Terms & Conditions

Terms & Conditions

Guidelines for submitting content

These Guidelines outline what we consider is acceptable and unacceptable content. We may update the Guidelines from time to time, so please read them each time you submit content.

General

1: Celebrating the trench coat

The purpose of the Art of the Trench site (the "Site") is to celebrate the Burberry trench coat. We welcome your submissions (photographs, profile and comments) and want you to be involved. Don't forget that this is a public forum and that you are legally responsible for what you submit.

2: No advertising, solicitation or investigations

You must not use the site for:

  • any commercial purpose (including to promote your products or services), without our express permission.
  • any sponsorship, petition, campaign, scheme, investigation or chain message.

3: Report inappropriate content to us

Please help us in maintaining high standards of participation. If you consider that any content does not comply with these Guidelines or our Terms, please contact us immediately. If you think a comment is inappropriate, please use the Report facility, located to the right of the comment in issue. If the facility is not available, please email us at artofthetrench@burberry.com.

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Comments and profiles

4: Language and relevance

We are looking for comments about clothes, style and fashion. Please ensure your comment is relevant and will not be misunderstood. Please be polite and don't use crude language. You can express a strong opinion, but don't go over the top. Many different types of people of different ages may view the Site.

Do not insult other contributions or discuss the non-appearance or removal of any content. If you would like to discuss the operation of the Site with us, please email us on artofthetrench@burberry.com.

5: No libel or other abuse

You must not make or encourage comments which are:

  • defamatory, false or misleading
  • insulting, threatening or abusive
  • obscene or of a sexual nature
  • offensive, racist, sexist, homophobic or discriminatory against any religions or other groups

6: Confidentiality, privacy and contempt

Please respect people's privacy. You are not allowed to submit confidential or private information. For example, you must not upload the telephone number, email or physical address or any other contact details of any person or discuss their private life. Remember that you will have no control over information that you post once it is available on the Web; please consider this before you post.

7: No impersonation and proper disclosure

You must not pretend to be someone else (e.g. another user or a member of our team). You must not pretend that you are unconnected to a person or other matter, when in fact you are. If you have a personal connection to something on the Site, you should disclose your connection or, where appropriate, not comment at all.

8: No linking or copyright infringement

You must not insert links to websites (URLs) or submit content which would be an infringement of copyright.

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Photographs

9: Submitting trench photographs

To submit a photograph to us, you must satisfy all the requirements on the Submit Your Trench page, provide us with all the correct information and comply with our Terms and these Guidelines. We will use our absolute discretion when selecting photographs for inclusion on the Site. Please do not email us asking why your photograph has not been selected. You should expect only a very few photographs are likely to be selected. We hope you will not be disappointed if your photograph does not make it.

Copyright

If you wish to submit a photograph to us, you must have taken the picture yourself and own the copyright in the photograph. You must not send us photographs that you have copied from somewhere else.

Consent

Before you send us any photographs, please make sure that the person in the picture is happy to appear on the Site. You should obtain the person's consent to being photographed and appearing on the Site.

Please send them a link to this Site (www.artofthetrench.com) and these Guidelines. Remember also to make it clear to them that the public can submit comments about the photographs and click on the 'Like' or 'Share' buttons.

We may need to contact you so you need to send us your contact details.

Quality of photographs

Please only submit high quality photographs. Any grainy or blurred photos are unlikely to be selected.

Style of photographs

We are looking for images of people wearing Burberry trench coats. We may edit photographs (e.g. to crop or blur out other people or brands).

10: Submitting Profile photographs

A profile photograph must be a picture of you. You must only upload a profile photograph if you are the copyright owner or have permission from the copyright owner to use the photograph for your profile. We will not review profile photographs.

11: Removal of content

User content that violates the letter or spirit of these Guidelines or our Terms may be removed (or, if reviewed in advance, not published in the first place). If we remove something, we will generally remove the whole thing. This means that even if only one sentence is objectionable, the whole comment will usually be removed (or not published). Similarly, we may also remove a whole thread or profile, even if only one aspect is inappropriate.

