Acceptable Use Guidelines and Terms and Conditions of Use

[Jack Kane]

Welcome

Welcome to the Health, Safety, and Environmental discussion forums of Health and Safety for Beginners - HSfB

This discussion forum is designed to allow employers, employees, the self-employed, health and safety students and professionals from all industries and nationalities around the world the ability to discuss daily health, safety or environmental challenges.

We pride ourselves on giving people the respect that they deserve with whatever query they may have. We expect you to use these forums with that in mind and to do exactly the same.

To this end, we expect you to abide by the Acceptable Use Guidelines detailed below and to maintain the high standard of professionalism we all aim to achieve.

Please make every effort to ensure the information you give in these forums is accurate to the best of your knowledge. The last thing we want is for misleading information leading to an injury or ill health.

If you have any questions or suggestions relating to these guidelines, please contact the website owner/administrator - Jack Kane or any of our Moderators team members.

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Index

Section 1 - Acceptable Use Guidelines

1. Abusive and Offensive Posts
2. Defamation
3. Offensive Links
4. Be Nice
5. Private Messaging or Forum Email Spamming
6. Choosing the Correct Forum Section
7. Moderator Duty
8. Moderator Behaviour
9. Usernames
10. Signatures and User Profiles
11. Abusive Behaviour
12. Disclaimer

Section 2 - The Internet Content Rating Association - ICRA
Section 3 - Copyright Infringement
Section 4 - General Advertising Guidelines
Section 5 - Spam
Section 6 - Protecting Your Inbox from Spam
Section 7 - Terms and Conditions for HSfB
Section 8 - Privacy Policy

[Jack Kane]

Acceptable Use Guidelines

This community forum is here to help provide advice on health, safety, environmental issues and studies for many types of courses. Please try to keep your postings relevant to the question or topic in hand - it is very easy to lose track of what the original post contained. If a post is seen to be losing it's way, the moderator team will help guide it along or it may end up being locked.

Occasionally topics will become heated debates where people may not agree on certain challenges faced. There is no problem with heated debates as long as it doesn't result in personal insults or remarks which are offensive to any individuals or groups of people. Where a debate is seen to be getting 'out of hand' it may end up being locked and/or edited/deleted by the moderator team. If a locked post is restarted by any member of the forums in a separate post, it will be locked/edited/deleted as necessary to prevent further abuse of these terms and conditions. Ignoring this rule may lead to your account being deleted and your IP address being banned permanently from all HSfB web sites.

Abusive and Offensive Posts

All new posts will be checked by at least one of the forum moderator team and will be edited/deleted if any contain offensive, rude, racist, sexist, abusive comments of any sort. If repeated posts occur as suggested, the offending IP addresses will be permanently banned from all HSfB web sites without warning.

Personal insults or attacks will not be tolerated on this forum. Offenders will be asked to cease this type of behaviour only once. Any repeat of this behaviour will result in a ban from all HSfB web sites.

Defamation

Although there are web sites or organisations not to everyone's expectations or liking, please refrain from posting anything defamatory towards them, their employees, or their products on this community forum. HSfB will not have it's good name associated with any defamatory comments whatsoever. Any such posts will be edited/deleted immediately.

Please be aware that your personally identifiable IP address is logged for each post you make, and we may be required to pass this information to a court of law where any legal action is taken against any individual making these defamatory remarks.

Offensive Links

Do not post links to any offensive sites as this may result in a ban from these discussion forums, you may post links to any site relevant to the topic in question.

Do not add any web sites to your profile that contain pornographic material. Any members with this type of web site in their profile will be deleted from this forum and their IP banned from using all HSfB web sites.

Be Nice


The majority of visitors to this forum will be mature pleasant and most of all, helpful people who are here to offer constructive advice, and we will aim to keep it like that.

This forum maintains the belief that there is no stupid question in health and safety; if you do not know then you simply do not know. Please treat all questions with respect. These forums are aimed at beginners and we have all been beginners.

Above all, have a wee bit of fun while you're here

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General

Private Messaging or Forum Email Spamming

Spamming of any kind, either publicly or privately via PM or e-mail, is not tolerated, and may result in a possible ban of the account involved.

Contacting someone through private message or e-mail to offer information or advice is acceptable and is not considered as spamming only if the originator requests or agrees to private message conversations.


Choosing the Correct Forum Section

New topics should be made in the appropriate forum section and should have a descriptive subject line. This will help attract people who have the relevant information to help you.

