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Launched in 2007 thehospitalclub.com is a private online social professional network for anyone who's anyone in the media and creative industries. A veritable who's who of creative London, the site is for anyone who could use a one stop shop that keeps you up to date with the latest industry news and views, expands your connections and entertains you along the way with a smorgasbord of opinion, insight and commentary.

You can use the site to showcase your ideas or find yourself a job, or if you simply haven't got your work head on, you can dive right on in and divert yourself with all manner of weird and wonderful features. And when you want to escape your computer screen, we'll give you our pick of the pops for what's going on in the real world.

Whether you want to work, get things done or simply have a good laugh thehospitalclub.com is your home-away-from-home. With content updated and added daily there's always going to be something that provides a little bit of insight, inspiration or at the very least provokes a raised eyebrow or a bit of a chuckle. Imagine Facebook, but for your industry, then imagine marrying this to the Media Guardian and adding a smattering of Popbitch for good measure. What you get is thehospitalclub.com.

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The Hospital Group Ltd. Terms of Use Agreement

Welcome to the Hospital Group Ltd.'s online club (online club). Our website is: www.thehospitalclub.com (site). These pages (together with the documents referred to in them) tell you the terms upon which you may make use of our website and the various services we may offer from time to time via our site (terms). Please read these terms of use carefully before you apply to become a member or guest of our online club and before you start to make any use our site.

If you are invited to become a member or guest of our online club you will be asked to confirm your acceptance of these terms together with the additional terms which apply to online club members and guests (membership terms) and our privacy policy (see below) during the online club application and registration processes. If you are not a member or guest of our online club, by using this site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.

The date on which these terms were first published is 24 September 2007.

VARIATIONS

We may revise these terms at any time by updating these pages and you should check these pages regularly to review the current terms as by making continued use of our site the updated terms will be binding on you. Certain provisions in these terms may be superseded by the additional terms accepted by our members or by terms located on particular pages of our site.

TERM

These terms will continue to apply at all times while you are a member or guest of our online club / make use of our site or any of the services. Some of the provisions remain in force after termination of your membership.

INFORMATION ABOUT US

www.thehospitalclub.com is a site operated by The Hospital Group Limited (we or us). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 03429311 and have our registered office at 165 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4DD. Our main trading address is 24 Endell Street London Wc2H 9HQ. Our VAT number is 710 2860 71

INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR VISITS TO OUR SITE

We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

ELIGIBILITY TO USE OUR SITE / REGISTER AS A MEMBER

You must be aged 18 or over to use this site and our services. Membership of our online club is by invitation only and is reserved to individuals aged 18 and over only and who meet the criteria set out in the membership terms. We reserve the right to reject applications for membership at our sole discretion.

By using our site and by registering as a member or guest of our online club you warrant to us that you are over 18 and that you have the right, authority and capacity to agree to and to abide by these terms and the membership terms.

ACCESSING OUR SITE

We reserve the right to withdraw or amend the site or any of the services we provide at any time without notice.

We will endeavour to keep disruptions to a minimum, however, we will not be liable in any circumstances if for any reason our site or any or all of our services is unavailable at any time or for any period.

We restrict access to certain areas of our site, to current members or guests of our online club (please see our membership terms for more information about eligibility to become a member or guest of our online club.

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms or our membership terms.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site and our services. You are not permitted to allow any other persons to access our site through your internet connection and if any other person accesses our site and / or uses our services through your internet connection you will be responsible for any failure to comply with these terms, the membership terms and the acceptable use policy by those persons.

ACCEPTABLE USE

When using our site and our services, you must comply with the provisions of our acceptable use policy and with the provisions of our membership terms.

This section shall remain in effect after termination.

NON-COMMERCIAL USE

This site and our services are for the personal use of individual members and guests of our online club only and may not be used for any commercial purposes save as we may expressly allow in these terms, the acceptable use policy or the membership terms. Organisations, companies and / or businesses may not become members of our online club and are not permitted to use the site or our services without our prior written permission.

Illegal and / or unauthorised use of our site, including collecting usernames and / or e-mail addresses by electronic or other means for the purposes of sending unsolicited email and unauthorised framing of or linking to the site is prohibited.

