Skip to content

Terms and conditions

TERMS OF USE

ANTONINE WALL WEBSITE - TERMS OF USE

Please read these terms of use carefully before using this website.

1. WHAT'S ON THESE TERMS OF USE

These terms of use (“Terms”) set out the rules for accessing, browsing and using the Antonine Wall website Antonine Wall | Frontiers of the Roman Empire ("Website").

2. WHO WE ARE AND HOW TO CONTACT US

This Website is operated by Historic Environment Scotland ("We" or “Us” or “Our”). We are an executive non-departmental public body, incorporated and established under the Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014, being a registered charity (Scottish Charity number SC045925) and having Our principal office at Longmore House, Salisbury Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1SH.

We operate this Website on behalf of East Dunbartonshire Council, Falkirk Council, Glasgow City Council, Historic Environment Scotland, North Lanarkshire Council and West Dunbartonshire Council (“the Partners”).

To contact Us, please email worldheritage@hes.scot

3. BY USING OUR WEBSITE YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS

By using Our Website, you confirm that you accept these Terms and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use Our Website.

We recommend that you print a copy of these Terms for future reference.

4. THERE ARE OTHER TERMS THAT MAY APPLY TO YOU

These Terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of Our Website:

  • Our Privacy Notice which sets out the terms on which We process any personal data We collect from you, or that you provide to Us.
  • Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on Our Website.

5. WE MAY MAKE CHANGES TO OUR TERMS

We amend these Terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use Our Website, please check these Terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.

These Terms were last updated on 17 April 2022.

6. WE MAY MAKE CHANGES TO OUR WEBSITE

We may update and change Our Website from time to time to reflect changes to Our Website users' needs and the Partners’ business priorities.

7. WE MAY SUSPEND OR WITHDRAW OUR WEBSITE

Our Website is made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that Our Website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of Our Website for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access Our Website through your internet connection are aware of these Terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

8. OWNERSHIP OF MATERIALS

We (or the respective Partner) are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in Our Website, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

9. COMMERCIAL USE, DISTRIBUTION OR REPRODUCTION

In these Terms, no permission is given for any commercial use, distribution or reproduction of any Content contained within Our Website.

You are not permitted to use Our trade marks without Our written approval (or the trade marks of any of the Partners without the written approval of the appropriate Partner).

10. DO NOT RELY ON INFORMATION ON THIS WEBSITE

The content on Our Website is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on Our Website.

Although We and the Partners make reasonable efforts to update the information on Our Website, neither We or any of the Partners make any representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on Our Website is accurate, complete or up to date.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Our Website and its Contents are provided “as is” and “as available”, without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security, completeness and accuracy.

Neither We nor any of the Partners warrant that Our Website will meet your requirements or will be uninterrupted, timely or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that Our Website or the server(s) that host Our Website are free of viruses or bugs. Neither We nor any of the Partners will be responsible or liable to you for any loss of content or material uploaded or transmitted through Our Website.

11. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WEBSITES WE LINK TO

Where Our Website contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by Us (or any of the Partners) of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.

Neither We nor any of the Partners have control over the contents of those third-party websites or resources, and in particular, neither We nor any of the Partners are liable (directly or indirectly) for the privacy practices or content of such external sites or resources or for the use to which others make of such sites or resources.

12. USER-GENERATED CONTENT IS NOT APPROVED BY US

Our Website may include information and materials generated by other users of Our Website. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by Us or by any Partner. The views expressed by other users on Our Website do not represent Our views or values or the views or value of any Partner.

If you wish to complain about content uploaded by other users, please contact Us on worldheritage@hes.scot

13. UPLOADING OR CONTRIBUTING CONTENT TO OUR WEBSITE 

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload or contribute content to Our Website, or to make contact with other users of Our Website, you must comply with the content standards set out in section 15. Acceptable Use Policy.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to Us and the Partners and you indemnify Us and the Partners for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage We or any of the Partners suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any content you upload to Our Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant Us and the Partners a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. The rights you license to Us and the Partners are described in section 14. Rights you are giving Us to use material you upload or contribute.

We and each of the Partners also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to Our Website constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on Our Website if, in Our opinion or in the opinion of any of the Partners, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in section 15. Acceptable Use Policy.

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.

We do not store terrorist content.

14. RIGHTS YOU ARE GIVING US TO USE MATERIAL YOU UPLOAD OR CONTRIBUTE 

When you upload or post content to Our Website, you grant Us and each of the Partners the following rights to use that content:

  • a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by Our Website and across different media including to promote Our Website or the service, to expire when the user requests the deletion of the content from Our Website.

15. ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

This acceptable use policy sets out the content standards that apply when you upload or contribute content to Our Website, make contact with other users on Our site, link to Our Website, or interact with Our Website in any other way.

Prohibited uses

You may use Our Website only for lawful purposes. You may not use Our Website:

  • In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
  • In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
  • For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
  • To bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person.
  • To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with Our content standards set out below.
  • To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
  • To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

You also agree:

  • Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of Our Website in contravention of the provisions of these Terms.
  • Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
    • any part of Our Website;
    • any equipment or network on which Our Website is stored;
    • any software used in the provision of Our Website; or
    • any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Content standards

These content standards apply to any and all material which you upload or contribute to Our Website (“Contribution”).