Postings that are not in the appropriate forum section may be moved to the appropriate section. If a post is moved, a private message will be sent to the poster from the moderator that moved it, including a link to the new area.


Moderator Duty

Postings that have been edited by forum moderators will be marked as being edited with the moderator's name included, and a reason for having edited the post. A private message will also be sent informing the originator of the alterations.


Moderator Behaviour

If you feel a forum moderator is abusing the forum rules, or is not acting in an ethical manner, please contact me -Jack Kane so that I can investigate and take any action where necessary.


Usernames

Usernames are used to uniquely identify ones self in the community through the use of a nickname. Usernames must not contain an email address or url address of any kind. It is also strongly recommended that you do not use your real name as this is personally identifiable information, this is for your own safety.


Signatures and User Profiles

Profiles with inappropriate content may be modified without prior notification and is at the sole discretion of the owner of HSfB and the moderator team acting on behalf and in the best interests of HSfB.


Abusive Behaviour

Abusive behaviour of any kind will not be tolerated, and may result in an instant ban with the accounts involved, with or without notification.

If you have experienced abusive behaviour from a community member in any form, please inform the moderator team so appropriate action can be taken.


Disclaimer

The site and forum moderators reserve the right to modify or delete any inappropriate content on the forums without prior notification.

The forum Administrator: Jack Kane

The HSfB Moderator team members: Moderators

[Jack Kane]

The Internet Content Rating Association - ICRA

This site operates within the guidelines set out by The Internet Content Rating Association http://www.fosi.org/icra/

This basically means that the content provided on this website is free from anything that may upset or offend children and gives some control to parents on what their children view on the internet.

The internet can sometimes be a very unpleasant place to be, but this site aims to make it safe for all.

HSfB has future plans for including children in our website, which means we need to be extra vigilant in how this forum is moderated. In particular:

• Rude jokes will be politely edited or removed with the poster being notified and reminded of these guidelines
• Rude pictures will not be tolerated
• Swearing will be edited or substituted using the forums built in swear filter

The swear filter does not always pick up every swear word, especially words people try to bypass the swear filter by adding characters in place of the middle letters of words, i.e. *%$^. If a word looks like a swear word, it will be edited.

I hope you all understand and help us to make this a fun and safe place to visit. After all, one of our main positive features on the site is the fact that it is friendly and pleasant to be around.

The following quote is taken from ICRA’s website and explains things a little bit more.

Thank you for your understanding and help in achieving these goals.

The Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) is an international, non-profit organization of internet leaders working to make the internet safer for children, while respecting the rights of content providers. ICRA has long believed the best approach to protecting children online is through "user empowerment" - giving families the tools to control their online experience. When used voluntarily, tools like ICRA's empower families to match their online experience with their values, without compromising free expression or undermining other users' access to information.

The centrepiece of the organization is the descriptive vocabulary, often referred to as "the ICRA questionnaire." Content providers check which of the 45 elements in the questionnaire are present or absent from their websites. This then generates a short piece of computer code known as an ICRA label that the webmaster then adds to his/her site.

Users, especially parents of young children, can then use filtering software to allow or disallow access to web sites based on the information declared in the label. A key point is that the Internet Content Rating Association does not rate internet content - the content providers do that, using the ICRA labelling system. ICRA makes no value judgement about sites.

The descriptive vocabulary was drawn up by an international panel and designed to be as neutral and objective as possible. Most of the items in the questionnaire allow the content provider to declare simply that a particular element, such as bare breasts, gambling or chat facilities, is present or absent. The subjective decision about whether to allow access to that content is then made by the parent.

In addition to that, the label we have on our websites indicates that this site contains NONE of the following, which is why I am a great big OGRE at times!

Nudity and sexual material
• No nudity or sexual material

Violence
• No violence

Language
• No potentially offensive language

Other topics
• None of the "Other topics"

Chat
• Moderated chat suitable for children and teens

[Jack Kane]

Copyright Infringement

One of the most popular requests on these forums, and through email, is the request for electronic copies of NEBOSH past papers by students.

UK copyright law makes it illegal for members of this site to pass on electronic copies of NEBOSH past papers and for HSfB to distribute electronic copies of past papers.

However, if you have genuine original paper past papers (not photocopied), then you are permitted to send these originals using normal mail to other people who request them.

The NEBOSH website terms and conditions state:

Material appearing on this website may be copied only for the purposes of reading it and keeping it for personal reference. Any other reproduction or distribution of the material on this website, including commercial use or sale, is not permitted without the prior written consent of NEBOSH. Requests for such use should be sent to the Chief Executive.

