Terms of Use

Christian Vision ("CV", "we", "our",  "us") is a large UK based Charity which aims to promote the Christian  faith globally through online mass media and the support of Christian  mission workers, churches, missions organisations and mission projects  on the ground.

www.cvglobal.co  is a site operated by Christian Vision. These terms tell you the rules  for using our global website, and includes the terms of our website  Acceptable Use Policy (“our site”, “this site”, “our website”).

Please read this document carefully before using this site. By using  our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you  agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these terms, you must  not use our site. We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for  future reference.

CV is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales:

• Registered company no. 2842414
• Registered charity no. 1031031

CV is a Data Controller registered with the Information Commissioner's Office within the United Kingdom, registered no. Z5994665. 
Our registered office address is: 

The Rock, International Drive 
Solihull, B90 4WA 
United Kingdom

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

• Our Privacy Notice, which also sets out information about the cookies on our site.

We amend these terms from time to time. You will be notified each time these terms of use are amended. We ask upon you receiving such notification to please check amendments to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.

We may update and change our site and Acceptable Use Policy (below) from time to time to reflect changes to our services and or our users' needs. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any major changes that may occur.

Our site is made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

Our site is for global users but governed under UK and EU laws. These terms cover the use of our site as it pertains to the provisions of the laws of the UK and the EU. 


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. 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 reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us using the contact details in the Contact Details section below.

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, 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 extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, 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 content on our site must always be acknowledged.You must not use any part of the content 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 must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

Licence

(a) Subject to your compliance with these Terms we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to use the CV Services for the purposes of accessing the content and information that we make available through the Website.

(b) The licence provided above in clause (a) is limited to your personal, non-commercial use of the CV Services and the content, information and materials made available through the Website.

(c) You must not modify any content, materials or information that you have accessed through the Website and must at all times maintain the integrity of the information, content and materials that you have accessed. You must at all times acknowledge our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our Website.

Intellectual Property Rights

(a) You must not without our express written authority engage in the use, copying, reproduction, display modification or distribution of any of the content available through the Website, including any text, software, scripts, flash files, graphics, photos, sounds, music, videos, business names, company names and logos.

(b) You must not utilise any tool, program, script or application for the purpose of scraping, indexing, surveying or otherwise data mining any portion of the Website.

(c) You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to or impair any aspect of the CV Services, or otherwise undertake or engage in actions that impede the operation or functionality of the CV Website.

(d) Nothing in these Terms is to be construed as an assignment or transfer to You of any ownership rights in the intellectual property rights in the CV Services, or any content and materials belonging to us.

(e) We may provide you with the ability to upload content to our Website. Where you have uploaded content you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, world-wide, royalty free, non-exclusive licence (including the right to novate or assign the licence, and to sub-licence) to use, reproduce and communicate all content and material uploaded by you or otherwise provided to us, for any purpose relating to the use of the CV Services, as well as incorporating such material into our own advertising, promotional and marketing campaigns.

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy (below).

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of our site a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties.

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

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy (below).

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.

When you upload or post content to our site, you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the site and across different media.

We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them.

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that 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.

The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

This website may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the site, including to bulletin boards and chat rooms. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.

If you wish to complain about information and materials uploaded by other users please contact us by using the contact details in the Contact Details section below.

Whether you are a consumer or a business user

We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

If you are a business user

• We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.
• We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
  • use of, or inability to use, our site; or
  • use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
     
• In particular, we will not be liable for:
  • loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
  • business interruption;
  • loss of anticipated savings;
  • loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
  • any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user

Please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Notice.

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.

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 to our site in 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 in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy (below).

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact us by using the contact details in the Contact Details section below.

Prohibited uses
You may use our site only for lawful purposes. 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;
• to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam); or
• 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.

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 use; and
• 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.

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 upon which you are permitted to use our site, 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;
• issue a warning to you;
  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; or
• disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities 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.

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.