These content standards must be complied with in spirit as well as to the letter. The standards apply to each part of any Contribution as well as to its whole.

We or any of the Partners will determine, in Our discretion (or the discretion of the Partner, as appropriate), whether a Contribution breaches these content standards.

A Contribution must:

  • Be accurate (where it states facts).
  • Be genuinely held (where it states opinions).
  • Comply with the law applicable in Scotland and in any country from which it is posted.

A Contribution must not:

  • Be defamatory of any person.
  • Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
  • Bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate.
  • Promote sexually explicit material.
  • Include child sexual abuse material.
  • Promote violence.
  • Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
  • Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
  • Be likely to deceive any person.
  • Breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
  • Promote any illegal content or activity.
  • Be in contempt of court.
  • Be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
  • Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
  • Impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
  • Give the impression that the Contribution emanates from Us or any of the Partners, if this is not the case.
  • Advocate, promote, incite any party to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
  • Contain a statement which you know or believe, or have reasonable grounds for believing, that members of the public to whom the statement is, or is to be, published are likely to understand as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
  • Contain any advertising or promote any services or web links to other sites.

Breach of this acceptable use policy

When We or any of the Partners consider that a breach of this acceptable use policy has occurred, We or any of the Partners may take such action as We (or the relevant Partner(s)) deem appropriate.

Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of these Terms upon which you are permitted to use Our Website, and may result in Our taking (at the request of the relevant Partner(s) where appropriate) all or any of the following actions:

  • Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use Our Website.
  • Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any Contribution uploaded by you to Our Website.
  • Issue of a warning to you.
  • Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
  • Further legal action against you.
  • Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as We or any of the Partners reasonably feel is necessary or as required by law.

We and each of the Partners exclude liability for all action We or any of the Partners may take in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The actions We or any of the Partners may take are not limited to those described above, and We or any of the Partners may take any other action We or any of the Partners reasonably deem appropriate.

16. OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE SUFFERED BY YOU

Whether you are a consumer or a business user neither We nor any of the Partners exclude or limit in any way any liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by Our (or any of the Partner’s) negligence or the negligence of Our (or any of the Partner’s) employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

If you are a business user:

  • We and each of the Partners exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to Our Website or any content on it.
  • Neither We nor any of the Partners will be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, negligence, breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
  • use of, or inability to use, Our Website; or
  • use of or reliance on any content displayed on Our Website.
  • In particular, neither We nor any of the Partners will be liable for:
  • loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
  • business interruption;
  • loss of anticipated savings;
  • loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
  • any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user please note that We and each of the Partners only provide Our Website for domestic, educational and private use. You agree not to use Our Website for any commercial or business purposes, and neither We nor any of the Partners have any liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

Neither We nor any of the Partners will be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of Our Website or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.

17. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR VIRUSES AND YOU MUST NOT INTRODUCE THEM

We do not guarantee that Our Website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access Our Website. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse Our Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to Our Website, the server on which Our Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to Our Website. You must not attack Our Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and We will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use Our Website will cease immediately.

18. RULES ABOUT LINKING TO OUR WEBSITE

You may link to Our Website’s home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage Our reputation (or the reputation of any of the Partners) or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on Our part (or on the part of any of the Partners) where none exists.

You must not establish a link to Our Website in any website that is not owned by you.

Our Website must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any part of Our Website other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice and you agree to comply with any request to delete a link.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in section 15. Acceptable Use Policy.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on Our Website other than that set out above, please contact worldheritage@hes.scot

19. INDEMNITY

You agree fully to indemnify, defend and hold Us and each of the Partners, and our respective officers, directors, employees, agents and suppliers, harmless immediately on demand, from and against all claims, liability, damages, losses, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of any breach of the Terms by you or any other liabilities arising out of your use of Our Website, or the use by any other person accessing Our Website using your details and/or your personal information.

20. ASSIGNATION

These Terms are personal to you. You may not assign or otherwise transfer any of your rights under these Terms.

21. DELAYS IN ENFORCING THESE TERMS 

Even if We delay in enforcing these Terms, We can still enforce them later. If We do not insist immediately that you do anything you are required to do under these Terms, or if We delay in taking steps against you in respect of your breaking these Terms, that will not mean that you do not have to do those things and it will not prevent us taking steps against you at a later date.

These Terms may also be enforced by any of the Partners.

22. ENTIRE AGREEMENT

You confirm that, in accepting the Terms, you have not relied on any representation save insofar as the same has expressly been made a term of these Terms and you agree that you shall have no remedy in respect of any representation which is not fraudulent.

23. WHICH COUNTRY'S LAWS APPLY TO ANY DISPUTES?

If you are a consumer, please note that these Terms, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by Scots law. You and We both agree that the courts of Scotland will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of England, you may also bring proceedings in England and Wales.

If you are a business, these Terms, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by Scots law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Scotland.