Welcome to soca-cartel.com
Below are the full terms and conditions relating to creating a profile on the site. To summarise the main points:
WE agree to protect your privacy. We will not share your private information with anyone else without your prior consent. You will not receive any unsolicited emails from us and/or third parties unless you have agreed to this.
YOU agree to treat the website, other users, and representatives of soca-cartel.com with respect. You allow us to use your IP address details anonymously for internal market research purposes. You promise not to reproduce any part of soca-cartel.com without prior written approval.
We reserve the right to terminate your account if you violate the full Terms and Conditions as detailed below. We provide no warranty and accept no liability for the material provided on, or the use of, the site.
Full details are outlined below:
These are the terms and conditions relating to the usage of our site, and are designed to clearly state our liabilities to you, the user, and also your own responsibilities as a user of the site.
By using the site, you are deemed to have accepted these conditions.
Any changes we make to the terms & conditions will be reflected on this page in section 11 below. Please ensure that you review these terms and conditions regularly as you will be deemed to have accepted any variations if you continue to use the site after they have been posted.
1. Registration
When you register, you are registering as a personal user of soca-cartel.com. We allow you to register on the basis that:
(i) you do not maliciously create additional registration accounts for the purpose of abusing the functionality of the site, or other users; nor do you seek to pass yourself off as another user
(ii) you comply with these terms and conditions.
If, for any reason, we believe that you have not complied with these requirements, we may, at our discretion, cancel your account immediately and without giving you any advance notice.
2. Termination of account
We reserve the right to cancel registration to the site at any time, for any reason, at our discretion. Usually, this will only happen if you violate these terms & conditions. If you believe your account has been terminated in error, you can contact us at info@soca-cartel.com.
3. Your right to unsubscribe
Upon registering with the site, you will be given the chance to subscribe to the soca-cartel newsletters. In order to unsubscribe, you will have to use the online “unsubscribe” relate to your account. We will make every effort to remove you from our database in a timely manner.
4. Use of material appearing on soca-cartel.com
For the purposes of this agreement, "material" means material including, without limitation, text, graphics, video and sound material, published on the soca-cartel.com website, whether copyright of soca-cartel.com or a third party. You must not reproduce any of soca-cartel.com or the material or transmit it to or store it in any other website or disseminate any part of the material in any other form without prior agreement. You may print off one copy of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted.
Our status (or that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on this site should always be acknowledged.
5. Liability
Soca-cartel.com is provided "as is" and without any warranties as to performance or merchantability, or any other warranties, whether expressed or implied. We do not accept any responsibility for any statement printed in the material.
The User accepts full responsibility and assumes the entire risk of using soca-cartel.com. Under no circumstances shall soca-cartel.com be obliged to provide support or assistance to the User with respect to the website; however we will under normal circumstances do our best to assist our users as much as we can.
Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained herein. However, under no circumstances shall soca-cartel.com be liable for any incidental, special or consequential damages or loss, including, without limitation, lost profits or the malfunction of equipment, loss of data or interruption of business, whether such damages are based upon a breach of contract, negligence, strict tort, or any other legal theory, even if soca-cartel.com is made aware of the possibility of such damages.
Under no circumstances shall soca-cartel.com be liable for any conduct of any person or persons that is associated with the usage of the Websites.
6. Linking
6.1. Linking to us
You may link to the soca-cartel.com home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal, which does not damage our reputation, or take advantage of it. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. soca-cartel.com must not be framed on any other site, nor should you establish a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
6.2. Links from soca-cartel.com
Soca-cartel.com carries links to external websites. These sites are not under our control and we accept no liability or responsibility for their content.
7. Privacy Policy.
Soca-cartel.com is committed to protecting your privacy. We will not share your private information with anyone else without your prior consent. You will not receive any unsolicited emails from us and/or third parties unless you have agreed to this.
What we do with your details is as follows:
• We use technology to track the patterns of user activity within our site.
• We log your IP address to tell us which parts of our web-site you visit and how long you spend there.
• We track what time and date a visit is made and from which type of computer and operating system. This does not install or load any file or software on your computer and will always be anonymous and not linked to any other personal data held within the system.
• We use this information to learn more about our visitors as a group, not about you as an individual. The information helps us to identify overall usage patterns and trends on the site.
• We use cookies in order to authenticate your user details when you are using the site. We do not use cookies for any other purpose.
The details you provide are only used in full compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998. The personal information that we hold will be held securely in accordance with our internal security policy and the law. We will not share, sell, lease or trade any of your details with any third party organisations.
We retain the right to release your information to the proper authorities when required to do so by law, to satisfy a legal order or to comply with a legal process.
Some useful links for further reading: The Data Protection Act, Information Commissioner, and All about cookies
8. Viruses
Both technical and operational precautions have been taken to protect the users of the soca-cartel.com web-site, against destructive items or viruses. It is up to you however, to take precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your use is free of such items as viruses, worms, trojan horses and other items of a destructive nature.
9. Contributions to soca-cartel.com
Users of soca-cartel.com may submit material for publication in various areas of the site, including posting a comment, posting on the discussion boards and emailing into info@soca-cartel.com. We accept no liability in respect of any material submitted by users and published by us and we are not responsible for its content and accuracy.
If you post on soca-cartel.com, you agree to do so in accordance with the following terms and conditions:
• publication of any material you submit to us will be at our sole discretion. We reserve the right to make additions or deletions to the text or graphics prior to publication, or to refuse publication
• you grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide licence to republish any material you submit to us in any format, including without limitation print and electronic format
• you warrant to us that any material you submit to us is your own original work and that you own the copyright and any other relevant rights
• you warrant that the material you submit is not obscene, offensive, defamatory of any person or otherwise illegal
• you agree not to post material which is deliberately intended to upset other users
• You agree not to post material which is malicious or defamatory of any organisation and you further agree that your contributions shall be constructive in intent and follow the collaborative spirit of the website
• you agree not to post material solely to advertise products for profit or gain• you agree not to impersonate someone else
• you acknowledge that any breach of these warranties may cause us damage or loss and you agree to indemnify us in full and permanently against any third party liabilities, claims, costs, loss or damage we incur as a result of publishing material you submit to us, including consequential losses.
• we reserve the right to remove your access to individual services completely if we believe you are abusing the services in any way.
The views expressed in the articles and interviews published on this site are personal views of the authors and interviewees and are not necessarily attributable to soca-cartel.com or any of the organisations mentioned in the relevant articles or interviews.
Soca-cartel.com welcomes feedback, both positive and negative, about our website (particularly when concerning website malfunction) and services, but would ask comments to be in line with the conditions above.
Whilst we encourage and promote networking opportunities on the site, we strongly advise our users to exercise caution and discretion when disclosing personal information to any third parties while posting upon our site. We are happy to act as an intermediary in this regard.
10. Governing Law & Jurisdiction
This agreement is governed by English law and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
11. Amendments
Any amendments to these terms and conditions shall appear here.
12. Questions and queries
If you have any questions or are in anyway in doubt about these terms and conditions, please contact us at info@soca-cartel.com, or via the Contact Us section of the site.
