Terms and conditions - Ghana UK

THIS INFORMATION IS PROVIDED WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. GHUK/GHANAUK GIVES NO WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL GHUK/GHANAUK OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF GHUK/GHANAUK OR ITS SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

The user may view pages within the GHUK/GhanaUK website, which is visible at GHUK.NET/GhanaUK.co.uk (hereafter simply referred to as GHUK/GhanaUK) and print out a copy of the contents for personal, non-commercial purposes. The user may not otherwise copy, reproduce, redistribute, download, adapt or alter any material contained on the GHUK/GhanaUK website without the express written permission of GHUK/GhanaUK. The terms and conditions of use may be changed at any time and your continued access to the website means that you agree to be bound by the most current version of the terms and conditions of use.

All copy offered for publication in GHUK/GhanaUK by the user must be legal, decent, honest and truthful. UK ads must comply with the British Code of Advertising Practice and all other codes under the general supervision of the Advertising Standards Authority. The advert is accepted for publication or not at GHUK/GhanaUK’ absolute discretion, and when deemed necessary the advert copy may be edited and classified at GHUK/GhanaUK’ discretion in order to comply with such requirements.

GHUK/GhanaUK specifically disclaim any and all liability to advertisers, readers and users of any kind for any loss or damage of any nature whatsoever and however arising, whether due to inaccuracy, error, omission or any other cause, and whether on the part of GHUK/GhanaUK, or their servants or agents, or any other person. GHUK/GhanaUK assumes no responsibility for and disclaims all liability for any errors or omissions on the website or in any other documents or sites which may be referred to or linked to by this website.

Third party content and links available on this Site

All product names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. Some documents may contain other proprietary notices and copyright information relating to that document or organisation. The user agrees that GHUK/GhanaUK has not conferred by implication, or otherwise, any licence or right under any patent, trademark or copyright (except as expressly provided) of GHUK/GhanaUK or of any third party.

We are not liable or responsible for the third party content on this Site. Third party content includes, for example, comments posted by users and the content of advertisements.

Where this Site contains links to other sites and resources, which are provided by third parties, these links and resources are provided for your information only and you access them at your own risk. We are not liable or responsible for the content of third party sites or resources.
If you see something which you reasonably believe breaches these Terms or our House Rules, please use the Report Abuse facility. If there is no facility available, please contact us on info@ghuk.net.

Your personal information

We will use your personal information in accordance with our Privacy and Cookies Policy, which forms part of these Terms. Please read our Privacy and Cookies Policy now.

Our liability

The information contained on this Site is for information purposes only and does not constitute advice. You should check any information on the Site and use your own judgment before doing or not doing anything on the basis of what you see. We give no warranties of any kind in relation to the Site or its contents.

Except for liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, we are not liable for:
(a) any action you may take as a result of relying on any information provided on this Site or for any loss or damage suffered by you as a result of you taking this action;
(b) any dealings you have with third parties (e.g. other users, advertisers or promoters) that take place using or facilitated by the Site;
(c) any liability for losses which are not a foreseeable or likely consequence of (i) your use of the Site, or (ii) a breach of these Terms.

We are not responsible if you cannot access the Site properly or at all because of any event outside our control, for example (without limitation) the performance of your or our ISP, your browser or the Internet.

The Site relies in part on software to work. Software has bugs. Whilst we will monitor the Site and try to fix bugs, we cannot guarantee that the Site or any individual feature of the Site will be error free, available all the time and/or free from viruses.

However, nothing in these Terms will affect any liability we may have for death or personal injury arising from our negligence or any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited by law

Registration

You must be 16 years old or older to register and submit material (e.g. comments) to the Site.

Only one registration per person is allowed. You must keep your registration information up to date.

You must choose an email address which gives you frequent access to emails sent to that address, as we need to be able to contact you. You must keep your password confidential.

You must not:
(i) impersonate or try to impersonate another person;
(ii) disclose your password to anyone else;
(iii) allow anyone else use your account;
(iv) use anyone else’s account.

