Terms & Conditions

Terms and Conditions - ICT kiosks & website

These are the terms and conditions for the use of Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives M Shed website and gallery information network. These are our terms and conditions for use of the network, which you may access in several ways, including but not limited to the World Wide Web and via the kiosks in the M Shed galleries. These terms and conditions apply whenever you access the M Shed website mshed.org or the M Shed gallery kiosks on whatever device.

By using the network, you are deemed to have accepted these conditions.

By entering your personal details to either the M Shed website or the gallery kiosks, you will be deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions. Also, by subscribing to any of our email services, you are deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions. Any changes we make to the terms and conditions will be reflected on the website Terms and Conditions page and updated on the gallery kiosks.

1. Submission
When you submit your contact details, e-mail address, information and stories you do so as a personal user of mshed.org or the gallery kiosk. In most cases we will only publish your story if you have supplied your name and contact details; however if you do not supply your name and contact details, we may still publish the story anonymously. On submission of information or your story, the data will be held until such time as it may be moderated and checked for relevance and/or accuracy. If your story is published on the gallery kiosks and the website, you will be notified via the e-mail address that you supplied.

We allow you access to the areas of the site or the gallery kiosks which involves submission of information on the basis that:

(i) your email address is personal to you and may not be used by anyone else  to access mshed.org

(ii) you do not maliciously create additional registration accounts for the purpose of abusing the functionality of the site, or other users; nor do you seek to pass yourself off as another user

(iii) you comply with these terms and conditions.

If, for any reason, we believe that you have not complied with these requirements, we may, at our discretion, choose not to publish and to remove your submission without giving you any advance notice.

2. Publication
Users of our site may submit material for publication in various areas of the gallery on gallery kiosks and the website, including the 'Have Your Say' and 'Tell Your Story' sections.

Interactions with our site are governed by our terms and conditions. You will be deemed to consent to these guidelines if you choose to post any content or comments to the website or gallery kiosk.

When you submit content to us, you do so in accordance with these Terms of Service.

This means you agree that you have created the content you have submitted to us, or you have permission from, or are authorised by, the owner of the content to send it to us.

By submitting content to us, you are granting us an unconditional, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free (unless otherwise agreed with us) worldwide licence to use, publish or transmit, or to authorise third-parties to use, publish or transmit your content in any format and on any platform, either now known or hereinafter invented.

In certain areas of the gallery and the website, content will be published only at the discretion of the moderator. We, or authorised third parties, may cut, crop or edit your content at our or their sole discretion. We may remove your content from use at any time. Content may appear either on the website or on the gallery kiosk, or simultaneously in both places. We reserve the right to select whether the material is suitable for publication. Content is unlikely to be published on the day of submission and in some instances may take some time to appear.

We accept no liability in respect of any content submitted by users and published by us or by authorised third-parties.

You warrant that the material you submit is not obscene, offensive, defamatory of any person or otherwise illegal; and, you agree not to post material which is deliberately intended to upset other users.

Important

You or the owner of the content still own the copyright in the content sent to us and are free to use the content wherever you or the owner wish and in whatever media you or the owner want.

We will not publish your email address or personal details and will comply with Data Protection legislation.

3. Removal of information
If we wish to unpublish, remove or delete your submission to the 'Have Your Say' section, you will not be informed. If we wish to unpublish, remove or delete your submission to the 'Tell your Story' section, we will do so by e-mailing you at the address you have supplied stating that the submission has been removed. If no contact details are supplied then we reserve the right to publish or unpublish and delete any submissions made via the website or on the gallery kiosks. The agreement will terminate and the information and e-mail address will be deleted.

4. Disclaimer of liability
To the extent permitted at law, we do not accept any responsibility for any statement in the material. You must not rely on any statement we have published on mshed.org without first taking specialist professional advice. Nothing in the material is provided for any specific purpose or at the request of any particular person.

For the avoidance of confusion, we will not be liable for any loss caused as a result of your doing, or not doing, anything as a result of viewing, reading or listening to the material or any part of it (except for death or personal injury attributable to our negligence and to the extent permitted at law).

You can access other sites via links from mshed.org    These sites are not under our control and we are not responsible in any way for any of their contents.

We give no warranties of any kind concerning mshed.org or the material. In particular, we do not warrant that mshed.org or any of its contents is virus free. You must take your own precautions in this respect as we accept no responsibility for any infection by virus or other contamination or by anything which has destructive properties.

5. Data protection
Please see our privacy policy for details of how personal data may be processed.

6. Variations
These terms may be varied from time to time. Please ensure that you review these terms and conditions regularly as you will be deemed to have accepted a variation if you continue to use the site after it has been posted.

7. Force majeure
Although we will do our best to provide constant, uninterrupted access to mshed.org and to the gallery kiosks we do not guarantee this. We accept no responsibility or liability for any interruption or delay.

8. Governing law and jurisdiction
This agreement is governed by English law and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.