n a small town, with a small lake, with a plague-bearing dragon living in it, poisoning the countryside, a princess was once sent out to the lake, dressed as a bride, to be the beasts next meal.
Saint George by chance rode past the lake. The princess, tried to send him away, but George vowed to remain. The dragon emerged from the lake while they were conversing. Saint George gave the Sign of the Cross, charged it on horseback with his lance, seriously wounding it.
He then called to the princess to throw him her girdle, and he put it around the dragon’s neck. When she did so, the dragon followed the girl like a meek beast on a leash. The princess and Saint George led the dragon back to the city of Silene, where it terrified the populace. Saint George offered to kill the dragon if they consented to become Christians and be baptised. Fifteen thousand men including the king of Silene converted to Christianity. George then killed the dragon, and the body was carted out of the city on four ox-carts.
The king built a church to the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint George on the site where the dragon died and a spring flowed from its altar with water that cured all disease.
Welcome friends, to this magical mysterious English website. If you don’t want to end up like the dragon, here are the rules of membership that must be adhered to.
This agreement has been written in English. To the extent that any translated version of this agreement conflicts with this English version, this English version controls.
Date of Last Revision: 17th September 2017
By using or accessing the Services of this website englishfriends.co.uk, hereafter referred to as EF, you agree to this Statement, as updated from time to time in accordance with all other terms detailed below.
EF intends to provide a wide range of Services and from time to time we may ask you to review and accept supplemental terms that apply to your interaction with our Services.
- Privacy
Your privacy is very important to us.
From time to time, you may be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and e-mail address) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services include e-mail updates, website feedback, or suggesting an idea / application.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable EF and its service providers to provide you with the services you select. Any personal information you provide to us will only be used by us, our agents and service providers, and will not be disclosed unless we are obliged or permitted to by law to do so.
If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on this site, we may use whatever information about you is available to us to stop such behaviour.
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met or when you no longer wish to continue your subscription.
Feedback
We very much welcome and actively encourage your feedback on this site. The site is being developed in a phased approach so we encourage you to provide feedback to ensure that future iterations meet your needs. This project is seen by us as a collaborative one between EF and yourselves so do get in touch and help shape future direction.
We will not pass on any of your personal information when dealing with your enquiry, unless you have given us permission to do so. Once we have replied to you, we keep a record of your message for audit purposes.
The Data Protection Act
Under the Data Protection Act 1998, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. We use leading technologies and encryption software to safeguard your data, and keep strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it.
We will not pass on your personal details to any third party without your permission.
If you wish to see our records of any correspondence you have sent to us, or if you have a query or complaint about this privacy policy or about the site, you can contact us using the contact us form.
Changes to this privacy policy
If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.
2. Sharing Your Content and Information
1. You own all of the content and information you post on EF, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition: 1. For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with EF (IP Usage). This IP Usage ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
2. When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer. However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup copies and Internet Cache for a reasonable period of time and may be available to others for the duration of it residing in such form, (but we will not purposely have any intention to make it available to others).
3. When you publish content or information using the EF website Services, it may mean that you are allowing everyone, including people off of EF, to access and use that information, and to associate it with you (i.e., your name and profile picture).
4. We always appreciate your feedback or other suggestions about EF, but you understand that we may use your feedback or suggestions without any obligation to compensate you for them (just as you have no obligation to offer them).
3. Safety
We do our best to keep EF safe, but we cannot guarantee it. We need your help to keep EF safe, which includes the following commitments by you:
1. You will not post unauthorized commercial communications (such as spam) on EF.
2. You will not collect users’ content or information, or otherwise access EF, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our prior permission.
3. You will not engage in unlawful multi-level marketing, such as a pyramid scheme, on EF.
4. You will not upload viruses or other malicious code.
5. You will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to someone else.
6. You will not bully, intimidate, or harass any user.
7. You will not post content that: is hate speech, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.
8. You will not use EF to do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or discriminatory.
9. You will not do anything that could disable, overburden, or impair the proper working or appearance of EF, such as a denial of service attack or interference with page rendering or other EF functionality.
11. You will not facilitate or encourage any violations of this Statement or our policies.
4. Registration and Account Security
EF users provide their real names and information, and we need your help to keep it that way. Here are some commitments you make to us relating to registering and maintaining the security of your account:
1. You will not provide any false personal information on EF, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.
2. You will not create more than one personal account.
3. If we disable your account, you will not create another one without our permission.
4. You will not use your personal profile timeline primarily for your own commercial gain.
5. You will not use EF if you are under 13.
6. You will not use EF if you are a convicted sex offender.
7. You will keep your contact information accurate and up-to-date.
8. You will not share your password, let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account.
9. You will not transfer your account (including any Page or application you administer) to anyone without first getting our written permission.
10. If you select a username or similar identifier for your profile account or Page, we reserve the right to remove or reclaim it if we believe it is appropriate (such as when a trademark owner complains about a username that does not closely relate to a user’s actual name).
