Terms of Service

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE

Who we are and how to contact us

creativelivesinprogress.com is owned and operated by Creative Lives in Progress Limited (us, we, our).Our company details are set out at Company Information.

By using this site you accept these terms

By using our site (including registering for an account), you confirm that you accept these terms and that you agree to comply with them. If you are acting on behalf of your employer or another third party, you confirm that you have full authority to accept these terms on their behalf.

If you (or if you are acting on behalf of your employer or another third party, your employer or that third party) (you, your) do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and the other applicable terms, and that they comply with them.

We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

There are other terms that may apply to you

These terms refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

Our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and store your personal data.
Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.

Any Community Guidelines that we may make available on our site from time to time will also form part of these terms and apply to your use of our site.

You may be able to apply to attend events and/or subscribe to newsletters through our site.Any further terms applicable in respect of them will be notified to you at the relevant time.

You may be able to purchase advertising and other services from us.

Our Terms and Conditions for Advertisers will apply to all sales of advertising services from our site.
Other terms will apply to sales of other services from us and may apply to your use of our site.

We may make changes to these terms

We amend these terms from time to time.Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.

You will be bound by any changes to these terms from the time you next access our site. Therefore, if you do not agree with any changes to these terms, please do not continue to access our site.

Content on our site

The content on our site covers a range of topics which we hope will be of interest to you.This will be updated and refreshed from time to time.

Although we make reasonable efforts to ensure that the information on our site is up to date:

some of the content on our site is provided to us by third parties and we have no control over that content; and
we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.

The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.

Job opportunities

We cannot guarantee that any job opportunity advertised will be current at the time that you apply or enquire about it or that the information provided by the organisation is accurate.

We rely on the organisation advertising a job opportunity to provide an accurate description of it and accurate information about the organisation, so you should make your own enquiries about the opportunity and the organisation shown and you must assess whether it is suitable for you.

Availability of our site

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted, error-free, secure or meet your requirements.

We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site (including any account) for business and / or operational reasons (including to preserve the security and / or integrity of the site, its content or any part of them). We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

You also acknowledge that your use of our site may be subject to limitations, delays and other problems inherent in the use of communications networks and facilities, including the internet, and the transfer of data across such communication facilities, and we are not responsible for any loss or damage resulting from such.

We may make changes to our site

We may update and change our site from time to time to:

reflect changes in relevant laws and regulatory requirements;
to implement technical adjustments and improvements, for example to address a security threat or to provide additional features; or
reflect changes to our users’ needs and our business priorities.

We will try to give you reasonable notice of any major changes.

Our site is only for users in the UK

Our site is directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that content available on or through our site is appropriate for use or available in other locations.

You must keep your account details safe

Where you register for an account or are otherwise provided with a username, user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable access to and/or use of any account (or any part of it) at any time if, in our reasonable opinion, you have failed to comply with these terms.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your username, user identification code, password or any other piece of information required to access your account, you must promptly notify us at [email protected].

How you may use material on our site

We are the owner or licensor of all intellectual property rights in, to or arising in connection with our site and we either own the material published on our site or we have permission from third parties to publish their material on our site. Our site and those works published on it are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may display and view our site and the material published on it on your computer or other device screen.

You may print off and download any pages from our site for your non-commercial use and you may also draw the attention of others to content posted on our site. However, you must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way (including any copyright or other intellectual property notices on them), and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

You may use any feature or functionality made available to you on our site for the purpose for which it is made available.

You may share materials published on our site in accordance with Rules about sharing content from our site.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.

Except for any content on our site that is owned by you, you must not copy, exploit or otherwise use our site, any material published on our site or any feature or functionality made available to you on our site for any other purpose, including:

using any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining written permission to do so from us or the applicable owner of the content. If you wish to make use of any content on our site for such purposes, please contact us by email at [email protected]; or
using our site or information contained on our site to build a product or service which competes with our site.

No text or data mining or web scraping

Except to the extent that we are unable to exclude or limit the same by contract under applicable laws, you shall not:

conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site; or
use, and we do not consent to the use of, our site, or any content or data published by, or contained in, or accessible via, our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site for the purposes of developing, training, fine-tuning or validating any AI system or model.

Rules about sharing content from our site

We encourage users to share the content of our site via their social media pages by clicking on the share option next to such content on our site.

However, you must not:

share screen grabs of our site;
frame any content of our site;
share any content in a way that could damage our reputation or take advantage of it, or which is otherwise unfair or illegal;
establish a link to our site in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists; or
establish a link to our site in any website or social media page that is not owned by you (unless you have the permission of the owner to do so).

