Membership Terms and Conditions

By joining Unite and Rule you get a unique opportunity to achieve an improved Page Rank Score, which in terms will improve your search engine ranking.

To achieve similar results to those which you can get through Unite and Rule, using ‘traditional’ methods (i.e. a Search Engine Consultancy – SEO), it would A) cost you hundreds, if not thousands, of pounds each month, and B) you would need to take the risk of negative impact on your rankings, in case the SEO you use is using ‘Black Hat’ Techniques.

For the Unite and Rule System to give you and all other members good links, i.e. good recommendations from fellow members, in turn making each member more competitive in the online arena, you will need to comply with the following terms.

1. Membership Costs and Payments

1. The total cost for membership is £10 per month.
2. The monthly payments will be set up as a standing order, by Debit or Credit card through Worldpay. Payment details are set up during the registration/validation process.
3. Payment is taken in advance, and each monthly payment secures membership for one calendar month.
4. The standing order is automated and active until membership is cancelled by the member or terminated by Unite and Rule as per the terms set out in paragraph 4 – Termination.
5. Membership is free for the first 50 registering members. Membership for the first 50 members becomes payable when the number of members exceeds 50. This will be notified to these members the first time they log onto www.uniteandrule.com after the number of members exceeds 50.
6. Unite and Rule reserves the right to change the price for membership. Any change will be notified via email one month prior to the change taking effect.

2. Link Placements

You must accept link requests from other members, UP TO 100 links, and place the link requested on your home page OR a page with the same Page Rank as your Home Page WITHIN 28 days of the request received. You can decline a link request ONLY for the following reasons:

1. Competition – if the link request comes from a competing company/website, and if a link placed on your site will logically loose you business.
2. Controversial Material - If the link request is from a company/website displaying controversial material AND you feel that this material is in contrast with the image you wish to portray online. This includes – but is not limited to – Sites displaying pornographic material, religious material, political views, views discriminating minorities.
3. SEO - If the link request is for a link pointing to an SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) Company.
4. One Way Link - A link has been placed on the requesting web site, pointing to your site.

3. Membership Criteria

In order to be a member of Unite and Rule you must satisfy a number of criteria. This ensures the integrity of Unite and Rule, and that all member ‘pull their weight’ for the benefit of all.

1. Membership is assigned to the a business which must have a credit score of at least 40, using the Credit Safe Score System.
2. Membership entitles one web site to be included. Each additional Web Site requires an additional membership account.
3. Your website must have a Google Page Rank Score of at least 2.
4. We do not accept members offering SEO as their primary activity.

4. Termination

1. You agree that this website may at any time, and without notice, suspend or terminate any part of the Service, or refuse to fulfill any order, or any part of any order or terminate your membership and delete any Content stored on the website, in this site’s sole discretion, if you fail to comply with the Terms or applicable law.
2. Any member can terminate their membership by giving notice by email or letter. Termination may have immediate effect if required, but no refund of prepaid subscription (max. £10) will be given.

5. Materials published on the Unite and Rule Website

1. Unite and Rule reserves the right to reject and/or remove material uploaded to www.uniteandrule.com forums without notice.

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Website Terms and Conditions

(1) Introduction

These terms and conditions govern your use of our website; by using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.

(2) Licence to use website

Unless otherwise stated, we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the licence below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

• (a) republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
• (b) sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
• (c) show any material from the website in public;
• (d) reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on our website for a commercial purpose;
• (e) edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or
• (f) redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution (such as our newsletter).

Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed within your organisation.

(3) Acceptable use

You must not use our website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent.

You must not use our website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

You must not use our website for any purposes related to marketing without our express written consent.

(4) Limited warranties

Whilst we endeavour to ensure that the information on this website is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up-to-date.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to this website and the use of this website (including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care and skill).

(5) Limitations of liability

Nothing in these terms and conditions (or elsewhere on our website) will exclude or limit our liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Subject to this, our liability to you in relation to the use of our website or under or in connection with these terms and conditions, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, will be limited as follows:

• (a) to the extent that the website and the information and services on the website are provided free-of-charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature;
• (b) we will not be liable for any consequential, indirect or special loss or damage;
• (c) we will not be liable for any loss of profit, income, revenue, anticipated savings, contracts, business, goodwill, reputation, data, or information;
• (d) we will not be liable for any loss or damage arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control;

(6) Indemnity

You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers) incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.

(7) Breaches of these terms and conditions

Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, we may take such action as we deem appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

(8) Variation

We may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on our website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

(9) Assignment

We may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

(10) Severability

If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

(11) Exclusion of third party rights

These terms and conditions are for the benefit of you and us, and are not intended to benefit any third party or be enforceable by any third party. The exercise of our and your rights in relation to these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

(12) Entire agreement

These terms and conditions, together with our privacy policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

(13) Law and jurisdiction

These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with English law, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

(14) Registrations and authorisations

VAT Registration Pending.

(15) Our details

The full name of our company is Unite and Rule Limited.

We are registered in England & Wales under registration number 07040702.

Our registered address is Unite & Rule Ltd. OAKEA House, Unit 4, Whitestone Business Park, Hereford, HR1 3SE, United Kingdom.

These terms and conditions are based on a precedent available at website-law.co.uk