Organise and the Organise Platform upholds values of community, equality, fairness and sustainability. We reserve the right to remove any campaigns or comments that do not share these principles.
These terms outline the terms and conditions upon which you can use our website to create campaigns, sign campaigns and connect with other Organise Platform members who work in the same company as you.
1. ACCEPTING OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS By signing up to join or become an organiser, creating a campaign on our website, joining an Organise Platform group (as a member or an organiser) or ticking the box next to the words “I agree to the Terms and Conditions” on our website, you signify that you accept these Terms and Conditions and agree to be bound by them.
2. CREATING A CAMPAIGN 2.1 We reserve the right to remove any petition which we judge to promote illegal acts, hatred, violence, discrimination or stereotypes based on race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality or religion
2.1.1 We reserve the right to edit or remove petitions targeting individuals when we believe they:
Infringe upon their human rights or employment rights
For example by calling for an employee in a non-elected job to be sacked
Infringe on their right to a fair trial
Are quite simply nasty
2.2 If you would like to create a campaign using our website, you must set up an account with us. When setting up your account, you must provide information about yourself that is true, current and complete.
2.3 You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of your account. You are also solely responsible for all activities conducted through your account.
2.4 You must notify us immediately of any unauthorised use of your account. We will not be liable for any loss or damage arising in connection with any unauthorised use of your account.
2.5 When you provide us with your email address and, at your option, your mobile phone number at any time, including when you join a Group, you consent to receiving messages (including by email, SMS and/or MMS):
(a) from the individuals and organisations who have signed your campaign;
(b) from us in relation to your campaign and other campaigns created on our website; and
(c) from our related bodies corporate and trusted partners in relation to other campaigns and causes that we think may be of interest to you.
2.6 You can unsubscribe from messages sent by us and/or our related bodies corporate and trusted partners at any time by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of our emails.
2.7 As the creator of a campaign, you will not have access to the names and other personal information of the individuals signing your campaign, either for him/herself or on behalf of an organisation
2.8 You may use the 'mailings' function for the sole purpose of sharing information directly relating to your campaign (such as sending updates on the number of signatures reached). You can not send more than 5 messages per week to any individual or organisation.
2.9 You must immediately stop sending messages (including by email, SMS and MMS) to anyone who asks to be unsubscribed from your communications.
2.10 You acknowledge that we have no control over the messages sent to you by the individuals or organisations who sign your campaign.
2.11 You release and forever discharge us from any liability, action, claim, injury, loss or damage you suffer or incur relating to, or in connection with, any campaign you create on our website, any messages you receive from other users of our website, and any event you attend that has been organised on our website.
2.12 This website aims to influence companies with offices or workplaces in the UK. This website only accepts signatures from people with a UK postcode.
3. SIGNING A CAMPAIGN
3.1 If you would like to sign any campaign on our website, you must provide us with information about yourself that is true, current and complete. You do not need to set up an account with us to sign a campaign.
3.2 When you provide us with your email address and, at your option, your mobile phone number, you consent to receiving messages ((including by email, SMS and/or MMS):
3.2.1 from the creator of the campaign in relation to the campaign you have signed;
3.2.2 from us in relation to other campaigns created on our website; and
3.3 You can unsubscribe from messages sent by us and/or our related bodies corporate and trusted partners at any time by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of our emails.
3.4 You acknowledge that the creator of the campaign may contact you through the Organise Platform mailer
3.5 You release and forever discharge us from any liability, action, claim, injury, loss or damage you suffer or incur relating to, or in connection with your involvement in any campaign you sign on our website (including any messages you receive from the creator of a campaign), any messages you receive from other users of our website, and any event you attend that has been organised on our website.
4. YOUR CONTENT
4.1 You warrant that all text, images and other content you post on our website, including on any Group page is your original work and/or to the extent that your content includes any text, images or other content owned by a third party, you warrant that you are licensed to use and reproduce such content on our website.
4.2 You understand and agree that we may, in our sole discretion and without notice, edit and/or remove any campaign you have created on our website or any of your content which we believe violates these Terms and Conditions or which is or may be offensive, illegal, defamatory, or infringe the rights, or threaten the safety, of others.
4.3 By submitting and posting your content on our website, you give the Organise Platform and our related bodies corporate a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to use, modify, reproduce, publish, broadcast, communicate, display and distribute your content in any format, using any medium, for the purpose of promoting your campaign.
4.4 We reserve the right to remove any user contribution or event for any reason. This is a decision we will strive to make fairly, but ultimately is a decision that is solely up to us to take.
5. USING OUR WEBSITE
5.1 The Organise Platform does not endorse or authorise any campaigns or member generated content on our website.
5.2 You must use our website in accordance with these Terms and Conditions only for lawful purposes and in a way which does not infringe the rights of anyone or restrict or inhibit anyone’s use of our website.
5.3 You must not send unsolicited commercial messages
5.4 We update and carry out maintenance on our website regularly, so we may have to suspend access, service or functionality on our website from time to time, without notice. We will not be liable if, for any reason, our website is not available at any time or for any period of time.
