Terms and conditions

Please note that the IdeaTap Terms & Conditions have changed. These terms and conditions – as of 13^th September 2012 - supersede all previous Terms & Conditions for IdeasTap. These changes relate to the relaunch of IdeasTap and the new functionality that this relaunch brings to the site. See Section 17 for details.

Website and services – user terms & conditions
Important notice about user content

Your obligations and the terms
Age of consent
Safety
Your password, username, pin and security
Applications
How will IdeasTap Ltd use your material?
You promise:
Your personal data
Email newsletter
Use of the site
Other user content, complaints and contacting IdeasTap Ltd
Termination and suspension of your membership or the site IdeasTap
Third party sites/links
Disclaimer/limitation of liability
IdeasTap Ltd's intellectual property rights, products and software
Law and jurisdiction
New functionality
Our details
Advertising and Partner terms and conditions

Website and services – user terms & conditions

By registering with, using or visiting the "Site" (this term covers ideastap.com), you agree to these terms and conditions ("Terms") and our Privacy Policy (which is incorporated into the Terms). If you do not agree to the Terms or Privacy Policy, please do not use or register with the Site.

The Site is owned and operated by IdeasTap Ltd ("we", "us" and "IdeasTap"). Please read the Terms (and the other terms set out below) carefully as they set out your rights and obligations and the terms on which IdeasTap Ltd makes the Site available to you. They also provide information on how you can submit material and how this will be used.

A “User” of the Site is anyone who visits IdeasTap, whether as a casual browser or as a registered member.

Important notice about user content

By providing content to IdeasTap Ltd or the Site you confirm this is (a) your own work and not copied from anyone else or infringing of any third party's rights and (b) not defamatory, obscene, harassing, offensive, threatening or in breach of anyone's privacy. You must have the consent of anyone featured in the content to provide this to us.

You will own any original content you provide but by providing content you agree IdeasTap Ltd may use it, copy it and make any part of it available on the Site, other internet sites, mobile, television, radio and/or any other media channel in any format. Further details are set out below.

The Site may contain content created by user submission and which does not necessarily represent the views of IdeasTap Ltd. The Site may contain content of an adult nature that is unsuitable for young people (under 16). If you wish to make a complaint about any content please e-mail us at info@ideastap.com. Equally, all items of user content (portfolios, blogs, profiles, comments) feature Report buttons that enable you to report content to IdeasTap administrators or to the police via our Safety page.

IF WE DISCOVER OR HAVE ANY REASON TO SUSPECT YOU HAVE BREACHED THE TERMS WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SUSPEND OR TERMINATE YOUR MEMBERSHIP OF THE SITE IMMEDIATELY AND WITHOUT NOTICE.

1. YOUR OBLIGATIONS AND THE TERMS

If you would like to upload material to the Site or interact with the Site you must register and become a Site member ("Member"). As part of this you will be asked to "accept" the Terms and, on doing so, you will be deemed to have consented to and will be bound by the Terms. You must be a Member before you can audition for or apply to participate in Creative Briefs and the Ideas Fund in our Opportunities section ("Application") (see Section 4).

IdeasTap Ltd reserves the right to change the Terms at any time by posting changes online and it is your responsibility to refer to and comply with the most up to date Terms on accessing the Site. Your continued use of the Site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the Terms as modified.

You must be 16 years or over to register as a Member, use the Site and/or submit an Application. We may work with partners to allow groups of younger Members to register and use the Site on a limited basis from time to time.

We reserve the right to ask for written proof of age or eligibility from you. If we discover or suspect that you do not comply with the age requirements, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your Membership or use of the Site immediately and without notice and/or disqualify you from any Application process.

3. SAFETY

We do our best to keep IdeasTap safe, but we cannot guarantee it. We need your help to do that, which includes the following commitments:

You will not send or otherwise post unauthorised commercial communications (such as spam) on IdeasTap.
You will not collect users' content or information, or otherwise access IdeasTap, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our permission.
You will not engage in unlawful multi-level marketing, such as a pyramid scheme, on IdeasTap.
You will not upload viruses or other malicious code.
You will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to someone else.
You will not bully, intimidate or harass any user.
You will not post content that is hateful, threatening, pornographic, or that contains graphic or gratuitous violence.
You will not use IdeasTap to do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or discriminatory.
You will not do anything that could disable, overburden, or impair the proper working of IdeasTap, such as a denial of service attack.
You will not facilitate or encourage any violations of this Statement.

4. YOUR PASSWORD, USERNAME, PIN AND SECURITY

When you register as a Member, you will be asked to select a user name and password you can then use to access your account and log on to and/or participate in areas of the Site reserved for Members only. We reserve the right to reject user names that are offensive, defamatory or otherwise unsuitable.

You can update certain details via your account. In your profile, you can edit your Membership profile and control parts of this e.g. the information other users can see. However, you cannot change your date of birth.

You accept it is your sole responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of your password and you are responsible for all activity that occurs under this. IdeasTap Ltd is unable to check the identity of people acting as Members or using Members' areas and will not be liable where your password is used by someone else. You should make sure you are the only person using your password and you agree to notify us of any unauthorised use of your password and any other breach of security as soon as you become aware of it.

