askCHARITY Terms and Conditions for the Media

Terms and Conditions for the Media

1. All those who register for and use askCHARITY must be bona fide media professionals; i.e. they must work as a journalist/broadcaster or researcher for a media organisation or work freelance for a media organisation in any of these roles.

2. The database is for use of PR professionals if they manage a charity account. If a PR professional who is not a named contact on the database wishes to register to use www.askcharity.org.uk, that person should contact the administrators of the site (ellie@charitycomms.org.uk) before so doing.

3. Information on this database must not be passed on to third parties outside the media and voluntary sectors.

4. Use of the Answer Service must be judicious. askCHARITY staff reserve the right to bar usage by any person they deem to be using the site in an unacceptable manner.

5. AskCHARITY takes no responsibility for the veracity of information on this site, though the charities concerned will be encouraged to keep their details up to date.

6. AskCHARITY must not be used for any marketing or selling purpose whatsoever. It is for research use by the media.

7. Media professionals must not use the Answer Service to ask for competition prizes.

8. Use of Charity professionals’ mobile phone numbers must be judicious. Any media professional who in the view of askCHARITY staff, phones mobile numbers in inappropriate circumstances will be liable to be barred from future use of the service.

9. By signing up as an askCHARITY media contact you agree to the possibility of being contacted in future by CharityComms or askCHARITY. We may not contact you but if we do it will only be on very rare occasions to inform you of important site announcements.

10. We promise not to share your information with any external organisations or commercial companies.

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