Terms and Conditions

Terms of Website Use

Set out below are the terms of use on which you may make use of the www.futurerailway.org website, whether as a guest or a registered user.

Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. Where we make reference below to other documents or policies, they shall form part of the terms of use of our site.

By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.

Information about us

This site is operated by RAIL SAFETY & STANDARDS BOARD LTD ("We").

We are registered in and under company number 04655675 and have our registered office at Evergreen House, .

Accessing our site

Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site for any reason and without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us.

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

When using our site, you must comply with the provisions of our privacy policy.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.

You are responsible for notifying RSSB of known instances where user security details have been disclosed to a third party, irrespective of whether the security breech was a result of direct misuse or indirect misuse resulting from malicious activities by a third party such as 'phishing'.

Intellectual property rights

Unless otherwise identified, we are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights on or in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

So far as is reasonable, you may print off copies, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site.

With reference to information that is not your information, you must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged.

You must not use, sell, distribute or licence any part of the materials on our site insofar as you would be infringing our intellectual property rights.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

Reliance on information posted

Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. Neither we, nor any third party who has assisted us in the creation of this site, have knowledge of the requirements of your business and by allowing you to access and use our site we do not undertake any duty of care towards your organisation. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

We remind you of your obligations and duties under applicable Health and Safety legislation, your Railway Safety Case (if applicable) and the requirements of applicable Railway Group Standards.

Our site changes regularly

We aim to update our site regularly, and may change its content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

Our liability

The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions, representations or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:

·         All conditions, representations, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.

·         Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for:

o    loss of income or revenue;

o    loss of business;

o    loss of profits or contracts;

o    loss of anticipated savings;

o    loss of data;

o    loss of goodwill;

o    wasted management or office time; and

o    for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.

Nothing in these terms shall affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Information about you and your visits to our site

We may decide to collect information that you input into this site and to use it without attribution for RSSB research and development purposes. We will process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing and our use of your information for our research and development purposes.

Uploading material to our site

Our site permits you to create an extranet (“your Extranet”) that is specific to your organisation insofar as the information shall be confidential to you and persons to whom you allow access to it. Access to your Extranet site within our site will not be offered by RSSB to any person other than you and RSSB and RSSB shall treat the information within your extranet site as confidential.

Any material you upload to our site other than:

(1) information that falls within the terms of our privacy policy; or

(2) information that is located within your Extranet

will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our site.

We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on our site (even if it is located within your Extranet).

Viruses, hacking and other offences

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

Links from our site

Our site contains links to and from other web sites. If you follow a link to any other web sites, please note that these web sites have their own privacy statements, policies and terms and conditions of use and that we do not accept responsibility or liability for these. Please check all statements and policies before you submit any personal data to any website. Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Jurisdiction and applicable law

The English courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site. These terms of use are governed by English law.

Variations

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

Privacy Statement

Your privacy

This website (www.Futurerailway.org) is administered by Rail Safety and Standards Board Limited ("We"). We are committed to maintaining your privacy when you visit this site. This statement sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us will be processed together with the steps we take to protect your privacy.

Your data and third parties

We do not disclose, sell or licence this information to third parties for commercial purposes. We may disclose your information to third parties if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or where it is essential to the fulfilment of your requirements or request.

Gathering data

We collect information when you choose to submit it to us. Throughout this site, for example, we provide opportunities to register for events, request a standard or other document, make an enquiry, subscribe to an e-newsletter, or participate in an online survey. When we collect this type of information, we will notify you of the reason we are asking for information and how this information will be used.

Using cookies

This site does not use cookies.

Recording IP addresses

This site records your IP (Internet Protocol) address. Your IP address identifies the computer that you used to register your subscription. This information is used only to verify the computer that was used to register your subscription. Each page visited within this site is recorded in a log file. The contents of the log file are analysed to determine how many visitors we serve, which pages are most frequently viewed and where visitors connect from. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

Using your data

We store this information on our server so that we can keep a record of your subscription preferences and to enable us to contact you regarding your subscription. It may also be used to determine what is most effective about this site, to help us identify ways to improve this site and to determine how we can make it more effective.

If we use this data for other purposes, we will describe the purpose to you at the point of collection, for example if you are invited to register for an event, or to subscribe to a newsletter.

Unsolicited Email (SPAM)

We will not send you unsolicited email as a result of your visit to this site.

Sensitive personal data

We do not seek to collect sensitive personal data through this site.

Accessing your information

You are entitled to know whether we hold information about you and, if we do, to have access to that information and require it to be corrected if it is inaccurate. You can do this by writing to:

The Data Protection Officer
Rail Safety and Standards Board
Evergreen House
160 Euston Road
LONDON, NW1 2DX

A fee is charged for this service, and you will be required to provide verification of your identity.

Links to Other Sites

Our site contains links to and from other web sites. If you follow a link to any other web sites, please note that these web sites have their own privacy statements, policies and terms and conditions of use and that we do not accept responsibility or liability for these. Please check all statements and policies before you submit any personal data to any website. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this web site.

Data Protection Register

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998, the data controller is "Rail Safety and Standards Board Limited". Our entry in the register may be viewed by visiting the website of the Information Commissioner's Office and searching the register of data controllers. Entering our registration number (Z8378773) will yield all purposes, data subjects, data classes, sources, disclosures and transfers that we are registered to process.

Data security

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy statement. The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmission to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to prevent unauthorised access.

Changes to our privacy statement

Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this statement are welcome and should be addressed to the Data Protection Officer at the address above under "Accessing your information".

Date of publication: 15 September 2008