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Acceptable use Policy

This acceptable use policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you may access our website www.helpingcards.com. This acceptable use policy applies to all users of, and visitors to, our site.

Your use of our site means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the policies in this acceptable use policy, which supplement our terms of website use.

www.helpingcards.com is a site operated by Helping Cards, and we have our office at:

The Lecture Room, Parham Hall, Hall Hill, Parham, Suffolk IP13 9AB, England.

Prohibited Uses

You may only use our site for lawful purposes. You may not use it in any way that:

  • Breaches any laws or regulations.
  • Is unlawful or fraudulent.
  • Harms or attempts to harm minors in any way.

Additionally, you may not:

  • Send, upload, download, use, or re-use any material you find on this website.
  • Use it to send any material of any kind to anyone except ourselves.
  • Use this website or our addresses to send unlawful, defamatory, threatening, discriminatory, or extremist material or anything that has the potential to radicalize themselves or others.
  • Send material to which you do not have intellectual property rights or which is in breach of a legal duty owed to another party.
  • Knowingly transmit any data, send, or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware, or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

You agree not to:

  • Reproduce, duplicate, copy, or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of our terms of website use.
  • Access without authority, interfere with, damage, or disrupt our site, the network on which our site is stored, or any software used in the provision of our site.
  • Interfere with any equipment, network, or software owned or used by anyone else.

Interactive Services

We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site, such as:

  • Chat rooms
  • Bulletin boards (remember them?)
  • Blogs

When we do, we will tell you about:

  • The kind of service offered.
  • Whether it is moderated.
  • What form of moderation is used (including whether it is human).

We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users (particularly for children); however, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor, or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site. We expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.

Parental Guidance: It is important that you communicate with any children using this site about their safety online. Under-18s should be made aware of online risks, and we cannot accept any purchases from anyone under 18.

Content Standards

These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (contributions) and to any interactive services associated with it.

You must comply with both the spirit and letter of the following standards. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

Contributions must:

  • Be accurate and genuinely held.
  • Comply with any applicable laws in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.

Contributions must not:

  • Defame anyone or contain anything obscene, offensive, hateful, or inflammatory.
  • Promote sexually explicit material, violence, or discrimination of any kind.
  • Infringe any copyright, database rights, or trademarks.
  • Mislead or deceive anyone.
  • Breach any legal duty to another party.
  • Promote illegal activity.
  • Threaten, abuse, or invade anyone’s privacy.
  • Harass, upset, alarm, embarrass, or annoy anyone—including ourselves.
  • Impersonate another person, misrepresent your identity, or falsely claim to represent us.
  • Promote or assist in unlawful acts, such as copyright infringement or computer misuse.

We reserve the right to remove any contributions that do not meet these standards.

Suspension and Termination

If we determine that a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take any action we consider appropriate.

Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the terms under which you may use our site. We may then:

  • Withdraw your right to use our site.
  • Remove anything you have posted on the site.
  • Take legal action against you.
  • Disclose what happened to law enforcement as necessary.

We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take other actions we consider appropriate.

Changes to the Acceptable Use Policy

We may revise this acceptable use policy at any time by amending this page, which is legally binding on you.

Some of the items in this policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices elsewhere on our site.

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