CAT-UXO Website Terms & Conditions

Collective Awareness to Unexploded Ordnance (CAT-UXO) aims to bring together the explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) community in order to collate information and awareness on UXO and explosive hazards currently distributed throughout the world.

These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website. By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website. If you register with our website, submit any material to our website or use any of our website services, we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions. You must be at least 18 years of age to use our website, by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 18 years of age.

The information contained within this website is obtained from varying open-source information and individuals. The information is no way exhaustive or considered fully accurate and therefore qualified EOD trained persons should always adhere to authorised employers Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) when working with explosive hazards.

The websites ultimate aim is to provide general explosive hazard information to organisations and individuals working in the vicinity of areas affected by explosive hazards in order to minimise the risk of accidents. This explosive hazard database is not designed to teach people how to work with landmines, UXO, ERW or other explosive hazards and does not teach or endorse EOD practices.

Proximity to hazards is always dangerous and should be avoided. Only trained specialists/technicians should seek out or handle explosive hazards. CAT-UXO and other contributing organisations or individuals to this explosive database shall not be held responsible for any accident or incident to personnel or damage to property that may be caused as a result of individuals accessing this information.

On agreeing to these website Terms and Conditions (T&Cs) you accept that any information, data, documents, images, media etc that you provide may be used and displayed as part of the website and shared with other CAT-UXO website users, supporters or third parties. On providing information, data, documents, images, media etc to CAT-UXO you accept no copyright claim is likely to be made on any media provided. If at a later date any product or media is found to have a third party copyright claim then you are content that that media may be withdrawn from the site. You may view pages from our website in a web browser, download pages from our website for caching in a web browser, copy and print pages from our website for your own personal use.

We reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to our website, to areas of our website and/or to functionality upon our website. We may, for example, suspend access to the website should inappropriate material be posted/published. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the website.

You must not use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility, integrity or security of the website. Use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not allow any other person to use your account to access the website. You must notify us by email immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account. You must not use any other person's account to access the website. You must keep your password confidential.

You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential and may be held liable for any misconduct arising out of such a failure. We may suspend your account, cancel your account and/or edit your account details at any time at our sole discretion with or without notice to you.

You may cancel your account on our website at any time. In agreeing to these terms and conditions, your content means all material (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via our website. You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media.

Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.

Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law). Your content and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions must not be libellous or maliciously false, be obscene or indecent, infringe any copyright, moral rights, database rights, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off or other intellectual property rights, infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation, consist of or be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory.

We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services and to stop publishing our website, at any time at our sole discretion without notice or explanation and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.

You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our directors and employees and having regard to that interest you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity, you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our directors or employees in respect of any injuries, damage or losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions.

We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time. The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website. We will give you notice of any revision of these terms and conditions and the revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our website from the date that we give you such notice. If you do not agree to the revised terms and conditions, you must stop using our website.