Saturday Walkers Club

Our Terms and Conditions

Legal, Privacy, Advert and & Cookie Policy

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This is a binding legal contract. If you use this website, use any walk, or come on any club walks, you agree be bound by its terms.

You are strongly advised to seek professional legal advice being entering into it.

Introduction
1. Thank you for using the Saturday Walkers Club ("SWC"). These Terms cover your use of Services ("Services") operated and provided by the SWC. These Services include:
  1. the www.walkingclub.org.uk and maps.walkingclub.org.uk websites and associated services and APIs ("Websites"),
  2. club events ("Club Events")
  3. walks and guides available for public to download and use, including walk details, directions and GPS data ("The Walks")
2. By using these Services, you agree to be bound by the following Terms of Service, as updated from time to time (collectively, the "Terms"'), which form a contract between us. Please read them carefully.
3. If you don’t agree to these Terms, you may not use the Services, or attend any Club Events.
4. Please be aware of the following:
  1. The SWC is a collaborative project. A volunteer group operates the infrastructure and websites but the walks, GPS data, photos, videos and comments are contributed by users. While one of the goals of the SWC is accurate information, the SWC does not and cannot proactively review all edits or other contributions. Therefore, we do not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any submitted community content. Suspected data problems may be reported to the SWC in accordance with its procedures.
  2. You are responsible for your own actions. You are legally responsible for your edits and contributions, so for your own protection you should exercise caution and avoid contributing any content that may result in criminal or civil liability under any applicable laws. Although we may not agree with such actions, we warn editors and contributors that authorities may seek to apply other countries’ laws to you, including local laws where you live or where you view or edit content. The SWC generally cannot offer any protection, guarantee, immunity or indemnification.
5. SWC information available through these Services is licensed under this agreement. It remains copyright and mean not be reused under any circumstances without prior permission
6. Though we hope SWC will continue for the foreseeable future, we reserve the right to suspend or end the Services at any time, with or without cause, and with or without notice.
Community Amateur Sports Club Clauses
1. The main purposes of the club are to provide facilities for and to promote participation in the amateur sport(s) of walking and hiking in South East England.
2. Membership of the club shall be open to anyone interested in walking and hiking, regardless of sex, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, religion or other beliefs, except as a necessary consequence of the requirements of walking. The club may have different classes of membership on a non-discriminatory and fair basis. The club will not charge subscriptions, so that they will not pose a significant obstacle to people participating. The club committee may refuse membership, or remove it, only for good cause such as conduct or character likely to bring the club or sport into disrepute. Appeal against refusal or removal may be made to the members.
3. All surplus income or profits are to be reinvested in the club. No surpluses or assets will be distributed to members or third parties.
4. Upon dissolution of the club any remaining assets shall be given or transferred to another registered CASC, a registered charity (e.g. The Woodland Trust) or the sport’s governing body for use by them in related community sports.
Privacy, Cookies and Adverts
1. We maintain a contact list (email addresses) of walk authors and club contributors.
2. We do not have a membership list, or list of people who attend club events
  1. Except, during pandemics, when we may keep a list to comply with public health regulations
3. We use cookies to aid website functionality. You may use your browser functionality to delete these.
4. We maintain a list of who authored which walk, and who took legacy photos
5. Google Ads
  1. This site serves personalised ads from Google and its partners. Cookies are used for ads personalisation.
  2. You must read, understand and consent to how Google' uses your information
6. Amazon and Other Adverts
  1. We get a trail (affiliate) commission when you click on an Amazon or other ad.
  2. These ad ad services may use tracking or other cookies
7. Website Usage Statistics
  1. We use cookies for website analytics. You may delete them using your web browser functionality
  2. We collect and process website usage statistics.
  3. We also use Google Analytics for this purpose. You agree this, and to its use of cookies to facilitate this.
8. Currently, our webservers are in London, UK.
9. We ask that you review the terms of our Privacy Policy, so that you are aware of how we collect and use your information. Certain aspects of the Services require you to have a Github or Google account and to be logged into that account while you access those aspects.
10. Because our Services are used by people all over the world, personal information that we collect may be stored and processed in any other country in which we or our agents maintain facilities. If you are a resident of the EU, EEA, or EFTA, your information will be stored and processed in accordance with the GDPR. If you are a resident of another country, you consent to any such transfer of information outside your country by using our Services.
11. You agree to keep the contact information associated with any SWC, Flickr, Facebook, Google, Github or other account current and complete. Your contact information will be used in accordance with the Privacy Policy.
Walk Author Contributed Website Content : Walks and GPS Data
1. You retain ownership of your walk or GPS data ("Walk Data") but grant the SWC a free perpetual and irrevocable [*] license to use it. [*] As modified elsewhere in this document.
