Membership or Registration fees
There is currently no charge to join the Novacaster Community website or to register as a user, although this may change in future.
What happens when you register?
You are asked for your real name, your choice of username, an e-mail address and a password hint question and answer. Upon submission of this information the system automatically issues a randomly generated initial password to the email address provided. This password, amongst other things, may be changed once you have logged in successfully after you have received the email.
Use and display of personal information
The Novacaster Community site operator undertakes to protect the privacy of its users.
When you login to the Novacaster Community site you will have the option to provide further details via your user profile and to configure a number of other options. You are responsible for the accuracy of the details contained within your profile and how much information you allow to be visible to other users when they view your profile. As a minimum, the information about you that is visible to other users when they view your profile consists of:
- Name - your name, as entered by you
- Country - the country you have selected in your profile address
- Registered - your date of first registration on the site
- Searchable - whether you have chosen to allow your profile to be found via a search or not
plus- Links to any articles, comments or other content you have authored on the Novacaster Community site
The email address associated with your account is the address used to deliver information to you from time to time as part of the site's normal operation (eg any email subscriptions that may exist, any notifications of replies to content you may have posted and so on). You may configure your account so that no email is sent to the address associated with it by setting the "Don't send any email to this address" option in your profile. The option is also available to roaming users.
Novacaster "Roaming Users"
The Novacaster Community site utilises Novacaster software. This allows registered users from other Novacaster powered websites to log in to the Novacaster Community site using their "home site" account details, if the administrator has configured the Novacaster Community site to allow this facility for a particular home site.
If you are a roaming user then, as a minimum, the information about you that is visible to other users when they view your Novacaster Community profile consists of:
- Name - your name, as entered by you in your "home profile"
- Country, the country you have selected in your home profile address
- Registered - your date of first roaming login to the Novacaster Community site
- Searchable - whether you have chosen to allow your profile to be found via a search or not.
plus- Links to any articles, comments or other content you have authored on the Novacaster Community site
If you wish to change the personal information contained in your home profile (eg your name, address, password, email address and so on), you must login to your home site and make the changes there. Any Novacaster Community-specific options (eg number of articles to show per page, privacy configuratation, the 'send no email' option and so on) must be set through your Novacaster Community profile. There is a link to your home profile provided from your Novacaster Community profile edit facility.
Your Novacaster Community profile privacy configuration is initially set to match the configuration of your home profile. As a roaming user, however, you may choose to release different information via the Novacaster Community site than that configured for your home site by editing your Novacaster Community profile and making the appropriate privacy configuration changes.
By making use of the roaming facility, you are specifically granting permission for the Novacaster Community site operator to retrieve and display locally some or all of the information contained in your home profile, as determined by the privacy configuration of your Novacaster Community profile. You are also granting the Novacaster Community administrator permission to know the email address associated with your home site profile for the purpose of providing support to you in the operation of your account.
Information to improve our service
We collect information automatically about your visit to our site. This information is used to help us follow browsing preferences on our site so that we can understand better which information is of interest to users of the Novacaster Community website.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that websites store on your computer so that the information contained within a cookie may be returned to the website later.
The Novacaster Community site makes use of cookies to carry an authentication token and other information which is used to grant the appropriate access rights and facilities to your account on the site.
We use these once you register with the site to allow us to personalise our service to you.
Note: If you opt not to allow a cookie to be stored (eg via your browser settings), you will not be able to login to the system, and thus cannot participate in any discussion or 'restricted access' areas. We use a test cookie during the login process to check if you are able to accept cookies so we can alert you about this.
Right to access the Novacaster Community site
We reserve the right to remove any content, user details, log-in capability and/or access to service; without notice and without providing any reason.
If you have any queries concerning our terms of use or any complaints about information contained on the Novacaster Community website, please contact the Administrator, on webmaster@novacaster.com
Copyright Notice
The contents of the Novacaster Community website at community.novacaster.com are copyright (c) the Novacaster Community site operator 2003. You may download to a local hard disk and print extracts from this web site for your personal use.
However, reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited unless for personal use. None of the content of this web site may be copied or otherwise incorporated into or stored in any other web site, electronic retrieval system, publication or other work in any form (whether hard copy, electronic or other). For the avoidance of doubt, framing of this site or any part of it is not allowed without explicit permission.
Information available to users who have registered and who can view the contents only when logged in should be treated as confidential and not divulged to third parties.
Copyright in any content authored by a registered user resides with the registered user, but by posting you give the Novacaster Community site operator exclusive permission to use, reproduce, modify, publish, translate and distribute the content and/or to incorporate it in other works.
Contributing content
The contributors and the Novacaster Community site operator do not accept any responsibility for any loss occasioned to any person acting or refraining from action as a result of any posting on this site.
In making comments or posting new articles to the site you warrant that the information you are providing is lawful, is not defamatory, does not infringe the rights of any third party and you indemnify the Novacaster Community site operator against any loss arising from your actions.
Disclaimer
The Novacaster Community site operator makes no warranties, representations or undertakings about:
- any of the content of this web site or
- any content of any other web site referred to or accessed by link through this web site.
Any enquiries should be directed to webmaster@novacaster.com
Information about the Novacaster Community site operator
This site is operated by Novacaster Ltd.
Novacaster Ltd is registered in England and Wales as company number 4878806.
Registered Office: 31 Horn Lane, Acton, London W3 9NJ.
VAT Registration Number: 823 5447 31.
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