1. Terms of Website use
1.1. Sharjah Sports Club and Athletic Grounds Limited ("we", "our" or "us") operates the www.shjclub.ae website and the www.sharjahfc.gov.ae website ("Website"). Our registered office is Sharjah Sports Club, Sharjah, the terms "you" and "your" refers to you, as user or viewer of the Website. These terms and conditions of use ("Terms") apply to your use of the Website and by continuing to use this Website you are confirming that you accept the Terms set out below and the additional usage terms set out in the relevant parts of the Website.1.2
1.2. In the event of any conflict between Part A of these Terms and any other terms and conditions of use of the Website, then in relation to your use of The Website, these Terms shall take precedence and prevail.
2. Changes to these Terms and additional terms
2.1. We may change these Terms from time to time. We will post the updated Terms on the Website, and they will take effect immediately.
2.2. Your ongoing use of the Website after these Terms have changed will be treated as your acceptance of the updated Terms, so you should check these Terms regularly.
2.3. In certain parts of the Website, additional usage terms may apply and these will be drawn to your attention when you register an account and by hypertext links within the relevant part of the Website. You should read these additional usage terms carefully as they will govern your use of the relevant parts of the Website if you proceed to use them. These may be updated in a similar manner as clause 2.1 above and the provisions of clause 2.2 shall also apply to those terms in the same way.
2.4. Some content submitted by users may be displayed in areas of the Website where registration is not required to view this. Please see the below
3. Our liability
3.1. The Website is provided on an "as is" basis so whilst we endeavor to ensure the accuracy of the information placed on the Website we do not warrant or guarantee the accuracy or correctness of such information or of any other content, description or material placed on or referred to in the Website. We do not warrant that the Website, its content or the server that makes it available are error or virus free or free of other harmful components or that your use of the Website will be uninterrupted.
3.2. Subject to clause 3.3 below, we shall not be liable to you for:
3.2.1. any indirect or consequential losses which may be incurred by you. This shall include any loss of profit (whether incurred directly or indirectly), any loss of goodwill or business reputation, or any loss of business data suffered by you;
3.2.2. any loss or damage which is not reasonably foreseeable;
3.2.3. any loss or damage which may be incurred by you as a result of:
3.2.3.1. any changes that we make to the Website, or for any permanent or temporary cessation in the provision of the Website or any part oaf it;
3.2.3.2. the deletion of, corruption of, or failure to store any Submissions (and other data) maintained or transmitted by or through your use of the Website;
3.2.3.3. the availability of or result through reliance on, any third party websites accessed through hyperlinks in the Website (including goods and services supplied or made available through such third party websites);
3.2.3.4. your failure to provide us with accurate registration information; or
3.2.3.5. your failure to keep your password or Website Account (as defined in clause 7) details secure and confidential, or your inclusion of any personal information within a Submission (as defined in clause 15.1).
3.2.4. The limitations on our liability to you in paragraph 3.2.3 shall apply whether or not we have been advised of the possibility of such losses arising in advance.
3.3. We do not limit or exclude our liability for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence, fraudulent misrepresentation or any other losses which may not be lawfully excluded or limited by law.
3.4. Nothing in these terms shall affect your statutory rights. If you have any doubts as to your statutory rights then you should contact us at [email protected]
4. Your liability
4.1. You agree to refund or otherwise take responsibility for any and all liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, which we or any of our group companies or personnel may incur as a result of to any breach of these Terms by you, or in connection with the use of the Website or any Submission or other transmission of any message or information on the Website by you from your Website Account.
5. Linking from the Website
5.1. The Website may provide hyperlinks to other websites which are not owned by us, the content of which is not in our control. Accordingly, we cannot accept any responsibility for the content, materials (including goods or services) or practices featured on such websites. Links to such websites are not to be taken as our endorsement of them or any content within them or as a warranty that such websites will be free of viruses or other such items of a destructive nature.
5.2. We would advise you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policy of any website that you visit when you leave our website.
6. Use of our Content
6.1. All content which features on the Website which is provided by us or on our behalf including but not limited to the text, photographs, images, graphics, illustrations, sounds, videos, designs, written and other material (together, "Content") is protected by copyright, trade mark rights and/or other intellectual property rights owned by or licensed to us ("SSC Content").
6.2. You are permitted to download, print or copy any SSC Content from the Website, provided that you:
6.2.1. do so only for your personal, non-commercial use;
6.2.2. acknowledge us as the source of the material; and
6.2.3. do not use the SSC Content in any other manner.
6.3. You must apply to us using our Contact Page for the appropriate consent and conditions to use the SSC Content for any use other than as set out in clause 6.2.
6.4. We reserve any other uses of, and rights in, the SSC Content so you must ask our prior permission for these as set out above. We will not always be able to give our consent.
6.5. For certain SSC Content (such as part of any pay-per-view arrangement), or where our suppliers have required us to do so, separate and/or additional usage terms may apply and these will be marked on the relevant part of the Website.
