Updated on 1 November 2007
About ucas.com/ucascard
Students are invited to join the UCAS Card scheme in academic years 12, S5, or equivalent. The scheme is a fun and
informative way to introduce students to the UCAS application process, providing resource and study guides, help with the application
process, information about what life as a student is really like and entertainment news. In addition, students also receive special offers
and discounts from leading brands. UCAS Card forums allow students to talk to one another and universities themselves about all aspects
of university life.
ucascardforums.co.uk & ucascardforums.com is operated by UCAS Media Limited. UCAS Media Limited is a wholly owned trading subsidiary of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS). By using the UCAS Card website & UCAS Card forums, you, as the user, are deemed to consent to all terms and conditions set out below.
If you have any questions regarding the terms and conditions, you should contact the Director of Business Development at UCAS Media Limited, Rosehill, New Barn Lane, Cheltenham, GL52 3LZ.
Changes to these terms
UCAS Media Limited reserves the right at all times to vary, change, alter, amend, add to or remove any of these terms.
By browsing the UCAS Card website and/or the UCAS Card forums you accept that you are bound by the current terms and conditions and
notices. We, therefore, recommend that you check these each time you revisit the site.
Eligibility and registration
The UCAS Card scheme is open to Year 12, S5 and equivalent students in the UK. By registering for the UCAS Card scheme, you
warrant that you are a student in the correct cohort and that you understand and agree to these terms and conditions.
When you register on the UCAS Card website and UCAS Card forums you should provide accurate information about yourself as specified in the registration form. You are responsible for all activities under these usernames and screen names and for keeping your passwords secure at all times. We have the right to withdraw the usernames and/or screen names if we feel that these are offensive, vulgar or infringe on another person's proprietary rights.
Member conduct
The UCAS Card website and UCAS Card forums are available for your personal, non-commercial use only and may not be used for any
illegal or unauthorised purpose. You are solely responsible for your conduct on site including the posting of images, video clips, text,
photos, graphics, links and other content and the posting of comments.
UCAS will try to make the Website available but cannot guarantee that the Website will operate continuously or without interruptions or be error free and can accept no liability for its unavailability. You must not attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website and in particular you must not attempt to circumvent security, tamper with, hack into, or otherwise disrupt any computer system, server, website, router or any other internet connected device. You are also advised to use the appropriate antivirus software before and during access to the Website.
If we deem any materials to be offensive, unlawful, vulgar, defamatory, fraudulent, threatening or otherwise unsuitable, or if we think they infringe any other proprietary rights, we reserve the right to remove these materials immediately and without obligation.
UCAS and UCAS Media Limited will not be under any obligation to check the accuracy and truthfulness of materials posted onto the site by its members. Neither company accepts any responsibility for materials posted by members to the site.
As a member of the UCAS Card site and UCAS Card forums you agree to abide by all applicable laws and regulations and you are
solely responsible for the actions taken in connection with your account. In particular, you agree not to:
· abuse, threaten the rights of others in any way;
· upload or publish any messages materials which are or may be deemed to be obscene, harmful, racially offensive or discriminatory, unlawful or in any other way objectionable;
· submit materials that are unlawful or promote illegal activity or that would violate the property rights or copyright of others;
· use other members' personal data other than to establish contact as facilitated by the UCAS Card website & UCAS Card forums;
· create a false or misleading identity or misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity, in order to mislead others as to the identity of the sender or collect information about others;
· interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of the UCAS Card website and/or UCAS Card forums by posting any material that contains software viruses or materials aimed at overburdening or impairing the websites;
· attempt to modify or adapt any part of the UCAS Card website and/or UCAS Card forums;
· disseminate content that infringes on any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, rights of privacy or publicity, or other proprietary right of any party or infringes any intellectual property law or any other applicable law;
· disseminate unauthorized advertising or promotional materials;
· interfere with another Member's use and enjoyment of the UCAS Card website and/or UCAS Card forums;
· collect email addresses or other contact information of members.
UCAS and UCAS Media Limited will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of this section. Where necessary, we will consider the pursuit of legal action against any person who does not comply with the conditions of use of this site.
Forum Policy
As a user you will abide by the full member conduct policy and agree upon registration when using the UCAS Card forums not to:
· express racist, sexist, or inflammatory opinions pertaining to religion, politics or lifestyle choices with the intent to cause offence to other users;
· make threats or actual personal attacks or harassment as an individual or group of individuals on another user;
· promote or use sexually explicit, vulgar or upsetting content or images. This includes links to external social networking sites and video & file sharing sites;
· exploit the forums for commercial gain which is expressly forbidden as is spamming the UCAS Card community. Spam refers to the duplication of posts or messages across multiple boards for their own safety. Users are not permitted to create forum threads to share email addresses, telephone numbers, addresses or any other personal data;
· create forum posts which promote illegal or reckless practices likely to endanger the wellbeing of other users;
· infringe copyright laws when sharing material from other sources whether graphic or written, users should reference the source author by name to prevent potential copyright infringements. Users are solely responsible for the material that they post including images, video clips, text, photos, graphics, links and other content as well as the posting of comments in the forums.
