Terms and conditions of use
1. Introduction
1.1 These terms and conditions will govern Dating with A Difference
1.2 By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.
1.3 If you [register with our website, submit any material to our website or use any of our website services], we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.
1.4 You must be at least [18] years of age to use our website; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least [18] years of age.
2. Copyright notice
2.1 Copyright 2023 – Miss Jane Moss
2.2 Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:
(a) we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and
(b) all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.
3. Permission to use website
3.1 You may:
(a) view pages from our website in a web browser.
(b) download pages from our website for caching in a web browser.
(c) print pages from our website [ for your own personal and non-commercial use] [, providing that such printing is not systematic or excessive];
(d) [stream audio and video files from our website [ using the media player on our website]]; and
(e) [use [our website services] by means of a web browser],
subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.
3.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 3.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.
3.3 You may only use our website for [[your own personal and business purposes]] OR [[define purposes]; you must not use our website for any other purposes.
3.4 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.
3.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:
(a) republished material from our website (including republication on another website).
(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our website.
(c) show any material from our website to the public.
(d) exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or
(e) redistribute material from our website.
3.6 Notwithstanding Section 3.5, you may redistribute [our newsletter] in [print and electronic form] to [any person].
3.7 We reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to our website, to areas of our website and/or to functionality upon our website. We may, for example, suspend access to the website [during server maintenance or when we update the website]. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the website.
4. Misuse of website
4.1 You must not:
(a) use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility, integrity or security of the website;
(b) use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.
(c) hack or otherwise tamper with our website.
(d) probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our website without our permission.
(e) circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our website.
(f) use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.
(g) [impose an unreasonably large load on our website resources (including bandwidth, storage capacity and processing capacity)].
(h) [decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our website without our permission].
(i) [conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent].
(j) [access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means [, except for the purpose of [search engine indexing]]];
(k) [use our website except by means of our public interfaces].
(l) [violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website].
(m) [use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing)]; or
(n) [do anything that interferes with the normal use of our website].
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4.2 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is [true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading].
5. Registration and accounts
5.1 To be eligible for [an account] on our website under this Section 5, you must [be resident or situated in the United Kingdom].
5.2 You may register for an account with our website by [completing and submitting the relevant details on our website once complete a Face-to-Face appointment will be made for registration.
5.3 You must not allow any other person to use your account to access the website.
5.4 You must notify us by email immediately if you become aware of any unauthorized use of your account.
5.5 You must not use any other person’s account to access the website [,
unless you have that person’s express permission to do so].
6. User login details
6.1 If you register for an account with our website, you will be asked for your full name and required to generate a password of your choice.
6.2 Your user ID must not be liable to mislead and must comply with the content rules set out in Section 13; you must not use your account or user ID for or in connection with the impersonation of any person.
6.3 You must keep your password confidential.
6.4 You must notify us by email immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password.
6.5 You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.
7. Cancellation and suspension of account
7.1 We may:
(a) edit your account details.
(b) temporarily suspend your account; and/or
(c) cancel your account,
at any time in our sole discretion, providing that if we cancel any services you have paid for and you have not breached these terms and conditions, you will be entitled to a refund of any amounts paid to us in respect of those services that were to be provided by us to you after the date of such cancellation; we will give you [reasonable written] notice of any cancellation under this Section 7.1.
7.2 You may cancel your account on our website [using your account control panel on the website]. You will not be entitled to any refund if you cancel your account in accordance with Section 7.2.
8. Dating services
8.1 To become a subscriber to our website services, you must pay the applicable subscription fees [during the account registration procedure]
8.2 On a face to face appointment
8.3 Registered users with appropriate subscriptions will be able to access dating-related services on our website, which may include:
(a) [the publication of a personal profile on our website].
(b) [access to our searchable database of other users’ personal profiles].
(c) [live chat with other website users].
(d) [private messaging of other website users]; and/or
(e) [our automated matching service].
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8.4 We may from time to time vary the benefits associated with a subscription by [giving you written notice of the variation], providing that[, if in our reasonable opinion such a variation results in a substantial loss of value or functionality,] you shall have the right to cancel your subscription, and we will refund to you any amounts paid to us in respect of any period of subscription after the date of such cancellation.
8.5 At the end of any period of subscription for which you have paid, and subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions, [your subscription will be automatically renewed and you must pay to us the applicable subscription fees, [unless you cancel the subscription using the cancellation facility on our website before the date of renewal]] OR [your subscription will be automatically cancelled, [unless you renew the subscription and pay the applicable subscription fees]].
8.6 Save where expressly requested or permitted by us to do so, you must not add any information to our website that may facilitate direct communications with other users (including without limitation email addresses, postal addresses, instant messaging IDs, telephone numbers, fax numbers, personal website URLs and social networking profile URLs).
8.7 You acknowledge that we cannot be held responsible for the behavior of our users, either on or off the website, and we cannot guarantee that any information provided by a user is true, accurate, complete, current and not misleading; and subject to Section 16.1 you will not hold us liable in respect of any loss or damage arising out of any user behavior or user information.
9. Personal profiles
9.1 All information that you supply as part of a personal profile on the website must be [true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading].
9.2 You must keep your personal profile on our website up to date.
9.3 Personal profile information must also comply with the provisions of Section 4 and Section 13.
10. Fees
10.1 The fees in respect of our website services will be as set out on the website from time to time.
10.2 All amounts stated in or in relation to these terms and conditions are, unless the context requires otherwise, stated inclusive of any applicable value added taxes.