Unless we have previously given you our written permission to do so or unless it is in accordance with these terms, you are not entitled to use the site or our services to make commercial advertisements or other forms of solicitation on our site.

This section shall remain in effect after termination.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN THE SITE & MATERIALS PUBLISHED BY US & OTHERS

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site and our services, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download one-time only extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference only.

You must not make any further copies or nor must you modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way without our express written permission, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

This section shall remain in effect after termination.

RELIANCE ON INFORMATION POSTED

Commentary, user content and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any member of the online club or guest or other visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

This section shall remain in effect after termination.

UPLOADING MATERIAL TO OUR SITE

Whenever you make use of a feature or service that allows you to upload material to our site, or to make contact with other members or users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy . You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.

In respect of any material you upload to our site or which you otherwise reproduce via our services, you warrant that you have the rights to upload or otherwise reproduce such material. You must not upload or otherwise reproduce any proprietary information in relation to which you do not have the prior written consent of the owner of the proprietary rights. You must indemnify us for any breach of this warranty.

In relation to any material you upload to our site, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, trade marks, database rights and all other intellectual property rights you have in the material, in any media known now or in the future. In addition, you waive all moral rights you have in the content to the fullest extent permitted by law. (We need these rights to host and display your content to other members).

Without limitation to the foregoing, if you believe that your work has been copied or posted on the site or through the services in a way that constitutes a copyright infringement, please contact us at davidh@thehospital.co.uk and we will investigate.

We also have the right at our reasonable discretion to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

You acknowledge that information contained in your Profile and via our interactive services are public and not private, and therefore may be read by others without your knowledge, please see our privacy policy for more information about your personal information and the options you have.

We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, it breaches any of these terms or if such material does not comply with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy.

The provisions of this section will remain in force after termination.

OUR SITE CHANGES REGULARLY

We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

OUR LIABILITY

The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies, our employees, directors and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:

All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or our services or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site or our services, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for:
- loss of income or revenue;
- loss of business;
- loss of profits or contracts;
- loss of anticipated savings;
- loss of data;
- loss of goodwill;
- wasted management or office time; and
for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.

This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

This section shall remain in effect after termination.

INDEMNITY

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any losses or costs (including reasonable legal fees) we incur arising from your use of our site and / or our interactive services, any breach by you of these term, the membership terms or the acceptable use policy or any breach of any representations or warranties made in those documents or that you have given during the application process.

The provisions of this section will remain in force after termination.

TRANSACTIONS CONCLUDED THROUGH OUR SITE

Contracts for the supply of goods or other services (such as, without limitation, event management, hospitality services) or information between us and any member or guest of the online club formed through our site or as a result of visits made by you are governed by our terms and conditions of supply applicable at the time on which the supply is made.

If you contract with another member or other third party advertiser on our site you are solely responsible for that contract including, without limitation, arranging for and collecting payment and the exchange of goods and services purchased (if applicable), and for the results and performance of any contract you have entered into. We are not responsible or liable for any action or inaction of any party to a transaction, for any failure to perform, or pay any amounts due, or to deliver any goods or services as promised, or for any other aspect of the transaction.

You agree to indemnify and hold us, our subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents and other partners and employees harmless from any loss, liability, claim or demand (including legal fees) made by any member or other third party due to or arising our of your entering into or breaching a contract with another member or third party.

The provisions of this section will remain in force after termination.

VIRUSES, HACKING AND OTHER OFFENCES

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. 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 site will cease immediately.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

The provisions of this section will remain in force after termination.

LINKING TO OUR SITE

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy.

If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please address your request to davidh@thehospital.co.uk.

The provisions of this section will remain in force after termination.

LINKS FROM OUR SITE

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We do not monitor those sites or any of the resources provided by third parties and further we have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

You should also be aware that our terms and policies do not govern your use of those sites or resources and you should review the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices, of any third party sites to which you navigate from our site or relating to any resources or applications you use or install from third party sites.

The provisions of this section will remain in force after termination.

TERMINATION

We may restrict your access to the site or some or all of the services provided by us without prior notice to you in the following circumstances:

where we consider (in our sole discretion) that you are abusing the site, the services or other members or guests of the online club or where you are otherwise acting in breach of these terms or any of the documents referred to in these terms;
where there is a regulatory or statutory change limiting the ability to provide access to the site or the services; or
where there is an event beyond our reasonable control preventing us from providing access to the site or the services.

