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Terms and Conditions

This Agreement was last modified on March 21st 2017.
Please read these Terms and Conditions (“Agreement”, “Terms and Conditions”) carefully before using www.talkliverpool.nhs.uk (“the Site”) operated by Mersey Care (“us”, “we”, or “our”). This Agreement sets forth the legally binding terms and conditions for your use of the Site at www.talkliverpool.nhs.uk.

By accessing or using the Site in any manner, including, but not limited to, visiting or browsing the Site or contributing content or other materials to the Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. This takes effect from the date on which you first access or use this website. If you do not agree to these terms, please refrain from using our site.

Accessibility and browsers

Mersey Care aims to make our site(s) and the material provided on them accessible to as many people as possible. We endeavour to ensure that our sites have been tested on all commonly used browsers and on a number of screen readers, but please note that you may see inconsistencies in the presentation of pages if you are using an older or deprecated version of a browser.

Information about you and your visits to our sites

Mersey Care processes information about you in accordance with our privacy and cookies policy. By using our sites, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

For further information see our Privacy & Cookies Policy.

Linking to the Talk Liverpool website

We do not object to you linking directly to pages on this site. We reserve the right to move or change our website URLs at any time. Rather than deep linking we recommend linking to section homepages, which are less likely to move or change.

However, we don’t give permission to suggest that your website is associated or endorsed by, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust or our Talk Liverpool team.

Linking from the Talk Liverpool website

We are not responsible for the content or reliability of the websites we link to and do not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them. We aim to replace broken links to other sites but cannot guarantee that these links will always work as we have no control over the availability of other sites.

Due to the very nature of the internet we cannot guarantee our site or other sites we link to will always be available to you.

Prohibited uses

You may use our sites only for lawful purposes. You may not use our sites:
in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;

  • in any way that is unlawful, fraudulent or harmful to other users, or has any unlawful, fraudulent or harmful purpose or effect;
  • to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our Social media and comment moderation policy;
  • to transmit, or produce the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam); and
  • to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
    You also agree not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt any part of our sites; any equipment or network on which our sites are stored; any software used in the provision of our sites; or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Virus protection

We make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the internet.

We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from this website.

You should ensure that you have appropriate protection against viruses and other security arrangements in place when using the internet.

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 the sites are 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 may 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.

Intellectual property

The names, images and logos identifying Talk Liverpool and Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust are proprietary marks. If you wish to copy or use the Talk Liverpool and Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust logos, you must get prior approval from our communications team by emailing them at: communications@merseycare.nhs.uk

Copyright

You may use and re-use the information featured on this website (not including logos or photographs) unless identified as another party’s copyright free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence. We encourage users to establish hypertext links to this website.
• Open Government Licence (OGL) for public sector information
Any email enquiries regarding the use and re-use of this information resource should be sent to: communications@merseycare.nhs.uk

Logos, images and videos

If you wish to copy logos, images or videos from our website you must contact us at communications@merseycare.nhs.uk for further guidance and authorisation.

Case studies

For some of these, content may not be OGL or Crown Copyright. You should contact the contributor of the case study/case history for permission to re-use it or contact our communications department for further assistance and authorisation: communications@merseycare.nhs.uk

Third party copyright

The permission to reproduce protected material does not extend to the material on this site which is identified as being the copyright of a third party or for any photographic images. Authorisation to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.

Disclaimer

The Talk Liverpool website and material relating to Government information, products and services (or to third party information, products and services), is provided ‘as is’, without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

If the need arises, we reserve the right to amend, delete, suspend or withdraw the sites that we provide without notice. Mersey Care will not be liable if for any reason our site or other sites are unavailable for any time or any period.

We do not warrant that the functions contained in the material contained in this site will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or represent the full functionality, accuracy, and reliability of the materials. In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damages whatsoever arising from use or loss of use of, data or profits arising out of or in connection with the use of the Talk Liverpool website. Nothing in these terms and conditions will operate to limit or exclude liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute arising under these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Although we monitor and review discussions, chat, postings, transmissions, bulletin boards and the like on http://www.talkliverpool.nhs.uk and sub domains thereof, we are under no obligation to do so and assume no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such locations nor for any error, omission, infringement, defamation, obscenity, or inaccuracy contained in any information within such locations on http://www.talkliverpool.nhs.uk.

We may revise these terms and conditions without notice. Please check regularly. Continued use of the Talk Liverpool website after a change has been made is your acceptance of the change.

Governing law

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 constructed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.

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