Remember the golden rule: Treat others with respect.
About contributing to the site
Keep your contributions civil, tasteful and relevant. We're committed to providing
an atmosphere in which friendly and mature dialogue takes place. Therefore:
No flaming. Flaming means sending unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive, or otherwise objectionable material, and it is not acceptable. Read more about what defamation means.
No spamming or flooding. Spamming is the posting of the same (or very similar) messages to lots of forums. Flooding is when the same (or a very similar) message is posted over and over again to the same conversation. It's especially antisocial if it's off-topic for those forums. If you do this, we will remove your postings, and possibly your account.
Please think carefully before revealing personal information on the site. You may include your own personal email address in postings, but please remember that people may use it to send emails you don't want to receive, like adverts or offensive material. If you are sure that you want people to be able to contact you like this, we recommend you set up a new email account specifically for this purpose. If you are under 16, please do not reveal any personal information.
It is not acceptable to publicise anyone else's contact details other than your own, and we will remove any postal addresses or telephone numbers from postings. However, it is acceptable to include general contact details for organisations, for example, but you must only include publicly available details, such as the address of library or museum.
Be patient. Users of all ages and abilities will be taking part in the community.
No advertising.
Posts containing languages other than English may be removed.
Impersonating someone else is unacceptable, as is adopting an inappropriate screen name (one that is vulgar, offensive, etc.)
Please use only appropriate and suitable URLs (website addresses) in your postings. Links to pornography, commercial services or other inappropriate content will be deleted at our discretion. Any URLs you include will be checked by a moderator.
Please don't abuse the complaints system. It exists to enable visitors to let us know about content which breaks these rules. Please do not use the complaints system to alert us to multiple postings, spelling mistakes and so on. Anyone who abuses the complaints system repeatedly may have their account suspended.
Copyright and the law
You own the copyright in your postings, articles and pictures, but you also
agree to grant Starlight Publishing a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive,
sublicenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish,
translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, and exercise
all copyright and publicity rights with respect to any such work worldwide and/or
to incorporate it in other works in any media now known or later developed for
the full term of any rights that may exist in such content, consistent with
privacy restrictions set forth in the Starlight Publishing Privacy Policy.
If you do not wish to grant such rights to Starlight Publishing, it is suggested that you do not submit your contribution to this site.
By submitting your contribution to this site, you also warrant that such contribution is:
- your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to Starlight Publishing for all the purposes specified above
- is not defamatory
- does not infringe any law
You also agree to indemnify Starlight Publishing against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by Starlight Publishing as a result of your breach of the above warranty.
You also agree to waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on the Starlight Publishing site and the other purposes specified above.
You may not post any defamatory or illegal material of any nature. This includes text, graphics, video, and/or audio. Posting a message with the intention of committing or condoning an illegal act is strictly prohibited.
You may not violate, plagiarise, or infringe on the rights of third parties including copyright, trademark, trade secret, privacy, personal, publicity, or proprietary rights. Where appropriate, we recommend that you seek permission to share the stories of the people your articles are based on. You can read more about copyright here.
If there is any conflict between these Terms and Conditions and/or specific terms appearing elsewhere on this site relating to specific material then the latter shall prevail.
About your privacy
Our submission process requires you to supply us with your email details, but
we will only use this information to validate your access to the discussions
and for other service administration purposes. However, we may also wish to
contact a small number of contributors to ask them to participate in other related
publications.
If you're under age 16
Please get permission from your parent or guardian before taking part in any
Starlight Publishing discussion.
Never reveal any personal information about yourself (for example: your telephone number, mobile phone number, school name, home address or email address).
Disciplinary procedure
If you fail to abide by these House Rules, then the following procedure will
be followed in most cases. Please note that Starlight Publishing reserves the
right to terminate accounts/entries immediately at its discretion (in the event
of such things as criminal behaviour or personal abuse of staff, for example).
Starlight Publishing may also implement a period of individual pre-moderation
instead of or in addition to the following, at our discretion.