If a comment or a thread is removed, this may be for any number of reasons. Usually, this will be because the comment breaks these rules or our Terms or is the subject of an abuse report. Sometimes, the comment may be removed because it is connected to another comment which is being removed. We hope that you will understand that, once properly notified of a complaint, we may have to remove a comment for legal reasons (whatever the rights and wrongs).

If your content has been removed, we may email you to let you know or to inform you if you have been suspended or banned from submitting further comments to the Site.

If you are aware that content has been removed, you must not deliberately resubmit the same content.

12: Suspension and termination

We reserve the right to suspend or ban an account at our sole discretion. Here are some reasons why we might do so:

  • Breaching these rules or our Terms
  • Serious failure to respect the spirit and tone of the community
  • Conduct or comments that demand a disproportionate amount of our time or that abuse our staff

The length of a suspension or whether we ban someone depends on all the circumstances. Bans are generally for extreme cases and repeated serious abuse.

If we suspend or ban your registration, you must not attempt to re-register or submit content (e.g. using someone else's account), without our permission.

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Terms of use

Thank you for visiting Burberry's Art of the Trench website at (the "Site"). By using this Site, you accept these Terms. If you do not accept these Terms, please do not use this Site. We may change these Terms from time to time, so please review them each time that you visit the Site. You should print a copy of these Terms for future reference.

1: About us

This Site is operated by Burberry Limited, a company registered in England under number 00162636, with its registered office at Horseferry House, Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AW, United Kingdom ("we", "us", "our"). Our VAT number is GB 394579394. You can contact us using the following email address: feedback@burberry.com.

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2: Using the Site

2.1 You may view the content available on the Site for personal non-commercial use. You may occasionally print individual webpages on the Site for your private non-commercial use, provided that such printing is not substantial or systematic and our trade marks and intellectual property notices are not removed.

2.2 Unless otherwise stated in these Terms, you must not (whether directly or indirectly) (i) copy, download, store, make available, distribute, sell or offer to sell all or any part of the content or Site, or (ii) download or otherwise copy any content, files or data from the Site to make or populate a database or publication of any kind whatsoever.

2.3 If you would like a friend to see the Site or specific pages within it, please use the 'Share' facility on the Site, or you may email a link to the Site to your friend or simply ask them to visit the Site.

2.4 You must not use all or any part of the Site or the contents on it for commercial purposes without our permission.

2.5 Users, whether or not registered, must not abuse our 'Report ' or 'Contact Us' facilities e.g. by making malicious reports.

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3: Registration

3.1 You must be 18 years old or older to register and submit material (e.g. comments) to the Site.

3.2 Only one registration per person is allowed. You must keep your registration information up to date.

3.3 You must choose an email address which gives you frequent access to emails sent to that address, as we need to be able to contact you. You must keep your password confidential.

3.4 You must not:

  1. impersonate or try to impersonate another person
  2. disclose your password to anyone else
  3. allow anyone else use your account
  4. use anyone else's account

3.5 You are responsible for everything done using your account. If you think that someone else may have access to, or be using, your password or account, you must tell us as soon as possible by emailing artofthetrench@burberry.com.

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4: Your content - what we are allowed to do

4.1 We may publish, check, edit or remove all or part of the comments, profile, photographs or other material, including your name, town and country, which you submit to us ('Your Content'), at our sole discretion. We are not obliged to do any of these things and we may not.

4.2 You retain any copyright you may have in Your Content. By submitting material to us, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive worldwide licence to use, copy, edit, adapt, publish, translate, create adaptations from, make available, communicate and distribute Your Content (in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. By submitting Your Content, you warrant that you have the right to grant this licence. The licence is capable of sub-license by us to other entities and brands in the Burberry group of companies and to agents, suppliers and publications (in any media) of our choosing.

4.3 To the extent permitted by law, you waive your moral rights (e.g. the right to be identified as author or to object to derogatory treatment) in Your Content.

