Sports Fitness Partner

TERMS & CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO MEMBERS AND OTHER USERS OF THIS WEBSITE

1. DEFINITIONS

1.1 In these terms and conditions for Sports Fitness Partners the following words have the following meanings unless the context requires otherwise:

"Agreement" means the agreement between You and Us incorporating these terms and conditions for the provision of the Service

“Information” includes without limit all content, software, data, text, photographs, graphics, sound and video.

"Intellectual Property Rights" means all patents, database rights, copyright, design rights (whether registered or unregistered), trade marks (whether registered or unregistered) and other similar rights wherever existing in the world together with the right to apply for protection of the same

"Liability" means the liability of any nature for any and all damages, claims, proceedings, actions, awards, expenses, costs and any other losses and/or liabilities

"Member" means any person whose membership has been accepted by Us and whose membership remains valid

"Post" means display, exhibit, publish, distribute, transmit and/or disclose Information on or in connection with the Service, and the phrases “Posted” and “Posting” shall be understood accordingly;

"Profile" means the section of the Service containing details, photographs and/or any other Information about You;

"Service" means the service provided by Us to You including, but not limited to, Us allowing You to browse the Website, contact and/or be contacted by other Members through the Website and/or Post Information on the Website;

"User" means any person who browses the Website;

"We, Us, Our" means Sports Fitness

"Website" means Our website at URL www.sports-fitness.com (or such other URL that We may use to provide the Service from time to time);

"You, Your, Yourself" means the person whose application for membership of the Service is accepted by Us.

2. ELIGIBILITY

2.1 By applying to become a Member You warrant and represent to Us that:
2.1.1 You are over 18 years old;
2.1.2 You have not been convicted of any offence relating to violence and/or any offence under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (or under any statutory enactment replacing and/or amending such Act); and/or
2.1.3 You have not been subject to any injunction or any order to pay damages under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (or under any statutory enactment replacing and/or amending such Act)
2.1.4 You have not been convicted of any other offence on the basis of which it would be reasonable to deny you membership of the Sports Fitness Partners service
2.1.5 You know of no other reason which if We were aware of it would give us reasonable grounds to exclude you from the service
2.2 If You are not able or not willing to give the warranties and representations set out in clause 2.1 above then You must not apply for membership.

3. BASIS OF CONTRACT

3.1 If you are applying for membership, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions for the provision of the Service. If you are a User, who is not a Member, your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to be bound by these terms and conditions insofar as they are relevant to use of the Website by non-Members.
3.2 These terms and conditions (as amended by Us from time to time in accordance with clause 3.4 below) shall apply to the exclusion of any other terms or conditions and You agree to abide by them.
3.3 Any renewal of Your membership is subject to Our terms and conditions applicable at that time.
3.4 We reserve the right to vary these terms and conditions at any time. Any updated version will be posted on the terms and conditions page of the Website You will bound by the updated version if You continue to use the Service thereafter.
3.5 Our employees, sub-contractors and/or agents are not authorised to make any representations or warranties concerning the Service unless confirmed by Us in writing.
3.6 You acknowledge that You do not rely on any representation and/or warranty that has not been made in accordance with these terms and conditions.
3.7 We reserve the right to monitor and at Our option to remove for any reason any Information Posted by You.
3.8 We shall have the right at Our option to refuse to grant applications for membership and to terminate memberships at any time.
3.9 The Agreement between You and Us shall come into effect on Our acceptance of Your application for membership. No application for membership shall be deemed to be accepted by Us until You have received confirmation of Your membership from Us.

4. PRICE AND PAYMENT

4.1 The price of the Service and any variations shall be as shown on Our Partners page on the Website from time to time.
4.2 Our prices are inclusive of any applicable VAT.
4.3 You shall pay all sums due to Us under this Agreement by the means of the payment specified in Our Website and without any set-off, deduction, counterclaim and/or any other withholding of monies. Any applicable banking charges on such payments shall be borne by Us.
4.4 Payment shall not be deemed to be made until We have received either cash or cleared funds in respect of the full amount outstanding.
4.5 Unless otherwise stated in this Agreement, all monies paid by You to Us are non-refundable.
4.6 You will not be able to contact other Members or read and reply to other Members' messages until We have received any appropriate payment.