10.3 You must pay to us the fees in respect of our website services in advance, in cleared funds, in accordance with any instructions on our website.
10.4 We may vary fees from time to time by posting new fees on our website, but this will not affect fees for services that have been previously paid.
10.5 If you dispute any payment made to us, you must contact us immediately and provide full details of your claim via email.
10.6 If you make an unjustified credit card, debit card or other charge-back then you will be liable to pay us, within [7 days] following the date of our written request:
(a) an amount equal to the amount of the charge-back.
(b) all third-party expenses incurred by us in relation to the charge-back (including charges made by our or your bank or payment processor or card issuer);
(c) an administration fee of [GBP 25.00 including VAT]; and
(d) all our reasonable costs, losses and expenses incurred in recovering the amounts referred to in this Section 10.6 (including without limitation legal fees and debt collection fees),
and for the avoidance of doubt, if you fail to recognize or fail to remember the source of an entry on your card statement or other financial statement, and make a charge-back as a result, this will constitute an unjustified charge-back for the purposes of this Section 10.6.
10.7 If you owe us any amount under or relating to these terms and conditions, we may suspend or withdraw the provision of services to you.
10.8 We may at any time set off any amount that you owe to us against any amount that we owe to you, by sending you written notice of the set-off.
11. Distance contracts: cancellation right
11.1 This Section 11 applies if and only if you offer to contract with us, or contract with us, as a consumer – that is, as an individual acting wholly or mainly outside your trade, business, craft or profession.
11.2 You may withdraw an offer to enter a contract with us through our website, or cancel a contract entered into with us through our website, at any time within the period:
(a) beginning upon the submission of your offer; and
(b) ending at the end of 14 days after the day on which the contract is entered into,
subject to Section 11.3. You do not have to give any reason for your withdrawal or cancellation.
11.3 You agree that we may begin the provision of services before the expiry of the period referred to in Section 11.2, and you acknowledge that, if we do begin the provision of services before the end of that period, then:
(a) if the services are fully performed, you will lose the right to cancel referred to in Section 11.2.
(b) if the services are partially performed at the time of cancellation, you must pay to us an amount proportional to the services supplied or we may deduct such an amount from any refund due to you in accordance with this Section 11.
11.4 In order to withdraw an offer to contract or cancel a contract on the basis described in Section 11, you must inform us of your decision to withdraw or cancel (as the case may be). You may inform us by means of any clear statement setting out the decision. In the case of cancellation, you may inform us using the cancellation form that we will make available to you. To meet the cancellation deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning the exercise of the right to cancel before the cancellation period has expired.
11.5 If you withdraw an offer to contract, or cancel a contract, on the basis described in Section 11, you will receive a full refund of any amount you paid to us in respect of the offer or contract, except as specified in Section 11.
11.6 We will refund money using the same method used to make the payment, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise. In any case, you will not incur any fees because of the refund.
11.7 We will process the refund due to you because of a cancellation on the basis described in Section 11 without undue delay and, in any case, within the period of 14 days after the day on which we are informed of the cancellation.
12. Our rights to use your content
12.1 In these terms and conditions, “your content” means [all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website].
12.2 You grant to us a irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license] to [use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media] OR [reproduce, store and publish your content on and in relation to this website and any successor website] OR [reproduce, store and, with your specific consent, publish your content on and in relation to this website].
12.3 You grant us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 12.2.
12.4 You grant us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 12.2.
12.5 You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
12.6 You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on our website.
12.7 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all your content.
13. Rules about your content
13.1 You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.
13.2 Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).
13.3 Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:
(a) be libelous or maliciously false.
(b) be obscene or indecent.
(c) infringement of any copyright, moral right, database right, trademark right, design right, right in passing off or other intellectual property right.
(d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation.
(e) [constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement].
(f) [constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity].
(g) [be in contempt of any court or in breach of any court order].
(h) [be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation].
(i) [be blasphemous].
(j) [be in breach of official secrets legislation].
(k) [be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person].
(l) [depict violence [ in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner]].
(m) [be pornographic [, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit]].
(n) [be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading].
(o) [consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage].
(p) [constitute spam].
(q) [be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory]; or
(r) [cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person].
13.4 Your content must be appropriate, civil and tasteful, and accord with generally accepted standards of etiquette and behavior on the internet.
13.5 You must not use our website to link to any website or web page consisting of or containing material that would, were it posted on our website, breach the provisions of these terms and conditions.
13.6 You must not submit to our website any material that is or has ever been the subject of any threat or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
14. Report abuse
14.1 If you learn of any unlawful material or activity on our website, or any material or activity that breaches these terms and conditions, please let us know.
14.2 You can let us know about any such material or activity [by email or using our abuse reporting form].
15. Limited warranties
15.1 We do not warrant or represent:
(a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website.
(b) that the material on the website is up to date.
(c) that the website will operate without fault; or
(d) that the website or any service on the website will remain available.
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15.2 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.
15.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 16.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.
16. Limitations and exclusions of liability
16.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions will:
(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence.
(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
(c) limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law,
and, if you are a consumer, your statutory rights will not be excluded or limited by these terms and conditions, except to the extent permitted by law.
16.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 16 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:
(a) are subject to Section 16.1; and
(b) govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.
16.3 To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.
16.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.
16.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.
16.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software [, providing that if you contract with us under these terms and conditions as a consumer, this Section 16.6 shall not apply].
16.7 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage [, providing that if you contract with us under these terms and conditions as a consumer, this Section 16.7 shall not apply].
