These Terms and Conditions apply and you agree to them when you access our website to use the disabledunited.com services. Before proceeding to use our services, you should read the Terms and Conditions carefully. If you find yourself unable to agree to them, then you must not use our website. If, however, you agree to them unconditionally you will be given the opportunity to click the "I accept" checkbox during the registration process, and you will then be able to use our website to which these Terms and Conditions apply.

Disabledunited.com may amend these Terms and Conditions at any time by posting the amended Terms and Conditions on our web site www.disabledunited.com and announcing such changes in the site administration forum.

Except as stated below, all amended Terms and Conditions shall be automatically effective after they are posted on the Site.

1.	General Information
2.	Membership Eligibility
3.	Formation of Contract
4.	Fees and Services
5.	The Site
6.	Company.com is only a venue
7.	Your Information
8.	Access and Interference
9.	Ratings
10.	Breach
11.	Privacy
12.	No Warranty
13.	Liability Limit
14.	Indemnity
15.	Legal Compliance
16.	No Agency
17.	Notices
18.	Arbitration
19.	Intellectual Property
19.	Intellectual Property
20.	Intellectual Property Infringement
21.	General

1.1 For your information we list below the contact details of disabledunited.com:
Contact Number: 0870 803 1354
E-Mail: info@disabledunited.com

2.1 Our services are available only to individuals who have the capacity to form legally binding contracts under the law applicable to these Terms and Conditions. Without limiting the foregoing, our services are not available to minors (under 18 years of age). If you do not qualify, you are not permitted to use our services and no contract will be formed between you and disabledunited.com. Further, our services are not available to [temporarily or] indefinitely suspended disabledunited.com members.

3.1 In order that a legally binding contract can be formed between disabledunited.com and a member eligible under clause 2 above, the member is required to accept these Terms and Conditions unconditionally by clicking the 'I accept' checkbox during the registration process.]

3.2 In consideration of disabledunited.com agreeing to the member's use of the Site, the member agrees to comply with these Terms and Conditions.

3.3 disabledunited.com in its absolute discretion reserves the right to refuse, suspend or cancel membership of any member.

3.4 These Terms and Conditions shall override any contrary terms or conditions published by disabledunited.com or appearing on this web site pertaining to members.

4.1 Registering to use our site and [some of] its Services (as defined below) is currently free of charge. Disabledunited.com reserves the right to change its fee policy and the fees charged for the Services on a service by service basis from time to time. Changes to the policy will become effective fourteen (14) days after notice of the changes have been posted. However, disabledunited.com may choose to temporarily change the fees for special services offered from time to time. Such changes become effective immediately upon posting notice of the changes. In these instances, you will have an opportunity to review and accept the fees that you will be charged for the use of the service. Unless otherwise stated, all fees are quoted in GBP. You are responsible for paying all fees associated with using the Services and the Site and any applicable taxes.

Disabledunited.com accepts no responsibility for taxes etc on transactions effected as a direct or indirect result of the use of the Site. However, for persons based in the EU (including the UK), VAT may apply in two ways:

• If you are a business, you may have to remit VAT on the Services to you (under 'reverse charging').
• Whether you are a business or not, and whether you are buying or selling, VAT may apply to your transactions. Please be aware that in some rare cases the amount a seller nets from a sale may be less than the net value once VAT is paid. The complexity of VAT (which applies differently in numerous countries, to different items, and at different rates) means disabledunited.com cannot prevent some such occurrences. You accept the risk that this affects you.

5.1 Disabledunited.com may at its sole discretion and without notice change the content, presentation, performance, user facilities and availability of any part of the Site and without notice. It is the member's responsibility to refer to and update itself in relation to any changes made. Any such changes will become effective upon posting by disabledunited.com.

5.2 Disabledunited.com does not warrant any continuity of connection, transmission over security or results from the use of any network connection or facilities provided or omitted to be provided in connection with the use of the Site, but shall use reasonable endeavours to keep down time to a minimum.

5.3 Where disabledunited.com provides hyperlinks to a third parties website, disabledunited.com shall not be responsible for nor does it make any warranties, representations or undertakings about the content of any other web-site which may be referred to or accessed by the hyperlink and disabledunited.com does not endorse or approve the content of such third parties web-sites.

