Terms and Conditions - Registering with TotalTennis.net

Registered User Terms

Rules of the TotalTennis Community

In return for the LTA allowing you to become a registered user of the TotalTennis Community ("the Community") you hereby agree to the following rules which shall govern your use of this website and any other website that is part of the Community ("the Site"):

  1. Subject to what is said below material from the Site may be downloaded, viewed, listened to (where appropriate), printed, copied on the hard disk of your computer (but not photocopied) and used for your own personal, non-commercial purposes as a personal information resource in good faith ONLY. Any other type of use requires the prior written agreement of the LTA.
  2. You agree not to use the Site or your membership of the Community:
    • (a) for submission to the Site, the LTA or to any other members of the Community of any material, the publication, dissemination, use or possession of which infringes the rights of any person or which is unlawful in any other respect;
    • (b) for the submission to the Site, the LTA or to any other members of the Community of any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation or commercial exploitation;
    • (c) for the submission to the Site, the LTA or to any other members of the Community of any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
    • (d) to create a database (electronic or otherwise) that includes material downloaded or otherwise obtained from the Site except where expressly permitted on the Site;
    • (e) to transmit or re-circulate any material obtained from the Site to any third party except where expressly permitted on the Site;
    • (f) in such a way so as to remove the copyright or trade mark notice(s) from any copies of any material made in accordance with these terms; or
    • (g) in any way that might bring the LTA, any County Lawn Tennis Association or tennis club/centre affiliated to the LTA or the game of tennis into disrepute.
  3. You grant the LTA and/or its authorised administrator a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual and worldwide licence to use and publish any material you submit to them or to the Site in any form, including without limitation print and electronic form. The use of any material containing personal data is governed by: The Data Protection Act 1998 and the Total Tennis privacy policy
  4. You waive all of the moral rights that you have under Chapter IV of the of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988 in respect of any material you submit to the LTA, the authorised administrator or to the Site.
  5. You confirm that you are at least 18 years of age, or, if under 18, that you are accessing the Site with full parental/guardian consent.
  6. The LTA and/or the authorised administrator shall have the right to refuse to allow you access to any part of the Site or to cancel your membership of the Community at any time and for any reason without giving you any advance notice and neither the LTA nor the authorised administrator shall be liable for any losses or damages whatsoever arising from your inability to access or use any part of Site or your membership of the Community.
  7. The LTA and/or the authorised administrator shall have the right at any time and for any reason to alter or remove from the Site any material submitted by you without giving you any advance notice and neither the LTA nor the authorised administrator shall be liable for any losses or damages whatsoever arising from the alteration or removal of such material.
  8. The copyright, and other rights, the material appearing on or in the Site belongs to the LTA or to third parties. You may not (save as allowed in these terms and conditions) copy, reproduce, transmit or distribute any such material without the licence or permission of the author and you agree to pay any costs or expenses incurred by the LTA and the authorised administrator which may arise as a result of your failure to obtain such licence or permission.
  9. Some of the pages of the Site may contain chat pages, bulletin boards or other forums in which users are able to post material for viewing by others. The LTA does not edit or monitor the content of these pages and, subject to what is said below, does not have any knowledge of any of the activities or information carried on in, or contained within, those pages. If anyone becomes aware that any material on those pages, or any activities carried out on those pages, are offensive, unlawful or infringe any third party rights in any way, please send an appropriately worded message to the LTA by clicking here. The LTA shall then act expeditiously to remove any such material or to disable access to the information.
  10. Whilst every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information contained on the Site, it has been provided from a number of sources and neither the LTA nor the authorised administrator accept any liability for this information. It is the responsibility of users to check the accuracy of relevant facts and opinions given on the site before entering into any commitment based upon them.
  11. Neither the LTA nor the authorised administrator can guarantee that your use of the Site will be free from error and/or uninterrupted. Neither the LTA nor the authorised administrator shall be liable for any damages including, but not limited to, indirect or consequential damages, damages for loss of opportunity or chance, or any damages whatsoever arising from use or loss of use, data, or profits, whether in contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of, or in connection with the Site or any other Internet sites.
  12. The Site may contain material (including, but not limited to, advertisements) posted by third parties. Individual users and advertisers are solely responsible for the content of advertising and other material which they submit to the LTA and/or the authorised administrator and for ensuring that such content complies with all relevant legislation. The LTA accepts no responsibility for the content of material submitted by third parties, including, without limitation, any error, omission or inaccuracy therein.
  13. Save unless otherwise stated, no warranty whatsoever is given as to any goods or services purchased, obtained or offered to you through use of the Site, whether accessed directly or otherwise, and no liability is accepted by either the LTA or the authorised administrator in relation to any contract entered into by you with any third party on or by means of the Site.
  14. The Site may contain links to external websites. These links are included to give users the opportunity to access other pages that it is felt may be of assistance to them. Neither the LTA nor the authorised administrator is responsible for the content of these Internet sites.
  15. Whilst effort has been taken to ensure that the Site is free from viruses, no warranties are given that it is free from viruses and users are responsible for ensuring that they have installed adequate virus checking software. Neither the LTA nor the authorised administrator shall be liable for any viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of the Site or any hardware on which it is hosted.
  16. The names, images and logos identifying the LTA or third parties and their products and services, are the proprietary marks of the LTA, and/or may be the proprietary marks of third parties. Any use made of these marks may be an infringement of rights in those marks and the LTA reserves all rights to enforce such rights that it might have.
  17. Nothing in these terms serves to exclude or limit liability for death or personal injury arising from negligence or any liability which is otherwise prohibited from being excluded by law.
  18. These terms may be varied from time to time. Please ensure that you review these terms regularly as you will be deemed to have accepted a variation if you continue to use the Site after a variation has been posted.
  19. If any of these terms should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.
  20. In these terms: (a) 'authorised administrator' means any person, firm, company or unincorporated association which has been granted rights by the LTA in respect of the Site; (b) 'submit' in relation to any content or material includes send (whether by email or other means), transmit, upload and post; (c) 'terms' means these terms and conditions.
  21. As mentioned at Clause 8 above, the Site includes third party material and since your use of that third party material is governed, in part, by these terms, these terms may be enforced against you by any third party with an interest in the said material, including, without limitation, any County, Club or Centre Lawn Tennis Associations.
  22. These terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any disputes arising from matters relating to the Site shall be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.