5. MEMBER'S OBLIGATIONS

5.1 You will not:
5.1.1 Post Your personal details such as Your telephone number, fax number, address and/or e-mail address or URL in Your Profile or any other Information which would enable other Members and/or Users to contact You directly
5.1.2 Post Information which breaches, infringes, violates and/or is contrary to any law, by-law, statute and/or regulation or code of conduct or any other parties' rights (including but not limited to Intellectual Property Rights, libel, malicious falsehood and/or privacy rights)
5.1.3 use the Service to promote another site, service and/or business in any way including but not limited to Posting any telephone number, fax number, address and/or e-mail address or URL in Your Profile
5.1.4 solicit other Members' business, advertise, buy or sell products and/or services through the Service
5.1.5 misuse in any way the Service or any Information Posted on the Service
5.1.6 attempt to gain unauthorised access to any Information available on or via the Service or to any of the networks used in providing the Service
5.1.7 Post and/or reproduce in any way any Information in which the Intellectual Property Rights belong to another party without first obtaining the prior consent of the owner of such rights
5.1.8 copy, in whole or in part any of the Information on the Website (including, but not limited to any Information contained in other Members’ Profiles) other than for the purposes contemplated in this Agreement
5.1.9 Post any junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes or any similar or fraudulent schemes or any inappropriate form of solicitation; or collection of the responses to any such schemes or solicitation
5.1.10 in any way assign, transfer, part with and/or authorise any other person to use, Your membership
5.1.11 Post any Information, which in Our opinion is sexually explicit, vulgar, indecent, racist, abusive, invasive of another’s privacy, offensive, harmful, threatening, harassing, stalking, inflammatory, sexually suggestive, defamatory and/or obscene; and/or
5.1.12 Post any Information which in Our opinion is capable of offending others’ political and/or religious beliefs.

6. SECURITY

6.1 The Member ID and password allocated to You are personal to You and are not transferable. You are responsible for keeping them secure and for any use of the Service including any activities by anyone using Your username and password
6.2 You should protect against unauthorized access to Your computer. Ensure that You sign off when You finish using a shared computer.
6.3 You must notify Us immediately of any apparent breach of security including, but not limited to loss, theft, or unauthorised disclosure or use of a username or password In such cases You should immediately amend Your password using the Service.

7. YOUR PROFILE

7.1 You acknowledge that other Users will be able to view Your Profile.
7.2 We may copy and/or reproduce any Information Posted by You on the Website in any form and in any manner We wish.
7.3 If You Post and/or disclose to other Users any confidential or sensitive Information about Yourself then You do so entirely at Your own risk.
7.4 You will be able to view the details and profiles of other Members.
7.5 You warrant and represent to Us that all Information Posted by You:
7.5.1 is accurate, true, complete and is not misleading
7.5.2 will be regularly updated by You so that it remains accurate, true, complete and not misleading
7.6 We reserve the right to review Your Profile from time-to-time and to amend and/or delete it if We, in Our sole discretion, think that it should be amended and/or deleted.

8. CANCELLATION / TERMINATION / SUSPENSION

8.1 You may terminate your membership at any time, upon giving us notice by completing the cancellation of membership form on the Website. In such case You will not be entitled to any refund of monies paid.
8.2 We may terminate your membership at any time, without cause, upon giving You notice by email. If so We will refund pro rata any fees already paid.
8.3 Without prejudice to any other remedies We may have, clause 8.4 below shall apply, if:-
8.3.1 You fail to make any payment to Us when due;
8.3.2 You breach the terms of this Agreement;
8.3.3 You persistently breach the terms of this Agreement;
8.3.4 You fail to provide Us within the time limit requested by Us with sufficient Information to enable Us to determine the accuracy and/or validity of any Information Posted by You; and/or
8.3.5 in Our reasonable opinion, any Information Posted by You is damaging or potentially damaging to Our business or Members or Users,
8.4 If any of the events set out in clause 8.3 above occurs in relation to You then We may immediately and without notice suspend and/or terminate Your access to and/or membership of the Service in which case all monies owed by You to Us shall become immediately due and payable, You will not be entitled to any refund of monies paid and You shall not attempt to use the Service or rejoin as a Member.
8.5 This clause 8.5 applies to You only if You are a “consumer” as defined in the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000. You may cancel Your order by giving Us written notice within 7 working days of placing Your order. Within 30 days of Your notice We will refund credit card payments by credit card refund. However, this right of cancellation does not apply once You have started to use Our Service by sending or reading (opening) messages.
8.6 This Agreement continues for so long as you are a Member. Even after termination of this Agreement, certain clauses will continue to apply including clauses 10, 14 and 15 and other clauses necessary to interpret or enforce this Agreement.

