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How the site worked: House Rules

Users to the site were required to register on the site, where they signed up to the following terms and House Rules.

Remember the golden rule: Treat others with respect.

About contributing to the site
Keep your contributions civil, tasteful and relevant. We're committed to providing an atmosphere in which friendly and mature dialogue takes place. Therefore:

No flaming. Flaming means sending unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive, or otherwise objectionable material, and it is not acceptable. Read more about what defamation means.

Swear words will be ****d out. The moderators will **** out the entire word, except for the first and last letters.

No spamming or flooding. Spamming is the posting of the same (or very similar) messages to lots of forums. Flooding is when the same (or a very similar) message is posted over and over again to the same conversation. It's especially antisocial if it's off-topic for those forums. If you do this, we will remove your postings, and possibly your account.

Please think carefully before revealing personal information on the site. You may include your own personal email address in postings, but please remember that people may use it to send emails you don't want to receive, like adverts or offensive material. If you are sure that you want people to be able to contact you like this, we recommend you set up a new email account specifically for this purpose. If you are under 16, please do not reveal any personal information.

It is not acceptable to publicise anyone else's contact details other than your own, and we will remove any postal addresses or telephone numbers from postings. However, it is acceptable to include general contact details for organisations, for example, but you must only include publicly available details, such as the address of library or museum.

Be patient. Users of all ages and abilities will be taking part in the community.

No advertising.

No spoilers - messages that contain plot developments which haven't been transmitted on terrestrial television will be deleted.

Posts containing languages other than English may be removed.

Impersonating someone else is unacceptable, as is adopting an inappropriate screen name (one that is vulgar, offensive, etc.)

Please use only appropriate and suitable URLs (website addresses) in your postings. Links to pornography, commercial services or other inappropriate content will be deleted at our discretion. Any URLs you include will be checked by a moderator.

Please don't abuse the complaints system. It exists to enable visitors to let us know about content which breaks these rules. Please do not use the complaints system to alert us to multiple postings, spelling mistakes and so on. Anyone who abuses the complaints system repeatedly may have their account suspended.

Copyright and the law
You own the copyright in your postings, articles and pictures, but you also agree to grant the 大象传媒 a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to any such work worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in such content, consistent with privacy restrictions set forth in the 大象传媒's Privacy Policy.

If you do not wish to grant such rights to the 大象传媒, it is suggested that you do not submit your contribution to this site.

By submitting your contribution to this site, you also warrant that such contribution is:

• your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to the 大象传媒 for all the purposes specified above
• is not defamatory
• does not infringe any law

You also agree to indemnify the 大象传媒 against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by the 大象传媒 as a result of your breach of the above warranty.

You also agree to waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on the 大象传媒 site and the other purposes specified above.

You may not post any defamatory or illegal material of any nature. This includes text, graphics, video, and/or audio. Posting a message with the intention of committing or condoning an illegal act is strictly prohibited.

You may not violate, plagiarise, or infringe on the rights of third parties including copyright, trademark, trade secret, privacy, personal, publicity, or proprietary rights. Where appropriate, we recommend that you seek permission to share the stories of the people your articles are based on. You can read more about copyright here.

If there is any conflict between these Terms and Conditions and/or specific terms appearing elsewhere on this site relating to specific material then the latter shall prevail.

About your privacy
Our registration process requires you to supply us with your email details, but we will only use this information to validate your access to the discussions and for other service administration purposes. However, we may also wish to contact a small number of contributors to ask them to participate in a related television programme.

The 大象传媒 may wish to pass on the editorial contents of the site, but not your personal registration details, to a reputable third party, if it is deemed necessary to store the information as part of the creation of a national archive.

The 大象传媒 complies with the 1998 Data Protection Act.

If you're under age 16
Please get permission from your parent or guardian before taking part in any 大象传媒i discussion.

Never reveal any personal information about yourself (for example: your telephone number, mobile phone number, school name, home address or email address).

Disciplinary procedure
If you fail to abide by these House Rules, then the following procedure will be followed in most cases. Please note that the 大象传媒 reserves the right to terminate accounts immediately at its discretion (in the event of such things as criminal behaviour or personal abuse of staff, for example). The 大象传媒 may also implement a period of individual pre-moderation instead of or in addition to the following, at our discretion.

For the first offence you will receive an official warning.

A second offence will mean that your account is suspended for seven days.

A third offence will mean a suspension period of one month.

A fourth offence will result in your account being closed permanently.

