STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE OF Rail Accident Investigation Branch e-community portal

By accessing this Website, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions of use.

1 GENERAL

1.1 The information contained in http://212.135.140.60 ("the Website") may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. All information made available from within this Website is provided "as is" for information purposes only and without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, any warranties as to non-infringement, satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose.

1.2 Epic, 52 Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1NH ("Epic") is the manager of the website may make changes to the content of this Website at any time without notice. The manager may use third parties to provide information for the website or for technical matters.

1.3 Epic makes no representations as to the security, quality or propriety of any website which may be accessed through this Website. Connected websites accessed through this Website are independent websites over which Epic does not exercise any control, whether financial, editorial or of any other kind and are not in any way endorsed by Epic.

1.4 Epic will not be liable to you for any direct, indirect, consequential, special or other damage resulting from the transmission from this Website to your computer systems of viruses, worms, trojan horses or other destructive items, however caused, such damage to include, without limitation, loss of profits, interruption to business, loss of the whole or any part of a programme or any data howsoever stored whether saved on a computer system or otherwise.

2 DOWNLOADING AND PRINTING MATERIAL FROM THE WEBSITE

2.1 All design, text and graphics displayed on this Website and the selection or arrangement thereof are the copyright of Epic. You are granted permission to electronically copy and print in hard copy portions of this Website for the sole purpose of your own personal development. Any use of materials on this Website (including but not limited to reproduction for purposes other than those noted above and modification, distribution or republication) without the prior written permission of Epic is strictly prohibited.

3 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

3.1 All trade marks, product names, brand names, company names, titles, copyrights or logos cited herein are the trade-marks, trade names or copyrights of their respective owners. No permission is given by Epic in respect of the use of any such trade-marks, product names, brand names, company names, titles, copyrights or logos.

4 PRIVACY OF DATA SUPPLIED BY YOU

4.1 Epic is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. When you register on this website, Epic (and its authorised subcontractors) may need to obtain some personal information about you, which is stored on our computer. This information will be in the nature of your name, job title, organisation, sector, area of responsibility, work e-mail address and work telephone number. This information allows Epic to:

• provide a more personalised service in the future
• to audit usage of the site
• conduct market research surveys regarding future training needs
• to aid strategic development of future products
• produce and publish statistical information relating to the use of the site. This statistical information will not contain any personally identifying information.

4.2 If you would rather not receive such material or allow your personal data to be used in such a way, you will be given an opportunity to notify Epic accordingly before submitting your personal information. Otherwise, by submitting your information you consent to its use in the above way.

4.3 If Epic changes these terms and conditions of use, Epic will post the changes on this page so that you may be aware of them and you will be given a chance to ask Epic not to use your information for the changed purposes.

4.4 Because the Internet infrastructure is global, and it is not possible to predict the routes that information sent over the Internet will take, the information you provide may be transferred temporarily via a route which takes it outside the European Economic Area as it passes between you and Epic. By submitting your information you consent to this transfer.

5 LOSSES RESULTING FROM UNAUTHORISED ACCESS TO YOUR DATA

5.1 Whilst every effort is made by Epic (and its authorised subcontractors) to keep secure information submitted by you (including the use of Secure Socket Layer, a means of keeping information secure), you accept the risk that data transmitted electronically via this Website or otherwise may be intercepted before reaching its intended destination or accessed by unauthorised third parties and may be exploited unlawfully by such third parties. Epic does not assume responsibility for guarding against the acts of such third parties and shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, consequential, special or other damage resulting from third parties' interception of or access to data of whatever nature including without limitation personal data transmitted by you electronically or otherwise.

6 COMMUNITY FORUMS

6.1 The website includes bulletin boards, discussion groups and other public areas that allow feedback and interaction between users and mentors ("Forums"). While Epic does not control the information/materials posted to Forums by users (the "Messages"), it reserves the right (which it may exercise at its sole discretion without notice) to delete, move or edit the Messages and to terminate your access to and use of the Forums and you waive any moral rights that you may have in regard to the Messages.

6.2 You are solely responsible for the content of your Messages. You must comply with any rules posted by Epic on a Forum. You may not:

• post, link to or otherwise publish any Messages containing any form of advertising or promotion for goods and services or any chain Messages or "spam";
• post, link to or otherwise publish any Messages with recommendations to buy or refrain from buying a particular security or which contain confidential information of another party or which otherwise have the purpose of affecting the price or value of any security;
• post, link to or otherwise publish any Messages that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libellous, indecent, infringe copyright or other rights of third parties or which contain any other form of illegal content;
• post or otherwise publish any Messages that contain a virus or other harmful component;
• disguise the origin of any Messages;
• impersonate any person or entity (including Forum guests or hosts) or misrepresent any affiliation with any person or entity;
• post or otherwise publish any Messages unrelated to the Forum or the Forum's topic;
• post or transmit any Messages that contain software viruses, files or code designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of the Site or any computer software or equipment;
• collect or store other users' personal data;
• restrict or inhibit any other user from using the Forums.

6.3 By submitting messages to any Forum you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Epic from all claims, costs and expenses (including legal expenses) arising out of any Messages posted or published by you that are in breach of this section.

6.4 Forums may also contain messages from mentors or special guests selected by Epic. The opinions of those mentors and special guests are their own and are not necessarily endorsed by Epic.

6.5 By submitting Messages to any Forums you are granting Epic a perpetual royalty free non-exclusive licence to reproduce, modify, translate, make available, distribute and sub-license the Message in whole or in part and in any form. This may include personal information such as your user name and alias and your expressions of opinion. Epic reserves the right to contact you by e-mail with regard to your use of the Forums.