Even after membership is terminated, certain provisions of these membership terms, the website use terms, the acceptable use terms and the privacy policy will all remain in effect.

GENERAL

Any failure or delay by us in enforcing compliance with these terms or the terms of any other document referred to in these terms shall not be a waiver of that or any other provision of these terms, membership terms or acceptable use policy.

If any provisions of these terms or any of the documents referred to in these terms is unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable then that provision shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining terms or the terms of any documents referred to in these terms.

A person who is not a party to the agreement entered into between us relating to your membership of our online club has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any of these membership terms, the website terms or the acceptable use policy but this does not affect any right or remedy of a third party specified in those documents or which exists or is available apart from that Act.

The headings in these membership terms are for reference purposes only and do not limit the scope of extent of the membership terms.

The provisions of this section will remain in force after termination.

INTERNATIONAL USE

If you access our site or services from locations outside of the UK you are responsible for compliance with local laws applicable to your access and use of our site and the services.

The provisions of this section will remain in force after termination.

ENTIRE AGREEMENT

These terms and all documents referring to in these terms constitute the entire agreement between us and you as to your use of the site, and your membership and use of our online club and the services we provide to members and guests.

JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW

The English courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country. These terms and all documents referred to in these terms are governed by English law.

TRADE MARKS

'The Hospital' is a trade marks of the Hospital Group Ltd.

YOUR CONCERNS & NOTICES

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact davidh@thehospital.co.uk.

Any notices to be given by either you or us pursuant to or in connection with these membership terms or any other documents referred to in these membership terms shall be deemed sufficiently given by us to you when forwarded by e-mail or facsimile transmission in each case addressed to you at the e-mail address or facsimile number you have given to us in your application for membership, or such other email address as you may later provide to us, and when given by you to us at the following e-mail address: davidh@thehospital.co.uk.

I have read and agree to the above conditions.

The Hospital Group Ltd. Privacy Policy

The Hospital Group Ltd. (we) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (together with our terms of website use , our membership terms and any other documents referred to in those terms of website use and membership terms) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By using our site and our services and by continuing to do so, you indicate your agreement to our use of your personal data as set out in this privacy policy.

The date on which this privacy policy was first published is 24 September 2007.

The Data Controller

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is The Hospital Group Ltd. with our registered office at 165 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4DD.

Scope of this privacy policy

This privacy policy only applies to how we deal with your personal information, both the information which you knowingly chose to disclose to us and other information we collect from you as you interact with our site.

This policy does not apply to any other company or to any other company's websites even if you access them through our site. If you disclose your personal information to other companies your information will be dealt with according to their privacy policies and practices. We accept no responsibility or liability for other companies' sites.

Information we collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.thehospital.co.uk (our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering as a member of our online club, subscribing to and using our services, posting materials or requesting further services.
If you contact us, whether by email, post, fax or telephone, or if we contact you, similarly we may keep a record of that correspondence.
We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
Details of transactions you carry out through our site.
Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
If you enter into any of our competitions or promotions, we may ask for information about you, which will be made clear at the time you enter. We will also inform you of the purposes for which the information you provide may be used.
We collect information in aggregated form from users of our websites to help us to make improvements to the websites and to the services we make available. We know, for instance, how many visitors there are to each website, when they visited, for how long and to which areas of our website they went. We may share this information with our advertisers and to other companies which offer their goods or services on our websites. It helps to show these organisations how effective our websites are as sales channels for their products. However you or any other individual cannot be identified from the information we share as the data is aggregated and anonymised.

What information is published on the site?

When you create your member profile (profile) your name and email address and any other information you have chosen to make public will be available to other members and when you upload personal information in connection with your use of the site and our interactive services you will be making that personal information publicly available to all other members and guests of our online club and you do so at your own risk. If you do not wish to make certain information publicly available via your profile you should select the 'private' option.

Your name, email address and the name of any company or organisation you work for will be available to other members.

