Terms of use

This site is owned and operated by To Work or Play (“To Work or Play”, “we” or “us”). These terms and conditions govern your use of the toworkorplay.com website (our “Site”). All activities and actions performed on our Site are subject to these terms and conditions. All users are subject to these terms and conditions. By using or contributing to our Site you enter into a binding contract with us on the following terms and conditions. If you do not accept these terms and conditions, you should not use our Site.

Posts and writing

All opinions and views expressed on To Work or Play are our own. We are happy to accept products to review and we will always give an honest opinion about the product whether it be good or bad. We tend to feature brands we admire and would use ourselves in an aim never to mislead our readers.

Guest posts and user submissions

You understand that you are responsible for all data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or other materials (“Content”), communicated by you whether publicly posted or privately transmitted. Under no circumstances will we be liable in any way for any Content, including (without limitation) any errors or omissions in any Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of your use of any Content. You agree that you must evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any Content including any reliance on its accuracy or completeness.

You agree not to:

  • Upload, post, email or submit any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libellous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, embarrassing to another person or entity or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
  • Upload, post, email or submit Content that infringes any intellectual property rights of others or that reveals trade secrets or that infringes the publicity rights of others without first obtaining their permission;
  • Upload, post, email or submit any Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships;
  • Upload, post, email or submit sexually explicit Content or Content that harms or may harm minors in any way;
  • Upload, post, email or submit Content which is inaccurate or misleading;
  • Impersonate another person or entity, falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity or disguise the origin of any Content;
  • Collect or store personal data about other users;
  • Upload, post, email or submit Content that contains computer viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software, hardware or telecommunications equipment;
  • Violate any applicable national or international laws or regulations.

We reserve the right in our sole discretion to remove or refuse to publish any Content for any reason whatsoever at any time and without notice.

You agree to indemnify and hold us and our subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, officers, agents or partners harmless from and against any direct or indirect loss or damage (including consequential loss and loss of profits, goodwill or business opportunities arising from any third party claim in relation to any Content you upload, post or email or submit on or through our Site, or arising from any breach by you of these Terms and Conditions.

Copyright

All rights in the design, text, graphics, and other material on our Site and the selection or arrangement thereof are the copyright of us or other third parties unless otherwise stated. As a user, you may view, print and download the material for your own personal use only (but not in a systematic or regular manner so as to create a database of the contents). You agree not to reproduce the material or transmit it to or store it in any other website or disseminate it in any other form. You agree not to sell or modify the material or reproduce, display, publicly perform, distribute, or otherwise use the material in any way for any public or commercial purpose without the express written permission of the copyright owner. You grant to us a worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive licence (including the right to sublicense) to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display any Content (in whole or in part) you upload, post or submit and/or to incorporate such Content in other works in any form, media or technology. From time to time we may in our sole discretion permit users to use the “To Work or Play” and/or “TWOP” name and/or logo on other websites, including but not limited to, social networking sites (“Third Party Sites”). If you wish to use the To Work or Play and/or TWOP name and/or logo you must obtain written permission from us. Where such permission is granted we reserve the right in our sole discretion to withdraw such permission for any reason whatsoever and at any time. You agree to immediately remove the To Work or Play and/or TWOP name and/or logo from any Third Party Sites in the event that our permission is withdrawn and agree not to do anything which would or may harm the To Work or Play brand or the goodwill of To Work or Play.

Advertising, sponsorship and affiliates

Advertisers and sponsors agree to ensure that material submitted for inclusion on our Site complies with any applicable national or international laws or regulations or codes. We do not accept responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies contained in advertising and sponsorship material. We reserve the right in our sole discretion to remove or refuse to publish any advertisement for any reason whatsoever at any time and without notice.

Our Site may from time to time use affiliate links which may earn us a commission each time the link is clicked. You will never pay more for a product or service because you are clicking on an affiliate link. Other forms of advertising include sponsored posts which have been commissioned from brands. All of these help to support the blog and help it to stay online, to bring you the highest quality content possible.

Exclusions and limitations

We do not provide materials on the Site for any specific purposes or persons. Accordingly, it is not intended to be relied upon in making any particular decisions and appropriate independent advice should be obtained before doing so.

We do not represent or warrant that:

  • access to our Site, or any part of it will be uninterrupted, reliable or fault free;
  • our Site or any of its contents will be accurate, complete, reliable, true or suitable for any purpose;
  • we endorse any opinions expressed by users of the Site; or
  • any services (whether or not provided by us) will be provided with due care and skill.

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all liability (whether arising in contract, tort or otherwise and whether or not due to our negligence) which we may otherwise have to you as a result of:

  • any technical, factual, textual or typographical inaccuracies, errors or omissions on or relating to our Site or any information on our Site;
  • the unavailability of our Site (or any part of it) or services;
  • any delay in providing, or failure to provide or make available services or any negligent provision of services;
  • any misrepresentation on or relating to our Site or any services.

