London Scanner - Terms of use
London Scanner is designed to be a supportive, warm, non-commercial place for the London community. London Scanner is a privately owned place, not a public site. London Scanner moderating team will enforce these rules at its discretion to maintain its community standards.
Please read the following guidelines carefully. Note that these rules applies to our website, Private Message system, chat rooms, signature file and profile.
To ensure that our site realize their mission, we ask you to respect the following rules and guidelines:
1. CHANGES TO THE TERMS OF SERVICE:
We may change these Terms of Service at any time. You can review the most current version of these terms by clicking on the "Terms of Service" hyperlink located at the bottom of our web pages. You are responsible for checking these terms periodically for changes. If you continue to use londonscanner.com after we post changes to these Terms of Service, you are signifying your acceptance of the new terms.
2. COPYRIGHT:
All content and graphics on London Scanner is copyrighted and must not be duplicated without written permission beforehand. All posts become the property of London Scanner. Please do not take anything from London Scanner and use it on your own web site.
3. Tone and Respect:
The tone on the site and live chat should be fully supportive. Please refrain from posting judgmental or hurtful topics or replies. All users deserve support and encouragement regardless of the choices they make (for example natural versus medical, etc.). London Scanner requires that all posters refrain from using profane language or any other language that, at London Scanner sole discretion, is deemed false and/or defamatory, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, threatening, offensive, racist, invasive of a person's privacy, antagonistic or intentionally argumentative or otherwise objectionable. You agree not to engage in abuse, insults, slander, antagonism, arguments, name-calling, and ill-will directed towards London Scanner members, guides, moderators, staff and administrators or it's service. Abuse reports are taken seriously to maintain a peaceful and supportive atmosphere. We reserve the right to revoke the access to our website and live chat to anyone committing abuse or repeated offenses at our sole discretion with or without notice.
4. Promotion of sites, products, ideas, etc.:
Commercial postings of all kinds are prohibited. The selling of drugs, tests and other products is prohibited. Posting for the sole purpose of generating traffic to external sites (commercial or not) is also prohibited. Community members are asked to support and respect this vision and refrain from engaging in any kind of commercial activity, product, business or site promotion in the community or in the live chat. In addition, members are asked to refrain from targeting this community and its members for research or conducting focus groups for any purpose - academic, commercial or otherwise.
5. Links:
London Scanner assumes no responsibility for the content provided on any pages linked from the site or live chat. Please refrain from using redirection services (such as those to shrink urls) to post links.
Posting links to other related sites is also prohibited and may be removed at our discrection.
6. Spamming or attempts to collect personal information or posting of personal information:
Spamming (multiple posts, messages or private messages, dealing with the promotion of a site, product or idea) is not tolerated. In addition, attempts to collect personal information from members (such as by asking for email addresses, posting an email address soliciting responses, posting phone numbers, etc.) is prohibited. In addition, "silent spamming" (ie, including a link, text or image to promote a site, product or business in your signature or anywhere in your posts) is not permitted. If you choose to share your email/home address or any other personal information, London Scanner assumes no responsibility for any unwanted contact or any further issues arising from such contact.
7. Posting of Copyrighted or Personal Material:
We ask you to refrain from posting material that you are not authorized to reproduce or that is invasive of others' rights and privacy. This includes any copyrighted articles or other material, private messages and the content of private emails and letters as well as the personal information of others (email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers, etc).
8. Activism:
We ask users to refrain from activism on the site and live chat. The site and live chat are meant to be a peaceful place where everyone can exchange personal experiences without imposing their ideas on others.
9. Language:
We do not have the resources or organization to provide support or translations of our service in languages other than English. By respect for our community and to allow fair treatment in case of abuse, all posts, messages and chat sessions must be in English.
10. Impersonation:
Members will not impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, London Scanner Administrators, moderators, guides or hosts, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
11. Accounts:
Members may have only one account or username. Multiple or second accounts or usernames will be closed without warning.
Once you have registered an account, it cannot be deleted and will remain in our database. If you no longer wish to participate on the site, simply do not come back.
12. Account sharing or others using your account with or without your permission:
You are responsible for keeping your password and username private. Sharing your account, username and password with others is not permitted.
