Our Terms and Policies

Version 1.1.0 - Last Updated 1st October 2010

This page, together with the documents referred to on it, tells you the terms under which you may register as a user of our website. These Registered User Terms are an addendum to our General Terms.

1. General

   1. These terms apply to your use of our website as a registers user.

   2. Before you submit your application to become a register user of our website you should:

      1. make sure that your personal details are complete and accurate;

      2. read and understand these terms.

   3. Please click on the button marked "I Accept" at the end of these terms if you accept and agree to be bound by these terms. If you refuse to accept these terms you will not be able to submit your application to become a registered user of our website.

2. Definitions

   1. By "terms" we mean these Registered User Terms, our General Terms, our Privacy Policy and your application.

   2. By "application" we mean your application to become a registered user of our website.

   3. By "registered user" we mean anyone who has a Choose a Challenge account.

   4. By "confirmation" we mean as set out in clause 4.2.

   5. By "minor" we mean persons who are less than 18 years of age.

3. Your Status

   1. By registering to use our website, you warrant that:

      1. you are at least 13 years of age;

      2. you are legally capable of entering into binding contracts;

      3. you are resident in one of our serviced countries;

      4. you are using our website from one of our serviced countries.

4. How The Contract Is Formed Between You And Us

   1. Your application constitutes an offer by you to us to enter into a binding contract with us. We do not have to accept your application. We will act in accordance with the law when deciding whether or not to accept your application.

   2. Subject to clause 3.1, a contract will come into existence and these terms shall become binding on you and us when we issue a confirmation or when you begin to use our website as a registered user whichever is the earlier.

5. Ending Our Contract

   1. Your registration will last indefinitely unless terminated in accordance with these terms or by operation of law.

   2. Unless you have booked a challenge which you have not yet completed, you may terminate your registration at any time by contacting us at team@chooseachallenge.com.

   3. Either party may terminate this contract:

      1. if the other party is in material breach of these terms.

      2. where required or permitted to do so by law.

   4. Termination will not affect either party's outstanding rights or duties, including our right to recover from you any money you owe us.

6. Your Use Of Our Website

   1. You may only use our website for domestic and private use.

   2. Without limitation you may not use our website:

      1. for any commercial or illegal or immoral purpose;

      2. to generate, send or facilitate the generation or sending of unsolicited electronic communications or spam or communications in breach of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 or Data Protection Act 1998 or any other applicable laws;

      3. to imitate genuine accounts or create false accounts or impersonate another person or entity or pretend to be an official or representative of any organisation;

      4. to send, upload, distribute or disseminate any unlawful, defamatory, discriminatory, fraudulent, abusive, derogatory, infringing, obscene or otherwise immoral, offensive or objectionable material;

      5. to engage in any illegal file sharing;

      6. to engage in or promote or encourage terrorist, violent or any other activities which may harm or corrupt minors or otherwise expose minors to harmful or corrupting influences;

      7. to abuse, harass, stalk, threaten, intimidate any registered user or visitor of our website;

      8. to modify, adapt, translate, decompile, reverse engineer, disrupt or interfere with our website or any part of it, including without limitation any software or code which underpins our website or any of the services and networks which are associated with our website.

      9. to remove any copyright, trade mark or other notices that are part of our website;

      10. We will terminate your registered user account if we become aware of any of the above activities. We will also cancel your challenge(s). See our Challenge And Payment Terms for more details.

   3. You must keep your password and login details confidential. You are responsible for any use of our website under your password and login details. We have no responsibility for such use. If you become aware of any unauthorised use of your password or login details please contact us immediately at team@chooseachallenge.com.

   4. Your user name must not:

      1. contain any swear words or expletives or any words which could be construed as such in any language;

      2. denigrate the character or reputation of any entity with which are associated or its officers, employees, personnel, members, customers or stake holders.

   5. If, in our reasonable opinion, it appears that you have innocently breached clause 6.4. then you may change your user name at no extra cost.

   6. You are solely responsible for any content that you create, transmit, upload or display when using our website and we have no responsibility for such content.

   7. Any content you upload to our website will be considered non confidential and non proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our website constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

   8. We have the right to remove content if:

      1. in our opinion, such material does not comply with the content standards set out in these terms;

      2. we are notified that it may be illegal or defamatory.

   9. Content generated by registered users is not moderated.

   10. You understand that by using our website you may receive or be exposed to third party content which you may find indecent, offensive or objectionable but you use the service at your own risk and we are not responsible for such third party content.

7. Minors

   1. In accordance with clause 3.1, minors of less than 13 years of age are not permitted to register to use our website.

   2. The use of our website by minors is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian.

   3. We advise parents and guardians who permit minors to use our website that it is important that they communicate with them about their safety online. Minors who are using our website should be made aware of the potential risks to them and of their obligation to comply with these terms when using our website.

   4. To find out more about internet safety for minors please visit http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Parents/Yourchildshealthandsafety/Internetsafety/.

   5. We will try to assess any possible risks to minors from third parties when they use our website and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service, including what kind of moderation to use, in the light of those risks.