Taken from the NEBOSH website here:

http://www.nebosh.org.uk/ts_and_cs.asp

You may not post NEBOSH past paper exam questions or examiner's comments on the forums as this breaches UK copyright law. Any posts of this nature will be edited or deleted by the moderator team.

There may also be times when you may find a website distributing ilegal copies of copyright protected publications such as books, audio, video or other media. You may not post these links in this forum as it breaches UK copyright laws. Any posts containing these links will be deleted.

[Jack Kane]

General Advertising Guidelines

These forums operate a NO free advertising policy.

This specifically relates to the promotion of commercial businesses and services or any other product/service such as inappropriate chat rooms, discussion forums or message boards at the discretion of the web site administrator - Jack Kane or any of our Moderators team.

You may publicise your personal websites or business details discretely and appropriately in your signature keeping within the spirit of these forums. If your signature is found to be inappropriate, you will be asked politely to alter your signature.

You may post a direct link to an outside site given that the information is RELEVANT to a question someone else has posted, or you believe it will be helpful to others. Sneaky advertising will not be tolerated and will be deleted at the discretion of the web site administrator - Jack Kane or any of our Moderators team.

Registering on the forums for the sole reason of promoting your services or products by posting non-constructive posts in an effort to gain presence, may lead to your account being deleted and your IP address being banned permanently from these forums.

We do not allow free advertising of job vacancies on the forums. If you are an employer/interviewer or recruitment agency and would like to post one or more vacancy, please contact Jack Kane or Alexis via the private messaging system for prices.

If you have spotted a job that may be of interest to our members/visitors, please post minimal details in the General Discussion section.

If you have a business or service that you think will benefit the members of the HSfB forums and you would like to advertise in our dedicated advertising section, please contact Jack Kane or Alexis via the private messaging system.

[Jack Kane]

Spam

As HSfB grows, we will be subjected to increasing volumes of spam attacks. These spam attacks may be from spam organisations who use robots and/or human spammers. In an attempt to combat this, we will use a combination of anti-spam modifications to the forums and the skills of our moderator team.

If a spammer registers with the forums and attempts to spam the forums, a member of the moderator team will edit the account of the spammer to remove any offending text/links until such times as the account can be deleted and the IP address banned. The spammer will also be added to our spam database in order to help other web site owners combat spam on the web.

The moderator team will edit the user name of a suspected spammer to show 'DELETE ME 1' or similar as soon as possible. The moderator team will also edit the suspected spammer's profile to remove any offensive text or links. This will prevent you from seeing potentially offensive content and will also keep our content in line with our ICRA objectives.

We try our best to eliminate all offensive links in users' profiles, but sometimes they may be on view for a few hours until one of the moderator team can remove them. We can only apologise if you do see something offensive.

Please do not click on any links in a member's profile if you think it may be spam. If you are not sure of a link, then just don't click it. This protects you from potentially malicious software being installed on your system if you visit certain web sites, and also protects HSfB from receiving more spam. Most of these spam links are tracked by complicated software that shows the spammer where the person linked from, i.e. these forums. With the result, the spammer knows it is an active web area or link and will send more spam and more links because it works for him/her. This also goes for links in emails.

As a tip, most links in the profile of our members will look something like......

http://www.hsfb.co.uk , or http://www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk , or http://www.iosh.co.uk , or http://www.hse.gov.uk

But, if you see a link something like.......

http://www.mastell.net/index.php?target ... ;progid=61

...then it is likely to be spam. There is an even greater chance it will be of an adult nature. There is even a chance it could be illegal websites that you really don't want to go into ever.

If you ever suspect a link to be spam, please just alert one of our moderators and we will investigate the link safely for you. If necessary, we will contact the police to report web sites as we have done in the past.

[Jack Kane]

Protecting Your Inbox from Spam

You can keep up to date with HSfB using our RSS feeds which you can learn about here: http://www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk/blogs_rss.htm

Everything that is posted on the public forums (not including private sections such as private messages or forum emails) will be sent to a xml webpage for distribution through our RSS feeds.

This means that hundreds of internet search engines will pick up the text contained within all public posts and any complete email addresses. This in turn will produce masses of spam emails for the email address posted, which could be yours!

For this reason we encourage you to send any email addresses via private message or use the forum email function rather than post in the public domain.

If for some reason a personal address is posted, it will be edited by one of the moderator team to prevent the spam robots picking the email address up.

