Terms of Use


Policy

So what are the rules at Worldwide Virtual? In short there are only a few. We have chosen not to incorporate any of the usual rules in order for our pilots to be able to have as much fun as possible. You aren't restricted to what type of aircraft you can fly based on your hours/experience and you don't even have to fly the aircraft listed. In fact, the Worldwide Virtual caters for all types of pilots. If you want realism you can of course fly the scheduled routes with the correct aircraft, and we have some pilots who like this. We also have other pilots who prefer to fly a 747 or a cessna on a route designated for a 737. This is fine as well. The only thing you need to do is enjoy the experience of flying in the comfort of your own home. The only policies we have that affect our pilots is the inactivity policy and the common sense rules that we all should abide by in the online world.

Our forums are also a friendly place to get to know your fellow pilots, share your experiences and adventures or get some help.

The Rules

There are only a few "common sense" rules which we all should abide by: have fun and respect other pilots. Respecting other pilots extends throughout the site including teamspeak, online events, comments and forum posts. Our administrators have the right to suspend membership or parts thereof at any time that members are found to be agressive, rude, intimidating, forceful, argumentative or disrespectful to other members. Additionally, our members have the right to suspend memberships should there be an abuse of the system such as excessive manual pireps, exploitation of "loop-holes", or any other activity that may not be accepted in such an environment. Membership of Worldwide Virtual is a privelage not a right.

As for inactivity, of course every Virtual Airline needs a way to determine when people have simply left without telling us. In saying this, there is a minimum PIREP policy, that being, file one PIREP every three months and you won't be deleted. Pretty much all Virtual Airline's require at least one PIREP a month (some even require one a week). Here we have chosen one every three months which we think is fairly generous and takes into account the busy lives that we all lead. If you require any more time, just visit your profile in our Worldwide Club and set yourself to inactive. As you get close to the three months, we will just send you a friendly reminder email letting you know we are still here.

Unfortunately a few years ago we had a member who couldn't follow our few "common sense" rules and after being banned threatened to take Worldwide Virtual to court. Worldwide Virtual nearly shut down because of this but we endured and whilst we take banning of members extremely seriously, this incident nonetheless forced us to create some terms and conditions which are laid out below.

Website Terms and Conditions

Where these Terms and Conditions refer to the website, this extends to all parts of Worldwide Virtual including TeamSpeak, Forums and ACARS access.

Introduction

These terms and conditions govern your use of this website; by using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use this website.

You must be at least 13 years of age to use this website. By using this website and by agreeing to these terms and conditions you warrant and represent that you are at least 13 years of age and those under the age of consent in your country have permission access this website.

This website uses cookies. By using this website and agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our Worldwide Virtual's use of cookies in accordance with the terms of Worldwide Virtual's privacy policy / cookies policy.

License to use the Website

Unless otherwise stated, Worldwide Virtual and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

You must not:
  • Republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
  • Sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
  • Show any material from the website in public;
  • Reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose;
  • Edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or
  • Redistribute material from this website, except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.
Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed within your organisation.

Acceptable Use

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without Worldwide Virtual's express written consent.

You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

You must not engage in any anti-social behaviour including being argumentative, agressive, rude, insensitive and inconsiderate to all other members and administrators.

The use of voice recording on TeamSpeak may be used after seeking your consent. Worldwide Virtual retains the right to remove a person from TeamSpeak if they do not provide this consent.

Restricted access

Access to certain areas of this website is restricted. Worldwide Virtual reserves the right to restrict access to other areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at Worldwide Virtual's discretion.

If Worldwide Virtual provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.

Worldwide Virtual may disable your user ID and password at Worldwide Virtual's sole discretion without notice or explanation.

User Content

In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.

You grant to Worldwide Virtual a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to Worldwide Virtual the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or Worldwide Virtual or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

Worldwide Virtual reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on Worldwide Virtual servers, or hosted or published upon this website.