The Site acts as a venue for disabled people, carers and their families to interact and share information, opinions, make online friendships/penpals/relationships. Although community members may choose to conduct communications and transactions through the site, disabledunited.com is not involved in the actual interaction between individuals. As a result, disabledunited.com have no control over the quality, safety, truth, accuracy or legality of any information, opinions, products, services offered, travel accommodation nor any ability whatsoever to warrant or guarantee the integrity of the providers or purchasers of such information, opinions, products, services offered, travel accommodation. Disabledunited.com cannot ensure that any provider or purchaser will actually complete a transaction.

Because identification and authentication on the Internet is difficult, Disabledunited.com cannot and does not confirm each member's purported identity. If you are in any doubt as to an individual's identity you are encouraged to attempt to communicate directly with that person to further establish their credentials.

In the event that you have a dispute or issue with one or more of the other members, you shall release disabledunited.com and our officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries and employees from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of any kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.

Disabledunited.com is designed to help members obtain information, discuss, interact and share information/opinions. This information is largely provided by our members and other organisations, many of whom use anonymous User IDs and are people we may have never met. Whilst the quality of material submitted to our Site is generally high, disabledunited.com does not control the information provided by members/organisations, and you may find other member's/organisations information to be offensive, harmful, inaccurate, or deceptive. Please use caution and common sense when using our Site. Please note that there are also risks in dealing with foreign nationals, underage persons or people acting under false pretences including underage persons. In the event that any individual makes a complaint about any information on the disabledunited.com site that is put there by a member, disabledunited.com may at its sole discretion remove that information.

6.5 Furthermore, as you cannot be sure who any contributor really is, you should treat the contributors here in the same way that you would treat anyone you had come across for the first time. You should not rely upon the information you find at the Site but rather, you should use it as a starting point for doing independent research, then decide for yourself the accuracy and merits of the information that has been shared in our forums and on our Site. As such disabledunited.com does not guarantee and gives no warranty as to the accuracy, veracity, or completeness of any information provided in our forum.

6.6 The opinions expressed on this Site are those of the contributing individuals. If you act on anything that is said or done you must do so on the basis of a considered decision of your own, having weighed up the pros, cons and risks thereby fully accepting the responsibility for the success or failure of your actions. Under no circumstances shall disabledunited.com be liable for direct, indirect, or incidental damages resulting from your use of information, commentary, advice or other content on the Site. You agree to indemnify disabledunited.com against any actions, claims, proceedings, or liabilities arising from your use of the content of the Site.

6.7 In the event that the police, regulatory authorities or courts require us to provide to them any files generated by disabledunited.com members or any information relating to disabledunited.com members that we hold, you consent for us to release that information to those parties.

7.1 "Your Information" is defined as any information you provide to disabledunited.com or other users during registration, in any public message area, through feedback or any e-mail or form features, friends and dating profile, mailbox messaging, instant messenger or when using the chat room.

7.2 Your Information and conduct (or any items listed therein) shall not:

• be false, inaccurate or misleading
• be fraudulent
• involve the sale of counterfeit or stolen items
• infringe any third party's copyright, patent, trade mark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy
• be defamatory, trade libellous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing
• be obscene, blasphemous, contain any pornography including without limitation child pornography or other legally restricted or illegal material
• contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other malicious code or computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information
• create liability for us or cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our ISPs or other suppliers or attempt to
• impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with anyone or anything
• post or transmit chain letters, pyramid schemes, advertising, promotional materials, or other solicitation except as where explicitly requested by another user
• include any false photograph use within the site

7.3 To enable disabledunited.com to use the information supplied, such that we are not violating any rights you might have in that information, you agree to grant disabledunited.com a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free licence and the right to sub-license (through multiple tiers) to use the copyright, publicity and other intellectual property rights you have in Your Information, in any media now known or not currently known. Disabledunited.com will only use Your Information in accordance with the Privacy Policy to the Site and these terms and conditions.

7.4 You are responsible for all statements made and acts that occur through the use of your membership and password. Please don't disclose your password to anyone. If your password has been stolen, you must let us know. Disabledunited.com may at any time, and at its sole discretion, terminate your membership without prior notice to you for violating the above provisions.