Starlight Publishing reserves the right to delete any posting, at any time, for any reason, and is under no obligation to publish any work submitted.
Starlight Publishing Terms and Conditions
Terms of use
Access to and use of this site ('starlightpublishing.co.uk') is provided by Starlight Publishing subject to the following terms:
1. By using starlightpublishing.co.uk you agree to be legally bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of starlightpublishing.co.uk. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all the following terms please do not access and/or use starlightpublishing.co.uk.
2. Starlight Publishing 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 the Starlight Publishing. Your continued use of starlightpublishing.co.uk after changes are posted means you agree to be legally bound by these terms as updated and/or amended.
Use of starlightpublishing.co.uk
3. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use starlightpublishing.co.uk 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 starlightpublishing.co.uk content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of starlightpublishing.co.uk content requires the prior written permission of Starlight Publishing.
4. You agree to use starlightpublishing.co.uk 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 starlightpublishing.co.uk. 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 starlightpublishing.co.uk.
Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability
5. starlightpublishing.co.uk content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to Starlight Publishing, 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 Starlight Publishing 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 starlightpublishing.co.uk regardless of the form of action.
7. Starlight Publishing does not warrant that functions contained in starlightpublishing.co.uk content will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that starlightpublishing.co.uk or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.
Intellectual Property
8. The names, images and logos identifying Starlight Publishing or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of Starlight Publishing and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise any licence or right to use any trademark, patent, design right or copyright of Starlight Publishing, or any other third party.
Contributions to starlightpublishing.co.uk
9. Where you are invited to submit any contribution to starlightpublishing.co.uk (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant Starlight Publishing a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licenseable 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 Starlight Publishing' Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant to Starlight Publishing the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to starlightpublishing.co.uk.
10. Further to paragraph 9, by submitting your contribution to starlightpublishing.co.uk, you:
* 10.1 warrant that your contribution;
* 10.1.1 is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to Starlight Publishing for all the purposes specified above;
* 10.1.2 is not defamatory; and
* 10.1.3 does not infringe any law; and
* 10.2 indemnify Starlight Publishing against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by Starlight Publishing as a result of your breach of the above warranty; and
* 10.3 waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on starlightpublishing.co.uk and the purposes specified above.
starlightpublishing.co.uk Community Rules
11. You agree to use starlightpublishing.co.uk Communities (including Message Boards) in accordance with the following Community Rules. These apply across all starlightpublishing.co.uk community sites and services. You should, however, read the local house rules of the particular site or service youre 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 starlightpublishing.co.uk Community.
* No spamming or off-topic material: we dont 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
* Contributions containing languages other than English may be removed unless allowed in the relevant local house rules.
* No impersonation
* No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names
* You may not refer to specific URLs (web site addresses) unless allowed under the relevant local house rules. If you know of a worthy web site relevant to the discussion topic, please inform the host of the Community 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 host of the relevant Community area using the 'Contact Us' link, and they will promote it if they see fit.
About the law:
* You may not submit any defamatory or illegal material of any nature in starlightpublishing.co.uk 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 starlightpublishing.co.uk Community areas are those of members of the public and are not necessarily those of Starlight Publishing.
If you're under 16:
* Please get a parents or guardians permission before taking part in any starlightpublishing.co.uk 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 Community Rules (and/or any variations in the relevant local house rules) when taking part in a starlightpublishing.co.uk 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 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 starlightpublishing.co.uk Community areas.
If you post or send offensive or inappropriate content anywhere on or to starlightpublishing.co.uk Communities or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on starlightpublishing.co.uk, and Starlight Publishing considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, Starlight Publishing 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 about the infringement/s.
Starlight Publishing 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 starlightpublishing.co.uk (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.
Starlight Publishings Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
This policy covers Starlight Publishings use of personal information that Starlight Publishing collects when you use starlightpublishing.co.uk. The policy also gives you information about cookies; Starlight Publishing and third parties' use of cookies; and how you may reject such cookies.