5. Protecting Other People’s Rights
We respect other people’s rights, and expect you to do the same.
1. You will not post content or take any action on EF that infringes or violates someone else’s rights or otherwise violates the law.
2. We can remove any content or information you post on EF if we believe that it violates this Statement or our policies.
3. Protecting your intellectual property rights is your responsibility and ours.
4. If we remove your content for infringing someone else’s copyright, and you believe we removed it by mistake, we will provide you with an opportunity to appeal.
5. If you repeatedly infringe other people’s intellectual property rights, we will disable your account when appropriate.
6. You will not use our copyrights or Trademarks or any confusingly similar marks, except as expressly permitted by EF with our prior written permission.
7. If you collect information from users, you will: obtain their consent, make it clear you (and not EF) are the one collecting their information, and post a privacy policy explaining what information you collect and how you will use it.
8. You will not post anyone’s identification documents or sensitive financial information on EF.
9. You will not tag users or send email invitations to non-users without their consent. EF intends to offer social reporting tools to enable users to provide feedback about tagging.
6. Payments
If you make a payment on EF, you agree to our Payments Terms unless it is stated that other terms apply.
7.About Advertisements and Other Commercial Content Served or Enhanced by EF
Our goal is to deliver sponsored advertising and other commercial or sponsored content that is valuable to our users and advertisers.
7. Amendments
1. We’ll notify you before we make changes to these terms and give you the opportunity to review and comment on the revised terms before continuing to use our Services.
2. Your continued use of the EF Services, following notice of the changes to our terms, policies or guidelines, constitutes your acceptance of our amended terms, policies or guidelines.
8. Termination
If you violate the letter or spirit of this Statement, or otherwise create risk or possible legal exposure for us, we can stop providing all or part of EF to you. We will notify you by email or at the next time you attempt to access your account. You may also delete your account or disable your application at any time. In all such cases, this Statement shall terminate, but the following provisions will still apply: 2.2, 2.4, 3-5, 4.3, and 8-18.
9. Disputes
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2. If anyone brings a claim against us related to your actions, content or information on EF, you will indemnify and hold us harmless from and against all damages, losses, and expenses of any kind (including reasonable legal fees and costs) related to such claim. Although we provide rules for user conduct, we do not control or direct users’ actions on EF and are not responsible for the content or information users transmit or share on EF. We are not responsible for any offensive, inappropriate, obscene, unlawful or otherwise objectionable content or information you may encounter on EF. We are not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of EF.
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10. Special Provisions Applicable to Users Outside the United Kingdom.
There are no Special Provisions Applicable to Users Outside the United Kingdom.
11. Definitions
1. By “EF” or” EF Services” we mean the features and services we make available, including through (a) our website at www.englishfriends.co.uk and any other EF branded or co-branded websites (including sub-domains, international versions, widgets, and mobile versions); (b) our Platform; (c) social plugins and other similar offerings; and (d) other media, brands, products, services, software (such as a toolbar), devices, or networks now existing or later developed. EF reserves the right to designate, in its sole discretion, that certain of our brands, products, or services are governed by separate terms and not this Statement.
2. By “Platform” we mean a set of APIs and services (such as content) that enable others, including application developers and website operators, to retrieve data from EF or provide data to us.
3. By “information” we mean facts and other information about you, including actions taken by users and non-users who interact with EF.
4. By “content” we mean anything you or other users post, provide or share using EF Services.
5. By “data” or “user data” or “user’s data” we mean any data, including a user’s content or information that you or third parties can retrieve from EF or provide to EF through Platform.
6. By “post” we mean post on EF or otherwise make available by using EF.
7. By “use” we mean use, run, copy, publicly perform or display, distribute, modify, translate, and create derivative works of.
8. By “application” we mean any application or website that uses or accesses Platform, as well as anything else that receives or has received data from us. If you no longer access Platform but have not deleted all data from us, the term application will apply until you delete the data.
12. Other
1. If you are a resident of or have your principal place of business in the United Kingdom, this Statement is an agreement between you and EF. References to “us,” “we,” and “our” mean either EF, or englishfriends.co.uk, as appropriate.
2. This Statement makes up the entire agreement between the parties regarding EF, and supersedes any prior agreements.
3. If any portion of this Statement is found to be unenforceable, the remaining portion will remain in full force and effect.
4. If we fail to enforce any of this Statement, it will not be considered a waiver.
5. Any amendment to or waiver of this Statement must be made in writing and signed by us.
6. You will not transfer any of your rights or obligations under this Statement to anyone else without our consent.
7. All of our rights and obligations under this Statement are freely assignable by us in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or by operation of law or otherwise.
8. Nothing in this Statement shall prevent us from complying with the law.
9. This Statement does not confer any third party beneficiary rights.
10. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.
11. You will comply with all applicable laws when using or accessing EF.