9. PERSONAL DATA

9.1 Personal Information collected from You is subject to our privacy policy

10. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND CONFIDENTIALITY

10.1 As between You and Us, All Intellectual Property Rights in connection with the Service shall be owned by Us absolutely.
10.2 You may link to the Service but You may not include the Service in part or in whole within another external website without Our prior written consent.
10.3 You warrant and represent to Us that the Information Posted in Your Profile is Posted by You and that You are the sole author of Your Profile. You assign to Us with full title guarantee all copyright in Your Profile.
10.4 You waive absolutely any and all moral right to be identified as author of Your Profile and any similar rights in any jurisdiction.
10.5 You agree that You will keep confidential and not use, except for purposes contemplated by this Agreement, any and/or all Information relating to the Service which may be disclosed to You or which You may learn, except where such Information is public knowledge or it is required to be disclosed by law.
10.6 We will use Our reasonable commercial endeavours to keep Your personal details such as Your surname, real e-mail address and credit card number(s) (where relevant) confidential and will not disclose such Information, except where such Information is public knowledge or it is required to be disclosed by law.

11. FUNCTIONING OF THE SERVICE

11.1 The Service is provided in its current form and We do not guarantee or warrant that the Service, or any element of the Service will meet Your requirements, purpose and/or expectations.
11.2 We do not guarantee or warrant that any of the Information provided in or via the Service is accurate or reliable. You rely on it at Your own risk.
11.3 Due to the nature of the internet, we do not provide any warranty or guarantee in respect of the Service, results, availability, and/or uninterrupted use of the Service except that We will use Our reasonable endeavours to rectify serious faults as soon as practical though not within any particular timescale.
11.4 We reserve the right to make changes to the Service provided that they do not have a material adverse effect on the quality of the Service.
11.5 We reserve the right to suspend the Service without notice for repair, maintenance or other technical reasons.

12. USE OF THE SERVICE

12.1 The Website is merely a forum for Members to Post Information about themselves and to allow You to make contact with other Members through use of the Service if You choose to do so.
12.2 You should not assume that the Information contained in any profile is necessarily correct and accurate. We do not have an opportunity to check that the profiles are correct and not misleading. We do not make any representation or warranty that the Information contained in any profile is accurate and We are not under any obligation to verify any Information contained in any profile. Before acting on any Information contained in any profile or on any Information received by You through Your use of the Service, You should at Your own expense, carry out such investigation as You think is necessary to satisfy Yourself of the truth and accuracy of such Information. A person may not be who he or she claims to be. If You arrange any meetings with any person through Your use of the Service then You do so at Your own risk. You should take reasonable precautions to ensure Your safety.
12.3 You must comply with Our reasonable instructions concerning use of the Service.
12.4 You must notify us immediately if You become aware of any inappropriate behaviour in connection with the Service.
12.5 We are entitled to delete messages stored on the Service after a period 3 months. We may also delete messages immediately upon exercising any right of suspension in this Agreement or upon termination of Your membership or this Agreement. It is Your responsibility to store independently any messages that You wish to keep.

13. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

13.1 We may link to third party websites. We do not endorse or recommend such websites and You must satisfy yourself that any goods or services referred to thereon are suitable for Your requirements.

14. LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY

14.1 We shall have no Liability for any defect in the Service caused or contributed to by You and/or any other Member.
14.2 We shall have no Liability to You if any monies owed by You to Us have not been paid in full by the due date for payment.
14.3 You shall give Us a reasonable opportunity to remedy any matter for which We are liable before You incur any costs and/or expenses in remedying the matter Yourself. If You do not do so We shall have no Liability to You.
14.4 You shall produce to Us written evidence of any claims for which it is alleged that We are liable together with written details of how any loss was caused by Us and the steps You have taken to mitigate the loss before We shall have any Liability for the claim by You.
14.5 We shall have no Liability to You to the extent that You are covered by any policy of insurance and You shall ensure that Your insurers waive any and all rights of subrogation they may have against Us.
14.6 We shall have no Liability to You arising out of Your use of the Service and/or Your reliance on any Information Posted by other Members.
14.7 It is possible for other Users and/or unauthorised users to obtain and misuse Information about You as a result of Your use of the Service. We shall have no Liability to You arising out of any Member's and/or unauthorised User's misuse of Information Posted by You on the Service and/or to other Members.
14.8 We shall have no Liability to You for any:-
14.8.1 consequential, special or indirect losses;
14.8.2 economic and/or other similar losses (including, without limit, loss of revenues, profits, contracts, business or anticipated savings); or
14.8.3 damage to or loss of goodwill, reputation or data.
14.9 You shall be under a duty to mitigate any loss, damage, costs or expenses that You may suffer.
14.10 Without prejudice to the foregoing, our total Liability to You under and/or arising in relation to this Agreement for any one event or series of events shall not exceed five times the amount paid by You for the Service (if any) in the 12 months before the event(s) complained of or the sum of £500, whichever is the higher.
14.11 Nothing in this Agreement shall exclude or limit Our Liability for death or personal injury due to Our negligence or any Liability which is due to Our fraud or any other Liability which We are not permitted to exclude or limit as a matter of law.
14.12 Nothing in this Contract shall exclude or limit any of Your statutory rights which may not be excluded or limited due to You acting as a consumer.
14.13 We shall have no Liability to You for any delay in performance of this Service and/or any other matters to the extent that such events and/or matters are due to any events outside Our reasonable control including but not limited to acts of God, war, flood, fire, labour disputes, strikes, lock-outs, riots, civil commotion, malicious damage, explosion, governmental actions and any other similar events.
14.14 This section (and any other clause excluding or limiting Our liability) applies to Our directors, officers, employees, subcontractors, agents and affiliated companies as well as to us.