Although we implement security measures in the site and we limit access to the site by third party search engine 'crawlers' but please do be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that the personal information content you post on the site will not be viewed by unauthorised persons. Even after removal, copies of personal information you have chosen to upload to the site may have been copied and stored by other persons.

We therefore urge you to consider carefully what information you upload to the site.

Any improper collection or misuse of information is a breach of the terms of website use, membership terms and the acceptable use policy and should be reported to davidh@thehospital.co.uk.

Once this information is made available on the site we will not be responsible for any use which is made of this information. If you do not want to make this information public you should not include it within your Profile or you should not use the interactive services.

IP addresses and cookies

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:

To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
To speed up your searches.
To recognise you when you return to our site.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.

Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

Where we store your personal data

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted.

Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk.

Uses made of the information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
To help us to operate the site efficiently.
To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us.
To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
To allow you to participate in interactive service, when you choose to do so.
To notify you about changes to our service.
To make operational communications to you.
To make service-related communications to you.
To communicate with you in relationship to your application to become a member of our online club or about your membership of our online club.

If you do not wish to receive the communications referred to above please notify us at davidh@thehospital.co.uk.

We may also use your data, to provide you with information about events, goods and services we offer which we believe may be of interest to you and we may contact you about these by post, telephone, SMS, email or fax for these purposes.

We will not, other than as set out in this privacy policy, pass on your data or permit third parties to use your data.

If you do not want us to use your data in this way, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data (the registration form).

We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, graphic designers in W1). We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.

Disclosure of your information

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

To our group companies and to those suppliers to whom disclosure is necessary for the operation of our site or any of the services. Please note that we require any third party suppliers to process and store your data securely and they are prohibited from using it for any other purpose.
In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
If The Hospital Group Ltd. or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use or our membership terms and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of The Hospital Group Ltd., our members, our guests, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at Data Registrar, The Hospital Group, 24 Endell Street, London WC2H 9HQ

Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Access to information

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of �10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

How to access and update your email preferences, personal information and public information

You have the opportunity to opt-out of certain communications and to modify the non-public personal information you or the public information in your Profile at any time by going to the 'My Account' or 'My Profile' section of the site. Please be aware that it may take several hours for the change you make to take effect in the public areas of the website. Please note that any changes will only change or delete data in our database for the purposes of future activities and communications.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to the Data Registrar, The Hospital Group Ltd, 24 Endell Street, London WC2H 9HQ.

I have read and agree to the above conditions.

Membership Terms

Welcome to the Hospital Group Ltd.'s online club (online club) These pages (together with the documents referred to in them) tells you the terms on which apply to your application for and (if successful) membership of our online club (membership terms). Please read these terms of use carefully before you apply to become a member or guest of our online club and before you start to make any use our site.

If you are invited to become a member or guest of our online club you will be asked to confirm your acceptance of these membership terms together with the terms of website use (website use terms) and our privacy policy (see below) [INCLUDE LINK TO PRIVACY POLICY] during the online club application and registration processes.

The date on which these membership terms were first published is 24 September 2007.

VARIATIONS

We may revise these membership terms at any time by updating these pages and you should check these pages regularly to review the current membership terms as by making continued use of our site the updated membership terms will be binding on you. Certain provisions in these membership terms may be superseded by the other terms located on particular pages of our site.

TERM

These membership terms will continue to apply at all times while you are a member or guest of our online club / make use of our site or any of the services. Some of the provisions remain in force after termination of your membership.

INFORMATION ABOUT US

INFORMATION ABOUT YOU

As part of the application process you will be asked to provide personal information. You may also upload personal information to the public areas of the site. The policies and practices we adopt in processing your information and the principles which apply to the uploading and disclosing of certain of your personal information onto the public areas of the site are set out in our privacy policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing and disclosure of personal information and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION & ELIGIBILITY

Membership of the online club is by invitation only to individuals aged 18 or over and who are either:

Existing full members of The Hospital's London Club; or
Non-members of the Hospital but who are currently working in the creative industries in London; and

And all applicants must expressly accept our website use terms, these membership terms, the acceptable use policy and the privacy policy.

Please note that all applications to join the online club have to be approved by our membership committee before the application is approved and an invitation to join our online club does not guarantee that the membership committee will approve your application for membership, we therefore reserve the right to reject all applications for membership at our sole discretion.