16.8 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).
16.9 Our aggregate liability to you in respect of any contract to provide services to you under these terms and conditions shall not exceed the greater of:
(a) £10.00 Per Week – £40.00 per Calendar Month.
(b) The total amount payable to us under the contract will be £480.00
17. Indemnity
17.1 You hereby indemnify us, and undertake to keep us indemnified, against any and all losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute) incurred or suffered by us and arising directly or indirectly out of [your use of our website or any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions].
18. Breaches of these terms and conditions
18.1 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:
(a) send you one or more formal warnings.
(b) temporarily suspend your access to our website.
(c) permanently prohibit you from accessing our website.
(d) [block computers using your IP address from accessing our website].
(e) [contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website].
(f) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or
(g) [suspend or delete your account on our website].
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18.2 Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking [ (including without limitation [creating and/or using a different account])].
19. Third party websites
19.1 Our website includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties; such hyperlinks are not recommendations.
19.2 We have no control over third party websites and their contents, and subject to Section 16.1 we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
20. Trademarks
20.1 Dating with A Difference, our logos and our other registered and unregistered trademarks are trademarks belonging to us; we give no permission for the use of these trademarks, and such use may constitute an infringement of our rights.
20.2 The third party registered and unregistered trademarks or service marks on our website are the property of their respective owners and, unless stated otherwise in these terms and conditions, we do not endorse and are not affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such we cannot grant any license to exercise such rights.
21. Variation
21.1 We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.
21.2 [The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions.] OR [We will give you written notice of any revision of these terms and conditions, and the revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our website from the date that we give you such notice; if you do not agree to the revised terms and conditions, you must stop using our website.]
21.3 If[ you are a consumer and] you have purchased any of our website services and there subsists a contract under these terms and conditions in respect of those website services, we will ask for your express agreement to any revision of that contract.[ We may make such revisions [only for the purposes of reflecting changes to applicable law, the technology we use to provide the services and/or our internal business processes].] We will give you [at least 30 days’ prior written] notice of any revision. If you do not give your express agreement to the revised terms and conditions within that period, [the contract between us shall be automatically terminated and you will be entitled to a refund of any amounts paid to us in respect of website services that were to be provided by us to you after the date of such termination].
22. Assignment
22.1 You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions [ – providing, if you are a consumer, that such action does not serve to reduce the guarantees benefiting you under these terms and conditions].
22.2 You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
23. Severability
23.1 If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.
23.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
24. Third party rights
24.1 A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.
24.2 The exercise of the parties’ rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.
25. Entire agreement
25.1 Subject to Section 16.1, these terms and conditions [, together with [our privacy and cookies policy],] shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.
26. Law and jurisdiction
26.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with [English law].
26.2 Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the [exclusive] OR [non-exclusive] jurisdiction of the courts of [England].
27. Statutory and regulatory disclosures
27.1 We will not file a copy of these terms and conditions specifically in relation to each user or customer and, if we update these terms and conditions, the version to which you originally agreed will no longer be available on our website. We recommend that you consider saving a copy of these terms and conditions for future reference.
27.2 These terms and conditions are available in [the English language only].
27.4 We are subject to our Rules and Regulations which are supervised by Dating with a Difference.
28. Our details
28.1 This website is owned and operated by Miss Jane Moss
28.2 We are registered in [England and Wales] under registration number [number], and our registered office is at [address].
28.3 Our principal place of business is at N/A
28.4 You can contact us:
By using our website contact forms
By email, using the email address published on our website
Dating website terms and conditions: drafting.
These Terms and Conditions were created for subscription-based dating websites.
Special provisions relating to dating include clauses requiring personal profiles to be accurate and kept up to date, and a disclaimer of liability in relation to the behavior of other users of the website, whether on or off the website. Naturally, the website operator is not able to guarantee that other users’ profiles will be accurate.
To both protect the subscription-based business model and users, a clause in the terms and conditions prohibits users from publishing contact information, except where expressly permitted to do so by the website.
The document also incorporates detailed clauses covering, amongst other things: users’ rights to use the website; acceptable uses; user accounts; subscriber benefits; charges and payments; distance selling cancellations and refunds; warranties and liabilities; breaches of the terms and conditions; and statutory disclosures.
Section 1: Introduction
Sometimes, there will be a contractual relationship between a website operator and a website user; other times, there will not.
Where there is no contractual relationship, legal notices can still have legal effects. For instance, licenses of intellectual property rights and disclaimers of liability may be legally effective where there is no contract. Moreover, statutory and regulatory disclosure obligations can be fulfilled by means of legal notices irrespective of whether a contract subsists.
If however an operator is selling something to users, or wants to impose positive obligations upon users, or wants to institute prohibitions that are extraneous to any license of intellectual property rights, a contractual relationship will usually be necessary. To help ensure that a terms and conditions document is properly incorporated into a contract, the document should be expressly accepted by the user.
Common methods of gaining acceptance include: (a) incorporating a statement next to a submit button providing that, by pressing the submit button, the user agrees to the document; (b) using a checkbox to gain consent, and blocking registration form submission if the checkbox has not been checked; and (c) requiring users to scroll through the document and click an “agree” button after doing so.
In all cases, the document should be available to users at the point of acceptance, either on screen or via a hyperlink. If a contractual document includes unusual and/or potentially controversial provisions, it may be necessary to bring these to the particular attention of users.
In general, you should not ask users to affirm that they have read a legal document – almost none will do so, and the reading of the document is not a precondition to its incorporation into the contract.
Section 1.2
Optional element.
The completed document should be easily accessible on the website, with a link from every page.
Section 1.3
Optional element. Will all or any website users give their express consent to the terms of this document?
Ideally, from a legal perspective, all users would be asked to expressly agree to the terms of the document. However, in practice, express consent is rarely sought from casual website visitors. On the other hand, it is easy to obtain the express consent of users who register with the website or submit any material to the website, e.g. by clicking “I accept” on an electronic version of the document. You should retain evidence of the acceptance of the document terms by each such user.
Under what circumstances will users be asked to give their express consent to the terms of this document?
Section 1.4
The use of websites by minors can be legally problematic. There are a number of different legal issues. For example, under English law, contracts may be unenforceable against minors. Another issue concerns data protection. The law of data protection imposes additional burdens in relation to the processing of any personal data of a minor and personal data provided by a minor. The effects of the law of indecency may also depend upon whether a website is accessible by minors. Obviously, the inclusion of a requirement in your terms and conditions that minors refrain from using a website is no guarantee that they will do so. Where your website is directed at, or likely to be used by, minors, we recommend that you seek specialist legal advice.
What is the minimum age for website users?
Section 2: Copyright notice
A copyright notice is an assertion of ownership.
Copyright notices usually take the form specified in Article 3(1) of the Universal Copyright Convention (although the UCC itself is now of very limited significance):
“Any Contracting State which, under its domestic law, requires as a condition of copyright, compliance with formalities such as deposit, registration, notice, notarial certificates, payment of fees or manufacture or publication in that Contracting State, shall regard these requirements as satisfied with respect to all works protected in accordance with this Convention and first published outside its territory and the author of which is not one of its nationals, if from the time of the first publication all the copies of the work published with the authority of the author or other copyright proprietor bear the symbol © accompanied by the name of the copyright proprietor and the year of first publication placed in such manner and location as to give reasonable notice of claim of copyright.”
It will be rare for a website owner to be the sole proprietor of all the copyright in a website. For example, the software code used to run the website may belong to another person. For this reason, the notice here refers also to licensors.
Universal Copyright Convention – http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=15381&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works – https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/text/283698
Section 2.1
What was the year of the first publication of the relevant copyright material dated 2023.
Principle owner Miss Jane Moss.
Section 3: Permission to use website.
Every website is a compendium of copyright-protected works. These may include literary works, (website text, HTML, CSS and software code), graphic works (photographs and illustrations), databases, sound recordings and films.
The most fundamental principle of copyright law is that a person may not copy a protected work without permission. Using a website involves copying some or all the works comprised on the website. Accordingly, a user needs permission to use a website. A “license” is just such a permission.
In most if not all cases, by publishing a website a person will be granting an implied license to website visitors to copy of the website. The problem with an implied license is that the scope of the license is inherently uncertain. Is the visitor permitted to download the entire website? Is the visitor permitted to reproduce elements of the website elsewhere?
Because of this uncertainty, most publishers will include an express license setting out exactly what visitors are permitted to do in relation to a website and, just as important, what they are not permitted to do.
The scope of the license will vary. In editing these provisions, consider carefully exactly what your users should be allowed to do with the website and material on the website.
Chapter II, Part I, Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 – https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/part/I/chapter/II/crossheading/the-acts-restricted-by-copyright
Section 3.1
Will audio and/or video files be published on the website?
Will the website make available any dynamic services to users?
Describe the website services in question.
Section 3.2
Private Message group chats (all access available to all paying Members)
Section 3.3
Optional element.
For what purposes may the website be used – Friendship, Companionship and or Relationship.
Section 3.4
Optional element.
Section 3.6
Optional element. Are users permitted to redistribute any specific content from the website (e.g. newsletters)? – No.
What types of content are redistributable?
In what formats may redistributable content be redistributed?
To whom may redistributable content be redistributed?
Section 4: Misuse of website
Section 4.1
Should automated interactions with the website be prohibited?
Will the website incorporate a robots.txt file?
Should users be prohibited from using the website for direct marketing activity?
Section 4.2
Optional element.
What standard of veracity etc. should user-submitted content meet?
Section 5: Registration and accounts
Section 5.1
Optional element. Do any eligibility criteria apply to account registration? – Yes
What eligibility criteria apply? – Must be over 18 years of Age
Section 5.2
How do users register with the website? – Face to Face appointments allocated once details are received via our website.
Section 5.3
Optional element. Will users be permitted to share their accounts? – No.
Section 5.4
Optional element.
Section 5.5
Optional element.
Are users permitted to use another person’s account on the website with the permission of that other person? – No
Section 6: User login details
Optional element.
Section 6.1
How will users’ login details be generated? – This will be their own personnel preference.
What account credentials will users have upon account creation?
Section 6.2
Email and Password.
Section 6.3
Optional element.
Section 6.4
Optional element.
Section 6.5
Optional element.
Section 7: Cancellation and suspension of account
Section 7.1
The Consumer Rights Act 2015 provides that certain terms may be unfair and unenforceable in contracts with consumers, including: “[a] term which has the object or effect of enabling the trader to terminate a contract of indeterminate duration without reasonable notice except where there are serious grounds for doing so” (see Part 1 of Schedule 2, Paragraph 8).
What sort of notice is required here?
Section 7.2
How may a user cancel his or her account on the website?
Section 8: Dating services.
Section 8.1
Regulation 9(1)(a) of the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002: “Unless parties who are not consumers have agreed otherwise, where a contract is to be concluded by electronic means a service provider shall, prior to an order being placed by the recipient of a service, provide to that recipient in a clear, comprehensible and unambiguous manner the information set out in (a) to (d) below … (a) the different technical steps to follow to conclude the contract”.
