Please take a moment to read the following terms and conditions (Terms) of use of this web site. If you find anything within this web site which causes you concern for any reason please let us know.
These Terms contain the following sections:
The Thurrock Council web site, thurrock.gov.uk, enables information about Thurrock Council (the Council), Essex, England, U.K., and its partners to be made available via the Internet. The content of this web site is intended to be valid only in the U.K.
thurrock.gov.uk is managed by the Web Development Team of Thurrock Council. Access to and use of this web site are subject to the following Terms and the privacy statement.
thurrock.gov.uk is maintained for your personal use and viewing. The access and use of any of the Council's web sites featuring these Terms constitutes the user's acceptance of these Terms which take effect from the date from which each user first uses any such web site.
You agree to use this site only for lawful purposes and in a manner that does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of this site by any third party. Such restriction or inhibition includes, without limitation, conduct which is unlawful, or which may harass, or cause distress or inconvenience to any person, and the transmission of obscene, or offensive content or disruption of normal flow of dialogue within this site.
All rights, including copyright, in the web site and contents of the Council web pages and downloads are owned by the Council or controlled for these purposes by the Council (on behalf of our partners). Users may download printed copies of the material displayed on the web site for personal use only (including use at work); provided that you maintain all copyright notices and other proprietary notices and comply with all confidentiality obligations hereunder. You must NOT permanently store or otherwise copy contents for commercial gain.
You shall comply with all copyright laws worldwide in the use of the contents of this web site and to prevent any unauthorised access or copying of its contents.
The names, images and logos identifying the Council, thurrock.gov.uk, Thurrock service departments, third parties and their information, products and services are proprietary marks of the Council and/or third parties.
Copying or use of our logos and/or any other third party logos accessed via this web site is not permitted without prior approval from the relevant copyright owner.
Requests for permission to use our logo should be directed to:
Tell us how and why you wish to use our logo(s). Please include your contact name, address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail.
The permission to reproduce the Council's protected material does not extend to any material on this site which is identified as being the copyright of a third party. Authorisation to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.
While reasonable care has been taken in the preparation of the web site to ensure that the information contained on it is accurate, the Council web site with content, names, text and images included on it are provided 'AS IS' and without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. To the fullest extent permissible pursuant to UK law, the Council disclaims all warranties expressed or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of reasonable care, satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement of title.
The Council cannot warrant that the web site and any associated services will be uninterrupted or error free, that any defects will be corrected, or that this web site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. The Council does not warrant the materials in this web site in terms of the correctness, accuracy, functionality or otherwise.
Where the Council web site contains guidance and notes on certain aspects of law as they might affect the average person, they are intended as general information only and do not constitute legal or other professional advice. It should not be relied on as the basis for any decision or legal action. The Council takes every reasonable step to ensure the accuracy and reliability of information published on the web site, but cannot accept liability for any loss suffered due to reliance on the contents of it.
To the extent permitted by applicable laws, no liability is accepted for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss or damage to any user (whether arising in contract, tort including negligence or otherwise) arising out of or in connection with the use of this web site or these Terms except for personal injury or death of any person caused by negligence or for fraud.
Links contained in thurrock.gov.uk will lead to other web sites which are not under our control. Thurrock Council are not responsible for the content of any linked site. Listing and linking should not be taken as an endorsement of any kind and we accept no liability in respect of the content. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and have no control over the availability of the linked pages. It is also our policy to obtain permission to link to other web sites. Please refer to the privacy statement for further details on following links to other sites.
You do not have to ask permission to link directly to pages hosted on this site. We do not object to you linking directly to the information that is hosted on our site. However, we do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site. The thurrock.gov.uk pages must load into the user's entire window. We also strongly object to the use of our images by directly placing image links on your site. This steals our bandwidth as well as infringing copyright. Deep linking can only be accomplished with mutual agreement and benefit.
Although the Council may from time to time monitor or review discussions, postings, transmissions, bulletin boards and the like on its web sites, the Council is under no obligation to do so and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such locations nor for any error, omission, third party infringement, defamation, obscenity, or inaccuracy contained in any information within such locations on its web sites. The Council reserves the right to delete, edit or move any content or materials supplied by you in its absolute discretion and to cancel your registration and access rights at any time and for any reason.
The Council's web server may automatically recognise the domain name and e-mail address (where possible) of users of its web sites. The Council may collect the domain name and e-mail address of visitors to its web sites, the e-mail address of those who post messages to its bulletin boards, the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with the thurrock via e-mail, e-mail addresses of those who make postings to thurrock.gov.uk discussion areas, aggregate and/or analyse information on what pages users access or visit and information volunteered by the user, such as survey information and/or site registrations.
Information collected by us is used for internal review, to improve the content of thurrock.gov.uk, to customise the content and/or layout of thurrock.gov.uk, to notify users about updates to thurrock.gov.uk and to contact users for marketing purposes and is not shared with other organisations for commercial purposes.
Please refer to the privacy statement for further details on how the Council uses personal data transmitted by a user to thurrock.gov.uk.
The Council make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the Internet. We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from this web site.
The Council may at any time revise these Terms without notice. Please check regularly. Continued use of thurrock.gov.uk after a change has been made is your acceptance of the change. These changes will be effective and binding from when they appear on this site.
Your use of this web site and any download from it and the operation of these Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute arising under these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
If you have a query or comment on any of these Terms or the operation of the web site then please contact webadmin@thurrock.gov.uk
© The site, its content, layout, design and structure are the copyright of Thurrock Council. It is an offence to copy the design, structure and layout of the web site without the prior permission of the Council. Read our privacy statement.
