Terms of use

Please read this Agreement (“Agreement”) carefully. It governs your use of the website theparallel.net (the "Site").

If you use the website at all, it means you agree to all of these terms of use. These terms take effect as soon as you first use the Site and apply whenever you access the Site on whatever device. We may change these terms of use from time to time. By continuing to access and use the site you are agreeing to the revised terms of use.

Third party websites or subscription services you may link to through this site will have their own terms of use. Our terms don’t apply to those third party sites or services.

If you are under 18, you should ask your parents to check these terms.

For more information, email admin@bloomingmedia.co.uk

1.1 The Site is owned by Julian Jordon Ltd and operated by Bolton PCT (company number 4815833). Blooming Media is the trading name of Julian Jordon Ltd. The Parallel is owned and managed by Bolton PCT.

2. Limited Rights to Use Content

2.1 All material displayed on the Site ("Content") belongs to Julian Jordon Ltd or its licensors, with the exception of any Content reproduced verbatim from Bolton PCT, which remains their copyright. Subject to clause 2.2, you may retrieve and display the Content on a computer screen, print individual pages on paper and store such pages in electronic form on disk (but not on any server or other storage device connected to an external network) for your own personal, educational, non-commercial purposes.

2.2 You may not without prior written permission from the copyright holders redistribute any of the Content or supply it to other people (including by using it as part of any library, archive or similar service);

remove the copyright or trade mark notice from any copies of Content made under this Agreement;

create a database in electronic or structured manual form by systematically downloading and storing all or any of the Content; except as expressly set out above, modify, reproduce or in any way commercially exploit any of the Content.

2.3 You acknowledge that the names, images and logos used on this website are subject to design rights and trade marks of the individual companies and organisations and that you may not use them without written permission.

3. Participation

3.1 The Service may include bulletin boards, discussion groups and other public areas that allow feedback to Julian Jordon Ltd or their clients, and interaction between users. The opinions, advice and statements contained in messages posted on the Site ("Messages") are those of the Users and not Julian Jordon Ltd or Bolton PCT. Where Users can post Messages there will be a hyperlink to terms which help control the content. Julian Jordon Ltd reserves the right to delete, move and edit any material submitted. You are solely responsible for the material you submit to the Site and by submitting any material you agree that you will not submit any material that: reveals any confidential or sensitive information;
contains or links to any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libellous, indecent or otherwise illegal material;
contains any material which you do not have permission to use (including material which may be protected by copyright, trade marks, database right or any other form of intellectual property right);
contains viruses or any other components with harmful or contaminating properties which may affect the Site or any equipment connected to it; or
disguises your identity or impersonates any person.

3.2 Where you are invited to submit any contribution to the Site (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant Julian Jordon Ltd a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify and distribute your contribution worldwide in any media, although your rights to be identified as author or originator of the work are not affected.
If you do not want to grant Julian Jordon Ltd the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to the Site.

3.3 The Site contains material submitted by users over whom neither Julian Jordon Ltd nor Bolton PCT has control. Julian Jordon Ltd cannot guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of any such material. Some Users may breach these terms and post material that is misleading, untrue or offensive - you must bear all risk associated with your viewing of such material.

3.4 Copyright in any software that is made available for download for the participation in the Site ("Software") belongs to Julian Jordon Ltd. Your use of the Software is governed by the terms of any licence agreement that may accompany or be included with the Software. Certain promotions and areas on the Site may also be subject to additional terms of use which will be made available clearly by hyperlink - you must comply with all such terms.

4. Limited Warranties

4.1 Julian Jordon Ltd will use its reasonable skill and care in making the Site available to you and in ensuring its continuing availability. However, because of the number of sources from which Julian Jordon Ltd obtains the Content and because of the nature of the Internet and computer software and hardware, Julian Jordon Ltd does not give you any other warranties. In particular, you should not take the accuracy or availability of the information for granted and Julian Jordon Ltd makes no warranty that the Site is free from infection by viruses or anything else that has contaminating or destructive properties. All implied warranties are excluded from this Agreement to the extent that they must be excluded as a matter of law

5. Limitation of Liability

5.1 Julian Jordon Ltd will not be liable for any losses you may incur as a result of your use or non-use of the site or its Content.

5.2 Except where we have expressly agreed otherwise, neither Julian Jordon Ltd nor Bolton PCT will be responsible for any losses suffered by any party as a result of a breach of this Agreement except those losses which are a foreseeable consequence of the breach. Neither party will be responsible for losses which happen as a direct or indirect consequence of the main loss or damage and which are not foreseeable by Julian Jordon Ltd and any other party (such as loss of profits or loss of data).

5.3 Notwithstanding the above provisions of this clause 5, Julian Jordon Ltd, neither its employees, nor associates accept any liability in the case of death or personal injury howsoever caused as a result of your use of this website.

6. Privacy Policy

6.1 Any information that you provide about yourself to Julian Jordon Ltd will only be used by Julian Jordon Ltd in accordance with its Privacy Policy. Please read the Privacy Policy carefully and if you have any questions please email admin@bloomingmedia.co.uk

8. Links

8.1 The Site contains links to other web sites and resources, either directly or through frames and, where possible, Julian Jordon Ltd will make clear where such links are being made. Where independent third parties provide these sites Julian Jordon Ltd is not responsible and shall not be liable for the availability or content of these outside resources. Where Julian Jordon Ltd provides these sites, specific terms and conditions for each site will prevail over this Agreement. Julian Jordon Ltd is not responsible for the contents of any site linking to or from Julian Jordon Ltd.

9 Third party material

9.1 You may see material submitted by third parties on the Site. Individuals or companies are solely responsible for the content of material which they submit to us, including ensuring that it complies with relevant legislation. We accept no responsibility for the content of such material, including, without limitation, any error, omission or inaccuracy therein.

10. General

10.1 If you breach this Agreement and Julian Jordon Ltd chooses to ignore this, Julian Jordon Ltd will still be entitled to use its rights and remedies at a later date or in any other situation where you breach this Agreement.

10.2 A person who is not party to this Agreement shall have no right to enforce any of its terms.
We will try to solve any disagreements quickly and efficiently. If you are not happy with the way we deal with any disagreement and you want to take court proceedings, you must do so under English law within the United Kingdom

10.6 Headings in this Agreement are for convenience only and will have no legal meaning or effect.