Ancestral Villages

Terms and Conditions

1. Introduction. This Agreement is a legal document which sets out your rights and obligations, and those of OpenCTO Limited, a company registered in England under registration no. 4434106 ("Ancestral Villages", "we" or "us"), in relation to this site and the services offered by Ancestral Villages through it (the "Ancestral Villages Service"). By registering for the Ancestral Villages Service, you agree to the terms of this Agreement, and you re-affirm that agreement every time you use it. Visitors to the Ancestral Villages Service who do not register to become a Member (see 2 below) similarly affirm that they are bound by this Agreement each time they access the Ancestral Villages Service. You should be aware that this Agreement may change from time to time in accordance with Clause 23 below.

2 Types of Usership. People who register for the Ancestral Villages Service become "Full Users". They must be at least 18 years of age. Those who do not register are known as "Standard Users".

Standard Users may:

- Search for villages within the Ancestral Villages Service;

- Browse the information on villages;

In addition to the facilities available to Standard Users, Full Users may:

• Found their ancestral village if it is not yet founded;

• Add an ancestor to a village;

• Edit their own ancestors information;

• Add an Historical, Family or Other Message to a village;

We are not an internet service provider, however. In order to avail of the Ancestral Villages Service, you must have internet access and all the software (and skills) required for email and web usage.

3. Registration. You undertake to register for the Ancestral Villages Service using accurate and current information about yourself - including your correct name, e-mail address and any other requested details. You also undertake only to add your own ancestors and relevant messages to the relevant villages on the Ancestral Villages Service. If you are asked for, and provide, details of a credit, debit or charge card; in that event, you must ensure that (a) you are fully entitled to use that card, and (b) it has available funds sufficient to cover the charges which are deducted from it. As part of the registration process for the Ancestral Villages Service, you will receive a verification email, the purpose of which is to take reasonable steps to ensure that the email address you have nominated during registration is controlled by you. That email contains simple instructions which you must follow.

4. Privacy policy. Ancestral Villages's Privacy Policy forms part of this Agreement, and by agreeing to this Agreement, you also give your consent to the way we may handle your personal data in that policy. Given the global nature of the World Wide Web, any posting on the Ancestral Villages Service (including any which contain personal information) is, of course, accessible to internet users around the world.

5. Ancestral Villages's Role. You, whether you are a Member or just a non-Member who visits the Ancestral Villages Service, acknowledge that we are not and cannot be responsible for the behaviour of Users - whether on the Ancestral Villages Service or outside of it. We only provide a venue where the Ancestral Villages Service may be accessed. In particular, you should be aware that Ancestral Villages does not pre-screen or monitor the material contributed by Users.

6. Additional services. Ancestral Villages or its affiliates may offer new or additional services through the Ancestral Villages Service from time to time. Your use of those services may be subject to additional terms and conditions, or rules of use, which you must comply with. Provided that those terms or rules are notified to you on the Ancestral Villages Service in an appropriate manner (as determined by Ancestral Villages in its reasonable discretion), any failure by you to comply with a material provision of the terms or rules governing those services will amount to a breach of this Agreement.

7. Operation of Ancestral Villages Services. Ancestral Villages reserves the right to withdraw or modify one or more aspects of the Ancestral Villages Service where we have legal or technical reasons to do so (including technical difficulties experienced by Ancestral Villages or on the Internet). There may also be times when the Ancestral Villages Service becomes unavailable, whether on a scheduled or unscheduled basis. For security or other reasons, we may require you to change password or other information which facilitates access to the Ancestral Villages Service.

8. Misuse of Ancestral Villages Service. We reserve the right (a) to suspend or terminate any Member's access to the Ancestral Villages Service, or parts of it, and/or (b) to edit, or require the Member to edit, material posted on the Ancestral Villages Service, if the relevant Member or material appears to us to be in breach of any provision of this Agreement. Any person whose access has been suspended or terminated must not re-register for, or re-access, the Ancestral Villages Service without our prior consent. You are responsible for everything which is done on or through the Ancestral Villages Service while your Usership account is logged on to the Ancestral Villages Service, or through your email address(es).

9. Relevance. The Ancestral Villages Service is intended to be used by its Users for the purposes referred to in Clause 2 above. Accordingly, Users must not:

- place material on, or otherwise use, the Ancestral Villages Service for any business or commercial purpose; or

- use your access to the Ancestral Villages Service, or information gathered from it, for the sending of unsolicited bulk email (sometimes known as spam).

10. Fees

We may add new or ancillary services from time to time which require the payment of fees - either to us or a nominated third party - on terms which will be provided to you at the time.

11. Prohibitions. You are responsible for ensuring that no material you post, or which is posted through a machine on which you access the Ancestral Villages Service, nor any activity or communication you make in connection with any Ancestral Villages Service, will be capable of (a) infringing the intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity, (b) breaching any applicable law, whether criminal, tortious or otherwise, or (c) appearing to be offensive, threatening, obscene, pornographic, false, unreliable or misleading.