In each case the warning or suspension notice will be sent to the email address in your preferences, explaining the nature of the transgression. If this email address bounces, then the warning or suspension notice will be posted to your Personal Space. While suspended, returning to the site by creating another account will constitute a further offence and will extend the suspension to the next period, or will result in your account being closed permanently.

大象传媒i reserves the right to delete any posting, at any time, for any reason, and is under no obligation to publish any work submitted.

大象传媒 Terms and Conditions

Terms of use

Access to and use of this site ('bbc.co.uk') is provided by the 大象传媒 subject to the following terms:

1. By using bbc.co.uk you agree to be legally bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of bbc.co.uk. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all the following terms please do not access and/or use bbc.co.uk.

2. The 大象传媒 may change these terms at any time by posting changes online. Please review these terms regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes made by the 大象传媒. Your continued use of bbc.co.uk after changes are posted means you agree to be legally bound by these terms as updated and/or amended.

Use of bbc.co.uk

3. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use bbc.co.uk content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any bbc.co.uk content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of bbc.co.uk content requires the prior written permission of the 大象传媒.

4. You agree to use bbc.co.uk only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of bbc.co.uk. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within bbc.co.uk.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

5. bbc.co.uk content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to the 大象传媒 and/or 大象传媒 Worldwide Limited, its products and services (or to third party products and services), is provided "AS IS" and on an "IS AVAILABLE" basis without any representations or any kind of warranty made (whether express or implied by law) to the extent permitted by law, including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

6. Under no circumstances will the 大象传媒 and/or 大象传媒 Worldwide Limited be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such losses where foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties; or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of bbc.co.uk regardless of the form of action.

7. The 大象传媒 does not warrant that functions contained in bbc.co.uk content will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that bbc.co.uk or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.

Intellectual Property

8. The names, images and logos identifying the 大象传媒, 大象传媒 Worldwide or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of the 大象传媒, 大象传媒 Worldwide Limited and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise any licence or right to use any trademark, patent, design right or copyright of the 大象传媒, 大象传媒 Worldwide Limited, or any other third party.

Contributions to bbc.co.uk

9. Where you are invited to submit any contribution to bbc.co.uk (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant the 大象传媒 a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in the 大象传媒's Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant to the 大象传媒 the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to bbc.co.uk.

10. Further to paragraph 9, by submitting your contribution to bbc.co.uk, you:

* 10.1 warrant that your contribution;

* 10.1.1 is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to the 大象传媒 for all the purposes specified above;

* 10.1.2 is not defamatory; and

* 10.1.3 does not infringe any law; and

* 10.2 indemnify the 大象传媒 against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by the 大象传媒 as a result of your breach of the above warranty; and

* 10.3 waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on bbc.co.uk and the purposes specified above.

bbc.co.uk Community Rules

11. You agree to use bbc.co.uk Communities (including Message Boards) in accordance with the following Community Rules. These apply across all bbc.co.uk community sites and services. You should, however, read the local house rules of the particular site or service you鈥檙e using, as there may be some local variations to these Community Rules.

About your posts:

* Contributions must be civil and tasteful

* No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour: contributions must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble.

* No unlawful or objectionable content: unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable.

* If you use multiple logins for the purpose of disrupting the community or annoying other users you may have action taken against your accounts.

* Be patient: users of all ages and abilities may be taking part in the relevant bbc.co.uk Community.

* No spamming or off-topic material: we don鈥檛 allow the submission of the same or very similar contributions many times. Please don't re-submit your contribution to more than one discussion, or contribute off-topic material in subject-specific areas.

* No advertising

* No spoilers: material which contains plot developments which haven't been transmitted on UK analogue or digital television will be deleted unless submitted in a designated 'spoilers' area.

* Contributions containing languages other than English may be removed unless allowed in the relevant local house rules.

* No impersonation

* No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names

* You may not refer to specific URLs (web site addresses) unless allowed under the relevant local house rules. If you know of a worthy web site relevant to the discussion topic, please inform the host of the Community area.

* Deliberate misuse of the complaints facility is not permitted. If you persist in doing this action may be taken against your account.

Safety:

We advise that you never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example: telephone number, home address or email address), and please do not include postal addresses of any kind. If you have a helpful address to share, inform the host of the relevant Community area using the 'Contact Us' link, and they will promote it if they see fit.

About the law:

* You may not submit any defamatory or illegal material of any nature in bbc.co.uk Communities. This includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio.

* Contributing material with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act is strictly prohibited.