If you use any functionality that IdeasTap Ltd makes available that allows people to contact you or leave comments, you are accepting these may be abusive, untrue or unpleasant. Please be careful when using any messaging and do not reveal personal information such as your home or work contact details, or where you live. You can use the complaints procedure if any issues arise (see Section 10). Functionality is in place that enables you to block unwanted contact from other users of the site and report inappropriate content.

5. APPLICATIONS

You may have the chance to apply for Creative Briefs and the Ideas Fund in the Opportunities section of the Site. The Site will set out details of how to submit an Application, the process and any additional rules or requirements. User Content and Your Data supplied as part of an Application MUST comply with the Terms and other requirements we notify to you and will be used as set out in Sections 5 and 7. As mentioned above, this, and other parts of the Site, may only be open to over 16s.

IdeasTap Ltd reserves the right to disqualify incomplete Applications or those that do not follow the requirements or Terms. IdeasTap Ltd does not accept responsibility for lost or delayed Applications or for any errors in or unauthorised access to Applications which happen because of server functions, viruses, bugs or other things that IdeasTap Ltd does not control.

IdeasTap Ltd's decision as to whether an Application is successful (or in the event of any argument regarding the rules, conduct or results of the Application process) is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Whether particular Applications are used is entirely IdeasTap Ltd's decision. These decisions may be taken by or with one or more of the partner organisations (where this has been agreed between IdeasTap Ltd and the partner organisations).

IdeasTap Ltd may withdraw, cancel or amend the Application or the process without prior notice to ensure compliance with legal, regulatory or other similar requirements or for any reason outside IdeasTap Ltd's control. Any changes will be posted on the Site.

6. HOW WILL IDEASTAP LTD USE YOUR MATERIAL?

"User Generated Content" (referred to in the Terms as "User Content") includes all content provided to the Site or uploaded to the Site by users i.e. videos, clips, pictures, reviews, comments, data posting, competition entries and all other user generated material.

You agree and guarantee that any User Content you provide or upload is original to you and does not infringe the copyright or any other rights of any other person. You must obtain any consents necessary for you to provide the User Content to IdeasTap Ltd.

IdeasTap Ltd does not, unless we agree this with you, claim any rights of ownership in your User Content. As such, you retain all ownership rights and, although IdeasTap Ltd will be able to use the User Content as set out in the Terms, you will also have the right to use your User Content in any way you choose. Where User Content is to be used in a different way (e.g. we are asking to own this) this will be made clear on the Site and you will then be able to choose whether to provide particular User Content on that basis.

You now grant IdeasTap Ltd a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable licence (for the full period of any rights in the User Content) to use, display, publish, transmit, copy, make derivative works or podcasts from, edit, alter, store, re-format the User Content for such purposes.

You grant IdeasTap Ltd the right to issue publicity concerning the User Content and any material in which it may be included, and for such purpose to use and reproduce your name and photograph (where these have been provided to IdeasTap Ltd) and your User Content.

IdeasTap Ltd does not guarantee to use or otherwise make available User Content. Any User Content may be rejected by IdeasTap Ltd and may be edited, moderated or deleted at its absolute discretion. IdeasTap Ltd reserves the right not to accept User Content that is not in English and cannot be moderated. All decisions are final and IdeasTap Ltd will not enter into any discussions or correspondence about why User Content has been rejected.

IdeasTap Ltd may, in appropriate circumstances, and at its sole discretion, remove or disable access to User Content that appears to be legally or otherwise problematic e.g. it infringes the copyright or other intellectual property or privacy rights of others, is defamatory etc. or for any other reason. In relation to all reviews and comments posted on the Site, authors consent to IdeasTap Ltd editing such reviews to ensure compliance with the Terms.

IdeasTap Ltd does not keep any "comments" that are not accepted for publication but may retain other User Content even if this is not published. You agree, however, that IdeasTap Ltd has no obligation to keep originals or copies of any User Content or to return this to you or remove this from the Site on termination of your Membership or at the end of any Application or otherwise.

7. YOU PROMISE:

If registering as a Member, you are 16 years of age or over (except where, as part of working with one of our partners, the registration process states that you may become a Member on a limited basis even though you are younger than 16);
All information provided by you to IdeasTap Ltd is accurate, true and up to date in all respects and at all times, all facts expressed by you in User Content are true to the best of your knowledge and belief and, if your User Content contains opinions, these are your own and genuinely and truly held by you;
All User Content is original to you and you are fully entitled (and have all necessary consents) to give the User Content to IdeasTap Ltd (you must also have the consent of anyone featured in the User Content to provide this to us) and you are happy for this to be used as set out in the Terms;
Nothing in the User Content will infringe the copyright or any other right of any person, breach any contract or duty of confidence, be defamatory, obscene, offensive, indecent, harassing, threatening, breach anyone's privacy or may constitute a contempt of court or be calculated to bring any broadcaster or other person into disrepute; and
All User Content will comply with any additional terms or requirements on the Site and you will at all times comply with the Terms.
It is IdeasTap Ltd’s policy for any event organised by the company or by one of its partner organisations, that the use of drugs is not permitted and that no-one should attend that event if they are under the influence of drugs. Legal minors are not allowed to purchase or consume any alcoholic beverages at or during the event and the carrying or knives or other weapons is strictly forbidden. You agree to respect this policy.

