Author�s terms and conditions

By submitting an article to HPCi Media Ltd for possible publication you are deemed to have accepted the following terms and conditions:

1. No payment will be made for the article unless by prior arrangement with the Editor.
2. Where permitted by law, you assign to the publisher copyright, database right and any similar rights (including design rights) that may subsist in the article now or in the future throughout the world unless otherwise agreed in writing prior to publication.
3. You certify that the work is your own and that you have not copied all or a substantial part of any other work.
4. You have not granted any rights in respect of the work, or any part of it, to any third party.
5. The publication or other use of the work by the publisher will not infringe the copyright, privacy rights, rights under the Data Protection Act 1998 or any other right of any third party nor be libellous of any person or in any other way unlawful.
6. The publisher reserves the right to adapt, amend, edit, add to or delete from the work.
7. You accept that it may not be appropriate for you to be credited as the author of the work in every case where it is used and therefore you waive your moral right to be identified as the author in those circumstances.
8. You will do whatever is required to assist the publisher in confirming its title to the copyright in the work and in dealing with any claims arising out of its publication.

HPCi Media Limited terms of website use

Access to and use of �cleanroom-technology.co.uk' both within the UK and internationally is provided by HPCi Media Limited (�HPCi Media�) on the following terms:

By using cleanroom-technology.co.uk you agree to be bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of cleanroom-technology.co.uk. If you do not agree to be bound by all of the following terms please do not access, use and/or contribute to cleanroom-technology.co.uk.

HPCi Media may change these terms from time to time and so you should check these terms regularly. Your continued use of cleanroom-technology.co.uk will be deemed acceptance of the updated or amended terms. If you do not agree to the changes, you should cease using this website. If there is any conflict between these terms and specific local terms appearing elsewhere on cleanroom-technology.co.uk (including house rules) then the latter shall prevail.

Use of cleanroom-technology.co.uk

You agree to use cleanroom-technology.co.uk only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of cleanroom-technology.co.uk. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within cleanroom-technology.co.uk.

Intellectual Property

All copyright, trade marks, design rights, patents and other intellectual property rights (registered and unregistered) in and on cleanroom-technology.co.uk and all content (including all applications) located on the site shall remain vested in HPCi Media or its licensors (which includes other users). You may not copy, reproduce, republish, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use cleanroom-technology.co.uk content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any cleanroom-technology.co.uk content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of cleanroom-technology.co.uk content requires the prior written permission of HPCi Media.

The names, images and logos identifying HPCi Media or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of HPCi Media and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring any licence or right to use any trade mark, design right or copyright of HPCi Media or any other third party.

Contributions to HPCi Media

By sharing any contribution (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) with HPCi Media you agree to grant to HPCi Media, free of charge, permission to use the material in any way it wants (including modifying and adapting it for operational and editorial reasons) for HPCi Media services in any media worldwide (including on HPCi Media's site accessed by international users). In certain circumstance HPCi Media may also share your contribution with trusted third parties*.

Copyright in your contribution will remain with you and this permission is not exclusive, so you can continue to use the material in any way including allowing others to use it.

In order that HPCi Media can use your contribution, you confirm that your contribution is your own original work, is not defamatory and does not infringe any UK laws, that you have the right to give HPCi Media permission to use it for the purposes specified above, and that you have the consent of anyone who is identifiable in your contribution or the consent of their parent / guardian if they are under 16.

We normally show your name with your contribution, unless you request otherwise, but for operational reasons this is not always possible. The HPCi Media may need to contact you for administrative or verification purposes in relation to your contribution, or in relation to particular projects. For full details of when and how we may contact you please see HPCi Media's Privacy Policy plus any local terms where applicable.

Please do not endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or break any laws when creating content you may share with HPCi Media.

If you do not want to grant HPCi Media the permission set out above on these terms, please do not submit or share your contribution to or with cleanroom-technology.co.uk.

• In the case of news-related material please note that this may be shared with HPCi Media's overseas partners; these are all reputable publishers who are prohibited from altering the material in any way or providing it to other UK publishers or to the print media.

cleanroom-technology.co.uk communities

In order to participate in and contribute to selected cleanroom-technology.co.uk communities you may be required to register with cleanroom-technology.co.uk. Any personal information supplied to cleanroom-technology.co.uk as part of this registration process and/or any other interaction with cleanroom-technology.co.uk will be collected, stored and used in accordance with HPCi Media Privacy Policy.

You agree to use cleanroom-technology.co.uk communities (including message boards) in accordance with the following Community Rules. These apply across all cleanroom-technology.co.uk community sites and services. You should, however, read the local house rules of the particular site or service you're using, as there may be some local variations to these Community Rules.

