Website Group Terms & Conditions:-
These are our Terms and Conditions that govern the use of the following websites:-
- Southport Reporter
- Mersey Reporter
- Mersey Business
- Liverpool Reporter
- Formby Reporter
- Southport.TV
Visitors to our website must read and agree to the following:-
Introduction...
You must be at least 18 years of age to use our advertisement, email news services, RSS feeds, online comment sections, and any other related online services.
By using this our services and by agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent that you are at least 18 years of age.
Tracking...
This website uses cookies to monitor browsing
preferences. If you do allow cookies to be used, the following personal
information may be stored by us for use by third parties.
By using our web services
you agree to out Cookie and Tracking
Policies.
Performance of our online services...
We are not responsible for delays outside our control. Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on our websites listed above.
Licences...
Unless otherwise stated, PBT Media Relations Ltd and / or its licensors own the
intellectual property rights in the material supplied though our services.
Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are
reserved.
Content...
By using our services you acknowledge that any
information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly
exclude liability for any coding errors to the fullest extent permitted by
within laws of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
All news is published under the code of conduct of the UK press regulator
IMPRESS. by using our services you accept that you will follow any decisions
that they might issue and that you will follow the complaints procedure we have
published on all the news pages should you have any issues regarding our news
coverage.
The content of the pages on our websites is for your general information and use only and it is subject to change without notice. You are not allowed to sell, copy or retransmit any materials on our websites without the express permission of PBT Media Relations Ltd. unless an exemption has clearly been given on our websites for an individual section of material.
Your use of any information or materials on our websites is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable.
It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website meet your specific requirements. We can not be held liable for any loss of life, damage or injury as a result of your purchase.
From time to time our websites may also include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse the website(s). We have no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s).
If you download any items that are marked for download,
you do so at your own risk. Any downloads from our websites are provided so
without any warranties, terms or conditions as to quality, fitness for purpose,
performance or correspondence with description and we do not offer any
warranties or guarantees in relation to installation, configuration or
error/defect correction. They might also be subject to both our copyright and
external copyright claims. You must not redistribute any downloaded items
without express permission from PBT Media Relations Ltd.
If buying an item from our websites, products may vary slightly from their
pictures. The images of the products any products on our website are for
illustrative purposes only. Although we have made every effort to display the
colours accurately, we cannot guarantee that a device’s display of the colours
accurately reflects the colour of the products. Your product may vary slightly
from those images.
You can download content if clearly marked as except for "download" for specifically and expressly made available for redistribution. Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed for the purpose that it has been agreed by PBT Media Relations Ltd.
"Commissioned Contribution" means material created by you on the basis of a commission from us for transmission, publication or licensing by us.
"Advertorial" means material created for the purpose of promoting a product or service. We do at times run advertorials and you will accept that we clearly mark these items as adverts. If we have not paid for an item, we might have links to a business or the supply of the report in the story. This is not an advertorial as we have not been paid for its publication and its publication should not be taken as an endorsement, no should any advertorial published.
We reserve the right to edit any information supplied to us for publication. This is to allow us to best fit our publications and also to follow the codes of conduct of IMPRESS.
We have the right not to publish any material sent to us, in what ever format, unless it is a correction agreed thought the IMPRESS's code of conduct.
We collect all correspondence and store them with mind of publication at a future date or as reference material. We will also pass this material on if required to legal authorities as well as other media outlets should we feel we need to. This is compliant with media and artistic rules under the UK's Data Protection Laws.
Online Comment Section On Mersey Reporter...
ALL comments are held as a record of historical reference and are not subject to UK Data Protection rules, as a result we can not be held liable for any posts you make that results in the loss of any of your revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill.
You will not use these services for posting unsolicited advertisements.. If you do so, we are entitled to send you and invoice for advertisement and we will band you from using our services.
You will not use these services to post any content that can causes, or may cause, distress to others, we have the legal obligation to report you to the authorities and we will band you from using our services.
You will not post that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity. We have the legal obligation to report you to the authorities and we will band you from using our services.
You must not use our services 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 conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities,
including or without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data
harvesting, on or in relation to this website without PBT Media Relations Ltd's
express written consent.
You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial
communications. If you do so, we are entitled
to send you and invoice for advertisement
and we will band you from
using our services.
