ITF Content Portal (Portal) – Terms and Conditions of Use
IMPORTANT – PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE ITF CONTENT PORTAL
These terms and conditions of use are the terms and conditions under which you may use the Portal https://contentportal.itftennis.com/.
Please read these terms carefully. These terms apply to any use of the Portal, whether you request to download any digital content or not.
If you refuse to accept these terms, you should immediately cease to access and/or use the Portal.
Appendix 1
- About Us
- The ITF Content Portal is owned by ITF Licensing (UK) Limited (“the ITF”). We are a company registered in England and Wales with company number 02584446.
- Our registered office address is Bank Lane, Roehampton, London, UK, SW15 5XZ.
- Any correspondence or notices should be sent to us at Bank Lane, Roehampton, London, UK, SW15 5XZ or by email to contentportal@itftennis.com.
- Your interaction with the portal
- 2.1 If you are a National Association, whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to download content from the Portal, you must comply with the National Association Portal Content Rules at Appendix 1.
- The following additional terms also apply:
- Our Privacy Notice which sets out how we may use your personal information.
- Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on this website
- Availability of the portal
- We will use our reasonable endeavours to make the Portal available for you to access over the internet. However, from time to time the Portal may be unavailable if we carry out routine maintenance and repairs or due to the unavailability or failure of the internet.
- We do not give any promise that the Portal or the services it provides will be available for you to access, will continue uninterrupted or error-free or will remain unchanged.
- Prohibited uses
- You may not use the portal:
- in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
- in any way that may damage our reputation, the reputation of our data partner, Pitch International LLP, the reputation of any ITF competition or that of the game of tennis;
- to harvest or collect email addresses or other contact information for the purposes of sending unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam);
- to transmit, or procure the sending of spam;
- in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
- to upload, download, use or re-use any material which:
- is inaccurate;
- expresses an opinion which is not genuinely held;
- contains any material which is defamatory or derogatory of any person;
- contains any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
- promotes sexually explicit material, violence, any illegal activity or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
- infringes any intellectual property or other right of the ITF, its Sports Data Partner or any other person;
- is likely to deceive any person;
- is made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
- is threatening, abusive or invades another’s privacy, causes annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety, is likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person; and/or
- advocates, promotes or assists any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse; and/or
- to use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Portal.
- You also agree:
- not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of the Portal or any digital content therein in contravention of the provisions of these terms;
- that in downloading or requesting to download any material from the Portal you will not impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person, tennis federation or company;
- not to represent yourself or any other third party as the owner of any part of the Portal or the digital content within;
- not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
- any part of the Portal, including all digital content within the Portal;
- any equipment or network on which the Portal is stored;
- any software used in the provision of the Portal; or
- any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party; and
- not 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, or to attack the Portal via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
- By breaching paragraph 4.2.3 or paragraph 4.2.4, you may be committing a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 or other applicable local legislation. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use the Portal will cease immediately.
- If you are accessing the Portal from outside the United Kingdom you should be aware that we have designed the Portal and these terms to comply with applicable law and regulation in the United Kingdom. We cannot guarantee that your use of the Portal will comply with local mandatory legal requirements in the country that you are accessing it from. It is your responsibility to ensure that your use of the Portal does not place you or us in breach of any local law or regulation and you must not use the Portal in any manner which may do so.
- You warrant that you will not use the Portal in any of the ways prohibited in this paragraph 3, and you agree that you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.
- You may not use the portal:
- User Interaction
- We retain the absolute discretion to suspend or remove any content.
- If we receive a complaint about your use of the Portal, whether from a law enforcement authority, company, private individual or otherwise, we will consider the complaint and determine how to respond.
- Copyright
- All material on the Portal is protected by copyright. You may view clips on the Portal on screen and may download clips or extracts thereof for review.
- You are not permitted to share or supply a copy of any clip or extract to any third party provided that.
- For the avoidance of doubt, no part of the Portal may be reproduced, transmitted to, or stored on any other portal or in any other form of electronic medium without our express written consent.
- Content of the Portal
- We will use our reasonable endeavours to ensure that the clips and information on the Portal are accurate and complete. However, we do not give any promises about the accuracy or completeness of the information (including, without limitation, personal data and descriptions of clips).
- The Portal may from time to time include content, services and hypertext links to Portals owned, operated, controlled and/or provided by third parties (Third Party Content).
- Your use of any Third Party Content may be subject to the relevant third party’s terms and conditions, and it is your responsibility to make yourself aware of those terms and conditions. We will not necessarily see or be aware of any enquiries that you submit to any third parties who provide Third Party Content.
- We have no control over or proprietary interest in any Third Party Content. We do not give any promises about the quality, security, accuracy or any other aspect of any Third Party Content, and exclude any and all liability arising from your use of them.
- Registration
- By registering to use the Portal you confirm that you:
- understand and accept these terms;
- are legally capable of entering into binding contracts; and
- are at least 16 years old.
- You agree to:
- register for an account in order to gain access to the ITF Content Portal.
- provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Portal’s registration process (the Registration Data); and
- maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.
- If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or we have reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or if you commit any breach of these terms or do anything that we, in our absolute discretion, believe may damage our reputation or that of the Portal, we have the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of any part or the entire Portal without notice or liability to you.
- Once you have registered you will be a Registered User of the Portal.
- You are responsible for any use of your account, using your user name and/or password, for keeping your user name and password confidential and for logging out of your account at the end of each session. You agree to let us know immediately if you become aware of or suspect any unauthorised use of your account, user name and/or password. If you forget your password, you should click “forgot password” and a link will be sent to your registered email address and will give 24 hours to allow you to reset your password to gain access to our site. You are responsible for any actions taken by a person who logs into the site using your user name and password.
- Please see our Privacy Notice for ITF Business Contacts on the ITF website for more information about how your Registration Data and other personal information may be used, disclosed and retained.
- By registering to use the Portal you confirm that you:
- Our Liability
- Our liability for direct losses you suffer as a result of us failing to comply with these terms is strictly limited to £100.
- We are not responsible for losses which are not reasonably foreseeable by you and us and even if such losses result from a deliberate breach of these terms by us.
- We are also not responsible for any of the following types of losses that you may suffer as a result of your use of the Portal:
- loss of income or revenue;
- loss of business;
- loss of profits or contracts; or
- loss of anticipated savings.
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Nothing in these terms shall limit in any way our liability for:
- death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
- fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or
- any other matter for which it would be unlawful for us to exclude, or attempt to exclude, our liability.
- Written Communications
Applicable laws require that some of the information or communications we send to you should be in writing. When using the Portal, you accept that communication with us will be mainly electronic. We will contact you by email. For contractual purposes, you agree to this electronic means of communication and you acknowledge that all contracts, notices, information and other communications that we provide to you electronically comply with any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. This condition does not affect your legal rights. - Notices
All notices given by you to us must be given to the address or email set out at paragraph 1 above. We may give notice to you at the email address you provide to us when registering (or such updated email address as you may provide to us from time to time via the section of the Portal which allows you to update your registration details). Notice will be deemed received and properly served 24 hours after an email is sent. In proving the service of any notice, it will be sufficient to prove, in the case of an email that such e-mail was sent to the specified email address of the addressee. - Transfer of Rights and Obligations
- These terms are binding on you and us and on our respective successors and assignees.
- You may not transfer, assign, charge or otherwise dispose of your interest in these terms, or any of your rights or obligations arising under it, without our prior written consent.
- Our Right to Vary These Terms
- We have the right to revise and amend these terms from time to time without notice to you.
- You will be subject to the policies and terms and conditions in force at the time that you access the Portal.
- Law & Jurisdiction
These terms and your use of the Portal, together with any associated non-contractual disputes or claims, are governed by English law and you and we each hereby accept the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts, save that if you live in a different country we may take action for interim relief or to enforce any judgment against you in the country in which you reside.
- Appendix 1
As a National Association, and if you are interested in using our historical footage, you must adhere to the below rules as they form part of the Terms and Conditions. Any breach of these rules shall be treated as a breach of the Terms and Conditions.
1. Content may only be downloaded and used for the promotion of the Fed Cup and/or Davis Cup and of your national Davis and/or Fed Cup teams. Content may not be downloaded for any other purpose.
2. One registration is permitted per National Association. We recommend using a generic email address which can then be distributed within your team.
3. Downloads are restricted to a maximum of 3 minutes of footage per Fed Cup and/or Davis Cup match if that footage is of your National Team.
4. Downloads are restricted to a maximum of 1 minute of footage per Fed Cup and/or Davis Cup match if that footage is of any other National Team. In this instance, such footage may only be used to promote your national Davis and/or Fed Cup team and/or your teams’ participation in the competition. You must not download content that is not directly related to your national Davis and/or Fed Cup team’s participation in the Davis Cup and/or Fed Cup.
5. The content, as specified above, may be downloaded in the original broadcast quality.
6. You may download low resolution, watermarked content for internal performance analysis purposes only. You are not permitted to reproduce or otherwise publish this footage on any public platform.
2. One registration is permitted per National Association. We recommend using a generic email address which can then be distributed within your team.
3. Downloads are restricted to a maximum of 3 minutes of footage per Fed Cup and/or Davis Cup match if that footage is of your National Team.
4. Downloads are restricted to a maximum of 1 minute of footage per Fed Cup and/or Davis Cup match if that footage is of any other National Team. In this instance, such footage may only be used to promote your national Davis and/or Fed Cup team and/or your teams’ participation in the competition. You must not download content that is not directly related to your national Davis and/or Fed Cup team’s participation in the Davis Cup and/or Fed Cup.
5. The content, as specified above, may be downloaded in the original broadcast quality.
6. You may download low resolution, watermarked content for internal performance analysis purposes only. You are not permitted to reproduce or otherwise publish this footage on any public platform.