Terms

This is a community forum facilitated by David Nieper Ltd. It has been set up for the community of Alfreton to communicate at a difficult time with outbreak of coronavirus in the UK. Please use this forum in the spirit is it intended to help and support your community.

alfretonforum.org may be used by registered users. By accessing the site you have accepted the terms of use that follow and you agree to abide by them. If, for any reason, you find that you cannot agree with these terms we ask you not to access the site.

alfretonforum.org is operated by David Nieper Limited, a company registered in England and Wales number 687485, with its registered office at Saulgrove House, Nottingham Road, Alfreton, Derbyshire DE55 7LE, UK.

This forum is intended to be for use by people who live in, work in, drive through, have an interest in the Derbyshire town of Alfreton. Everyone who uses this forum is free to post their thoughts, requests, recommendations and questions on here without unnecessary obstruction.

David Nieper Ltd, is not responsible for other people's writings. We therefore disclaim any responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by visitors to this site or by anyone who may be informed of its content. We reserve the right to remove any material or posting if, in our opinion, it does not comply with the content standards of acceptable use.

We ask users not to post anything that that you know is wrong, by all means, for example if you have had a bad experience with a local company or service, please tell us all about it, but do not post anything which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, threatening or illegal.

If you post something on here you are liable for its consequences. Postings should where possible be based on fact, made in good faith, published without malice and of interest to Alfreton.

If you have an issue with something that's been posted here, please send Admin a Private Message, not all messages can be replied to so apologies in advance. All posts to this forum have their IP logged which means that, in extreme cases, the person who posted a message can be traced.

The forum is administered by the Administrator who may have to step in every now and then, usually if postings are fraudulent or spam or just out of order and offensive. The management reserves the right to refuse entry.

It is our intention to update this site on a regular basis, so content may change from time to time. If the need should arise for any reason, access to the site may be temporarily suspended for this purpose.

Any of this site’s content and materials may become out of date at any given time and we are under no obligation to update such content or materials.

We reserve the right to withdraw or amend the site’s services without notice. We accept no liability if access to the site is unavailable for any reason, time or period.

The site’s proprietor is the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights within or associated with the material carried by this site.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technically harmful material that may infect the user’s computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to the use of this site or to the user’s downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

Liabilities

Content and materials on this site are shown without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, the proprietor and all third parties in any way connected to the proprietor in the provision of content and materials do hereby expressly exclude:

All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.

Liability or any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with this site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or the results of the use of this site, any sites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation, any liability for:

  • Loss of income or revenue
  • Loss of business or consequential loss
  • Loss of profits or contracts
  • Loss of anticipated savings
  • Loss of data
  • Loss of goodwill
  • Any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and caused, including negligence, breach or contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.

Viruses, hacking and other offences

It is a criminal offence to misuse this site by introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs, or other material that is malicious or technically harmful. It is also an offence to gain unauthorised access to this site, the server upon which this site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to this site. The user must not attack this site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.

By breaching the above provision, the user would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We reserve the right to report any breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and to cooperate with those authorities by revealing the identity of the transgressor. In the event of such a breach, the rights of the user will immediately cease.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technically harmful material that may infect the user’s computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to the use of this site or to the user’s downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

Businesses

Derbyshire businesses and services can post a promotional message about themselves once for free on the forum at the Administrator's discretion and should state their Derbyshire trading address. Businesses are welcome to offer genuine advice to users' question and promote themselves in doing so. Abuse of this site for commercial gain is not allowed and frowned upon, action maybe taken against companies who break that rule.