Legal Information
Terms & Conditions
Manchester Student Homes is owned, managed and funded by the two universities of Manchester, The University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University.
By using www.manchesterstudenthomes.com you agree to be bound by our Terms and Conditions. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By using our 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.
Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us.
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
If you choose to register with us, you must ensure that the information that you provide to us is accurate and you inform us immediately if any of the details you provide us change.
We reserve the right to disable or remove your account without prior notice.
The use of the forms is strictly for student to student communication. You must not post any offensive or potentially inflammatory content anywhere on our website. We reserve the right to remove any post we feel is unsuitable for our forum.
Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. 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 our site will cease immediately.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
Disclaimer
From time to time this website may also include links to other third party websites. These links are used to provide further information and are not intended to signify that Manchester Student Homes endorses such websites and/or their content. Manchester Student Homes takes no responsibility for any loss or damage suffered as a result of using the linked websites or as a result of using the information published on any of the pages of the linked websites.
Whilst every effort is made to ensure downloadable content is free from viruses, Manchester Student Homes cannot accept any liability for damages resulting from virus infection.
Whilst all effort is made to ensure the content on this site is up-to-date and accurate, we cannot guarantee the material displayed on our site is accurate. The material is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, do not take 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.
Manchester Student Homes does not guarantee the accuracy of any post on the Forum, nor can we be held responsible for any problems which arise with arrangements made via the forums. However, do report any problems you encounter.
Part of Manchester Student Homes website may contain sponsorship or advertising.
If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact us (link to contact us)
Privacy Policy
Personal data (eg name, email address) is not stored or captured through Manchester Student Homes website without the prior knowledge and consent of users. When you provide this information, you will be asked whether you wish to receive any further communication from The University of Manchester. We will ensure that all personal data supplied is held in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Manchester Student Homes does not sell or otherwise transfer personal data to any third parties unless you have consented to this or this is so permitted by law.
Continuous logs are maintained by Manchester Student Homes web server activity. These log files include the details of your IP address, browser type, page last visited etc. Log files are used to analyse usage of The University of Manchester website, and may be kept in an anonymised form for historical records.
Some parts of The University of Manchester website use cookies for security purposes (eg to save the user from having to re-enter their details for every page in a section of the site). Cookies are not used to capture or store personal information for any other purpose, and all cookies are deleted as soon as a session is ended. You may choose to refuse cookies by disabling them using your web browser. Further information about cookies may be found at www.allaboutcookies.org (external website).
If you email us to ask a question, report a fault etc, we will only use the personal data you provide to reply to your message. We do not keep this information, or share it with any third party unless you have consented to this or this is so permitted by law.
If the user leaves this website and visits a website operated by a third party, Manchester Student Homes cannot be held responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which users have provided while visiting such websites. Accordingly, users should exercise caution and review the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
If you have any concerns about the use of your personal data on this website, please contact manchesterstudenthomes@manchester.ac.uk
Copyright Notice
(c) 2006 Manchester Student Homes
Material published by Manchester Student Homes on these web pages is copyright Manchester Student Homes and may not be reproduced without permission.
Freedom Of Information
The Freedom of Information Act promotes greater openness and accountability across the public sector by requiring all public authorities to make information available proactively, through a publication scheme.
A publication scheme is a document which describes the information a public authority publishes, or intends to publish. Public authorities are defined in the Act and include universities, further education colleges and sixth form colleges.
FOI Contact Details
Records Management
DP and FOI office
Corporate Services
G29, John Owens Building
M13 9PL
Tel: 0161 275 8111
Fax: 0161 275 8402
Email:foi@manchester.ac.uk
Freedom of information online request form
The Freedom of information online request form enables you to request specific information from The University of Manchester.
Publication Scheme
Adopting a publication scheme is a legal requirement of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. A publication scheme is a document which describes the information a public authority publishes, or intends to publish. In this context, publish means to make information available routinely. The scheme is not a list of the actual publications because this will change as new material is published or existing material revised. It is, however, the public authority's commitment to make available the information described.
You will need a PDF reader such as Adobe Acrobat (downloadable from Adobe) to view PDF file(s). PDF files open in a new window.
Freedom of Information publication scheme documents
- Section 1 - Governance of The University of Manchester 539 KB
- Section 2 - Financial Resources 233 KB
- Section 3 - Human Resources 329 KB
- Section 4 - Physical Resources 250 KB
- Section 5 - Student Administration and Support 411 KB
- Section 6 - Information Services 218 KB
- Section 7 - Teaching and Learning 1065 KB
- Section 8 - Research and Development 192 KB
- Section 9 - External Relations 283 KB