We hold all respondents details, email and IP addresses, for legal purposes and to ensure that our systems are not being abused.
Social media...
We agree you can link to our publication on your social media accounts, as long as you are not suggesting we endorse you.
Copyright and licences...
Our websites contains material which is owned by or licensed to us. Reproduction is prohibited other than in accordance with the copyright notice, which forms part of these terms and conditions.
Digital images and any other material supplied on our websites may not be copied, adapted, translated, made available, distributed, varied, modified, disassembled, decompiled, reverse engineered or combined with any other software. If you do copy any items, you will be in breach of our copyright agreements.
All trade marks reproduced on our websites might not be the property of, or licensed to, the operator are acknowledged on our websites, when required.
Submission of content...
When supplying material to our news services, please note that the words:- ”writing” and "communication" includes emails. When we use the words:- “writing” or “written” in these terms, this includes emails, social media messages, phone calls and video conferencing calls.
All communications including attachments and all material supplied to us on the understanding that all information could be published. If it is not for publication, you must clearly mark it as not for publication.
Any content submitted to us is received with the understanding that it is free for us to publish.
If you supply any information, or materials, in any format, you are responsible for checking you're legally allowed to use said materials. This includes any copyright issues and legal issues for any material, for example:- film, video, still, written, painted, digital graphic should we use your material.
We can not be held responsible for any losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data, due to your communications, should we publish any information you supply to us.
We do not pay for material sent to us unless commissioned in advance by our Editorial team, in writing and we get the signed contract we sent you back. If we do not get this and it is not clearly marked as we will publish it as free content.
Commissioning or ordering any distal, written, film or artwork, is only done in advance by our editor. This is done via a set contract, supplied by our selves. If you are supplying material and wanting payment we do not accept unrequested paid for content. You must contact us by phone first and agree to our standard terms and conditions for us to accept your Contributions, but their is no obligation for us to accept your work. If you do not call us and ask if we require your martial, we will accept it as freely given content and will not be held liable for any breaches in copyright, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.
You will also agree to follow the rules laid down by both IMPRESS and the NUJ when submitting any material for publication, be that paid or unpaid content.
Unacceptable use......
Unauthorised use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence under the laws of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Registrations and authorisations...
Your use of our websites and any dispute arising out of such use of the websites is subject to the laws of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, as well as rulings' by our press regulator IMPRESS.
Registrations and authorisations...
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PBT Media Relations Ltd. is registered with Companies House. You can find the online version of the register at:- Gov.UK. PBT Media Relations Ltd's registration number is 06042334.
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PBT Media Relations Ltd. is subject to the UK's Data Protection regulations, which is supervised by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) - Registration number:- ZA091469.
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PBT Media Relations Ltd. subscribes to the following code/s of conduct:- IMPRESS and NUJ. These codes / this code can be consulted electronically using this link.
This T&C section was last updated:- 19/09/2023
Advertisers T&C
Introduction...
These are our s governing the use of our advertisement opportunities; by using
our services, 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 or services.
You must be at least 18 years of age to use our advertisement services. By using
this our services and by agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and
represent that you are at least 18 years of age.
This website uses cookies. By using this website and agreeing to these terms and
conditions, you consent to PBT Media Relations Ltd's use of cookies in
accordance with the terms of PBT Media Relations Ltd's Privacy Policy / Cookies
Policy.
License to use our services...
Unless otherwise stated, PBT Media Relations Ltd and / or its licensors own the
intellectual property rights in the material supplied though our services.
Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are
reserved.
If you supply any information, or materials, in any format, you are responsible
for checking you re legally allowed to use said materials.
You may view, download for caching purposes the martial on our advertisement
services for use specified within the deal only, you can also print pages from
this website only for your own personal and record keeping use only, subject to
the restrictions set out below and elsewhere within these terms and conditions.
You must not:-
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Republish material from our websites (including republication on another website) without permission from PBT Media Relations Ltd. or as agreed elsewhere within these terms and conditions, or as part of the service you have requested;
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You are not allowed to sell, rent or sub-license material supplied by us, or displayed on our websites without permission from PBT Media Relations Ltd. or as agreed elsewhere within these terms and conditions, or as part of the service you have requested;
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Reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on our websites for a commercial purpose, without the permission from PBT Media Relations Ltd. or as agreed elsewhere within these terms and conditions, or as part of the service you have requested;
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You can not edit or otherwise modify any material on our websites or any material supplied to you by ourselves, unless written permission is given from PBT Media Relations Ltd. or as agreed elsewhere within these terms and conditions, or as part of the service you have requested;
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You can not redistribute material from our websites and services, except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.
Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed for the purpose that it has been agreed by PBT Media Relations Ltd.
Acceptable use...
You must not use our websites in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to
the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of any of our
websites; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in
connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or
activity.
You must not use our services 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 conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities,
including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data
harvesting, on or in relation to this website without PBT Media Relations Ltd's
express written consent.
You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial
communications.
You must not publish any items that break UK advertising laws or any UK laws.
Should you do this, PBT Media Relations Ltd. will report you to the relevant
authorities and remove your account / service, without refund.
Your advertisements must not look exactly like stories from any of our
publications that they are appearing in. Any information supplied as an advert
will be marked as an advert and identified as such, including advertorials. You
agree to allow us to edit any material you supply to us in order to be obviously
recognisable as advertisement.
Restricted access...
Access to certain areas of our websites and our services are restricted. PBT
Media Relations Ltd. reserves the right to restrict access to [other] areas of
our websites, or indeed to the entire website/s owned and run by PBT Media
Relations Ltd at its discretion.
If PBT Media Relations Ltd. provides you with a user ID and password to enable
you to access restricted areas of our website network, other content or
services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential at
all times.
PBT Media Relations Ltd. may disable user ID and passwords in PBT Media
Relations Ltd's sole discretion without notice or explanation.
You must not condone or encourage unsafe use of procedures, products or services
within your adverts. All adverts must comply with the UK's Advertising Standards
Authority (ASA)
codes and rulings. If you do not do so, you will be responsible for any legal
action and fines as a result.
User content...
In these terms and conditions:-
"your user content" means material
(including without limitation all:- text, images, audio material, video material
and audio-visual material) that you submit to ourselves and our representatives,
for whatever purpose.
You grant to PBT Media Relations Ltd. a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive,
royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute
your user content in any existing or future media.
You also grant to PBT Media Relations Ltd. the right to sub-license these
rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.
Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third
party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action
whether against you or PBT Media Relations Ltd. or a third party (in each case
under any applicable laws).
You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the
subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar
complaint.
PBT Media Relations Ltd. reserves the right to edit or remove any material
submitted us, or stored on PBT Media Relations Ltd's servers, or hosted or
published upon on our websites and websites we managed.
All content provided by you will be subject to checks by PBT Media Relations Ltd
and any of it's partners, and can be altered to our requirements for
publication, be that online or offline.
No warranties...
Our services are provided "as is" without any representations or warranties,
express or implied. PBT Media Relations Ltd. makes no representations or
warranties in relation to the use of our services or the information and
materials provided though our services.
Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, PBT Media
Relations Ltd. does not warrant that:-
l. our services will be constantly available, or available at all.
2. the information supplied by to ourselves though its users is true, accurate
or non-misleading.
3. that our services will always be complete and up-to-date.
Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, legal advice of
any kind. If you require legal advice in relation to any legal, financial or
medical matter you should consult an appropriate professional.
Limitations of liability...
PBT Media Relations Ltd. will not be liable to you (whether under the law of
contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use
of, or otherwise in connection with, its services, both online and offline:-
1. for any indirect, special or consequential loss;
2. for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated
savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or
goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.
These limitations of liability apply even if PBT Media Relations Ltd. has been
expressly advised of the potential loss.
Exceptions...
Nothing in this disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law
that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this disclaimer
will exclude or limit PBT Media Relations Ltd's liability in respect of any:-
1. death or personal injury caused by PBT Media Relations Ltd's negligence;
2. fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of PBT Media Relations Ltd;
3. matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for PBT Media Relations Ltd. to
exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability
under UK Law.
Reasonableness...
By using our services, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of
liability set out within this disclaimer are reasonable.
If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website our any
of our websites and services.
You will not suggest in any form that having taken out any advert or service
with ourselves or our partners constituents an:- endorsements, sponsorship,
partnership, or recommendation of your business, product/s or service/s.
Other parties...
