Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy

The use of this website is subject to the following terms of use:

The term 'us' or 'we' refers to the owner(s) of upnorthdownsouth.co.uk. The term 'you' refers to the user or viewer of our website. The term 'venue' or 'event' refers to LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) venues or events. We reserve the right to change, amend or alter these terms & conditions at any time without notice. upnorthdownsouth.co.uk is a guide to the LGBT scene only, you must always check with the venues first before planning your day or night. We will not be held responsible for any mistakes. Welcome to our website. If you continue to browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website.

Disclaimer

upnorthdownsouth.co.uk is not associated in any way with the venues, events, reviews or entertainers listed on this website. We will not be held responsible for any misuse or grievances you may have with any of the venues, events, reviews or entertainers listed on this website.

General

The content of the pages of this website is for your general information and use only. It is subject to change without notice. Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law. Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website meet your specific requirements. This website contains material which is owned by or licensed to us. This material includes, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance and graphics. Reproduction is prohibited other than in accordance with the Copyright notice, which forms part of these terms and conditions. We reserve the right to remove any text or images from the Website that we deem to be offensive or are unlawful. From time to time this website may also include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse the website(s). We have no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s). Your use of this website and any dispute arising out of such use of the website is subject to the laws of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. We will not be held responsible for any computers viruses, trojans or malware transmitted to your computer via upnorthdownsouth.co.uk.

Submitting Content

The information that you supply to upnorthdownsouth.co.uk (when submitting venue information, images or by any other means and at any other time) must be accurate and conform to reality. Other than personally identifiable information which relates to a living individual whom can be identified from that information, which will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy, any material that you transmit or post to this Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. We will have no obligations with respect to such material. We and our designees will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use such material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes. Your name, email, telephone or any other personal information gathered by us will only be used to contact you in regards to your upnorthdownsouth.co.uk account or advertisement and will not be passed on or used in any other way as set out in our Privacy Policy. Where you are invited to submit or make any voluntary contribution to this website (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree that by submitting such contribution, you grant to us a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable right and license to:

Use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution on a world wide basis to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution. If you do not want to grant to us the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to this website. upnorthdownsouth.co.uk may review and delete any content, messages, photos or profiles (collectively, "Content") that in the reasonable judgement of upnorthdownsouth.co.uk violate this Agreement or which might be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of members. You are solely responsible for the Content that you publish, submit, post or display (hereinafter, "post") on the Service, or transmit to other members via the Service. You represent and warrant that at any time of posting the Content is (a) accurate, (b) not in breach of this Agreement, and (c) not harmful to any person in any way. By posting Content to any public area of upnorthdownsouth.co.uk, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to upnorthdownsouth.co.uk an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide licence to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorise sub-licences of the foregoing. The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the Website. upnorthdownsouth.co.uk reserves the right to amend this list at any times and to investigate and take appropriate legal action in its sole discretion against anyone who violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending communication from the Service and terminating the membership and/or advertising contract of such violators. It includes Content that:

Is patently offensive to the online community, such as Content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual.
Constitutes a profile or photographs of any third person used without their permission.
Harasses or advocates harassment of another person.
Involves the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming".
Promotes information that you know is false, misleading or promotes illegal activities or promotes conduct, or that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous.
Promotes an illegal or unauthorised copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files.
Contains restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page).
Provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18.
Provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses.
Solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users.
And engages in commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes.

Paid Advertisement

We reserve the right to change, amend or alter these terms & conditions at any time. Each paid advertisement spot works on a day to day basis, with a minimum duration of 14 days, any other duration is at the sole discretion of upnorthdownsouth.co.uk, (if you have any questions or concerns please email ). As long as your proposed paid advertisement meets the following requirements you will be asked to email your paid advertisement to us along with the web address you wish it to link to and when you would like it to go live on the Website;

Upon successful payment for the paid advertisement the duration of the paid advertisement starts from the specified date agreed upon by both you and upnorthdownsouth.co.uk.
The location of the paid advertisement will be agreed upon by both you and upnorthdownsouth.co.uk before payment is accepted and the advertisement period begins; the only file types we currently accept are .jpg, .png, .bmp and .gif (.bmp files will be converted to .jpg or .png).
The cost of the paid advertisement must be agreed upon by you and upnorthdownsouth.co.uk before payment is accepted by us and before your paid advertisement goes live.
The paid advertisement may not link to or advertise any illegal or offensive content which includes but is not limited to;
Is patently offensive to the online community, such as Content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual.
Constitutes a profile or photographs of any third person used without their permission.
Harasses or advocates harassment of another person.
Involves the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming".
Promotes information that you know is false, misleading or promotes illegal activities or promotes conduct, or that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous.
Promotes an illegal or unauthorised copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files.
Contains restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page).
Provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18.
Provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses.
Solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users.
And engages in commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes.

If the paid advertisement is found to link to any offensive or illegal websites or material as outlined above (but not limited to) or if the paid advertisement is found to link to a website which either directly or indirectly forwards the user by any means to an offensive or illegal website or material as outlined above (but not limited to), it (and any other advertisement spots that belong to you now or in the future on upnorthdownsouth.co.uk) will be immediately removed and no refunds will be given and your details may be forwarded to any relevant authorities depending on the severity of the offending material or linked website. Any loss of paid advertisement time and or space due to upnorthdownsouth.co.uk going offline for any reason or due to any technical difficulties will be compensated by us either by a refund (pro rata) or by extending the paid advertisement duration by the amount of lost time or space. You may change any aspect of your paid advertisement at any time as long as the new version meets the terms & conditions of upnorthdownsouth.co.uk.

