Website Terms and Conditions

This is a summary of the terms and conditions of this site in language that human beings can understand.

For the version for lawyers and judges, please see the attached file.

Terms of Use

If you use our website, you should follow our rules, which are:

• Don't put anything on any of our sites that breaks the law, or encourages others to break the law;
• Don't use our site to lie, cheat, be obscene or bully anyone;
• Don't pretend to be us;
• Understand that we might remove any content you put up.

If you don't follow our rules, we might not let you use our website.

Privacy

Any information you enter on this website will not be given to anyone else, unless we can't withhold it without breaking the law.

If we're going to use your contact details for marketing, we'll give you the chance to "opt out".

Google tell us about the people using our site, but we can't identify individuals: you can read their privacy policy here.

Paypal let us take payments from you: you can read their privacy policy here.

Our website will store cookies on your computer to remember who you are and what your preferences are. You can delete these from your computer whenever you like and still use the site.

If you want to know what information we hold on you, contact our data protection officer: there may be a £10 admin charge for this.

We keep our data about you secure, but if anything goes wrong we'll let you know.

If we make any changes to this, we'll let you know.

Intellectual Property

The software that makes our website is provided by Drupal, and is an Open Source platform. Any bespoke modules that we have created for this site are covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 licence. See here for what that means.

Our databases are confidential. Only relevant Co-operatives UK staff and you can see your information on them. You can't use, copy or distribute any information from our databases except your own.

We do allow limited access to our databases to the general public, for example our directory of UK co-operatives. This access only involves publicly available information, but the database and information on it still belongs to us. Members of Co-operatives UK can control what information is displayed about their co-operative, and update it as they require.

All resources that Co-operatives UK holds the copyright on that we post on the site are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 licence.

This means you can share and adapt the resources, provided you tell people we originally made it and you release it under the same licence.

All other content remains the property of Co-operatives UK or the original copyright holders, unless specifically stated otherwise.

Organisational Data

Any information that we gather about your organisation through the website will be treated as confidential.

We will use this information to publish various pictures of the co-operative movement. These will only ever publish information about identifiable individual organisations where this information has already been published publicly by the organisation, or where they have given us permission to publish.

The information we gather, and databases we use to store it, belong to us.