Terms and Conditions

The Sunderland 5k organising committee welcomes you to sunderland5k.org.uk, our digital information site. These are our terms and conditions for use of the site. These terms and conditions apply whenever you access the site, on whatever device.

By using the site, you are deemed to have accepted these conditions.

By completing the race registration form you will be deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions. Also, by subscribing to any of our email services, you are deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions. If you register with sunderland5k.org.uk, you should read our privacy policy.

Any changes we make to the terms and conditions will be reflected on this page.

1. Registration

When you register, you are registering to compete in the LDS Sunderland 5k run.

You can compete in the run on the basis that:

(i) your race entry is personal to you and may not be used by anyone else to compete in the LDS Sunderland 5k.

(ii) you will not do anything which would assist anyone who is not registered to compete in the LDS Sunderland 5k run.

(iii) you do not maliciously create additional registration accounts for the purpose of abusing the functionality of the site, or other users; nor do you seek to pass yourself off as another user

(iv) you comply with these terms and conditions.

If, for any reason, we believe that you have not complied with these requirements, we may, at our discretion, cancel your registration to the LDS Sunderland 5k immediately and without giving you any advance notice.

2. Use of material appearing on sunderland.org.uk

For the purposes of this agreement, "material" means material including, without limitation, text, video, graphics and sound material, published on the sunderland5k.org.uk site.

You may download and print extracts from the material and make copies of these for your own personal and non-commercial use only. You are not allowed to download or print the material, or extracts from it, in a systematic or regular manner or otherwise so as to create a database in electronic or paper form comprising all or part of the material appearing on sunderland5k.org.uk.

You must not reproduce any part of sunderland5k.org.uk or the material or transmit it to or store it in any other website or disseminate any part of the material in any other form, unless we have indicated that you may do so.

We may be prepared to allow you to distribute or reproduce other parts of sunderland5k.org.uk or the material in certain circumstances. Please email us at run@sunderland5k.org.uk if you wish to apply for permission to do so.

3. Disclaimer of liability

To the extent permitted at law, we do not accept any responsibility for any statement in the material. You must not rely on any statement we have published on sunderland5k.org.uk without first taking specialist professional advice. Nothing in the material is provided for any specific purpose or at the request of any particular person.

For the avoidance of confusion, we will not be liable for any loss caused as a result of your doing, or not doing, anything as a result of viewing, reading or listening to the material or any part of it..

You can access other sites via links from sunderland5k.org.uk. These sites are not under our control and we are not responsible in any way for any of their contents.

We give no warranties of any kind concerning sunderland5k.org.uk or the material. In particular, we do not warrant that sunderland5k.org.uk or any of its contents is virus free. You must take your own precautions in this respect as we accept no responsibility for any infection by virus or other contamination or by anything which has destructive properties.

4. Third party material on sunderland5k.org.uk

You may see advertising material submitted by third parties on sunderland5k.org.uk. Individual advertisers are solely responsible for the content of advertising material which they submit to us, including ensuring that it complies with relevant legislation. We accept no responsibility for the content of advertising material, including, without limitation, any error, omission or inaccuracy therein.

If you want to advertise on sunderland5k.org.uk, please email the Web Support team at web@sunderland5k.org.uk.

5. Variations

These terms may be varied from time to time. Please ensure that you review these terms and conditions regularly as you will be deemed to have accepted a variation if you continue to use the site after it has been posted.

6. Reliance

We cannot agree that the service will be fault free. If a fault occurs in the service we will attempt to correct the fault as soon as we reasonably can. Your access to the site may be occasionally restricted to allow for repairs or maintenance. We accept no responsibility or liability for any interruption or delay.

7. Law

These Terms and Conditions and any disputes arising from or in connection with them shall be governed by the laws of England and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts. We do not make any promise that the materials on the sunderland5k.org.uk site are appropriate or available for use in locations outside the United Kingdom and using the sunderland5k.org.uk site from territories where its use or material or contents is unlawful is prohibited

8. Termination

We may terminate your use of the sunderland5k.org.uk site at any time without notice.

9. Compensation

You hereby undertake, as a condition of use of the sunderland5k.org.uk site, to indemnify us against any loss or damage suffered by us as a result of any breach by you of any of these Terms of Conditions.

Last Updated May 2010

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