Notwithstanding Worldwide Virtual's rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, Worldwide Virtual does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.

No Warranties

This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. Worldwide Virtual makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, Worldwide Virtual does not warrant that:
  • This website will be constantly available, or available at all; or
  • The information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.
Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind. If you require advice in relation to any legal, financial or medical matter you should consult an appropriate professional.

Limitations of Liability

Worldwide Virtual will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:
  • To the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;
  • For any indirect, special or consequential loss; or
  • For any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.
These limitations of liability apply even if Worldwide Virtual has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

Exceptions

Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit Worldwide Virtual's liability in respect of any:
  • Death or personal injury caused by Worldwide Virtual's negligence;
  • Fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of Worldwide Virtual; or
  • Matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for Worldwide Virtual to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.

Reasonableness

By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable.

If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.

Other Parties

You accept that, as a limited liability entity, Worldwide Virtual has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against Worldwide Virtual's officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website.

Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph, you agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect Worldwide Virtual's officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as Worldwide Virtual.

Unenforceable Provisios

If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.

Indemnity

You hereby indemnify Worldwide Virtual and undertake to keep Worldwide Virtual indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by Worldwide Virtual to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of Worldwide Virtual's legal advisers) incurred or suffered by Worldwide Virtual arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.

Breaches of These Terms and Conditions

Without prejudice to Worldwide Virtual's other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, Worldwide Virtual may take such action as Worldwide Virtual deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

Variation

Worldwide Virtual may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

Assignment

Worldwide Virtual may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with Worldwide Virtual's rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

Severability

If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

Entire Agreement

These terms and conditions, together with our Privacy Statement, Cookies Policy, Copyright Notice, Anti-Spam and Linking Policies, constitute the entire agreement between you and Worldwide Virtual in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

Law and Jurisdiction

These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with Australian Law, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Australia.

Privacy Statement

Your privacy is important to Worldwide Virtual. This privacy statement provides information about the personal information that Worldwide Virtual collects, and the ways in which Worldwide Virtual uses that personal information.

Personal Information Collection

Worldwide Virtual may collect and use the following kinds of personal information:
  • Information that you provide for the purposes of subsrcibing to website services
  • Information that you provide for the purposes of registering as a member of Worldwide Virtual
  • Information about your use of the website
  • Any other additional information you provide to Worldwide Virtual

Using Personal Information

Worldwide Virtual may use your information to:
  • Administer the website
  • Personalise the website for you
  • Enable your access to and use of the website services
  • Publish information about you on the website
  • Send you information via email
Worldwide Virtual will not disclose any of our data unless compelled to under law. We do not transmit your data to any website or other entity.

Securing Your Data

Worldwide Virtual will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. Worldwide Virtual will store all the personal information you provide on its secure server and encrypt any sensitive information including passwords.

Other Websites

Worldwide Virtual will link to other websites and is not responsible for the privacy principles or practices of any third party.

Cookies

About cookies

This website uses cookies. By using this website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to Worldwide Virtual's use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

Cookies are files sent by web servers to web browsers, and stored by the web browsers.

The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables a web server to identify and track web browsers.

There are two main kinds of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach their expiry date.

Cookies on our website

Worldwide Virtual uses the following cookies on this website, for the following purposes:
  • Authentication Cookie (Session Cookie) used for the purpose of allowing you access to restricted areas of the website and forums

Refusing cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies.

In Internet Explorer, you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.

In Firefox, you can adjust your cookies settings by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”.

Blocking cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of some websites.

Copyright Notice

Ownership of copyright

The copyright in this website and the material on this website (including without limitation the text, computer code, artwork, photographs, images, music, audio material, video material and audio-visual material on this website) is owned by Worldwide Virtual. Where material is owned by a third party, it is used under fair-use or any other applicable licences, however they retain the copyright and trademarks of that material and the right to have it removed from the website.

