Terms of Service from January 2008

1. Acceptance of terms of service

In order to access and use interactivecsp.org.uk (the "Service") you must read and accept the terms and conditions under which the Service is provided to you by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy ("CSP") including officers of CSP and others moderating networks on the system. You will then be bound by the terms and conditions of use including any changes or modifications made and published online by CSP from time to time without notice to you (herein collectively referred to as the "Terms of Service").

Please therefore read the following terms and click on 'ACCEPT' at the end of the document.

2. Registration, user accounts and security

In order to use the Service, you are required to register and to be either a CSP member (including associate members and student members), a member of a participating clinical or occupational interest group or an invited guest. The details provided during registration are used by CSP to both provide you with the Service and to update your record on our membership database. You will have a personal User Account on the Service which you can update at any time using the 'Manage your Account' area of the web-site. It is your responsibility to ensure that your account is kept up to date and accurate. If you do not maintain this data, CSP may not be able to provide you with a full and effective Service. If we believe that you have provided false information we reserve the right to terminate your access to the Service immediately and without notice.

You are responsible for all acts and omissions that occur in connection with your password and you are responsible for keeping it confidential and for notifying CSP if you believe that the security of your password has been compromised.

You can unsubscribe from the Service at any time using the 'Manage your account' area of the web-site.

3. User permissions

The permissions that will be granted to users to enable them to use the Service will vary. Full access to all non private areas of the Service will be granted to qualified CSP members and associate (assistant) members of CSP. Read only access to all non-private areas of the Service will be granted to invited guests at the CSP's discretion. Student members of CSP will be granted read only access to the non private areas of the service and full access to the student area of the service. Once students are fully qualified and CSP's membership records have been updated accordingly full access to all non private areas will be automatically granted to students. CSP reserves the right to change the Service and your access to the Service at anytime without prior notice. We will, however, notify you of any such changes as soon as practicable.

4. User responsibilities

Use of the Service in no way overrides or supercedes your responsibility for exercising your professional and clinical judgement. As we cannot guarantee the integrity, quality or accuracy of the content of the Service it must be treated only as an aide to any decision-making processes. You acknowledge that the final responsibility for the judgements you make and for any decisions or actions that flow from them remain your full responsibility. CSP, its officers, external moderators and other users of the Service cannot be held liable in any way for any decisions or actions that you take as a result of using the Service.

The CSP Rules of Professional Conduct, The CSP Physiotherapy Assistants Code of Conduct and the CSP Standards of Physiotherapy Practice continue to apply as appropriate to all aspects of your use of the Service. You acknowledge in particular the applicability of: Scope of Practice; Relationships with patients, professional staff and carers; Confidentiality; Duty to report; Individualised approach, Assessment; Analysis; Communication. For non-physiotherapy users the equivalent rules and/or standards that cover your profession will apply.

You agree not to use the Service:

1. for purposes that would be deemed illegal under English law;
2. to upload, post, publish, transmit, reproduce any
   1. content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
   2. content that violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others, including content which is inaccurate, false, hateful, threatening, abusive, offensive, harassing, unlawful, defamatory, libelous, tortuous, slanderous, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, profane, or is racially, ethnically or is otherwise objectionable;
   3. content that is pornographic, sexually explicit or contains nudity;
   4. content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships;
   5. content which contains software viruses or other harmful or destructive components or features designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software, hardware or telecommunications equipment;
   6. content that consists of links to other web-sites that contain content not in compliance with the Terms of Service;
3. to engage in conduct which in CSP's sole discretion restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the Service;
4. to impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity;
5. to forge or otherwise manipulate uniform resource locators or other identifiers to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through the Service, to acquire unauthorized access to restricted areas of the Service, or for any other purposes;
6. to interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers or networks connected to the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service;
7. to promote or provide instructions, information or advice about illegal activities, promoting physical harm or personal injury against any individual or group.
8. to collect or store personal data about other Users;
9. to stalk or otherwise harass another User;

5. Content

The System Moderators (those with overall responsibility for and authority over the management of the system) and the Network and Region Moderators (CSP officers or external moderators with responsibility for and authority over the management of specific content areas on the Service) have full authority over what content appears on the Service including reserving the right to remove content. In enacting this right, due consideration shall be given by moderators to the original intentions and interpretation of the person submitting the content (the Contributor) and copyright will be respected on any documents submitted to the Service. However, the Contributor shall have no rights of redress against a decision by any moderator to remove any content from the Service for whatever reason deemed appropriate by that moderator.