5.5 We own, or are the licensee of, the intellectual property rights in the content of our website, including text, photos, images and trademarks.
6. LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES AND RESOURCES
6.1 Our website may contain links to third party sites and resources. We have no control over those sites, and will not be liable for any loss or damage you suffer or incur when you use a third party site or resource.
6.2 We do not allow links to third party petition sites in either our petitions or in emails that you send out to your petition signers. It confuses people and is often counterproductive. We reserve the right to remove or edit petitions and delete or edit emails that link to third party petitions in breach of this term.
7. CLOSING YOUR ACCOUNT
7.1 We may suspend or cancel your account, including any Group account, if you fail to comply with your obligations under these Terms and Conditions.
7.3 If your account is suspended or closed for any reason, you will not have access to the account (including Your Content). We recommend that you make regular back-ups of Your Content.
7.4 The Organise Platform staff team will determine, in its discretion, whether there has been a breach of these Terms and Conditions through your use of the site. When a breach has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate including but not limited to:
7.4.1 immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use the Organise Platform site;
7.4.2 your immediate, temporary or permanent expulsion from any Organise Platform Group of which you are a member;
7.4.3 immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to the site; or
7.4.4 legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis resulting from the breach.
8. LIABILITY
8.1 You use the Organise Platform website at your sole risk.
8.2 We provide our website on an “as is” basis. We do not represent or warrant that the operation of our website will be uninterrupted, error-free, accurate, complete or current.
8.3 The material and information made available on the Group site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy.
8.4 Except where we are unable to exclude our liability by law, we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, however it arises, whether in contract, statute of tort (including negligence), arising out of, or in connection with, your use of (including inability to use) our website.
8.5 We exclude liability for any loss of profit, loss or corruption of data, special, exemplary, punitive, incidental, indirect or consequential loss or damages suffered or incurred or arising in connection with our website, or in connection with any act or omission by us (negligent or otherwise).
8.6 We are not liable to you for misuse of your information by other Organise Platform members or third parties who gain access to the site.
8.7 We are not responsible to you for any liability, actions, claim, injury, loss or damage you suffer or incur relating to or in connection with your membership of any Organise Platform Group or your participation in any activities organised or instigated by your Organise Platform Group and/or any of its members.
9. INDEMNITY
You indemnify us against all liability, action, claim, loss or damage arising out of, or in connection with, Your Content, your use of (or inability to use) our website, any breach of our Terms and Conditions, and your conduct with respect to our website and other users of our website.
10. USE OF OUR SITE FROM OUTSIDE OF THE UK
Whilst we welcome all visitors to this site, we cannot guarantee that the website is appropriate or available for use in any territory. Those who visit the website from outside the UK are responsible for complying with all applicable laws.
11. GROUP RULES
11.1 JOINING A GROUP
11.1.1 By joining a Group you can communicate with other Organise Platform members who are members of that group, share ideas and take part in campaigns with other Organise Platform members in your company.
11.1.2 By signing up to join a Group or become an organiser you signify that you accept these Group Rules as part of the wider Terms and Conditions.
11.2 SUMMARY OF GROUP RULES
Although you must read the Group Rules in full, please pay particular attention to the following points:
11.2.1 The Organise Platform is not responsible for how your Group operates or for any activities organised by your Group or any member of it. Although all Organise Platform members are encouraged to form Groups and share ideas with each other, the Groups operate independently of the Organise Platform staff team. The Organise Platform does not officially endorse or authorise any campaigns on the Group Site or any activities run by your Group.
11.2.2 In providing your email address and/or mobile number when you become a member or organiser of your Group, you are consenting to receiving emails, phone calls and/or texts from the Organise Platform, and being contacted by the other members and organiser of your Group about any campaigns created on our website [or other issues of interest to your Group].
11.2.3 You must comply with these Group Rules and the wider Terms and Conditions when you post content to the Group site – please help keep this site a safe place for everyone.
11.2.4 Please message the Organise Platform staff team about any inappropriate behaviour or inappropriate content on this site immediately, via action@organise.org.uk.
11.2.5 If you breach these Group Rules or the wider Terms and Conditions we may remove you and/or your content from the Group site immediately.
11.2.6 We will use the personal information you provide to us in accordance with our Privacy Policy https://www.organise.org.uk/privacy-policy.
11.3 ACTIVITIES OF ORGANISE PLATFORM GROUPS
The activities of Groups shall be to further the mission of Organise Platform through taking lawful action on the issues that we all care about, which may include organising meetings or events for Organise Platform members.
11.4 WHO CAN BE AN ORGANISER?
11.5.1 All organisers are also members and must comply with the wider Terms and Conditions.
11.5.2 There will be at least one organiser for each Group who will be appointed by the Organise Platform staff team in accordance with any procedure prescribed by the staff team from time to time.
