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Terms and conditions

 
 
Casualty Card Website Terms and Conditions of Use

This legal notice applies to the entire contents of the website under the domain name www.rafmuseumstoryvault.org.uk and to any correspondence between you and us and to any newsletters or publications downloaded by you or sent to you by us (the 'Site').

The Royal Air Force Museum whose address is Grahame Park Way, London, NW9 5LL is responsible for the Site.

In consideration of the Royal Air Force Museum allowing you access to the Site you are deemed to accept our terms and conditions of use. Please read them carefully. If you do not accept these terms and conditions of use, do not use the Site.

Our terms and conditions of use may be changed. Please review them regularly. If you continue to use the Site after a change has been made to the terms and conditions of use you are deemed to have accepted it.

 
Use of the Site

The Royal Air Force Museum or its licensors or contributors own the copyright and all other intellectual property rights in the material on the Site. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, transmit, adapt or otherwise use any material on the Site other than for your own personal non-commercial use.
 

You may not use the Site:

• for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any material, the publication, dissemination, use or possession of which infringes the rights of any person or which is unlawful in any other respect;

• in any way which is abusive, defamatory or obscene or which will harass, distress or inconvenience any person or which might restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of the Site by any person;

• for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, 'junk mail,' 'spam,' 'chain letters,' 'pyramid schemes,' or any other form of solicitation or commercial exploitation;

• for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;

• to create a database (electronic or otherwise) that includes material downloaded or otherwise obtained from the Site, without written permission from the Royal Air Force Museum;

• to transmit or re-circulate any material obtained from the Site to any third party, without written permission from the Royal Air Force Museum;

• in such a way so as to remove the copyright, trade mark notice(s) or watermark(s) from any copies of any material made in accordance with these terms; or

• in any way that might bring the Royal Air Force Museum into disrepute.

• You must be at least 18 years of age or be accessing the Site with the full consent of a parent or guardian.



Permission to Download High Resolution Scans

The Royal Air Force Museum grants you a single use licence to download high resolution scans of the materials contained within this site. In doing so the Royal Air Force Museum grants you the right to use our high resolution scans for personal use only. At all times the copyright, intellectual property rights, and title of all high resolution materials contained within this site remain with the Trustees of the Royal Air Force Museum and they cannot be used for commercial purposes or passed onto any third parties without the expressed written consent of the museum.

If you wish to use any of the imagery contained within this site for commercial purposes, you must purchase in advance the appropriate commercial licence for its use by contacting:

The Merchandising Manager
The Royal Air Force Museum
Grahame Park Way
Colindale
London
NW9 5LL
Email : vinit.mehta@rafmuseum.org


Removal of Material and Access to the Site

The Royal Air Force Museum shall have the right to refuse to allow you access to the Site or any part of it at any time and for any reason without giving you any advance notice.

The Royal Air Force Museum shall have the right at any time and for any reason to remove from the Site any material posted, uploaded, emailed or otherwise transmitted by you without giving you any advance notice.


Viruses

Whilst effort has been taken to ensure that the Site is free from viruses, the Royal Air Force Museum gives no warranties that it is indeed free from viruses and you are responsible for ensuring that you have installed adequate virus checking software.

The Royal Air Force Museum shall not be responsible for any viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment or other material transmitted with or as part of the Site or any other internet site.

Links

Some of the pages on the Site include links to external websites. These are for your convenience only. The Royal Air Force Museum does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of these external websites.

Personal Data

You agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself in any registration or subscription form you complete ('the Registration Information'). You agree to maintain and promptly update the Registration Information to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.

Royal Air Force Museum is registered under, and will process your personal data in accordance with, data protection legislation.

You hereby agree that the Registration Information (and all updates of the Registration Information) and any other information sent to the Royal Air Force Museum by you ('the Personal Data') may be processed by Royal Air Force Museum for the purposes of:

• processing your requests;
• providing you with information by email or other means;
• providing you with information about products and services of the Royal Air Force Museum and other parties;
• providing a personalised service;
• statistical analysis and conducting market research surveys;
• assessing and evaluating the use that is being made of the Site; and
• information and databank compilation and administration.


Changes to the Terms and Conditions of Use

Our terms and conditions of use may be changed. Please review them regularly. If you continue to use the Site after a change has been made you are deemed to have accepted it

Liability

Whilst every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information on the Site, no warranty is given as to its accuracy or completeness.

The Royal Air Force Museum cannot guarantee that you will have uninterrupted access to the Site.
 

Law and Jurisdiction

These terms and conditions of use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any disputes arising in relation to the Site shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

If any of these terms or conditions of use should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable, it shall be deemed deleted and the remaining terms and conditions of use shall survive and continue to be binding and enforceable.


Comments and Complaints

If you have any comments or complaints to make about the Site please send them to the Public Programmes Department, Royal Air Force Museum, London NW9 5LL

Last updated: July 2014


Contact us

RAF Museum London
Grahame Park Way
London, NW9 5LL
london@rafmuseum.org
020 8205 2266 (General Information)


Accessibility

We are committed to making the information and resources provided via our website accessible to the widest possible audience. To enable this, we follow widely accepted 'best practice' principles for design and usability. You can easily adjust the site in a number of ways to fit your needs.

This site depends on the use of digital images. We understand that, while this addresses the problem of geographic inaccessibility, it does not fully solve the problems encountered by sight-impaired users. We are committed to a programme of testing and development to improve the overall accessibility of the site. In the meantime should you experience any difficulty in accessing RAF Museum Storyvault, please contact us using the enquiries form

Customise the site to fit your needs

In order to make this website easier to read and navigate, you can change display settings such as:
• Text size
• Colour and contrast
• Screen magnification

The BBC's website 'My Web My Way' offers help on adjusting these and other features in your specific operating system and browser.


Standards compliance

The website is built using XHTML and CSS, according to W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standards. It is designed to be in line with recognised best practice, such as the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

We have endeavoured to follow current Web Accessibility Initiative (W3C WAI) guidelines and look to ensure that Conformance Level "AA": all Priority 2 checkpoints are satisfied.

WCAG 1.0 has 14 guidelines that are general principles of accessible design. Each guideline has one or more checkpoints that explain how the guideline applies in a specific area.