Copyright Policy

You may not post, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other intellectual property or proprietary information on this Website without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. Without limiting the foregoing, if you believe that your work has been copied and posted on the Service in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our Copyright Agent with the following information:

An electronic or physical signature of the person authorised to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest.
A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed.
A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Website.
Your address, telephone number, and email address.
A written statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A signed statement by you, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on the copyright owner's behalf. upnorthdownsouth.co.uk's Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached as follows:

The upnorthdownsouth.co.uk website, logo, title, header design and images, footer design and images, slogan design and images, banners, posters, flyers and any other material made specifically for upnorthdownsouth.co.uk or for the owner(s) of upnorthdownsouth.co.uk were created by Shaun Goeppinger and remain his intellectual property rights. You may NOT copy, use, distribute or alter in any way shape or form any of the images or materials mentioned above without the express written consent of Shaun Goeppinger.

Privacy Policy

This statement is made by us in light of the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998, and our responsibilities to you as a "data controller". Please read this section carefully. If you do not agree with the contents of this statement, do not submit any personal data to us. Your use of this website and your submission of any personal data to us, shall constitute your consent to allow us to process your personal data in accordance with the terms of this policy. For the purposes of this policy, "personal data" means any personal information (including sensitive personal data) that is capable of identifying you. This information may include your name, address, telephone number, fax number or e-mail address. If you have submitted your personal data, and later decide that you would like us to discontinue storing your personal data, you can choose to withdraw your information. To withdraw, please send an electronic mail headed "withdraw" to us at specifying your name and or email address so that we can locate your records and destroy them. Withdrawing your information cancels any pending or reserved advertising with upnorthdownsouth.co.uk as we will be unable to contact you further, you will be asked to confirm this. The personal data collected by us from you, may be utilised by us to:

Process your paid advertisement.
Contact you by mail, telephone, email, text message, or any other reasonable method.

We will NEVER give out your information to any third party except to comply with any legal processes.

Cookie Policy

This guide will help you understand more about cookies and how we use them.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small file that a website puts on your hard drive so that it can remember something about you at a later time.

Cookies used on upnorthdownsouth.co.uk

As with most other website we use different types of cookies. There are three different types:

Cookies which improve your experience on upnorthdownsouth.co.uk

We use several cookies that are important in making the site function. For example when you accept and dimiss our cookie alert we store a cookie on your computer to remember your choice. When you come back to the site we check for that cookie and so don't display the cookie message again.

If you click 'Remember me' when registering or logging on a cookie will be stored on your computer so next time you visit you will not need to re-enter your log in details. We also use cookies to detect if you are viewing from a mobile device so that we can show the best version of the site.

Site usage tracking

We also track site usage, for example the number of people visiting upnorthdownsouth.co.uk and the different pages, using special cookies. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the site.

In order that we can monitor and improve the site we may gather certain information about you when you use it, including details of your domain name and IP address, operating system and browser version.

Third party advertising cookies

Some adverts on our pages come from third party sources such as advertisers (Google.com, Laterooms.com, Facebook.com); some of these third parties use their own cookies to track how many people have seen a particular ad, or to track how many people have seen it more than once. The companies that generate these cookies have their own, very strict, privacy policies, and we have no access to read or write these cookies. We may also allow certain business partners to place these technologies on the upnorthdownsouth website. These partners may also collect information about your activities on the upnorthdownsouth website, and/or the ads you have clicked on. For example, to help us better understand how people use the upnorthdownsouth website, we work with Google Analytics. To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analytics, you may install the Google Analytics opt-out browser by clicking here.

Third parties may also use such tracking technologies to serve ads that they believe are most likely to be of interest to you and measure the effectiveness of their ads both on the upnorthdownsouth website and on other websites and online services. Targeting and advertising cookies we use may include Google, and other advertising networks and services we use from time to time. For more information about targeting and advertising cookies and how you can opt out, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative's opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance's opt-out page, or http://youronlinechoices.eu. To opt out of Google Analytics for display advertising or customize Google display network ads, you can visit the Google Ads Settings page.

To find out more about how LateRooms.com uses cookies you can read their terms and conditions here. To find out more about how Facebook.com uses cookies you can read their terms and conditions here.

HOW GOOGLE USES INFORMATION FROM UPNORTHDOWNSOUTH.CO.UK

Our website (upnorthdownsouth.co.uk) uses Google services to improve the content and keep it free. When you use our site we share information with Google.

For example, our website uses the Adsense advertising services provided by Google, including the Google analytics tool called Google Analytics, when you visit our site your web browser automatically sends certain information to Google. This includes the URL of the page that you’re visiting and your IP address. Google may also set cookies on your browser or read cookies that are already there.

To learn more about how Google uses information from sites or apps that use their services you can visit the Google Privacy and Terms relating to Advertising page at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

How can you turn off cookies on your computer?

You can control the use of cookies on your computer and can turn them on or off at anytime. How you do this will depend on your internet browser (eg Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Goolge Chrome etc) but normally you can go to your settings or preferences within your internet browser and look for 'cookies'. For more information on opting out of advertising cookies you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website. However, if you do turn cookies off you may be unable to access certain parts of our site.