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This Dad Can Terms of Use

Copyright:

This Website and its contents are copyright This Dad Can, all rights reserved. Reproduction of all or any substantial part of the contents in any form is prohibited. No part of the site may be distributed or copied for any commercial purpose without express approval.

Health Advice Disclaimer:

The information and advice presented on this website has been reviewed by medical professionals. They should not, however, substitute for the advice of your personal physician or other trained health care professionals. You are advised to consult with health care professionals with regard to ALL matters that may require medical attention or diagnosis and to check with a physician before administering or undertaking any course of treatment.

Submissions to This Dad Can:

We may now or in the future permit users to post, upload, transmit through, or otherwise make available on the site (collectively, "submit") messages, recipes, text, illustrations, files, images, graphics, photos, comments, sounds, music, videos, information, content, and/or other materials ("User Content"). We have the right to publish, edit or reject any User Content that you send us either via email, via the site or in writing via post for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without payment to you - unless we have specifically agreed otherwise in writing prior to submission.

By submitting User Content to us, simultaneously with such posting you automatically grant to us a worldwide, fully-paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, fully sublicensable, and transferable right and license to use, record, sell, lease, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works based upon (including, without limitation, translations), publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, publish and otherwise exploit the User Content (in whole or in part) as This Dad Can, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate. We may exercise this grant in any format, media or technology now known or later developed for the full term of any copyright that may exist in such User Content.

Subject to the rights and license you grant to us under these Terms of Use, you retain all your right, title and interest in your User Content submissions. This means that copyright in your User Content will remain with you and that you can continue to use the material in any way, including allowing others to use it.

You agree that you will not submit any User Content protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, or other intellectual property, personal, contractual, proprietary or other right owned by a third party without the express permission of the owner of the respective right. You are solely liable for any damage resulting from your failure to obtain such permission or from any other harm resulting from User Content that you submit. You represent, warrant, and covenant that you will not submit any User Content that:

  • violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others, including, but not limited to, any copyright, trademark, moral right, or other third party right of any person or entity;
  • impersonates another or is unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, obscene, harassing or otherwise objectionable;
  • contains a formula, instruction, or advice that could cause harm or injury;
  • the licensed use by us hereunder would result in us having any obligation or liability to any party.

We rely on you to present us with User Content that contains accurate and factual material. We assume no responsibility for the accuracy of information provided on This Dad Can.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, you waive any and all claims you may now or later have in any jurisdiction to so-called "moral rights" or rights of "droit moral" with respect to the User Content.

We reserve the right to display advertisements in connection with your User Content and to use your User Content for advertising and promotional purposes.

Data protection and information gathering:

Our Privacy Policy sets out how This Dad Can uses and protects any information you give us when you use this website. As a rule, we don't disclose any personal information to third parties, unless we have your permission or are specifically required to by law. However, on rare occasions where there appears to be a clear need to safeguard the welfare of a This Dad Canter and/or his/her family, it may be necessary to contact relevant authorities about a clearly identifiable member and his/her posts on This Dad Can.

Safeguarding:

We recognise the welfare of children is paramount, as enshrined in the Children Act 1989. Working in partnership with children, young people, their parents, carers and other agencies is essential in promoting young people's welfare. We encourage all users to refrain from using personal family photographs on the site. If you are concerned by anything you see on the site, do please draw it to the attention of the This Dad Can Team. We use our safeguarding procedure to share concerns and relevant information with agencies who need to know, and involving children, young people, parents, families and carers appropriately.

Miscarriage and bereavement:

In the sad circumstances of the death of a baby or miscarriage, future correspondence and contact could cause unintended pain.

If you are affected you can contact us to unsubscribe from future coms. Please email info@thisdadcan.co.uk and we will update your details to ensure that you no longer receive any communications from us or our partners.

Affiliate Advertising:

This Dad Can carries some affiliate marketing links, which means we earn commission on sales of some products when users click through a link from the site. Our editorial content is NOT influenced by affiliate partnerships. You may not post affiliate links without the prior permission of This Dad Can.

Consideration for others:

The primary aim of our site is to help by providing information and resources. If you don’t like someone, their situation, their question or feel they’re intruding on ‘your page’ then please bite the bullet and think of the bigger issue. Organisations or individuals who demonstrate they are anti-women/girls and/or advocate removing resources from women/girls will be removed from the site. Those who express misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism or any other form of bigotry or discrimination on the site will also be removed.