One such step should be the provision of an acknowledgement of receipt of the order to the service recipient “without undue delay and by electronic means” (Regulation 11(1)(a)). This requirement does not, however, apply “where parties who are not consumers have agreed otherwise”.
Are subscription fees payable during or after registration?
When will the contract for services come into force?
Regulation 9, Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 – http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2013/regulation/9/made
Section 8.2
This is intended to meet the requirements of Regulation 9(1)(c) of the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002, which states: “Unless parties who are not consumers have agreed otherwise, where a contract is to be concluded by electronic means a service provider shall, prior to an order being placed by the recipient of a service, provide to that recipient in a clear, comprehensible and unambiguous manner the information set out in (a) to (d) below … (c) the technical means for identifying and correcting input errors prior to the placing of the order.”
See also Regulation 11(1)(b): “Unless parties who are not consumers have agreed otherwise, where the recipient of the service places his order through technological means, a service provider shall … make available to the recipient of the service appropriate, effective and accessible technical means allowing him to identify and correct input errors prior to the placing of the order”.
Can you describe the error identification and correction process?
Describe process.
Regulation 9, Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 – http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2013/regulation/9/made
Section 8.3
All services are available to all registered users?
Section 8.4
Optional element.
In B2C contracts, the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (“CRA”) may affect this provision. Paragraph 11 of Schedule 2 to the CRA, gives one example of a potentially unenforceable “unfair term” under the CRA: “[a] term which has the object or effect of enabling the trader to alter the terms of the contract unilaterally without a valid reason which is specified in the contract.” This is however qualified by Paragraph 23 of Schedule 2: Paragraph 11 does not include “a term under which a trader reserves the right to alter unilaterally the conditions of a contract of indeterminate duration if – (a) the trader is required to inform the consumer with reasonable notice, and (b) the consumer is free to dissolve the contract.”
Will the right to vary only apply in specified circumstances?
Describe the circumstances in which the right to vary will apply.
Once subscription date expires if not re-newed all details will be removed from the system, to re-new a new Face to Face appointment will be generated.
Section 8.5
What happens at the end of a subscription period?
In the case of automatically renewing subscriptions, how can a user cancel the subscription?
In the case of automatically terminating subscriptions, how can a user renew the subscription – Face to Face
Section 8.6
Optional element. Should users be expressly prohibited from adding contact information such as email addresses to the website? – No
Section 8.7
Optional element.
Section 9: Personal profiles
Does the website allow users to create and publish or share personal profiles? – No
Section 9.1
Optional element.
Section 9.2
Optional element.
Section 10: Fees
Section 10.2
Optional element.
Section 10.5
Optional element.
Section 10.6
Optional element. Will the website operator be entitled to compensation in the event of an unjustified charge-back? – No
Within what period will customers have to pay charges associated with charge-backs (starting on the date of a written request for payment)?
Will the website operator be entitled to compensation in the event of an unjustified charge-back?
What administration fee will you charge to customers who initiate an unjustified charge-back?
Section 10.7
Optional element.
Section 10.8
Optional element. Does the website operator need a right of set off in relation to sums owed by users?
Section 11: Distance contracts: cancellation right
EU distance selling laws were implemented in the UK through the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013, which remain in force after the end of the Brexit transition period.
These Regulations apply special rules to certain distance contracts between traders and consumers (i.e. B2C) for the supply of services entered via a website, as well as certain other contracts (not discussed here).
Unfortunately, the rules are too complex to describe in detail here, and you should read the Regulations or at least a more detailed summary of them. A handful of the key points have been set out below.
First, traders must make certain pre-contract disclosures. The information traders need to disclose is set out in Schedule 2 to the Regulations and includes information about the cancellation rights under the Regulations. Some of the information may be contained in terms and conditions or other standard documents, whilst some will usually be customer specific.
Second, certain of the Schedule 2 information (mostly concerned with the characteristics of the services, pricing, payments and contract duration – see Regulation 14(2)) must be provided directly before the order is placed. This could be on a page of a checkout process where the consumer is asked to check the details of the order before paying.
Third, when placing an order, the consumer should explicitly acknowledge the obligation to pay. If the order is made by pressing a button, the button text should be “Order with obligation to pay” or something equivalent.
Fourth, the trader must send to the consumer confirmation of the contract on a “durable medium”. Typically, this will be a confirmation email. The confirmation should repeat any Schedule 2 information that was not previously given on a durable medium.
Fifth, the trader should make available to consumers a partially filled-in copy of the model cancellation form set out in Schedule 3(B). The trader may also wish to make available a filled-in copy of the model instructions for cancellation set out in Schedule 3(A) – but one of the purposes of the distance selling provisions in this document is to replace those model instructions. If both are used, ensure they are consistent.
Sixth, the trader should have in place appropriate procedures to comply with cancellation requests. In summary, contracts to purchase services may be cancelled at any time within the period of 14 days following the coming into force of the contract (subject to the early provision rules, described below).
Seventh, in the case of contracts for services which will or may be provided before the end of the cancellation period, and on the assumption that such contracts should be not be cancellable without cost to the consumer, the consumer should be required to make an “express request” for service provision before the end of the cancellation period, and must “acknowledge” that the right to cancel will be lost once the contract has been fully performed.