You are responsible for everything done using your account. If you think that someone else may have access to, or be using, your password or account, you must tell us as soon as possible by emailing: info@ghuk.net.

We will use your personal information in accordance with our Privacy and Cookies Policy, which forms part of these Terms. Please read the Registered Users section of our Privacy and Cookies Policy now.

Your content – what we are allowed to do

We may publish, check, edit or remove all or part of the comments or other material, including your name, town and country, which you submit to us (‘Your Content’), at our sole discretion. We are not obliged to do any of these things and we may not.

You retain any copyright you may have in Your Content. By submitting material to us, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive worldwide licence to use, copy, edit, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, make available, communicate and distribute Your Content (in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. By submitting Your Content, you warrant that you have the right to grant this licence.

To the extent permitted by law, you waive your moral rights (e.g. the right to be identified as author or to object to derogatory treatment) in Your Content.
This clause means, for example (without limitation), that we can:
• Continue to publish all or part of Your Content, including your name, town and country, even if you change your mind and want us to remove it and/or you are no longer registered with the Site;
• Remove Your Content, even if you have not breached these Terms or our House Rules;
• Use all or part of Your Content in promoting our products and services (e.g. we may use a screenshot including your comments in our advertising);
• Edit your Content, which may result in a part of it being modified and displayed, including without your name.
Please note that we do not check, monitor, moderate or even see all the comments and other material submitted to us. While some comments are pre-moderated (i.e. checked in advance by us before publication), some are not (see our FAQ for more details).

You must not submit any material to our Site that:
(a) is:
(i) defamatory, malicious, threatening, false, misleading, offensive, abusive, discriminatory, harassing, blasphemous or racist,
(ii) indecent, obscene or of a sexual nature,
(iii) a breach of confidentiality or someone’s privacy;

(b) could prejudice any active legal proceedings of which you are aware;

(d) infringes any intellectual property rights, such as copyright and trade marks. This means generally that you must own the rights in everything you submit or must obtain permission from the rights owner to submit the material;

(e) is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software, harmful data or conduct);

(f) advertises any product or services;

(g) impersonates anyone else or otherwise misrepresents your identity, affiliation or status;
(h) is in breach of these Terms, our Privacy & Cookies Policy, and/or House Rules;
(i) is, encourages or teaches conduct that is a criminal offence, gives rise to civil liability, or is otherwise unlawful;

11.2 You must not include links on the Site to any websites or webpages.

11.3 You must not try to get round any protections we put in place for the security and operation of the Site.

GHUK/GhanaUK is exclusively an online publication wholly owned and operated by GHUK/GhanaUK. The user agrees to indemnify and hold GHUK/GhanaUK, its parent or subsidiary companies and their affiliates, their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from any and all liabilities, claims and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising from breach of this Agreement, any other policy, the users’ use or access of GHUK/GhanaUK or any Internet site linked to or from GHUK/GhanaUK, or in connection with the transmission of any Content on GHUK/GhanaUK. The user agrees that questions and complaints received are the exclusive responsibility of the user and the user shall indemnify GHUK/GhanaUK.

The information (text and images) contained on this website is for informational purposes and is published in good faith. Whilst every care has been taken in its preparation, GHUK/GhanaUK does not make any warranties nor representations as to its accuracy or reliability. We neither accept nor assume any reliability in relation to the contents of these pages, and they should not be relied upon as accurate. In no event do we accept liability of any description including liability for negligence for any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits arising out of or in connection with the viewing, use or performance of this website or its contents. GHUK/GhanaUK do not under any circumstances accept responsibility for the accuracy or otherwise of any advertisement or message published on the GHUK/GhanaUK website.

The pages contained in this website may contain technical inaccuracies and typographical errors. The information in these pages may be updated from time to time and may, at times, be out of date. We accept neither responsibility for keeping the information in these pages up to date nor liability for any failure to do so.

