Acceptable Use Policy


  • This acceptable use policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you may access our website / (our site). This acceptable use policy applies to all users of, and visitors to, our site.
  • Your use of our site means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the policies in this acceptable use policy, which supplement our terms of website use.
  • http://www/executivehireclub.co.uk is a site operated by Executive Hire News Ltd (we or us).  We are registered in England and Wales under company number 02720753 and our registered office and main trading address is at Hartham Park, Corsham, Wiltshire. SN13 0RP. Our VAT number is 579376773.
  • The Executive Hire Club is open to anyone who works within the plant, tool and equipment hire industry only. All applications will be vetted by the Club, and if you are from an industry that does not qualify, your application will not be accepted. 
  • To access the member only areas, and interact with this Forum, you must first be a fully paid up member of Executive Hire Club. If you haven't joined, and would like to do so, please follow this link.
  • You acknowledge, consent and agree that we may access, preserve, and disclose your account information and any content posted by you in order to: (a) comply with any legal process; (b) enforce this acceptable use policy; (c) respond to claims that any content posted on the Forum violates the rights of third parties; (d) respond to your requests for customer service; or (e) protect our rights, property, or personal safety and the other users of this website and the public.


Forum Membership

  • Each user is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
  • We reserve the right to ban anyone who wilfully & persistently violates the Forum rules.
  • While these rules will cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these Forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.


Moderating

  • All posts made to the forum are subject to moderation.
  • Please keep posts on topic and relevant to the section in which they are posted. With regard to the content of posts, if you wouldn't allow a child to read what you've written, then please don't post it.
  • The Moderator has been chosen carefully and will only edit/delete posts when they feel it is necessary.
  • The Moderator is not obliged to inform you if your post has been edited/deleted/moved.
  • Posts in the main Forum about moderating decisions, will be removed without notice. Please see the note below if you have a grievance.


Advertising

  • For Sale/Wanted and Re-hire advertising is allowed by fully paid up Executive Hire Club Members only. These must be posted in the relevant area of the website. Any ads posted in the wrong place will be removed without notice. Soliciting of products using the Forum is not allowed, unless information is specifically requested for by a Forum user.The Executive Hire Club shall have the right to refuse or cancel any advertising if it is deemed inappropriate or incorrect.

 

Cross Posting

  • Multiple posts with the same content in different forums are not allowed. The posts in all but the most relevant section will be removed by the Moderator.


Prohibited Uses

  • You may use our site only for lawful purposes.  You may not use our site:
  1. In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
  2. In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
  3. For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
  4. To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards set out below.
  5. To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
  6. To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
  • You also agree:
  • Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of our terms of website use.
  • Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
  1. any part of our site;
  2. any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
  3. any software used in the provision of our site; or
  4. any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.


Content standards

  • These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (contributions), and to any interactive services associated with it.
  • You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.
  • Contributions must:
  1. Be accurate (where they state facts).
  2. Be genuinely held (where they state opinions).
  3. Comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.
  • Contributions must not:
  1. Contain any material which is defamatory of any person.
  2. Contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
  3. Promote sexually explicit material.
  4. Promote violence.
  5. Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
  6. Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
  7. Be likely to deceive any person.
  8. Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
  9. Promote any illegal activity.
  10. Be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
  11. Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
  12. Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
  13. Give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.
  14. Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.

Suspension and termination

  • We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this acceptable use policy through your use of our site.  When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate. 
  • Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the terms of use upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
  1. Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
  2. Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site.
  3. Issue of a warning to you.
  4. Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
  5. Further legal action against you.
  6. Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.
  • We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy.  The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.


Changes to the acceptable use policy

  • We may revise this acceptable use policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in this acceptable use policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.