Website terms & conditions
The LTA Operations Limited is a company registered in England and Wales (with company number 07475460). The purpose of this website is to provide you with information about the Lawn Tennis Association, its services and projects related to the game of tennis in Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. By accessing any of the pages on this website you agree to comply with the Terms & Conditions set out below. If you do not agree with these Terms & Conditions, do not make any use of the site and leave it immediately.
1. Introduction
1.1 This site is owned and operated by the LTA Operations Limited (“LTA”) whose address is 100 Priory Lane, Roehampton, London, SW15 5JQ. References to “we”, “us” and “our” should be construed as references to the LTA.
1.2 We have taken care in the preparation of the site. However, as certain technical matters may be beyond our control, we cannot guarantee that our site will always be available or that you will have uninterrupted access to the site at all times.
2. Use of content
2.1 All copyright and all other intellectual property rights in all text, images, sound, software, service marks, logos and other materials on the pages of the site (the “Content”) are owned by the LTA or are reproduced on the site with permission of the relevant rights owner. All such rights are reserved.
2.2 The Content may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means without the LTA’s prior written consent, except as stated at section 2.3 below.
2.3 You may read, view, listen, print, and (where appropriate) download the Content of an individual page for private and personal non-commercial use only, provided that all copyright, trademark, and other proprietary notices contained in the original materials on any copy of these materials is retained, and provided that you do not modify any such copy of the materials that you have made or downloaded, and you may not make more than one copy electronically or otherwise of any of the Content or recopy or further distribute, sell, publish or transmit any part of the material by electronic or any other means.
2.4 You agree not to sell, resell, supply or otherwise make the Content or extracts or other information derived therefrom available in any manner or on any media to any third party without the prior written consent of the LTA.
2.5 The names, images, and logos identifying the LTA its services, and projects, (including, without limitation, the names “LTA”, “Lawn Tennis Association” and “British Tennis”), or those of third parties, are the proprietary marks of the LTA, and/or may be the proprietary marks of third parties. Any use made of these marks may be an infringement of rights in those marks and the LTA reserves all rights to enforce such rights that it might have.
3. Prohibited use
You may not use the site:
3.1 for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any material, the publication, dissemination, use, or possession of which infringes the rights of any person or which is unlawful in any other respect;
3.2 in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the site;
3.3 to make available personal data about any person other than yourself;
3.4 to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the site;
3.5 to impersonate any other person or entity or to provide inaccurate information;
3.6 in any way which is abusive, vulgar, racist, sexist, defamatory, sexually orientated, or obscene or which will harass, distress, embarrass or inconvenience any person or which might restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of the site by any person;
3.7 for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation or commercial exploitation;
3.8 for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files, or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
3.9 to create a database (electronic or otherwise) that includes the Content;
3.10 to transmit or re-circulate any Content to any third party;
3.11 in such a way so as to remove the copyright, trade mark or proprietary notice(s) from any copies of any Content made in accordance with these terms; or
3.12 in any way that might bring the LTA, it’s affiliated organisations or the game of tennis into disrepute.
4. Use of messages and materials
4.1 By submitting messages, suggestions, or material (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) to the LTA / the site you are granting the LTA a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to reproduce, modify, translate, make available, distribute, and sub-license the message/suggestion in whole or in part and in any form anywhere in the world.
4.2 By submitting any messages, suggestions, or material to the LTA /the site you agree that LTA may use those materials or suggestions for any purpose and in any what it chooses, including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing, and marketing such materials or suggestions. Any materials you provide shall be regarded as non-confidential.
4.3 By submitting any messages, suggestions or material to LTA /the site you waive all of the moral rights that you have under Chapter IV of the of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988 in respect of any such material.
4.4 If you do not wish to grant LTA the rights set out above, do not submit contributions to the site.
4.5 The LTA shall have the unrestricted right to post on to the site, some or all of, any messages or suggestions that you submit to the LTA / the site or to choose not to do so. If the LTA chooses to post some or all of your messages or suggestions it may thereafter remove from the site some or all of any messages or suggestions that you submitted to the LTA / the site at its discretion and without the need to give any reasons.
