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The British Skin Foundation website is comprised of various web pages operated by the British Skin Foundation.

The British Skin Foundation website is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein. Your use of the British Skin Foundation website constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices.

Last updated: 18/02/26

Modification of these terms of use

The British Skin Foundation reserves the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which the British Skin Foundation website is offered, including but not limited to the charges associated with the use of the British Skin Foundation website.

No unlawful or prohibited use

As a condition of your use of the British Skin Foundation website, you warrant to the British Skin Foundation that you will not use the British Skin Foundation website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the British Skin Foundation website in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the British Skin Foundation Web Site or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the British Skin Foundation website. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the British Skin Foundation website.

Use of communication services

The British Skin Foundation website may contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, "communication services"), you agree to use the communication services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular communication service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a communication service, you will not:

Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.

Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.

Upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents.

Upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer.

Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such communication service specifically allows such messages.

Conduct or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or chain letters.

Download any file posted by another user of a communication service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner.

Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded.

Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the communication services.

Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular communication service.

Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent.

Violate any applicable laws or regulations.

The British Skin Foundation has no obligation to monitor the communication services. However, the British Skin Foundation reserves the right to review materials posted to a communication service and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. The British Skin Foundation reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the communication services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.

The British Skin Foundation reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in The British Skin Foundation's sole discretion.

Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or your children in any communication service. The British Skin Foundation does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any communication service and, therefore, the British Skin Foundation specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the communication services and any actions resulting from your participation in any communication service. Managers and hosts are not authorized the British Skin Foundation spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of the British Skin Foundation.

Materials uploaded to a communication service may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination. You are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you download the materials.

Materials provided to the British Skin Foundation or posted at any the British Skin Foundation website.

The British Skin Foundation does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to the British Skin Foundation (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any the British Skin Foundation website or its associated services (collectively "submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you are granting the British Skin Foundation, its affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your submission in connection with the operation of their internet businesses including, without limitation, the rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; and to publish your name in connection with your submission.

No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your submission, as provided herein. The British Skin Foundation is under no obligation to post or use any submission you may provide and may remove any submission at any time in The British Skin Foundation's sole discretion.

By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described in this section including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the submissions.

Liability disclaimer

The information, software, products, and services included in or available through the British Skin Foundation website may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically added to the information herein. The British Skin Foundation and/or its suppliers may make improvements and/or changes in the British Skin Foundation website at any time. Advice received via the British Skin Foundation website should not be relied upon for personal, medical, legal or financial decisions and you should consult an appropriate professional for specific advice tailored to your situation.

The British Skin Foundation and/or its suppliers make no representations about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, and accuracy of the information, software, products, services and related graphics contained on the British Skin Foundation website for any purpose. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, all such information, software, products, services and related graphics are provided "as is" without warranty or condition of any kind. The British Skin Foundation and/or its suppliers hereby disclaim all warranties and conditions with regard to this information, software, products, services and related graphics, including all implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall the British Skin Foundation and/or its suppliers be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential damages or any damages whatsoever including, without limitation, damages for loss of use, data or profits, arising out of or in any way connected with the use or performance of the British Skin Foundation website, with the delay or inability to use the British Skin Foundation website or related services, the provision of or failure to provide services, or for any information, software, products, services and related graphics obtained through the British Skin Foundation website, or otherwise arising out of the use of the British Skin Foundation website, whether based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, even if the British Skin Foundation or any of its suppliers has been advised of the possibility of damages. Because some states/jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may not apply to you. If you are dissatisfied with any portion of the British Skin Foundation website, or with any of these terms of use, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the British Skin Foundation website.

Service contact: admin@britishskinfoundation.org.uk

Termination/access restriction

The British Skin Foundation reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the British Skin Foundation website and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice.

Trademarks

The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

The example companies, organizations, products, people and events depicted herein are fictitious. No association with any real company, organization, product, person, or event is intended or should be inferred.

Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.

General

By using the Website you confirm your acceptance of these terms of use, and you agree to be bound by them.

Only people over the age of 16 may use the Website. If under 16 please ask parental permission.

In using the Website and accepting the required permissions, the user will be able to add their wave to the website.

There will be one way of adding and creating a wave, which is as follows;

Manual photo upload via the Website using the following method:

Mobile Upload - Manually uploaded via users’ camera roll or taken by the phone camera

You are the legal and beneficial owner of all intellectual property rights in the photo, which you submit for use in your wave, and your photo does not infringe third party rights or any applicable laws. All images uploaded to the website are automatically stripped of all geo location data and any other EXIF meta data such as your phone's model, time taken, and camera settings.

You have the right to grant the Promoter and others permission to use your wave in the ways described in these terms of use.

You have waived, and you agree not to assert, any moral (or similar) rights on your wave.

If you or any wave you create does not comply in full with these terms of use, the Promoter reserves the right to remove your wave from public access. See Wave Moderation section below for possible reasons why your wave could be rejected.

The Promoter and its associated companies and agents exclude responsibility and all liabilities arising from all waves, any suspension, changes to, use or withdrawal of the Website and any act or default of any third party.

The Promoter does not guarantee that the Website will always be available or be uninterrupted, and that it may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or part of the Website, and/or amend these terms of use at any time and without notice.

The website will cease to exist on 4th November 2020.

The Promoter will select personal details for the purpose of administering this Website. Please see our Privacy Policy for further details.

These terms of use, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. You irrevocably agree that the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim that arises out of or in connection with this 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.

For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.

To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards.

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 website 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

any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party

Variation

These terms and conditions of use may be varied and updated at any time by us amending this page.

These terms and conditions of use are governed by and should be construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales. The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site.

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