Posting material on behalf of another member is also not permitted.
London Scanner assumes no responsibility for the use of your account by third parties.
13. Discussion of Policy Decisions:
London Scanner is receptive to ideas and feedback from our members and will consider all constructive feedback. We ask that policy decisions, including, but not limited to community management, not be debated on the site or live chat. We also ask that you not post or otherwise submit invitations to London Scanner members to join other websites or messaging systems for this or other purposes. Insults or antagonism directed to volunteer moderators, guides and site administrators will not be tolerated under any circumstances. If you have comments or complaints about the site management, please send your constructive feedback to us via one of our emails or private messages.
14. Objectionable material:
London Scanner aims to maintain a supportive, warm community. We aim to keep the site and live chat free from objectionable material and reserve the right to remove any such material. We are not, however, able to review every single message posted on the site or live chat and are under no obligation to remove material that you may find objectionable.
15. No unlawful or prohibited use:
By using London Scanner, you warrant to London Scanner that you will not use any of the content obtained from London Scanner, for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by Law. If you violate any of these terms, your permission to use London Scanner automatically terminates.
16. Member Disputes:
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other London Scanner members. London Scanner aims to maintain a peaceful and supportive environment and reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other members. Disputes can usually be avoided when members post with an awareness and respect for differing viewpoints and using a supportive, non-confrontational, non-judgemental tone.
17. Miscellaneous:
London Scanner may remove or edit any content to maintain its community standards or deemed at its sole discretion not to be in the best interest of the site and/or community for any reason. You cannot post London Scanner URL on any other site in a rude or objective way.
18. Enforcement:
Failure to comply with the rules may result in the deletion of your content or the termination of your community access with or without warning at our sole discretion.
19. Listening to the Emergency Scanner:
• DO NOT Respond to anything heard on the scanner feed or posted on this site.
• DO NOT Look-up, Contact, nor Harass any persons whose name is transmitted.
• DO NOT Post license plate numbers, drivers licenses, full residential addresses, or names of parties investigated by law enforcement.
• You agree that you will not use London Scanner, our feeds and any other information from our site while committing a crime. It is illegal and if you get caught, you will go to jail!.
• You agree you will not sue any London Scanner Members, or anyone who is related to London Scanner. If you do so, you agree that you will pay in full (cash) 100 percent of all of our lawyers fees and court costs, filing fees, bail fees, traveling/lodging, food, and time reimbursement of $500.00 per hour for each hour we are involved in a case, starting from the time any initial action was taken against us until the time the judge makes a ruling.
• You agree that listening to our fire, medical and police scanner feeds are for educational purposes and entertainment value only.
• You agree that if you listen from your cell phone, tablet or any other device that uses 3G, 4G, LTE or any other service carrier, you'll need to monitor your data usage for overages.
20. General:
While banning is done infrequently, and normally only after repeated offenses or an expression of unwillingness to follow the rules, it is irrevocable. If you try to circumvent a ban, we may take further action. If you post on behalf of a banned member, you may also be banned without notice or warning. If your community access has been terminated without warning or explanation, you may email us for an explanation, but we are not obligated to respond (people usually know why they are banned). We do not publicly discuss the details of what led to the termination of a third party's community access with community members for privacy reasons. We ask our members to respect this policy as well.
In addition we reserve the right to terminate or suspend your account or set your account in "moderated mode" (posts will then require approval by moderators and user to user messages will be suspended) in case of abuse at our sole discretion.
London Scanner moderators and administrators make all reasonable attempts to ensure that the above guidelines are followed to maintain the safety, warmth and integrity of this community and its members. Our moderators are not able to monitor every single message and as such you may from time to time come across messages that are not in accordance with these guidelines or that you find objectionable. While London Scanner maintains the right to enforce these rules, it is under no obligation to do so and assumes no liability for the content posted on the site or live chat, whether or not they conform to the charter.
The preceding rules may be modified from time to time. Continued use of London Scanner by you will constitute your acceptance of any changes or revisions to this Agreement. Please refer to it regularly.
By registering at London Scanner, you automatically agree to our terms.
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Contact us at: admin@londonscanner.com
Thank you for registering and enjoy your stay!