3 Full Membership.

If you decide to become a Full Member, and therefore pay our Full Membership fee, you are agreeing to take the Full Membership we make available to you shortly after that fee is paid. Should you change your mind after paying for Full Membership and have used any of our services such as contacting a friend we do not issue a refund, if however you change your mind before using any of our services refunds will be made at the discretion of management but will incur an administration fee of £2.50.

Your Full Membership will last for one or twelve months depending on the service paid for. If you wish to continue with Full Membership after the expiry of that twelve month period, we will enable you to do so, at our then-current terms and prices. But please note that we reserve the right to change the amount of the fee for Full Membership, the period which it covers, the Websites which it enables you to obtain and other factors from time to time. However, these changes, unless they are changes under Clause 8 or Clause 9 below, will not affect your then-current Full Membership.

The membership fee also includes a 5% charge for the credit card or Paypal transaction charges.

Renewals of Full Membership will be taken automatically if you paid by credit card, unless your current card fails and we will then send you an email informing you of such. There is an option to not have payment taken automatically from your profile after paying for your first years Full Membership.

If you change your mind after your full membership has been automatically renewed and decide you do not wish to continue with full membership (which must happen within 30 days of the renewal) we will refund your monies less a £2.50 administration fee.

4. Registration.

You undertake to register for the Forces Genealogy Website using accurate and current information about yourself – including your correct name, email address and any other requested details. If you are asked for, and provide, details of a credit, debit or charge card; in that event, you must ensure that (a) you are fully entitled to use that card, and (b) it has available funds sufficient to cover the charges which are deducted from it.

You also undertake to keep your email address and other details on the site updated to the correct information should any of your information change at any time.

5 Privacy Policy.

Forces Genealogy's Privacy Policy forms part of this Agreement, and by agreeing to this Agreement, you also give your consent to the way we may handle your personal data in that policy. Given the global nature of the World Wide Web, any posting on the Forces Reunited Website (including any which contain personal information) is, of course, accessible to internet users around the world.

6 Forces Genealogy.

You, whether you are a Full Member or just a Basic Member who visits the Forces Genealogy Website, acknowledge that we are not and cannot be responsible for the behaviour of Members - whether on the Forces Genealogy Website or outside of it. We only provide a venue where the Forces Genealogy Website may be accessed. In particular, you should be aware that Forces Reunited does not pre-screen or monitor the material contributed by Members.

7 Additional Websites.

Forces Reunited or its affiliates may offer new or additional Websites through the Forces Reunited Website from time to time. Your use of those Websites may be subject to additional terms and conditions, or rules of use, which you must comply with. Provided that those terms or rules are notified to you on the Forces Reunited Website in an appropriate manner (as determined by Forces Reunited in its reasonable discretion), any failure by you to comply with a material provision of the terms or rules governing those Websites will amount to a breach of this Agreement.

8 Operation of Forces Reunited Websites.

Forces Reunited reserves the right to withdraw or modify one or more aspects of the Forces Reunited Websites where we have legal or technical reasons to do so (including technical difficulties experienced by Forces Reunited or on the Internet) or for any other reason. This includes the forum where we may modify or remove posts made where we have a legal, technical or moral reason to do so or for any other reason as we see fit.

There may also be times when the Forces Reunited Website becomes unavailable, whether on a scheduled or unscheduled basis. For security or other reasons, we may require you to change password or other information which facilitates access to the Forces Reunited Website.

9 Misuse of Forces Reunited Website.

Forces Reunited's misuse policy forms part of this agreement. We reserve the right (a) to suspend or terminate any Member’s access to the Forces Reunited Website, or parts of it, and/or (b) to edit, or require the Member to edit, material posted on the Forces Reunited Website, if the relevant Member or material appears to us to be in breach of any provision of this Agreement. Any person whose access has been suspended or terminated must not re-register for, or re-access, the Forces Reunited Website without our prior consent. You are responsible for everything which is done on or through the Forces Reunited Website while your Membership account is logged on to the Forces Reunited Website, or through your email address(es).

10 Relevance.

The Forces Reunited Website is intended to be used by its Members for the purposes referred to in Clause 2 above. Accordingly, Members must not:

• include an email address, postal address, phone number, the address of any website, or any other information which is intended to facilitate direct communication, in material which is posted on the Forces Reunited Website – Full Members, and the recipients of their emails, can share this information, should they wish, once direct contact has been made;
• place material on, or otherwise use, the Forces Reunited Website for any business or commercial purpose; or
• use your access to the Forces Reunited Website, or information gathered from it, for the sending of unsolicited bulk email (sometimes known as spam).

(ii) Fees paid by a Full Member will not be rebated or refunded by Forces Reunited, unless the Forces Reunited Website for which the Full Member has subscribed is completely withdrawn from that Full Member (and no full member services have been used) by us other than in circumstances permitted under this Agreement.

We may add new or ancillary Websites from time to time which require the payment of fees – either to us or a nominated third party – on terms which will be provided to you at the time.


Fees may be annually renewable and in which case we will take payment automatically. There will be an option to not have payment taken automatically in every site profile.

12 Prohibitions.

You are responsible for ensuring that no material you post, or which is posted through a machine on which you access the Forces Reunited Website, nor any activity or communication you make in connection with any Forces Reunited Website, will be capable of (a) infringing the intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity, (b) breaching any applicable law, whether criminal, tortious or otherwise, or (c) appearing to be offensive, threatening, obscene, pornographic, false, unreliable or misleading.

