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2. PVEC may change these terms from time to time and so you should check these terms regularly. Your continued use of pvec.net will be deemed acceptance of the updated or amended terms. If you do not agree to the changes, you should cease using this website. If there is any conflict between these terms and specific local terms appearing elsewhere on pvec.net (including house rules) then the latter shall prevail.


Use of PVEC.net:

3. You agree to use pvec.net only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of pvec.net. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within pvec.net.


Intellectual Property:

4. All copyright, trade marks, design rights, patents and other intellectual property rights (registered and unregistered) in and on pvec.net and all content (including all applications) located on the site shall remain vested in the PVEC or its licensors (which includes other users). You may not copy, reproduce, republish, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use pvec.net content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any pvec.net content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of pvec.net content requires the prior written permission of PVEC.

5. The names, images and logos identifying PVEC or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of PVEC and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring any licence or right to use any trade mark, design right or copyright of PVEC or any other third party.


Contributions to PVEC:

6. By sharing any contribution (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) with PVEC you agree to grant to PVEC, free of charge, permission to use the material in any way it wants (including modifying and adapting it for operational and editorial reasons) in any media worldwide (including on the pvec.net website which may be accessed by international users). You may not later withdraw this permission.

7. Copyright in your contribution will remain with you and this permission is not exclusive, so you can continue to use the material in any way including allowing others to use it.

8. In order that PVEC can use your contribution, you confirm that your contribution is your own original work, is not defamatory and does not infringe any UK laws, that you have the right to give PVEC permission to use it for the purposes specified above, and that you have the consent of anyone who is identifiable in your contribution or the consent of their parent / guardian if they are under 16.

9. We normally show your name with your contribution, unless you request otherwise, but for operational reasons this is not always possible. PVEC may need to contact you for administrative or verification purposes in relation to your contribution, or in relation to particular projects. For full details of when and how we may contact you please see PVEC's Privacy Policy plus any local terms where applicable.

10. Please do not endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or break any laws when creating content you may share with PVEC.

11. If you do not want to grant PVEC the permission set out above on these terms, please do not submit or share your contribution to or with pvec.net.

12. If you have any questions about contributing content to PVEC, please see our FAQs.

Disclaimer
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For the avoidance of doubt.
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5. The opinions expressed and published on the PVEC.net website or it's forum, are those of the contributors alone, and do not necessarily reflect those of the webmaster or of PVEC itself. Whilst every attempt it made to avoid any deliberate attempts to mislead or otherwise cause harm or damage to any person, by any advertisement, message, or page on this website, the webmaster, his agents, the forum moderators, nor PVEC itself, will not, in any way, be held responsible for the factual correctness, or any libellous statement made by any contributor to the website itself, or the open forums contained therein.
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6. Moderators within the forums, will try to remove any offending, misleading, or libellous messages that are posted, but cannot guarantee that these, if removed at all, will be removed before anyone else has had the opportunity to read them.

Gallery pictures and Copyright Issues.

7. If you hold provable copyright to any of the images on the gallery pages, and those images have never been reproduced by PVEC in any form, as per clause 1, above. And you would like them to be removed from the gallery, please get in touch with the webmaster (webmaster@PVEC.net) and we will take steps to remove them as soon as possible.

Previously reproduced images.

8. Where PVEC have previously reproduced images (or other items) in whatever form, we shall assume that we hold a licence, granted by the copyright holder, to reproduce the images as we see fit.

Submission of pictures and/or other material.

9. By submitting digital pictures, photographs, or other material to PVEC for publication in Sidestripe and/or on PVEC.net, you hereby agree that, by submitting items for one medium, you also agree to those items being published in any other medium as PVEC see fit.

Items for sale by PVEC.

10. Where PVEC offer reproductions of images or other material. We will endeavour to obtain the written (including e-mail) permission, of either the person submitting the item, or, where they are not the original copyright holder, the permission of that original copyright holder, if they are known.


Other Web Site Information, including Terms & Conditions of Use

Access to and use of this site ('PVEC.net') is provided by PVEC subject to the following terms:

1. By using PVEC.net you agree to be legally bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of this site. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all the following terms please do not access and/or use this site.

2. PVEC may change these terms at any time by posting changes online. Please review these terms regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes made by PVEC. Your continued use of PVEC.net after changes are posted means you agree to be legally bound by these terms as updated and/or amended.

Use of PVEC.net

3. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use PVEC.net content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any PVEC.net content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of PVEC.net content requires the prior written permission of the Police Vehicle Enthusiasts' Club.

4. You agree to use PVEC.net only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of PVEC.net. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content in the PVEC.net forum or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within PVEC.net.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

5. PVEC.net content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to PVEC and/or its products and services (or to third party products and services), is provided "AS IS" and on an "IS AVAILABLE" basis without any representations or any kind of warranty made (whether express or implied by law) to the extent permitted by law, including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

6. Under no circumstances will PVEC be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such losses where foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties; or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of PVEC.net regardless of the form of action.