GHUK/GhanaUK has partnerships with other third party websites that we share information with for the purpose of giving users a better chance to sell their items. We process such information in accordance with this Policy. Any information that is passed from GHUK/GhanaUK to its partners is done so in the strictest confidence. By submitting an advert online the user is agreeing that their personal information may be shared with GHUK/GhanaUK Classifieds’ partners. The user also agrees to receive marketing communications from GHUK/GhanaUK Classifieds unless they tell us they wish not to receive these communications.

By submitting an advert online, the user is requesting that their advert appears on the GHUK/GhanaUK website as well as partner websites as chosen by GHUK/GhanaUK. The advert will include personal details such as name and telephone number. The user consents to the publication of their data in this way. The user can cancel the advert or edit their account details for any reason at any time by logging into their account.

By submitting an advert either online or directly from a mobile phone, the user is agreeing to receive SMS alert messages notifying them of responses to their advert, as well as promotions and events related to their advertisement. The user will not be charged for receiving these messages. To stop receiving SMS alerts, the user will text STOP to 66121. All STOP messages are charged at the user’s normal network rate.

Once an advert has been submitted GHUK/GhanaUK will endeavour to put the advert live as soon as possible, but we reserve the right to refuse or delete adverts we believe are inappropriate. GHUK/GhanaUK is not able to verify the truthfulness of any statements made by the user in the advert copy. Accordingly, the user shall be responsible for any losses, expenses or other costs incurred by GHUK/GhanaUK that are caused by an untrue statement deliberately made or provided by the user.

The user will have the option to upgrade the advert that they have submitted to GHUK/GhanaUK from the standard free advert to another one that GHUK/GhanaUK promotes. These may be different in design, colour or position on the website and may run for a different duration, unless the user has withdrawn the advert from sale or marked it as sold. In the event that an advert upgrade is purchased and then withdrawn before the purchased duration has finished then the user agrees that, even if they subsequently decide to put the advert live again, refunds for any unused time may be occasionally offered at the discretion of the management.

Trade adverts may also be posted for free, but users may be required to select the Trade option within their account.

GHUK/GhanaUK shall not be liable for any damages, including without limitation, indirect or consequential damages, howsoever arising out of use of this website or in respect of any of the users’ actions or omissions taken in reliance on any of the advice or information contained on this website.

This website contains hypertext links to websites operated by parties other than GHUK/GhanaUK or its associated companies. GHUK/GhanaUK does not control such websites and is not responsible for their content. GHUK/GhanaUK’ inclusion of hypertext links to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material contained on these websites or of their owners. Please be aware that GHUK/GhanaUK does not recommend the payment of deposits for pets or goods in advance. If you are looking to buy a pet please do not make any advance payment of a deposit until you have visited the buyer in their own home to view the pet and confirm the welfare status. GHUK/GhanaUK accepts no responsibility for any monies paid between buyer & seller under any circumstances including payment of advance deposits.

By accessing this website the user is deemed to have accepted all of the terms and conditions that apply to its use. GHUK/GhanaUK reserves the right to alter these terms and conditions at any time and it is the users’ obligation to check to find out if changes have been made. If the user does not agree to obey these terms and conditions then the user must stop using this site immediately. If any of these terms and conditions shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable, it shall not affect the enforceability of any of the remaining provisions.

All rights, including copyright, in the content of these webpages and any photographs that may appear on the website and all database rights in GHUK/GhanaUK’ database, are owned or controlled for these purposes by GHUK/GhanaUK or the party credited as the poster of the information.

The copyright in all adverts shall be owned by GHUK/GhanaUK and by submitting an advert the user hereby assigns all such copyright to GHUK/GhanaUK.