* You agree to only submit materials which are your own original work. You must not violate, plagiarise, or infringe the rights of third parties including copyright, trade mark, trade secrets, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights.

* The views expressed in bbc.co.uk Community areas are those of members of the public and are not necessarily those of the 大象传媒.

If you're under 16:

* Please get a parent鈥檚 or guardian鈥檚 permission before taking part in any bbc.co.uk discussion.

* Never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example, telephone number, home address or email address).

If you breach these Terms of Use:

If you fail to abide by these Community Rules (and/or any variations in the relevant local house rules) when taking part in a bbc.co.uk Community service, you will be sent an e-mail which informs you why your contribution has been failed or edited. This mail will also include a warning that continuing to break the rules may result in action being taken against your account or accounts.

This action may include your relevant account or accounts being placed into pre-moderation or a temporary or permanent suspension of your ability to participate in any or all of bbc.co.uk Community areas.

If you post or send offensive or inappropriate content anywhere on or to bbc.co.uk Communities or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on bbc.co.uk, and the 大象传媒 considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, the 大象传媒 may use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop any further such infringements. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school or email provider about the infringement/s.

The 大象传媒 reserves the right to delete any contribution, or take action against any account, at any time, for any reason.

General

12. If there is any conflict between these terms and specific terms appearing elsewhere on bbc.co.uk (including local house rules) then the latter shall prevail.

13. If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.

14. These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.

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Broadcasting House,
Portland Place,
London,
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大象传媒 Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

This policy covers the 大象传媒鈥檚 use of personal information that the 大象传媒 collects when you use bbc.co.uk. The policy also gives you information about cookies; 大象传媒 and third parties' use of cookies; and how you may reject such cookies.

From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services include newsletters, competitions, live chats, message boards and bbc.co.uk membership.

By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable the 大象传媒 and its service providers to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. When using your personal information the 大象传媒 will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.

2. Visitor Information

During the course of any visit to bbc.co.uk, the pages you see, along with a short text file called a 'cookie', are downloaded to your computer. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

Information supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better online user experience and assist us to analyse the profile of our visitors. For example: if on a previous visit you went to our education pages, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight educational information on your second and subsequent visits.

Nielsen//Netratings, an independent measurement and research company, gathers non-personal information regarding the visitors to our website on our behalf using cookies, log file data and code which is embedded on our website. The 大象传媒 uses this type of information, as with that obtained from other cookies used on the site, to help it improve the services to its users. If you wish to reject Nielsen//Netratings' cookie, you can use the process set out below in point 7. To Totally Opt-Out of Nielsen//Netratings collecting any data regarding your interaction on bbc.co.uk, use the Opt-Out in their Privacy and Cookie Policy at http://www.netratings.com/privacy.jsp?section=leg_scs.

3. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website's computer and stored on your computer's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.

Cookies record information about your online preferences. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the bbc.co.uk features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

If you have set your computer to reject cookies you can still browse bbc.co.uk anonymously until such time as you wish to register for bbc.co.uk services. For further information on cookies please visit www.aboutcookies.org.

4. Use and storage of your personal information

When you supply any personal information to bbc.co.uk (e.g. for competitions, bbc.co.uk Community services or bbc.co.uk membership) we have legal obligations towards you in the way we use those data. We must collect the information fairly, that is, we must explain how we will use it (see the notices on particular webpages that let you know why we are requesting the information) and tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else.

In general, any information you provide to the 大象传媒 will only be used within the 大象传媒 and by its agents and service providers. Your information will be disclosed where we are obliged or permitted by law. Also, if you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to bbc.co.uk or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on bbc.co.uk, the 大象传媒 can use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour. This may involve informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider and law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met, or, in the case of bbc.co.uk membership you no longer wish to continue your registration as a bbc.co.uk member. For safety reasons, however, the 大象传媒 may store messaging transcript data (including message content, member names, times and dates) arising from the use of bbc.co.uk Community services such as Connector for a period of six months. Where personal information is held for people who are not yet registered but have taken part in other bbc.co.uk services (e.g. competitions), that information will be held as long as is necessary to ensure that the service is run smoothly. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

If you are notified on a bbc.co.uk site that your information may be used to allow the 大象传媒 to contact you for "service administration purposes", this means that the 大象传媒 may contact you for a number of purposes related to the service you have signed up for. For example, we may wish to provide you with password reminders or notify you that the particular service has been suspended for maintenance. We will not contact you for promotional purposes, such as notifying you of improvements to the service or new services on bbc.co.uk unless you specifically agree to be contacted for such purposes at the time you submit your information on the site, or at a later time if you sign up specifically to receive such promotional information.

