Terms & Conditions
1. Terms and Conditions of Use
Pic-Nic Village plc maintains www.picnicvillage.com for your information and reference. Please feel free to browse, post to, download from, contact us and otherwise use the site. At the same time, please remember that your access to the website is subject to the following rules as well as all applicable laws. By accessing and using the website, you accept and agree to these rules without limitation or qualification. We may at any time revise these rules by updating this posting. You are bound by such revisions and should therefore visit this page to review the current rules from time to time. We reserve the right, without notice and for any reason, to remove any content on this site, and to deny access by any user or users to all or any part of this site.
2. Use of the Site
Unless otherwise specifically indicated, you may download material displayed on the website for personal, non-commercial use only and you may not distribute, modify, transmit, use, or reuse any of the contents of the website for any public or commercial purpose without our written consent or that of any third party we deem necessary. You must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices on downloaded and/or copied material. Any copy of material from the website you make and distribute for any purpose must also include these rules. You may not access or use the website in any way that could or is intended to damage or impair the website, or any server or network underlying the website, or interfere with anyone else’s use and enjoyment of the website.
3. Copyrights, Other Rights
You should assume that everything on the website is protected by copyright unless otherwise noted and that it must not be used except as provided in these rules or with the express written consent of Pic-Nic or any third party we deem necessary. Nothing contained on the website should be construed as granting any license or right to use any Trademark displayed on the website without the written permission of Pic-Nic or such third party that may own the Trademark. Misuse of any Trademarks, or any other content, displayed on the Website is prohibited.
4. Submissions
Any communication or material you send to the website will remain your sole property and responsibility. We are only acting as a hosting service provider for such content and do not accept any obligation or liability in respect of user-generated content or your activity on this website. We reserve the right to remove or delete any content which we, in our sole opinion, believe may breach the rights of a third party or for any other reason which we may notify to you. Anything you send to the website may be used by us according to the terms of the Limited License described below. By using this site, you may submit, or we may gather, certain limited information about you and your usage of the site. Subject to the terms of the Privacy Policy, we are free to use such information for any purpose we deem appropriate.
5. Forum Conduct
5.1 Starting Topics
Before you start a thread, check to see if a similar thread has already been started. Duplicate threads will be closed. Please make your title descriptive, reflecting the topic you’re addressing, rather than a generic title such as “Question” or “I Need Help.” Please do not post thread titles in ALL CAPS (the only exception to this rule is for moderators or admin who need to draw attention to an urgent site issue).
5.2 Be Kind to the Server
Please help keep forum server bandwidth limits down by exercising some restraint with quoting, posting images, and using smiles. Please don’t quote a whole post to simply add “I agree” or “Lol,” or a smiley. Please don’t “quote” images when you reply to a post, which makes the image appear over and over again on the same page.
Show restraint in the number of images you use; pages with many images are very slow to load for some users, particularly those with dial-up modems, and are a strain on the forum server. Do not post very large images that exceed the width of the page; this makes viewing the page difficult for everyone.
Please do not use more than a few smileys per post; excessive smileys are a drain on the server and can be an eyesore for many posters. Likewise, show restraint with the number of animations you post per page.
5.3 Linking to Other Sites
Please do not use the forum to advertise your own competing message boards or website. There is a facility to put websites on your profile.
Posting Referrals links for personal gain is strictly prohibited.
Any scheme which offers a prize/reward/cash for you queuing up and referring other people is not permitted on this site and will be deleted. e.g. Pyramid schemes, lottery based pyramid schemes, iPod bidding schemes etc.
5.4 Signatures
One image maximum, which must be no bigger than 300 x 60 and does not exceed 4k in file size.
Animated / flashing banners are strictly prohibited and will be removed without warning from signatures by moderators or admin.
Signature text should be no more than 4 lines long and should use the normal size font.
Please do not use avatar images located on this server in your signatures.
5.5 Star Posting
Please do not post when you have nothing to contribute to a discussion, but simply want to increase your number of posts. Do not post twice in a row; if you have something to add, edit your last post to add your new comments.
Please do not “bump” a thread up on the board, or simply post to say, “Good morning,” “Goodnight,” “I sent you a email etc.”, without adding anything new to the discussion.
