Rated Places is a trading name, individual brand & wholly owned subsidiary of Firestorm Online Ltd. Any references to the Rated Places brand on this page will be referred to as ‘Rated Places’ or ‘RP’.

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE.

By submitting a review for posting on the website you acknowledge, agree, undertake, represent and warrant to Rated Places as follows:

1. that any material (including text, photographs, digital images and data in any form whatsoever) that you submit for posting on the RP website (hereinafter defined as the “Material”) is not unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libellous, obscene, pornographic, blasphemous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, racist, objectionable or which depicts or describes any criminal act;
2. that the Material does not and shall not infringe any patent, trade mark, trade secret, copyright, moral rights, rights of privacy or publicity or other proprietary rights of any party and has not been created within the scope of any employment or other contractual duties;
3. that the Material does not contain viruses or other computer code designed to damage, interrupt the operation and functionality of computer software or hardware, including telecommunications equipment or which interferes with or disrupts the operation of the RP website, or RP’s servers or networks;
4. that the Member will not use the website to harm other persons (including minors) or cause harm to be done to other persons, copy, distribute, alter or tamper with any Material in any way, conduct any financial or commercial transaction other than those with RP, remove, alter or tamper with any copyright, trademark or any other intellectual property notices appearing on the RP website;
5. that you are not under the age of 14 years;
6. that you are free to agree to be bound by these terms and conditions and to grant to RP the rights granted in them and you are not under any disability restriction or prohibition which might prevent you from performing or observing any of your obligations under them;
7. that you are the sole absolute unencumbered legal and beneficial owner of all rights granted to RP and shall be the sole “author” of the Material as defined by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988;
8. that you will not without the prior written consent of RP incur any expenditure or costs on behalf of RP;
9. that you are and will remain a ‘qualifying person’ within the meaning of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 Section 154 and any equivalent legislation in all jurisdictions throughout the world;
10. that you will at all times whilst bound by these terms and conditions use reasonable endeavours to keep RP informed of your current address details, e-mail and telephone number;
11. that you have read and fully understood all of the provisions of these terms and conditions;
12. that you contract with RP as a principal notwithstanding that you may be acting directly or indirectly for a third party as a manager, agent or in some other representative capacity and where you are a third party’s manager or agent or are acting in some other representative capacity for such third party you warrant that you are authorised by the third party to place the Material with RP and you will indemnify RP and keep RP indemnified against any claim made by the third party against RP arising from the publication and display thereof on the RP website;
13. that you will not seek to assign, novate or otherwise dispose of these terms and conditions or any part thereof without the previous consent in writing of RP, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld;
14. that any information supplied by you to RP in connection with the Material is accurate, current, complete and true;
15. that you agree to indemnify RP and keep RP at all times fully indemnified from and against all actions proceedings claims demands costs (including without prejudice to the generality of this provision legal costs of RP on a solicitor and own client basis) awards and damages however arising directly or indirectly as a result of any breach or non-performance by you of any of your undertakings warranties or obligations under these terms and conditions;
16. that these terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and the parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England in respect of any dispute in connection with the Contract;
17. that you agree to grant RP a worldwide, royalty free, non-exclusive licence to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish Material on the RP website solely for the purpose for which the Material was uploaded onto the RP website;
18. that the licence referred to in clause 17 above shall continue to exist while the Material remains on the RP website and shall be terminated when the Material is removed or deleted from the RP website; and
19. that the RP website and associated software used in connection with it contains proprietary and confidential information that is protected by applicable intellectual property rights and you agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on the RP website or the software used in connection with it.

By submitting a review for posting on the website you also accept and agree as follows:

1. whilst RP warrants to you that the RP website will be provided using reasonable care, RP provides the RP website on an ‘as is’ basis and makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, with respect to the website or its quality, operation, contents, products or services;
2. that RP does not warrant that the RP website will be timely, uninterrupted or error-free or free of bugs, viruses, errors or any other problems that could cause system failures, or that the contents of the RP website will reach the intended recipient.
3. that RP is not liable to you if any hardware or software used in conjunction with the RP website malfunctions, fails or is otherwise unable to communicate with other systems or internet users (including where computer viruses have caused such failures) such that the use of the RP website is hindered or impeded;
4. that RP shall have no liability to you for any loss, damage, costs, expenses or other claims for compensation arising from any Material supplied by you which is incomplete, incorrect, inaccurate, illegible, out of sequence or in the wrong form, or arising from their late arrival or non-arrival, or any other fault of yours;
5. that except in respect of death or personal injury caused by RP’s negligence, or as expressly provided in these terms and conditions, RP shall not be liable to you by reason of any representation (unless fraudulent), or any implied warranty, condition or other term, or any duty at common law, or under the express terms of these terms and conditions, for any loss of profit or any indirect, special or consequential loss, damage, costs, expenses or other claims (whether caused by the negligence of RP, its servants or agents or otherwise) which arise out of or in connection with the provision of the RP website or its use by you, and in the event that any exclusion contained herein shall be held to be invalid for any reason, RP’s aggregate liability to you for any occurrence or series of occurrences of loss, damage, costs, expenses or other claims whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with these terms and conditions shall be limited to the sum of the fees paid by you as at the relevant date (and for the avoidance of doubt where no fees have been paid then such sum shall be nil).

RP may at its sole discretion:

1. modify these terms and conditions at any time and the new terms will come into effect as soon as they appear on the RP website and any subsequent use by you of the RP website shall be subject to and governed by the new terms;
2. establish limits on the RP website, including but not limited to limiting the type of Material uploaded, the maximum number of times and duration that the RP website may be accessed by you in a given period of time, and the maximum storage space and bandwidth made available to you;
3. correct any typographical or other errors or omissions appearing on the RP website without any liability to you;
4. remove, or refuse to display, the Material on the RP website if RP believes that the Material is not of a sufficiently high quality or that to display the Material would be in bad taste or would offend moral decency or you are otherwise in breach of any warranty or representation given by you in these terms and conditions or RP receives a complaint in respect of the Material and in such event RP shall not be obliged to give you prior notice before removing or refusing to display the Material (nor shall RP be obliged to investigate any complaint);
5. sub-contract the provision of the RP website to third parties who shall include but not be limited to data processors and web developers;
6. change the format and content of the RP website and may terminate and suspend the RP website for support, maintenance or any other reason at any time and without giving notice to you;
7. at any time and without notice to you, make any changes to the Material that are necessary in order to comply with any applicable statutory requirements; and
8. with your consent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, assign the benefit and burden of its rights and obligations under these terms and conditions to any other entity.