s copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property right.

The nature of some Content may be offensive, harmful, or inaccurate, and in some cases may be mislabelled or deceptively labelled. You agree that you are fully responsible for any Content that you submit to the Community. Without limiting the foregoing, LabMedia reserves the right, but is not obligated, to monitor all submissions and exercise editorial control over all such submissions, including without limitation the right to edit, take down or remove any Content. LabMedia is not responsible for any failure to monitor, review, edit and/or delete any Content submitted to the web site through any Community Feature.

All Content are deemed to be provided on a non-confidential basis. If you make a Contribution to a Community, you understand and agree that we may publish your Contribution in its entirety, as an edited version, or not at all, in our sole discretion. We may remove, alter, or otherwise edit Content that we deem inappropriate for any reason, in our sole discretion. You bear all privacy and other risks associated with using the Community Features of this web site. Accordingly, you should avoid posting personal information such as home address or telephone number.

You understand and agree that your username may be posted along with your Content. To that extent, you do not have the same degree of privacy or confidentiality as you may receive in other areas of the web site.

Content Ownership and Use

You should submit all Content in electronic format through the web site. Any Content submitted to or uploaded through the web site shall become the property of LabMedia. We have no obligation to retain any Content sent to us. While LabMedia may use the Content, it also has the right to erase, delete, throw away, dispose of or destroy any Content sent to us in any format without notice.

LabMedia will decide in its sole discretion what Content to use or not use. LabMedia makes no promise or guarantee that any Content submitted will be used in any manner. However, if Content is used, you grant LabMedia (which includes any and all affiliates, agents, contractors, licensees, sub-licensees, subsidiaries or any third party who obtains the Content from LabMedia) a worldwide, in perpetuity, non revocable, royalty free, assignable, sub-licensable right to use the Content, in any and all manners as determined solely by LabMedia. For purposes of illustration but not limitation, such uses may be for internal purposes, posting on a web site, and marketing, advertising, and promotion of products, merchandise, goods or services in any and all media whether now known or hereafter invented. You will have no right of review and will not be paid any additional consideration or fees as a result of the usage. You hereby warrant and represent that you have the right to grant this license on your own behalf and on the behalf of any person who appears in the Content as well.

Further, you hereby irrevocably in perpetuity, assign any and all rights (Intellectual Property and other) to the Content including copyrights which you or any third party might hold to LabMedia. You understand that by the grant of such rights, LabMedia is considered the owner of all rights in the Content and may do what it desires with the Content without any further consent being required from you or any third party. You warrant and represent that you are the copyright owner of the Content or have acquired the necessary rights from the copyright owner to grant this assignment of right and that the consent of any other person or entity is not required. Furthermore, by granting any of the rights set out above, the rights of any other person or entity are not being violated.

You understand that LabMedia is relying on your representations and warranties. As such, in the event of any claim of any kind or law suit or other action by yourself or any third party taken against LabMedia, or any third party using the Content with the permission of LabMedia, based on our or any such third party’s use of the Content and/or a claimed breach of the representations and warranties you make in this Agreement (whether said claim is true or not or whether said claim is successful or not), you will be solely responsible for all costs, damages, judgments and expenses (including reasonable attorney fees) which LabMedia or any third party using the Content with LabMedia permission incurs as a result of such a claim or action.

Privacy Policy

LabMedia is committed to your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: www.bibritain.co.uk.

Information is collected when you sign up for a service that we provide. We may use customer contact information from the registration form to send the user information about our company and promotional material from our carefully selected partners. Users may opt-out of receiving future communications from us at any time by contacting us with an opt-out request. Your contact information and personal data is never released to our partners or advertisers. Demographic and profile data collected at our site is used to tailor the visitor's experience at our site. By knowing a little about our users, we are able to deliver more relevant content and advertisements, and hence a better service, to you. Any demographic and profile data is disclosed only as aggregated user statistics (eg. 50% of our users are male) in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for lawful purposes.

We also run contests on our site in which we ask contestants for their contact information (like e-mail addresses) and demographic information (like age). We may use contact data from our contests to send users information about our company and promotional material from our carefully selected partners. Your contact information may also be used to contact you when necessary, for instance, to inform you about the procedures for the collection of your prize. Your contact information and personal data may also be released to the co-sponsors of the contests to facilitate the collection of prizes. Other than for the purposes described above, your contact information and personal data is never released to our partners or advertisers. Any demographic and profile data is disclosed only as aggregated user statistics to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for lawful purposes.

Data exchanged between ourselves and our members across our network is stored and monitored for the purpose of providing quality control over our product and to ensure that our service is not being used to conduct illegal activity that may or may not be a threat to our web site, our company and/or our member base.

Cookies

As part of offering and providing customisable and personalised services, we use "cookies" to store and track information. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. "Cookies" assign a unique number to the user that has no meaning outside the assigning site. If you do not want information to be collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to deny or accept the cookie feature. You will be required to accept "cookies" if you are prompted to log-in or are using a customisable service on our site. Advertising networks that serve ads onto our site may also use their own cookies. We do not control the use of "cookies" or the resulting information by these networks.

Forums

You should note that any personally identifiable information (eg e-mail addresses) that you disclose on forums could be collected and used by third parties to contact you or send unsolicited messages. We do not have control over these activities.

Business Risk

If your use of the service, or your future use of the service, is deemed to be a risk to the providers of the service and/or to the users of the service, your use of the service may be restricted, removed and/or denied.

Where your use of the service is deemed to be unreasonable, wasteful and/or excessive, your use of the service may be restricted, removed and/or denied.

Corrections & Updates

You may change or modify information that you provided to us previously by contacting us.

Security

While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

Links to other Sites

www.bibritain.co.uk also contains links to other internet sites that have separate privacy and data collection practices, independent of us. We are not responsible and cannot be held liable for the privacy practices or the content of such internet sites.