Certain contracts for services are not covered by the Regulations or are not cancelled under the Regulations. Included in these categories are contracts for: (i) gambling; (ii) certain financial services; (iii) the creation of immovable property or rights in immovable property; (iv) rental of accommodation for residential purposes; (v) the construction and conversion of buildings; (vi) the supply of food etc. by a regular roundsman; (vii) package holidays; (viii) timeshares; (ix) passenger transport services, (x) services the price of which fluctuates with financial markets (with exceptions), and (xi) urgent repairs or maintenance requested by the consumer (again, with exceptions).
Contracts for the supply of accommodation, transport of goods, vehicle rental services and catering services relating to leisure activities are not covered if they provide for specific dates or periods of performance. See Regulations 6, 27 and 28 for full details.
There are other exceptions and special rules that are not covered in this note, so do read the Regulations themselves.
Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 – http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/3134/made
Section 11.3
The consumer should be asked to give “express consent” to the provision of services before the end of the cancellation period and must acknowledge the consequent loss of the cancellation right (e.g. by ticking a checkbox, during checkout, next to a statement clearly specifying the consent and acknowledgement). See Regulation 36.
Section 11.4
The trader must make available to the consumer a Schedule 3(B) cancellation form. In the Regulations, “something is made available to a consumer only if the consumer can reasonably be expected to know how to access it” (Regulation 8). If the trader gives the consumer the option of cancelling by means of a web form and the consumer uses that web form to cancel, the trader must acknowledge the cancellation “on a durable medium without delay”. See Regulation 31.
Section 12: Our rights to use your content.
Section 12.1
Dating With A Difference.
Section 12.2
What type of license do users grant to the website operator?
What does the license allow the website operator to do with user content?
Section 12.4
Optional element. Should the website operator be granted the right to bring proceedings in respect of third-party infringements?
Section 12.5
Optional element. Should users be asked to waive their moral rights (such as the right of paternity and the right to object to derogatory treatment) in the content they submit to the website?
Section 12.6
Optional element. Can users edit their own content after it has been posted to the website? No
Section 13: Rules about your content
Section 13.2
This very general prohibition against unlawful user content may be supplemented by rules relating to specific kinds of illegality, as well as prohibitions upon lawful but undesirable content.
Section 13.3
Optional element.
Section 13.4
Optional element. Do you want to require civility from your users in relation to the posting of material on the website?
Section 13.5
Optional element. Do you want to prohibit hyperlinks in user content that point to material that is prohibited by the terms of this document?
Section 13.6
Optional element.
Section 14: Report abuse
Will there be a special procedure (which could be as simple as a designated email address) for reporting abusive conduct or materials on the website?
Websites that allow the publication of user generated content should incorporate an abuse reporting procedure. The existence of such a procedure may help the website operator to take advantage of certain defenses that may be available in respect of such user generated content. For instance, the website operator defense set out in Section 5 of the Defamation Act 2013 and elaborated in the Defamation (Operators of Websites) Regulations 2013 will only be available where the operator has responded to a notice of complaint sent by the complainant, a process which may be made simpler using a dedicated communications channel. The guidance notes accompanying the legislation have this to say on the subject: “The Government encourages operators to set up and publicize a designated email address for this purpose as a matter of good practice, which we encourage complainants to use. Operators may also wish to provide an online form that complainants can use to submit a Notice of Complaint”.
Defamation Act 2013 – https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/26
Defamation (Operators of Websites) Regulations 2013 – https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/3028/made
Section 14.2
Optional element.
How can users report unlawful and unwanted materials and activities on the website?
Section 15: Limited warranties
Section 15.1
Optional element.
Section 15.2
Optional element.
Section 16: Limitations and exclusions of liability
Contractual limitations and exclusions of liability are regulated and controlled by law, and the courts may rule that limitations and exclusions of liability in contracts are unenforceable.
Exclusions and limitations of liability in UK B2B contracts are primarily regulated by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 (“UCTA”), while exclusions of liability in UK B2C contracts are primarily regulated by the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (“CRA”).
Contracts regulated by UCTA cannot exclude or restrict a party’s liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence (Section 2(1), UCTA). Except insofar as the relevant term satisfies the requirements of reasonableness, such contracts cannot exclude or restrict liability: (i) for negligence (which includes a breach of an express or implied contractual obligation to take reasonable care or exercise reasonable skill) (Section 2(2), UCTA); or (ii) for misrepresentation (Section 3, Misrepresentation Act 1967).
In addition, if a contract is regulated by UCTA, and one of the parties is dealing on the other’s written standard terms of business, then except insofar as the relevant contractual term satisfies the requirements of reasonableness the other party cannot: (i) exclude or restrict his liability in respect of a breach of contract; or (ii) claim to be entitled to render a contractual performance substantially different from that which was reasonably expected of him; or (iii) claim to be entitled, in respect of the whole or any part of his contractual obligation, to render no contractual performance at all (see Section 3, UCTA).
UCTA includes various other restrictions, particularly in the case of contracts for the sale of goods and contracts under which possession or ownership of goods passes.
Consumer contracts regulated by the CRA cannot exclude or restrict liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence (Section 65(1), CRA). Further, any “unfair term” in such a contract will not be binding on the consumer (Section 62(1), CRA). A contractual term is unfair “if, contrary to the requirement of good faith, it causes a significant imbalance in the parties’ rights and obligations arising under the contract to the detriment of the consumer” (Section 62(3), CRA).
Sections 47 and 57 of the CRA prevent a trader using exclusion clauses to abridge the rights of a consumer in relation to digital content and services respectively.