This clause 4 means, for example (without limitation), that we can:

  • Continue to publish all or part of Your Content, including your photos, comments, profile, name, town and country, even if you change your mind and want us to remove it and/or you are no longer registered with the Site.
  • Remove Your Content, even if you have not breached these Terms or our content Guidelines.
  • Use all or part of Your Content in promoting our products and services (e.g. we may use Your Content in our advertising and other publications).
  • Edit your Content, which may result in a part of it being modified and displayed, including without your name.

Please note that we do not check, monitor, moderate or see all the user generated content and other material submitted to us before it appears on the Site.

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5: Your Content - what you are not allowed to do

5.1 You must not submit any material to the Site that:

  1. is:
    1. defamatory, malicious, threatening, false, misleading, offensive, abusive, discriminatory, harassing, blasphemous or racist
    2. a breach of confidentiality or someone's privacy
    3. indecent, obscene or of a sexual nature
  2. is likely to:
    1. cause someone alarm, anxiety or distress
    2. encourage violence or racial or religious hatred
  3. infringes any intellectual property rights, such as copyright and trade marks. This means generally that you must own the rights in everything you submit (e.g. photos and comments) or must obtain permission from the rights owner to submit the material.
  4. advertises any product or services
  5. impersonates anyone else or otherwise misrepresents your identity, affiliation or status
  6. could prejudice any active legal proceedings of which you are aware
  7. is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, corrupted data or other malicious or harmful software, data, components or conduct)
  8. is in breach of these Terms, our Privacy Policy, and/or Guidelines
  9. is, encourages or teaches conduct that is a criminal offence, gives rise to civil liability, or is otherwise unlawful

5.2 You must not include links on the Site to any websites or webpages.

5.3 You must not try to circumvent (i.e. get around) any protections we put in place for the security and operation of the Site.

5.4 You must not re-submit content which you are aware has been removed.

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6: Suspending or terminating your registration

6.1 We may suspend, terminate or prevent your registration at our sole discretion. This may be because, for example, we consider that you have breached or will breach these Terms or our Guidelines or someone has reported abuse.

6.2 Where we suspend, terminate or prevent your registration, you must not attempt to re-register or submit content (e.g. using someone else's registration), without our permission. The period of any suspension depends on all the circumstances.

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7: Third party content and links available on this Site

7.1 We are not liable or responsible for the third party content on this Site. Third party content includes, for example, comments, profiles and photographs posted by users.

7.2 People and non-Burberry clothing appear, or may be referred to, on theSite. This does not imply that any individual or company is commercially connected to us, e.g. via an endorsement contract. In general, they are not.

7.3 Where this Site contains links to other sites and resources which are provided by third parties, these links and resources are provided for your information only and you access them at your own risk. We are not liable or responsible for the content of third party sites or resources.

If you see something which you reasonably believe breaches these Terms or our Guidelines, please use the 'Report' or 'Contact Us' facilities. If there is no facility available, please contact us on artofthetrench@burberry.com.

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8: Your personal information

8.1 We will use your personal information in accordance with our privacy policy, which forms part of these Terms. Please read our Privacy Policy.

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9: Our liability

9.1 The information on this Site does not constitute advice. You should check any information on the Site and use your own judgment before doing or not doing anything on the basis of what you see or hear.

9.2 Except for liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or deliberate breach of these Terms by us, we are not liable for:

  1. any action you may take as a result of relying on any information provided on this Site or for any loss or damage suffered by you as a result of you taking this action
  2. any dealings you have with third parties (e.g. other users, advertisers or businesses) that take place using or facilitated by the Site
  3. any liability for losses which are not a foreseeable or likely consequence of (i) your use of the Site, or (ii) a breach by us of these Terms.

9.3 We are not responsible if you cannot access the Site properly or at all because of any event outside our control, for example (without limitation) the performance of your or our ISP, your browser or the Internet.

9.4 The Site relies in part on software to work. Software has bugs. Whilst we will monitor the Site and try to fix bugs, we cannot guarantee that the Site or any individual feature of the Site will be error free, available all the time and/or free from viruses.