The content of and opinions within discussion and exchange items contributed to the Service will be the responsibility of the user in whose name they have been submitted. This type of content will not be reviewed by moderators prior to being displayed on the Service. Editing of this content will be kept to a minimum as it expresses the opinions and ideas of the contributor. However, we reserve the right to moderate any item of content or remove from display on the Service any content we deem to be outside the Terms of Service without the permission or prior notice of the author. We may also change any typographical or factual errors in such an item of content.

All Content submitted to the Service, other than document downloads, may be subject to editing by moderators. By submitting content to the Service you authorize CSP and its moderators to display, edit or delete that content at their sole discretion. Ownership, including copyright, of all content submitted to the Service, other than documents, rests with CSP, unless extracted from a copyrighted source, or expressly agreed with CSP prior to submission. The copyright and ownership of all documents posted to the Service for display on the Service (in one of the accepted formats ie .doc, .pdf, .xls, .pps or .rtf) shall remain with the original author(s) or other legitimate, identified copyright owners.

When content is displayed on the Service the contributor will be credited, using his/her username for this purpose. If the contributor no longer wishes to be credited following any editing of their submission he/she must notify the moderator and their user name will be removed from the item as soon as reasonably practicable.

Contributions to the Service by users and moderators are made in good faith for the purpose of sharing knowledge and resources with other users of the Service. All content accessed on the site or downloaded from the Service cannot therefore be used by any user for the purpose of securing personal or commercial gain without the express prior permission of the copyright owner. Nor can content be passed to any other web-site or be published anywhere else outside of iCSP without the express permission of the copyright owner.

Much of the content available on the Service is provided by Users who are independent of CSP and the external moderators of the Service. Since neither CSP nor the external moderators control the content they cannot guarantee its accuracy, integrity or quality and as such exclude themselves for any liability (including liability for negligence) for the content appearing on or available through the Service.

The service allows you to participate in networks where users can exchange information. You consent to participating in such an environment where it cannot be guaranteed that information you submit will not be reproduced elsewhere, including outside of the Service. You agree that we are in no way liable for unauthorised reproduction or distribution of information that you submit to the Service. Information you submit will be displayed on the Service and can be printed out and distributed by users.

6a. Advertising and promotions

We strongly encourage Users to add content to promote knowledge sharing and relevant resources, opportunities and events. Please see 6b below for further information on advertising charges for events. All other advertising is, however, explicitly prohibited in order to protect the quality and focus of the service and the privacy of the user community (see clause 9). This includes adding any content that could be deemed by other Users to be unsolicited advertising and/or "junk mail". Content that must not be added to the Service specifically includes: advertising of professional; commercial or personal products and services and job advertisements.

Advertising research projects on iCSP - users should not post clinical research questionnaires directly onto iCSP as this is deemed to be an inappropriate way to secure participation into a piece of clinical research. However, requests to participate in research projects can be added to the 'Sharing Practice' module of an appropriate network on the site. It will then be up to the moderators of that network to decide whether they approve the item for display on the network. Inclusion of any such invitation to participate in a research project on the Service in no way implies endorsement of the project by CSP or any of its partners or moderators. It is the responsibility of each individual user to decide whether they wish to actually participate in the project, following receipt of the full details from the researchers."

Voluntary opportunities on iCSP - unpaid opportunities which emphasise learning, skill development or practical experience can be added to iCSP but ONLY to the news section of an appropriate network. All other voluntary opportunities will be assumed to be job advertisements which are prohibited on the website and will therefore be removed.

6b. Advertising charges

There is a charge to advertise some events on interactiveCSP. Details can be found in the 'Add Content' page for Events on each network. You can also find more details in Section 5.5 of the User Guide. Adding any other types of content to iCSP is free of charge.

7. Maintaining the system

We agree to use our reasonable endeavours to maintain the Service in fully operational condition. However, we cannot guarantee that this will always be the case and do not accept responsibility for any defects that may exist, or for any costs, loss of profits, loss of data, or consequential losses arising from your use of, or inability to access the Service even where any such loss arises through our negligence.

CSP reserves the right at any time or from time to time to modify, suspend or discontinue the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice to you and you agree that CSP shall not be liable to you or to any third party as a result of any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.

8. Access to the system

The CSP has the right to suspend the account of any user and to bar them from future use of the Service if they violate the Terms and conditions of Service. All such decisions shall ultimately be made by a system moderator though this may be on the advice of other moderators and the decision shall be binding on all parties without leave of appeal.

You are responsible for obtaining the equipment and for meeting any other costs associated with your access to and use of the service. You are also responsible for making your own back-up arrangements of any important data that you place on the Service as although we maintain back up facilities for data on the Service, we cannot guarantee that these facilities are fail safe.

9. Personal information and privacy

We will respect your personal information and undertake to comply with The Data Protection Act 1998. We will not allow advertisers or members to send unsolicited commercial emails (SPAM). If you receive any such email please inform us icsp@csp.org.uk

The information (including any sensitive personal information) you submit will be stored on computer. You consent to CSP and external moderators using the information that you submit to enable CSP and external moderators to operate the Service.

View the full privacy policy for interactiveCSP.

10. External links

This Service contains links to other Internet sites or resources ("External Sites"). Since these External Sites are not under the control of CSP or the external moderators of the Service, you acknowledge and agree that neither CSP nor the external moderators shall be responsible for the availability of the External Sites nor are they responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products or other materials located on or through any External Site. Links provided to External Sites do not represent endorsements of any information, products or services on such sites, and no information on such sites has been approved or endorsed by CSP or other external moderators of the Service. Under no circumstances shall CSP or other external moderators of the Service be held responsible or liable for any loss or damages caused or alleged to have been caused by use of or reliance on any content, goods, or services available on such External Sites. Any concerns that you may have regarding any External Sites should be directed to its respective site administrator or Webmaster.

11. Private networks

An Interactivecsp.org.uk network may be either public or private. Access to private networks is restricted and admission will be subject to you meeting the eligibility criteria as determined by the network moderators.

12. No resale of service

You agree not to resell, reproduce, sell or exploit, for any commercial purposes, the Service or any portion thereof or use of or access to the Service without the prior written consent of CSP.

13. Storage and resources

You acknowledge and agree that neither CSP, nor any external moderators of the Service nor the Service Provider shall be responsible for the deletion, miscommunication or the failure to store any content on the Service. CSP may establish limitations on the amount of memory, disk space, bandwidth or any other resource available on the Service.

14. Fees

CSP reserves the right at any time to charge fees for the use of the whole or any part of the Service that is currently provided to you at no cost.

15. Trademarks

All trademarks, service marks, and logos used and displayed in the Service are the registered and/or unregistered property of CSP or third parties. No rights are conferred on you, either expressly or by implication, to use the trademarks of CSP or third parties without the permission of the respective trademark owners.

16. Copyright

We aim to respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. All content accessed on the Service or downloaded from the Service cannot be used by any user for the purpose of securing personal or commercial gain without the express prior permission of the copyright owner. Nor can content be passed to any other web-site or be published anywhere else outside of iCSP without the express permission of the copyright owner.

Any content used from iCSP for study purposes or non-commercial research should acknowledge the copyright owner in their references in any output that they produce.

If you believe that a copy of your work is available on the Interactivecsp.org.uk Service without your consent or that a copyright infringement has otherwise occurred, please supply us with the following information:- A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; Details of where the infringing material is located on the Interactivecsp.org.uk Service; Your address, telephone number and email address; A statement by you that you believe in good faith that the use of the work on the Service is not authorised by the copyright owner or any person entitled to act on their behalf or by law.

Please forward this information to The iCSP System Administrator, CSP, 14 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4ED or email icsp@csp.org.uk.

17. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless CSP, the other groups and individuals moderating networks on the Service and the Service Provider from and against any loss, claim, demand, cost and expense arising from or in connection with your use of the Service or its content. This exclusion also applies to any loss, damage, liability, distress and expense arising from our negligence. You agree to indemnify us and any groups and individuals moderating parts of the Service and the Service Provider from and against any liability for losses, damages, expenses and claims arising from your use of these groups or any content of the groups which you post or create. You specifically agree that CSP and the external moderators are not responsible for or liable to you or anyone else for any threatening, defamatory, libelous, obscene, offensive or illegal conduct of any other party or you or any infringement of another's rights, including intellectual property rights.

18. Amendments

These user conditions may be amended from time to time. You should review the Terms of service periodically for changes at http://www.interactivecsp.org.uk/termsOfService.cfm . Our agreement with you, set out in these user terms and conditions is governed by English law and you and CSP and the external moderators submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

I have read and I agree to be bound by the Interactivecsp.org.uk Terms of Service and wish to proceed with access to interactivecsp.org.uk.

This page was last updated on 3 Jan 2008