Acceptable Use Policy

About us

This Acceptable Use Policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you may access our website at goldbankcomps.co.uk (our “Site”). This policy applies to all users of, and visitors to, our Site.

Your use of our Site means that you accept and agree to comply with all of the policies in this Acceptable Use Policy. This policy supplements our Website Terms of Use.

Our Site is operated by JWE COMPETITIONS LIMITED, trading as Gold Bank Competitions (“we”, “us” or “our”). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 16174576 and have our registered office at 12 Exchange Walk, Nottingham, NG1 2NX.

To contact us, please email [email protected].

Prohibited uses

You may use our Site only for lawful purposes. You must not use our Site:

You also agree:

• In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
• In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
• For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
• To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or reuse any material that does not comply with the content standards set out below.
• To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation, including spam.
• To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful program or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

• Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or resell any part of our Site in contravention of our Website Terms of Use.
• Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt any part of our Site.
• Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt any equipment or network on which our Site is stored.
• Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt any software used in the provision of our Site.
• Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt any equipment, network or software owned or used by any third party.

Interactive services

We may from time to time provide interactive services on our Site, including the ability to participate in games or competitions, comment on blog posts or post to our social media accounts.

Where we provide an interactive service, we will provide clear information about the kind of service offered, whether it is moderated and the form of moderation used, including whether moderation is human or technical.

We will do our best to assess any possible risks to users, particularly children, arising from third parties when they use an interactive service provided on our Site. We will decide in each case whether moderation is appropriate and, if so, what kind of moderation to use. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service, and we expressly exclude liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of an interactive service by a user in breach of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.

Use of any interactive service by a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. We advise parents and guardians who permit children to use an interactive service to explain online safety and the potential risks involved, as moderation is not foolproof.

Where we moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide a means of contacting the moderator if a concern or difficulty arises.

Content standards

These content standards apply to any and all material that you contribute to our Site, including contributions made through any interactive service.

You must comply with both the spirit and the letter of the following standards. The standards apply to each part of a contribution as well as to the contribution as a whole.

Contributions must:

• Be accurate where they state facts.
• Be genuinely held where they state opinions.
• Comply with applicable law in the United Kingdom and in any country from which they are posted.

Contributions must not:

• Contain any material that is defamatory of any person.
• Contain any material that is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
• Promote sexually explicit material.
• Promote violence.
• Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
• Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
• Be likely to deceive any person.
• Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, including a contractual duty or duty of confidence.
• Promote any illegal activity.
• Be threatening, abusive, invade another person’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
• Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
• Be used to impersonate any person or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
• Give the impression that they originate from us where that is not the case.
• Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act, including copyright infringement or computer misuse.

Suspension and termination

We will determine, at our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this Acceptable Use Policy through your use of our Site. Where a breach has occurred, we may take such action as we consider appropriate.

Failure to comply with this Acceptable Use Policy constitutes a material breach of the Website Terms of Use on which you are permitted to use our Site and may result in us taking any or all of the following actions:

• Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our Site.
• Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our Site.
• Issuing a warning to you.
• Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis, including reasonable administrative and legal costs, resulting from the breach.
• Further legal action against you.
• Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably consider necessary.

We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this Acceptable Use Policy. The responses described in this policy are not exhaustive, and we may take any other action we reasonably consider appropriate.

Changes to this Acceptable Use Policy

We may revise this Acceptable Use Policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes, as they are legally binding on you.

Some provisions contained in this Acceptable Use Policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our Site.