13 Alerting Us.

If you see anything on the Forces Reunited Website which appears to infringe this Agreement, then please contact us to inform us of it. We do not generally monitor material contributed by Members before it is placed on the Forces Reunited Website, and so we are reliant upon users to point out any which infringes this Agreement.

In addition if you see anything on the Forces Reunited website or any associated sites that you believe to be incorrect either posted by a member or written by us, we will endeavour to correct once we are informed of it's presence.

14 Withdrawal of material and Termination of Membership.

Each Member acknowledges that we are entitled to withdraw any material on the Forces Reunited Website which appears whether based on information received from Members or others, or our own determination to be capable of breaching any part of this Agreement, or to bring the Forces Reunited Website into disrepute. However, each user acknowledges that we do not monitor material which appears on the Forces Reunited Website, and that we are reliant upon you and all users to notify us of anything you see here which appears likely to breach this Agreement, using the notification techniques which are made available on the Forces Reunited Website.

15 Disclaimer and Release.

Forces Reunited has no control over or responsibility for the truth or accuracy of any material available on the Forces Reunited Website, whether provided by Members or others.

If any third party sites are linked to/from the Forces Reunited Website, this does not mean that we endorse or have any responsibility for the site in question or anything which appears on it.

• You should exercise no lesser degree of caution in appraising what you see on the Forces Reunited Website than you do offline.
• Even though Members are prohibited from doing so, people may provide information, or otherwise behave, in a way that is unreliable, misleading or even illegal. Further, you should note that people may not necessarily be who they say they are.
• Your use of the Forces Reunited Website is entirely at your own risk.

Accordingly, to the extent that the law permits, you release Forces Reunited its directors, contractors and employees from all liability arising out of or in connection with the Forces Reunited Website and the material included here by Members and other third parties.

16 Intellectual Property.

You acknowledge that all copyright, trade marks, and other intellectual property rights in and relating to the Forces Reunited Website (including the material which is contributed by Members) are owned by Forces Reunited Ltd. It is easy to copy material which appears on web-sites, but this does not mean it is legal. Therefore, no-one may copy, distribute, show in public or create any derivative work from the Forces Reunited Website, or any of the material which is found on the Forces Reunited Website unless properly licensed to do so by us.

By submitting any material to the content to the Forces Reunited Website, you:

• are representing that you are fully entitled to do so;
• grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-terminable licence right to copy, modify, distribute, show in public and create derivative works from that material in any form, anywhere; and
• authorise us to adapt the relevant material in the course of doing so, and so waive your moral rights to object to any derogatory treatment, or to be identified as the author, of the material in question.
  
  

17 Excluded loss.

We will not be liable to you or any third party for any indirect or consequential loss or damage, or for any loss of data, profit, revenue or business, howsoever caused (whether arising out of any negligence or breach of this Agreement or otherwise). Forces Reunited will also not be liable for any failure to perform of its obligations under this Agreement caused by matters beyond its reasonable control.

18 Maximum liability.

Without limiting the preceding Clause, during any period of twelve months, the aggregate liability of Forces Reunited under this Agreement (whether arising in negligence or otherwise) will not under any circumstances exceed the greater of (a) £5+VAT, or (b) an amount equal to the sums paid by you to us by way of Full Membership fees during the relevant period of twelve months, regardless of the cause or form of action.

19 Non-excluded Liabilities.

Nothing in this Agreement limits Forces Reunited's liability for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence, or any other liability which may not by law be excluded. Any statutory rights you may have as a consumer remain unaffected.

20 Indemnity.

You agree to indemnify us against all liabilities, claims and expenses that may arise from any breach of this Agreement by you or through a machine on which you access the Forces Reunited Website.

21 Assignment.

We reserve the right to assign this Agreement, and to assign or subcontract any or all of our rights and obligations under this Agreement. You may not without the written consent of Forces Reunited assign or dispose of this Agreement.

22 Entire Agreement.

This Agreement includes our privacy policy. Together they contain the whole of the agreement between us and you concerning the Forces Reunited Website and they replace all earlier agreements and understandings with you, except for any fraud or fraudulent representation by either of us. A person who is not a party to this Agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to rely upon or enforce any term of this Agreement.

23 Changes to this Agreement.

Forces Reunited reserves the right to change this Agreement from time to time, and post the new version on the Forces Reunited Website. The new version of these terms and conditions will take effect, and will govern all Forces Reunited Websites and your relationship with Forces Reunited:

• commencing four weeks after the date of posting (or such later date as Forces Reunited indicates in the relevant posting), if any of the changes is to an operative provision of this Agreement which is capable of adversely affecting you; if you do not wish to be governed by the new version of the Agreement, you may notify us on or before the date when the new version of the Agreement is to take effect, and from that date you must cease to use the Forces Reunited Website; or
• immediately upon the date of posting (or such later date as Forces Reunited indicates in the relevant posting), if the changes are not to operative provisions, or not capable of adversely affecting you - examples of which would include, without limitation, changes to one or more of Forces Reunited’s addresses or email addresses referred to in this Agreement.
  
  

24 Severability

In the event that any term of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable by judicial decree or decision, the remainder of this Agreement shall remain valid and enforceable.

25 Law.

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.

26 Contact.

You can contact us by post at Unit 2 Marsh Farm, Marsh Rd, Hilperton Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 7PJ or via email at j.pritchard@forcesreunited.org.uk.

27 Unregulated Link Advertising.

Forces Reunited works incredibly hard to ensure that the information contained upon our web pages is accurate, relevant and of the high quality that our visitors have come to expect.