Terms and Conditions

Please read these Terms & Conditions of Use before using this site.

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Welcome to Houghton Hall's official website, houghtonhall.com

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By using this site, you signify your assent to these terms of use ("Terms"). If you do not agree to these Terms of use, please do not use the site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these Terms at any time. Please check these Terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of houghtonhall.com (referred to as "the site", "this site" herein) following the posting of changes to these Terms will mean you accept those changes.

From time to time, we may supplement these Terms with additional Terms relevant to specific content or events ("Additional Terms"). These Additional Terms may be placed on this site to be viewed in connection with the specific content or events and shall be identified as such. You understand and agree that such Additional Terms are hereby incorporated by reference into these Terms.

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Restrictions on Use of Materials

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This site is owned and operated by The Houghton Estate (referred to as "The Houghton Estate," "we," "us," or "our" herein). No material from this website may be copied, reproduced, republished, amended, modified, revised, edited, changed, added to, deleted, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, without our express written permission. You may download one copy of the materials displayed on the site for your personal, non-commercial home use only, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. Modification of the materials or use of the materials for any other purpose is a violation of The Houghton Estate’s copyright and other proprietary rights. All trademarks, service marks, and trade names proprietary to The Houghton Estate are to be kept intact.

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In the event you download any material from the site, the material, including any software, files, images, graphics, or text, is licensed to you by The Houghton Estate. The Houghton Estate does not transfer title to such material to you. You own the medium on which the material is recorded, but The Houghton Estate retains full and complete title to the material at all times, and all intellectual property rights therein. You may not add, delete, distort, or otherwise modify the contents on the sites. Any unauthorized attempts to modify any Online Material, to defeat or circumvent our security features, or to utilize the site for anything other than its intended purpose is prohibited.

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Any communication or material transmitted by you to the site by electronic mail or otherwise will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. Accordingly, anything you transmit or post may be used by us or our affiliates for any purpose, including, but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcasting, and posting. Furthermore, we shall be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to us for any purpose whatsoever, including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing, and marketing products or events using such information.

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Forums and Public Communication

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"Forum" means a chat area, bulletin board, or e-mail function offered as part of houghtonhall.com. You alone are responsible for the content of your messages and the consequences of such messages, which you submit to the site. You shall not upload to, distribute through, or otherwise publish through houghtonhall.com any content which, in the opinion of The Houghton Estate:

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• May constitute libel, defamation, invasion of privacy, or is obscene, pornographic, abusive, or threatening;

• May infringe any intellectual property or other right of any entity or person;

• May violate any applicable law or advocate illegal activity;

• Advertises or otherwise solicits funds or is a solicitation for goods, services, advertisers, or sponsors or otherwise engages in commercial activity;

• Includes programs which may contain viruses, worms, trojan horses, or other computer code, files, or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunication;

• Contains links to other sites that contain the kind of content which falls within the descriptions set out in (A) to (F) above.

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You shall not use the site for distributing, disseminating, or posting any chain letters, junk mail, "spamming" material or any other form of bulk communication and you specifically acknowledge that soliciting other houghtonhall.com guests to join or become members of any commercial online service or other organization is expressly prohibited.

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By uploading materials to any Forum or submitting any materials to us, you automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such rights has expressly granted) us a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, communicate, perform, display and distribute such materials (in whole or in part) or incorporate such materials into any form, medium, or technology now known or later developed throughout the universe for the full term of any rights that may exist in such material. In addition, you warrant that the holder of any rights, including moral rights in such content, has completely and effectively waived all such rights and validly and irrevocably granted to you the right to grant the license stated above. You also permit any other member/subscriber to access, display, view, store, and reproduce such material for personal use.

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You shall not infringe any third-party rights through your use of the site, or your activities conducted from the site, including without limitation, the intellectual property rights of others. You further agree not to use in any way any of our trademarks or other intellectual property, or in any way to represent yourself or your site or the activities on your site as connected with us, or link to the site in any manner whatsoever without our express prior written consent and not to damage, interfere with, or disrupt access to the site or do anything that may interrupt or impair its functionality.

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Termination

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These Terms are effective until terminated by either party. You may terminate these Terms at any time by destroying all materials obtained from this site and all related documentation and all copies and installations thereof, whether made under these terms or otherwise. These Terms will terminate immediately without notice from The Houghton Estate if in The Houghton Estate’s sole discretion you fail to comply with any of these Terms. Upon termination, you must destroy all materials obtained from this site and all copies thereof, whether made under these Terms or otherwise.

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Limitation of Liability

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You expressly agree that your use of and browsing of the site are at your own risk. Neither The Houghton Estate nor any other party involved in creating, producing or delivering the site is liable for any direct, incidental, special, consequential, indirect or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, or inability to use the site or for the cost of procurement of substitute goods or services or resulting from any goods or services purchased or obtained or messages received or transactions entered into through the site or resulting from any unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, use, data or other intangible property, even if The Houghton Estate has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above.