Consultation portal terms and conditions of use

Terms and conditions of use

Your use of this portal

By using the portal you agree to use it for lawful purposes only. You must not submit, download or transmit any material or otherwise engage in any conduct that:

• breaches any third party's rights including, without limitation, copyright, patent rights, trade mark rights, performer's rights, rights of confidence;
• is unlawful, offensive, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another's privacy or tortuous;
• victimises, harasses, degrades or intimidates an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age or disability;
• encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, or that gives rise to civil liability.

We reserve the right to dispose of any material that is considered unlawful.

Our liability to you

The views expressed on the portal do not necessarily reflect official council policy and we are not responsible for any content posted on the portal by any third party.

We shall not be liable for any loss not reasonably foreseeable by the Council, nor for any loss of data, profit, revenue or business or wasted expenditure, howsoever caused, arising from your use of the portal. We shall not be liable for any reliance you place on the contents of the portal.

Without limiting the above paragraph (and except for our liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence, for which council liability shall be unlimited), our the liability under or in connection with your use of the portal (whether arising in negligence or otherwise) will not under any circumstances exceed £500, regardless of the cause or form of action. Your statutory rights are unaffected.