9.5 However, nothing in these Terms will affect any liability we may have for death or personal injury arising from our negligence or any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited by law.

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10: Maintenance of the Site

10.1 Making your use of the Site enjoyable means we need to fix bugs, install updates and do general diagnosis and maintenance of the Site. We will try to do scheduled maintenance during times when we anticipate that online use is lower than normal.

10.2 We also need to be able to do emergency maintenance and/or suspend access to the servers where, in our reasonable discretion, we see the need to do that. We will try to have the Site available again as soon as we think it is safe to do so.

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11: Validity of these Terms

11.1 If any part or provision of these Terms is found to be unlawful or unenforceable, this shall not affect the validity of any other part or provision.

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12: Jurisdiction and applicable law

12.1 These Terms are governed by English law. The English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute relating to these Terms.

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Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting Burberry's Art of the Trench website at artofthetrench.com (the "Site"). By using the Site, you accept this Privacy Policy. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please review it each time that you visit the Site. You should print a copy of this Privacy Policy for future reference.

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Your consent to this privacy policy

By using our Site you consent to the collection and use of your personal information by us as set forth in this privacy policy. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will update the policy. Use of the Site following any changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised privacy policy then in effect. If you do not agree to this privacy policy, please do not use the Site.

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Servers based in the United States

The servers hosting this website are currently based in the United States. When you register with the Site or submit content to the Site, your information is stored and processed in the United States, and, in registering or subscribing, you specifically consent to that storage and processing. The United States does not give the same level of legal protection for personal data as European countries. We may transfer your data to other countries anywhere in the world where we think it is reasonably necessary to do so, but we will always ensure you data is used in accordance with this privacy policy.

Personal information we may collect from you

You can access the Site without registering, but you have to register via Facebook in order to submit comments or photographs to the Site. We will ask for your name, email address, country of residence, and other details as set out in the online registration form and when you submit photographs, reply to surveys, or enter promotions. Most of this information may be entered at your discretion. However, if you withhold requested information, we may not be able to provide you with certain services.

You may provide us with additional personal information, including personal information related to other people, in the course of using the Site, for instance photographs of other people wearing trenchcoats, their name, the date and location of the photograph and other information. You must get their consent as set out in our Guidelines before submitting photographs of them to the Site.

When you connect via Facebook, a photograph of you, the name of the city or area where you live, a link to your Facebook homepage will form part of your profile page. Together with the photographs you mark as your favourites and any comments you make via the Site, this information about you will be public and visible by all users (whether registered with the Site or not). You can edit the 'About me' section on your Profile and you can choose to have your profile page deleted by disconnecting to the Art of the Trench via Facebook, but please note the photographs and comments you submit to the Site will remain on the Site indefinitely even if you decide to stop being a user.

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Public forum

Any information disclosed in your profile or in comments and photographs you submit become public information and you should always be careful in deciding whether to disclose personal information.

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Share

If you submit another person’s details to us for the purpose of sharing information or content with them, you should make sure they are happy for you to send their details and to use receiving them. We will only use the information submitted in this way for the purpose of the share facility.

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How your information will be used

By using the Site, you agree that we may use your information (including personal information) for the purposes of:

  • Verifying your identity (for example when you return to the Site)
  • Personalising your visits to the Site and developing the design and style of the Site to improve the services provided to you
  • Informing you about the latest changes to the Site that you might find interesting
  • Dealing with, and responding to you about, a photograph, comment or other content you have submitted to the Site or a complaint you have lodged about content submitted to the Site
  • Contacting you to ask about photographs and/or comments you have submitted to the Site, for instance to verify whether you did get the consent of people in the photographs to their image appearing on the Site
  • Enabling you to share content with others
  • Communicating (and personalising such communication) with you including through sending you marketing communications – please see the section ‘Burberry communications’ below
  • Informing you if you have been successful in any Site competitions or promotions
  • Conducting market research
  • Carrying out statistical, technical and logistical analysis

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Will you disclose any of my personal data to third parties?

Group companies: We may disclose your personal information to other companies in the Burberry group and joint ventures and franchisees which operate under the Burberry namefor the purposes set out in this policy.