2. If you do not maintain your Walk Data, you allow the SWC to update it.
3. If you are unable to maintain your walk (e.g. due to mental incapacity or death), you are expected to donate them to the SWC
End User Contributed Website Content : Comments, Photos and Videos
1. By posting comments, or tagging (or otherwise indicating) photos / videos, so they are picked up by our Service, you
  1. allow us to reproduce them
  2. remain responsible for their content
  3. agree to indemnify us in the case of slander or other legal consequences of us displaying them
2. Specific terms
  1. Facebook Comments
    1. This website uses Facebook plugins, the use of which is covered by Facebook's Privacy Policy
    2. We do not process your Facebook data, we just display it on our site.
    3. You can delete your Facebook data, which is stored only on Facebook, by using the Facebook Plugins.
      1. To do this: login to Facebook | view plugin page | view comment | options | delete.
  2. Blogger Comments
    1. These are stored by Google's Blogger Service.
    2. You may delete these yourself. This will eventually remove them from the website.
    3. You may not be able to delete anonymous comments.
  3. Proprietary database Comments
    1. You may contact the SWC Webmaster to remove these comments. This will eventually remove them from the website.
  4. Flickr Photos
    1. You may delete these yourself. This will eventually remove them from the website.
  5. Youtube videos
    1. We do not process your videos, we just display them on our site.
    2. You can delete or un-tag your videos yourself on Youtube
    3. You must read, understand, and consent to Google's privacy policy
Use by minors
1. You must be 18 years or older to use the Services.
  1. You represent that you are at least 18 years old.
  2. A person under 18 may attend a club event provided that they are accompanied by a legal guardian over the age of 18 who will stay with them and be responsible for them at all times. In the event of an accident to the guardian, you must accept that no other walker has any responsibility towards the minor.
  3. If you are 17.9 years old, sorry, but you may not use our Services. You could ask a parent to step up and take you out for a walk, or watch TV instead.
Unlawful and other unauthorized uses
1. You are solely responsible for your compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and third party agreements in your use of the Services.
2. You represent you are not, and are not controlled by, an individual, organization or entity organized or located in a country or territory that is the target of sanctions imposed, or on any restricted or sanctioned party list maintained by the United Kingdom.
3. You may not use the Services in any manner that could damage or overburden the Services or interfere with any other party's use of the Services. You agree to abide by SWC’s Usage Policies and other policies posted on the SWC website in conjunction with the Services, including accompanying documentation. Those policies are incorporated by reference into these Terms.
4. You may not use the Services to:
  1. Disseminate or store material that infringes the copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other intellectual property right of any person;
  2. Impersonate any person, create a false identity (a pseudonym does not count as a false identity) or otherwise attempt to mislead others as to the identity or origin of any communication, or engage in fraud;
  3. Interfere with or attempt to gain unauthorized access to any computer network
  4. Host with, transmit to or provide to us any information that is subject to specific United Kingdom government regulation, including, without limitation, personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, or genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health, data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation (other than personal data about yourself that you contribute to your user page or diary posts, which is completely voluntary on your part and you can delete at any time), or data relating to criminal convictions and offences or related security measures, and information subject to export control or economic sanction laws;
  5. Operate dangerous businesses such as emergency services or air traffic control, where the use or failure of the Services could lead to death, personal injury or significant property damage;
  6. Transmit viruses, trojan horses, or any other malicious code or program;
  7. Engage in any form of unsolicited advertising;
  8. Recreate or proxy any part of the Services in order to evade these Terms (including aiding anyone else in doing so);
  9. Store data available through the Services in order to evade these Terms (including aiding anyone else in doing so); or
  10. Engage in any other activity reasonably deemed by SWC to be in conflict with the spirit or intent of these Terms.
  11. Engage in the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
Additional limitations on use of personal data
1. By using this website, you may have access to some personal data from other SWC contributors. You may not use, store, or process any personal data available through the Services for any purpose other than:
  1. If you are a natural person, in the course of a purely personal or household activity
  2. As necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which you are subject;
  3. As necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest
  4. As necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by you or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.
  5. Any other purpose authorised by the General Data Privacy Regulation.
2. For the avoidance of doubt, you may not use personal data available through the Services to:
  1. Attempt to re-identify any natural person
  2. Attempt to stalk or harass any natural person
  3. Gather or collect email addresses, real names, home addresses or phone numbers without express consent
  4. Seek personal data from any minor without the express consent of their parent or legal guardian
3. To fulfill the goal of distributing data that is high quality, we do not support anonymous contributions and retain additional, non-geographic, data on a legitimate interest base (see GDPR article 6.1f). Common legitimate interests for which SWC and SWC data users often process personal data include map editing and data integrity efforts that involve:
  1. identifying all the contributions made by an account,
  2. contacting the contributor in the case of questions in respect to the nature and source of the contributions,
  3. detection, removal and correction of spam accounts, vandalism and violations of the rights of third parties,
  4. facilitating communication between SWC contributors.
