Blogs Today Terms and Conditions of Use
Use of and access to this site is subject to the following terms and to the terms of Copyright Notice and licence below. By entering the site you agree to these terms.
Save where specifically indicated otherwise, this Website and its contents is targeted only at UK residents and goods and services offered are available only to UK residents.
Any legal proceedings arising as a result of content of or use of this site shall be subject to the laws of England and Wales.
Johnston Press plc and its subsidiary companies accepts no liability in respect of the content of any third party material appearing on this site or in respect of the content of any other website to which this site may be linked from time to time.
Johnston Press plc and its subsidiary companies makes no warranty in respect of the contents of this Website and accepts no liability for any loss or damage whatsoever and however arising whether directly or indirectly as a result of access to and use of this Website including without limitation acting or failing to act in reliance on any information contained herein.
Privacy Policy
In order to provide the Blogs Today service and to help us detect abuse of the system we collect certain information from visitors to Blogs Today.
When you use or access Blogs Today, we will store certain information from your internet browser.
This will include your IP address, your browser type and version, the date and time you accessed the website, the specific page(s) you visited and the referring Web site address. We only use this information for statistical purposes and do not capture any personal details in the process. We do NOT share this information with any outside companies.
Registered Users
In addition to storing the information detailed above, we will log the date and time of your registration and any subsequent entry into the registered user area. We will log your email address used at registration. This data is logged in order to detect abuse of the system. We will only use the information in accordance with the provision of Blogs Today. We do NOT share this information with any external or third party organisations.
Blogs Today will display the following information about you, to be visiable to visitors to the Blogs Today website: the title of your blog, the URL of your blog, and the category that your blog exists in.
Minors (Under the age of 18)
If you are aged under the age of 18 (or are under the appropriate legal age in your country location) you should not use this site.
Malicious disruption to Blogs Today
By entering this website you agree not to disrupt the presence and functionality of Blogs Today or conduct activities that would render the site unusable.
Rules for contributing to Blogs Today.
1. Personal attacks are prohibited. Commonly known as flaming, personal attacks are posts which are designed to put down or insult Blogs Today members. Text of this nature is not beneficial to the Johnston Press community spirit and will not be tolerated.
2. No trolling. Trolling is used to describe a post that is deliberately designed for the purpose of angering and insulting the members of Blogs Today. Posts of this nature are disruptive and say deliberately provocative things just to stir up trouble. It’s not polite so please don’t do it.
3. Unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually orientated, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable. Hardcore swearing is not allowed on the Johnston Press Blogs Today sites. Please see the Swear Word Policy for further details on what is and what is not acceptable language for use on Blogs Today.
4. Be patient. Please remember when posting that people of all ages and abilities use Blogs Today. Remember when you were a newbie and try to be kind.
5. No spamming or flooding. Spamming is the posting of the same (or very similar) messages to lots of conversation threads. Flooding is when the same (or very similar) message is posted over and over again to the same conversation. Please don’t deliberately spam or flood Blogs Today as we’ll simply remove your posting and possibly your account.
6. No advertising. Advertising is not allowed within the postings on Blogs Today. Writing articles that review or criticise commercial products, local restaurants, venues etc. are obviously fine as long as they’re balanced, but adverts aren’t. If you wish to advertise through a banner or a tile advert on Blogs Today pages please contact the new media advertising department at the relevant local newspaper.
7. Postings or articles containing languages other than English may be removed. We have to ensure we understand a posting or article before we can pass it, therefore languages other than English may have to be removed.
8. Don’t impersonate others. Impersonating another user of Blogs Today, moderator, administrator or Johnston Press employee is strictly prohibited. You are expressly forbidden from impersonating anyone else, including those previously named, on Blogs Today. This may be grounds for permanent loss of your Blogs Today account.
9. Be careful with including email addresses and instant messaging addresses in contributions. Do not include anyone else’s personal details. You may include your own personal email address or instant messaging address in postings (providing it’s acceptable, i.e. not vulgar or offensive), but please be aware that it is at your own risk and you are potentially opening yourself up to a lot of email and possible spam. You should be absolutely sure that you want people to able to contact you like this. It is not acceptable to publicise anyone else’s contact details other than your own. However it is acceptable to include general contact details for companies, but you must only include publicly available details, for example, the telephone number of a restaurant or the email address of a local company.
10. Only include suitable URLs in your postings. Links to websites we consider unsuitable will be removed, so if you are considering contributing something that contains a URL please make sure that it adds value and interest to the subject of your posting and it isn’t purely commercial. Unsuitable sites would include those with racist material, pornographic or sexually explicit material, potentially defamatory material, anything which encourages illegal activities, material which infringes copyright, sites which purely plug or promote commercial products or services without containing material which enhances the subject matter, sites that start with automatic downloads or sites which may offend our users. We may also have to remove links to site which are in languages other than English for the reasons described in item 7. Please note that we do not allow URLs to be included in nicknames.
11. Feedback. Johnston Press welcomes feedback, both positive and negative, about our products and services, but please make sure your comments are in line with the above House Rules. You can contact the moderator of Blogs Today by using the link provided on the page. Please note though that repeatedly posting personal or offensive comments about individual members of the public or people who work for Johnston Press may be considered harassment. We reserve the right to remove such messages and take action against those responsible.
Copyright on the Johnston Press Today Network Blogs Today
It’s important to note that you still own the copyright to everything you contribute to the Johnston Press Today Network Blogs Today. This means that you are free to take what you have written and re-publish it somewhere else.
All you do in contributing to Blogs Today is to grant Johnston Press the right to publish. In other words, anything you create here is done under the condition that you grant us a non-exclusive license to distribute and edit the material in any way that we want, and in any media. As we may wish to distribute the content in various formats over time, we need to be sure that we have the right to publish everything posted to any Johnston Press Today Network Blogs Today.
About your Privacy
Johnston Press plc will not publish or provide your name and email address to anyone, unless it is required in order to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation. Our registration process requires you to supply us with your name and email address, but we will only use this information to validate your access to Blogs Today.
Copyright Infringement
If any of the content of Blogs Today infringes copyright laws please contact us at jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk These terms and conditions shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of England & Wales.
Last updated 1st February 2006