Welcome to the terms of use governing access to UUNi
Welcome to the terms of use governing access to uuni.com. We ask you to accept these terms of use when you register with the site, but we also take it that you agree to these terms of use when you access and use the site generally. They form a legally binding agreement between you, as a visitor to uuni.com and/or a member of uuni, and Freeway Agency Limited (see Contact Us). You should read them carefully.
1. Membership
To register as a member of uuni you must be 18 years of age or older and currently studying at one of the universities identified here, which uuni considers to be the top universities in the world. If you are under the age of 18 or are not studying at one of these universities, you are not allowed to register with and become a member of uuni or to access uuni.com. By registering as a member, you represent and warrant that you are 18 years of age or older and studying at one of these universities and that all of the other information that you provide to uuni is accurate and not misleading. [When you end your studies at one of these universities you must also stop using uuni.com.] uuni reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your membership effective immediately for any reason, with or without notice. You may also terminate your membership at any time for any reason by notifying uuni (see Contact Us).
2. Your use of the site
All uuni members and other visitors to uuni.com must abide by the following rules in relation to their access to and use of the site:
(a) You must only make lawful use of uuni.com.
(b) You must not use or access the site in a way that causes, or is likely to cause, the site to be damaged, its performance to be impaired or access to the site to be interrupted or hindered.
(c) You may not use or access uuni.com, or any materials displayed on the site, for any commercial purpose. This includes, but is not limited to, posting or sending to other members advertisements, commercial messages or solicitations for products or services.
(d) You are responsible for any photographs, text or other materials that you may upload to the site for sharing with other members. You must not make upload to uuni.com any materials, or make statements through the site, or post links to other websites which contain materials, which are inaccurate or misleading, defamatory, disrespectful, insulting, abusive, obscene, sexually explicit or vulgar or which tend to incite racial or other hatred or infringe the proprietary, data protection, privacy or other rights of any person or are otherwise illegal. You must not use uuni.com to harass any uuni member or other person. See also Member-contributed content, below.
uuni reserves the right without notice to remove from the site any photographs, text or other materials which violate these rules or which uuni otherwise considers to be inappropriate. You must indemnify uuni against any loss, liability or cost we may incur as a result of a breach of these rules or, generally, because we make available to other members photographs, text or other materials that you upload to the site.
To the fullest extent permissible by law, uuni disclaims any responsibility for the content of materials uploaded to uuni.com by the members. uuni does not routinely review such materials and does not accept any obligation to do so or to modify or remove inappropriate, infringing or other unlawful content (although it reserves the right to do so) except where it is required to do so by law. Please promptly inform uuni (see Contact Us) if you become aware that any materials have been posted to the site in breach of these terms of use
4. Links to other sites
This site carries some links to other websites which are not operated by uuni. You should be aware, before clicking on those links, that uuni is not responsible for the content, privacy practices or any other aspect of those other sites.
5. Copyright and other intellectual property rights
The copyright and all other intellectual property rights in this site belong to uuni or its licensors. You grant us a royalty-free, irrevocable licence to use, copy and publish on the site any photographs, text or other materials that you may upload to the site for sharing with other members. You may view and print materials on the site and make reasonable personal use of those materials, including reasonable copying. You may not use framing techniques to display this site, any part of it or any other proprietary materials of uuni. You may create hyperlinks to the uuni.com home page as long as the link does not use our logos or graphics and does not refer to uuni or any person or website associated with uuni in a manner which is false, misleading or derogatory.
6. "uuni.com” is owned by City & Law, a service brand name of Freeway Agency Limited. All other trademarks not owned by Freeway Agency Limited that appear on this site are the property of their respective owners.
7. Contact Us
The uuni site is operated by City & Law, a service brand name of Freeway Agency Ltd, a company incorporated in England and registered with Companies House (www.companieshouse.gov.uk) with its registered office at Mumford & Co, The Old Rectory, Church St , Weybridge KT13 8DE, registered number3988806 and VAT number 799874332. “uuni” is a trading name of (and is used on this site to refer to) City & Law a service brand name of Freeway Agency Ltd as well as being the name of the online community established by this site.
If you have any questions or comments about uuni for any reason please email contact@cityandlaw.com or call 0044 (0)208 744 1075.
8. Privacy
You agree that uuni may process personal information about you that we collect through or in connection with the site in accordance with our privacy statement.
9. Liability
Nothing in these terms of use affects your statutory rights as a consumer or any liability that uuni may have as a result of fraudulent misrepresentations or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.
We do not warrant that this site will be available at any particular time, that its functions will work in a timely fashion or any other particular way or at all or that it will be free of errors, viruses or similar items. We make no warranty at all regarding Member-contributed content. We may withdraw this site, or any part of it, at any time, temporarily or permanently. We are not responsible for any failure arising because of circumstances beyond our reasonable control. While we seek to ensure that the information that we display on the site is accurate we do not make any warranty that it is accurate. We also disclaim any other implied warranties or conditions regarding this site and any services provided through it, including conditions of fitness for a particular purpose or satisfactory quality, to the extent that these warranties and conditions can be disclaimed by law.
uuni will not be liable, in contract, tort or on any other basis, for any:
· loss or damage incurred as a result of third party claims;
· loss of profit, goodwill, business opportunity or anticipated saving; or
· indirect or consequential loss or damage,
under or in connection with this site or any services provided through it.
10. General
We may make changes to these terms of use and/or the site's privacy statement at any time and for any reason. You will be bound by the versions of these terms of use and the site's privacy statement displayed on the site when you use the site.
11. These terms of use are governed by English law. You and we each submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts in relation to any dispute which may arise in relation to this site or these terms of use.