7.5 While disabledunited.com cannot review all transmissions by members in the forums, we reserve the right to, and may from time to time, monitor any information transmitted or received through our service. Disabledunited.com at our sole discretion and without further notice to you, may review, remove, or otherwise block any information (including posts to message boards) that we deem inappropriate or that violates any of this agreement.

8.1 You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy our web pages or the content contained herein without the prior written consent of disabledunited.com

8.2 You agree that you will not use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site.

8.3 You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Site's infrastructure.

8.4 Much of the information on the Site is updated on a real time basis and is proprietary or is licensed to disabledunited.com by our users or third parties. You agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works, or publicly display any content (except for Your Information) from the Site without the prior written consent of disabledunited.com or the appropriate third party, with the exception of downloading or printing a single copy for yourself for offline viewing.

9.1 Without limiting other remedies, disabledunited.com may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide the Services to you if:

• you breach this Agreement or the documents it incorporates by reference (including but not limited to our Privacy Policy)
• Disabledunited.com are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us; and
• Disabledunited.com believe that your actions may cause legal liability for you, our members or us

10.1 By registering, you are agreeing that other members may make statements about your views, opinions or services which you regard as untrue. In any such case, if you contact disabledunited.com, giving full details, disabledunited.com will conduct a brief investigation and may remove the offending statement. Whether or not the offending statement is removed you hereby waive any right you might otherwise have against disabledunited.com in connection with such statements. You accept that disabledunited.com does not control such statements and will not conduct full, detailed, investigations. For more details on Privacy, please review our Privacy Policy.

11.1 The Site including, without limitation, its contents, functionality, performance and features are provided on an "as available basis" at the member's sole risk and without representations or warranties of any kind and to the full extent permitted by law. Disabledunited.com and other parties involved in creating, producing or delivering the Site expressly exclude all warranties, conditions or terms express or implied, statutory or otherwise including without limitation any warranty as to satisfactory quality or any warranty or commitment that access or use will be uninterrupted or error free.

12.1 Nothing in this agreement is intended to limit or exclude any liability on the part of disabledunited.com where and to the extent that applicable law prohibits such exclusion or limitation.

12.2 Subject to the above statement, in no event shall disabledunited.comor its suppliers service/information providers be liable for any: lost profits; lost sales; lost business; lost opportunity; lost information; lost anticipated savings; or special, indirect or consequential damages (however arising, including as a result of negligence) arising out of or in connection with this agreement.

12.3 Accordingly subject to clause 12.1, you agree not to bring a claim of any nature against disabledunited.com in relation the use of or access to the Site, except where such a claim cannot be excluded by law. You acknowledge and agree that disabledunited.com will have the right (subject to the discretion of the Court) to a stay of proceeding if you bring any claim against disabledunited.com in breach of the foregoing.

13.1 You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless disabledunited.com and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents, and employees, from and against any claim, demand, liability, cost, damage or lost it may incur, including legal fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your breach of this Agreement or the documents it incorporates by reference, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.

14.1 You shall comply with all applicable laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations regarding your use of our service.

15.1 You agree that you and disabledunited.com are independent contractors, and no agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchisor-franchisee relationship is intended or created by this Agreement.

16.1 All notices required to be served on disabledunited.com shall be sent to the email address of disabledunited.com as stated in clause 1.

17.1 Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement or disabledunited.com's services shall be settled by an arbitration tribunal designated by disabledunited.com Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis, and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party. The arbitration shall be conducted in the U.K., and judgment on the arbitration award may be entered into any court having jurisdiction thereof. Either you or disabledunited.com may seek any interim or preliminary relief from a court of competent jurisdiction in the U.K. necessary to protect the rights or property of you or us pending the completion of arbitration.

18.1 You acknowledge that the ownership in any intellectual property rights (including, for the avoidance of doubt, patents, copyright, rights in databases, trade marks and trade names) in the Site belongs to disabledunited.com or its third party licensors. Accordingly, any part of this Site (or its source HTML code) may not be used, transferred, copied or reproduced in whole or in part in any manner other than for the purposes of utilising this Site, meaning that you may only display it on its computer screen and print it out on its printer for the sole purpose of viewing its content in connection with the Services.