5. Access to your personal information

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information the 大象传媒 holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge 艁10 for information requests.) Please address requests to the Data Protection Officer, MC3 D1, Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TQ (Email: dpa.officer@bbc.co.uk).

6. Users 16 and under

If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to the 大象传媒's website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

7. How to find and control your cookies

If you're using Netscape 6.0:

On your Task Bar, click:

1. Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Click on Cookies

If you're using Internet Explorer 6.0:

1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Privacy Tab
4. Click on Custom Level
5. Click on the 'Advanced' button
6. Check the 'override automatic cookie handing' box and select Accept, Block or Prompt for action as appropriate.

If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5:

1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Security tab
4. Click on Custom Level
5. Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are handled by IE5 and change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for action as appropriate.

If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:

1. Choose View, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Advanced tab
4. Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security and choose one of the three options to regulate your use of cookies.

If you're using Internet Explorer 3.0:

You can View, Options, Advanced, then click on the button that says Warn before Accepting Cookies.

If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:

On your Task Bar, click:

1. Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Set your options in the box that says Cookies.

8. How do you know which of the sites you've visited use cookies?

If you're using Netscape 6.0:

On your Task Bar, click:

1. Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Click on Cookies
5. Click the View Cookies button

If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 6.0:

1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the General tab
4. Click Settings
5. View Files

If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:

On your Task Bar, click:

1. View, then
2. Internet Options
3. Under the tab General (the default tab) click
4. Settings
5. View Files.

If you're using Internet Explorer 3.0:

On your Task Bar, click:

1. View
2. Options
3. Advanced
4. View Files.

If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:

Netscape bundles all cookies into one file on your hard drive. You'll need to find the file, which it calls Cookie.txt on Windows machines.

9. How to see your cookie code

Just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.

10. List of bbc.co.uk cookies

This is a list of the main cookies that bbc.co.uk sets, and what each is used for:

大象传媒-UID cookie: A unique identifier given to each computer to allow log analysis to determine the number of unique users for various parts of bbc.co.uk. Data is only used in aggregate.

大象传媒Mediaselector cookie: Used to store your user preferences for Audio-Video content from bbc.co.uk - format (Real player or Windows Media player) and quality (narrowband or broadband).

大象传媒Postcoder cookie: Used to store your user preferences for geographic specific content on bbc.co.uk - allows pages to present information for your local area, primarily on the homepage, but also in other areas like bbc.co.uk/arts.

大象传媒WEACITY cookie: Used to store your user preferences for home city - allows the the weather site to present information for your local area.

大象传媒NewsAudience cookie: Used to store your user preferences for which edition (domestic UK or International) of the 大象传媒 homepage, Radio, TV and Weather homepages, News site and Sport site you wish to view when visiting www.bbc.co.uk.

大象传媒NewsAudcWght cookie: Used to record the degree of certainty of the domestic UK or International edition preference ascribed to you. If you make an express preference (see above) then we can be certain of which edition of the domestic UK or International site to serve to you. If you do not express a preference we will make a guess of varying degrees of certainty as to which edition of the domestic UK or International site is most appropriate for you based on your IP.

大象传媒NewsAudcWghtUpd cookie: Used to keep track of when your 大象传媒NewsAudcWght cookie (if any) was last updated. This ensures that, where we have guessed which edition of the domestic UK or International site is most appropriate for you, we continue to review our assumptions.

SSO2-UID cookie: Used to allow you to be automatically signed in to a bbc.co.uk service which you have previously registered for.

大象传媒-H2-User cookie: Used for user authentication for the bbc.co.uk messageboard system.

rmRpDetectReal cookie Used to store a preference to prevent 'You don't have Real player installed...' alerts coming up if you really don't want to install it and don't want to be pestered with requests to do so.

*votename* cookie: Some voting systems on bbc.co.uk may set a cookie to discourage voters voting more than once. In each case the cookie's name will reflect the vote in question.

Survey cookie - "bbcsurvey": Used to ensure that once you have taken a 大象传媒 survey, or said that you don't want to be surveyed, that you are not offered the same survey again. myway Used to store your user preference for which colours to use (for example, high contrast colour scheme) on bbc.co.uk/accessibility.

We regularly monitor this website and will update this list of cookies when necessary.

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Broadcasting House,
Portland Place,
London,
W1A 1AA

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