Terms and Conditions

Website Privacy and Copyright information:

1. Aidis’ commitment to privacy

The Aidis Trust is committed to safeguarding your privacy online and to this end have developed the following Policy to deal with issues which may concern you. Please read the Privacy Policy to understand how your personal information will be treated. This policy may change from time to time so please check it periodically.

2. General Website disclaimer

• By viewing the website the user is deemed to consent to all terms and conditions set out below. If you have any questions regarding the terms and conditions, you should contact Aidis.
• Aidis reserves the right at all times to vary, change, alter, amend, add to or remove any of these terms. By browsing the Website you accept that you are bound by the current terms and conditions.

3. Copyright information

• The user may access any part of the site and download or copy material (by printing off individual pages on to paper) or download material on to disc (but not on to any server or other device connected to a network) for non-commercial use only. The copyright in such material shall be retained by Aidis and Aidis must be acknowledged in such material.
• You may not remove any copyright, trademark or intellectual property notices contained in the original material from any material downloaded or copied from the Website.
• Copying, distributing or any use of the materials contained on the web site for any commercial purpose is prohibited.
• You may not create a database by systematically downloading substantial parts of the Website.

4. Personal Information handling

1. The details which you provide about yourself and any information which identifies you such as your name, address, email address, telephone number, country of residence and disability ("Personal Information") will only be retained by us if you provide this information when using one of the services available on our website, such as obtaining technical support, subscribing to one of our email lists or adding a message to the bulletin board. Personal Information will be held on our system and used for operational purposes.

In order to process a transaction, your Personal Information and card details may be passed to one of very few, selected third party service providers. In this case, the name of the service provider will appear on your credit/debit card statement. Card details will only be used for the purpose of handling an individual transaction.

The Personal Information you supply when you join one of our e-mail lists will be used by the Aidis Trust to keep you up-to-date with services, events and activities offered by the Aidis Trust. When accessing services you are given the opportunity to opt in to receiving news and information from the Aidis Trust. When joining one of our e-mail lists you are given the opportunity to opt in to receiving information from other organisations that share our aims and objectives. The Aidis Trust will only pass on your Personal Information if the relevant box has been ticked. You can amend these preferences at any time by emailing web@aidis.org.

2. We may from time to time ask you for further information in order to update our records or for particular purposes. We will always tell you how we will use any further information received from you. From time to time we will need to send you our website and service announcement updates.

3. Log files

   3.1 Every time someone visits our web site a log file is generated on our computer.

   3.2 The log file records the time and date of your visit, the files that were requested, your IP (Internet Protocol) address, the referrer URL (if provided) and the browser version. We collect this information to help us diagnose problems and administer our systems and to audit the geographical make-up of users and how they have arrived at our site; that is, from what other sites have visitors arrived - this information being obtained from the referrer URL.

   3.3 We do not normally link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that you remain anonymous even though we include your IP address in our aggregate information. However, we can and will attempt to use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our terms and conditions, or to protect our services and other users.

4. Cookies

   Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. They make it possible for us to provide some of our online services.

   For more information on cookies, please visit:
   www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=cookies
   www.cookiecentral.com/faq/

   Please note that we are not responsible for information available on these websites.

5. Use and disclosure of Personal Information

   5.1 If you contact us we reserve the right to keep a record of that correspondence and incorporate the information it contains into our database.

   5.2 If we are requested by the police or a regulatory or government authority investigating illegal activities to provide information concerning your activities whilst using the network we shall do so. Similarly, we will disclose your Personal Information as part of a transaction whereby our company or business assets are transferred to a third party or if we are compelled to do so by law.

6. How we protect information

   6.1 We take every precaution to protect your information. To this end all Personal Information stored by us is kept on a server in a secure environment. Only employees and approved contractors/developers we may appoint from time to time and who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information.

   6.2 Regular security reviews are held by us to ensure that the site remains safe and secure for your protection.

7. Surveys and Promotions

   From time to time we conduct surveys and promotions and may request information from you as part of these. Participation in these is entirely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose any information which might be required. We may also ask you whether you would like to receive promotional emails and mailings from us about our other products or services. Similarly, you are under no obligation to accept such information (see opt-out link above/below).

8. Correction/Updating Personal Information

   If your Personal Information changes or if you no longer wish to subscribe to the service, we will endeavour to correct, update or remove the Personal Information provided to us as speedily as possible. This can be done by emailing us at web@aidis.org.

9. Users Under 18

   If you are under 18, please ensure that you obtain your parent/guardian's consent beforehand whenever you provide Personal Information to the website. Users without such consent are not allowed to provide us with Personal Information.

5. Transaction card-details usage disclaimer

In order to process a transaction, your Personal Information and card details may be passed to one of very few, selected third party providers. In this case, the name of the provider will appear on your credit/debit card statement. These providers share the aims and objectives of the Aidis Trust. We have negotiated with them to ensure the best prices for registered Aidis.org users. Card details will only be used for the purpose of handling an individual transaction.