SITE USER AGREEMENT.

All site users and members should read and agree to these terms and conditions.

USER AGREEMENT. PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY!

Unless otherwise specified, the Website is intended for your personal use and the use of your family only. You may not authorize others to use the Website, and you are responsible for all use of the Website by you and by those you allow to use, or provide access for to the Website

You agree not to use any obscene, indecent, or offensive language or to place on the Website any material that is defamatory, abusive, harassing, racist, or hateful.

You agree to use the Website only for lawful purposes and you acknowledge that your failure to do so may subject you to civil and criminal liability.

You are responsible for ensuring that any material you provide to the Website or post on a bulletin board or forum or elsewhere, including but not limited to text, photographs and sound, does not violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret or any other personal or proprietary rights of any third party or is posted with the permission of the owner(s) of such rights.

The Committee through the moderators reserves the right to remove, edit, censor or move any message, without notice,an explanation will be given, this applies in particular to messages covered by the previous section. In order to keep the forums useful, general discussion or messages containing out of date information will be removed after a period though messages containing useful facts/suggestions/help will be retained. Message threads may also be 'pruned' in order that the pertinent help/facts are more readily accessible, and message 'subjects' may be amended to make their contents more obvious.

The information you enter in your user profile is visible to all members of the website.It is not visible to guests even in areas of the site where guest access is allowed.Nor will it be disclosed to third parties. However,as with all information transmitted over the internet,there is a small risk of interception by others,and neither the Committee nor the moderators can be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to data security being compromised.

Under no circumstances may you use other participants' email addresses, names or other details for unsolicited email, spam, adding to mailing lists or subscriptions to services without their express permission.

You acknowledge that the Committee has not reviewed and does not endorse the content of all sites linked to from this Website and is not responsible for the content or actions of any other sites linked to from this Website. Your linking to any service or site is at your sole risk.

Threatening behaviour (threats) towards other users will not be tolerated.

Please remember : These rules are compulsory. If you do not agree to them and accept them, then you should not use or join the forums. PLEASE READ ALL OF THE RULES THOROUGHLY SO THAT YOU CAN MAKE AN INFORMED CHOICE. These rules are applied by the forum moderators with common sense, and we know the majority of users will use the forums with common sense.

The University of Salford (Institute for Social, Cultural and Policy Studies) originally set up Hearts of Salford as a research study. That project has now ended. However it has been agreed that the university team will on occasions be allowed access to the site to look at its development, to see if the benefits obtained by members are the same as the community grows, and to investigate the sustainability of the community. They will not use any individual members contribution to the site without that members express permission.

The content of this website is controlled and monitored by Hearts of Salford and has not been reviewed or approved by the British Heart Foundation.

This is a UK site. Please make your postings in English so they are understood by other members and our moderators. We apologise but we can't allow members to post in a language other than English