Section 47 of the CRA provides that a term of a contract to supply digital content is not binding on the consumer if it excludes or restricts the trader’s liability under the provisions of the CRA relating to: (a) digital content being of satisfactory quality; (b) digital content being fit for a particular purpose; (c) digital content being as described; (d) pre-contract information; or (e) the trader’s right to supply the digital content.
Section 57 of the CRA provides (inter alia) that a term in a services contract will not bind consumers if it excludes any liability of the trader to provide the services with reasonable care and skill.
A “grey list” of provisions that may be regarded as unfair is set out in Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the CRA. Some of these have implications for the drafting of limitations and exclusions of liability. For example, they include: “[a] term which has the object or effect of excluding or limiting the trader’s liability in the event of the death of or personal injury to the consumer resulting from an act or omission of the trader.”
“Where a term of a consumer contract, or a consumer notice, purports to exclude or restrict a trader’s liability for negligence, a person is not to be taken to have voluntarily accepted any risk merely because the person agreed to or knew about the term or notice” (Section 65(2), CRA).
The courts may be more likely to rule that provisions excluding liability, as opposed to those merely limiting liability, are unenforceable.
If there is a risk that any limitation or exclusion of liability will be found to be unenforceable by the courts, that provision should usually be drafted as an independent term and be numbered separately from the other provisions.
These guidance notes provide a very incomplete and basic overview of a complex subject. Accordingly, you should take legal advice if you wish to rely upon a limitation or exclusion of liability.
Consumer Rights Act 2015 – http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/15/contents/enacted
Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 – https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/50
Section 16.1
Do not delete this provision (except upon legal advice). Without this provision, the specific limitations and exclusions of liability in the document are more likely to be unenforceable.
Section 16.3
Optional element. Do you want to attempt to exclude all liability for free services and information? – Yes
This sort of exclusion is quite common, but unlikely to be enforceable in court.
Section 16.5
Optional element.
Section 16.6
Optional element.
Should this exclusion of liability apply only to non-consumers?
Section 16.7
Optional element.
Should this exclusion of liability apply only to non-consumers?
Section 16.8
Optional element. If the website operator is a limited liability entity (e.g. a limited company), do you want to expressly exclude liability on the part of officers and employees?
Section 16.9
Optional element. Do you want to include a liability cap in this document?
Liability caps may be unenforceable in practice.
Do you want to include a liability cap in this document?
What monetary amount should be used in the liability cap?
What floating amount should be used in the liability cap?
Section 17: Indemnity
Optional element.
Section 18: Breaches of these terms and conditions
Section 18.1
Will account suspension or deletion be a possibility here?
Section 18.2
Optional element.
Do you wish to specify types of action that are prohibited here?
Detail the types of action which are prohibited by this provision.
Section 19: Third party websites
Optional element.
Section 20: Trademarks
Do any trademarks (registered or unregistered, yours or someone else’s) appear on your website?
Trademarks may be registered or unregistered. It is a criminal offence under Section 94 of the Trademarks Act 1994 to falsely represent that a trademark is registered. Accordingly, you must not use the (R) symbol in relation to unregistered trademarks.
Trademarks Act 1994 – https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/26
Section 20.1
It is customary in legal documents to identify specific trademarks using capital letters (e.g. trademark) and, in the case of registered marks, registration particulars (e.g. UK trademark registration number 000001 for trademark).
Please identify your trademarks, by reference to registration particulars in the case of registered trademarks.
Section 20.2
Optional element. Will or might any third-party trademarks be reproduced on the website?
Section 21: Variation
Changes to legal documents published on a website will not generally be retrospectively effective, and variations without notice to and/or consent from relevant users may be ineffective.
Section 21.2
Will website users be notified of changes to the document?
Section 21.3
The Consumer Rights Act 2015 (“CRA”) provides that “[a] term which has the object or effect of enabling the trader to alter the terms of the contract unilaterally without a valid reason which is specified in the contract” may be an unfair term, and therefore unenforceable (see Section 63(1) and Part 1 of Schedule 2, CRA).
However, that paragraph does not apply to: “a term under which a trader reserves the right to alter unilaterally the conditions of a contract of indeterminate duration if – (a) the trader is required to inform the consumer with reasonable notice, and (b) the consumer is free to dissolve the contract” (see Section 63(2) and Part 2 of Schedule 2, CRA).
Do you wish to specify that this provision will apply only to consumers?
Should the purposes of possible document revisions be specified here?
What sort of notice will be given?
What happens if no agreement to a proposed variation is forthcoming?
What purposes?
Section 22: Assignment
Section 22.1
Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Consumer Rights Act 2015 contains an indicative and non-exhaustive list of terms which may be regarded as unfair. Included in this list are terms having “the object or effect of allowing the trader to transfer the trader’s rights and obligations under the contract, where this may reduce the guarantees for the consumer, without the consumer’s agreement”.
Do you want to explicitly state that consumers will not lose any “guarantees” because of an assignment?
Section 24: Third party rights
Optional element.
This provision is designed to exclude any rights a third party may have under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 – https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/31
Section 25: Entire agreement
Section 25.1
What other documents govern the use of the website?
Section 26: Law and jurisdiction
The question of which law governs a document and where disputes relating to the document may be litigated are two distinct questions.
Section 26.1
This document has been drafted to comply with English law, and the governing law provision should not be changed without obtaining expert advice from a lawyer qualified in the appropriate jurisdiction. In some circumstances the courts will apply provisions of their local law, such as local competition law or consumer protection law, irrespective of a choice of law clause.
Which law should govern the document?
Section 26.2
In some circumstances your jurisdiction clause may be overridden by the courts.