  5. research and analysis on aggregate contributions to improve or prioritise SWC services, such as evaluating Walk efficacy and completeness
4. Please see SWC’s Privacy Policy for more information.
Use by an entity
1. If you are entering into this agreement on behalf of your company or another legal entity, you represent that you have the authority to bind that entity to these Terms, in which case "you" will mean the entity you represent.
End users and notification
1. You may not permit any third parties to use the Services in any way that would be a violation of these Terms if done by you, and you agree to take reasonable efforts to prevent such use. You agree to promptly notify SWC in writing if you become aware of any misappropriation or unauthorized use of the Services.
Cancellation or suspension
1. You are free to stop using the Services any time.
2. In addition, we may cancel or suspend your access to our Services for violation of any policy as determined by the webmaster. Upon cancellation or suspension, your right to use the Services will stop immediately. Attempting to evade a cancellation or suspension (such as by creating a new account or using an alternate account) is a violation of these Terms.
3. You may not have access to data that you stored on the Services after we cancel or suspend your account. You are responsible for backing up data that you use with the Services.
4. If your access is blocked or otherwise terminated for any reason, your public contributions will remain publicly available (subject to applicable policies), and, unless we notify you otherwise, you may still access our public pages for the sole purpose of reading publicly available content. In such circumstances, however, you may not be able to access your account or settings.
5. Even after your use and participation are banned, blocked or otherwise suspended, these Terms of Use will remain in effect with respect to relevant provisions.
Club Events
1. Our club events do not have a leader. All we do is publish a meeting point, time, and suggested route in order to allow like minded independent walkers to walk together
  1. You agree that county and wilderness walking can be dangerous. You are responsible for yourself all times. This includes your safety and navigation at all times
  2. You must bring a copy of the route to all club events, for example, a) a smart device with mapping an GPS data, b) a OS map, or c) a print out of the walk directions.
  3. You must also be experienced enough to follow the route alone and unaided.
  4. During pandemics, we may enforce other rules to comply with public health regulations
2. You agree that the SWC, and any person on its Events has no responsibility towards you whatsoever.
3. You absolve the SWC and other walkers on its Events from any liability to you.
4. People who attend Club Events are expected to be nice to one another.
5. You may bring a dog, including assistance dogs, on Club Events, but:
  1. you must strictly respect that not all people are dog people
  2. you must keep the dog under control at all times, which means on a lead if appropriate for the dog, and not let it jump up on other walkers, or run between their legs for example
  3. you must be exemplary in your control of the dog around livestock, if necessary waiting for the group to pass ahead of you if other walkers are nervous
  4. some Club Walks may not be appropriate for dogs, e.g. that involve climbing or a route through a nature reserve in which dogs are banned
6. You are expected to wear clothes on Club Events. And yes, this clause is needed! The interpretation of "clothes" shall be gender neutral. This shall not apply:
  1. if the Event has been specifically advertised as Clothes Optional.
  2. when skinny dipping
  3. at "well known" naturist beaches.
Disputes and jurisdiction
1. We hope that no serious disagreements arise involving you, but, in the event there is a dispute, we encourage you to seek resolution through the dispute resolution procedures or mechanisms provided by the SWC's webmaster
2. To ensure that disputes are dealt with soon after they arise, you agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action you might have arising out of or related to use of our Services or these Terms must be filed within the applicable statute of limitations or, if earlier, 30 days after the pertinent facts underlying such claim or cause of action could have been discovered with reasonable diligence (or be forever barred).
3. The governing law and jurisdiction for this contract shall be the webmaster of the Saturday Walkers Club. He shall decide any dispute by binding arbitration. His ruling is final.
4. Only if the previous clause is unlawful, or during a zombie pandemic, and you seek to file a legal claim against us, you agree to file and resolve it exclusively in a court located in Walton-on-Thames, United Kingdom. You also agree that English law will govern these Terms, as well as any legal claim that might arise between you and us (without reference to conflict of laws principles). You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of, and agree that venue is proper in, the courts located in Walton-on-Thames, United Kingdom, in any legal action or proceeding relating to us or these Terms.
Disclaimers
1. Your use of the Services is at your sole risk. We provide the Services on an "as is" and "as available" basis, and we expressly disclaim all express or implied warranties of all kinds, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We make no warranty that our Services will meet your requirements, be safe, secure, uninterrupted, timely, accurate, or error-free, or that your information will be secure.
