This is the Acceptable Use Policy of Hockmedia Ltd, a company
incorporated in England and Wales under company number 15579784
PLEASE READ THE TERMS OF THIS POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING
THE SITE
What's in these terms?
This acceptable use policy sets out the content standards that apply when
you upload content to our site, make contact with other users on our site, link to our site, or
interact with our site in any other way. It should be read alongside our website terms and
conditions
Prohibited uses
You may not use our site:
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If you are under 18 years.
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In any way that breaches any applicable local, national, european or
international law or regulation.
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In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or
fraudulent purpose or effect.
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For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm any persons in any
way.
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To bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person.
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To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any
material which does not comply with our content standards.
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To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or
unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation
(spam).
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To 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.
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In any way that involves child sexual exploitation or abuse.
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To upload terrorist content.
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If it is illegal, contrary to regulations or otherwise unlawful to
use the site in the jurisdiction where you operate.
You also agree:
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Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in
contravention of the provisions of our terms of website use
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Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or
disrupt.
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any part of our site.
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any equipment or network on which our site is stored.
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any software used in the provision of our site; or
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any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third
party.
Content standards
These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute
to our site (Contribution).
The Content Standards must be complied with in spirit as well as to the
letter. The standards apply to each part of any Contribution as well as to its whole.
Hockmedia Ltd will determine, in its sole discretion, whether a
Contribution breaches the Content Standards.
A Contribution:
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Must be accurate (where it states facts).
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Only contain opinions that are genuinely held.
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Must comply with the law applicable in any country from which it is
posted and to which the website is targeted.
A Contribution must not:
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Be defamatory of any person.
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Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
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Bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate.
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Encourage, promote or provide instructions for deliberate
self-harm.
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Encourage, promote or provide instructions for suicide.
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Encourage, promote or provide instructions for an eating disorder or
behaviours associated with an eating disorder.
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Promote sexually explicit material.
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Include child sexual abuse material.
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Incite violence or hatred against particular groups.
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Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality,
disability, sexual orientation or age.
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Include content that would be considered a criminal offence under
laws relating to terrorism, child sexual abuse material, racism or xenophobia.
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Infringe any copyright, database right or trademark of any other
person.
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Include video content not suitable for BBFC (or its international
counterparts) classification.
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Include material that might impair the physical, mental or moral
development of persons under the age of 18.
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Be likely to deceive any person.
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Breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual
duty or a duty of confidence.
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Contain illegal content or promote any illegal content or
activity.
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Be in contempt of court.
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Be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause
annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
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Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other
person.
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Impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation
with any person.
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Give the impression that the Contribution emanates from Hockmedia
Ltd, if this is not the case.
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Advocate, promote, incite any party to commit, or assist any
unlawful or criminal act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer
misuse.
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Contain a statement which you know or believe, or have reasonable
grounds for believing, that members of the public to whom the statement is, or is to be,
published are likely to understand as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to
the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
For the avoidance of doubt, for any Contribution in the form of video
content:
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You must tell us immediately, if you upload a video containing any
of the following: criminal material (relating to terrorism, sexual exploitation of children,
child pornography, racism and xenophobia), unclassified or unclassifiable videos, and other
material that might impair the physical, mental or moral development of persons under the age of
18 (restricted material).
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You must not upload a video containing harmful material.
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You must not upload a video containing advertising for any of the
following:
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cigarettes and other tobacco products, electronic cigarettes or
electronic cigarette refill containers, and prescription-only medicine; or
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for alcoholic drinks that are not aimed specifically at under 18s
and do not encourage immoderate consumption of alcohol.
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Any advertising included in a video you upload must not:
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prejudice respect for human dignity.
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include or promote discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic
origin, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.
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encourage behaviour prejudicial to health or safety.
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encourage behaviour grossly prejudicial to the protection of the
environment.
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cause physical, mental or moral detriment to persons under the age
of 18.
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directly exhort such persons to purchase or rent goods or services
in a manner which exploits their inexperience or credulity.
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directly encourage such persons to persuade their parents or others
to purchase or rent goods or services.
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exploit the trust of such persons in parents, teachers or others;
or
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unreasonably show such persons in dangerous situations.
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You must use the functionality provided on our site to declare
whether, as far as you know or can reasonably be expected to know, any video contains
advertising.
Breach of this policy
When we consider that a breach of this acceptable use policy has occurred,
we may take such action as we deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material
breach of our website terms and conditions upon which you are permitted to use our site, and
may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
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Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use
our site.
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Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any Contribution
uploaded by you to our site.
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Issue of a warning to you.
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Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an
indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs)
resulting from the breach.
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Further legal action against you.
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Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we
reasonably feel is necessary or as required by law.
We exclude our liability for all action we may take in response to breaches
of this acceptable use policy. The actions we may take are not limited to those described above, and
we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.