Should the jurisdiction granted be exclusive or non-exclusive? Choose “non-exclusive” jurisdiction if you want to enforce the terms and conditions against users outside England and Wales. Otherwise, choose “exclusive jurisdiction”.
The courts of which country or jurisdiction should adjudicate disputes under the document?
Section 27: Statutory and regulatory disclosures
Optional element.
This provision includes disclosures that may aid compliance with certain statutes and regulations, including the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002.
Since the end of the Brexit transition period, UK traders no longer need to publish information about the EU’s online dispute resolution (ODR) platform on their websites. Moreover, most UK traders no longer have any obligations to use alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms to handle disputes, or to publish information on their websites about such mechanisms.
However, EU traders may need to include relevant information about the ODR platform and their ADR providers in their published legal documentation in accordance with Article 14 of Regulation 524/2013 (Regulation on Consumer ODR).
Article 14(1) provides that:
“Traders established within the Union engaging in online sales or service contracts, and online marketplaces established within the Union, shall provide on their websites an electronic link to the ODR platform. That link shall be easily accessible for consumers. Traders established within the Union engaging in online sales or service contracts shall also state their e-mail addresses.”
Article 14(2) provides that:
“Traders established within the Union engaging in online sales or service contracts, which are committed or obliged to use one or more ADR entities to resolve disputes with consumers, shall inform consumers about the existence of the ODR platform and the possibility of using the ODR platform for resolving their disputes. They shall provide an electronic link to the ODR platform on their websites and, if the offer is made by e-mail, in that e-mail. The information shall also be provided, where applicable, in the general terms and conditions applicable to online sales and service contracts.”
Where the Regulation on Consumer ODR applies, add the required information here or elsewhere in this document.
Regulation (EU) 524/2013 (Regulation on consumer ODR) – https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:165:0001:0012:EN:PDF
Section 27.1
Optional element.
Regulation 9, Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 – http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2013/regulation/9/made
Section 27.2
Optional element.
This is intended to meet the requirements of Regulation 9(1)(d) of the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002.
What language or languages will the document be available in?
Regulation 9, Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 – http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2013/regulation/9/made
Section 27.3
Optional element. Is the website operator registered in a trade or similar register that is available to the public?
The Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 provide that if you are “registered in a trade or similar register available to the public”, you must provide “details of the register in which the service provider is entered and his registration number, or equivalent means of identification in that register”.
What is the name of the trade register?
At what URL can the trade register be found?
What is the website operator’s registration number?
Regulation 6, Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 – http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2013/regulation/6/made
Section 27.4
Optional element. Is the website operator subject to an authorization scheme (e.g. under financial services legislation)?
The Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 provide that “where the provision of the service is subject to an authorization scheme” you must provide “the particulars of the relevant supervisory authority”.
What is the name of the authorization scheme to which the website operator is subject?
What authority supervises the authorization scheme?
Regulation 6, Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 – http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2013/regulation/6/made
Section 27.5
Optional element. Is the service provider a member of a regulated profession (e.g. solicitors)?
The Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 provide that if “the service provider exercises a regulated profession”, it must provide “(I)
the details of any professional body or similar institution with which the service provider is registered; (ii) his professional title and the member State where that title has been granted; (iii) a reference to the professional rules applicable to the service provider in the member State of establishment and the means to access them”.
What is the website operator’s professional title?
Which professional body regulates the website operator?
What is the name of the document containing the rules governing the profession?
At what URL can the rules be found?
Regulation 6, Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 – http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2013/regulation/6/made
Section 27.6
Optional element. Does the website operator subscribe to any codes of conduct?
The Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 provide that “a service provider shall indicate which relevant codes of conduct he subscribes to and give information on how those codes can be consulted electronically”.
Identify the codes of conduct in question.
Where can the codes be viewed?
Regulation 9, Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 – http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2013/regulation/9/made
Section 27.7
Optional element. Is the website operator registered for VAT?
What is the website operator’s VAT number?
Section 28: Our details
Optional element.
The provisions here reflect a mixture of EU law and UK law requirements relating to contact information.
All services covered by the Ecommerce Directive (which was implemented in the UK through the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002) must provide a name, a geographic address (not a P.O. Box number) and an email address.
Under distinct UK legislation, UK companies must provide their corporate names, their registration numbers, their place of registration and their registered office address on their websites (although not necessarily in this document). Sole traders and partnerships that carry on a business in the UK under a “business name” (i.e. a name which is not the name of the trader/names of the partners or certain other specified classes of name) must also make certain additional disclosures: (a) in the case of a sole trader, the individual’s name; (b) in the case of a partnership, the name of each member of the partnership; and (c) in either case, in relation to each person named, an address in the UK at which service of any document relating in any way to the business will be effective. All operators covered by the Provision of Services Regulations 2009 must also provide a telephone number.
Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 (original version) – https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2013/made
Provision of Services Regulations 2009 – https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2999
Directive 2000/31/EC (Directive on electronic commerce) – https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32000L0031
Section 28.1
Dating With a Difference.
Owner- Miss Jane Moss
Section 28.2
Optional element. Is the relevant person a company?
In what jurisdiction is the company registered?
What is the company’s registration number or equivalent?
Where is the company’s registered address? – N/A
Section 28.3
Optional element.
Where is the relevant person’s head office or principal place of business?
Section 28.4
Optional element.
By what means may the relevant person be contacted? – Email
Where is the relevant person’s postal address published? – N/A
Either specify a telephone number or give details of where the relevant number may be found.
Jane@datingwithadifference.com