From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services may include newsletters, competitions, live chats, message boards and starlightpublishing.co.uk membership.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable Starlight Publishing and its service providers to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. When using your personal information Starlight Publishing will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.
2. Visitor Information
During the course of any visit to starlightpublishing.co.uk, the pages you see, along with a short text file called a 'cookie', are downloaded to your computer. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
Information supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better online user experience and assist us to analyse the profile of our visitors. For example: if on a previous visit you went to our photographs pages, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight photographical information on your second and subsequent visits.
3. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website's computer and stored on your computer's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.
Cookies record information about your online preferences. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the starlightpublishing.co.uk features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
If you have set your computer to reject cookies you can still browse starlightpublishing.co.uk anonymously until such time as you wish to register for starlightpublishing.co.uk services. For further information on cookies please visit www.aboutcookies.org.
4. Use and storage of your personal information
When you supply any personal information to starlightpublishing.co.uk (e.g. for competitions, starlightpublishing.co.uk Community services or starlightpublishing.co.uk membership) we have legal obligations towards you in the way we use those data. We must collect the information fairly, that is, we must explain how we will use it (see the notices on particular webpages that let you know why we are requesting the information) and tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else.
In general, any information you provide to Starlight Publishing will only be used within Starlight Publishing and by its agents and service providers. Your information will be disclosed where we are obliged or permitted by law. Also, if you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to starlightpublishing.co.uk or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on starlightpublishing.co.uk, Starlight Publishing can use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour. This may involve informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider and law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met, or, in the case of starlightpublishing.co.uk membership you no longer wish to continue your registration as a starlightpublishing.co.uk member. For safety reasons, however, Starlight Publishing may store messaging transcript data (including message content, member names, times and dates) arising from the use of starlightpublishing.co.uk Community services for a period of six months. Where personal information is held for people who are not yet registered but have taken part in other starlightpublishing.co.uk services (e.g. competitions), that information will be held as long as is necessary to ensure that the service is run smoothly. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
If you are notified on a starlightpublishing.co.uk site that your information may be used to allow Starlight Publishing to contact you for "service administration purposes", this means that Starlight Publishing may contact you for a number of purposes related to the service you have signed up for. For example, we may wish to provide you with password reminders or notify you that the particular service has been suspended for maintenance. We will not contact you for promotional purposes, such as notifying you of improvements to the service or new services on starlightpublishing.co.uk unless you specifically agree to be contacted for such purposes at the time you submit your information on the site, or at a later time if you sign up specifically to receive such promotional information.
5. Access to your personal information
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information Starlight Publishing holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge 10 for information requests.)
6. Users 16 and under
If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to the Starlight Publishing's website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.
7. How to find and control your cookies
If you're using Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
1. Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Click on Cookies
If you're using Internet Explorer 6.0:
1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Privacy Tab
4. Click on Custom Level
5. Click on the 'Advanced' button
6. Check the 'override automatic cookie handing' box and select Accept, Block
or Prompt for action as appropriate.
If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5:
1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Security tab
4. Click on Custom Level
5. Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are handled by IE5 and
change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for action as appropriate.
If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:
1. Choose View, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Advanced tab
4. Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security and choose one
of the three options to regulate your use of cookies.
If you're using Internet Explorer 3.0:
You can View, Options, Advanced, then click on the button that says Warn before Accepting Cookies.
If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
1. Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Set your options in the box that says Cookies.
8. How do you know which of the sites you've visited use cookies?
If you're using Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
1. Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Click on Cookies
5. Click the View Cookies button
If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 6.0:
1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the General tab
4. Click Settings
5. View Files
If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
1. View, then
2. Internet Options
3. Under the tab General (the default tab) click
4. Settings
5. View Files.
If you're using Internet Explorer 3.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
1. View
2. Options
3. Advanced
4. View Files.
If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:
Netscape bundles all cookies into one file on your hard drive. You'll need to find the file, which it calls Cookie.txt on Windows machines.
9. How to see your cookie code
Just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.
Many thanks
Starlight Publishing
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