About your posts:

• Contributions must be civil and tasteful.
• No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour: contributions must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble.
• No unlawful or objectionable content: unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable.
• Be patient: users of all ages and abilities may be taking part in the relevant cleanroom-technology.co.uk community.
• No spamming or off-topic material: we don't allow the submission of the same or very similar contributions many times. Please don't re-submit your contribution to more than one discussion, or contribute off-topic material in subject-specific areas.
• No advertising or promoting.
• No spoilers: material which contains plot developments which haven't been transmitted on UK television will be deleted unless submitted in a designated 'spoilers' area or marked as a 'spoiler'.
• Contributions containing languages other than English may be removed unless allowed in the relevant local house rules.
• No impersonation.
• No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names.
• URLs (web site addresses) can only be posted if allowed under any relevant local house rules.

Deliberate misuse of the complaints facility is not permitted. If you persist in doing this, action may be taken against your account.

Your HPCi Media Account:

If you use multiple logins for the purpose of disrupting a community or annoying other users you may have action taken against all of your accounts.

All accounts must be registered with a valid personal email address that you access regularly so that moderation emails can be sent to you. Accounts registered with someone else's email address, or with temporary email addresses may be closed without notice. We may require users to re-validate their account if we believe they have been using an invalid email address.

The HPCi Media reserves the right to close accounts if any user is seen to be using proxy IPs (Internet Protocol addresses) in order to attempt to hide the use of multiple HPCi Media accounts, or if an non UK user pretends to be a UK user, or disrupts any of our services in any way.

Safety:

We advise that you never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example: telephone number, postal address, home address or email address or any other details that would allow you to be personally identified) in any HPCi Media community.

Legal requirements:

You may not submit or share any defamatory or illegal material of any nature in cleanroom-technology.co.uk communities. This includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio. Contributing material to a cleanroom-technology.co.uk community with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act is strictly prohibited.

You agree to submit to or share with cleanroom-technology.co.uk communities only contributions which are your own original work. You must not violate, plagiarise, or infringe the rights of HPCi Media or third parties including copyright, trade mark, trade secrets, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights.

If you breach these Community Rules:

If you fail to abide by these Community Rules (and/or any variations in relevant local house rules) when taking part in a cleanroom-technology.co.uk community, you will be sent an email which informs you why your contribution has been refused or edited. This email will also include a warning that continuing to break the rules may result in action being taken against your account or accounts.

This action may include any content posted by you being checked before allowed to go on the site or a temporary or permanent suspension of your ability to participate in any or all of cleanroom-technology.co.uk community areas.

If you submit or share offensive or inappropriate content to or with any cleanroom-technology.co.uk communities or anywhere else on cleanroom-technology.co.uk or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on cleanroom-technology.co.uk, and HPCi Media considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, HPCi Media may use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop any further such infringements. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school or email provider about the infringement(s).

The HPCi Media reserves the right to delete any contribution, or take action against any HPCi Media account, at any time, for any reason.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

The majority of content posted in cleanroom-technology.co.uk communities is created by members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of HPCi Media. HPCi Media is not responsible for any content posted by members of the public on cleanroom-technology.co.uk or for the availability or content of any third party sites that are accessible through cleanroom-technology.co.uk. Any links to third party websites from cleanroom-technology.co.uk do not amount to any endorsement of that site by HPCi Media and any use of that site by you is at your own risk.

cleanroom-technology.co.uk content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to HPCi Media its products and services (or to third party products and services), is provided "AS IS" and on an "AS AVAILABLE" basis. To the extent permitted by law, HPCi Media excludes all representations and warranties (whether express or implied by law), including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. The HPCi Media does not guarantee the timeliness, completeness or performance of the website or any of the content. While we try to ensure that all content provided by HPCi Media is correct at the time of publication no responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of HPCi Media for any errors, omissions or inaccurate content on the website.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes HPCi Media's liability for death or personal injury caused by its proven negligence. Subject to the previous sentence, HPCi Media shall not be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such damage or losses were foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties; or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of cleanroom-technology.co.uk regardless of the form of action.

HPCi Media do not warrant that functions available on cleanroom-technology.co.uk will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that cleanroom-technology.co.uk or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to implement sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements for the accuracy of data input and output.

General

If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive and continue to be binding and enforceable.

The failure or delay of HPCi Media to exercise or enforce any right in these terms does not waive HPCi Media's right to enforce that right.

These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales which shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes.

Contacting HPCi Media about these Terms of Use

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