The following terms and conditions (rules) apply to members and users of this website. Please read them and make sure you fully understand them before you apply to be a member or become a user. By becoming a member and paying your membership fee you agree to abide by the terms and conditions (the rules).
TERMS OF USE
Access and use by you of this website constitutes acceptance of these Terms of Use, which take effect from the date of first use.
These Terms of Use may be amended from time to time and you should review them regularly. If you do not accept any of the amendments made to these Terms of Use, you should cease being a member and stop using or contributing to this website. Your continued use of this website after amendments have been made to these Terms of Use will be deemed as acceptance of those amendments.
You agree:
Not to use the website for anything illegal.
Not to compromise the security of the website.
Not to do anything that may corrupt or impair the performance of the website.
Not to attempt to access any secure area of the website.
Not to impair anyone else’s enjoyment or use of the website.
Not to contribute any obscene, distressing, harassing, defamatory, discriminatory or offensive material.
Not to do anything that may infringe the rights of others, including any copyright rights.
A member of user contravening any of the above will have their membership cancelled (without refund) or notice, and will be blocked from participating with the website.
MEMBERSHIP FEES
The membership fee to access (read and see) everything on this website is £20 per year, payable when your application to be a member is confirmed.
The membership fee is non-refundable.
The owner of this website reserves the right to refuse an application for membership, without giving any explanation.
Validity Requirement
When applying to be a member of this website or leaving a comment on this website, you agree to provide a valid, functional email address that you own. The use of disposable, temporary, or ‘fake’ email services is strictly prohibited. The owner of this website reserves the right to ban members and users or delete comments associated with invalid or suspicious email addresses to protect this website community from spam and abuse.
Account Privacy
Double Opt-In: Members and users must confirm their email address through a second step (often via email) to confirm they want to be on the member/user list.
Right to Edit/Delete: Members and users have the right to modify, update, or delete their information at any time.
Members and users must not share or make known their password to anyone else.
Members and users must not allow anyone else to use their name and password to access this website.
Account Responsibility: Members are responsible for maintaining the security of their login credentials.
Non-Transferable: Memberships are for personal use and cannot be sub-licensed or shared with others.
Termination of Membership
A member may choose to cease to be a member of this website at any time but will not be refunded all or any part of the membership fee.
CONTRIBUTIONS
This website welcomes members and users to contribute information, photographs, ephemera, etc., if such things are appropriate to the theme of the website. If you contribute your own photographs, ephemera, documents, text, or any other media content to this website, you retain the copyright in your contribution. As you still retain your copyright, you can continue to use your content as you like, including to allow others to use it.
By contributing to the website, you agree to allow the owner of the website to use it free of charge. Preferably your contributions should be your own original material which does not infringe the copyright of others. If you contribute the work of someone else, you must show that you have the permission of the copyright holder.
If your content clearly identifies anyone apart from yourself you will need to ensure that they have consented to the content being used by this website for the purposes for which you contributed it and/or any other uses deemed reasonable by the owner of the website.
If any content you contribute clearly identifies children currently under the age of 16 you must ensure that their parent or guardian has provided consent.
The owner of the website is under no obligation to publish any text, photographs, images, documents, ephemera, contributed to the site. The owner of the website may alter the text of material contributed and accepted for publication, for the sake of clarity or brevity, without the contributor being notified. Photographs and images submitted with contributions may need to be cropped by the owner of the website, again without the contributor being notified.
The owner of the website reserves the right to reject material on the grounds of copyright infringement, offensiveness or other legal considerations.
This owner of the website will decide whether to accept and use contributions of a commercial, marketing, advertising or political nature.
The owner of this website does not necessarily endorse the views of those members and users contributing material for inclusion on the website.
USE OF CONTENT
Ownership: All content of this website (text, photos, logos) is owned by the website owner, except where otherwise stated.
Copyright: Every effort has been made to locate copyright holders of material included on this website in order to obtain their permission to publish it. However, if any member or user considers material to be their copyright, please email the website with details together with any supporting documents.
Usage License: The owner of this website allows members and users to view and read content from this website for personal, non-commercial use only, for example for private research and study free of charge.
Prohibitions: The owner of this website prohibits reproduction, distribution, selling, or modifying of the website content without written permission.
CONDUCT AND COMMENTING
Respectful Communication: Members and users, if making comments about a post or anything on this website, must be respectful and constructive. Harassment, hate speech, profanity and defamatory language are not allowed.
Members and users must not argue with other users of this website.
No Spam/Self-Promotion: Members and users are prohibited from making comments that could be seen as spam, advertising, running competitions, selling products or unsolicited promotion.
Appropriate Content: Members and users must not submit material that is illegal, obscene, or threatening.
CONTENT USAGE
No Copying/Re-using Content: Members and users are prohibited from copying, re-publishing, or distributing any content on this website without permission.
Quoting Guidelines: Members and users may quote small sections but should always link back to the original source.
No Misuse of Content: Members and users cannot use the content of this website to compete with the website, i.e. no scraping or republishing in a way that infringes on copyright.
TERMINATION OF MEMBERSHIP AND USAGE
Violation of Terms: The owner of this website reserves the right to ban, block, or remove members and users, and to cancel the membership of those who violate the terms and conditions (the rules).
Unavailability
“As Is” Basis: The content and services of this website are provided without warranties of any kind.
No Guarantee of Access: The owner of this website does not guarantee that the blog will be available 24/7 or be error-free.
Liability Waiver: The owner of this website is not responsible for damages, including lost profits or data, resulting from technical issues, server malfunctions, or downtime.
Third-Party Disruptions: The owner of this website is unable to offer protection against downtime caused by third-party service providers (e.g. hosting providers, DNS services).
LINKS
This website is not responsible for the contents or reliability of other websites linked to from our website and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them. The listing of a link should not be taken as endorsement of any kind. The owner of this website cannot guarantee that any of these links will work all of the time and has no control over the availability of the linked sites.
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These Terms & Conditions (Rules) were last amended Monday 13th April 2026.