Terms & Conditions

Please note that by using this website or our mobile applications (for example our iPhone and iPad apps) (a “Site”), you accept these Terms. If you do not accept these Terms, do not use this Site. We may change these Terms from time to time, so you should review them each time that you visit the Site. You should print a copy of these Terms for future reference.

Index

  1. About us
  2. Using our Site
  3. Registration
  4. Your Content – what we are allowed to do
  5. Your Content – what you are not allowed to do
  6. Suspending or terminating your registration
  7. Third party content and links available on this Site
  8. Your personal information
  9. Our liability
  10. Maintenance of the Site
  11. Validity of these terms
  12. Jurisdiction and applicable law

1. About us

1.1. This Site is operated by Pickup Publications Ltd, a company registered in England under company number 8476679 with a registered office at 10 Hansby Close Seacroft Village Leeds West Yorkshire LS14 6 JX  (“we”, “us”, “our”). Our VAT number is GB 166698158. You can contact us using the following email address admin@yorkshirereporter.co.uk

2. Using our Site

2.1. You may view (and, where applicable) listen to) the content available on the Site for personal non-commercial use. You may occasionally print individual webpages on the Site for your private non-commercial use, provided that such printing is not substantial or systematic and our trade marks and copyright and trade mark notices are not removed.

2.2. Unless otherwise stated in these Terms, you must not (whether directly or indirectly) copy, download, store, make available, distribute, sell or offer to sell all or any part of the content or Site, or download or otherwise copy (whether directly or indirectly) any content, files or data from the Site to make or populate a database or publication of any kind whatsoever. If you require any further information on permitted use, or a licence to re publish any part of the Site (or any Content), please email us at admin@yorkshirereporter.co.uk or contact us by telephone on 0113 273 5000.

2.3. You may only play video or audio files using the media player on our Site.

2.4. If you would like a friend to read a story or watch or listen to a video or audio file on our Site, please use the ‘Email to a Friend’ or ‘Share this Article’ facilities on our Site, or you may email a link to our Site to your friend or simply ask them to visit our Site. Please ensure that you have their consent before giving us their details.

2.5. You must not use all or any part of our Site or the contents on it for commercial purposes without our permission.

2.6. Users, whether or not registered, must not abuse our Report Abuse facility e.g. by making malicious reports.

3. Registration

3.1. You must be 16 years old or older to register and submit material (e.g. comments) to the Site.

3.2. Only one registration per person is allowed. You must keep your registration information up to date.

3.3. You must choose an email address which gives you frequent access to emails sent to that address, as we need to be able to contact you. You must keep your password confidential.

3.4 You must not:

(i) impersonate or try to impersonate another person;

(ii) disclose your password to anyone else;

(iii) allow anyone else use your account;

(iv) use anyone else’s account.

3.5. You are responsible for everything done using your account. If you think that someone else may have access to, or be using, your password or account, you must tell us as soon as possible by emailing legal@yorkshirereporter.co.uk

4. Your content – what we are allowed to do

4.1. We may publish, check, edit or remove all or part of the comments or other material, including your name, town and country, which you submit to us (‘Your Content’), at our sole discretion. We are not obliged to do any of these things and we may not.

4.2. You retain any copyright you may have in Your Content. By submitting material to us, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive worldwide licence to use, copy, edit, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, make available, communicate and distribute Your Content (in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. By submitting Your Content, you warrant that you have the right to grant this licence. The licence is capable of sub-license by us to other entities and brands in our group of companies (including, without limitation, Members Area, Jobs, Property,, Cars & Bikes, ).(What companies Can We Link To)

4.3. To the extent permitted by law, you waive your moral rights (e.g. the right to be identified as author or to object to derogatory treatment) in Your Content.

This clause 4 means, for example (without limitation), that we can:

  • Continue to publish all or part of Your Content, including your name, town and country, even if you change your mind and want us to remove it and/or you are no longer registered with the Site;
  • Remove Your Content, even if you have not breached these Terms or our House Rules;
  • Use all or part of Your Content in promoting our products and services (e.g. we may use a screenshot including your comments in our advertising);
  • Edit your Content, which may result in a part of it being modified and displayed, including without your name. Please note that we do check, monitor, moderate all the comments and other material submitted to us. While some comments are pre-moderated (i.e. checked in advance by us before publication), some are not (see our FAQ for more details).