You agree to indemnify and keep indemnified IdeasTap Ltd from and against all claims, damages, expenses, costs and liabilities (including legal fees) relating to or arising from your use and/or Membership or Applications or arising from any breach or suspected breach of the Terms by you or your violation of any law or the rights of any third party.

8. YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Personal information you are asked to supply or you supply voluntarily as part of the registration, upload/download or Application process and any other information relating to your User Content (e.g. information provided to IdeasTap Ltd in relation to legal and best practice issues) ("Your Data"), will be used by IdeasTap Ltd, its partner organisations and advisors (including legal advisors) as follows:

To administer your Membership, communicate with you, or judge your Application;
In making decisions about whether User Content you seek to upload onto the Site should be accepted, rejected or used; and/or
As set out on the Site or the Terms. In addition, IdeasTap Ltd may at its discretion disclose this information to the police, regulatory bodies or any legal advisers in connection with any alleged criminal offence or suspected breach of the Terms by you or otherwise where required by law.

You may be requested to take part in promotional activity and IdeasTap Ltd reserves the right to use your details, photographs and audio and/or visual recordings in any publicity (including as set out in Section 5).

Your Data supplied as part of your Membership profile will, unless we tell you otherwise, be able to be seen by other users of the Site so make sure you only provide information you are happy to be seen in this way. You can control some of the information other users see using the “preferences” section within your "profile" page, which you can access by selecting “Edit profile” from the left-hand navigation within your “profile”.

Except as set out above (or where we agree otherwise with you e.g. in relation to contacting you for marketing), Your Data will be kept private and confidential, will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent and will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By becoming a Member and/or using the Site you are agreeing to Your Data being used as set out above.

9. EMAIL NEWSLETTER

We send all IdeasTap members our weekly email newsletter, which rounds up what's happening on IdeasTap that week. To unsubscribe from this email and all future newsletters simply click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any one of these emails - you will then be removed from our email database.

However, you will continue to receive notification emails from the site if people connect with you, send you personal messages or comment on your profile. To stop receiving these emails simply log-in then visit to ideastap.com/inbox and click on the Settings tab. Here you can decide what notifications and messages you would like to receive from other users.

10. USE OF THE SITE

In accessing the Site, you agree to do so only for your own personal, non-commercial use and in accordance with the Terms. Unless otherwise stated, you may not copy, reproduce, download, post, store (including in any other website), distribute, transmit, broadcast, commercially exploit or modify in any way the Site's material or content (including other User Content) or permit or assist any third party to do the same.

You agree to only use the Site for lawful purposes, in a manner which does not improperly infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of, the Site by any third party. Such restriction or inhibition includes, but is not limited to, conduct which is libelous, in breach of anyone's privacy or which may harass, cause real distress or inconvenience to any person and the transmission of obscene or offensive content or interruption of the normal flow of dialogue within the Site.

Any copying, reproduction, lending or hiring, public performance, broadcasting or any other form of distribution of the User Content (including peer to peer transfers) other than in accordance with these Terms is prohibited and will constitute a copyright infringement.

11. OTHER USER CONTENT, COMPLAINTS AND CONTACTING IDEASTAP LTD

Although we ask all Members to submit User Content that complies with the Terms, you acknowledge that User Content supplied by other Members may include material you consider offensive or objectionable. IdeasTap Ltd assumes no responsibility or liability for User Content and, as the User Content is created by users, it does not necessarily represent the views of IdeasTap Ltd.

If you become aware of any misuse of the Site or wish to complain about any User Content or material on the Site or believe any of your rights have been violated e.g. your copyright infringed, you have been defamed etc., you can notify us using any "report" links on the Site. This is the quickest way to contact us. Alternatively you can contact us at the address below (see Section 17) or via email to info@ideastap.com. We will need to know:

Nature of your complaint and location within the Site of the particular content or Member.
For copyright disputes, identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed and a statement that you have a good-faith belief the disputed use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law and that you are the owner of the copyright interest involved or are authorised to act on behalf of the owner.
Your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address and such other information as we may reasonably request. IdeasTap Ltd may, but is not obliged to, monitor or assist in disputes between Members. You are solely responsible for your interaction with other Members.

All information and links relating to online safety and reporting abuse are located on the safety page.

12. TERMINATION AND SUSPENSION OF YOUR MEMBERSHIP OR THE SITE IDEASTAP

IdeasTap Ltd reserves the right to modify, suspend or discontinue the Site or any part of it (including the availability of any features of the Site) at any time and without notice or liability to you. IdeasTap Ltd is entitled to suspend or terminate your Membership or access to any part of the Site at any time if you breach the Terms or for technical reasons.

You may terminate your Membership at any time, for any reason, by e-mailing us at info@ideastap.com.