UCAS or UCAS Media Limited will not be under any obligation to check the accuracy and truthfulness of materials posted onto the site by its members. This responsibility resides entirely with the person who posts the material.
UCAS Card forum users understand that should they be deemed not to be adhering to the UCAS Card member conduct or forum policy, that their site membership may be terminated. UCAS and UCAS Media Limited reserve the right to remove any material which it considers to be inconsistent with these Conditions of Use.
Users are encouraged to use the reporting facilities available to alert the UCAS Media Limited Moderation Team in the event of any of the above being breached.
UCAS and UCAS Media Limited reserve the right to involve the relevant legal authorities whenever it is deemed appropriate.
Proprietary Rights in User Provided Material
UCAS and UCAS Media Limited does not claim ownership rights of any materials that you submit or post on to the UCAS Card
website and/or UCAS Card forums. After you submit these materials you continue to retain all ownership rights in your materials and
continue to have the right to use your materials in any way you choose.
By submitting or displaying your materials on the UCAS Card website and/or UCAS Card forums you grant UCAS and UCAS Media Limited a limited licence to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such materials solely on and through the UCAS Card website and/or UCAS Card forums.
The license you grant to UCAS and UCAS Media Limited is non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty fee meaning that UCAS and UCAS Media Limited will not be liable to pay you for any materials that you provide.
The license does not grant UCAS and UCAS Media Limited the right to sell your materials nor distribute them outside the UCAS Card website and UCAS Card Forums without your permission.
Privacy Policy
UCAS and UCAS Media Limited takes your privacy very seriously. Please read our privacy policy in the UCAS Card forums.
Copyright
All copyright and other intellectual property in any material contained on the UCAS Card website and/or UCAS Card forums,
including but not limited to the text, graphics, layout, photographs, software, page layout and design, is either owned by UCAS Media
Limited or has been licensed to UCAS Media Limited by the rights owners. The websites contain trademarks, which belong to UCAS Media
Limited or have been licensed to UCAS Media Limited by the trademark owner for use on the websites. Use of these trademarks is forbidden
unless prior written permission has been obtained from the owner of the trademark.
You may access any part of the sites and download or copy material (by printing off individual pages on to paper) or download material on to disc (but not on to any server or other device connected to a network) for personal non-commercial use only. The copyright in such material shall be retained by UCAS Media Limited or, where the material has been licensed to UCAS Media Limited, by the rights owners of the material.
Except as set out in these terms and conditions, you may not copy, modify, publish, transmit or distribute any part of the UCAS Card website and/or UCAS Card forums except with the express permission of UCAS Media Limited
You may not remove any copyright, trademark or intellectual property notices contained in the original material from any material downloaded or copied from the Websites.
Copying, distributing or any use of the materials contained on the websites for any commercial purpose is prohibited.
You may not create a database by systematically downloading substantial parts of the websites.
Disclaimer
The content of the websites is for general information only and does not constitute any form of advice or recommendation upon which
a specific decision should be made. UCAS Media Limited has done its best to ensure the accuracy and currency of the materials contained on
its websites but excludes any warranty express or implied as to quality, accuracy, timeliness, completeness or fitness for a particular
purpose of the material contained on the UCAS Card website and UCAS Card forums. UCAS Media Limited will not be liable for any claims,
penalties, loss, damages or expenses arising from the use or the inability to use the websites or from any unauthorised access or alteration
to the websites by a third party. This clause shall not exclude liability for death or personal injury directly caused by the negligence of
UCAS Media Limited.
UCAS Media Limited accepts no responsibility for loss or damage which may arise from reliance on information or advice contained on its websites.
The UCAS Card website and UCAS Card forums include links to external Websites. These links are provided to help you find additional information quickly and easily. UCAS Media Limited accepts no responsibility for the content of these Websites and specifically excludes to the fullest extent permitted by law all liability that may arise with respect to or as a result of such material causing damage, costs, injury or financial loss of any kind.
Whilst the UCAS Card website and UCAS Card forums may from time to time contain advertising material, UCAS Media does not endorse or accept any liability for any of the products or services so advertised, or for any error or inaccuracy in the advertisements. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on the website complies with all relevant laws.
The offers in the UCAS Card scheme are subject to the terms and conditions of the various participating companies. You should ensure that you make yourself aware of the terms and conditions of any offer that you wish to participate in. Details of these terms and conditions can be found by reference to the participating company.
Please note that any participating company can withdraw from the UCAS Card scheme at any point in time. As this is beyond the control of UCAS Card, we cannot be held responsible for any consequences that might occur as a result of the participating company's decision to no longer support the UCAS card scheme. Any withdrawals from participation will be displayed on the UCAS Card website. In these circumstances, Cards will continue to have validity for the remaining participants of the scheme but will not be re-issued to reflect any change in participants.
General
These terms are not intended to confer any benefit on a third party under the provision of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved to UCAS Media Limited.
