Terms of Use

We, Family Fund, administrators of the Take a Break programme, operate this website, the home page of which can be found at www.takeabreakscotland.org.uk. Your access to and use of this website is subject to your compliance with all applicable laws and these terms of use, which incorporate the paragraphs below and the Privacy Policy, all of which can be accessed from this page (“Terms of Use”).  Your use of this website constitutes your unqualified agreement to accept and comply with the Terms of Use.

You agree that you will be liable to us for, and shall indemnify us against, any loss or damage that we suffer or incur as a result of any breach by you of these Terms of Use.

Operator of this website

This website is operated by Family Fund, a working name of The Family Fund Trust for Families with Severely Disabled Children. Take a Break is the working name of a programme administered by The Family Fund Trust for Families with Severely Disabled Children, a charity registered in England under registered charity number 1053866, in Scotland under registered charity number SC040810, and a company limited by guarantee in England under registered company number 3166627. Our registered office is at Unit 4, Alpha Court, Monks Cross Drive, Huntington, York, North Yorkshire, YO32 9WN, United Kingdom. We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office and our registration number is Z5314842.

Use of this website

This website is offered as an information service for parents or carers raising disabled or seriously ill children or young people, and young people with a disability or serious illness themselves, and is directed solely at those who access this website from the United Kingdom.

Whilst we use reasonable efforts to include accurate and up to date information on this website, errors may occur. We cannot give any warranty or representation as to the accuracy of the information, and do not accept responsibility for errors or omissions or for any action or decisions based on the information.

Your use of this website is at your risk. The information and materials provided on this website are of a general nature only and cannot be regarded as constituting advice or recommendations (professional or otherwise). We do not accept any liability for any direct, indirect, special or consequential losses or damages of whatever nature, including, but not limited to loss of anticipated savings, revenues, information, goodwill or contracts arising out of this website, its availability or lack of availability or your use of any information contained in this website.

We exclude all warranties, express or implied, relating to the information and materials on this website to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Nothing in the Terms of Use shall be construed to exclude or limit (1) our liability for death or personal injury or fraudulent misrepresentation or (2) any rights you may have as a consumer to the extent that such liability and rights may not be excluded or limited under applicable statute or law.

Links from and to this website

Hypertext links are links by which visitors can move from one website to another or from one page to another within the same website.

This website contains hypertext links to third parties’ websites. Any hypertext links between our website and any third party website are provided for your convenience only and we accept no liability whatsoever for the contents of any such third party website. We exclude to the fullest extent permitted by law all liability that may arise in connection with or as a result of third party website material or your accessing of third party websites causing any damage, costs, injury or loss of any kind.

You agree that if you wish to create any links between this website and any other website you will do so only in accordance with the rules set out on this website.

Applying to Take a Break for assistance

Take a Break is the working name of a programme run by The Family Fund Trust for Families with Severely Disabled Children. Please see www.familyfund.org.uk for further information about Family Fund.

The Terms of Use relates to your use of this website.  If you make an application to Take a Break for assistance, whether online or otherwise, Family Fund will ask you to agree to be bound by separate terms found on the ‘Make an application’ page of this website.

Trade Marks, Logos and Service Marks

The trade marks, logos and service marks (collectively ‘the Trade Marks’) displayed on this website (whether registered or unregistered) are and shall remain the property of their respective owners. Nothing contained in this website shall be construed as granting any licence or right to use any Trade Mark displayed on this website without the prior written consent of the relevant Trade Mark owner. Your misuse or infringement of any of the Trade Marks displayed on the Site is strictly prohibited.

Copyright

The copyright in each aspect of this website is owned by Family Fund or its content or technology providers. All content is protected by copyright and may not be used except as expressly provided in the Terms of Use without our prior written consent. We do not warrant or represent that your use of materials displayed on the website will not infringe the rights of third parties.

Except where otherwise stated expressly, you must not copy, adapt, download, exploit or otherwise use the information contained in the website in any way, other than for the purpose of enquiring about or requesting information relating to the type of goods and services we are able to offer or downloading and temporarily storing one or more of the pages of the website for the purpose of viewing, for your personal use only, on a personal computer or terminal. For the avoidance of doubt you shall not be entitled to reproduce, permanently store, or retransmit any of the contents of the website without our prior written consent.

Viruses

Whilst we try to keep our anti-virus software up-to-date we do not warrant that this website, its servers, downloadable files or e-mails which may be sent by us, are free from viruses or other harmful components.
You must not:
• introduce or attempt to introduce any virus or other contaminant to the website or any of its software or systems; or
• in any way attempt to access, alter, de-compile, reverse engineer, destroy or otherwise tamper with any part of this website, its software or systems.

Feedback and Complaints

Any queries, feedback or comments you may have about this website should be submitted by writing to The Take a Break Team, Family Fund, 4 Alpha Court, Monks Cross Drive, Monks Cross, Huntington, York, North Yorkshire, YO32 9WN.

Privacy Policy

Any personal information we collect from you shall only be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy a copy of which can be viewed by clicking here, which form part of the Terms of Use.

Connection and Charges

You are responsible for obtaining an appropriate connection with a telecommunications provider in order to access this website and the costs of all charges you incur in accessing and using this website.

General

We may amend the Terms of Use from time to time. If we make any substantial changes we will notify you by posting a notice on this website’s home page. You are bound by any changes we make to these Terms of Use with effect from the date of the change.  You can view the current version of the Terms of Use at any time by clicking on the Terms of Use link on the home page of this website.

If any of the Terms of Use are unenforceable it shall not affect the enforceability of the rest of them.

The Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with UK law and the UK Courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear disputes between us.