Terms and Conditions of Use

These Terms are applicable to the users of this site at http://www.hermeneia.org (“Site”) by using this Site; you signify your agreement to these terms of use (“Terms”). You must read and accept all of these Terms in and linked to this agreement, each of which are incorporated herein by this reference. If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use the Site. We reserve the right to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these Terms at any time. Please check these Terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of this Site following the posting of changes to these Terms will mean you agree to any changes, whether or not you have read them or not.

REGISTRATION ON THE SITE

When you register on the Site, you will be asked to enter certain personal information. We collect personally identifying information such as your name, age and e-mail address during registration. In registering for and using the Site, you agree that you will not use a false or misleading name or give false or misleading information. If you provide inaccurate information or Hermeneia suspects that your information is incorrect or in the event that Hermeneia reasonably determines that your conduct is inconsistent with these terms and conditions, we reserve the right to suspend and/or terminate your account here under.

Upon completing the registration process, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your account. You agree to immediately notify Hermeneia of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security.

USE OF MATERIALS LOCATED ON THIS SITE

This site is owned and/or operated by Hermeneia. The Site and the Materials are protected by United Kingdom copyright laws and international treaties. No logo, graphic, sound or image from Hermeneia may be copied or re-transmitted unless expressly permitted by the Administrator.

CONDUCT ON THIS SITE & CONTENT

You understand that Hermeneia specifically disclaims any and all responsibility for your or third party information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, tags, or other materials on this Site ("Content"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted. Hermeneia does not control the personal content posted on the Site and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Content. Hermeneia is not responsible for lost, stolen, illegible or misdirected Content.

You understand that by using the Site, you agree to not post any item that is deemed to be libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, threatening, and invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive or illegal. You agree that the Editor will review all articles that are submitted for publication first, before publishing on Hermeneia. You also agree that articles submitted will be commented on by our users, so therefore authors of all articles sent to us must be prepared to respond to comments or questions asked. All commentators posting comments are kindly asked to be respectful at all times. Any use of expletives or personal attacks & your comment will be removed by our admin. No racially insensitive or discriminatory language.

Any complaints or queries about material on Hermeneia should be directed to ( info[at]gracelifelondon.org). Notwithstanding the foregoing, Hermeneia reserves the right to remove, reject, suspend or terminate your access to the Site at any time, for any reason with or without notification to you and without any liability to Hermeneia if you choose to breach any of our guidelines for submitting content.

You also agree not to post/publish any material contains viruses, Trojan horses, trap doors, back doors, Easter eggs, worms, time bombs, cancel bots or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, interfere with, intercept, or expropriate any system data or personal information.

LINKS TO AND FROM THIS SITES

Hermeneia permits the linking to its sites from any other site so long as the linking site does not contain libellous, defamatory, obscene or illegal content. Any link must not frame Hermeneia and must be to the entire site rather than to a particular page or graphic. Hermeneia provides these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement of the site by Hermeneia unless expressly indicated.

FORUMS

"Forum" means any chat area, poll, bulletin board, e-mail and other interactive function offered as part of this Site. Kindly refrain from uploading to, distribute through, or otherwise publish through this Site any Content that is libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, threatening, harassing, misleading, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, illegal (including promoting illegal activity or behaviour or Content which is in violation of another's copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights.

It is important to understand that Hermeneia does not pre-approve, pre-screen or otherwise approve the content posted on the Forums prior to them going ‘live’ nor is Hermeneia responsible for any Content posted on its Forums. You should take specific precautions to carefully protect your identity and other private information about yourself and should not post any such information that you do not want publicly or virally disseminated.

The Forums shall be used only in a non-commercial manner. You shall not, without our express approval, distribute or otherwise publish any material containing any solicitation, promotion or advertising for goods or services.

DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT & THE EU GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION

By executing this Agreement, you understand and agree that Hermeneia is in compliance with all terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (the “DMCA”), 17 U.S.C. S512 et seq and the EU GDPR. Hermeneia shall have the right, with appropriate notice to remove, take down or otherwise disable Your Content that is claimed to be infringing, irrespective of whether your Content is ultimately determined to be infringing. You agree that Hermeneia shall be in compliance by sending written notice to your last known email and mailing address detailing the alleged infringement. Upon such email, Hermeneia shall have the right to remove your Content. You may report any suspected infringement to info[at]hermeneia.org.

DISCLAIMER

THE SITE AND THE MATERIALS ON THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, HERMENEIA DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. HERMENEIA DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED ON THE SITE AND IN THE MATERIALS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT THIS SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, SHALL HERMENEIA AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES, AGENCIES, ASSIGNS AND/OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY ASSOCIATED WITH HERMENEIA BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF THE SITE, ITS FORUMS OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE MATERIALS ON THIS SITE, EVEN YOU HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.