Terms of Use

These terms of use govern your use of our Website; by using our Website, you accept these terms of use in full. If you disagree with these terms of use or any part of these terms of use, you must not use our Website.

For the purposes of these Terms of Use, the following definitions will apply:

Website: means the web based application known as www.mumsmeetup.com;

MumsMeetUp: otherwise known as MumsMeetUp.com Limited, the owner and operator of this Website;

we or us: means MumsMeetUp;

Members: means Registered Users (being users of this Website who have completed the relevant registration/join form and provided us with their email address; and

Meet Up: means the physical coming together of two or more Members of MumsMeetUp arranged via this Website or otherwise.

Unless otherwise stated, we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in this Website and material on this Website. Subject to the licence below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from this Website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms of use.

You Must Not:

(a) republish material from this Website (including republication on another Website);

(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from this Website;

(c) show any material from this Website in public;

(d) reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on our Website for a commercial purpose;

(e) edit or otherwise modify any material on this Website; nor

(f) redistribute material from this Website.

You must not use our Website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to this Website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of this Website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use our Website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our Website without our express written consent.

You must not use our Website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

Access to certain areas of our Website is restricted to Members.

You must be at least 18 years of age to sign up and become a Member of our Website. By applying to become a Member, you warrant that you are at least 18 years of age.

In order to become a Member, you must complete the relevant registration/join form and provide us with your email address and your choice of security question and security answer.

In order to become a Member, you must complete the relevant registration/join form and provide us with your email address and your choice of security question and security answer.

You warrant that all the information you provide to us as part of the registration procedure is true, accurate, fair and complete.

You acknowledge that we may refuse to permit, or may insist that you change, any username that impersonates another person or breaches the provisions of Section 5 below.

Members will have access to such additional features on our Website as we may from time to time determine in our sole discretion. Such additional features may include:

(a) the facility to complete a detailed personal profile on this Website, to publish that profile on this Website, and to restrict the publication of that profile to individuals registered on this Website;

(b) the facility to join Website discussion groups, and to share information amongst group members;

(c) the facility to send private messages via this Website to particular groups or individuals registered on this Website; and

(d) the facility to display details of MeetUps (the physical coming together of two or more Members arranged via this Website or otherwise).

We will provide Members with a password to enable them to access the restricted areas of our Website. Members must keep their passwords confidential.

We may disable passwords, delete accounts, and delete any information associated with an account, in our sole discretion without notice or explanation.

We are not responsible for the circumstances or consequences of any MeetUps. Members accept responsibility for the circumstance and consequence of any MeetUps. We cannot be held liable for any loss, damage or harm caused to any person at any MeetUp or through the use of this Website.

In these terms of use, Your User Content means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to our Website, for whatever purpose.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

Your user content (and its publication on our Website) must not:

(a) be libellous or maliciously false;

(b) be obscene or indecent;

(c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right;

(d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy, or right under data protection legislation;

(e) constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;

(f) constitute an incitement to commit a crime;

(g) be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order;

(h) be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;

(i) be blasphemous;

(j) be in breach of official secrets legislation;

(k) be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;

(l) depict violence;

(m) be pornographic or sexually explicit;

(o) consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;

(p) constitute spam;

(q) be offensive, deceptive, threatening, abusive, harassing, or menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or

(r) cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.

Your user content must be appropriate, civil, tasteful and accord with generally accepted standards of etiquette and behaviour on the internet.

You must not use our Website to link to any website or web page consisting of or containing material that would, were it posted on our Website, breach the provisions of these terms of use.

You must not submit any user content to this Website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

We reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to our Website, or stored on our servers, or hosted or published upon our Website.

Notwithstanding our rights under these terms of use in relation to user content, we do not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, our Website.

You acknowledge that some of the information published on this Website is submitted by users, and that we do not usually review, approve or edit such information. We do not warrant the completeness or accuracy of the information published on this Website; nor do we commit to ensuring that this Website remains available or that the material on this Website is kept up-to-date.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to this Website and the use of this Website (including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care and skill).

Nothing in these terms of use (or elsewhere on our Website) will exclude or limit our liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Subject to this, our liability to you in relation to the use of our Website or under or in connection with these terms of use, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, will be limited as follows:

(a) to the extent that this Website and the information and services on this Website are provided free-of-charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature;

(b) we will not be liable for any consequential, indirect or special loss or damage;

(c) we will not be liable for any loss of profit, income, revenue, anticipated savings, contracts, business, goodwill, reputation, data, or information;

(d) we will not be liable for any loss or damage arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control; and

(e) our maximum liability in relation to any event or series of related events will be limited to £50.

You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers or employees. Having regard to that interest, you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against individual officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with this Website or these terms of use.

You agreed to the publication of comments, reviews and/or feedback relating to you, by others, on our Website. You acknowledge that such comments, reviews and/or feedback may be critical or defamatory; and you agree that you will not hold us liable in respect of any such comments, reviews and/or feedback, irrespective of whether we are aware or ought to have been aware of such comments, reviews and/or feedback.

You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers) incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms of use, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms of use.

Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms of use, if you breach these terms of use in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms of use in any way, we may:

(a) send you one or more formal warnings;

(b) temporarily suspend your access to this Website;

(c) permanently prohibit you from accessing this Website;

(d) block computers using your IP address from accessing this Website;

(e) contact your internet services provider and request that they block your access to this Website;

(f) bring court proceedings against you for breach of contract or otherwise;

(g) suspend and/or delete your account with this Website; and/or

(h) delete and/or edit any or all of your user generated content.

Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our Website or a part of our Website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).

Our Website includes links to other websites owned and operated by third parties. These links are not recommendations. We have no control over the contents of third party websites, and we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. When you click on a link to a third party website and gain acess to that third party website and the services or products it provides, you do so at your own risk. You hereby represent and warrant that you have read and agree to be bound by all applicable policies of any third third party website, service or product relating to your use of any third party website, service or product and that you will act in accordance with those polices, in addition to your obligations under these terms of use. MumsMeetUp has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, accuracy, privacy policies, or practices of or opinions expressed in any third party website, service or product. In addition, MumsMeetUp will not and cannot monitor, veryify, censor or edit the content of any third party website, service or product. By using the third party website, service or product, you expressly relieve and hold harmless MumsMeetUp from any and all liability arising from your use of any third party website, service or product.

MumsMeetUp logos are registered trademarks belonging to MumsMeetUp.com Limited. We give no permission for the use of these trademarks, and such use may constitute an infringement of our rights.

We may revise these terms of use from time-to-time. Revised terms of use will apply to the use of our Website from the date of the publication of the revised terms of use on our Website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

We may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms of use without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms of use.

If a provision of these terms of use is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

These terms of use are for the benefit of you and us, and are not intended to benefit any third party or be enforceable by any third party. The exercise of our and your rights in relation to these terms of use is not subject to the consent of any third party.

These terms of use, together with our privacy policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our Website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this Website.

From time to we send out email newsletters to our Members with news about MumsMeetUp and such newsletters may sometimes contain special offers from third parties who we think have something of interest to offer our Members - if you do not wish to receive any email newsletter there is an opt out button at the bottom of all newsletter emails for you to opt out or you can contact us at any time by email to [email protected] to request your removal from receiving our email newsletters.

MumsMeetUp is also a participant in the Affiliate Window Advertising Programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to various Affiliate Partners.

You are responsibile for all of your activity inconnection with your use of this Website. Any fraudulent, abusive, or otherwise illegal activity may be grounds for termination of your rights to access or use the services of this Website. You may not post or transmit, or cause to be posted or transmitted, any comunication or solicitation designed or intended to obtain password, account, or private information from any other user of this Website. Use of the services of this Website to violate the security ofany computer network, crack passwords or security encryption codes, transfer or store illegal material (including material that may be considered threatening or obscene), or engage in any kind of illegal activity is expressly prohibited. You may not run any form of autoresponder or spam on this Website and its services, or any processes that run or are activated while you are not signed in to the services of this Website, or that otherwise interfere with the proper working of or place an unreasonable load on the infrastructure of the services of this Website. Further, the use of manual or automated software, devices, or other processes to crawl, scrape or spider any portion of the services of this Website is strictly prohibited. You will not decompile, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to obtain the source code of the services of this Website. You will be responsibile for withholding, filing, and reporting all tazes, duties and other governmental assessments associated with your activity in connection with the services of this Website. You understand and agree that MumsMeetUp shall have the sole right to decide whether you are in violation of any of the restrictions set forth in this section of these terms of use, and shall have sole discretion regarding the course of action to take in connection therewith.

Violating the security of our Website is prohibited and may result in criminal and civil liability. MumsMeetUp.com Limited may ivestigation is suspected. Examples of security violations include, without limitation, unauthorised access to or use of data or systems including any attempt to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of our Website or to breach security or authentication measures, unauthorised monitoring of data or traffic, interference with services to any user, host or network including, without limitation, mail bombing, other flooding techniques, deliberate attempts to overload a systemm forging any TCP-IP packet header, email header, or any part of a message header, except for the authorised use of aliases or anonymous remailers, and using manual or electronic means to avoid any use limitaions.

These terms of use shall remain in full force and effect while you use this Website. You ay terminate your use of this Website at any time. MumsMeetUp may without recourse and by reimbursement of any prepaid fees covering future periods may terminate or suspend your access to your membership of this Website at any timme, for any reason, and without warning, which may result in the forfeiture and destruction of all information associated with your membership. MumsMeetUp may also terminate or suspend and and all services and access to this Website immediately, without prior notice or liability, if you breach any of these terms of use. Upon termination of your membership account, your right to use the services of this Websbite, access this Website, and any content will immediately cease. All provisions of these terms of use which, by their nature, should surive termination, shall survive termination, including and without limitation, ownership of provisions, warranty disclaimers and limitations of liability.

These terms of use will be governed by and construed in accordance with English law, and any disputes relating to these terms of use will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England and Wales.

This Website is owned and operated by MumsMeetUp.com Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, whose registered office is situate at 38 Eton Wick Road, Eton Wick, Windsor, Berkshire, England SL4 6JL. Company No. 10384229

Any queries can be directed to mumsmeetup.com via email at:

[email protected]

These Terms of Use were last modified and made effective on 19 February 2019