13. THIRD PARTY SITES/LINKS

IdeasTap Ltd is not responsible for the availability or content of any third party websites or material you access through the Site. If you decide to visit any linked site, you do so at your own risk and it is your responsibility to take all protective measures to guard against viruses or other destructive elements. IdeasTap Ltd does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, services or information on or available from third party websites or material (including payment for and delivery of such products or services) or for any damage, loss or offence caused by or, in connection with, the same. Any terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and the relevant provider of the service.

You may link to your own User Content on the Site. IdeasTap Ltd disclaims all liability for any legal or other consequences (including for infringement of third party rights) of links made to the Site.

Links do not imply that IdeasTap Ltd endorses, is affiliated or associated with any linked site, or is legally authorised to use any trademark, trade name, logo or copyright symbol displayed in or accessible through the links, or that any linked site is authorised to use any trademark, trade name, logo or copyright symbol of IdeasTap or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries. IdeasTap Ltd reserves the right to request that any links are removed at any time and you agree to comply with any such request.

14. DISCLAIMER/LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

The Site, User Content and information, images, logos and content relating to the Site, IdeasTap Ltd, and/or any of IdeasTap Ltd's partner organisations, products and services (or to third party products and services), are provided 'AS IS' and on an 'AS AVAILABLE' basis without any representation, endorsement or warranty of any kind, including but not limited to implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

IdeasTap Ltd will endeavour to provide the Site using all reasonable care and will use reasonable efforts to make the Site available to you at all times. However you acknowledge that the Site is provided over the internet and so the quality and availability of the Site may be affected by factors that are outside IdeasTap Ltd's reasonable control such as technical faults in your ISP's and/or telecommunication providers' network/service. IdeasTap Ltd is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, providers, computer equipment or software, or failure of any email or Application to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet, telephone lines or at any website (or any combination of these things).

IdeasTap Ltd makes no guarantees that the Site will be available, uninterrupted or error free, or that defects will be corrected, or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs. Except as required by law, IdeasTap Ltd will not be responsible for any loss or damage caused by:

Interruption or delay to the Site or errors, viruses or bugs contained in the Site caused by events outside IdeasTap Ltd's reasonable control;
Your negligence, your breach of the Terms or failure to follow IdeasTap Ltd's reasonable instructions;
Any incompatibility of the Site with any other software or material on your equipment;
Any unauthorised use of the Site; or
Any other factor that is outside IdeasTap Ltd's reasonable control.

Content, information and other material on the Site may contain inaccuracies and typographical errors. IdeasTap Ltd does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of these or the reliability of any information displayed or distributed through the Site (including provided through any software). You acknowledge that reliance on any such information shall be at your sole risk. IdeasTap Ltd reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to correct any errors or omissions in any part of the Site and to make changes to the Site and to the materials, products, programs, services, content or prices described in the Site at any time without notice.

IdeasTap Ltd cannot accept any responsibility for any damage, loss, injury or disappointment suffered though use of the Site. In no event will IdeasTap Ltd or its partner organisations be liable for any damages whatsoever, whether in action of contract, negligence or other action, including (but not limited to) damages for loss of use of the Site, damage to equipment or other software, or loss of data or profits or for other monetary loss or for any indirect or consequential damages, arising out of or in connection with the use (or inability to use) or performance of the Site. In addition, in no event shall IdeasTap Ltd or its partner organisations be liable for any unauthorised use of the Site.

Whilst IdeasTap has taken every precaution in compiling this site, neither it nor any contributors to the site can be held responsible for any action (or lack thereof) taken by any member at an event organised either by IdeasTap or by an IdeasTap partner, as a result, direct or otherwise, of information published or promoted through this internet site.

These exclusions do not apply to death or personal injury caused by IdeasTap Ltd's negligence and only apply to the extent permitted by law. This does not affect your statutory rights.

15. IDEASTAP LTD'S INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, PRODUCTS AND SOFTWARE

The names, images and logos identifying IdeasTap Ltd, its parent charity or its partners and their products and services are proprietary marks of these parties. Nothing in the Terms shall be construed as conferring any licence or right under any intellectual property right of IdeasTap Ltd, its parent charity, its partner organisations or any other third party unless expressly stated otherwise.

All copyright, trade marks and other intellectual property rights in the Site (including the design, arrangement and look and feel) and all material, software or content supplied as part of the Site, other than User Content and Your Data (see Sections 5 and 7) shall remain at all times the property of IdeasTap Ltd and its parent charity and protected by copyright law.

Any products and services on the Site are subject to availability and are available at the sole discretion of IdeasTap Ltd, all references to products and services are intended to apply only in the United Kingdom.

From time to time certain software which is the protected work of IdeasTap Ltd or its suppliers may be made available to download from the Site. You are licensed to use the software on a non-exclusive basis only for the purposes for which it is indicated. You may not use the software for any other purpose and may not redistribute, sell, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise deal with the software unless you are specifically advised otherwise.

16. LAW AND JURISDICTION

The Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England. Any disputes arising from the Site or Terms will be decided only by the English courts.

The Site is only intended to be accessed from the United Kingdom. IdeasTap Ltd makes no representation that materials on the Site are appropriate or available for use at other locations and access to them from territories where their contents are illegal is strictly prohibited. If you access the Site outside of the United Kingdom, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws.

