Greater Edinburgh

Membership Terms and Conditions

Membership to and use of this website 'Greater Edinburgh' (www.greateredinburgh.com - and its other domains*) is provided by Greater Edinburgh to you ('the Member') subject to the following Terms and Conditions:

In submitting their details to this site the Member indicates his/her agreement to be bound by the following Terms and Conditions:

Alterations to the website

The Member accepts that Greater Edinburgh may, when necessary, make alterations to any aspect of the website, the services that it provides and the Terms and Conditions. Further, Greater Edinburgh may make such alterations at any time and without notice, unless the alterations are known to have an adverse effect upon, or access to, the Members content. The Member accepts that it will have no claim for breach of contract or otherwise following any such alteration. Please review these terms regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes made by us. Continued use of this site after changes means you agree to be legally bound by these terms as updated or amended.

Acceptable Member Conduct

The Member agrees that in using the website, he/she shall:

  • a) Use it only for Lawful purposes, and not in anyway which would infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit, the use of the website by a third party.
  • b) Not engage in any conduct which is unlawful, or result in distress, inconvenience, or offence to any person or third party.
  • c) Not upload, post, distribute or reproduce, in anyway, materials, images, information or other content that the Member does not own the intellectual property rights to.
  • d) Not upload, post, distribute or reproduce, in anyway, materials, images, information or other content that is unlawful, potentially harmful or offensive, threatening, abusive, libellous, pornographic, or racially or ethically objectionable.
  • e) Not upload, post, distribute or reproduce, in anyway, materials, images, information or other content that contains a computer virus, or other code, programs, script, software, intended to affect or disrupt the functionality of the website.

Greater Edinburgh reserves the right, at anytime and without notice, to remove material it deems to be inappropriate or in breach of the website Terms and Conditions. Further, Greater Edinburgh maintains the right, at anytime to restrict or terminate your access to the website in the event of a violation of the Member Terms and Conditions. You will be notified if such action is taken. No refunds will be given for terminated Membership in the event of a breach of the terms and conditions.

Disclaimer

Greater Edinburgh makes no guarantees to you the Member in regards to business generation, web traffic, search engine ranking or other benefits associated with being a member on this site.

The contents of this website are provided to the Greater Edinburgh Users and Members for general background information only. The User or Member should not rely on the accuracy of any part of the contents. Greater Edinburgh makes no guarantees as to the quality of any of the accommodation, attractions, activities or other services featured in the contents. As such all information submitted by you the Member, including but not limited to, prices and promotions, is trusted to be accurate and true at the point of submission. Further, the accuracy of such content will be maintained by you the Member.

The Member agrees that Greater Edinburgh, its partners and representatives of any sort shall not in any way be liable for any damage, loss, costs or expenses arising directly or indirectly from the Members use of this site, reliance on or use of any of its content, of from clients, business or otherwise, driven from this site. Further no liability for any transaction, interaction, damage, offence, injury, or other complaint arising from using, purchasing, visiting or otherwise interacting with any of the other Members or Users on the Greater Edinburgh website, will be placed with Greater Edinburgh, its partners or representatives.

Without prejudice to the foregoing generality, Greater Edinburgh hereby excludes, insofar as permitted by law, all warranties and representations, express or implied, in respect of any of the Contents, including but not limited to any information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons forming part of them, including but not limited to warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement of third party rights or any law, compatibility, security and accuracy.

Downtime and Refunds

Greater Edinburgh will take all reasonable efforts to ensure the website and Member content is operational and visible at all times. However the Member accepts and acknowledges that some technical problems might occasionally occur that are out with Greater Edinburgh's control and therefore Greater Edinburgh incurs no liability. Further the Member accepts and acknowledges that the site may occasionally be temporarily unavailable due to essential maintenance and security updates.

In extreme cases of downtime, (content is unavailable for more than two weeks in a year) an equivalent amount of additional Membership time will be added, by way of compensation.

No refunds will be given, except in the event of a billing error, or the continuous downtime exceeding one month. In the event of downtime exceeding one month a refund of the remainder of the Membership from the point of initial downtime will be given.

Copyright

All content (text, images, information) submitted to Greater Edinburgh by you the Member remains under your full copyright. However by submitting your content to Greater Edinburgh you give express permission for Greater Edinburgh to use this content to promote your business and directly promote the Greater Edinburgh website via any media it deems necessary.

General

These terms and conditions and other specific terms of use appearing anywhere on the Greater Edinburgh website constitute the entire agreement of the parties in relation to the use of this site. If any of these terms and conditions are deemed, illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be deleted from the terms and conditions and the remaining terms shall remain in full force and binding.

The rights of Greater Edinburgh may be exercised as often as necessary. Delay in exercising or non-exercise of any right is not a waiver of that right.

Governing Law

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by the laws of Scotland. Any disputes shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of Scotland.

Non-Acceptance of Terms and Conditions

If you do not accept these terms and conditions you do not have permission to register your details with Greater Edinburgh and become a Member and therefore should terminate registration immediately.


*Other domains include: www.greateredinburgh.com, www.greateredinburgh.co.uk, www.greateredinburgh.org, www.greateredinburghtourism.com, www.greateredinburghtourism.co.uk and www.greateredinburghtourism.org