If you really want to post your email address, we would recommend that you post it using something like the following format:

hsfb[put your @ in here]healthandsafetytips.co.uk

There are other ways to format your address, it doesn't matter at the end of the day, we just want to help fight the spam monster!

[Jack Kane]

The following Terms and Conditions relate to HSfB as a whole.

http://www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk/te ... itions.htm

The use of this site is subject to the following terms and conditions

Version: V1.4 8 April 2009

http://www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk and http://www.hsfb.co.uk and http://www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk/forums are websites managed by Health and Safety for Beginners, henceforth referred to as 'We'. By entering these sites you the user ('You') agree to abide by the Terms and Conditions of use of these sites. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to modify, alter or otherwise update these Terms and Conditions at any time and your use of these sites constitutes your agreement to be bound by such modifications, alterations or updates. You agree to review these Terms and Conditions on a periodic basis.

Using our website
These websites are maintained for your personal use and viewing. Access and use by you of these sites constitutes acceptance by you of these Terms and Conditions which take effect from the date of first use.

We assume no responsibility for any damage whatsoever (whether physical, financial, actual or to expectations) caused as a direct or indirect consequence of either using these sites or the loss of use of these sites, howsoever caused.

Intellectual property
All materials provided on these sites are free for personal use and for learning or training, they are not for publishing on any another internet site, or for selling and collecting any monies for personal gain. All materials on these sites, including, but not limited to PowerPoint presentations, Documents, images, illustrations, audio and video clips (collectively the "Material") are protected by copyright and intellectual property rights. Such materials may be used, downloaded, copied, reproduced, republished, posted, broadcast, transmitted or linked only with the prior written consent of Health and Safety for Beginners. Applications may be made via email. UNAUTHORISED COPYING, REPRODUCTION, REPUBLISHING, UPLOADING, DOWNLOADING, POSTING, TRANSMITTING OR DUPLICATING OF ANY OF THE MATERIAL IS PROHIBITED. Use of these sites do not infer any licence to use the name or trademarks of Health and Safety for Beginners or any third party. You are allowed to enter these sites in exchange for your agreeing not to adapt, alter or create any derivative work from any of the material on these sites. These sites may be used only for lawful purposes and your use must not infringe the rights of, or restrict or otherwise inhibit the use or enjoyment of these sites by any third party.

Hyperlinking
· Linking to us at http://www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk and http://www.hsfb.co.uk
You do not have to ask permission to link directly to pages hosted on these sites. We do not object to you linking directly to the information that is hosted on these sites. However, we do not permit pages to be loaded into frames on your site. The http://www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk and http://www.hsfb.co.uk pages must load into the user's entire window.

· Linking by us at http://www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk and http://www.hsfb.co.uk
We are not responsible for the content or reliability of the websites linked from us. Listing should not be taken as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all the time and we have no control over the availability of linked pages.

Virus protection
We make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the Internet. We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from these websites.

Disclaimer
The Health and Safety for Beginners websites and material relating to information, products and services (or to third party information, products and services), is provided 'as is', 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 and accuracy.

We do not warrant that the functions contained in the material contained in these sites will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that these sites or the servers that makes them available are free of viruses or represent the full functionality, accuracy, reliability of the materials. In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damages whatsoever arising from use or loss of use of, data or profits arising out of or in connection with the use of the Health and Safety for Beginners websites.

Various materials provided on these sites may refer to statute and civil law, current best practice at the time those materials are created, Approved Codes of Practice current at the time those materials are created or guidance current at the time those materials are created, which may become outdated over time through the natural progression of technological advance, research and changes in law. You accept that you will ensure the accuracy of all information contained within any material you download from the Health and Safety for Beginners websites.

Where you alter the contents of any material provided on these sites created by Health and Safety for Beginners, to which we give you permission to alter any material created by Health and Safety for Beginners, we cannot be held liable for any breach of copyright laws infringed upon such material which has not been created by Health and Safety for Beginners, rather, such material sent to Health and Safety for Beginners via electronic form or any other form and distributed on Health and Safety for Beginners, that you willingly and knowingly alter. This third party material should be kept in its entirety unless permission from that material's author has been obtained.

Health and Safety for Beginners takes great care to obey copyright laws and will only publish material provided with consent. However, we have no control over material sent to us in good faith of having not breached any copyright laws, under any circumstances that it is brought to our attention there may be a breach, that material will be removed without delay.

