Terms and Conditions

  1. Access to and use of Firetrap web sites is provided by WDT Limited subject to the following terms:

    By visiting Firetrap sites you agree to be legally bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of the site.

    Firetrap reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time. Your continued use of Firetrap web sites after changes are posted means you agree to be legally bound by these terms as updated and/or amended.

  2. Use of Firetrap web sites

    You may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, transmit or otherwise use Firetrap content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any Firetrap content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any use of Firetrap content requires the prior written permission of Firetrap.

    You agree not use Firetrap web sites for unlawful purposes and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of Firetrap web sites. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within Firetrap.

  3. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

    Firetrap content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to the Firetrap and/or WDT Limited, its products and services (or to third party products and services), is provided "AS IS" and on an "IS AVAILABLE" basis without any representations or any kind of warranty made (whether express or implied by law), including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

    Firetrap and/or WDT Limited will not be liable for any damages, including indirect or consequential damages, or any damages arising from use or loss of use, data or profits, whether in contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising from or in connection with the use of Firetrap web sites.

    Firetrap does not warrant that functions contained in Firetrap web sites content will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that Firetrap or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.

  4. Intellectual Property

    The names, images and logos identifying the Firetrap, WDT Limited or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of the Firetrap, WDT Limited and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring by implication, or otherwise any licence or right to use any trademark, patent, design right or copyright of the Firetrap brand, WDT Limited, or any other third party.

  5. Contributions to Firetrap web sites

    Where you are invited to submit any contribution to Firetrap web sites (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant the Firetrap a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution WDT and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in the Firetrap Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant Firetrap the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to Firetrap.

    Further to paragraph 9, by submitting your contribution to Firetrap, you:

    1. warrant that your contribution;
    2. is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to Firetrap for all the purposes specified above;
    3. is not defamatory; and
    4. does not infringe any law; and
    5. 10.2 indemnifies Firetrap against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by Firetrap as a result of your breach of the above warranty; and
    6. 10.3 waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on Firetrap and the purposes specified above.

  6. Firetrap Community Rules

    You agree to use Firetrap web sites in accordance with the following Community Rules. These apply across all Firetrap sites and services. You should, however, read the local house rules of the particular site or service you're using, as there may be some local variations to these Community Rules.

    About your posts:

    1. Contributions must be civil and tasteful
    2. No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour: contributions must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble.
    3. No unlawful or objectionable content: unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable.
    4. If you use multiple logins for the purpose of disrupting the community or annoying other users you may have action taken against your accounts.
    5. Be patient: users of all ages and abilities may be taking part in the relevant Firetrap Community.
    6. No spamming or off-topic material: we don't allow the submission of the same or very similar contributions many times. Please don't re-submit your contribution to more than one discussion, or contribute off-topic material in subject-specific areas.
    7. No advertising
    8. Contributions containing languages other than English may be removed unless allowed in the relevant local house rules.
    9. No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names
    10. You may not refer to specific URLs (web site addresses) unless allowed under the relevant local house rules. If you know of a worthy web site relevant to the discussion topic, please inform the host of the Community area.
    11. Deliberate misuse of the complaints facility is not permitted. If you persist in doing this, action may be taken against your account.

    Safety:

    We advise that you never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example: telephone number, home address or email address), and please do not include postal addresses of any kind. If you have a helpful address to share, inform the host of the relevant Community area using the appropriate contact Firetrap link.

    About the law:

    1. You may not submit any defamatory or illegal material of any nature in Firetrap web sites. This includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio.
    2. Contributing material with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act is strictly prohibited.
    3. You agree to only submit materials which are your own original work. You must not violate, plagiarise, or infringe the rights of third parties including copyright, trade mark, trade secrets, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights.
    4. The views expressed in Firetrap web site community areas are those of members of the public and are not necessarily those of the Firetrap.

    If you're under 16:

    1. Please get a parent's or guardian's permission before taking part in any Firetrap discussion.
    2. Never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example, telephone number, home address or email address).

    If you breach these Terms of Use:

    If you fail to abide by these web site Rules (and/or any variations in the relevant local house rules) when taking part in Firetrap web site services, you will be sent an e-mail which informs you why your contribution has been failed or edited. This mail will also include a warning that continuing to break the rules may result in action being taken against your account or accounts.

    This action may include your relevant account or accounts being placed into pre-moderation or a temporary or permanent suspension of your ability to participate in any or all of Firetrap web site areas.

    If you post or send offensive or inappropriate content anywhere on or to Firetrap web sites or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on Firetrap, and Firetrap considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, Firetrap may use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop any further such infringements. We may also inform the appropriate authorities of such behaviour.

    Firetrap reserves the right to delete any contribution, or take action against any account, at any time, for any reason.

  7. General

    1. If there is any conflict between these terms and specific terms appearing elsewhere on Firetrap (including local house rules) then the latter shall prevail.
    2. If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.
    3. These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Europe.

      WDT Limited 2004-2005
      One Western Avenue Business Park Mansfield Road London W3 0BZ

  8. Privacy Policy

    The following statement explains our policy regarding the personal information we collect about you.