Third party service providers: Under protection of confidentiality agreements, we use third parties to provide services and manage our sites and relationships with you. These may include website hosting and organisation that assist us in our direct marketing activities. Third-party processors and providers will be given access only to that information needed to perform their support functions, and are prohibited from using it for other purposes.

Direct marketing: See below, under ‘Burberry communications’ for further information.

Reorganisation: In the event that we or a part of our business undergo re-organisation or are sold to a third party, you agree that any personal information we hold about you may be transferred to that re-organised entity or third party.

Legal issues: We may disclose, but are not obliged to disclose, your personal information if required to do so by law or order of the court or if we believe that such action is necessary to prevent fraud or cyber crime or for the purpose of, or in connection with, any legal proceedings (including prospective legal proceedings) or for the purposes of obtaining legal advice or to protect us, our affiliates, our Site or the rights (including the rights of privacy, confidentiality and reputation), property or personal safety of any person or otherwise in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

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Cookies and other non-personal information

When you visit our Site, we may automatically collect non-personal information about you, such as the type of internet browser you use, the website from which you have come to our Site and your IP address (the unique address which identifies your computer on the internet) which is automatically recognised by our web server. The collection of this information may involve the use of cookies and web beacons. A web beacon is a small graphic image placed on a web page that is designed to allow us to monitor traffic on the Site. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer's hard drive by your web browser when you first visit the Site.

You cannot be identified from the information collected in this way on its own and it is only used to assist us in providing an effective service on our Site and to collect broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You can erase or block cookies from your computer if you want to (your help screen or manual should tell you how to do this), but certain services may not work correctly or as fast or at all if you set your browser not to accept cookies.

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Burberry communications

We and other Burberry group companies and joint ventures and franchisees which operate under the Burberry name may use your personal information to send you:

  • newsletters and information of any changes or additions to the Site
  • information we think you may find useful or which you have requested from us, including information about Burberry products and services,

provided you have consented by ‘opting-in’ to being contacted for these purposes.

You can tell us not to contact you with information regarding our products either at the point such information is collected on our Site (by not ticking the relevant 'opt-in' box), or by using the unsubscribe link listed in the email or by contacting us at artofthetrench@burberry.com.

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Security

We place great importance on the security of our users personal information. We have security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of personal information under our control. Whilst we cannot ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of information will never occur, we use all reasonable efforts to prevent it. You should bear in mind that submission of information over the internet is never entirely secure.

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Contacting us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or the practices of this Site, you can contact Burberry Limited by email to artofthetrench@burberry.com

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Music Credits

Young Lions - The Maccabees
Written by Rupert Jarvis, Orlando Weeks, Felix White, Hugo White
Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd.

Courtesy of Fiction/Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Under license from Universal Music Operations Ltd.
www.themaccabees.co.uk

Death - White Lies
Written by Harry McVeigh, Charles Cave, Jack Brown
Published by Chrysalis Music Ltd.
Courtesy of Fiction/Polydor Ltd. (UK)

Under license from Universal Music Operations Ltd.
www.whitelies.com

Stormy Weather - The Kooks
Written by Luke Pritchard
Published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing

Licensed courtesy of Virgin Records Ltd.
www.thekooks.com

It's Alright - One Night Only
Written by George Craig
Published by Chrysalis Music Publishing Ltd.
Courtesy of Mercury Records Ltd.

Under license from Universal Music Operations Ltd.
www.onenightonlyonline.com

Ooh La (Lowlands Acoustic Session) - The Kooks
Written by Luke Pritchard
Published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing

Licensed courtesy of Virgin Records Ltd.
www.thekooks.com

Sofa Song (Acoustic Version) - The Kooks
Written by Luke Pritchard
Published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing

Licensed courtesy of Virgin Records Ltd.
www.thekooks.com

Always Where I Need to Be (Acoustic Version) - The Kooks
Written by Luke Pritchard
Published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing

Licensed courtesy of Virgin Records Ltd.
www.thekooks.com

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