5. Your content – what you are not allowed to do

5.1. You must not submit any material to our Site that:

(a) is:

(i) defamatory, malicious, threatening, false, misleading, offensive, abusive, discriminatory, harassing, blasphemous or racist,

(ii) indecent, obscene or of a sexual nature,

(iii) a breach of confidentiality or someone’s privacy;
(b) could prejudice any active legal proceedings of which you are aware;
(c) is likely to:

(i) cause someone alarm, anxiety or distress;

(ii) encourage violence or racial or religious hatred;
(d) infringes any intellectual property rights, such as copyright and trade marks. This means generally that you must own the rights in everything you submit or must obtain permission from the rights owner to submit the material;

(e) is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software, harmful data or conduct);

(f) advertises any product or services;

(g) impersonates anyone else or otherwise misrepresents your identity, affiliation or status;

(h) is in breach of these Terms, our Privacy Policy, and/or House Rules;

(i) is, encourages or teaches conduct that is a criminal offence, gives rise to civil liability, or is otherwise unlawful;

5.2. You must not include links on the Site to any websites or webpages.

5.3. You must not try to get round any protections we put in place for the security and operation of the Site.

5.4. You must not re-submit content which you are aware has been removed.

6. Suspending or terminating your registration

6.1. We may suspend, terminate or prevent your registration at our sole discretion. This may be because, for example, we consider that you have breached or will breach these Terms or our House Rules or someone has reported abuse. However, we are not obliged to do these things, we decide.

6.2. Where we suspend, terminate or prevent your registration, you must not attempt to re-register or submit content (e.g. using someone else’s registration), without our permission. The period of any suspension depends on all the circumstances.

7. Third party content and links available on this Site

7.1. We are not liable or responsible for the third party content on this Site. Third party content includes, for example, comments posted by users and the content of advertisements.

7.2. Where this Site contains links to other sites and resources, which are provided by third parties, these links and resources are provided for your information only and you access them at your own risk. We are not liable or responsible for the content of third party sites or resources.

If you see something which you reasonably believe breaches these Terms or our House Rules, please use the Report Abuse facility. If there is no facility available, please contact admin@yorkshirereporter.co.uk

8. Your personal information

8.1. We will use your personal information in accordance with our privacy policy, which forms part of these Terms. Please read our Privacy Policy now.

9. Our liability   

9.1. The information contained on this Site is for information purposes only and does not constitute advice. You should check any information on the Site and use your own judgment before doing or not doing anything on the basis of what you see. We give no warranties of any kind in relation to the Site or its contents.

9.2. Except for liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, we are not liable for:

(a) any action you may take as a result of relying on any information provided on this Site or for any loss or damage suffered by you as a result of you taking this action;

(b) any dealings you have with third parties (e.g. other users, advertisers or promoters) that take place using or facilitated by the Site;

(c) any liability for losses which are not a foreseeable or likely consequence of (i) your use of the Site, or (ii) a breach of these Terms.

9.3. We are not responsible if you cannot access the Site properly or at all because of any event outside our control, for example (without limitation) the performance of your or our ISP, your browser or the Internet.

9.4. The Site relies in part on software to work. Software has bugs. Whilst we will monitor the Site and try to fix bugs, we cannot guarantee that the Site or any individual feature of the Site will be error free, available all the time and/or free from viruses.

9.5. However, nothing in these Terms will affect any liability we may have for death or personal injury arising from our negligence or any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited by law.

10. Maintenance of the Site

10.1. Making your use of the Site enjoyable means we need to fix bugs, install updates and do general diagnosis and maintenance of the Site. We will try to do scheduled maintenance during times when we anticipate that online use is lower than normal.

10.2. We also need to be able to do emergency maintenance and/or suspend access to the servers where, in our reasonable discretion, we see the need to do that. We will try to have the Site available again as soon as we think it is safe to do so.

11. Validity of these Terms

11.1. If any part or provision of these Terms is found to be unlawful or unenforceable, this shall not affect the validity of any other part or provision.

12. Jurisdiction and applicable law

12.1. These Terms are governed by English law. The English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute relating to these Terms.

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Cookies notice

You should be aware that when you use our websites, mobile sites, or mobile apps, we may collect information by using ‘cookies’.
If you’d like to learn how to manage these cookies and ‘opt in’ and ‘out’ of different types, please see our privacy policy and cookie FAQ.

What are cookies and how do they work?

Cookies are small bits of text that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Your browser sends these cookies back to the website every time you visit the site again, so it can recognise you and can then tailor what you see on the screen.

What do you use cookies for?

Cookies are an important part of the internet. They make using websites much smoother and affect lots of the useful features of websites. There are many different uses for cookies, but they fall into four main groups:

(i) Cookies that are needed to provide the service you have asked for 

Some cookies are essential so you can move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, services you’ve asked for can’t be provided. These cookies don’t gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet.
Here are some examples of essential cookies:

  • Keeping you logged in during your visit; without cookies you might have to log in on every page you go to.
  • When you add something to the online shopping basket, cookies make sure it’s still there when you get to the checkout.
  • Some are session cookies which make it possible to navigate through the website smoothly. However these are automatically deleted after you close your web browser.

(ii) Improving your browsing experience

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make, such as your language or region and they provide improved features.
Here are a few examples of just some of the ways that cookies are used to improve your experience on our websites:

  • Remembering your preferences and settings, including marketing preferences.
  • Remembering if you’ve filled in a survey, so you’re not asked to do it again.
  • Remembering if you’ve been to the site before. If you are a first-time user, you might see different content to a regular user.
  • Restricting the number of times you’re shown a particular advertisment. This is sometimes called ‘frequency capping’.
  • Showing you information that’s relevant to products of ours that you have.
  • Enabling social media components, like Facebook or Twitter.
  • Showing ‘related article’ links that are relevant to the page you’re looking at.
  • Remembering a location you’ve entered such as weather forecasts.