You accept that, as a limited liability entity, PBT Media Relations Ltd. has an
interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees. You
agree that you will not bring any claim personally against PBT Media Relations
Ltd's officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection
with any of our services we provide.
You accepte that any purchases of services or products listed within on our
websites or any adverts within promotional materials we distribute are though
you and the seller, and that PBT Media Relations Ltd, or it's officers or
employees takes no reasonability for any losses or deaths coursed as a result of
your purchase of use of that listed service or product.
Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph above, you agree that the
limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will
protect PBT Media Relations Ltd's officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries,
successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as PBT Media Relations Ltd.
Unenforceable provisions...
If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable
under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other
provisions of this website disclaimer.
Indemnity...
You hereby indemnify PBT Media Relations Ltd. and undertake to keep PBT Media
Relations Ltd. indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and
expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by
PBT Media Relations Ltd. to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on
the advice of PBT Media Relations Ltd's legal advisers) incurred or suffered by
PBT Media Relations Ltd. arising out of any breach by you of any provision of
these terms and conditions[, or arising out of any claim that you have breached
any provision of these terms and conditions].
Breaches of these terms and conditions...
Without prejudice to PBT Media Relations Ltd's other rights under these terms
and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, PBT Media
Relations Ltd. may take such action as PBT Media Relations Ltd. deems
appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the
website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using
your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service
provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing
Court proceedings against you, under English and Welsh Laws.
Variation...
PBT Media Relations Ltd. may revise these terms and conditions from time to
time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our services from
the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this webpage.
Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current
version.
Assignment...
PBT Media Relations Ltd. may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with PBT
Media Relations Ltd's rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions
without notifying you or obtaining your consent.
You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or
obligations under these terms and conditions.
Wildcard issues...
Should you advert placement against be next to any bad news story (report)
within our news services, we can not be held responsible for any reputational
damage its placement might course.
PBT Media Relations Ltd or its representatives and partners will not be liable
for any under or over-delivery of impressions on your advertisements.
Severability...
If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by within English and
Welsh Law to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will
continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be
lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be
deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
Entire agreement...
These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and PBT
Media Relations Ltd. in relation to your use of our services online and offline,
and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of our business
services.
Law and jurisdiction...
These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance to
the laws of the United Kingdom (English and Welsh), and any disputes relating to
these terms and conditions will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the
Courts of the United Kingdom (England and Wales).
Payments...
ALL invoices must be paid in FULL within 15 days of start of the contract, unless agreed by PBT Media Relations Ltd in writing.
Your contract will automatically renew for the same time frame, and you will be billed accordingly. Any changes to the amount due will be sent to you in advance, with option for you to cancel the renewal at anytime, up to the renewal date.
You will be held liable for any additional charges for recovery, should you fail to make payment.
We will refund you any money outstanding, from the cancelation point of your account, if you have not broken our terms and conditions and we decide to remove your advertisement or have to stop running the service you are using for any reason. for example you have paid £200 for your advert for 1 year and we stop your advert after 6 months, you will get back £100.
Any overdue interest payments will be charged 8% above the Bank of England's current base rate.
Registrations and authorisations...
PBT Media Relations Ltd. is registered with Companies House. You can find the
online version of the register at:-
Gov.UK. PBT Media Relations Ltd's
registration number is 06042334.
PBT Media Relations Ltd. is subject to the UK's Data Protection regulations,
which is supervised by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) -
Registration number:- ZA091469.
PBT Media Relations Ltd. subscribes to the following code/s of conduct:- IMPRESS
and NUJ. These codes / this code can be consulted electronically using this
link.
PBT Media Relations Ltd's details
PBT Media Relations Ltd's address is:- 4a Post Office Ave, Southport,
Merseyside, PR90US, UK.
You can contact PBT Media Relations Ltd. by email to:-
This T&C section was last updated:- 19/09/2023
PBT Media Relations Ltd
details:-
PBT Media Relations Ltd. is registered with Companies House. You can find the
online version of the register at:-
Gov.UK. PBT Media Relations Ltd's
registration number is 06042334.
PBT Media Relations Ltd's address is:- 4a Post Office Ave, Southport,
Merseyside, PR90US, UK.
You can contact PBT Media Relations Ltd. by email to:-
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