18.2 Copyright and all other intellectual property rights subsisting in each and every piece of information provided on the Site is owned by disabledunited.com or the third party providers of such information. You may use information retrieved from the Site only for the purposes of the Services.

18.3 Disabledunited.com reserves the right in accordance with the licence granted under clause 7.3 to license and republish the material contributed by you. Any work republished will be with proper attribution to the author so far as is possible in the circumstances.

18.4 No person other than the rightful owner or licensee of any copyright and other intellectual property rights may:

18.4.1 distribute, modify, transmit, re-use, re-post, or use any or all of the information on this Site for any purpose other than as set out above nor for public or commercial purposes without disabledunited.com or the relevant licensee's prior written permission;

18.4.2 provide hypertext links, URL Links, graphic links, hyperlinks or other direct connection for profit or gain to the disabledunited.com Services without disabledunited.com or the relevant licensee's prior written permission;

18.4.2 provide hypertext links, URL Links, graphic links, hyperlinks or other direct connection for profit or gain to the disabledunited.com Services without disabledunited.com or the relevant licensee's prior written permission;

18.4.3 display, publish, copy, print, post or otherwise use the disabledunited.com Services and the information contained therein for the benefit of any other website without Company's or the relevant licensee's prior written permission;

18.4.4 process or otherwise use the information contained on or within the Company Services for any illegal or immoral purpose nor use or process the same unfairly.

18.5 You agree and accept that disabledunited.com may publish or otherwise distribute Your Information and you therefore grant to disabledunited.com an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive right and licence to publish the submissions and all content contained therein on or within the Site, on any other media whatsoever and in its own advertising and promotion.

18.6 You therefore hereby undertake to disabledunited.com to indemnify and hold harmless disabledunited.com in full and defend at its own expense disabledunited.com against all claims, liabilities, costs and losses whatsoever and howsoever incurred by disabledunited.com its servants or nominees arising out of any claim made against it in any jurisdiction in the world for infringement of any intellectual property rights of any third party caused by your use of the Site and Your Information.

18.7 Disabled United, disabledunited.com, the disabledunited.com logo and the Company logo are trade names or trade marks of Disabled United, the use of which is expressly forbidden by any other persons without the express permission of Disabled United.

18.8 Disabledunited.com makes no warranty or representation in respect of any other trade mark or trading name, symbol or device, all of which are hereby acknowledged. If you have any questions in relation to the use of any marks contained within the disabledunited.com Services please contact disabledunited.com (info@disabledunited.com)

19.1 Contributors might share messages and information that they have electronically copied from other sources. As there are many thousands of possible sources spread out across the Internet, ranging from newspapers to scientific journals to bulletin boards, it is impossible for disabledunited.com to know if a posting or other content contribution infringes a third party's intellectual property right and to what degree.

19.2 If you believe that your intellectual property right has been infringed, it is your obligation to notify disabledunited.com immediately. Disabledunited.com accepts no liability for copyright infringement by any of its members though disabledunited.com will endeavour to protect any rights owner through appropriate action should any infringement come to light.

20.1 This Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws of England and Wales as if the Agreement was a contract wholly entered into and wholly performed within England.

20.2 If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck out of these Terms and Conditions and the remaining provisions shall remain in force. Headings are for reference purposes only and in no way define, limit, construe or describe the scope or extent of such section. Disabledunited.com's failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches.

20.3 The laws of your country may be different from those of England and Wales in numerous respects. There is no practical way for disabledunited.com to monitor the laws of every country in detail. Please do not assume that you are allowed to do what other members do. Disabledunited.com does not approve or validate transactions, advice or communications, and you accept sole responsibility for the legality of your actions under laws applying to you.

20..4 Disabledunited.com does not accept any obligation to protect you from any unsafe merchandise, products or services that may be offered on the Site. Please do not assume that such items offered will be harmless to people or property.

20.5 These rules are in addition to all others contained in the agreement. You are responsible for checking that your activities are all lawful according to the local laws in your country. If you and any other party are both based in the European Union and enter into a transaction agreement of any kind through the site then the seller's local law will govern further dealings as to shipment, payment etc. - unless you both explicitly agree otherwise.

20.6 Note however, that your country (and/or that of any member you deal with) may have some laws, which apply regardless of what you agree with us (now) or with that member (later).