If any of the Terms are held by any court of competent authority to be unlawful, invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, this will not affect the validity of the remaining Terms which will continue to be valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.

IdeasTap Ltd can transfer its rights and obligations under the Terms to any company, firm or person provided this does not affect your rights under the Terms. You may not transfer or assign your rights or obligations under the Terms to anyone else and your Membership is personal to you.

17. NEW FUNCTIONALITY

The relaunched IdeasTap offers users new functionality. The items of functionality which affect the Terms & Conditions include:

Opening up the site
Privacy Settings
Messaging and notifications
Networking
Auto-creation of groups

Opening up the site

IdeasTap is now an open site, meaning that most of the site can now be viewed without needing to log-in or register. The principle is that registering and logging in is now about doing (eg uploading to portfolios, entering creative briefs, commenting) rather than seeing (eg reading articles, watching videos, browsing through user portfolios).

All new IdeasTap members (those who have registered after 1 February 2010) will have their profiles and portfolios automatically set to “Public”. See Section 16 Part 2 below for details of what individual privacy settings mean.

All existing IdeasTap members (those who registered before 1 February 2010) will have their profiles set to “Members”. We strongly recommend that they change this setting to “Public” so that they can be found by potential employers, who may not have IdeasTap profiles.

We do recommend that some information is kept to “Members” or “Network” – such as your email address. With the new messaging functionality there is now less need for your email to be publicly visible. See Section 15 Part 3 for details of the new messaging system.

Privacy settings

The new site offers a number of privacy settings on a multitude of different areas of your profile and portfolio, enabling you to control what information is public and what is limited to IdeasTap members or those in your Network. The settings include:

Public: This means that anyone browsing the site can see whatever information you choose this setting for. For example, if you set your overall profile to “Public” then it will be visible to anyone, whether they are logged in to IdeasTap or just a casual browser.

Members: This means that only people logged in to IdeasTap will be able to see this information. For example, if you set your Location to “Members”, then only logged-in IdeasTap members will be able to see which region you live in.

Network: This means that only people in your IdeasTap network of contacts can see this information. See Section 15 Part 4 for details of the new networking functionality. For example, if you set your Disciplines to “Network”, then only people in your IdeasTap network of contacts will be able to see what you do (or aim to do) for a living.

Private: This means that no-one can see the information. You cannot set your overall profile to “Private”, but you can set the vast majority of the information within it to “Private”. For example, if you set your name to “Private” then only your username will be visible. If you set every possible part of your profile and portfolio to “Private”, then the only items that will be visible to all users – whether logged in or not and whether part of your network or not – will be your profile photo, username and network (see Section 15 Part 4 below for details of the new networking functionality).

Messaging and notifications

The relaunched IdeasTap now offers registered users private messaging. This means that all users have an IdeasTap inbox. Any logged-in member can send a message to any other logged-in member unless one user has chosen to block another user. The exception to this is for under 16 members associated with one of our partner organisations, in which case only IdeasTap admins and their partner organisation can send them messages. Equally, under 16 members can only send messages to IdeasTap administrators and the partner organisation they are members of.

Inboxes have a limit of 30 personal messages and 30 notifications. Personal messages are messages sent from one member to another. Notifications are system messages – for example when someone leaves a comment on your profile – and messages from groups and events you’re signed up to. If you want to save more than 30 messages and notifications, ensure that notifications are copied to your personal email by updating the “Preferences” section in your “Profile”. This way even when they’re pushed out of your IdeasTap inbox, they’ll still be in your personal email inbox.

If you don’t want to receive these notifications in your personal inbox, you can turn this function off in the “Preferences” section of your “Profile”.

Networking

IdeasTap members now have the ability to build networks of IdeasTap contacts. Your network can contain a maximum of 500 contacts. You can message up to 20 of these contacts at a time. You can invite your entire network to join a group or event you have created.

If you find someone you would like to add to your network, select “Add to network” on their profile. They will then be sent a notification. If they accept your request, you will be added to their network and they will be added to yours. This will enable you to follow some of their activity on IdeasTap via your network activity feed in your profile. You can decide which of your activities appear in your feed in the “Preferences” section of your “Profile”.

Auto-creation of groups

Our partner organisations and IdeasTap administrators reserve the right to create groups and add people to them without sending an invite. In some cases, users may not be able to choose to leave these groups.

18. OUR DETAILS

IdeasTap Ltd is registered in England at Woolyard, 54 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3UD.

You can contact us at this address or by e-mailing us at info@ideastap.com.

Last updated 13th September 2012 IdeasTap Ltd.

19. ADVERTISING AND PARTNER TERMS AND CONDITIONS

By supplying advertising or partner content to IdeasTap Limited for publication on www.ideastap.com (“Website”), you agree to these Advertising and Partner Terms and Conditions (“Terms”). These Terms are also incorporated into each Partner Letter (as defined below) unless and to the extent specified otherwise in the Partner Letter. If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not supply any advertising or partner content to us or the Website.

