Your PTA Pages User Agreement
The following describes the terms on which PTA Pages offers you access to our services.
Introduction
These terms and conditions apply to the services available from the domain and sub-domains of http://www.ptapages.co.uk and from all other PTA Pages branded websites provided for U.K. users, (together, the 'Site'). If you reside in the U.K. you are contracting with PTA Pages, Campion House, Green Street, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, DY10 1JF
Your use of our services is governed by the following terms and conditions. Before you can become a member of PTA Pages, you must read and accept all of the terms and conditions of this User Agreement. You should read through all the terms carefully. The User Agreement constitutes a legally binding agreement between you and PTA Pages.
This User Agreement is valid from 1 May 2008 and is effective upon acceptance for new users.
Using PTA Pages
You may not use the Site if you are under the age of 18 or you are not able to form legally binding contracts.
While using the Site, you will not:
If you are registering with PTA Pages as a business entity, using our business advertising service, you represent that you have the authority to legally bind that entity.
We will commence supplying our services to you as soon as you accept this User Agreement. Unless you and PTA Pages agree otherwise, you will not be able to cancel this User Agreement under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 (or any equivalent legislation in your jurisdiction) once the supply of the services has commenced.
Abusing PTA Pages
PTA Pages work tirelessly to keep the website working properly and the community safe. Please report problems, offensive content, and policy breaches to us.
Without limiting other remedies, we may issue you with warnings, limit, suspend, or terminate our services and your account(s), restrict your access to, and your activities.
We also reserve the right to cancel unconfirmed PTA Pages accounts.
You agree not to hold PTA Pages responsible for any loss you may incur as a result of PTA Pages taking any of the actions described above. Fees paid will not be refunded should we decide to terminate your account as a result of breaching our terms and/or conditions.
No spam
We do not tolerate spam (unsolicited commercial communications). You may not add other PTA Pages users, even a user who has purchased an item from you, to a mailing list (e-mail or physical mail) without their consent.
To report spam from other PTA Pages users, please contact us
Using information about other PTA Pages users
Our Site enables users to share personal and financial information in order to complete transactions. When users are involved in a transaction, they may obtain access to each other's name, email address, and other contact information, postal information and financial information. We cannot guarantee that other users will respect the privacy or security of your information and therefore we encourage you to evaluate the privacy and security policies of your trading partners before entering into transactions and choosing to share your information with them. Similarly, we ask you to respect other users' privacy and disclose your privacy and security policies to them.
PTA Pages - Fees
Joining PTA Pages carries a membership fee. Click here for fee structure. We do charge fees for using other services, such as listing items for sale using our ‘Classifieds Listing Service'. When you list an item or use a service that has a fee, you have an opportunity to review and accept the fees that you will be charged based on our policy, which we may change from time to time. Changes to the fees will take effect 14 days after we notify you of them either by email or via a posting on the Site. We may choose to temporarily change the fees for our services for promotional events or new services, and such changes are effective when we post the temporary promotional event or new service on the Site.
Unless otherwise stated, all fees are payable in GB pounds sterling. You are responsible for paying all fees associated with using the PTA Pages on joining with a valid payment method. If your payment method fail, your membership will not commence.
Liability
Nothing in this User Agreement shall limit or exclude our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or the negligence of our agents or employees or for any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law.
You will not hold PTA Pages responsible for other users' actions or inactions. Although PTA Pages allows access to listings of many thousands of services and products availability through third parties, we accept no liability for any damages which may occur whilst utilising those services or products.
We review user's listings to ensure they contain appropriate material; however, we do not guarantee or recommend any services offered. You will not hold PTA Pages responsible for the actions or inactions of buyers or sellers involved in transactions (whether such transactions are carried out on or off PTA Pages) or for ensuring that they actually complete transactions.
We have no control over, do not guarantee, and you will not hold us responsible for:
- the quality, safety or legality of items advertised;
- the truth or accuracy of listings;
- the ability of sellers to sell items;
- the ability of buyers to pay for items; or
- whether a buyer or seller will actually complete a transaction.
Please do not assume that the offer, sale, purchase, export or import of any item is valid and legal simply because it is listed on the PTA Pages Site.
You accept sole responsibility for the legality of your actions under laws applying to you and the legality of any items you list on the Site.
We cannot guarantee continuous or secure access to our PTA Pages services, and operation of the PTA Pages Site may be interfered with by numerous factors outside of our control. Whilst we will use our reasonable endeavours to maintain an uninterrupted service, we cannot guarantee this and we do not give any promises or warranties (whether express or implied) about the availability of our services.
We (including our parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents and employees) shall not be liable to you in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise for any business losses, such as loss of data, profits, revenue, business, opportunity, goodwill, reputation or business interruption or for any losses which are not reasonably foreseeable by us arising out of your use of our Site.
