Acceptable Use Policy
Acceptable Use Policy
This acceptable use policy sets out the terms between you and us under
which you may access and use our website. 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 general terms of use.
Our Website
Your use of this website signifies your consent to us collecting and using
personal data about you as specified below in accordance with this policy
statement.
How do we collect personal information about you and how is it used?
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You may provide personal information when contacting or communicating
with us, and we may keep a record of that correspondence
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You may use our services and give your name and e-mail address to make
a comment about our services or website.
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We will collect information about your tastes and preferences, both
when you tell us and by analysis of customer traffic, including using " cookies".
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It may be that some of the personal information you give us (for
example, about your health and age) is sensitive personal data within
the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation. Such information
("sensitive information") will only be disclosed with your express
consent.
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It may be that you provide us details of credit or debit cards or bank
accounts in making payment to us. Any such information (confidential
financial information) will be disclosed only in accordance with the
disclosure policy
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Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to,
traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data,
whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and
the resources that you access.
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We may use personal information collected about you to help us develop
the layout of our website to ensure that our site is as useful and
enjoyable as possible.
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We may use personal information collected about you to let you know
about functions on our website or changes to our terms and conditions
of use.
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Personal data provided to us by third parties in accordance with the
law.
IP addresses
We may sometimes collect information about the computer or device you use
to access our sites, including where available your IP address, operating
system and browser type, for system administration.
Traffic data
We may provide aggregate statistics about sales, customers, traffic
patterns and information to third parties, but these statistics will not
include any information that identifies you or any individual personally.
Security
All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers in the
European Union. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL
technology and any credit, debit card or payment details you submit online
will be processed and held by our third party payment processor,
Barclaycard. We do not hold credit or debit card data ourselves.
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables
you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping
this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not
completely secure. Although we will do what we reasonably can to protect
your personal data and we have had this website security tested by a third
party, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our
site and any such transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received
your information, we will use appropriate procedures and security features
to try to protect your personal data against unauthorised or unlawful
access or accidental loss, destruction or damage.
Accessing our site
We reserve the right to withdraw or amend any service we provide on our
website without notice.
We restrict access to some parts of our website to Registered Users. If you
are provided with a user identification code, password or any other piece
of information as part of our security procedures or given access to any
information via the restricted part of our site, you must treat such
information as confidential, and must not disclose it to any third party.
We have the right to disable any user identification code, password or
access to the restricted parts of the site, if the user in question has
failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
Prohibited uses
You may use our site only for lawful purposes and in accordance with this
policy. You may not use our site:
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in any way that breaches any applicable laws or regulations
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in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or
fraudulent purpose or intention
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to post messages aimed at vulnerable persons or a person under 14 years
of age
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for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm any other person in
any way
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to transmit, or procure the sending of, any commercial messages,
advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar
solicitation (spam).
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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:
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·not to use your access to ISCP data for any purpose other than surgical
training. To ensure GDPR compliance, if you wish to use ISCP data
for any other purpose (e.g. research or publications) you must request
written permission first by contacting the JCST@jcst.org.
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·not to reproduce, modify, publish, link to or exploit (for any
commercial purpose) any content appearing on our sites in contravention
of our general terms of use
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·not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
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any part of our site;
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any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
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any software used in the provision of our site; or
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any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third
party.
Suspension and termination
Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a breach of
these terms of use. We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has
been a breach of this acceptable use policy through your use of our site.
When such a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as
we deem appropriate including, but not limited to, any of the following:
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Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our
site
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Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material
uploaded by you to our site without notice
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Issue of a warning to you
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Taking legal action against you
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Reporting the issue to the police or law enforcement authority if we
reasonably feel this is necessary
To the maximum extent legally permitted, we exclude liability for any
actions we take in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy.
Changes to the acceptable use policy
We may revise this acceptable use policy at any time by amending this page.
You should visit this page regularly 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 subject to modification or
supplemented by other terms or notices published elsewhere on our site.
Thank you for your feedback.