1. Definitions

1.1 In these Terms, the following words will have the corresponding meaning:

"Advertisement" means any advertisement relating to a Brief, Event, job opportunity or other opportunity, which you: (a) supply to us for uploading onto the Website; or (b) upload onto the Website yourself in accordance with these Terms;

“Brief” means an exclusive fund, competition or commission to be offered by you on the Website;

“Data Protection Legislation” means the Data Protection Act 1998 together with all applicable regulations, directives, orders, codes of practice guidance notes, instructions and formal advice issued by or on behalf of the Information Commissioner from time to time;

“Event” means an event promoted by you in an Advertisement or on your Partner Page;

“IdeasTap”, "we", "us" or "our" means IdeasTap Limited (registered charity number 1132623), having its registered office at Woolyard, 54 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3UD;

“IdeasTap Content” means any content, copy, branding and other materials supplied by IdeasTap and/or our third party licensors;

“Insolvency Event” means, in a relation to a party, that party becoming insolvent, making composition with its creditors or an order being made or an effective resolution passed for its, administration, receivership, liquidation, winding-up or other similar process, or having any distress, execution or other process levied or enforced against the whole or a major part of its assets (which is not discharged, paid out, withdrawn or removed within 28 days), or being subject to any proceedings which are equivalent or substantially similar to any of the foregoing under any applicable jurisdiction, or ceasing to trade or threatening to do so;

“Intellectual Property Rights” or "IPR" means all copyright, patent rights, trade or service marks, design rights, rights in or relating to databases, rights in or relating to confidential information and any other intellectual property rights (registered or unregistered) throughout the world, including all rights of reversion and rights to any applications and pending registrations and the right to sue for and recover damages for past infringements;

“Member” means a registered member of the Website;

“Parent” means The Peter De Haan Charitable Trust (charity no. 1077005);

“Partner” means the applicable agency, company or firm detailed in a Partner Letter;

“Partner Agreement" means the Partner Letter and these Terms;

“Partner Letter” means the letter from IdeasTap which is countersigned by Partner, which sets out the basis on which Partner engages with IdeasTap;

“Partner Page” means a dedicated web page on the Website carrying Partner’s branding (details of which will be agreed between Partner and IdeasTap);

“Specification” means the technical specification for Advertisements and other Website content that we provide to you;

"you" or "your" means, as applicable: (a) Partner; or (b) the agency, company, firm or individual publishing Your Content on the Website or supplying the same to us for publishing on the Website;

“Your Content” means: (a) the content, graphics, branding, images and other materials supplied by you for your Partner Page; and/or (b) any Advertisement that you upload to the Website or supply to us for uploading to the Website; in each case excluding any IdeasTap Content;

“Website” means the website www.ideastap.com.

1.2 Reference to any legislation will be to that legislation as amended, extended or re-enacted from time to time and to any subordinate provision made under that legislation.

1.3 Any phrase introduced by the terms “including”, “include”, “in particular” or any similar expression will be construed as being by way of example and will not limit the general applicability of any preceding words.

1.4 The clause headings in these Terms are included for convenience only and do not affect the interpretation of these Terms.

2. Application of these Terms

2.1 These Terms apply:

(a) to all Advertisements which we accept for publication on the Website;

(b) to all Partner Pages;

(c) where you and IdeasTap have agreed to engage with each other as set out in a Partner Letter. These Terms will be incorporated into each Partner Letter unless specifically stated otherwise in the Partner Letter. If any term in these Terms conflicts with a term in the Partner Letter, the relevant term in the Partner Letter will prevail.

2.2 By uploading Your Content to the Website or sending Your Content to us for uploading to the Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms.

2.3 These Terms apply to the exclusion of all other terms and conditions in relation to the subject matter of these Terms.

2.4 We reserve the right to change these Terms from time to time by posting changes online, and it is your responsibility to check the most up to date Terms. Any amendments to these Terms will apply from the time they are updated on the Website.

3. Advertisements and Partner Pages

3.1 If you wish to publish an Advertisement on the Website, you may, in accordance with these Terms, either:

(a) upload the Advertisement directly to the Website in accordance with and subject to clause 3.3; or

(b) request that we upload it to the Website for you by contacting us at awhite@pdhct.org.uk.

3.2 You will be responsible for:

(a) supplying all branding and content for the Partner Page and Advertisements in accordance with these Terms;

(b) obtaining and paying for any licences and consents required for the publication of Your Content on the Website;

(d) checking Your Content for errors prior to uploading to the Website or supply to us (as applicable) and, where you ask us to publish a corrected form of Your Content on the Website, providing us with all necessary information and other assistance to enable us to do so.

3.3 Where we grant you the right to upload Advertisements directly to our Website and/or manage your own Partner Page on the Website, the following terms will apply:

(a) You will be granted administrator status for the sole purpose of (as applicable):

(i) uploading and removing Advertisements; and/or

(ii) accessing your Partner Page (but no other part of the Website) for the purpose of updating and maintaining the content on your Partner Page, managing your database and communicating with Members accessing the Partner Page.