Regardless of the previous paragraph, if we are found to be liable, our liability, and the liability of our parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents and employees, to you is limited in any 12 month period to the greater of: (a) the total fees you paid to us in relation to the listing or other service offered which gave rise to the liability, and (b) £100.
Release
If you have a dispute with one or more users, you release us (and our officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures and employees) from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.
Access and interference
You must agree not to:
- copy, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, or publicly display any content (except for your information) from the Site without the prior expressed written permission of PTA Pages and the appropriate third party, as applicable;
- interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any activities conducted on the Site; or
Refund Policy
You have the right to cancel within seven days of your purchase. If you do cancel your order, you will have the payment returned. Please contact us if you wish to cancel and we shall organise this for you.Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICY FOR WEBSITES THAT COLLECT AND SHARE PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION INCLUDING FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF ITS VISITORS/SUBSCRIBERS
PTA Pages values the privacy of our visitors/customers and takes every known precaution to safe guard the information we collect from unauthorized use. The following is a detailed explanation of the privacy policy for PTA Pages.
What information do we collect?
PTA Pages believes it is important for you to know what types of information we collect when you use our site. We employ various methods for collecting information. To begin with, we use 'cookies' that are needed to compile aggregate non-personally identifiable information about the visitors to our web site. Personally identifiable information consists of information that is unique to you, such as credit card numbers, bank accounts, social security numbers, home address, email address and the like. This is the type of information that most people consider private and deem the most important to protect from unauthorized access. Non-personally identifiable information most often consists of things such as your search preferences, the types of products you have bought, how many times you have visited a particular web site, etc. This type of information is usually associated with a particular computer or IP address but not with a particular person. 'Cookies' are pieces of information generated by a Web server and stored in the user's computer, ready for future access. Each time you access our web site; our server finds the relevant cookie on your computer. The information contained within that cookie is then used to customize your experience with our site. The following is a list of the information we collect: (insert all information you collect, names, numbers, social security, email, etc.)
Why do we collect this information?
We use this information in order to serve the needs of our customers. We need to know who you are in order to verify the credit card information you have sent us. We collect several pieces of personal information from you in order to complete this verification process. The non-personal information that we collect from you is used in order to offer you better service and to make your experience with our site more enjoyable. Any information that we may inadvertently collect from you, that does not serve one of these reasons stated above, is immediately purged from our system.How is your information protected?
We use the latest in encryption technology, including 128-bit SSL encryption to ensure that any sensitive information that is sent by you to us via the Internet is protected from unauthorized interception. We employ the latest in firewall protection to prevent unauthorized access into our information storage areas. We maintain a rigorous hiring process to screen out potential employees with criminal backgrounds. All employees that we do hire have to sign a confidentiality agreement that forbids them from disclosing any information to which the employee has access, to other individuals or entities. We also have back up servers and power supplies to guard against power outages and other natural occurrences that could pose a threat to the integrity of your personal information.
Only those employees that are responsible for handling your account have access to your information. Additionally, employees in our technical department may have access to your information in order to conduct routine checks on the integrity of our system and in order to perform necessary maintenance work. In order to process your credit card we have to consult with an out side credit card processing company. These processing companies are regulated by the banking industry and must meet certain security requirements in order to be in business. The processing companies will have access to your credit card information, billing address, name, and possibly your telephone number. The processing company will communicate with the issuing bank of your credit card in order to get final approval to charge your credit card for the product or services we are providing for you. Should you choose to receive additional information regarding one of our services or products, we may pass your email address to one of our partners who offers similar products or services that you might be interested in. Additionally, judicial requests by a duly authorized court will require us to divulge certain information regarding your account should that situation arise. Finally, should our company ever be bought or sold, your account information would then become the property of the new owner/entity.
Can I correct or remove information from your site?
You always have the option to view your account to make sure the information we have collected from you is indeed correct. You also have the option of removing any information from your account that you wish to keep private. However, please note that removing certain information such as your email address, contact information, and the like may greatly hinder our ability to effectively provide the service or products you have requested. We recommend that you contact us first to discuss which information you may remove without interrupting the quality of service we intend to provide for you.
Can I opt out of having certain information collected?
You have the option of disabling your computer's ability to accept or transmit cookies. This will prevent us from gathering certain non-personally identifiable information from you. You also have the option of removing yourself from any email distribution list that you may have signed up for.
Notice of changes to this privacy policy
We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time. However, if any changes do occur, we will publish the changes to our web site and post a notice on the home page that a new privacy policy has been implemented. We will also take reasonable steps to contact you personally to let you know of the new changes. Should the company be bought or sold to someone else, we will take reasonable steps to notify you personally. You will then be given the option to keep your account open or to terminate.
Dispute Resolution and Privacy Seals
We currently have no privacy seals or other assurance mechanisms.
Additional Information
This policy is valid for 30 days from the time that it is loaded by a client.