5.6 Shouting and Crazy Text
Please do not post in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS; this is the Internet version of shouting, and is irritating to many posters. PlEAsE dO nOt PoSt LiKe ThIs (it makes posts extremely hard to read), and don’t get carried away with excessive punctuation (posting dozens of exclamation points, etc.). It’s also a good idea to run long posts through a spell check; doing so demonstrates respect for your fellow posters, which will make them more willing to listen to what you have to say. Please post in plain language avoiding the use of text abbreviations.
5.7 Obscenity
Contributors are prohibited from posting obscene language including swearing or images on the forum. Please use polite alternative words. Admin have an obligation to prevent obscenities from appearing on the site, and moderators will remove any obscene language or images that the board filters do not catch. Links to websites that contain pornography of any kind will also be removed. If you find a posting offensive then please report it to a moderator by email.
5.8 Attacks on Other Contributors
Vicious attacks on other contributors will not be tolerated. Disagreements between contributors are fine, but personal attacks on character, intelligence, etc. are not. Attack the post, not the contributor. Any personal disputes between contributors should be taken to private email messages. If you are attacked by another contributor, please do not retaliate; let a moderator be aware of the posting, and let him/her handle the problem. If you have a problem with a moderator, do not air your concerns on the boards; send an email to webmaster@picnicvillage.com.
5.9 Trolls
A troll is a contributor whose sole intent in posting is to be a disturbance to the community. Trolls may post excessively inflammatory or offensive messages with the intention of upsetting people, “flame” or insult, crash an appreciation thread to attack the subject being appreciated, or post the same message repeatedly on multiple boards to take up space and disrupt the forums. Posters engaging in this type of behaviour lose their rights of membership and will be removed.
5.10 Anonymity
Public forums are often abused by users who post behind a veil of anonymity. It is commonly thought that if you do not leave your email address, nobody knows who you are, and therefore (by some people’s logic) you can say whatever you want. However, this sense of anonymity is misguided. All posts in this forum are branded with the IP address (Internet identification) of the originating computer. This provides recourse for tracking down those who consistently choose to misuse this service.
Please refrain from allowing anyone else to use your account.
5.11 Stay Safe
The Forum is a great community filled with wonderful people. It’s easy to feel as if the people you talk to every day online are friends whom you can trust. However, not everyone is trustworthy. Please be cautious when giving out personal details, photographs, or any other information that could be used to identify you, such as information about your family, where you live, or the school you go to.
6. Limited License
User-generated content remains your sole property and responsibility. Any content that is posted by you on the website automatically grants us a Limited License, in the following terms, so we can perform the services of the website to our users.
1. By submitting content to the website you grant us, our successors and assigns and all other users of the website, a limited worldwide, non-exclusive and royalty-free license to use, copy, transmit, or distribute the content to the public via the website.
2. The license does not grant us, or any user of the website, the right to further distribute the content beyond the website, except through the use of links to the original content posted on the website.
3. This Limited License will terminate if the content is removed from the website, but you understand and agree that we are not required to delete or ask others to delete copies of the content that may be hosted outside of the website. Furthermore, you understand and agree that we may hold copies of the content on backups of the website that we are required to maintain for the security of the website, even though the content may have been deleted from the website.
7. No Warranties and Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permissible by law we disclaim all warranties, such as warranties of merchantability, accuracy, timeliness, completeness or fitness for a particular purpose. We may periodically add, change, or improve any of the information, products, services, programs, and technology described on the website without notice. We assume no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of the website. In fact, your use of the website is at your own risk. To the maximum extent allowed by law, neither we nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering the website are liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages, however caused, arising out of your access to, use of, or reliance on the website, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. For example, we assume no responsibility for, and will not be liable for any damages to or any viruses which may affect your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or downloading from, the website. Please note that some jurisdictions may restrict or disallow the exclusion of implied warranties or limitations of liability, so some of the above exclusions and limitations may not apply to you.
8. Links
We have not reviewed all of the sites which are linked to or from the website, and the fact of such links does not indicate any approval or endorsement of any material contained on any linked site. We are not responsible for the contents of any site linked to or from the website; and your connection to any such linked site is at your own risk.
International Information
Most of the information on the Website applies internationally, but a significant amount of information applies only to certain countries or regions. Although we try to mark all country- and region-specific information with a country indication, we do not warrant or represent that all information without indication applies internationally. You should check the applicability of any information on this site to you or your organisation.
9. Legal Information
These rules will be governed by and construed under the laws of England and Wales. Please also read over the Website Privacy Policy, which are part of these rules and which you accept.