(iii) Analytics

We like to keep track of what pages and links are popular and which ones don’t get used so much to help us keep our sites relevant and up to date. It’s also very useful to be able to identify trends of how people navigate (find their way through) our sites and if they get ‘error messages’ from web pages.

This group of cookies, often called ‘analytics cookies’ are used to gather this information. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies you. The information collected is anonymous and is grouped with the information from everyone else’s cookies. We can then see the overall patterns of usage rather than any one person’s activity. Analytics cookies only record activity on the site you are on and they are only used to improve how a website works.

Some of our websites and some of the emails you might get from us also contain small invisible images known as ‘web beacons’ or ‘tracking pixels’. These are used to count the number of times the page or email has been viewed and allows us to measure the effectiveness of its marketing and emails. These web beacons are anonymous and don’t contain or collect any information that identifies you.

We also use ‘affiliate’ cookies. Some of our web pages will contain promotional links to other companies’ sites. If you follow one of these links and then register with or buy something from that other site, a cookie is sometimes used to tell that other site that you came from one of our sites. That other site may then pay us a small amount for the successful referral. This works using a cookie. Learn how to manage your analytics cookies.

(iv) Showing advertising that is relevant to your interests

We sell space on some of our sites to advertisers. The resulting adverts often contain cookies. The advertiser uses the browsing information collected from these cookies to:

  1. restrict the number of times you see the same ad (frequency capping);
  2. and help show other ads that are relevant to you while you’re on our websites. This is often called online behavioural advertising (OBA). OBA is a way of using information about your web-browsing activity, collected by using cookies, to group you with other users into interest groups and show you advertisements based on those interests. The OBA data collected from cookies you get when you’re on our sites is only used to show relevant ads on our sites, not on other websites.

Sometimes our websites contain ads for our own yorkshirereporter and pickuppublication sites . These ads use cookies in the same way as described above.

So how does OBA work? Let’s look at an example. Imagine you visit a website about travel. That website shows an advert and with that advert you receive a cookie. Imagine you then visit one of our websites which has an advert from the same advertiser you saw on the travel site. The advertiser will give you a new version of the cookie you received on the travel site. The advertiser can then use that cookie to recognise that you’ve previously been to a travel site and show you a relevant ad.

Although the OBA data collected uses your browsing activity to understand your interests, the data is anonymous and isn’t linked to you as a person. Even if you log in to our websites, the OBA data is still not linked to you.

Neither we, nor the companies who show ads on our sites sell data collected from cookies to any other organisations.

It’s easy to control interest based advertising and manage your cookies if you want to.  For more information, see our ‘controlling interest based advertising and other third party cookies’ page or visit or our privacy policy and cookie FAQs.

Device Identifiers

A Device Identifier is a tool with an equivalent function to that of a cookie which is used to target and track the effectiveness of content and advertising delivered to users of our mobile applications.

You can reset your Device Identifier at any time through the Advertising settings on your iPhone, or opt out of sending this information by setting the ‘Limit Ad Tracking’ option located in the on your iPhone.

Contacting us and accessing your personal information

Any queries or comments about this privacy notice or if you wish to review or receive copies of the personal information we hold about you should be sent to admin@yorkshirereporter.co.uk or write to us at:

Legal Department.

Pickup Publications Ltd

PO BOX 352

Leeds West Yorkshire

LS14 9FU

United Kingdom

We may charge a small administration fee (not exceeding the maximum permitted by law) in relation to fulfilling a request for access to personal information.

Cancellation and Refunds Policy

Access to download the yorkshirereporter is a premium membership service by credit/debit card subscription only. Once your payment is cleared you will have access to the yorkshirereporter for the amount of time stipulated on your subscription agreement. When this expires you will no longer have access to the yorkshirereporter online editions, however this is a 3 month subscription, and must be cancelled by email.

Once your payment has been processed and access granted we cannot offer a full refund for subscriptions unless:

You are unable to access the site during all or part of your subscription period as follows:

▪  For 1 month or more on 3 month subscription

In the case of interruption to your access in accordance with the above you must inform our customer services team immediately where you will be reimbursed by way of an extension to your subscription / or 1 months credit refund.

If you have not been able to access your subscription for the full term of the subscription (3 months) we will grant a full refund.

In all cases you must contact our customer services team immediately. Complaints received one day or more after the interruption to your service cannot be refunded.

You can contact customer services at: admin@yorkshirereporter.co.uk

Registered Trading Address

Pick up Publications Ltd

Registered Address

PO Box 352

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS149FU

Co number 8476679

Vat Reg GB166698158

Tel 0113 2735000

E: admin@yorkshirereporter.co.uk

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