(b) Your administrator status will be subject to these Terms, and any security and other terms relating to the exercise of such right as notified by us to you from time to time (“Terms of Access”). If you breach these Terms and/or Terms of Access, we may, in our discretion:

(i) suspend and/or cancel your administrator status; and

(ii) disable access to or remove Your Content (in whole or in part) from the Website on a temporary or permanent basis.

(d) If you request that we create content for you for inclusion on your Partner Page, you will be responsible for checking and signing off such content before it is uploaded onto your Partner Page and ensuring that it complies with the requirements of these Terms.

(e) You will ensure that you comply with all applicable Data Protection Legislation when processing personal data submitted by Members to Partner via the Partner Page or via a Partner Brief.

3.4 Where you have asked us to upload Your Content onto the Website, we will use reasonable endeavours to reproduce Your Content as provided by you, but reserve the right to make changes to Your Content, including as necessary to format the Advertisement so that it complies with the Specification and matches our house style.

4. Briefs

4.1 Briefs must be submitted to us on an exclusive basis so that there is no alternative method of entry for the applicable opportunity other than the Website.

4.2 All Briefs must be submitted to us on a Brief form that we will supply you with.

4.3 You will be responsible for specifying any additional or special terms applicable to a particular Brief submitted, provided that you comply with the terms at www.ideastap.com/briefterms.

5. Your Content

You will ensure that:

(a) Your Content complies with all applicable laws, regulations and industry codes of practice;

(b) nothing in Your Content is (in our view and at our sole discretion), offensive, defamatory, libellous, harassing, obscene, threatening, immoral or inappropriate;

(c) nothing in Your Content breaches any contract with a third party, breaches any third party’s privacy or confidentiality or infringes any IPR or other proprietary right of any third party;

(d) all owners and/or licensees of IPR in Your Content have consented to the publication of Your Content on the Website;

(e) you have obtained the consent of any living person whose name or image (in whole or in part) is contained in Your Content;

(f) Your Content will not indicate an intention to discriminate on grounds of sex, race, religion or belief, disability, ethnic origin, age or sexual orientation (unless Your Content is exempted from any statutory requirements relating to such forms of discrimination and you notify us of the applicability of such an exemption at the time when Your Content is first published);

(g) if you submit Your Content to us by electronic means, it will not contain software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, damage, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; and

(h) Your Content will not harm the reputation of IdeasTap, its Parent, our products, our services or the Website.

6. Expiry and removal of Your Content

6.1 Subject to clause 6.2, when an Advertisement expires, we may remove the Advertisement from the Website.

6.2 When a Brief is closed, we may continue to publish the Brief in a section of the Website for closed Briefs.

6.3 Once you have submitted Your Content to us, you may:

(a) amend or remove your Partner Page (in part or in whole) where you have been granted administrator access as described in clause 3.3; or

(b) request that we amend or disable access to Your Content or remove it from the Website (in part or in whole) by giving us seven days’ prior written notice.

6.4 We may, without liability to you, amend, remove or disable access to Your Content (in whole or in part and on a temporary or permanent basis):

(a) in accordance with clause 3.3(b);

(b) on your instruction under clause 6.1(b);

(d) if, in our sole discretion, we consider that the relevant content breaches these Terms or is otherwise unsuitable for the Website.

6.5 When a Partner Agreement expires or is terminated in accordance with its terms, we:

(a) will remove the Partner Page from the Website;

(b) may include your name and logo in a past collaborator section of the Website (unless you request us not to do so); and

6.6 We may retain and store a copy of Your Content that we remove from the Website for our records in digital format.

7. Statistics

We may, from time to time and in our discretion, provide partners with statistics relating to their impact on the Website. These statistics are provided for your internal business purposes only and you acknowledge that we cannot guarantee the number of impressions on any pages containing Your Content. Any such statistics will be treated as IdeasTap Content and our confidential information.

8. Intellectual Property Rights

8.1 You and/or your licensors will retain all IPR in Your Content, and IdeasTap and/or its licensors will retain all IPR in IdeasTap Content.

8.2 You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-terminable (except in accordance with these Terms) worldwide licence to:

(a) use, display, publish, transmit, copy, make derivative works from, edit, alter, store and re-format Your Content for the purposes set out in these Terms and on the Website; and

(b) use, display and publish such of your names, trade marks and/or logos that you supply to us for the purposes of hosting the Partner Page on the Website, publishing Your Content on the Website, promoting you as a partner on the Website in accordance with the Partner Agreement and these Terms and storing Your Content in accordance with These Terms.

8.3 From time to time, we may grant you the right to use our name, trade marks and/or logos for the purposes of promoting our programmes. Any such use will be subject to our prior approval on each occasion.

8.4 All goodwill generated through the use of one party’s brand(s) by the other will flow to the brand owning party.

9. Warranties and indemnities

9.1 Your warrant that:

(a) you are entitled to upload Your Content to the Website and that the use and publication by us of Your Content will not infringe any third party IPR or other rights; and

(b) you will comply with all applicable laws, including child protection and health and safety laws, in connection with Your Content, the staging of Events and the delivery of Briefs and other opportunities marketed by you via the Website.