12. Alerting Ancestral Villages. If you see anything on the Ancestral Villages Service which appears to infringe this Agreement, then please contact us to inform us of it by using the "Contact Us" function, or by emailing us here. We do not generally monitor material contributed by Users before it is placed on the Ancestral Villages Service, and so we are reliant upon users to point out any which infringes this Agreement.

13. Withdrawal of material and Termination of Usership. Each Member acknowledges that we are entitled to withdraw any material on the Ancestral Villages Service which appears whether based on information received from Users or others, or our own determination to be capable of breaching any part of this Agreement, or to bring the Ancestral Villages Service into disrepute. However, each user acknowledges that we do not monitor material which appears on the Ancestral Villages Service, and that we are reliant upon you and all users to notify us of anything you see here which appears likely to breach this Agreement, using the notification techniques which are made available on the Ancestral Villages Service.

14. Disclaimer and Release. Ancestral Villages has no control over or responsibility for the truth or accuracy of any material available on the Ancestral Villages Service, whether provided by Users or others.

- If any third party sites are linked to from the Ancestral Villages Service, this does not mean that we endorse or have any responsibility for the site in question or anything which appears on it.

- You should exercise no lesser degree of caution in appraising what you see on the Ancestral Villages Service than you do offline.

- Even though Users are prohibited from doing so, people may provide information, or otherwise behave, in a way that is unreliable, misleading or even illegal. Further, you should note that people may not necessarily be who they say they are.

- Your use of the Ancestral Villages Service is entirely at your own risk.

Accordingly, to the extent that the law permits, you release Ancestral Villages its directors, contractors and employees from all liability arising out of or in connection with the Ancestral Villages Service and the material included here by Users and other third parties.

15. Intellectual Property. You acknowledge that all copyright, trade marks, and other intellectual property rights in and relating to the Ancestral Villages Service (excluding the material which is contributed by Users) are owned by Ancestral Villages.

By submitting any material to the content to the Ancestral Villages Service, you:

- are representing that you are fully entitled to do so;

- grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-terminable licence right to copy, modify, distribute, show in public and create derivative works from that material in any form, anywhere; and

- authorise us to adapt the relevant material in the course of doing so, and so waive your moral rights to object to any derogatory treatment, or to be identified as the author, of the material in question.

16. Excluded loss. We will not be liable to you or any third party for any indirect or consequential loss or damage, or for any loss of data, profit, revenue or business, howsoever caused (whether arising out of any negligence or breach of this Agreement or otherwise). Ancestral Villages will also not be liable for any failure to perform of its obligations under this Agreement caused by matters beyond its reasonable control.

17. Maximum liability. Without limiting the preceding Clause, during any period of twelve months, the aggregate liability of Ancestral Villages under this Agreement (whether arising in negligence or otherwise) will not under any circumstances exceed the greater of (a) £0, or (b) an amount equal to the sums paid by you to us by way of Full Usership fees during the relevant period of twelve months, regardless of the cause or form of action.

18. Non-excluded Liabilities. Nothing in this Agreement limits Ancestral Villages's liability for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence, or any other liability which may not by law be excluded. Any statutory rights you may have as a consumer remain unaffected.

19. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify us against all liabilities, claims and expenses that may arise from any breach of this Agreement by you or through a machine on which you access the Ancestral Villages Service.

20. Assignment. We reserve the right to assign this Agreement, and to assign or subcontract any or all of our rights and obligations under this Agreement. You may not without the written consent of Ancestral Villages assign or dispose of this Agreement.

21. Entire Agreement. This Agreement includes our privacy policy. Together they contain the whole of the agreement between us and you concerning the Ancestral Villages Service and they replace all earlier agreements and understandings with you, except for any fraud or fraudulent representation by either of us. A person who is not a party to this Agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to rely upon or enforce any term of this Agreement.

22. Changes to this Agreement. Ancestral Villages reserves the right to change this Agreement from time to time, and post the new version on the Ancestral Villages Service. When we do so, we will notify you of the fact that there are changed terms on the main screen (www.Ancestral-Villages.co.uk), and the new version of these terms and conditions will take effect, and will govern all Ancestral Villages Services and your relationship with Ancestral Villages:

- commencing four weeks after the date of posting (or such later date as Ancestral Villages indicates in the relevant posting), if any of the changes is to an operative provision of this Agreement which is capable of adversely affecting you; if you do not wish to be governed by the new version of the Agreement, you may notify us on or before the date when the new version of the Agreement is to take effect, and from that date you must cease to use the Ancestral Villages Service; or

- immediately upon the date of posting (or such later date as Ancestral Villages indicates in the relevant posting), if the changes are not to operative provisions, or not capable of adversely affecting you - examples of which would include, without limitation, changes to one or more of Ancestral Villages's addresses or email addresses referred to in this Agreement.

23 Severability. In the event that any term of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable by judicial decree or decision, the remainder of this Agreement shall remain valid and enforceable.

24 Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.

25 Contact. You can contact us by post at The Old School House, Hingham Road, Great Ellingham, Norfolk. NR17 1HX. Please do not send cheques to this address. Please make sure you include your email address with all correspondence.