MEMBERSHIP LEVELS

These are:

1. Basic

Free of Charge (at present time though we reserve the right to introduce a fee)
10 Profile views per day
3 messages per day
10MB storage limits
No right to apply to job posts
No right to place listings in services directory
No access to Hospital online events
We may at our discretion make certain content available to Basic members but there is not guarantee that we will do so.

2. Premium

Fee: �10 per month or one-off annual payment of �60.00 (at the present time, we reserve the right to increase the fees in future).

Full access to our site and the interactive services
100MB storage limit
Right to post jobs in accordance with our terms for job postings, subject to any terms relating to job postings which we may publish jobs from time to time.
Right to post listings in the services directory, subject to any terms relating to services postings which we may publish from time to time.

3. The Hospital

Full access and privileges (as for Premium) are included free of charge in the Hospital Membership subject to agreement of these membership terms, the website use terms, the acceptable use policy and the privacy policy. We reserve the right to introduce fee for use of the online service by members of the Hospital club in future.

SUBSCRIPTIONS

If you sign up for multiple subscriptions to the online club, you will be limited to only one instances of the online club messenger service, regardless of the number of subscribing accounts you may have with us.

TRANSFER

You are not permitted to sell, transfer or attempt to transfer your membership or guest access to our online club nor are you permitted to allow any third party to make use of your access privileges via your internet connection.

We may transfer or assign our rights in the site, the online club and / or any of the services we provide through the site at any time and without restriction.

OUR LIABILITY

To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies, employees, directors and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:

All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with your membership of the online club, our site or our services or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site or our services, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for:
- loss of income or revenue;
- loss of business;
- loss of profits or contracts;
- loss of anticipated savings;
- loss of data;
- loss of goodwill;
- wasted management or office time; and
for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.

The provisions of this section will remain in force after termination.

INDEMNITY

The provisions of this section will remain in force after termination.

USER DISPUTES

This site and the services provided on it enable you to socialise and interact with other members and guests of our club and, as permitted by these terms, our membership terms and our acceptable use policy, to promote your services to other members or guests or to identify services or opportunities which may be of interest to you. However, if you become involved in any dispute with another member, guest or other third party as a result of your interaction with other members, guests or third parties through this site, you agree to resolve this directly with the person(s) with whom you are in dispute. We reserve the right to involve ourselves in such disputes but are under no obligation to do so.

The provisions of this section will remain in force after termination.

TERMINATION

Termination of Membership : Basic

You may terminate your membership of our online club at any time, by contacting a member of The Hospital online team who will delete your account on behalf of The Hospital Group Ltd.

We may terminate your membership and / or restrict your access to the site or some or all of the services provided by us, effective upon sending notice of termination to you.

Termination of Membership : Premium

You may terminate your membership of our online club, for any reason by contacting a member of The Hospital online team who will delete your account on behalf of The Hospital Group Ltd.

Where you are paying your membership fee by monthly payment, termination of your subscription will take effect at the end of the next calendar month after the month in which we receive your notice. Where you are paying by single annual payment termination of your subscription will take effect at the end of the annual period for which you have paid. We regret that we are unable to offer any refunds or rebates of membership fee if you decide to terminate your subscription early.

Where you pay your membership fee by monthly instalments, we may terminate your membership and / or restrict your access to the site or some or all of the services provided by us by giving you one month's notice of termination.

Where you pay your membership fee by a single annual payment, we may terminate your membership and / or restrict access to the site or some or all of the services provided by us by notice to you at or prior to the end of any annual period for which you have paid, or at our option, sooner by making a pro-rata refund of your annual membership fee.

Termination of Membership : Member of The Hospital's London Club

You may terminate your membership of our online club, for any reason by contacting a member of The Hospital online team who will delete your account on behalf of The Hospital Group Ltd.

Your membership of the online club will automatically cease when your membership of The Hospital's London club expires without renewal or where it is terminated by you or by us, for any reason whatsoever.

Termination : Other Circumstances

We may terminate your membership and / or restrict your access to the site or some or all of the services provided by us without prior notice to you in the following circumstances:

If we terminate your membership in any of the circumstances described in the above paragraph you will not be entitled to any refund of unused subscription fees.