Further, you must comply in all respects with these terms, our Community Guidelines from time to time and any other applicable acceptable use and /or content standards).

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than as set out above, please contact us at [email protected].

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

Other sites are not permitted to embed text in our site without our prior written permission.

Uploading content to our site

Whenever you make use of a feature or functionality that allows you to create or modify content directly on our site or upload or share content to our site, you must comply with standards set out in User Content Standards and in our Community Guidelines from time to time.

You warrant that any such contribution complies with those standards, and you are liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

We will consider any such contribution to be non-confidential and not protected by any trade mark, patent or copyright ("non-proprietary"), that is, in the public domain.You own such contribution, but you are required to grant us and other users of our site a limited licence to use, store and copy such contribution and to distribute and make it available to others. The rights you license to us are described in Rights you are giving us to material you upload.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to anyone who is claiming that any such contribution violates their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy.

We have the right to remove any such contribution if, in our reasonable opinion, it does not comply with these terms.

If you wish to contact us in relation to any such contribution that we have taken down, please contact [email protected].

User content standards

You must not during your use of our site access, upload, store, distribute or transmit:

any viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs, spyware or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful or otherwise harmfully interacting with our site or any part of it; and/or
any material that:
is unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, infringing, harassing or racially or ethnically offensive;
facilitates illegal activity;
depicts sexually explicit images;
promotes unlawful violence;
is discriminatory (whether based on race, gender, colour, religious belief, sexual orientation, disability or otherwise);
infringes, or whose publication would infringe, any third party rights (including intellectual property rights and rights to privacy) or is copied from any third party work;
is otherwise illegal or breaches any applicable law, regulation or code (whether statutory or self-regulatory) from time to time; or
causes damage or injury to any person or property or negatively affects us or potentially brings us or our site into disrepute.

All content created or modified directly on our site or uploaded or shared to our site by you must not mislead and must be be fair, honest, accurate, complete and up to date.

You must not link to our site from any website or social media page that is not owned by you (unless you have the permission of the owner to do so).

Rights you are giving us to use material you upload

When you create, modify, upload or post content on or to our site, you grant us the following rights to use that content:

a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform such content in connection with the provision of, and services provided by, our site and across different media (including to promote our site and its service) forever; and
a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence for other users of our site to use the content in accordance with the features and functionality of our site forever.

User content is not approved by us

Our site may include information and materials uploaded directly by other users.This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us.The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.

We are not responsible for websites we link to

Where our site contains links to other sites, promotions and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval or endorsement by us of those linked websites, promotions or information you may obtain from them.

Any third party advertisements, offer or promotions displayed on our site will be subject to the terms and conditions specified by those third parties which you should read. We are not responsible for the fulfilment of any such offers, promotions or transactions and you should contact such third parties directly in relation to any queries you may have in connection with them.

We have no control over the contents of third party sites or resources, and if you visit these sites you will be subject to all applicable terms and conditions of use and privacy relevant to those sites or resources. You acknowledge that your choice to access such third party sites and offers shall be solely at your own risk. We shall have no liability or obligation whatsoever in relation to the content or use of, or correspondence with, any such third-party website, or any transactions completed, and any contract entered into shall be between you with any such third party (not us).

We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site, and you should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs, spyware or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful or otherwise harmfully interacting with our site or any part of it. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site or any other equipment or network connected with our site. You must not interfere with, damage or disrupt any software used in the provision of our site or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party on which our site relies in any way. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. Breach of this provision would be a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and, in the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them.

Liability

Access to our site is provided to users on an “as is” basis. All warranties, representations, conditions and all other terms of any kind whatsoever implied by statute or common law that may apply in respect of our site or any content on it are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

Please also note that you can only use the site for non-commercial purposes (which can include your own career development), and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, damage to goodwill, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any services to you, which will be set out in the Terms and Conditions for Advertisers or other applicable terms.

How we may use your personal information

We take the issue of privacy and data protection very seriously.

We will use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy. We ask you to read our Privacy Policy before providing us with any information about yourself.

General

Each of the paragraphs of these terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.

These terms are between you and us, and no other person shall have any rights to enforce any of them.

If we do not insist immediately that you do anything you are required to do under these terms, or if we delay in taking steps against you in respect of your breaking these terms, that will not mean that you do not have to do those things and it will not prevent us taking steps against you at a later date.

Please note that these terms, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that, if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

Contact Us

To contact us in connection with these terms and for any other general enquiries, please email [email protected].

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