9.2 You will indemnify us and our Parent against any and all liability, damages, losses, claims or costs, including legal costs, suffered by us and/or our Parent as a result of or in connection with:

(a) any breach of either of the warranties in clause 9.1 (except to the extent that any such breach results from any unauthorised amendment that we make to Your Content); and/or

(b) any third party claims brought against us in connection with any Brief, Event or other opportunity advertised by you via the Website.

9.3 Where you are an advertising agency, you warrant that you are authorised by the advertiser of the product or service to place the applicable Advertisement with us and that you are acting as principal. You will indemnify us in respect of any and all liability, damages, losses, claims or costs, including legal costs, suffered by us in connection with any claim made by such advertiser against us.

10. Liability

10.1 You will be solely responsible and liable for:

(a) Your Content; and

(b) staging Events, and delivering and operating Briefs and other opportunities and activities promoted by you via the Website.

10.2 Neither you nor IdeasTap will be liable to the other for any breach of these Terms which arise because of any circumstances which the breaching party cannot reasonably be expected to control.

10.3 Neither you or IdeasTap will be liable to the other, under any circumstances (whether for breach of contract, negligence or for any other reason), for any: (a) loss of profit; (b) loss of opportunity; (c) loss of goodwill; (d) loss of anticipated saving; (e) loss of revenue; or (f) any indirect or consequential loss; arising out of or in connection with the Partner Agreement or these Terms.

10.4 Subject to clauses 10.3 and 10.5, our maximum total liability to you, and your maximum total liability to IdeasTap, for any loss or damage arising out of or in relation to the Partner Agreement or these Terms (whether in contract, tort or otherwise) will not exceed:

(a) an amount equal to any grant set out in the Partner Letter; or

(b) if no Partner Letter has been agreed, or if (a) cannot be calculated at the time the relevant liability is to be assessed, £10,000.

10.5 Nothing in these Terms will limit or exclude a party’s liability for: (a) death or personal injury resulting from its negligence or the negligence of its employees or agents; (b) fraudulent misrepresentation; (c) under an express indemnity; even if any of the other terms would otherwise suggest that this might be the case.

11. Insurance and compliance

11.1 You will maintain adequate insurance cover against all reasonable risks in relation to your obligations and activities in connection with the Partner Agreement and these Terms, and will provide evidence of such insurance cover at our request.

11.2 You will, at our request, provide written evidence of your compliance programmes in respect of applicable laws relating to the promotion, delivery and operation of Events, Briefs and/or other opportunities.

12. Termination of the Partner Agreement

12.1 Either party can terminate the Partner Agreement at any time by giving 30 days’ prior written notice.

12.2 Either party may terminate the Partner Agreement immediately by giving written notice to the other party if:

(a) the other party suffers an Insolvency Event;

(b) the other party commits a material breach of the Partner Agreement and fails to remedy that breach within 14 days of being asked to do so;

(c) the other party undertakes any act or omission which, in the terminating party’s reasonable opinion, may damage the terminating party’s reputation.

12.3 On termination of the Partner Agreement, all licences under these Terms will automatically cease except as specified in clause 6 or unless we agree otherwise.

13. No agency or partnership

Neither the Partner Agreement nor these Terms create a partnership or joint venture between you and IdeasTap. Neither party may act as or hold itself out as the agent or partner of the other.

14. Confidentiality and publicity

14.1 From time to time, you and IdeasTap may have access to or may receive confidential information relating to the other party. The receiving party will keep such information confidential. The obligations as to confidentiality in these terms will not apply to any information which:

(a) is available to the public other than because of any breach of these Terms;

(b) is independently obtained by whomever it is disclosed to in circumstances in which they are not prevented from disclosing it to others; or

(c) is required to be disclosed by law or by any court, tribunal or authority with proper authority to order its disclosure (but only to the extent of such requirements).

14.2 IdeasTap will not undertake any publicity or make any statement which would damage your reputation. You will not undertake any publicity or make any statement which would damage the reputation of IdeasTap or its Parent.

15. Other provisions

15.1 If any part or provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, this will not affect the validity of any other part or provision.

15.2 The Partner Agreement and your rights and obligations under these Terms are personal to you and may not be assigned or transferred in whole or in part without our prior written consent.

15.3 If we fail or delay in exercising our rights or remedies provided by these Terms, we will not be deemed to have waived that or any other right or remedy.

15.4 All notices to be given under these Terms will be in writing and may be given personally, by recorded delivery, post or by e-mail to the addresses detailed in the Partner Letter or as otherwise notified by the parties in writing.

15.5 These Terms and any Partner Letter set out all of the terms that have been agreed between you and IdeasTap in relation to the subjects covered by them. Each of the parties acknowledges and agrees that it does not rely on any statement, representation, warranty or understanding of any person other than as expressly set out in these Terms and any Partner Letter. Nothing in these Terms will, however, operate to limit or exclude any liability for fraudulent misrepresentation.

15.6 Other than our Parent, which is stated to benefit from these Terms, no third party has any right by reason of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of the Partner Agreement or these Terms.

15.7 The Partner Agreement and these Terms will be governed by English law. Both parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts in relation to any dispute concerning the Partner Agreement and these Terms.