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Terms and conditions

Terms of use for Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful group websites

Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use any of the Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful registered sites. By using any of our sites, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our sites.

Reliance On Information Posted & Disclaimer

The materials contained on our sites are provided for general information purposes only and do not claim to be or constitute legal or other professional advice and shall not be relied upon as such.

We do not accept any responsibility for any loss which may arise from accessing or reliance on the information on these sites and to the fullest extent permitted by UK and/or Northern Irish law, we exclude all liability for loss or damages direct or indirect arising from use of this sites.

Information about us

The web sites: www.keepnorthenrirelandbeautiful.org; www.liveherelovehere.org; www.eco-schoolsni.org and other websites/social media accounts administered by us are operated by Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful ("We"). We are a Charity registered in England and Wales under registration number XR36767 and Company limited by guarantee without a share capital, registered in Northern Ireland under registration number NI 38848. Our registered office is Bridge House, Paulett Ave, Belfast, BT5 4HD. Our VAT number is 860 2036 57. Our NI Charity number is NIC 102973.

We are regulated by HMRC and authorised and regulated by the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland.

Accessing our sites

It is not necessary to register with us to use our websites, however certain areas or information will only be accessible if you have registered. Access to our sites is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our sites without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our sites are unavailable at any time or for any period.

Intellectual property rights

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our sites, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print, and may download, of any page(s) from our sites for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our sites.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of 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.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our sites must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the materials on our sites for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

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

Our sites change regularly

We aim to update our sites regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our sites, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our sites may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

Our liability

The material displayed on our sites is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:

Nothing in these terms of use shall exclude or limit liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence which cannot be excluded or under the law of the United Kingdom.

Information about you and your visits to our sites

Any personal information is for the use of Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful and will not be disclosed to any other parties/organisations. We may contact you to discuss your postings or to ask you to engage with Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful functions and events.

Viruses, hacking and other offences

You must not misuse our sites 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 sites, the server on which our sites is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our sites. You must not attack our sites 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 sites 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 sites or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any websites linked to it.

Links from our sites

Where our sites contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. When accessing a sites via our websites we advise you check their terms of use and privacy policies to ensure compliance and determine how they may use your information.

RSS Feeds

Where RSS feeds are available on our websites, the content is provided by the third party indicated and Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful make no claim to intellectual property. The system used to display such feeds is automated and is not supervised by Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful staff. We have chosen the search terms carefully to constrain the results displayed, but are not liable for any confusion or offence caused by a feed title or content which appears as part of this service.

Jurisdiction and applicable law

The court will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our sites.

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, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Variations

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 made, 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 sites.

Your concerns

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our sites, please contact . Thank you for visiting our sites.

Privacy policy

Internet Privacy and Cookies Policy

Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful are committed to safeguarding and preserving the privacy of our visitors. This Policy explains what happens to any personal data that you provide to us, or that we collect from you whilst you visit our site and how we use cookies on this website. We do update this Policy from time to time so please do review this Policy regularly.

What information do we collect?

When you complete a form on our website, we may ask you for your name, email address, postal address and your telephone number(s). This is so we can contact you easily if required and provide you with the service you have requested. You have the right to rectify or erase any information that we hold on you. You also have the right to access the information we hold and also obtain them in a portable manner.

How do we use your information?

Any personal data relating to you will be used and recorded by us in accordance with current data protection legislation and this privacy statement. You have the right to be informed about how we keep information and we do so by providing this privacy notice. We use the information collected from you to help in any issues you may have relating to this website. We may use your personal information to communicate with you, for record keeping purposes, and in aggregate (and therefore anonymously) for market research purposes, to track activity on our site, to publish trends and/or to improve usefulness and content. You have the right to object to the latter.

We may use other companies to provide services on our behalf, including packaging, mailing and delivering, answering customers' questions about products or services, sending postal mail and emails and analysing data. We will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose. You have the right to restrict this form of data processing.

