As a user of this web site under these terms, you agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Recycling Advisory Group Scotland (rags), its officers, directors, employees, agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, and any of our third party information providers from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable legal fees, however arising resulting from any violation or breach by you of these terms.

Access to the Members area of the RAGS web site is restricted to authorised users only. By virtue of accessing the member's area, you are deemed to have agreed to the following additional terms and conditions:

•  You agree to use this site only for lawful purposes, and in a manner that does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of this site by any third party. Such restriction or inhibition includes, without limitation, conduct which is unlawful, or which may harass or cause distress or inconvenience to any person, and the transmission of obscene or offensive content or disruption of normal flow of dialogue within this site.

•  You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful, defamatory, obscene, offensive or scandalous material, or any material that constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, likely to give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violates any law. We will fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials on the RAGS website.

•  You agree not to hack into any aspect of the Web Site or corrupt any data or to circumvent or attempt to seek to circumvent any of the security safeguards of RAGS or any of its suppliers. Unauthorised individuals attempting to access these areas of the Web Site may be subject to prosecution. You are solely responsible in all respects for any use of your username and password. As a result, you are fully responsible for all activities which occur under them.

•  You agree not to share or transfer your username or password to any third parties (including other individuals from within your organization). User names and passwords are issued by the RAGS office only to individuals who are either members of RAGS in their own right or are associated with organizations that are members of RAGS.

•  You agree to notify RAGS immediately by telephoning 0845 838 1141 if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your username and password.

•  You agree to change your password from default password issued by the RAGS office the first time you log into the members area.

•  You agree to comply fully with the Acceptable Use Policy for the member's area.

RAGS reserves the right to cancel or restrict user access to the members areas at any time if any of these terms and conditions are deemed to have been breached by the RAGS office.

This Acceptable Use Policy is intended to help create an atmosphere in which freedom of speech is balanced by self-discipline and a mature attitude to discussion. By virtue of your participation in any discussion forum, you are deemed to have agreed to abide by this acceptable use policy. The member's area is moderated by a member of staff from the RAGS office ( The Moderator ). Although the Moderator cannot take responsibility for monitoring every message that is sent to the website, any submitted items that breach these rules, may be removed at the Moderator's discretion.

Messages should not be malicious or designed to offend. In particular, the use of swear-words or profanity is forbidden. By participating in any discussion, you undertake to indemnify us and our employees and subcontractors against any liability arising from any obscene, defamatory, seditious, blasphemous or other actionable statement published by you on this site and against all damages, losses, claims and costs (including, without limitation, fines and expenses arising out of or incurred in conducting or defending any proceedings) arising from any such actionable statements.

Your message should be within the scope of the subject under discussion. If you make a contribution that is inappropriate to the subject under discussion, you may be directed by the moderator not to raise the matter further or to raise it within a separate discussion group.

No reference should be made to the personality of other participants in a discussion nor should attacks be made on an individual's character unless the person concerned has already chosen to bring his or her personality into the issue under discussion.

One to one arguments, disagreements and disputes of a personal nature must not be conducted through public discussion.

You should remember that you are legally responsible for what you write. By participating in a discussion, you undertake to indemnify us and our employees and subcontractors against any liability arising from any breach of confidentiality, copyright or other intellectual property right published by you on this site and against all damages, losses, claims and costs (including, without limitation, all expenses incurred in conducting or defending any proceedings) arising from any such publication. You must not make statements that are libellous, obscene, seek to incite racial hatred or otherwise break the laws of the United Kingdom.

If a person has sent you a private e-mail you may not forward it to a public discussion group without the prior consent of the person who sent it. This does not prevent you forwarding private e-mail to The Moderator should you consider this appropriate.

Complaints about a breach of these Rules should ONLY be made by private e-mail to The Moderator , who will take appropriate action with regard to the complaint. RAGS reserves the right to remove offensive messages from the discussion board and to prevent