Marple Community Forum & Noticeboard

You agree, through your use of this forum, that you will not post any material which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, adult material, or otherwise in violation of any International or UK law. You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless you own the copyright or you have written consent from the owner of the copyrighted material. Spam, flooding, advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are also forbidden on this forum.

Note that it is impossible for the staff or the owners of this forum to confirm the validity of posts. Please remember that we do not actively monitor the posted messages, and as such, are not responsible for the content contained within. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information presented. The posted messages express the views of the author, and not necessarily the views of this forum, its staff, its subsidiaries, or this forum's owner. Anyone who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to notify an administrator or moderator of this forum immediately. The staff and the owner of this forum reserve the right to remove objectionable content, within a reasonable time frame, if they determine that removal is necessary. This is a manual process, however, please realize that they may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately. This policy applies to member profile information as well.

You remain solely responsible for the content of your posted messages. Furthermore, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the owners of this forum, any related websites to this forum, its staff, and its subsidiaries. The owners of this forum also reserve the right to reveal your identity (or any other related information collected on this service) in the event of a formal complaint or legal action arising from any situation caused by your use of this forum.

You have the ability, as you register, to choose your username. We advise that you keep the name appropriate. With this user account you are about to register, you agree to never give your password out to another person except an administrator, for your protection and for validity reasons. You also agree to NEVER use another person's account for any reason.  We also HIGHLY recommend you use a complex and unique password for your account, to prevent account theft.

After you register and login to this forum, you will be able to fill out a detailed profile. It is your responsibility to present clean and accurate information. Any information the forum owner or staff determines to be inaccurate or vulgar in nature will be removed, with or without prior notice. Appropriate sanctions may be applicable.

Please note that with each post, your IP address is recorded, in the event that you need to be banned from this forum or your ISP contacted. This will only happen in the event of a major violation of this agreement.

Also note that the software places a cookie, a text file containing bits of information (such as your username and password), in your browser's cache. This is ONLY used to keep you logged in/out. The software does not collect or send any other form of information to your computer.

This privacy policy sets out how The Marple Website uses and protects any information that you provide when you use this Community Forum. The Marple Website is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this Community Forum, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Guest visitors may read posts in the public forums but only registered users can post. This is due to the large number of spammers who seek to abuse the forum by promoting their wares. You may be contacted by email to ensure that you are not a spammer before your registration is approved.

What information we collect from you:

Essential registration information:
When an individual registers for the Community Forum they are required to provide a username, email address, and password. This information allows us to deliver services to them in a secure manner and enables them to change their preferences associated with the forum.

The following key information will be collected when you register:
- Username (this may be a real name or an anonymous “handle”).
- Email Address (this must be a valid email address where we can contact you).
- Your choice whether to allow other users to email you or not (recommend not).
- Your choice whether to allow administrators to send important news by email or not.
- IP Address (recorded automatically).

Optional profile information:
We also provide a facility for registered users to optionally include additional public information on their profile page. This is not required to participate in the forum but if provided it will be displayed throughout the Community Forum and Noticeboard. If you aren't comfortable with sharing some or all of this information, simply skip it – none of this information is essential to use the forum. The purpose of this optional information is enhance your interaction with other users and visitors to the forum should you wish to use these features. Some information is used to generate a statistical profile of all subscribers that is shared with users of the forum.

The Marple Website will not share your email address or individual information with any third party.

When a subscriber cancels his or her subscription, that individual's personal information (name, email address and forum profile) will be deleted from our membership database. Any posts the user has elected to make, however, will still have the personal information they provided displayed. This is to ensure accountability for all content on our forum. If a user wishes to delete their posts, they may do so before cancelling their registration.

Browser Cookies
Cookies are small text files transferred to your hard drive by a web server. Because cookies only contain text, they cannot transmit a virus or damage your system. They are commonly used to determine return visitors to a site, record your preferences, shopping cart, registration information, pages viewed or items purchased.

The Community Forum only uses cookies to allow users to maintain a logged in state when accessing the service or to private areas such as the PM System. No personal information is involved in providing this feature.

You should have the option to set your browser to either accept cookies openly, to notify you before accepting cookies, or to refuse cookies altogether.

While we implement safeguards designed to protect your information, no security system is impenetrable and due to the inherent nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that data, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, is absolutely safe from intrusion by others.

Compliance with legal, regulatory and law enforcement requests.
We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We will disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process to protect our property and rights or the property and rights of a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we consider to be illegal or unethical.

Communicating with you.
We may contact you directly by email as necessary to deliver transactional or website related communications. We may also contact you with news items from time to time if you give us consent, or where allowed based upon legitimate interests.

You may also update your subscription preferences with respect to receiving communications from us by signing into your account and amending your Profile.

Transfer of personal data abroad.
If you utilise our Services from a country other than the country where our servers are located, your communications with us may result in transferring your personal data across international borders

Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we are required by law to do so. You may request details of personal information which we hold about you by visiting your profile and clicking export data.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please email via  https://www.marple.website/contact.html as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

The Marple Website may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from January 12, 2020.