Acceptable Use Policy

ERICAS WEBSITE

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

This acceptable use policy, (“Policy”) sets out the terms under which you may access our website www.ericas.org (“our site”). This Policy applies to all users of, and visitors to, our site. Your use of our site means that you accept, and agree to abide by the contents and references in this Policy, which supplement our Terms of Use for the website.

PROHIBITED USES

You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:

• in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
• in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
• to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam);
• 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.

You also agree:

• not to reproduce, duplicate copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of our Terms of Use;
• not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
• any part of our site;
• any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
• any software used in the provision of our site; or
• any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

INTERACTIVE SERVICES

• Comments to articles or reviews:
  • all comments are moderated by our admin team before being published.

SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION

We will determine at our discretion whether there has been a breach of this Policy through your use of our site. When a breach has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.

Failure to comply with this Policy constitutes a material breach of the terms of use upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions, (the list below is not exhaustive):

• Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
• Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site;
• Issue of a warning to you;
• Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach;
• Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.

We exclude liability for any and all consequences following any action we may take in response to breaches of this Policy.

CHANGES TO THE ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

We may revise this Policy at any time by amending this page.

You are required to check this Policy from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they will be binding on your use of our site. Some of the provisions contained in this Policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.