    1. Statement of intent

    From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address etc) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services include newsletters, competitions, "Alert Email",live chats, message boards and Firetrap membership.

    By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable Firetrap / WDT Limited and its service providers to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. Our services are designed to give you the information that you want to receive. Firetrap will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.

    2. Information on visitors

    During the course of any visit to Firetrap web sites, the pages you see, along with something called a cookie, are downloaded to your computer (see point 3 for more on this). Most web sites do this, because cookies allow the web site publisher to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

    Any information that is supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better service and assists us to analyse the profile of our visitors. For example: if on a previous visit you went to a section which showcased new products, then we might find this out from your cookie and highlight new product information on a second visit.

    3. What is a cookie?

    When you enter a site your computer will automatically be issued with a cookie. Cookies are text files that identify your computer to our server. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the computer used. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their site in order to track traffic flows.

    Cookies themselves only record those areas of the site that have been visited by the computer in question, and for how long. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user.

    NB: Even if you haven't set your computer to reject cookies you can still browse our site anonymously until such time as you register for Firetrap services.

    4. Use and storage of your personal information

    When you supply any personal information to Firetrap web sites (e.g. for competitions, Firetrap Community services or Firetrap membership) we have legal obligations towards you in the way we deal with that data. We must collect the information fairly, that is, we must explain how we will use it (see the notices on particular web pages that let you know why we are requesting the information) and tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else. In general, any information you provide to Firetrap web sites will only be used within Firetrap web sites and by its service providers. It will never be supplied to anyone outside Firetrap without first obtaining your consent, unless we are obliged or permitted by law to disclose it. Also, if you post or send offensive or inappropriate content anywhere on or to Firetrap or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on Firetrap web sites, and Firetrap considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, Firetrap can use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour.

    We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met, or, in the case of Firetrap web site membership you no longer wish to continue your registration as a Firetrap web site member. For safety reasons, however, Firetrap may store messaging transcript data arising from the use of Firetrap web site services for a period of six months. Where personal information is held for people who are not yet registered but have taken part in other Firetrap services (e.g. competitions), that information will be held only as long as necessary to ensure that the service is run smoothly. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2004.

    If you are notified on a Firetrap web site that your information may be used to allow the Firetrap to contact you for "service administration purposes", this means that Firetrap may contact you for a number of purposes related to the service you have signed up for. For example, we may wish to provide you with password reminders or notify you that the particular service has been suspended for maintenance. We will not contact you for promotional purposes, such as notifying you of improvements to the service or new services on Firetrap web sites unless you specifically agree to be contacted for such purposes at the time you submit your information on the site, or at a later time if you sign up specifically to receive such promotional information.

    5. Access to your personal information

    You have the right to request a copy of the personal information Firetrap holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. Email address will need to be provided.

    6. Users 16 and under

    If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to Firetrap web sites. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

    7. How to find and control your cookies

    If you're using Netscape 6.0: On your Task Bar, click:

    1. 'Edit', then
    2. Preferences
    3. Click on Advanced
    4. Click on Cookies

    If you're using Internet Explorer 6.0:

    1. Choose Tools, then
    2. Internet Options
    3. Click the Privacy Tab
    4. Click on Custom Level
    5. Click on the 'Advanced' button
    6. Check the 'override automatic cookie handing' box and select Accept, Block or Prompt for action as appropriate.

    If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5:

    1. Choose Tools, then
    2. Internet Options
    3. Click the Security tab
    4. Click on Custom Level
    5. Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are handled by IE5 and change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for action as appropriate.

    If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:

    1. Choose View, then
    2. Internet Options
    3. Click the Advanced tab
    4. Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security and choose one of the three options to regulate your use of cookies.

    In Internet Explorer 3.0: You can View, Options, Advanced, then click on the button that says Warn before Accepting Cookies.

    If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0: On your Task Bar, click:

    1. Edit, then
    2. Preferences
    3. Click on Advanced
    4. Set your options in the box that says Cookies.

    8. How do you know which of the sites you've visited use cookies?

    If you're using Netscape 6.0: On your Task Bar, click:

    1. Edit, then
    2. Preferences
    3. Click on Advanced
    4. Click on Cookies
    5. Click the View Cookies button

    If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 6.0:

    1. Choose Tools, then
    2. Internet Options
    3. Click the General tab
    4. Click Settings
    5. View Files

    If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0: On your Task Bar, click:

    1. View, then
    2. Internet Options
    3. Under the tab General (the default tab) click
    4. Settings
    5. View Files.

    Internet Explorer 3.0: On your Task Bar, click:

    1. View
    2. Options
    3. Advanced
    4. View Files.

    Netscape Communicator 4.0: Netscape bundles all cookies into one file on your hard drive. You'll need to find the file, which it calls Cookie.txt on Windows machines.

    9. How to see your cookie code

    Just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.

    WDT Limited 2004-2005
    One Western Avenue Business Park Mansfield Road London W3 0BZ

Terms & Conditions