Terms of Service

Welcome to Unionista.org ("Unionista"), a service owned and operated by Minutiae Media Ltd (“Us, We, Our”). This service is provided to you, subject to the following Terms of Use, which may be updated by us from time to time without notice. Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be posted on our Digital Properties ("website, app, email, push notification").

Unionista Access Structure

“Guest”: A member of the public that has limited and restricted access to logged out content of our Digital Properties.

“User”: A currently registered member of a Trade Union, Association, Federation, or similar membership organisation ("Union") that has been provided with free login access to areas of our Digital Properties, as displayed and applicable. This includes but is not limited to access to private and hidden groups, forums, audio and/or broadcasts and other content specifically relating to their registered Union.

Any content posted on Our Digital Properties only expresses the views of the content author and does not necessarily reflect the views of Us or those of Our group and/or forum administrators and moderators. We, nor any person or entity We use to provide our Digital Properties, will be held responsible for the content, accuracy, completeness or validity of any information posted by Guests or Users.

Any User who believes that any posted content is objectionable, either as harassment, inappropriate, misinformation, offensive or suspicious is encouraged to contact the moderators immediately by clicking the "report" link located in the relevant objectionable content. We will make every effort to review reported comments and take appropriate action within a reasonable period of time. Since this is a manual process, you are advised that we may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately.

By accessing Our Digital Properties either as a guest or user, you hereby agree to the following statements:

• You will not use Our Digital Properties to post any material, or links to any material, which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy or which would violate any law.

• You are solely responsible for the content you provide on Our Digital Properties, and that you will indemnify and hold harmless Us, Our agents and employees with respect to any claim based upon the appearance and/or transmission of your posted content.

• You will not post any copyrighted material on our Digital Properties without the express permission of the copyright holder, unless such copyright is owned by you, or Us, our agents and employees.

• You will not advertise or offer to sell any goods or services for any commercial purpose on our Digital Properties, or post information from chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations.

• You will use your real name (and Union affiliation for Users only on your account) and will not impersonate another person or organisation when posting on Our Digital Properties.

• You will not restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying Our Digital Properties.

• We reserve the right to edit, move or delete any material posted on Our Digital Properties for reasons of clarity, or to ensure Unionista is as useful as possible, at our sole discretion.

• We reserve the right to edit and/or remove objectionable messages, or those which we have received complaint reports about from other guests and/or users.

• We reserve the right to ban or restrict guests and/or users who we judge to be abusing Our Digital Properties, or who do not adhere to their obligations above, and remove any or all of their posts from Our Digital Properties, without appeal.

• We reserve the right to change the structure or features of Our Digital Properties, or to add or remove groups, forums, topics or other content as instructed by your Union, or when We deem appropriate.

Copyright and reproduction of content

In contributing to Our Digital Properties, you agree that you do not retain copyright of the work, and that We have the right to publish it. No one shall, without Our prior consent transmit, reproduce or store any of the material from Our Digital Properties on any other web site or incorporate or reproduce any material in any database whether electronic, manual or printed form. Requests for consent should be submitted here.

External links

Our Digital Properties contain links to third party web sites that are maintained by others. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you, and not as an endorsement of the contents on such third-party Web sites by Us or any other affiliated party.

We are not responsible for the content of linked third-party sites and cannot make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such third-party websites. We welcome suggestions for new links but reserve the right to publish or not publish links at our own sole discretion. If you would like to suggest a new link, please click here.

Any content posted on Our Digital Properties expresses only the views of the content's author and does not necessarily reflect the views of Us, our employees or agents and/or Union. Neither We, our employees or agents, nor any person or entity associated with Us/ them, will be held responsible for the contents, accuracy, completeness or validity of any information posted on Our Digital Properties.

Copyright

You agree that you will not post any copyrighted material on Our Digital Properties without the express permission of the copyright holder unless such copyright is owned by you. Content that is currently posted on Our Digital Properties may be reposted without seeking Our consent. Chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are prohibited and will be automatically removed from Our Digital Properties.

These Terms of Use, together with our Privacy Policy form the full Terms and Conditions for all guests and users of our Digital Properties. If you have any questions, please submit them here.