The Rugby League Ground Safety Officers' Association was first established in April 1997 to provide a suitable forum to debate matters of mutual concern, to facilitate the sharing of ideas and practices, to discuss the training requirements of safety officers and stewards, to establish common practice in the area of ground safety procedures and to formulate a consensus which might be applied to negotiations with all relevant authorities.

Terms & Conditions

General

The website www.rlgsoa.co.uk ("the Site") is a site operated by the Rugby League Ground Safety Officers Association("We" or "RLGSOA").

We may amend these Terms at any time without prior notice. You are expected to check these Terms from time to time and your continued use of the Site will mean that you accept any amendments to the Terms.

We take protection of your privacy seriously and process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By using the Site you confirm you have read our Privacy Policy and that you consent to such processing.

If you believe any material on the Site is inaccurate or intellectual property belonging to you or a third party has been improperly posted on the Site, please let us know by sending an email via the contact form.

Links and third party material

Parts of the Site may contain material provided by third party product or service providers, advertisers or sponsoring organisations. Third party product and service providers, advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that all material submitted for inclusion on the Site complies with all relevant laws and codes. We will not be responsible if any such material is untrue, inaccurate, incomplete and/or contains errors and we disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance you place on such material.

Any material on the Site may be out of date at any given time and, whilst we endeavour to keep material up to date, we are under no obligation to so. Material on the Site may be subject to change at any time.

The Site may contain links to other websites. When you activate any of these links, you will leave the Site and we accept no responsibility for the availability or content of any linked websites or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. The links are provided for your convenience and any such link does not imply endorsement by us of a website or any association with the operators of a website.

You may hypertext link to the Site provided it does not imply or claim an association with the RLGSOA or any approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

Intellectual property rights

Unless otherwise stated, all intellectual property rights in the Site and its content (including copyright and database rights and (whether registered or unregistered) trade marks, trade names and designs, are owned or licensed by the RLGSOA. You are permitted to print or download extracts from material on the Site for your personal use only provided you keep intact all or any copyright and proprietary notices.

The information on this web site is provided to assist members of the RLGSOA in their planning for matches and other events taking place in their stadiums, complying with the safety certificate or other ground safety requirements and general health, safety and welfare responsibilities. Use for any other purpose is strictly forbidden and any such use may result in suspension from the RLGSOA.

No part of the Site or any material appearing on the Site may be modified, copied, distributed, reproduced, stored in or transmitted on any other website for commercial purposes without prior written permission of the RLGSOA and payment of any specified fee.

No licence is granted to you in these Terms to use any trade mark of the RLGSOA.

You agree not to use the Site to infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party. You represent that all material you submit to us is owned by you or you have the relevant consents or permission to use the information in this way. By posting any material on the Site, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free licence (with the right to sub-license) to exercise the copyright, trade marks, database rights and all other intellectual property rights you have in such material in any media. In addition, you waive all moral rights you have in such material to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Data Protection Act

We are conscious of our responsibilities under the Data Protection Act 1998. We endeavour to process any personal information relating to you from which you may be identified, in accordance with that Act. Information may be processed in accordance with our Data Protection Registration and we shall not process your personal information in any manner incompatible with those purposes or without your consent unless we are required by law to do so. We shall not be requesting or processing any sensitive personal data about you. We shall not retain information relating to you longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it obtained.

While we endeavor to ensure that the information we hold about you is accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date, we assume, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that the information you provide us with is accurate. If there is any reasonable doubt as to its accuracy we shall contact you to confirm the information. Should there be any inaccuracies in the information of which you inform us, or of which we become aware, it shall be swiftly rectified by us. We do not retain any information about you that is out of date or is no longer required.

Along with all other rights granted to you under the 1998 Act which we respect and observe, you may at any time in writing or by e-mail request to be informed of the personal information which we hold about you, either as a whole or limited to certain information of a particular nature. We shall comply with this request but, in the interests of your privacy, only after we are supplied with such information by you as would reasonably be required to satisfy ourselves as to your identity. In the interests of the privacy of others, we would not be able to comply with such a request if it involved disclosing information about another person unless they consented to the disclosure or it was reasonable in all the circumstances to comply with the request without their consent. We may charge a fee of £10 for providing this information and the information will be provided no later than 40 days from when we receive your request.

If you do not wish us to continue using your information please contact us.