All GHUK/GhanaUK trade marks, names, and logos are the proprietary marks of GHUK/GhanaUK or its associated companies. All website designs, graphic designs, style templates, icons, HTML codes and all other elements relating to the design, function or operation of GHUK/GhanaUK are the property of GHUK/GhanaUK and may not be used in any manner without the express written permission of GHUK/GhanaUK. Marks identifying third parties are owned or licensed by those third parties or their associated companies. Nothing in these terms and conditions in any way confers on the user any licence or right under any trade marks, names or logos of GHUK/GhanaUK or any third party. All goodwill arising in connection with the name GHUK/GhanaUK and the logos for GHUK/GhanaUK shall belong to GHUK/GhanaUK.

It is technically impossible to provide a website free of faults and GHUK/GhanaUK do not claim to do so. No guarantee is made that the user’s advert will be provided continuously free of faults. In addition, maintenance on the website will be carried out from time to time, but in doing so we shall attempt to keep the disruption to a minimum.

GHUK/GhanaUK may at any time vary the technical specifications of its website (or any part of it) for any reason.

GHUK/GhanaUK may at any time remove any or all of the materials from users’ adverts which in GHUK/GhanaUK’ opinion are unlawful or have been posted in breach of this agreement.

The user shall report to GHUK/GhanaUK any suspected errors with the advertisement as soon as they come to the user’s attention.

GHUK/GhanaUK reserves the right to refuse to publish any advertisement without ascertaining any reason, and to classify, edit and delete at its sole discretion. The placing of any advert is an acceptance of these conditions.

Maintenance of the Site

Making your use of the Site enjoyable means we need to fix bugs, install updates and do general diagnosis and maintenance of the Site. We will try to do scheduled maintenance during times when we anticipate that online use is lower than normal.

We also need to be able to do emergency maintenance and/or suspend access to the servers where, in our reasonable discretion, we see the need to do that. We will try to have the Site available again as soon as we think it is safe to do so

GHUK/GhanaUK Refund Policy

Classified ads are currently free however in the future if you believe you require a refund for any reason you will need to email us at info@GHUK.net either from the email address you used when you registered your GHUK/GhanaUK account or, if you email from a different address, you will need to include your payment receipt. Refunds are granted at GHUK/GhanaUK discretion and may be applied for at any time. Refunds will be applied to the same card your payment if possible and processed on our next payment run.

In addition to GHUK/GhanaUK Classifieds’ general terms and conditions, the following additional terms and conditions apply if you use the GHUK/GhanaUK Classifieds’ SMS payment service. Please note:

By placing an advert with GHUK/GhanaUK, you are agreeing that your advert may be rejected if we believe it breaches any of our terms of use or posting rules. If this is the case, you may be entitled to a refund of the fee paid, although we would reserve the right not to issue a refund for fees paid to GHUK/GhanaUK in any of the following cases:

• If you breach, in our opinion, GHUK/GhanaUK terms of use, including and without limitation to our posting rules;

• If your advert was live on the site for any length of time before rejection and benefited from exposure to our members;

• If your advert was placed in the massage category;

• If you have removed your own advert;

• If you have posted a duplicate advert as defined in our rules regarding duplicate adverts;

• If we believe you have posted an advert in a significantly wrong category for the purpose of misdirecting GHUK/GhanaUK;

• Please note, this list is not exhaustive and the GHUK team will look at individual refunds on a case by case basis if the above do not apply.

– You are liable for all texts that you send to GHUK/GhanaUK as part of the phone verification or ad upgrade service (hereafter known as “The Service”).

In particular, you will not:
i. Attempt to circumvent user authentication or security of any telecommunication network or account.
ii. Attempt to interfere with or deny access to any service or host.
iii. Send any unsolicited messages.
iv. Use The Service for any illegal purpose, or for the transmission or offering of any information or services which are libellous, unlawful, abusive, threatening, harmful, threatening, defamatory, or in anyway infringe the laws governing, but not exhaustively covering, copyright, intellectual property rights, trademarks, pornography, or any other material that is slanderous or may cause offence in any way.

By calling or texting the service you will be deemed to have read and understood the above terms and conditions and be bound by them.

These terms and conditions shall be governed by and in accordance with English law and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.