Every effort has been made to ensure that the content of the pages contained within http://www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk and http://www.hsfb.co.uk is accurate, however no legal responsibility will be accepted should any errors, misleading statements or omissions occur.

These websites contain hyperlinks to resources located on servers maintained by third parties. We have no control over the material on these servers and accordingly we accept no responsibility or liability for any of their content.

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Scotland. Any dispute arising under these Terms and Conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Scotland.

Privacy
This web site does use cookies when you register on the community forums located here: http://www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk/forums and also through our Google Adsense advertising campaigns (Google Adsense terms and conditions will apply). Please also read this section in conjunction with our Privacy Policy.

You agree that any requests for advice and assistance on particular challenges you may be facing with regards to health, safety or environmental law made by email or by using the 'contact us' form, may be published in the public discussion forums purely for research purposes in order to help with the original query. No personally identifiable information will be posted in the discussion forums and no information will be posted to identify, or imply, any organisation to which the query relates.

While the administrators and moderators of the community forums will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every message. Therefore you acknowledge that all posts made to these forums express the views and opinions of the author and not the administrators, moderators or webmaster (except for posts by these people) and hence will not be held liable.

You agree not to post any racist, abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-oriented or any other material that may violate any applicable laws. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned (and your service provider being informed). The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. You agree that the webmaster, administrator and moderators of the community forums have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should they see fit. As a user you agree to any information you have entered at the time of registering with the community forums being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent, the webmaster, administrator and moderators cannot be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.

The discussion forums system uses cookies to store information on your local computer. These cookies do not contain any of the information you have entered at the time of registering with the community forums; they serve only to improve your viewing pleasure. The e-mail address is used only for confirming your registration details and password (and for sending new passwords should you forget your current one), or for sending you vital information regarding your account or any important information regarding accounts or web site changes affecting members. Discussion forum functionality features may use your email address for notification purposes if requested via user control panels.

We collect this information through the community registration forms and automatic logging on files. The information is collected voluntarily when you select the ‘automatically log on' option to do so.

By clicking 'Register' and by using these web sites you agree to be bound by these conditions.

[Jack Kane]

The following Privacy Policy relates to HSfB as a whole.

http://www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk/Privacy_Policy.htm

This Privacy Policy explains our data processing practices and only applies to the websites of http://www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk and http://www.hsfb.co.uk and http://www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk/forums and any associated blog sites directly linked with this site.

Version: V1.4 8 April 2009

This Privacy Policy explains our data processing practices and only applies to these websites. Other websites to which these websites link to are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you have any queries concerning your personal information or any questions on our use of the information, please contact: HSfB@healthandsafetytips.co.uk

At Health and Safety for Beginners (HSfB) we are committed to protecting the privacy of our customers and website visitors. Our relationship with you is valuable and we understand the importance you place on the privacy and security of information which personally identifies you. In that respect, and whether you are a first time visitor to our website or a regular user, we take your privacy seriously. Please read the following in order to learn more about our privacy policy and our information gathering and dissemination practices.

Introduction
HSfB respects each individual's right to personal privacy. We will collect and use information through our web sites only in the ways disclosed in this statement. This statement applies solely to information collected at HSfB's web sites.

Part I. Information Collection
HSfB collects information through our web sites when you register your membership to our discussion forums. We collect the following information about community members: username; e-mail address; password; confirmation of password; and the Internet Protocol (IP) address of all discussion forum posts are recorded to aid in enforcing action against users who break the Terms and Conditions of use for the HSfB discussion forums.

HSfB does not actively market to children.

During our Prize Draw competitions and other competitions organised by HSfB, we may collect personally identifiable information in order to provide you with notification of prizes and to enable registration for certain prizes where appropriate.

By entering any prize draw on HSfB, winners consent to the results and winner's name being published on HSfB's websites and any media coverage created by the draw during marketing activities. By entering any prize draw on HSfB, winners also consent to the results and winner's name being published in any media coverage created by prize draw contributing organisations during their marketing activities.

This information will be given voluntarily by you and may include:

Your name; email address; telephone number; home address.

We will never give, sell or otherwise trade your personally identifiable information to any third parties, unless prize draw contributing organisations require these details as a direct result of you winning a prize requiring you to provide contact details or registration details in order to redeem prizes.

We will collect address details to allow delivery of our online shop items through our secure PayPal merchant services (PayPal terms and conditions will apply when using their services). Address details will not be given or sold to any third parties. PayPal will manage all transactions and we will never have access to your credit card details or bank details.