Data Collection
P3P policies declare the data they collect in groups (also referred to as 'statements'.) This policy contains 4 data groups. The data practices of each group will be explained separately.
Group 'Access log information'
We collect the following information:
- Click-stream data
- HTTP protocol elements
- Search terms
- User's interaction with a page or resource
This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.
The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:
Our Web server collects access logs containing this information.
Group 'Cookies'
We collect the following information:
- HTTP cookies
This data will be used for the following purposes:
- Research and development
- One-time tailoring
This data will be used by ourselves and our agents. In addition, the following types of entities will receive this information:
- Delivery services
The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:
Cookies are used to track visitors to our site, so we can better understand what portions of our site best serve you. We also use cookies to allow our server to maintain information about the contents of your shopping cart.
Group 'Transaction info (required)'
We collect the following information:
- Physical contact information
- Online contact information
- Demographic data
- Purchase information
- User's Name
- Home mailing address
- Home telephone numbers
- On-line address
This data will be used for the following purposes:
- Completion and support of the current activity
- Research and development
- Contacting visitors for marketing of services or products. The user is allowed to opt-out of this usage
This data will be used by ourselves and our agents. In addition, the following types of entities will receive this information:
- Delivery services
The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:
Information we collect in order to process your purchase.
Group 'Transaction info (optional)'
At the user's option, we will collect the following data:
- Physical contact information
- Online contact information
- Demographic data
- Purchase information
This data will be used for the following purposes:
- Contacting visitors for marketing of services or products
This data will be used by ourselves and our agents. In addition, the following types of entities will receive this information:
- Delivery services
The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:
Information we collect in order to process your purchase.
Cookies
Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.
Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for the following purposes:
- User targeting
- Research and development
Compact Policy Summary
The compact policy which corresponds to this policy is:
CP = 'NON CURa ADMa DEVa TAIa CONa OUR DELa BUS IND PHY ONL UNI PUR COM NAV INT DEM STA'
The following table explains the meaning of each field in the compact policy.
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| CP= | This is the compact policy header; it indicates that what follows is a P3P compact policy. |
| NON | No access is available to collected information. |
| CURa | The data is used for completion of the current activity. |
| ADMa | The data is used for site administration. |
| DEVa | The data is used for research and development. |
| TAIa | The data is used for tailoring the site. |
| CONa | The data is used for contacting the user. |
| OUR | The data is given to ourselves and our agents. |
| DELa | The data is given to delivery services. |
| BUS | Our business practices specify how long the data will be kept. |
| IND | The data will be kept indefinitely. |
| PHY | Physical contact information is collected. |
| ONL | Online contact information is collected. |
| UNI | Unique identifiers are collected. |
| PUR | Purchase information is collected. |
| COM | Computer information is collected. |
| NAV | Navigation and clickstream data is collected. |
| INT | Interactive data is collected. |
| DEM | Demographic and socioeconomic data is collected. |
| STA | State-management data is collected |
The compact policy is sent by the Web server along with the cookies it describes. For more information, see the P3P deployment guide at http://www.w3.org/TR/p3pdeployment.
Policy Evaluation
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6/7 will evaluate this policy's compact policy whenever it is used with a cookie. The actions IE will take depend on what privacy level the user has selected in their browser (Low, Medium, Medium High, or High; the default is Medium. In addition, IE will examine whether the cookie's policy is considered satisfactory or unsatisfactory, whether the cookie is a session cookie or a persistent cookie, and whether the cookie is used in a first-party or third-party context. This section will attempt to evaluate this policy's compact policy against Microsoft's stated behavior for IE6.
Note: this evaluation is currently experimental and should not be considered a substitute for testing with a real Web browser.
Unsatisfactory policy: this compact policy is considered unsatisfactory according to the rules defined by Internet Explorer 6/7. The behavior of Internet Explorer 6/7 regarding cookies set under this compact policy is as follows:| First-party usage | Third-party usage | |
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- Physical contact information is collected
- Online contact information is collected
- The data is used for contacting the user
Compensation
You agree that you will only use the Site in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in this User Agreement. You will compensate us in full for any losses or costs (including reasonable legal fees) we incur arising from any breach by you of this User Agreement.
No agency
No agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchisor-franchisee relationship is intended or created by this User Agreement.
Third party rights
A person who is not a party to this User Agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of this User Agreement but this does not affect any right or remedy of a third party specified in this User Agreement or which exists or is available apart from that Act.
Governing law and dispute resolution
This User Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. You and PTA Pages both agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
If a dispute arises between you and PTA Pages, we strongly encourage you to first seek a resolution by contacting us directly.
Classified listings
Classified listings are free of charge for registered members and are limited to one listing per member. A listing will be displayed on PTA Pages for 14 days, after which it will be deleted to protect you from nuisance callers. You may replace the advert if your item has not sold. All advertising on PTA Pages is moderated on submission.