If we terminate your membership of our online club in the circumstances described in paragraph (a) above we reserve the right at our sole discretion to terminate your membership of The Hospital's London club.

Even after membership is terminated, certain provisions of these membership terms, the website use terms, the acceptable use terms and the privacy policy will all remain in effect.

GENERAL

Any failure or delay by us in enforcing compliance with these membership terms or the terms of any other document referred to in these membership terms shall not be a waiver of that or any other provision of these membership terms, the website use terms or acceptable use policy.

If any provisions of these membership terms or any of the documents referred to in these membership terms is unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable then that provision shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining terms or the terms of any documents referred to in these membership terms.

The headings in these membership terms are for reference purposes only and do not limit the scope of extent of the membership terms.

The provisions of this section will remain in force after termination.

ENTIRE AGREEMENT

These membership terms and all documents referring to in these membership terms constitute the entire agreement between us and you as to your use of the site, and your membership and use of our club and the services we provide to members and guests.

JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW

The English courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country. These membership terms and all documents referred to in these membership terms are governed by English law.

YOUR CONCERNS & NOTICES

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact davidh@thehospital.co.uk.

I have read and agree to the above conditions.

The Hospital Group Ltd. Acceptable Use Policy

This acceptable use policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you may access our website www.thehospital.co.uk (our site) and, where you are a member or guest of our online club (online club), use the services which are available via our site. This acceptable use policy applies to all members and guests of our online club, and to all other visitors to, our site.

Your use of our site means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the policies in this acceptable use policy, which supplement our terms of website use and our membership terms. If you are invited to become a member or guest of our online online club you will be required to accept this acceptable use policy as part of the application process.

The date on which this acceptable use policy was first published is 24 September 2007.

This acceptable use policy remains in force both while you are a member of our online club and after your membership has terminated.

Information about us

Prohibited uses

You may use our site only for lawful purposes and as permitted by our policies from time to time. You may not use our site:

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 send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards (see 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.
In any way that is in breach of our terms of website use or our membership terms

You also agree:

Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of our terms of website use or our membership terms.
Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
any part of our site;
any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
any software used in the provision of our site; or
any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Interactive services

We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site, including, without limitation:

Chat rooms.
Bulletin boards.
Messager service
Forums
Blogs
Wikis
Email
(interactive services).

Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical).

We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our site, and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.

The use of any of our interactive services by anybody who is not an individual, or who is under the age of 18 or who is not a current member or guest of our online club is strictly prohibited.

Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.

Using information about other members

Our site enables members to view each other's Profiles and to share other personal information via the interactive services. You agree that you will only use other members' personal information published on the site in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations (including, without limitation, data protection laws) and, without limitation to the other provisions of this acceptable use policy, our website terms and our membership terms, that you will only use other members' personal information for lawful purposes relating to our online club or such other purposes that the other member concerned expressly permits.

Content standards

These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (contributions), and to any interactive services associated with it.

You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

Contributions must:

Be accurate (where they state facts).
Be genuinely held (where they state opinions).
Comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.

Contributions must not:

Contain any material which is defamatory of any person.
Contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
Promote sexually explicit 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.
Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
Promote any illegal activity.
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.
Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
Give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.
Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.

Suspension and termination

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this acceptable use policy through your use of our site. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.

Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the terms of use and a material breach of the online club membership terms upon which you are permitted to use our site and access our services, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site or some or all of the services available through our site.
Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site.
Issue of a warning to you.
Immediate, temporary or permanent termination of your membership of our online club as well as your membership of The Hospital Group Ltd (where applicable).
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 and, where appropriate in connection with a claim for breach of copyright, to the lawyers acting on behalf of the owner of the materials concerned as we reasonably feel is necessary.

We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

Changes to the acceptable use policy

We may revise this acceptable use policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in this acceptable use policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

General

Any failure or delay by us in enforcing compliance with this acceptable use policy shall not be a waiver of that or any other provision of these terms, membership terms or acceptable use policy.

If any provisions of this acceptable use policy is unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable then that provision shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining terms.

The headings in this acceptable use policy are for reference purposes only and do not limit the scope of extent of the membership terms.

The provisions of this section will remain in force after termination.

I have read and agree to the above conditions.