UCAS Media Limited reserves the right, at any time, to suspend or terminate your access to, or use of, the Websites.
If any provision of these terms and 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 and conditions which shall continue to have full force and effect.
The failure by UCAS Media Limited to exercise any right or remedy under these terms and conditions shall not constitute a waiver of that right or remedy.
Prizes, Competitions & Incentives
Certain offers in the UCAS Card scheme are subject to the terms and conditions of the various participating companies. You should ensure
that you make yourself aware of the terms and conditions of any offer that you wish to participate in. Details of these terms and conditions
can be found by reference to the participating company.
UCAS Media Limited and all promotional partners will not be using data received from the competitions for the purposes of communication, other than to inform prize winners. Winners will be notified by email or post. Winners' names may be published on the UCAS Card website and/or UCAS Card forums.
All competition entries need to be made before the specific competition closing date displayed on the websites. No late entries will be accepted.
Once a winner has been chosen all reasonable efforts will be made to notify the winner. In the event of UCAS Media Limited being unable to contact a winner within 1 calendar month of the draw or competition closing date, another winner will be chosen (in the case of competitions) or a re-draw will take place (in the case of a prize draw).
All prizes must be claimed or, where appropriate, redeemed within a period of 4 months following the date on which the draw took place or the competition result was announced. Should this not occur, UCAS Media Limited reserves the right to identify an alternative winner and the original winner will cease to be eligible to receive or redeem the prize.
The prize is non-transferable and cash alternatives are not available.
UCAS Media Limited will not be responsible for the loss of any prize or the costs associated (including local Customs duties) with its delivery outside of the United Kingdom.
UCAS and UCAS Media Limited do not accept any responsibility for the quality and/or functionality of prizes. Product defects are the responsibility of the manufacturer and queries or complaints regarding the product should be taken up with them.
Where tickets to an event are offered as a prize, travel and accommodation are not included unless otherwise stated.
UCAS Media Limited will accept no responsibility for any loss or delay howsoever caused in connection with travelling to or from the event, nor will UCAS Media Limited be responsible for the costs of travel to or from the event or any accommodation used. No responsibility will be accepted by UCAS Media Limited for other occurrences beyond its control including, but not limited to, cancellation or postponement of the event, illness of the prize winner or any his or her family or partners for the purpose of attending the event.
Any breach of these prize draw and competition rules by an entrant will void their entry. Misrepresentative or fraudulent entries will invalidate an entry.
For a list of winners please send a stamped envelope to UCAS Card, UCAS Media Limited, Rosehill, New Barn Lane, Cheltenham, GL52 3LZ.
The decision of the Director of Business Development', UCAS Media Limited, is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
SPECIFIC COMPETITION RULES (these are in addtion to the above terms and conditions)
Register before 30 June 08 to win an iPod nano
1. To be entered into the prize draw you must be a Year 12 or equivalent student and complete your registration in full by
12 noon on 30 June 2008. All eligable students who register for a UCAS Card between 12 noon 4 June 2008 and 12 noon 30 June will
automatically be entered into the prize draw.
2. The draw will take place by 17:00 Tuesday 1 July 2008 and the winner will be notified by 17:00 on 2 July 2008.
3. The winner will recieve a 4GB iPod nano. 10 runners up will each recieve a £15 iTunes songcard.
4. The winner will be the first UCAS Card holder chosen at random from the eligable entries. A further
10 students will be chosen at random from the eligable entries to each recieve one of the runners' up prizes.
5. The winner and runners up will be contacted via email address and asked to provide a postal address at which
they are able to receive their prize.
Recommend a friend and win £100 of vouchers
1. To be entered into the prize draw you must recommend a friend to register for a UCAS Card before 11.59am 13th June 2008.
2. Your friend must register for a UCAS Card and you must email ucascard@ucas.ac.uk with your name and UCAS Card number and your friends name, school name and email address, by 11.59am 13th
June 2008 to be entered into the prize draw.
3. The recommended friend must be a valid registrant in Year 12, S5 or equivalent.
4. The draw will take place on Monday 16th June and the winner will be notified by 5pm on 17th June 2008.
5. The winner will recieve £50 of vouchers for a retailer of their choice from the list below, and the friend that
they recommended will also recieve £50 worth of vouchers for the retailer of their choice (from the list below).
6. List of retailers:
BSM
Bella Italia
JJB Sports
Play.com
PC World
Superdrug
Topman
Topshop
Virgin Experience Days
7. The winner and the friend whom they recommended will be contacted via email address and asked to provide a postal address at which they are able to receive their prize.
UCAS Media Limited
Rosehill, New Barn Lane, Cheltenham GL52 3LZ
UCAS MEDIA LIMITED IS A WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF UCAS, THE UNIVERSTITIES AND COLLEGES ADMISSIONS SERVICE. REGISTERED IN ENGLAND 2737300. REGISTERED OFFICE: PORTWALL PLACE, PORTWALL LANE, BRISTOL, BS1 6NA UCAS MEDIA IS A MEMBER OF THE DIRECT MARKETING ASSOCIATION