Aston Villa Football Club Limited Terms and Conditions
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE
Welcome
Welcome to the official website of Aston Villa Football Club Limited, Aston Villa Women’s Football Club Limited, Aston Villa Foundation (together referred to in these terms and conditions as the “Club”, “us”, “we” or “our”). These terms and conditions (together with the documents referred to in it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website www.avfc.co.uk (“our Site”), whether as a guest or a registered user.
Please click here for our acceptable use policy
Who we are
Our Site is a site operated by or on behalf of:
Aston Villa Football Club Limited, a limited company(registered in England and Wales under company number 3375789) with its registered office and main trading address at Villa Park, Birmingham, B6 6HE. Its VAT number is 687889830.
Aston Villa Women’s Football Club Limited, a limited company (registered in England and Wales under company number 8414046) with its registered office and main trading address at Villa Park, Birmingham, B6 6HE. Its VAT number is 687889830.
Aston Villa Foundation, a company limited by guarantee (registered in England and Wales under company number 8589263 and charity number 1152848) with its registered office at Villa Park, Birmingham, B6 6HE. It is not VAT registered.
By using our Site you accept these terms
Use of our Site includes accessing, browsing, or registering to use our Site. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use our Site, as these will apply to your use of our Site. We recommend that you print a copy of this for future reference. By using our Site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, you must not use our Site.
There may be other terms that apply to you
These terms and conditions refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our Site: · Our Privacy Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our Site you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate. · Our Acceptable Use Policy, which sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of our Site. When using our Site, you must comply with this Acceptable Use Policy.
· Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about cookies on our Site.
· If you purchase goods or services from our Site then additional terms will apply to those purchases.
We may make changes to these terms
We revise these terms and conditions from time to time by amending this page. Every time you wish to use our Site please check these terms to understand the terms that apply to you.
We may make changes to our Site
We may update our Site from time to time, and may change the content at any time. Any of the content on our Site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it. We do not guarantee that our Site, or any content on it, will be free from errors or omissions.
How you access our Site
Our Site is made available free of charge. We do not guarantee that our Site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our Site is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our Site for business or operational reasons without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our Site is unavailable at any time or for any period. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our Site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.
We may transfer this agreement to someone else
We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under the contract.
You must keep your account details safe
If you choose, or you are provided with, a 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 any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use. If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at web.support@avfc.co.uk.
How you may use material on our Site
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved. You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our Site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our Site. You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our Site must always be acknowledged. You must not use any part of the content on our Site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors. If you print off, copy or download any part of our Site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our Site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
Do not rely on information on our Site
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. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our Site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our Site is accurate, complete or up-to-date.
We are not responsible for websites we link to
Where our Site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
Such links should not be interpreted as approval or endorsement by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
How we may use your personal information
We will only use your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
User-generated content is not approved by us
Our Site may include information and materials uploaded by other users of our Site, including to bulletin boards and chat rooms. 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 the Club’s views or values.
Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you
Whether you are a consumer or business user
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 products to you. Please see our Shop page on our Site for full details.
If you are a business user
To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our Site or any content on it, whether express or implied. We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with: · use of, or inability to use, our Site; or · use of or reliance on any content displayed on our Site. In particular, we will not be liable for: · loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue; · business interruption; · loss of anticipated savings; · loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or · any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
If you are a consumer
Please note that we only provide our Site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our Site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
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. You should use your own virus protection software.
You must not misuse our Site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. 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. You must not attack our Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. 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. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Site will cease immediately.
We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our Site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
Uploading content to our Site
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our Site, or to make contact with other users of our Site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy. You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be 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. Any content you upload to our Site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of our Site a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. The rights you license to us are described in the next paragraph (Rights you are giving us to use material you upload). We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our Site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy. We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our Site. We have the right to remove any posting you make on our Site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy. The views expressed by other users on our Site do not represent our views or values. You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.
We do not store terrorist content.
Rights you are giving us to use material you upload
When you upload or post content to our Site, you grant the following licenses: · to the Club, a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty free license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform your user generated content in connection with the service provided by the Site or our own purposes and across all different media. · to third parties, a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty free license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform your user generated content in connection with the Site or their own purposes.
Rules about your linking to our Site
You may link to our Site’s home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not establish a link to our Site in any website that is not owned by you. Our Site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our Site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.
If you wish to link to or make use of the content on our Site other than as set out above then please use our contact us form to contact our media team.
Copying, downloading etc. from our Site
You may not copy, download, republish, reproduce, broadcast, transmit in any manner whatsoever any material from our Site except as is strictly necessary for your own personal non-commercial use except as follows: a) permission is granted to down load the materials contained on our Site to a single personal computer and to print a hard copy for personal, non-commercial use. b) permission is granted for you to copy extracts of texts from news articles that appear on our Site (excluding without limitation photographs, illustrations, logos, match reports, match statistics and audio and video materials) for non-commercial supply, in text format only, to individual third parties for their personal non-commercial use, but only if: 1) you acknowledge our Site as the source of the extract and include a prominent reference to our Site’s URL. If the supply is via the internet such acknowledgement must include a hypertext link to our Site: and 2) you inform the third party that the conditions set out in this clause apply to him/her and that he/she must comply with them: and 3) you reproduce the extracted material in complete and unmodified form and, if the
supply by you is via the internet, that you do not frame the extract within your own website. For the purposes of these terms, non-commercial supply or use shall mean that neither you nor any third party may charge for viewing any materials that have been down loaded or copied from our Site and neither you nor any third party can use materials from our Site to attract others to buy goods or services.
Individuals under the age of 18 accessing our Site
We recognise that individuals under the age of 18 will be accessing our Site and particularly the Juniors section. However, we would encourage all individuals under the age of 13 to consult with their parents or legal guardians before accessing our Site and downloading or uploading any data. Whilst we will use our reasonable efforts not to allow submissions from individuals who are under the age of 13 we are not responsible if individuals do not comply with these terms of use.
Which country’s laws apply to any disputes
If you are a consumer, please note that these terms and conditions, their subject matter and formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree to that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction. However, 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. If you are a business, these terms and conditions, their subject matter and formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
How to contact us
To contact us, please use our contact us form.
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