15. INDEMNITY

15.1 You agree to indemnify and keep Us indemnified against any and all losses, proceedings, lost profits, damages, awards, expenses, costs (including increased administration costs and legal costs on a full indemnity basis), claims, actions and any other losses and/or liabilities suffered by Us and arising from and/or relating to Your use of the Service, Information and/or other material Posted on or via the Service by You and/or arising from or due to any breach of contract, any tortious act and/or omission and/or any breach of statutory duty by You.

16. GENERAL

16.1 Headings above are for guidance and not binding.
16.2 All third party rights are excluded and no third parties shall have any right to enforce this Agreement under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise. This shall not apply to members of Our group who shall have the right to enforce this Agreement as if they were Us and to the persons mentioned in clause 14.14 above.
16.3 No waiver by Us of any breach of this Agreement shall be considered as a waiver of any subsequent breach of the same provision or any other provision.
16.4 This Agreement contains the entire agreement between You and Us. If any provision of this Agreement is held by any competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part the validity of the other provisions of this Agreement and the remainder of the affected provision shall be unaffected and shall remain in full force and effect.
16.5 We may assign all or part of Our rights or duties under this Agreement; You may not do without Our prior written consent.
16.6 Unless otherwise stated in this Agreement all notices in writing shall be sent by email to the most recent email address specified by You on the Service (in Your case) and by email to webmaster@sports-fitness.com (in Our case).
16.7 This Agreement is governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

Instructions for using Sports Fitness Partners

Sports Fitness Partners is a way to get in touch with other runners. Follow these simple tips to help make you use of Sports Fitness Partners safe and enjoyable experience:

• Make use of the anonymous secure messaging system – do not give out personal details, such as phone number, email address, home address or place of work, straightaway.
• You can contact a member using the anonymous secure messaging system and gradually learn more about them. Consider using a separate email account/address that you can easily change and is not the same as used by other people. If you use a mobile phone to call another member then you can use the blocking technique (withhold number) to prevent you number appearing on Caller ID.
• Don’t fake your photograph and don’t lie in your profile or messages. It will only cause problems and possible complaints about your conduct. It is always better to be yourself.
• Don’t agree to anything or get involved in a topic of discussion that you’d be uncomfortable with if you were meeting face-to-face.
• Be very careful if you start to think a member is lying to you
• Be very careful if a member is:
• Being forceful about you giving out personal details when they are not prepared to do so
• Not answering reasonable questions directly
• Giving inconsistent information about themselves such as their age, appearance, marital status and so on.
• Making claims that seem unlikely, or contradictory to what you already know about them.
• If you feel someone is behaving in a suspicious, unreasonable or abusive way contact Sports Fitness to tell us straight away
• If you feel uncomfortable about a member, stop contacting them. You can block them so you will not receive unwanted messages. If you feel someone is abusing the service, tell us immediately.
• Always use your common sense and be responsible for your conduct.

Arrangements for meeting a Sports Fitness Partner

If you are going to meet a Sports Fitness Partner whether for training, a race or socially take these precautions

• Meet in a public place that you know well.
• Never arrange for them to pick you up from your home.
• Never allow them to make arrangements for your travel or hotel accommodation, or let them know this information
• Always have a friend or family member to call on if you need help. Always let them know where you are going and what time you’ll be expected back. Call them to let them know things are ok. Leave them with the details of the person you are going to meet.
• Consider going with some of your friends, or going as part of a group of people you both know.
• Remember, when you meet someone for the first time they are still a stranger.
• Don’t accept a lift home if you have any reason to feel uncomfortable about it
• Always have a contingency plan for the unexpected so you can get away quickly, and have someone close by you can call on. Take a mobile phone with you – and make sure it is fully charged, working and has enough credit to make calls.
• Don’t feel pressured into doing or giving away information that you are not happy with.
• Liars can be found anywhere, think of any bar or nightclub. The internet is no different, however we are always prepared to remove anyone from the site who is less than genuine.
• Always use your common sense, keep in control and don’t be forced into doing something you wouldn’t normally do.

Finally

Trust your instincts – they are often right. If you feel uncomfortable about someone, stop and discontinue contact. Do not take any risks.

If you feel that someone is abusing the Sports Fitness Partners service tell us immediately.