Terms and Conditions

Terms of use

These are the terms and conditions which apply to your use of this website. Please read them carefully. By proceeding with access to this website you are deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions.

Please note that this website is intended for use by residents of the United Kingdom. It is not intended for residents and investors of other countries because the law and/or cycling conditions in other countries may restrict the distribution and relevance of the information on this website. For the avoidance of doubt none of the information on this website constitutes an offer to contract in any country in which it is available including the UK.

General

This website was created by Proctor and Stevenson. Editorial content is provided by the Better By Bike team within Bristol and South Gloucestershire council's Cycling City team, based in Brunel House, St George's Road, Bristol, BS1 5UY.

Better By Bike will endeavour to ensure that this website is accessible for 24 hours a day but will not be liable if, for any reason, the website is unavailable for any time or for any period. Better By Bike will have the right to suspend access to the site temporarily or permanently and without notice.

Information

The information contained on this website is provided for information purposes only and Better By Bike will use reasonable care and skill to ensure that it is accurate at the date of publication. However, because of the nature of the internet, there may be circumstances in which errors occur within the information. Consequently Better By Bike makes no guarantee as to the accuracy of any information on this website and cannot accept liability for any errors or omissions within it.

Liability

Better By Bike accepts no responsibility for the content of or use of any website which is accessed via a hypertext link from this website. Better By Bike has user-generated content within its structure. Better By Bike cannot guarantee that the content submitted by users will not be offensive or inappropriate. Where this material is deemed offensive or inappropriate it will be removed as soon as it is identified. Better By Bike cannot guarantee that this website is free of viruses or technical defects of any description, and accepts no responsibility for any technical problems arising from your use of this website.

Use of Cookies

This website may write small files to your computer called ‘cookies’. We may use them for the following reasons:

1. to ensure you are properly logged in where this is necessary to use the site.
2. to track your progress through the site so we can make improvements to the service we offer you;
3. to remember any preferences which the site may allow you to set.

The cookies we store on your computer do not contain any personally identifiable information. You do not have to accept cookies & you can disable them or change the way your computer handles them by adjusting your settings. See the ‘help’ function in your web browser or security software for more information. If you choose not to accept cookies, you may experience problems using areas of this website that require you to log on.

Copyright and other Intellectual Property Rights

Better By Bike is a registered trademark of the website Better By Bike which claims trademark rights in the logo. Better By Bike owns the copyright and all other intellectual property rights existing on or within this website.
You are not permitted to download, print, redistribute or extract any information from this website other than for your personal, non-commercial use. You are not permitted to reproduce, modify or in any way change any of the information available on this website.

Applicable Law

Better By Bike has established this website in England. English Law shall govern its use at all times and in the event of a dispute the parties shall irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.  

Prizes

Prizes are not transferable. The organisers will contact the winners using the contact details provided on the entry form. It is the entrants responsibility to make sure they provide correct contact details. Prizes will be available for collection for one month after the entrant is confirmed as a prize winner.

Photo competitions:

The entrant who creates the entry deemed by the judges to be the single best image, taking into account all categories, will win a prize as detailed on the competition entry form. Runners-up may also win lesser prizes, depending on the competition.

Other competitions:

The winner(s) of a competition in a text format (eg answering a question or providing a short description) will be picked at random from all the correct entries.

Copyright and permissions

By submitting images or video to the website, each entrant confirms and warrants that:

a. they are the sole author of each entry and that it is their original work;

b. they own the copyright and any other intellectual property rights of each image;

c. they have the permission of anyone pictured in the image (or, where the image shows any persons under 18, the consent of their parent/guardian) for the usage rights required by www.betterbybike.info and Greater Bristol's Cycling City project and will indemnify www.betterbybike.info and Greater Bristol's Cycling City project against any claims made by any third parties in respect of such infringement; and

d. they have not licensed or disposed of any rights in the image that would conflict with uses to be made by citycycling.co.uk.

By entering a competition, you grant www.betterbybike.info and Greater Bristol's Cycling City project and its sponsors and supporters a non-exclusive, irrevocable licence to reproduce, enlarge, publish or exhibit, on any media, the images for any purpose directly connected with the competition. This may include, but is not limited to:

a. display at any exhibitions;

b. on a secure web browser for judging purposes;

c. on the citycycling.co.uk website;

d. for use in press releases to be distributed to national, regional & specialist press giving information about or promoting the competition;

For any use that falls outside this remit, royalties will be discussed & negotiated with the photographer concerned.

Entrants retain the copyright to images submitted.

Policies

The editors of www.betterbybike.info reserve the right to remove any entries from the competition that it feels may breach or contravene laws of public decency or may bring the photographer into disrepute. Such entries will be deemed as void and any fees paid will not be refunded.

The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into, and there is no right of appeal over the result. Should the entries in any category fall below the standard required by the competition organisers and the judges, then the organisers reserve the right not to award prizes or transfer prizes to other categories as they deem necessary.