You agree that we shall have no liability for indirect or consequential losses, loss of data, income or profits or damages for loss of or damage to property. You agree that each of these limitations and exclusions is reasonable having regard to the nature of our Site.

None of the exclusions or limitations shall exclude or restrict our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or shall affect any statutory rights which are not capable of being excluded. However, in such case our obligation, where permitted by law, will be limited to the re-supply of our site or services to you.

Certain links, including hypertext links, in our site will take you outside our site. Links are provided for your convenience and inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement or approval by us of the linked site, its operator or its content. We are not responsible for the availability or content of any website outside our site and shall not be responsible for any transaction concerning goods or services available from such sites.

From time to time we may advertise competitions and/or prize giveaways on our Site. Prizes are supplied and distributed by third parties over whom we have no control and, therefore, we cannot accept any responsibility arising out of a third party’s supply or distribution of any such prizes.

Each of these exclusions or limitations shall be construed as a separate, and severable, provision of these Terms.

Variations

We reserve the right at any time without notice to revise the content of our Site and these terms and conditions. Any changes to these terms will be posted on our Site and by continuing to use our Site you agree to be bound by any such revised terms and conditions.

Notices

Any notices you wish to send to us should be sent to us by email at hello@toworkorplay.com. Notices that we may wish to draw to your attention will be displayed on our Site.

Enforceability

If any part of these Terms and Conditions that is unenforceable (including any provision in which we exclude our liability to you) the enforceability of any other part of these Terms and Conditions will not be affected.

Third party rights

Except for our affiliates, directors, employees or representatives, a person who is not a party to this agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of this agreement but this does not affect any right or remedy of a third party that exists or is available apart from under that Act.

Governing law

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law and the English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction to resolve any disputes between us.

Entire agreement

These Terms and Conditions, together with our privacy policy, set out the whole of our agreement and supersede any previous agreements, arrangements, undertakings or proposals.

Privacy policy

To Work or Play is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This privacy policy explains how we use the information we collect about you, how you can let us know if you prefer to limit the use of that information and procedures that we have in place to safeguard your privacy.

What we collect

We may collect personal information from our website and from other communications, such as emails. We may collect the following information:

  • name and job title
  • contact information including mailing and email addresses and telephone and fax numbers
  • demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
  • other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers
  • any other information you volunteer to provide to us
  • information that we receive or obtain from other sources
  • your domain name and IP address, operating system, browser, version and the website that you visited prior to our site. We may do this by way of a cookie (for more information about cookies see below).

What we do with information we gather

When you provide information to us or we obtain information about you we will store this data and hold it on our computers or in hard copy form.

We may use such information for the following purposes:

  • internal record keeping
  • to monitor and improve our website and any products and/or services we may provide
  • to send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting
  • to contact you (by email, telephone, mail or otherwise) in relation to any competitions we may run on our website
  • to customise the website according to your interests.

We may give information about you (on the understanding that such information will be kept confidential) to employees and agents (including third parties who distribute prizes for the competitions we run on our website) of To Work or Play. We may disclose information you provide to us or which we obtain about you:

  • to any law enforcement agency requesting it in connection with the commission of a criminal offence, if we are reasonably satisfied as to the circumstances surrounding the request
  • to comply with any applicable laws
  • to protect other users of our website and ourselves

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

  • whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
  • if you do not wish to receive promotional emails or surveys or be contacted for market research or prize distribution purposes you can opt-out by notifying us at any time by email at hello@toworkorplay.com.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a piece of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store it on your computer's hard drive. Cookies let us know which pages are being viewed on our website and let us determine how frequently these pages are visited, we also gather information about the geographical location of our site visitors. This helps us improve our website and tailor it to our users needs. We use Google Analytics for this purpose - which sends several cookies to your browser - with the following names: __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmz.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This will not prevent you from browsing our site.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. We are not responsible for the data policies or procedures or content of any linked websites. You should check the privacy policy of each website you visit.

Sale of business

If our business is sold or integrated with another business, your details may be disclosed to our advisors and any prospective purchaser’s advisers and will be passed on to any new owners of the business.

Security

We have put in place various security procedures to minimise the risk of unauthorised access or disclosure and to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. However, the internet is not a secure medium and we cannot guarantee the security of any data you disclose online. You accept the risks of providing information and dealing online over the internet and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security unless such breach is due to our negligence or wilful default.

Changes to our policy

We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

Your rights to access personal information

You have the right, under the Data Protection Act 1998, to receive information about the personal information which we hold about you upon making a written request and payment of a fee, which covers our administration costs in providing such information. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please email us on hello@toworkorplay.com.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us via email on hello@toworkorplay.com.