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AUP - Acceptable Use Policy
1. General
1.1 References in this Acceptable Use Policy to the www.lambchops.co.uk website include the all the functions contained therin including data uploaded to the site and any ordering functionality.
1.2 QBASE Software Development Ltd hosts the www.lambchops.co.uk website on behalf of Morrison & King and may modify this Acceptable Use Policy at any time without notice.
1.3 QBASE Software Development Ltd reserves the right to end your permission to access or post contributions to the www.lambchops.co.uk website at any time if you do not comply with rules contained in this Acceptable Use Policy.
2. Monitoring
2.1 Both QBASE Software Development Ltd and Morrison & King reserve the right to monitor and analyse the www.lambchops.co.uk website for evidence of misuse and attempted or actual security breaches.
2.2 Morrison & King retains an absolute discretion whether to post any particular contribution to the www.lambchops.co.uk website and gives no undertaking that all contributions will be posted or retained on the www.lambchops.co.uk website.
2.3 Both QBASE Software Development Ltd and Morrison & King reserve the right to remove any contribution posted to the www.lambchops.co.uk website, particularly if the contribution does not comply with this Acceptable Use Policy.
3. Contributions
3.1 When posting your contribution to the www.lambchops.co.uk website, you must:
take reasonable steps to ensure that your contribution is relevant and appropriate to the objectives of the www.lambchops.co.uk website;
not impersonate any other person or falsely claim to represent any other person, whether living or dead, real or fictitious except where the impersonation or role playing is done for privacy purposes and is apparent to other website users. Making false, misleading or deceptive representations that you are another person or character can, in certain circumstances, amount to a criminal offence and give rise to civil liability;
not abuse, stalk, harass, threaten or otherwise knowingly violate the legal rights of others;
not post a contribution that is misleading, deceptive, false, defamatory or libelous;
not use insulting, threatening or provocative language or language that is hateful towards a certain group of people;
not incite hatred on the basis of race, religion, gender, nationality, sexuality or other personal characteristic;
not transmit any message, data, image or program which is indecent, obscene or pornographic;
not use the www.lambchops.co.uk website to conduct any illegal activity or solicit the performance of any illegal activity;
not post to the www.lambchops.co.uk website any text, image, sound, video, program, hyperlink or other material that infringes the intellectual property rights of others;
not infringe the moral rights of the creator of any material you post to the www.lambchops.co.uk website, by ensuring that: where it is reasonable to do so, you identify and correctly attribute the material to the person who created it;
and the material is not falsely attributed to a person other than the person who created it;
and the material is not distorted, mutilated, materially altered or otherwise dealt with such that the creator’s honour or reputation would be prejudiced;
without first obtaining the author’s written consent;
not spam your contribution to the www.lambchops.co.uk website by sending multiple copies or versions of it;
not post contributions to the www.lambchops.co.uk website that contain or link to any commercial advertising material in such a way as to provide implicit endorsement or a commercial advantage;
respect the personal privacy of other persons and not include personal information about any other person (such as name, private address, email address or phone numbers) as part of any material or data you post to the www.lambchops.co.uk website if doing so would compromise the personal privacy of any other person;
in addition and further to the requirements in clause 4.1(m), not post any personal information or images (such as photographs) of students unless appropriate parental permission to do so has first been obtained, in accordance with the Communications and Marketing Policy, CM-07;
not to post to the www.lambchops.co.uk website a link to another website if you are aware that the website:
contains material which infringes the intellectual property rights of others; hosts defamatory statements or material; hosts prohibited content such as material which contains detailed instructions on how to commit a crime or pornographic material; or
forbids linking to that website.
4. Security
4.1 In accessing and posting contributions to the www.lambchops.co.uk website, you must:
not attempt to modify, adapt, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the www.lambchops.co.uk website;
not knowingly tamper with other persons’ access to the www.lambchops.co.uk website or commit unauthorised intrusion into the www.lambchops.co.uk website, including computers, files, accounts, networks and equipment;
not attempt to bypass the network firewall;
not knowingly use any part of the www.lambchops.co.uk website for which you are not authorised or devise ways to circumvent security in order to access part of the www.lambchops.co.uk website for which you are not authorised. This includes but is not limited to scanning networks with the intent to breach and/or evaluate security, whether or not the intrusion results in access;
not attempt to misuse the www.lambchops.co.uk website. This includes but is not limited to password cracking; social engineering (defrauding others into releasing their passwords); denial-of-service attacks; harmful and malicious destruction of data; injection of computer viruses; and intentional invasion of privacy.
5. Consequences of non-compliance
5.1 Failure to comply with the rules set out under this Acceptable Use Policy may result in restriction or termination of your permission to access or post contributions to the www.lambchops.co.uk website and deletion of any material you have posted to the www.lambchops.co.uk website.
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