We do not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others (unless you have consented to us making your name and address available to carefully vetted companies). We do not keep information that are used for automated decision-making.

We would also like to send you offers for goods or services from our company or others from time to time which we think you may find of interest. If you do not wish to receive this information, please let us know by emailing .

We never give your details to third parties to use your data to enable them to provide you with information regarding unrelated goods or services, except where required by law or in order to reduce the risk of fraud.

Storing Your Personal Data

In operating our website it may become necessary to transfer data that we collect from you to locations outside of the European Union for processing and storing. By providing your personal data to us, you agree to this transfer, storing and processing. We do our utmost to ensure that all reasonable steps are taken to make sure that your data is stored securely.

Unfortunately the sending of information via the internet is not totally secure and on occasion such information can be intercepted. We cannot guarantee the security of data that you choose to send us electronically, sending such information is entirely at your own risk.

Access to Information

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 you have the right to access any information that we hold relating to you. Accessing information is free of charge and we endeavour to comply with your request within one month. Unreasonable, repetitive and excessive access requests may incur appropriate charges.

Use of cookies

Cookies are small text files that a website transfers to a site visitor's hard disk or browser for added functionality, or for tracking website usage.

We do not use cookies to gather personal information such as a person's name or email address. In order to measure the effectiveness of our online presence, Keep Britain Tidy may use cookies to identify repeat visitors to our site and to determine the path visitors take on our site. Any information gathered by the use of cookies is compiled on an aggregate, anonymous basis.

Use of cookies is an industry standard and many websites use them. If you do not wish to receive cookies, or want to be notified of when they are placed, you can set your web browser to do so, if your browser so permits.

Material provided by you

If you send ideas, remarks, questions, data, graphics or the like to the website, these will be deemed to be non-confidential and we will be entitled to use or disclose your submissions in any manner whatsoever, without liability or notice to you. Your submissions or any other information you send to the website should not be, or contain, material which is offensive, pornographic, defamatory, blasphemous, unlawful or likely to infringe any applicable law, whether civil, criminal or religious. You agree that all material submitted to us is original to you, and not copied in whole or in part from any third party. Please do not send anything which is required to be kept confidential.

Links to Third Party sites

This privacy statement applies to the Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful website only. If you exit this site via a link to an external site, please check the specific privacy policy for that particular website.

Contacting Us

Please do not hesitate to contact us regarding any matter relating to this Privacy and Cookies Policy via email at: .

Accessibility

We have endeavoured to make this site usable and accessible. We would like all visitors to be able find the information they are looking for quickly and easily.

If you find a problem in using this site, please contact us.

Increasing the size of the text

If you prefer the font size on our web pages to be larger or smaller, you can control this using your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to change the size of the font displayed on the screen either permanently or temporarily. How you increase the font depends upon what browser you are using. Examples of how to increase or decrease fonts in several popular browsers follows:

You change font size by:

For a shortcut key for this action, select CTRL and + to increase the text size or CTRL and - to decrease it.

Internet Explorer Version 5.5 and above provides 5 font sizes (largest, larger, medium, smaller, and smallest). Medium is the default size. You change font size by:

Or:

The font size you select will remain in effect until you select a different size.

Opera Version 6.0 and above

You increase or decrease the displayed font size by:

If you have a wheel on your mouse you can also increase and decrease the size of the text by:

Netscape Navigator Version 4.7x and above

Allows users to increase or decrease font size with shortcut keys. To increase the displayed font size:

If you want to increase the size further simply press the ']' key while still holding down the 'Ctrl' key. To decrease the displayed font size:

If you want to decrease the size further simply press the '[' key while still holding down the 'Ctrl' key. Your selected font size will remain in effect until you close Netscape.

Visit your browser's help feature for additional information on this and other browser related topics.

Accessibility and usability standards

Making a site accessible to everyone who wants to use it is important, and we have tried to ensure that our site is completely accessible to all. This site uses CSS3 and HTML5 and we aim to comply with AA accessibility guidelines.