Terms of Service

These terms cover the use of our website at https://gmrpc.uk and any mirror domains (our site).

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Who we are and how to contact us

https://gmrpc.uk is a site operated by Greater Manchester RPC (Us/We). Please see our Privacy Notice for ways to contact us, including by webform, Discord server and email. The site is provided to us as a hosted service by Albo1125 (click for Discord server contact).

By using our site you accept these terms

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of service and that you agree to comply with them. You are also required to accept these terms using a checkbox when you sign up for an account. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.

These terms, their subject matter and their formation are governed by English law.

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. These terms were most recently updated on 1 July 2024.

Uploading or posting content to our site

TL;DR: You irrevocably agree to allow us and Albo1125 to permanently use any content you upload or post to our site for our own purposes. This includes, but is not limited to, any form JSON, fleet vehicles, callsigns, street names, configuration, form submissions etc.

Our site may include information and materials uploaded by other users. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not necessarily represent our views or values.

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to create content directly on our site, upload, post or share content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the standards set out in our Rules and any other of our policies. It must also comply with all applicable UK laws and must therefore not, for example, be defamatory, menacing or grossly offensive. We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with these standards.

You warrant that any such contribution complies with those standards and that you have the relevant rights to upload or post the content, and you are liable to us and Albo1125 and indemnify us and Albo1125 for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we or Albo1125 suffer as a result of your breach of warranty. We and Albo1125 also have the right to disclose your identity to anyone who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site violates their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy.

We and Albo1125 will consider any content you upload to our site to be unprotected by any trade mark, patent or copyright ("non-proprietary"). You own your content, but you are required to grant us, Albo1125 and other users of our site a licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to others. The rights you license to us and Albo1125 are described as follows.

Rights you are giving us to use material you upload

When you upload or post content to our site, or provide content for us to upload or post to our site, you grant us and Albo1125 the following rights to use that content:

  • A permanent, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that content in connection with the service provided by the website and across different media.

This term can only be varied in writing between you and us on an individual basis. This means that, if you wish to attach any conditions to our licence to use your content, you must agree this beforehand in writing with the community owner and keep clear evidence of this agreement. Any such agreement only applies to us and does not apply to Albo1125.

We may make changes to our site

We may update and change our site from time to time. We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of 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 service and other applicable terms of service, 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 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, login email, 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 account, 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 service. If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly change your password through your profile and notify us.

How you may use material on our site

All intellectual property rights in this site are owned by Albo1125 and we have a licence from Albo1125 to use his intellectual property provided to us through this site while we are a customer of Albo1125. As an exception to this, we are the owner of all intellectual property rights of customised content uploaded and published on our site (e.g. our custom logo, images, sounds etc.). All these works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You must treat all personal data on our site relating to any person other than yourself as confidential and you must not process (e.g. view/share/copy) it without our written authorisation.

You must not reuse any content on our site. Albo1125's and/or our status as the applicable authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated).

You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a written licence to do so from us or Albo1125 as applicable.

If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our site in breach of these terms of service, 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.

You must be at least 13 years old to use our site.

No text or data mining, or web scraping

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site, except for the sole purpose of indexing this site for the appearance in the search results of a search engine to the extent that no confidential or personal data is included.

Do not rely on information on this 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.

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval 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 do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform to securely access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You may wish to read the Safety Information for some general internet safety tips when using our site.

You must not maliciously use our site

You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site or any other equipment or network connected with our site. If you find any bugs that you suspect may enable you to gain unauthorised access to any area of our site, you must immediately report this to us and Albo1125 so this can be fixed.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful, or otherwise harmfully interacting with or attacking our site or any part of it. You must not interfere with, damage or disrupt any software used in the provision of our site or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party on which this site relies in any way. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

We and Albo1125 exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.

We and Albo1125 will not be liable to you 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 any use of, or inability to use, our site, except where and to the extent that statute bars such exclusion of liability.

Complaints

If you wish to complain about us or our site, please contact us in the first instance so we can resolve your concern.

If you cannot resolve your concern with us, we also offer free mediation through Albo1125. If your complaint fits the criteria for Albo1125 to consider (for example, because your intellectual property rights are being violated by us), you may then contact Albo1125 with your concern about us, including sufficient evidence to support your complaint. You can find more information and contact Albo1125 via his Discord server in the FMS #reports-complaints channel.