Annex 2 - Privacy Statement
12. uuni's privacy statement is designed to help you understand how we collect and use the personal information you decide to share and make informed decisions when using uuni. By registering with, using or accessing uuni.com, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy statement. If you have questions or concerns regarding this privacy statement, please Contact Us.
13. uuni.com is operated by Freeway Agency Limited (for more information, go to Contact Us). Freeway Agency Limited is established in England and its processing of personal information in relation to uuni.com is regulated by English data protection law (principally, the Data Protection Act 1998).
14. What information does uuni collect?
(e) User profile and other personal information: uuni members provide uuni with information about themselves (name, email address, age, etc.) through the member registration process. From time to time we also invite members to provide information through other parts of the site - for example, where uuni or a partner sponsors a promotion, sweepstake or competition through the site.
(f) Member-provided content : uuni also allows members to upload profile information (regarding personal interests, gender, age, education, occupation, etc.), and other materials which may include personal information about themselves or others, to the site so that they are available to other members or, in the case of friends' email addresses, can be used to invite them to join uuni. We host these materials and make them available on behalf of our members. We do not make any use or disclosure of this information in our own right unless we are required by law to do so, however, and we are not responsible for the content of or access to this information. Each member must, however, abide by uuni's terms of use and all applicable data protection and other laws in relation to personal information that he or she uploads to the site, and we reserve the right to remove personal information from the site in our discretion and, in particular, will remove friends' email addresses if they so request (see Contact Us).
(g)Non-personal information: uuni also collects the individual identification numbers, known as an “IP addresses”, of the computers used by visitors to the site. IP addresses are automatically logged by uuni's web servers. They are used, together with further information about visits to the site, to note a visitor's interest in the site and for statistical purposes. They do not allow us to identify the visitor unless he or she chooses to submit personal information to the site.
The remainder of this privacy statement deals with personal information that we collect through the site and holds in our own right. It does not deal with Member-provided content, for which the contributing users are responsible; nor with Non-personal information, except where it relates to registered users who are therefore identifiable by uuni. Members should be aware, however, that when they contribute Member-provided content to uuni they are making it available to, potentially, a wide audience, who may use it for any purpose.
15. What uses does uuni make of personal information?
(a) uuni uses personal information collected through the site to authenticate users, to provide services through the site, to tailor and improve those services and to administer our member relationships.
(b) uuni may also use contact details collected through the site to send members [updates, newsletters or other communications] regarding uuni.com and the services available through the site. A member can choose not to receive these communications at any time (go to Account Settings).
(c) From time to time, uuni or a partner may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or competition through the site. Where uuni or a partner collects personal information from members for the purposes of a promotion, sweepstake or competition we will explain the purposes for which the information will be used, whether it may be disclosed to third parties, etc., at the point of collection.
16. In what circumstances does uuni share personal information?
uuni treats personal information collected through uuni.com as confidential. We may, however, share this personal information:
(h) with service providers assisting uuni with the hosting or maintenance of the site or otherwise providing services to uuni;
(i) [with affiliates of Freeway Agency Limited;]
(j) with prosecuting, regulatory or other governmental agencies where we are required to do so by UK or other law or regulation;
(k) where we consider that disclosure of personal information is necessary (for example, to courts or the other parties to a dispute) in order to enforce the terms of use or generally to establish or protect uuni's legal rights; and
(l) in connection with a promotion, sweepstake or competition, in circumstances explained at the point of collection.
uuni has appropriate technical and organisational security measures in place to prevent other disclosures of its members' personal information, other unauthorised or unlawful processing and accidental loss, destruction or damage. Members should be aware, however, that the Internet is by its nature not a secure medium and we cannot therefore give an absolute guarantee of security.
17. Does uuni transfer personal information between countries?
uuni is a global community. Personal information collected through the site may be transferred to any country or territory in the world, including countries or territories (such as the US) which do not have data protection laws as strong as those in (for example) the European Union. Personal information controlled by uuni will, however, remain subject to English data protection law irrespective of the country or territory in which it may be hosted.
18. Does uuni use cookies?
(m) uuni.com uses "cookies" - small amounts of data downloaded to visitors' computers on the basis of the information collected about their visits - to simplify log-in for returning members; store visitors' preferences; record session information; ensure that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements; and customise newsletter, advertising, and Web page content based on browser type and user profile information. Visitors will generally be able to configure their browsers to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify them when a cookie is downloaded - each browser is different, so visitors should check the "Help" menu of their browser, or go to www.allaboutcookies.org, to learn how to change cookie preferences. Note, however, that cookies must be enabled in order to use some functions on the site.
(n) uuni allows advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some pages of uuni.com to download and access their cookies on visitors' computers. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this privacy statement.
19. Age limit
No one under the age of 18 may provide any personal information to uuni. We reserve the right to delete any personal information provided by a person under the age of 18.
20. Links to other sites
This site carries some links to other websites which are not operated by uuni. You should be aware, before clicking on those links, that uuni is not responsible for the privacy practices or any other aspect of those other sites.
1. Access to and correction of personal information
Members can access and alter their personal profiles at any time through Account Settings. Members also have rights of access to, and correction of, personal information that uuni holds about them, and in limited circumstances they also have rights to object to processing of personal information about them, under data protection law. A member wishing to exercise any of these rights should Contact Us. Members should be aware that, if they cancel their uuni membership, uuni will retain some personal information about them for a reasonable period in case they wish to re-join uuni and as a legal record of their relationship with uuni.
22. Changes to this privacy statement
We may change this privacy statement from time to time. Changes will be posted to uuni.com