Website Acceptable Use Standards
These acceptable use standards apply to any material you upload or share to our site or
generate on our site (User Content). They also apply to any contact you make with other
users on our site, links to our site, and any other ways you use our site.
You must comply with these standards in spirit as well as to the letter.
The Stephen Perse Foundation will determine, in its discretion, whether any User
Content or your use of our site breaches these acceptable use standards.
You may not use our site:
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In any way that breaches any local, national or international law or regulation.
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In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or
effect.
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For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
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To bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person.
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To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, share, post, use or re-use any
material which does not comply with our content standards.
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To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or
promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
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To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses,
Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other
harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the
operation of any computer software or hardware.
User Content:
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Must be accurate (where it states facts).
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Only contain opinions that are genuinely held.
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Must comply with the law applicable in any country from which it is posted and to
which the website is targeted.
User Content must not:
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Be defamatory of any person.
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Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
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Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
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Include material that might impair the physical, mental or moral development of
persons under the age of 18.
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Be likely to deceive any person.
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Breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of
confidence.
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Contain illegal content or promote any illegal content or activity.
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Be in contempt of court.
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Be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance,
inconvenience or needless anxiety.
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Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
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Impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
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Give the impression that the User Content emanates from the Stephen Perse
Foundation, if this is not the case.
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Advocate, promote, incite any party to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act
such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
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Contain a statement which you know or believe, or have reasonable grounds for
believing, that members of the public to whom the statement is, or is to be, published
are likely to understand as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to
the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
Offences
You must not upload, post, create on our site, share or cause any uploading, posting,
creation or sharing, of any of the following:
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A grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing message intending to cause
offence, menace, distress or anxiety.
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A false message knowing it to be false, intending to cause non-trivial psychological
or physical harm to a likely audience, and with no reasonable excuse.
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A message threatening death or serious harm while intending or being reckless as to
whether the object of the threat would fear that the threat would be carried out.
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A communication that intends to encourage serious self-harm.
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Advertising
You must not upload, post, create on our site or share content containing any advertising
or promoting any services or web links to other sites.
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