5. Message boards
5.1 Some of the pages of the site may contain message boards, bulletin boards, chat pages, or other forums in which users are able to post material for viewing by others. The LTA does not edit or monitor the content of these pages and, subject to what is said below, does not have any knowledge of any of the activities or information carried on in, or contained within, those pages. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.
5.2 If you becomes aware that any material on those pages, or any activities carried out on those pages, are offensive, unlawful, or infringe any third party rights in any way, please send an appropriately worded message to the LTA by email using this address: webmaster@LTA.org.uk. The LTA may then remove any such material, or to disable access to the information, or take such other steps at it deems reasonable in the circumstances.
6. Warranties and liability
6.1 Our site is made available free of charge. The Content on this site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice or a recommendation on which you should rely. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties, or guarantees, whether express or implied, statutory or otherwise, that the Content on our site is complete or up to date. You should check the accuracy of the Content or opinions expressed on this site before taking, or refraining from, any action.
6.2 The Content may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. The LTA makes no representations about the reliability, availability, timeliness, and accuracy of the Content. The LTA does not warrant that the site will be free of viruses or other harmful components.
6.3 The site may contain links to other websites (“Third Party Sites”). The LTA neither endorses nor takes responsibility for the availability or content of Third Party Sites and will not be a party to, or in any way responsible for, any transaction concerning goods or services available from such Third Party Sites. If you decide to use these links to access Third Party Sites you do so at your own risk.
6.4 On some of the pages of the site you may be informed of the opportunity of entering into agreements with third parties. The LTA or any of its subsidiary companies are not liable in relation to, and takes no responsibility for, any contract entered into by you with any third party.
6.5 If you are a consumer the LTA or any of its subsidiary companies does not exclude or limit in any way its liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so.
If you are a business the LTA shall not be liable for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage (including, without limit, loss of property or profit, business revenue or opportunity or anticipated savings, and loss of or damage to any data) or for any costs, claims or demands of any nature whatsoever arising directly or indirectly out of the use of or access to the Content; any websites linked to the site; or any part thereof or in respect of any defect therein or any failure to provide, or the late delivery of, the same howsoever arising.
The LTA does not exclude its liability for death and personal injury caused by its negligence or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
7. Privacy Policy
7.1 The information that you provide about yourself to the LTA will only be used by the LTA in accordance with its Privacy Policy and by using this site you acknowledge our use of data collected on this site in the manner set out in the Privacy Policy.
7.2 We may use cookies on the site (see the Privacy Policy for further details of the cookies we use).
8. Changes to these terms and amendments to Content
8.1 The LTA reserves the right, at its discretion, to make changes to any part of the site or Content.
8.2 We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and/or operational reasons.
8.3 Due to its policy of updating and improving the site, the LTA may wish to change these Terms & Conditions from time to time and you agree to be bound by the Terms & Conditions which apply at the time of your use of the site.
9. Advertising and sponsorship
The site may contain third party advertising and sponsorship. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on the site complies with international and national law. The LTA will not be responsible for any error or inaccuracy in such third party advertising material.
10. Competitions and prizes
From time to time the LTA may run competitions, prize draws, and promotions on the site. In each case these will be subject to additional competition terms which will be made available on the site.
11. Choice of law and jurisdiction
11.1 If you are a consumer, please note that these Terms & Conditions, their subject matter, and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.
11.2 If you are a business, these Terms & Conditions, their subject matter, and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
12. Contacting the LTA
If you need to contact the LTA about these Terms & Conditions you may do so by post using the address given above or via the contact us form.
13. General
13.1 If any provision of these Terms & Conditions is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of that provision will not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these terms, which shall remain in full force and effect.
13.2 Failure by either party to exercise any right or remedy under these terms does not constitute a waiver of that right or remedy. Headings in these terms are for convenience only and will have no legal meaning or effect.
13.3 You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise, or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site for any purpose. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):
- any "robot", "bot", "spider", "scraper" or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of our site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same; and
- any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends, and correlations.
13.5 You shall not use, and we do not consent to the use of, our site, or any Content or data published by, or contained in, or accessible via, our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site for the purposes of developing, training, fine-tuning or validating any artificial intelligence system or model.