11.5.3 Organisers agree to carry out the role of an organiser (set out in section 11.7 below).
11.5.4 The Organise Platform reserves the right to temporarily or permanently suspend a member’s role as organiser if it determines that an organiser has not acted in accordance with the Terms and Conditions. While this is a decision the staff team will strive to make fairly, it is solely their decision to make.
11.6 ROLE OF AN ORGANISER
Organisers may:
11.6.1 Contact all members of their Group in connection with activities and campaigns that the Group is involved in;
11.6.2 Add new members to their Group;
11.6.3 Create surveys and petitions for their Group;
11.6.4 Send messages to the Organise Platform staff team and members of the Group; and
11.6.5 Monitor the Group Site and remove any posts in accordance with these Rules and any requests from the Organise Platform staff team.
11.7. ACCESSING YOUR GROUP SITE
11.7.1 We may restrict access to some or all of a Group Site or our website without notice and for any reason and at any time. We will only do this where necessary.
11.7.2 When you become a member you will be asked to enter a username and password.
11.7.3 Please treat your username and password as confidential and do not disclose them to any other person or organisation.
11.7.4 Please notify us immediately if you suspect that your password has become known to any unauthorised user.
11.7.5 We have the right to disable any username or password if, in our opinion, you have breached these Group Rules.
11.8 USING THE GROUP SITE
11.8.1 By joining a Group, you consent to receiving messages from other members of your Group (including organisers of the Group) in relation to the administration of the Group or matters of interest to Group members.
11.8.2 You may contact other Group members by posting in the groups site for the sole purpose of sharing information and communicating about matters of relevance to the Group.
11.8.3 You grant other members of your Group a non-exclusive licence to view any contributions you post or upload to the Group Site, subject to these Group Rules and the wider Terms and Conditions.
11.8.4 We reserve the right to remove and/or to authorise Group organisers to remove any user contribution or event for any reason. This is a decision we will strive to make fairly, but ultimately is a decision that is solely up to the Organise Platform staff team or where relevant, Group organisers.
11.8.5 You must not use the Group site:
11.8.5.1 in any way that violates any applicable national or international law or regulation;
11.8.5.2 promote a political party or candidate or attempt to influence voting behaviour.
11.8.5.3 to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of “spam” or “junk mail” to other members of your Group or anyone else;
11.8.5.4 to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware;
11.8.5.5 to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with these Group Rules;
11.8.5.6 in any way which is likely to, or does, damage the reputation of the Organise Platform;
11.8.5.7 to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of the site in contravention of Group Rules;
11.8.5.8 to access without authority, interfere with, alter, damage or disrupt any part of the site, or any equipment or network on which the site is stored;
11.8.5.9 for the purpose of exploiting, harming or attempting to exploit children in any way;
11.8.5.10 to impersonate or attempt to impersonate the Organise Platform or an Organise Platform employee or another member of your Group;
11.8.5.11 for any commercial purpose.
11.8.6 You agree to treat as confidential all information made available on the site by other members of your Group that is not available to the public elsewhere, and not to disclose such information to any others without the prior written consent of the member in question.
11.9 NOTIFICATION OF BREACHES/MODERATION
We do not moderate the content of the Group Site except where concerns are raised. We accept no responsibility for any content members post on the site, but reserve the right to remove or edit content at any time.
11.10 RULES ON YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GROUP SITE
11.10.1 There will be interactive services on the site that allow you to post comments or to message other members of your Group directly. This will enable you to contribute materials and make other contributions to the site and to Group.
11.10.2 Any contribution you make must:
11.10.2.1 be accurate; and
11.10.2.2 be genuinely held (where they state opinions).
11.10.3 Contributions must not:
11.10.3.1 contain any material which is defamatory, obscene, offensive, vulgar, hateful or inflammatory;
11.10.3.2 promote a political party or candidate or attempt to influence voting behaviour.
11.10.3.3 infringe any right including (but not limited to) copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person;
11.10.3.4 be threatening, abusive or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
11.10.3.5 be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person;
11.10.3.6 give the impression that they emanate from the Organise Platform, if this is not the case; or
11.10.3.7 breach these Terms and Conditions.
12. GENERAL TERMS
12.1 We reserve the right to change any or all of these terms and conditions, and/or add new terms and conditions at any time. When we do so, we will make a new copy of these Terms and Conditions available on our website. You are expected to check this page frequently to take note of any changes we make. Your continued use of our website will be deemed to constitute your acceptance of such changes.
12.2 You must not publish or use for commercial purposes any part of the materials on the Organise Platform website or from a Group Site without obtaining written consent from us.
12.3 If you are aware of any breach of these the Terms and Conditions or other misuse of the Organise Platform website site, please notify the staff team by writing to action@organise.org.uk.
12.4 These Terms and Conditions set out the entire agreement between you and us relating to your use of our website and supersedes all prior discussions and communications.
12.5 There is no relationship of employment, partnership, agency or fiduciaries between you and us.
12.6 These Terms and Conditions shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and any disputes relating to these Terms and Conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
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