Terms and conditions
1. Disclaimer
This website is operated by Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and is maintained for your personal use and viewing. Access and use by you of this site constitutes acceptance by you of the Terms and Conditions set out below. If you do not wish to accept the Terms and Conditions, please do not use this website.
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service does not in any circumstances accept responsibility for the accuracy or suitability or otherwise of any information or data published on this website (nor is any kind of warranty expressed or implied by such publication) and Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service specifically disclaims all and any liability for loss or damage of any nature whatsoever and however arising, whether due to inaccuracy, error or omission or any other cause.
2. Copyright
All material (including logos, text, images, video material and downloadable documents) on this website is the copyright of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service unless stated otherwise. Copying of any material and/or any third party material accessed via this website is not permitted without prior approval from the relevant copyright owner.
Requests for permission to use any material on this website should be directed to the Corporate Communications Department, 146 Bolton Road, Swinton, Manchester, M27 8US. Telephone 0161 608 4092 Fax 0161 608 4095; email corporatecommunications@manchesterfire.gov.uk. Tell us how and why you wish to use the material. Please include your contact details name, address, telephone number, fax number and email.
3. Hyperlinking
I) Hyperlinking to Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service
You do not have to ask permission to link directly to pages hosted on this site. We do not object to you linking directly to the information that is hosted on our site.
However, we do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site. The Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service web pages must load into the user's entire browser window.
II) Hyperlinking by us
We are not responsible for the content or reliability of websites we have linked to from this website. Listing should not be taken as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over the availability of linked pages.
4. Virus protection
We make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the Internet. We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from this website.
5. Privacy statement
If you are a user with general public and anonymous access the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service website does not store or capture personal information, but merely logs the user's IP address that is automatically recognised by the web server.
The system will record your email address and other information if volunteered to us by you. This shall be treated as proprietary and confidential. It may be used for internal review and to send you e-newsletters relating to updates to the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service website.
6. Cookies
Cookies are small text files that a web site transfers to a site visitor’s hard disk or browser for added functionality, or for tracking web site usage. We do not use cookies to gather personal information such as a person’s name or email address. In order to measure the effectiveness of our on-line presence, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service may use cookies to identify repeat visitors to our site and to determine the path visitors take on our site. Any information gathered by the use of cookies is compiled on an aggregate, anonymous basis.
Use of cookies is an industry standard and many websites use them. If you do not wish to receive cookies, or want to be notified of when they are placed, you can set your web browser to do so, if your browser so permits.
7. Material you send to us
If you send ideas, remarks, questions, data, graphics or the like ("the Submissions") to the Site, these will be deemed to be non-confidential and we will be entitled to use or disclose the Submissions in any manner whatsoever, without liability or notice to you. The Submissions or any other information you send to the Site should not be, or contain, material which is offensive, pornographic, defamatory, blasphemous, unlawful or likely to infringe any applicable law. You agree that all material submitted to us is original to you, and not copied in whole or part from any third party. Please do not send anything which is required to be kept confidential.
8. Competitions and prizes
These rules apply to any competitions which run on Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service’s website
I) Prizes in competitions are non-transferable, non-negotiable and no cash alternatives will be offered.
II) Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service can substitute a prize for a prize of equal value.
III) By entering a competition on Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service’s website, you agree to be bound by the rules and any other additional rules set out with the competition.
IV) Competition decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute arising under these Terms and Conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales