Terms & Conditions

Terms & Conditions

The following terms and conditions apply to your use of all and any materials, content and information on the ESERO-UK website:

(i) References to "ESERO-UK" mean the UK European Space Education Resource Office, which is operated by Myscience.co Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 05081097 and whose registered office is at National Science Learning Centre, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, and such references are deemed to include Myscience.co Limited. References to "ESERO-UK website" and "this website" are to the website at www.esero.org.uk, operated by the UK European Space Education Resource Office. References to "you" are to you, as user of this website, and includes any person who accesses the website using your login and password details.

(ii) The material featured on this website is subject to copyright protection unless otherwise indicated.

(iii) You must not reproduce, distribute or communicate material on this website which is identified as being the copyright of a third party, unless and to the extent that the same is permitted under the Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Creative Commons license or Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Creative Commons license to which it is subject, and provided always that you have accepted the terms of such license. If you wish to reproduce, distribute or communicate any third party material which is not subject to such a license, you must obtain prior written consent from the copyright owner concerned.

(iv) You are permitted to download files from this website to your personal computer only, except where it is expressly stated on a specific electronic file that you are not permitted to do so. However, you must not use such downloaded files on any other website, network, repository or virtual learning environment without the prior written consent of the UK European Space Education Resource Office. Systematic downloading of files is strictly prohibited.

(v) If you wish to include material from this website on another website you may only link to this website with the prior written consent of the UK European Space Education Resource Office and must not reproduce the relevant material on such website. In all cases, you must fully credit the resource producer, this website, and the copyright status of the relevant material.

(vi) The names, images and logos identifying the UK European Space Education Resource Office are proprietary marks of ESERO-UK or its licensors. Other names, images and logos identifying third parties and their information, products and services are the proprietary marks of third parties.

(vii) Copying or use of the UK European Space Education Resource Office's logos and/or any third party logos accessed via this website is not permitted without the prior written approval of the relevant trade mark and/or copyright owner.

(viii) All copyright and other intellectual property rights in the design and content of the pages on this website belong to the UK European Space Education Resource Office unless specified otherwise and you must not copy such design or content without the prior written consent of the UK European Space Education Resource Office.

(ix) You acknowledge that any breach by you of these terms and conditions of use is likely to cause Myscience.co Limited significant and irreparable damage and, accordingly, you agree that you will indemnify and hold harmless Myscience.co Limited and its officers, employees and agents against all and any losses, damages, claims and/or expenses suffered by them as a result of a breach of these terms and conditions and, without prejudice to the foregoing, in the event of any breach by you of these terms and conditions, Myscience.co Limited shall be entitled to immediately suspend your access to the website and shall further be entitled to injunctive or other equitable relief.

Website content

The content, information or material contained in the UK European Space Education Resource Office website may be out of date or include omissions, inaccuracies or other errors. All content, information and material is provided 'as is' and on an "as and when available" basis. The UK European Space Education Resource Office does not guarantee the availability of any content, information or material on this website or that there will be uninterrupted access to content, information or material.

Any use of a resource that includes a practical activity must include a risk assessment. Such risk assessment is the responsibility of the user, and the UK European Space Education Resource Office does not accept any responsibility and shall not be liable to you or any third party for any losses, damages, claims, expenses or outcomes resulting from the use of material included or referred to on this website.

This website provides access via hypertext links to resources in other web sites for browsing only and in doing so the UK European Space Education Resource Office is not endorsing entities nor authorising any act that may be in breach of copyright or any third party rights that are protected in law or by international treaties worldwide.

The UK European Space Education Resource Office does not accept any responsibility and shall not be liable to you or any third party for any losses, damages, claims, expenses or outcomes resulting from your use of any of the material contained on any third party website. Copyright of externally hosted items belongs wholly to the publisher of those resources.

When digitising 'orphan works', being works which are subject to copyright but where the rights holder cannot be traced, we use our reasonable endeavours to trace the rights holder before uploading material to our website.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the UK European Space Education Resource Office hereby excludes all warranties, express or implied, and makes no representation in relation to, the content, information and material made available on this website or via any hypertext link to other websites. Nothing in these terms and conditions shall operate to exclude liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or for death or personal injury caused by the negligence of the UK European Space Education Resource Office.

Take down policy

To accommodate the possibility that a previously unknown copyright holder may come forward and request the removal of content from this website, the UK European Space Education Resource Office uses the following take down policy:

Where the copyright holder is not known, the UK European Space Education Resource Office makes reasonable efforts to obtain copyright holders' consent to publish the material represented on this website.

The UK European Space Education Resource Office aims to resolve any issues promptly and amicably with the complainant and to the satisfaction of both parties, with the following possible outcomes:

* The material remains on this website unchanged.
* The material is replaced on this website with changes.
* The material is permanently removed from this website.

However, if the UK European Space Education Resource Office and the complainant are unable to settle a solution, the material will remain unavailable through this website until a time when a resolution has been reached.

If you have found material which you consider illegally held or published on this website, please contact us stating your contact details and full details of the material.

How we protect your information

The UK European Space Education Resource Office takes the care of your personal data very seriously. The details that you provide when subscribing to the UK European Space Education Resource Office website will be used to send you information about the UK European Space Education Resource Office, ESERO-UK's activities, and the activities of other Myscience.co Limited programmes of a similar nature which may be of interest to you. Myscience.co Limited may also use your information for research and statistical purposes. The information produced for these purposes will not include any details that could be used to identify you. Personal details collected from you will not be used for any other purpose.

If you would like to opt out of registration at any time, you can do so by e-mailing enquiries@nationalstemcentre.org.uk, stating your email address and quoting 'ESERO-UK opt out' in the subject line.

Acceptable use

You agree not to create any content or otherwise transmit any information or material that: is false or misleading; is harassing or invades another's privacy, harms minors in any way; promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual; is obscene; infringes another's rights, including but not limited to intellectual property rights; or constitutes spam.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password you use for the UK European Space Education Resource Office website, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password.

Revisions to terms and conditions

From time to time, if the UK European Space Education Resource Office changes the way in which it uses your information or changes these terms and conditions of use of the website, the UK European Space Education Resource Office will amend these terms and conditions of use and will publish notice of any such changes on this website.

General

The validity or enforceability of the remaining terms of these terms and conditions of use shall not be affected by the holding of any provision of it to be invalid or enforceable.

These terms and conditions of use shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and the Courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction.

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