Terms & Conditions

Snowball Terms of use

Terms of Snowball Community use

Introduction

Climate change is a big topic! No-one fully understands it and no one has all the answers. But if we combine our knowledge, understanding and expertise, we believe we can create a place where anyone can learn, can teach or can inspire others.

All questions are welcome and any responses that are considered, researched and constructive are also very welcome!

One thing we want to stress is this – there will be some conflicting opinions and some conflicting articles, so let’s always try to stick to facts, so we can give everyone in this community a better understanding, not a more confused one.

Things we encourage

People asking questions

There are no stupid questions! Ask for help, ask for inspiration, ask for local advice. The community is here to help!

People answering questions

You don’t have to be an expert. If you can help someone out with an answer please do! If it’s a complex or technical question it might require some expertise to answer it, so we ask members to consider their background

People sharing their action

If you’re taking action for the climate, please tell us about it. Or better still, upload a photo of you doing it. Better even still, upload a photo and some tips or advice for other members!

People wanting to start local groups in their area (message us if this is you!)

This is what we want the future to look like! If you’d like to help start a local community group, please get in touch. In future we hope to be able to give you a custom Snowball page, with customisable actions. But for now, we should be able to set you up with a community group, so you can start sharing tips, meeting other local people, organising meet-ups etc etc!

People sharing interesting or helpful articles

As long as they are from a reputable source and the person posting shares a particular point or question, we're very happy for people to share articles. First and foremost though we want this to be a community of action!

Things we don’t encourage

People promoting companies they are affiliated with

People posting articles without comment

Things we reject – people doing any of the following will be removed from the community and their Snowball account deleted

Climate denial

Bullying or trolling of other community members

Aggressive or abusive language

Discriminatory behaviour or language or any sort

Terms of Snowball website use

1. Introduction

This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use by which you may make use of our website www.joinsnowball.com (our site).

These Terms are a legal agreement between you and Snowball (referred to as "we" / “us” / “our”). By using this 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. We reserve the right to change these terms and conditions at any time by posting changes online. Your continued use of this site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of this agreement as modified.

These terms and conditions are governed by English Law and all disputes will be submitted to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

2. Copyright

The materials contained on this site may be either the copyright of individual contributors or of Snowball and may be subject to intellectual property rights.

3. Use of this website

The following acts are prohibited in respect of this website and any of the content featured on it:

Any rental leasing or lending of any material obtained or derived from the website;
Reproduction, including without limitation the extraction and/or storage in any retrieval system or inclusion in any other computer program or work, without the prior consent of Snowball; or
Altering, transforming or building upon any content contained in this website.

All copyrights and trademark notices, marks, disclaimers and other such elements must be preserved and upheld at all times.

You may not use our site:

In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm people in any way;
To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards set out below;
To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam); or
To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

4. Links to third party sites

This website contains links to websites operated by third parties. The operation of these websites is outside Snowball’s control and you proceed at your own risk. We are not liable for the products, services or content you access through any linked site and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

5. Content

This site and the information, names, images, pictures, logos regarding or relating to Snowball are provided “as is” without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied. In no event will Snowball be liable for any damages including, without limitation, any damages whatsoever arising from the use or in connection with such use or loss of use of the site, whether in contract or in negligence.

Snowball does not warrant that the functions contained in the material contained in this site will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs or represents the full functionality, accuracy and reliability of the materials.

6. Our Liability

The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we expressly exclude:

all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity; and
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:

loss of income or revenue;
loss of business;
loss of profits or contracts;
loss of anticipated savings;
loss of data;
loss of goodwill;
wasted management or office time; or
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.

7. Data protection

We will collect, use, store and disclose your personal details in accordance with our Privacy Policy.