Health and Safety for Beginners is registered with the Information Commissioner, notification reference number - dac940.

We collect the following general data that is non-personally identifiable information:

We do employ cookies. A cookie is a small text file that our web server places on a user's computer hard drive to be a unique identifier. Cookies enable HSfB to deliver customized content to users via our community forums and Google Adsense advertising campaigns (Google Adsense terms and conditions will apply). Cookies generated from your use of HSfB's sites may collect non-personally identifiable information in the form of an IP address, but not your name, address, email address or telephone number.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website, including Google. Google uses the DoubleClick DART cookies which enables Google to serve ads to you about goods and services of interest to you based on your visit to HSfB sites and other sites on the Internet. If you would like more information on this practice or if you would like to opt out of the use of the DART cookie, click the following link - Google ad and content network privacy policy.

The discussion forums system uses cookies to store information on your local computer. These cookies do not contain any of the information you have entered at the time of registering with the community forums; they serve only to improve your viewing pleasure. The e-mail address is used only for confirming your registration details and password (and for sending new passwords should you forget your current one), or for sending you vital information regarding your account or any important information regarding accounts or web site changes affecting members.

We collect this information through the community registration forms and automatic logging on files. The information is collected voluntarily when you select the ‘automatically log on' option to do so.

We do employ cookies as part of affiliate advertising partnerships. These cookies may collect non-personally identifiable information in the form of your IP address for the purpose of tracking sales of third party products and services advertised on HSfB. Terms and conditions may also apply by third party affiliate advertising partnerships that HSfB has no control over.

Part II. Information Usage.
The information collected by HSfB will be used only for confirming your registration details and password (and for sending new passwords should you forget your current one), or for sending you vital information regarding your account or any important information regarding the discussion forums, Privacy Policy changes, or Terms and Conditions changes. Discussion forum functionality features may use your email address for notification purposes if requested via user control panels. Users who provide information will receive confirmation of registration emails and vital important information regarding accounts or web site changes affecting members.

Registered users of the discussion forums will receive additional announcements from us about products, services, special deals, and various other offers.

The HSfB newsletter software collects your email address to which you voluntarily provide using a 'double opt-in' feature in order to receive our newsletter. You have the option to remove yourself from this software at any time, which will stop any future correspondence between HSfB and the email address you supply upon subscription.

Registered users of the HSfB newsletter may receive additional announcements about products, services, special deals and various other offers. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the option to not receive these types of communications and the option to receive or cancel future newsletters.

We offer links to other web sites. Please note: when you click on links to other web sites, we encourage you to read their privacy policies. Their standards may differ from ours.

Our web sites offer discussion forums. Please be advised that information posted in these venues becomes public knowledge.

If our policy on information collection or uses changes, we expect most such changes to be minor, but there may be changes that are more significant. Regardless, we will post those changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will also provide a more prominent notice. Each version will be noted at the top of the page. We will also advise you by site news alerts on the main homepage and in the discussion forums announcement section.

Part III. Access to Information
HSfB maintains the accuracy of our information by the discussion forums registration confirmation procedure. Users may access their own personal information and contact us about inaccuracies they may find. Please contact us by any means held within the contact page on this web site:

Health and Safety for Beginners

7 Cuffabouts

Bo'ness

West Lothian

Scotland

EH51 9LP

Tel. +44 (0) 1506 200109

Email: contact@healthandsafetytips.co.uk

Users may delete their information from our databases by contacting us and requesting removal of account via any of the means above or by private message/email in the discussion forums.

Part IV. Problem Resolution
If problems arise, users may contact HSfB by any means that are stated above. We are committed to resolving disputes within two working days.

Part V. Data Storage and Security
HSfB protects user information with the following security measures: up-to-date discussion forum versions; every item published is scanned for virii by up-to-date anti-virus software and web host standard security which can be viewed here: http://www.blackfoot.co.uk/hosting/hosting.html

By registering for membership to our discussion forums and/or subscription to our regular newsletter, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.

[Jack Kane]

Terms and conditions updated. Updated sections are highlighted below:

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Copyright Infringement

One of the most popular requests on these forums, and through email, is the request for electronic copies of NEBOSH past papers by students.

UK copyright law makes it illegal for members of this site to pass on electronic copies of NEBOSH past papers and for HSfB to distribute electronic copies of past papers.

However, if you have genuine original paper past papers (not photocopied), then you are permitted to send these originals using normal mail to other people who request them.

The NEBOSH website terms and conditions state:

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