Thank you for visiting the Family Welfare website.
By using this site, you are agreeing to these terms and conditions. Family Welfare reserves 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.
Disclaimer
Family Welfare provides counselling and advocacy services to the people of the borough of Wigan. This website is intended to provide general information only and, as such, should not be considered as a substitute for professional advice. It is up to you to contact a health professional if you are concerned about the mental health of any person. If a person is in immediate danger, you should contact the emergency services.
Family Welfare does not give medical advice in relation to any individual case or patient, nor does Family Welfare website provide medical or diagnostic services.
If you are a medical or health professional then you are encouraged to use the Family Welfare website for general information purposes. However, you should not rely on material included here and we do not accept any responsibility if you do.
Family Welfare does not guarantee that the Website will be uninterrupted or error free, or that the Website or your use of it will be free of viruses or harmful material. You are responsible for ensuring that your computer is suitable to use the Website.
Use of the Family Welfare website
You agree to use this site only for lawful purposes, and in a manner which does not infringe the rights, or restrict, or inhibit the use and enjoyment of the site by any third party.
Except as permitted in these Terms and Conditions, you may not alter the Website in any way or do anything that might or will damage or disrupt the good working order of the Website or our equipment or software.
Information you provide to us
You agree that any information you provide to us is true.
Any information you provide to us through the Website will be treated in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Copyright and monitoring
The content of the Website is owned by Family Welfare or third parties. No content from the Website may be copied, used or reproduced without our written consent, except where it is used for research and non-commercial use where no consent is required.
Linked sites
When you access any other website through the Website you understand that it is independent from Family Welfare and that we have no control over that website, its content, or the services offered through it.
User generated content
If you upload any content to the site, you agree to accept the following house rules at all times:
- You must not post or upload any content or use the Website in a way that breaches any law.
- You must not post or upload any content or use the Website in a way that is offensive, threatening, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, harassing, false, misleading or unreliable, or that brings or is likely to bring the Website or Family Welfare into disrepute.
- You agree to not contribute content that will infringe another user’s, organisation’s or person’s rights (including rights of privacy or publicity).
- Family Welfare operates a reactive moderation policy. Family Welfare accepts no responsibility for any content, but reserves the right to remove/edit any content at any time.
- You are wholly responsible for all content posted by you on the Website and for materials (including but not limited to emails) sent by you in connection to the Website.
- Please let us know immediately by contacting us at admin@wiganfamilywelfare.co.uk if any of these rules are broken by you or other users, or if you have any concerns about material posted to the Website.
- Using your access to the Website to send unsolicited bulk email or spam is forbidden.
- Family Welfare reserves the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Website immediately at any time.
- Any content you post to the Website may be used by Family Welfare for any purpose subject to our Privacy Policy.
- If your access to the Website is terminated or suspended for any reason, you must not access the Website or any other Family Welfare website without our prior consent.
