These terms and conditions apply between you, the subscriber of this website and app (including any sub-domains, unless expressly excluded by their own terms and conditions), and The Stray Ferret, the owner and operator of this website.

Please read these terms and conditions carefully, as they affect your legal rights. Your agreement to comply with and be bound by these terms and conditions is deemed to occur upon subscription. 

In these terms and conditions, ‘user or users’ means subscribers and any third party that accesses the website and is not either (i) employed by The Stray Ferret and acting in the course of their employment or (ii) engaged as a consultant or otherwise providing services to The Stray Ferret and accessing the website in connection with the provision of such services.

You must be at least 18 years of age to subscribe to this website.

By using the website and agreeing to these terms and conditions, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age.

Intellectual property rights:

All content included on the website, unless uploaded by users, is the property of The Stray Ferret, our affiliates or other relevant third parties. In these terms and conditions, ‘content’ means any text, graphics, images, audio, video, software, data compilations, page layout, underlying code and software and any other form of information capable of being stored in a computer that appears on or forms part of this website, including any such content uploaded by users.

By subscribing to the website you acknowledge that such content is protected by copyright, trademarks, database rights and other intellectual property rights. Nothing on this site shall be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any trademark, logo or service mark displayed on the site without the owner’s prior written permission.

You may, for your own personal, non-commercial use only, retrieve, display and view the content on a computer screen

You must not otherwise reproduce, modify, copy, distribute or use any content without the written permission of The Stray Ferret.

Prohibited use:

You may not use the website for any of the following purposes:

In any way which causes, or may cause, damage to the website or interferes with any other person’s use or enjoyment of the website.

In any way which is harmful, unlawful, illegal, abusive, harassing, threatening or otherwise objectionable or in breach of any applicable law, regulation or governmental order. Please see our participation terms below. 

Make, transmit or store electronic copies of content protected by copyright without the permission of the owner.

Links to other websites:

This website contains links to other sites. Unless expressly stated, these sites are not under the control of The Stray Ferret or that of our affiliates.

We assume no responsibility for the content of such websites and disclaim liability for any and all forms of loss or damage arising out of the use of them.

The inclusion of a link to another site on this website does not imply any endorsement of the sites themselves or of those in control of them.

Cancellations and refunds:

All subscriptions will renew automatically, unless cancelled. A monthly subscription purchase will automatically renew each month, from the date purchased. The yearly package, this will also be renewed from the date purchased.

All subscriptions can be cancelled at any point in time. The cancellation will be activated when the paid for subscription period has ended. The subscriber cannot receive a refund for any part of the period that has been paid for before the due date for cancellation.  

Data and Privacy policy:

Availability of the website and disclaimers:

Any online facilities, tools, services or information that The Stray Ferret makes available through the website (the service) is provided “as is” and on an “as available” basis. We give no warranty that the service will be free of defects and/or faults.

To the maximum extent permitted by the law, we provide no warranties (express or implied) of fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy of information, compatibility and satisfactory quality. The Stray Ferret is under no obligation to update information on the website.

Whilst The Stray Ferret uses reasonable endeavours to ensure that the Website is secure and free of errors, viruses and other malware, we give no warranty or guaranty in that regard and all users take responsibility for their own security, that of their personal details and their computers.

The Stray Ferret accepts no liability for any disruption or non-availability of the website.

The Stray Ferret reserves the right to alter, suspend or discontinue any part (or the whole of) the website including, but not limited to, any products and/or services available. These terms and conditions shall continue to apply to any modified version of the website unless it is expressly stated otherwise.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

1. Nothing in these terms and conditions will: (a) limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury resulting from our or your negligence, as applicable; (b) limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or (c) limit or exclude any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law.

2. We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of events beyond our reasonable control.

3. To the maximum extent permitted by law, The Stray Ferret accepts no liability for any of the following:

any business losses, such as loss of profits, income, revenue, anticipated savings, business, contracts, goodwill or commercial opportunities, loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

General:

You may not transfer any of your rights under these terms and conditions to any other person. We may transfer our rights under these terms and conditions where we reasonably believe your rights will not be affected.

These terms and conditions may be varied by us from time to time. Such revised terms will apply to the Website from the date of publication. Users should check the terms and conditions regularly to ensure familiarity with the then current version.

These terms and conditions together with the Data & Privacy Policy and the Participation Policy contain the whole agreement between the parties relating to its subject matter and supersede all prior discussions, arrangements or agreements that might have taken place in relation to the terms and conditions.

The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 shall not apply to these terms and conditions and no third party will have any right to enforce or rely on any provision of these terms and conditions.

If any court or competent authority finds that any provision of these terms and conditions (or part of any provision) is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision or part-provision will, to the extent required, be deemed to be deleted, and the validity and enforceability of the other provisions of these terms and conditions will not be affected.

Unless otherwise agreed, no delay, act or omission by a party in exercising any right or remedy will be deemed a waiver of that, or any other, right or remedy.

These terms and conditions will be governed by and interpreted according to English law. All disputes arising under these terms and conditions will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

PARTICIPATION AND COMMENTS TERMS 

These terms outline when subscribers engage in discussion about articles published on The Stray Ferret on the Stray Ferret website and app in the Comments section.

As journalists we believe in freedom of speech and expression. We hope you enjoy participating in discussions about the issues we report on. We encourage lively debate and discussion.

The aim of these Terms is to make the Stray Ferret a place of safe, public debate and discussion, where subscribers feel able to actively engage on a regular basis. To achieve this aim, we expect a standard of behaviour from those engaged in discussion. This document outlines those standards. We will moderate or hide comments that breach these guidelines. We reserve the right to permanently remove a person from commenting if they persistently breach these guidelines:

1. Subscribers must use their real names to post comments – we accept abbreviated first names (i.e Beth for Elizabeth) but not surnames.

2. Words have impact. Do not use vocabulary that could be interpreted as abusive or offensive to a person or group. We reserve the right to make judgements on whether language, and the context within which it is used, could be interpreted by others.

3. Respect others, not everyone will share your views. All comments must be legal as defined under current UK laws. We reserve the right to remove comments that we believe could be breaching those laws. Personal attacks on others will be removed.

4. We are journalists and open to reasonable views on our work. However personal attacks on Stray Ferret journalists or repeated attacks on our work will not be tolerated. If you have a complaint about our work contact us on complaints@thestrayferret.co.uk . We are regulated by IMPRESS and adhere to its Code of Conduct which can be found here. Should you be unhappy with our response you can take your complaint to our regulator where it will be externally examined and ruled upon.

5. We will moderate comments but would be grateful if subscribers tell us of any that they feel breach these guidelines.

6. Be aware that on some stories we will not allow comments. These articles will either be of a sensitive nature or may hold significant legal risks to us as publisher.

By subscribing to the Stray Ferret you will agree to this guidelines.

We reserve the right to hide comments or take them down. 

In extreme cases, where there is evidence of continual abuse of these guidelines, we reserve the right to cancel a person’s subscription without a refund.

THE STRAY FERRET DETAILS

The Stray Ferret Ltd is a company incorporated in England and Wales with registered number 12395571 whose registered address is 5 Cambridge Crescent, Harrogate HG1 1PE - www.thestrayferret.co.uk.

If you have any questions please contact subscriptions@thestrayferret.co.uk