Welcome to our website. This website is provided by The Active Wellbeing Society (ICO Reg. No. ZA266982) who work in partnership with Solihull MBC (ICO Reg. No. Z5888433) to provide The Crowd, a network of individuals, local organisations and community groups who support positive changes in communities. The Active Wellbeing Society is based at Studio 309, The Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B9 4AA.

If you continue to browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by, the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our Community Use Guidelines and privacy policy  govern The Crowd’s relationship with you in relation to this website. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website.

We amend these terms from time-to-time. Please make sure that you are aware of and understand the terms that apply at the time of your interaction with our website. The below terms were last updated on 12.03.20.

We may also periodically update and change features of this website to better cater to your needs or as we consider appropriate. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any major changes.

You are responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our website through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use, our Community Use guidelines and Privacy Policy and that they comply with them.

If you choose, or you are provided with a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use or community use guidelines.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at https://support.do-it.org/

The use of this website is subject to the following terms of use:

• General use – the content of the pages of this website is for your general information and use only. We do not guarantee that our website or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend, withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our website without notice.
• Timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website for any particular purpose –  although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date. Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk and we will not be liable for it. It will be your own responsibility to ensure that any information available through this website meets your specific requirements.
• Unauthorised use – This website contains material which is owned by or licensed to us. This material includes, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance and graphics. Unauthorised use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.
• Links to other websites – from time to time this website may also include links to other websites or third party resources. These website(s) and resources are linked to for your convenience and in order to provide you with further information. They do not mean that we endorse the website(s) or the information which they contain. We have no control over and take no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s).
• User-generated content – this website includes information and materials uploaded by other users of the website, including through bulletin boards and chat rooms. This information and these materials, though moderated, have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values. If you wish to report any inappropriate content uploaded by other users, please use the buttons to flag content or contact us [email protected]
• Liability – please note that we only provide our website for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity. We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
• Personal information – we will only use your personal information as set out in our Crowd Privacy Policy.

Community use guidelines – whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our community use guidelines. You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty. We have the right to remove any post you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our community use guidelines.

• Your rights in the content you post – any content that you upload to our website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content but you are required to grant us and other users of our website a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. When you submit content to us, you agree and represent that you have created that content, or you have received permission from, or are authorised by, the owner of any part of the content to submit it to our website. You may not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or otherwise exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the website for example, you may not create a database by systematically downloading and storing site content.
• Viruses and malware – we do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our website. You should use your own virus protection software. You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful.
• Unauthorised access – you must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our website, the server on which our website is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to our website. You must not attack our website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.
• Linking to our website – you may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not establish a link to our website in any site that is not owned by you. The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Community Use Guidelines. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
• Law and jurisdiction – please note that these terms of use are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are an individual resident in Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are an individual resident in Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.