7. While PVEC, and it's hosts endeavour to ensure it, PVEC does not warrant that functions contained in PVEC.net content will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that PVEC.net or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.

Intellectual Property

8. The names, images and logos identifying the Police Vehicle Enthusiasts' Club or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of PVEC and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppels or otherwise any licence or right to use any trademark, patent, design right or copyright of PVEC, or any other third party.

Contributions to PVEC.net

9. Where you are invited to submit any contribution to PVEC.net (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant PVEC a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in the PVEC Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant to PVEC the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to PVEC.net.

10. Further to paragraph 9, by submitting your contribution to PVEC.net, you warrant that your contribution:

          10.1. Is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to PVEC for all the purposes specified above;
          10.2. Is not defamatory; and
          10.3. Does not infringe any law, copyright, or other intellectual property rights; and
          10.4. Indemnify PVEC against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by PVEC as a result of your breach of
                  the above warranty; and
          10.5. Waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on PVEC.net or in Sidestripe,
                  the PVEC Quarterly magazine, and the purposes specified above.

PVEC.net Community Rules

11. You agree to use PVEC.net Communities (including Message Boards) in accordance with the following Community Rules. These apply across all PVEC.net community sites and services. You should, however, read the rules of the particular site or service you're using, as there may be some local variations to these Community Rules.

About your posts:

• Contributions must be civil and tasteful
• No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour: contributions must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble.
• No unlawful or objectionable content: unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable.
• If you use multiple logins for the purpose of disrupting the community or annoying other users you may have action taken against your accounts.
• Be patient: users of all ages and abilities may be taking part in the relevant PVEC.net Community.
• No spamming or off-topic material: we don't allow the submission of the same or very similar contributions many times. Please don't re-submit your contribution to more than one discussion, or contribute off-topic material in subject-specific areas.
• No advertising, unless previously agreed.
• No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names
• You may not refer to specific URLs (web site addresses) unless allowed under the relevant rules. If you know of a worthy web site relevant to the discussion topic, please inform the moderator of the area.
• Deliberate misuse of the complaints facility is not permitted. If you persist in doing this action may be taken against your account.

Safety:

We advise that you never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example: telephone number, home address or email address), and please do not include postal addresses of any kind. If you have a helpful address to share, inform the moderator of the relevant area by clicking on their forum user name. They will then promote it if they see fit.

About the law:

• You may not submit any defamatory or illegal material of any nature in PVEC.net Communities. This includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio.
• Contributing material with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act is strictly prohibited.
• You agree to only submit materials which are your own original work. You must not violate, plagiarise, or infringe the rights of third parties including copyright, trade mark, trade secrets, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights.
• The views expressed in PVEC.net Community areas are those of members of the public and are not necessarily those of PVEC.

If you're under 16:

• Please get a parent's or guardian's permission before taking part in any PVEC.net discussion.
• Never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example, telephone number, home address or email address).

If you breach these Terms of Use:

If you fail to abide by these (and/or any variations in the relevant local house rules) when taking part in a PVEC.net Community service, you will be sent an e-mail which informs you why your contribution has been failed or edited. This mail will also include a warning that continuing to break the rules may result in action being taken against your account or accounts, this may also affect your continued membership of PVEC.

This action may include your relevant account or accounts being placed into pre-moderation or a temporary or permanent suspension of your ability to participate in any or all of PVEC.net Community areas.

If you post or send offensive or inappropriate content anywhere on or to PVEC.net Communities or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on PVEC.net, and the PVEC Management Committee considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, PVEC may use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop any further such infringements. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school or email provider, or local law enforcement agency about the infringement/s.

PVEC reserves the right to delete any contribution, or take action against any account, at any time, for any reason.

General

12. If there is any conflict between these terms and specific terms appearing elsewhere on PVEC.net (including local house rules) then the latter shall prevail.

13. If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.

14. These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.

Acknowledgements

Nearly all the photographs displayed on this site have been taken by PVEC Members, past and present - see 1a above.

However, we are particularly grateful to a small number of photographers who have submitted large amounts of their work for display the site, including, but not limited to:

Ian Stephenson, Alan Matthews, Brian Homans, Matthew Holmes, Paddy Carpenter, James Waddington, Bill Iles.

Special thanks to the following companies, Police forces, and their Officers and Staff, who have greatly supported this site, or PVEC.

ABC Bristol.
Avon & Somerset Constabulary.
Dorset Police.
Gloucestershire Constabulary.
Hertfordshire Police.
Hobson Industries.
Metropolitan Police Service.
Norfolk Constabulary.
Police Service of Northern Ireland.
West Mercia Police.


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