6.6. You must not, nor try to, make mass, automated or systematic extractions of the SSC Content, or use it to create or include it within another paper or electronic database, or try to re-sell or re-distribute it. We reserve the right to prohibit or restrict the way in which other sites link to or frame or re-present any of the SSC Content.
7. Registration for a Website Account
7.1. Whilst enjoyment of some of our Website does not require registration and can be accessed as a casual visitor, there are areas where access and/or the ability to interact with other users on the Website requires completion of a simple registration process in order to obtain a username and password necessary to access these areas.
7.2. We will open an account for you when you complete your registration for the Website (the "Website Account"). You must provide complete and accurate information about yourself, and notify us to keep this information up to date.
7.3. You need to select a password to access your Website Account. You agree not to reveal your password to other users as your Website Account is at risk if you let someone use it inappropriately.
7.4. It may be necessary for us to refuse some registration applications for example to prevent fraudulent use of the Website.
7.5. Maintaining the security and integrity of the Website is necessary to enable all our users to use it safely and effectively. You agree:
7.5.1. not to abuse the access or registration process; and
7.5.2. to take responsibility for any improper or illegal use of your Website Account (including illegal or improper use by a third party who has used your password to access your Website Account) and repay to us with any costs and/or losses that we suffer as a result.
8. Closing your Website Account
8.1 These Terms shall continue to apply to your use of the Website generally, however you may decide to close your Website Account. You may do so by notifying us at any time by sending an email stating such to us through our Contact Page
9. Termination of your Website Account
We may at any time, terminate your Website Account if:
9.1. you have breached any provision of these Terms or The SSC Rules or any other additional usage terms on this Website (or acted in such a manner which indicates that you cannot or do not intend to comply with these Terms or The SSC Rules or any other additional usage terms on this Website);
9.2. we decide to no longer provide an area on the Website for users to interact and/or access the SSC Content (which could be for commercial reasons);
9.3. we are required to do so by law;
9.4. despite our reasonable endeavors, we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us; or
9.5. we no longer want to offer this service to you.
10. Terms held to be invalid or unenforceable
10.1. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of law with jurisdiction to decide on this matter, then such provision shall be removed from these Terms without affecting the rest of these Terms, and the remaining provisions shall continue to be valid and enforceable.
11. Waiver of our rights
11.1. A failure by us in exercising our rights or remedies which arise under these Terms shall not be a waiver of that right or remedy, and no waiver by us shall be effective unless provided in writing and signed by us.
12. Governing Law
12.1. These Terms and your access to and use of the Website are subject to:
12.1.1. (if you are a resident in the UAE) the relevant UAE law, and the relevant UAE Courts will have exclusive jurisdiction; or
12.1.2. (if you are not resident in the UAE) then English law will apply and the English Courts will have exclusive jurisdiction.
12.2. Notwithstanding clause 11, you agree that we shall still be allowed to apply for injunctive remedies (or other types of temporary relief or legal remedy) in any jurisdiction.
PART B - TERMS RELATING TO UGC
These terms apply to our use of any words, pictures, images, data, information or any other ‘user-generated content’ (“UGC”) that you provide directly to us or give us permission to use on third party websites and/or platforms, including but not limited to Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, Snapchat, Tik Tok and Twitter (the “Third Party Platforms”) and which we may wish to use on our website (the “Website”), our social media platforms, at any of our properties, on our marketing channels or in any other way as we may determine from time to time (“SSC Media”).
For further information on how we may use your personal data when collecting and/or using the UGC you provide, please see our Privacy Policy
If you have any questions or queries as to how we will use your UGC or personal data, please contact the Fan Services team at [email protected].
Please note that we reserve the right to alter these terms and conditions without advance notice by posting a revised version of these terms on our website. Accordingly, you should review the terms each time you grant permission or authorization to feature your UGC.
Using UGC where you submit it through our digital platforms or social channels
Our digital platforms and social channels may allow you to supply UGC which can be accessed and viewed by both us and other users (each a "Submission").
By making such a Submission, you acknowledge and represent that:
• you are the copyright owner of such UGC¬, or you have been granted the express permission of the copyright owner to make the Submission;
• you have or have been granted the rights necessary to grant us the licenses detailed below; and
• that, if applicable, each person depicted in any Submission has provided you with their express consent to use the Submission as envisaged in these Terms.
Notwithstanding any other provision within these Terms, by making or agreeing to a Submission you retain all ownership rights in the Submission, and grant:
• to us, a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, transferable license (with rights to sub-license) to reproduce, adapt, translate, reformat, display and/or distribute any such Submission (including, but not limited to, for promoting the Website and/or making the Submission available to other users of the Website) without acknowledging the source; and
• to any user of the digital platforms, a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, license to access your Submission through the digital platforms, and to use, reproduce, display such Submission to the extent as permitted by the digital platforms functionality and these Terms.