Copyright license

Worldwide Virtual grants to you a worldwide non-exclusive royalty-free revocable license to:
  • View this website and the material on this website on a computer or mobile device via a web browser;
  • Copy and store this website and the material on this website in your web browser cache memory; and
  • Print pages from this website for your own [personal and non-commercial] use.
Worldwide Virtual does not grant you any other rights in relation to this website or the material on this website. In other words, all other rights are reserved.

For the avoidance of doubt, you must not adapt, edit, change, transform, publish, republish, distribute, redistribute, broadcast, rebroadcast or show or play in public this website or the material on this website (in any form or media) without Worldwide Virtual's prior written permission.

Data mining

The automated and/or systematic collection of data from this website is prohibited.

Permissions

You may request permission to use the copyright materials on this website by writing to ceo@worldwidevirtual.net.

Enforcement of copyright

Worldwide Virtual takes the protection of its copyright very seriously.

If Worldwide Virtual discovers that you have used its copyright materials in contravention of the license above, Worldwide Virtual may bring legal proceedings against you seeking monetary damages and an injunction to stop you using those materials. You could also be ordered to pay legal costs.

If you become aware of any use of Worldwide Virtual's copyright materials that contravenes or may contravene the license above, please report this by email to ceo@worldwidevirtual.net.

Infringing material

If you become aware of any material on the website that you believe infringes your or any other person's copyright, please report this by email to ceo@worldwidevirtual.net.

Anti-Spam Policy

What is spam?

In the context of electronic messaging, spam refers to unsolicited, bulk or indiscriminate messages, typically sent for a commercial purpose.

Worldwide Virtual has a zero-tolerance spam policy.

Automated spam filtering

Worldwide Virtual's messaging systems automatically scan all incoming email [and other] messages, and filter-out messages that appear to be spam.

Problems with spam filtering

No message filtering system is 100% accurate, and from time to time legitimate messages will be filtered-out by Worldwide Virtual's systems.

If you believe this has happened to a message you have sent, please advise the message recipient by another means.

You can reduce the risk of a message being caught by the spam filters by sending the message in plain text (i.e. no HTML), removing any attachments, and ensuring that your messages are scanned for malware before dispatch.

Receipt of unwanted messages from Worldwide Virtual

In the unlikely event that you receive any message from Worldwide Virtual or sent using Worldwide Virtual's systems that may be considered to be spam, please contact Worldwide Virtual using the details below and the matter will be investigated.

Changes to this anti-spam policy

Worldwide Virtual may amend this anti-spam policy at any time by publishing a new version on this website.

Linking Policy

Status of linking policy

Worldwide Virtual welcomes links to this website made in accordance with the terms of this linking policy.

This linking policy is intended to assist you when linking to this website. By using this website you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this linking policy.

Links to this website

Links pointing to this website should not be misleading.

Appropriate link text should be always be used.

From time to time the URL structure of this website may be updated, and unless Worldwide Virtual agrees in writing otherwise, all links should point to http://www.worldwidevirtual.net.

You may use Worldwide Virtual's logo for the purpose of linking-to and advertising this website.

You must not frame the content of this website or use any similar technology in relation to the content of this website.

Links from this website

This website includes links to other websites owned and operated by third parties. These links are not endorsements or recommendations.

Worldwide Virtual has no control over the contents of third party websites, and Worldwide Virtual accepts no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Removal of links

You agree that, should Worldwide Virtual request the deletion of a link to our website that is within your control, you will delete the link promptly.

If you would like Worldwide Virtual to remove a link to your website that is included on this website, please contact Worldwide Virtual using the contact details below. Note that unless you have a legal right to demand removal, such removal will be at our discretion.

Changes to this linking policy

Worldwide Virtual may amend this linking policy at any time by publishing a new version on this website.

Credit

This document was created using a Contractology template available at http://www.freenetlaw.com.

Contact

If you have any questions about the policies on this page, you may contact Worldwide Virtual via email at ceo@worldwidevirtual.net.