2. We are not responsible for the content, data, or actions of third parties, and you release us, our directors, officers, employees, and agents from any claims and damages, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with any claim you have against any such third parties. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from us or through or from our Services creates any warranty not expressly stated in these Terms.
3. Any material downloaded or otherwise obtained through your use of our Services is done at your own discretion and risk, and you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the download of any such material. You agree that we have no responsibility or liability for the deletion of, or the failure to store or to transmit, any content or communication maintained by the service. We retain the right to create limits on use and storage at our sole discretion at any time with or without notice.
4. We may add, change, replace, remove, or discontinue the features and functions of the Services, including APIs. It is your responsibility to ensure that calls or requests you make to the Services are compatible with then-current APIs and authentication methods, and that you handle responses properly.
5. Some states or jurisdictions do not allow the types of disclaimers in this section, so they may not apply to you either in part or in full depending on the law.
Limitation on liability
1. The SWC will not be liable to you or to any other party for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data, or other intangible losses, regardless of whether we were advised of the possibility of such damage. In no event shall our liability exceed one British pound (GBP 1.00) in aggregate.
2. In the case that applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you, although our liability will be limited to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.
3. Everything on this website is completely without warranty of any kind.
Changes to Services or Terms
1. We may modify these Terms and other terms related to your use of the Services (like our Privacy Policy) from time to time, by posting the changed terms on the SWC website.
2. All changes will be effective immediately upon posting to the SWC website.
3. Changes will apply retroactively. You affirm that you agree to us retrospectively making such changes which you will be bound to.
4. Please check these Terms periodically for changes -- your continued use of the Services after new Terms become effective constitutes your binding acceptance of the new Terms.
Termination
1. [*] This contract shall terminate, including "in perpetuity" clauses, if:
  1. an Extinction Level Event causes the death of over 90% of humanity
  2. a pandemic, in which infected people are turned into mindless flesh eating zombies, and has been certified as such by the World Health Organisation, has caused over 25% of humanity to be eaten.
Additional terms
1. We, or any of our suppliers or advertisers, or anyone else
  1. may use cookies for any purpose
  2. may process your data
  3. may share your data with anyone
2. You grant us perpetual [*] and irrevocable ownership of all your past, current and future data. [*] As modified elsewhere in this document.
3. You agree that we may freely exploit and make available any and all feedback, suggestions, ideas, enhancement requests, recommendations or other information you provide relating to the Services.
4. If any provision of these Terms is held to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. Headings are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.
5. You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and SWC as a result of these Terms or your use of the Services. You further acknowledge no confidential, fiduciary, contractually implied, or other relationship is created between you and SWC other than pursuant to these Terms.
6. By using our Services (including this website, using the Walks, or attending a Club Walk or Event), you swear and affirm that:
  1. You give your immortal soul to the SWC. If you a) do not believe you have an immortal soul, b) have already given it to another party, or c) do not wish to grant it to us, then you must not use our Services.
  2. You grant an irrevocable enduring power of attorney ("EPA") and an irrevocable legal conservatorship for all your legal and financial affairs to the SWC. You must, at your own expense, follow local laws in you jurisdiction to implement this before using our Services. For example, in the UK, you must register the EPA with the Office of Public Protection. If you a) are legally unable to do this, b) have already granted it to another party, or c) do not wish to grant it to us, then you must not use our Services.
  3. You give all your monies (including but not limited to possessions, property, pensions, cash, savings, investments) to the SWC. If you a) are unable to do this, b) have already given them to another party, or c) do not wish to give them to us, then you must not use our Services.
  4. The SWC, all club members, and all people who use the Walks are required:
    1. to be petrolheads,
    2. to be open minded about the many advantages of climate change and the UK having a Mediterranean climate
    3. to advocate Iron Ocean Fertilization rather than C0₂ reduction as the best means of controlling climate change
  5. The SWC is affiliated to the Conservative Party.
  6. Apotheosis: The SWC recognises the divinity of Margaret Thatcher and Jeremy Clarkson. People who use our Services must forsake all other false idols, especially "Boris".
  7. Herod: People who use are our Services agree to name their next born child Margaret Thatcher. For avoidance of doubt, there is no requirement to sacrifice them.
  8. GDPR: We probably comply with it, but to be safe, you must not access our Web Services from within the EU.
  9. If you do not agree to these Terms
    1. You must not use this website or any SWC services or attend any SWC events
    2. You must wipe the memory and storage of all devices and delete any accounts that you use to access this website
7. The SWC may retrospectively change this agreement, and you agree to all such retrospective changes. As this gives us "Carte Blanche", you should think very carefully before using our services, using a walk, or attending a club walk.
8. We are serious about all the above. So don't go trying to sue us later with some nonsense like 'I thought this was all satire'. We mean it!
Last Updated : Dec-21 by Andrew

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