You understand and acknowledge that no sum (including compensation) will be paid to you with respect to the use of your Submission and that we shall be under no obligation to use all or part of the Submission either on the official digital platforms or for any other reason.
If you do not want to grant us the permission set out above on these Terms, please do not submit your contribution as a Submission.
Monitoring Submissions
We reserve the right to, but you acknowledge that we are not under any obligation to, monitor any Submissions and you agree that you are entirely responsible for all Submissions that you (or a third party using our digital platforms) makes available to us.
We reserve the right to edit, delete or remove without notification any Submission to our official channels that in our reasonable opinion fails to comply with these Terms.
Furthermore, we reserve the right to edit, delete or remove without notification any Submission that in our reasonable opinion might infringe a third party's rights, or detract from the Website or in any way bring it, us or our name into disrepute.
Suspension and Termination
We may suspend or close your account or your access to the website immediately at any time in our absolute discretion if:
(a) your use of the website is considered abusive, excessive, or against the interests of other users.
(b) your use of the website is considered in breach of these Terms and/or the General Terms; or
We may also suspend or close your account or your access to the website immediately at any time in our absolute discretion (but giving you as much notice as is reasonably practicable in the circumstances) if:
a. technical or operational reasons beyond our control make this reasonably necessary; or
b. we decide, in our sole discretion, to stop providing the service to you, or the country you live in.
Maintenance
From time to time, the website may be taken down and your access to it suspended in order for work to be carried out relating to the upgrading or maintenance of the System as necessary for the provision of website. We shall give as much notice as is reasonable in the circumstances and shall endeavor to ensure that such works are carried out as expeditiously as is possible in the circumstances.
License to download material
We grant you a non-exclusive, non-assignable, and non-transferable license to use and display, for personal use only, one copy of any material that you may download from the website, including, but not limited to, any files, codes, audio, or visual images incorporated in or generated by the Software (collectively "Downloaded Material") provided, however, that you maintain all copyright and other notices contained in such Downloaded Material to any third party. You acknowledge and agree not to sublicense, assign, or otherwise transfer this license or the Downloaded Material. You also agree not to alter, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, or otherwise modify the Downloaded Material.
Indemnity
You agree to fully indemnify us immediately on demand against all claims, liability, damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees, arising out of:
(a) any breach of these Terms by you (or any other user who accesses the website using your user name);
(b) any misrepresentation, act or omission made by you in connection with your use of the website; or
(c) claims brought by third parties arising from or related to your access or use of the website,
or any other liabilities arising out of your or their use of the website and/or the System. You shall provide us with notice of such claims, full authority to defend, compromise or settle such claims and reasonable assistance necessary to defend such claims, at your sole expense.
General
Any notices we send will be sent to the email address you supply during the registration process. Any notices you send us should be sent through our online contact form /fans forum/contact/. Notices will be deemed to have been delivered at the time and date of sending of the email, which time and date are specified in the email. If we fail to exercise or enforce any right, we have under these Terms such failure will not be deemed to be a waiver of that right nor will it prevent us exercising or enforcing that right on a later occasion. If any part of these Terms are found unlawful or unenforceable, they will be deemed deleted, but nothing shall affect the validity of the rest of the terms and conditions which will continue to apply to you. We will not be liable to you for any breach of these Terms by us due to any cause beyond our reasonable control. We reserve the right to vary and/or update these Terms from time to time without notifying you. Updated Terms will be posted on the homepage of the Sharjah Sports Club Website and can be viewed by you at any time. We recommend you check the Sharjah Sports Club Website regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes. Changes to the Terms will be deemed to have been accepted by you if you continue to use the Service after a period of one week from the date the updated Terms are posted in the manner set out above. We may assign or transfer all or any of our rights and obligations under these Terms to a group company or other third party. In the event of assignment or transfer, notification will either be given to you by e-mail or posted on the Sharjah Sports Club Website. You may not assign or transfer all or any of your rights and obligations under these Terms to any other person or third party. These Terms, along with the General Terms, constitutes the entire agreement between us and you with respect to this subject-matter and excludes any representations or warranties previously given or made other than any fraudulent misrepresentation and it may be amended only by us on notice to you. These Terms and your access to and use of the Sharjah Sports Club Website and the website content are subject to the laws of UAE and you submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of UAE. If you wish to make any suggestions or complain about any matter in respect of this Site please contact us through our Contact Page
In order to register to website, you will be asked to provide certain personal information. Please refer to our Privacy Policy which explains how such information may be collected and used.
We Will have a use of cookies and it may vary or be any different for some content to the general website If not, we can just rely on the reference in the general terms and conditions of the site – which will need to link to the cookies policy.
ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
You hereby acknowledge that you have read and agree to be bound by the above Terms for Sharjah Sports Club as well as the General Terms and Conditions.
