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This is the official website of Hitchin Scout District
The contents of this website are the copyright of Hitchin Scout District.
Terms and Conditions of Use
(1) Agreement
These terms and conditions govern your use of Hitchin District Scouts Website.
This website is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms and conditions contained herein. By using our website, whether registered or not, you agree to these terms and conditions in full.
(2) Intellectual property rights
Unless otherwise stated, we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the licence below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.
Licensors include (but are not limited to) members of Hitchin District Scouts in respect of their own contributions to the website.
(3) Licence to use website
You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print from the website, for bona fide Scouting use, subject to the restrictions below.
You must not:
(a) republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
(b) sell, rent or otherwise sub-license material on the website;
(c) exploit material on our website for a commercial purpose;
(d) redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.
Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed within Scouting.
(4) Material posted on the website by members
We do not pre-screen or moderate all of the material contributed by members to this website. We do from time-to-time randomly monitor that published material is suitable, however we cannot monitor every published article. If you find any material that you think would cause offence, is inappropriate or you feel infringes this Agreement, then please inform us by emailing us at
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You must not use our website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the website.
You must not use our website in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.
You must not use our website to copy, publish or send material which is illegal or unlawful, or material which could give rise to legal action under English and other applicable law. All material you copy, publish or send via our website must not be defamatory, obscene, indecent, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; such material must not infringe any person’s intellectual property rights or rights of confidence, impinge upon any person’s privacy, or constitute incitement to commit a crime.
You must not use our website to copy, publish or send material which could bring Hitchin District Scouts or the Scout Association into disrepute.
You must not use our website to copy, publish or send mass mailings or spam.
You must not use our website for any purposes related to marketing without our express written consent.
We reserve the right to edit or remove any material posted upon our website.
We may take such action as we deem appropriate to deal with the posting of unsuitable material.
(5) Restricted access
Access to certain areas of our website is restricted. We reserve the right to restrict access to other areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion.
If we provide you with a username and password to enable you to access restricted areas of our website or other content or services, you must ensure that that username and password is kept confidential. You accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your username or password. We may require you to change your username and/or password from time to time.
You must not obtain or attempt to obtain material or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided by the website.
At our sole discretion we may suspend or terminate your username and password if we consider that you are in breach of this Agreement or any of the terms or policies governing your use of our website.
(6) Indemnity and limitation of liability
The information on this website is provided free-of-charge, and you acknowledge that it would be unreasonable to hold us liable in respect of this website and the information on this website, whether provided by us or others.
Whilst we endeavour to ensure that the information on this website is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up-to-date.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill).
Our liability is limited and excluded to the maximum extent permitted under applicable law. We will not be liable for any direct or indirect loss or damage or consequential loss arising under these terms and conditions or in connection with our website, howsoever caused, whether arising out of any negligence or breach of this Agreement or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing exclusion, we will not be liable for any loss of profit, contracts, business, goodwill, data, income, revenue or anticipated savings arising under terms and conditions or in connection with our website.
However, nothing in these terms and conditions shall exclude or limit any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
(7) Variation
We may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time by posting a new version on the website.
(8) Entire agreement
These terms and conditions, together with our privacy statement and our disclaimer constitute the entire Agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.
(9) Law and jurisdiction
This notice will be governed by and construed in accordance with English law, and any disputes relating to this notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.
(10) Severability
In the event that any term of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remainder of this Agreement shall remain valid and enforceable.
(11) Affiliation
Hitchin District Scouts are affiliated to the Scout Association.
The views expressed in this website are not necessarily those of the Scout Association.
(12) Our contact details
You can contact us by email to
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(13) Revision date
Last revised: 10th June 2007
These terms and conditions are based on a template created and distributed
by http://www.website-law.co.uk
Privacy Statement
We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.
(1) What information do we collect?
We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data:
(a) information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website, such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views;
(b) information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us (including Name, email, and position/role within Scouting);
(c) information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or newsletters (including our RSS Feeds);
(d) any other information that you choose to send to us.
(2) Cookies
We use cookies on this website. A cookie is a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser on your computer’s hard disk. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.
We may use the information we obtain from the cookie in the administration of this website, to improve the website’s usability and to personalise our website for registered users.
Most browsers allow you to accept or decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies from this website, you will not be able to access the full features available to registered users.
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information.
Google's privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html
(3) Using your personal data
Personal data submitted on this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website. We may use your personal information to:
(a) administer the website;
(b) improve your browsing experience by personalising the website;
(c) enable your use of the services available on the website;
(d) send you email communications in relation to Hitchin Scout District;
(e) deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website.
(4) Other disclosures
In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may disclose information about you:
(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b) in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;
(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.
Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.
(5) Security of your personal data
We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
Data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
You are responsible for keeping your password and user details confidential. You should protect against unauthorised use of your account to the members-only areas of the site. We will never ask you for your password.
(6) Policy amendments
We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are informed of current policy.
We may also notify you of changes to our privacy policy by email.
(7) Your rights
You may instruct us to provide you with the personal information we hold about you. Please note that under English law we are entitled to charge you a fee for providing this service (currently fixed at £10.00).
(8) Third party websites
The website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.
(9) Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
(10) Data Protection Act
You can obtain further details about data protection laws with regard to personal information by visiting the Information Commissioner's website at http://www.dataprotection.gov.uk
(11) Contact
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please write to us by email to
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(12) Revision date
Last revised: 10th June 2007
This privacy policy is based on a template created and distributed by http://www.website-law.co.uk
Disclaimer - External Links
Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of related interest. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them. We have no control over the nature, content and availability of those sites. We cannot be responsible for the policies of any linked sites and such sites are not governed by the polices of this site.
Safe from Harm
Contributors' attention is drawn to the following guidance from the document "Developing a Scouting Website", published by Scoutbase.
The full pdf document can be downloaded from here: ScoutBaseUK Fact Sheet FS295207
Websites should be careful about including photographs, contact or other details which together could serve to make children easy to identify and contact.
Young people should NOT be easily identified.
• Do not give out their email or other contact details.
• Do not use their full names.
• Avoid using names at all if possible.
Photographs must meet the requirements of our activity and other rules and should be considered in good taste. If you do use pictures of people, you need to consider the type of caption you use .... try to avoid names if possible.
Meetings and Events
Exact details of meeting places and times should not be published.
If you want to provide programme information for parents and older members, you must do this in a protected area of the site
Whilst you may wish to publish dates and locations of future events (such as events and camps), do not go into much detail [ in public areas of the website ] if you feel that the young people might be put at risk because constant supervision might be difficult.
Protection for adults (Leaders and helpers) should also be provided by:
• Avoiding using personal email.
• Never publish home addresses or phone numbers.
• Always ask adults if you can publish their full name.
Remember, when publicising events, you could also be telling others when a Leader’s house may be empty.
[ * in public areas of the site ]
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