These Terms of Use govern your access and use of Liane Matthews Ceramics Community (“The Ceramics Community” or “the Service”)

To participate in The Ceramics Community you must comply with these Terms of Use and the Community Guidelines, ensuring that all content shared is appropriate and respectful. Additionally, we reserve the right to remove inappropriate content and block users who violate these rules.

Community Guidelines

Compliance with Terms of Use

All users must adhere to the specific terms of use set out below.

Users are responsible for the content they post, ensuring it is appropriate and respectful.

Content Moderation

We have the authority to remove any content deemed inappropriate.

Users may be blocked or reported for violating community guidelines, which include:

Abusive or obscene language
Graphic or sensitive imagery
Deceptive or misleading information
Violations of intellectual property rights
Spam or persistent negative behaviour

User Interaction

Users are encouraged to engage respectfully with others.

Direct messages containing offensive or inappropriate content may lead to blocking or reporting.

Privacy and Safety

Users should manage their privacy settings within their account to protect personal information.

It is advisable to use features like two-step verification to enhance account security.

Reporting Issues

Users can report fake accounts, inappropriate content, or any suspicious activity directly to the platform.

By following these basic rules, users can contribute to a positive and respectful online environment.

Terms of Use

These Terms of Use constitute an agreement between you and Liane Matthews Ceramics. If you do not agree to these Terms, then do not access or use The Ceramics Community.

The Ceramics Community Service

We agree to provide you with the Ceramics Community Service. The Service includes all of the Ceramics Community products, features, applications, services, technologies and software that we provide to advance The Ceramics Community's mission: To bring you closer to the people and things that you enjoy. The Service is made up of the following aspects:

Offering personalised opportunities to create, connect, communicate, discover and share. People are different so, we may offer you different types of accounts and features to help you create, share, grow your presence and communicate with people on and off The Ceramics Community.
Fostering a positive, inclusive and safe environment.
We offer resources to our community members that help to make their experiences positive and inclusive, including when we think that they might need help. We also work to combat abuse and breaches of our Terms and policies, as well as harmful and deceptive behaviour.
Research and innovation.
We may occasionally add new features or conduct surveys and polls for testing and troubleshooting these new features.

The Privacy Policy

Providing our Service requires collecting and using your information. The Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use your information. It also explains the ways in which you can control your information using your account Privacy settings.

Your Commitments

In return for our commitment to provide the Service, we require you to make the below commitments to us.

Who can use The Ceramics Community

We want our Service to be as open and inclusive as possible, but we also want it to be safe, secure and in accordance with the law. So, we need you to commit to a few restrictions in order to be part of the Ceramics Community.

You must be at least 13 years old.
You must not be prohibited from receiving any aspect of our Service under applicable laws or engaging in payments-related Services if you are on an applicable denied party listing.
We must not have previously disabled your account for violation of law or any of our policies.

How you can't use The Ceramics Community

Providing a safe and open Service for a broad community requires that we all do our part.

You can't impersonate others or provide inaccurate information.
You don't have to disclose your identity on The Ceramics Community, but you must provide us with accurate and up-to-date information, which may include providing personal data. Also, you may not impersonate someone or something you aren't, and you can't create an account for someone else unless you have their express permission.
You can't do anything unlawful, misleading or fraudulent or for an illegal or unauthorised purpose.
You can't violate (or help or encourage others to violate) these Terms or our policies, If you post copyrighted content, you must either own the copyright or have express permission from the copyright owner.
You can't do anything to interfere with, or impair the intended operation, of the Service.
This includes misusing any reporting, dispute or appeals channel, such as by making fraudulent or groundless reports or appeals.
You can't attempt to create accounts or access or collect information in unauthorised ways.
This includes creating accounts or accessing or collecting information in an automated way, regardless of whether such automated access or collection is undertaken while logged in to a Ceramics Community account.
You can't post someone else's private or confidential information without permission or do anything that violates someone else's rights, including intellectual property rights (e.g. copyright infringement, trademark infringement, counterfeit or pirated goods).
You may use someone else's works under exceptions or limitations to copyright and related rights under applicable law. You represent that you own or have obtained all necessary rights to the content you post or share.
You can't modify, translate, create derivative works of or reverse-engineer our products or their components.
You can't do, or attempt to do, anything to circumvent, bypass or override any technological measures that control or limit access to the Service or data.

Permissions you give to us.

As part of our agreement, you also give us permissions that we need to provide the Service.

We do not claim ownership of your content, but you grant us a licence to use it.
Nothing is changing about your rights in your content. We do not claim ownership of your content that you post on or through the Service and you are free to share your content with anyone else, wherever you choose. However, we need certain legal permissions from you (known as a "licence") to provide the Service. When you share, post or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights (such as photos or videos) on or in connection with our Service, you hereby grant to us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy and application settings). This licence will end when your content is deleted from our systems. You can delete content individually or all at once by deleting your account. To learn more about how we use information, and how to control or delete your content, review the Privacy Policy

Additional rights that we retain

If you select a username or similar identifier for your account, we may change it if we believe that it is appropriate or necessary (for example, if it infringes someone's intellectual property, impersonates another user, or is deemed offensive).
If you use content covered by intellectual property rights that we have and make available in our Service (for example, images, designs, videos or sounds we provide that you add to content you create or share), we retain all rights to our content (but not yours).
You must obtain written permission from us or under an open-source licence to modify, create derivative works of, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract source code from us.

Content removal and disabling or terminating your account

We can remove or restrict any content or information that you share on the Service if we believe that it violates these Terms of Use, our policies or we are required to do so by law. We can refuse to provide or stop providing all or part of the Service to you (including terminating or disabling your access to the Ceramics Community to protect our community or services, or if you create risk or legal exposure for us, violate these Terms of Use or our policies, if you repeatedly infringe other people's intellectual property rights, or where we are required to do so by law. We can also terminate or change the Service, remove or block content or information shared on our Service, or stop providing all or part of the Service if we determine that doing so is reasonably necessary to avoid or mitigate adverse legal or regulatory impacts on us. In some cases when we remove content, we'll let you know and explain any options that you have to request another review, unless you seriously or repeatedly violate these Terms, or if doing so may expose us or others to legal liability; harm our community of users; compromise or interfere with the integrity or operation of any of our services, systems or products; where we are restricted due to technical limitations; or where we are prohibited from doing so for legal reasons. We recognise the importance of freedom of expression. If you believe that your account has been terminated in error, or you want to disable or permanently delete your account, you can contact us through the website contact page. When you request to delete content or your account, the deletion process will automatically begin no more than 30 days after your request. It may take up to 90 days to delete content after the deletion process has begun. While the deletion process for such content is being undertaken, the content is no longer visible to other users, but remains subject to these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. After the content has been deleted, it may take up to another 90 days to remove it from backups and disaster recovery systems.
Content will not be deleted within 90 days of the account deletion or content deletion process beginning in the following situations:
where your content has been used by others in accordance with this licence and they have not deleted it (in which case this licence will continue to apply until that content has been deleted); or
where deletion within 90 days is not possible due to technical limitations of our systems, in which case, we will complete the deletion as soon as technically feasible; or
where deletion would restrict our ability to:
investigate or identify illegal activity or violations of our terms and policies (for example, to identify or investigate misuse of our products or systems);
protect the safety and security of our products, systems and users;
comply with a legal obligation, such as the preservation of evidence; or
comply with a request of a judicial or administrative authority, law enforcement or a government agency;
in which case, the content will be retained for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it has been retained (the exact duration will vary on a case-by-case basis).
If you delete or we disable your account, and you stop accessing or using The Ceramics Community, or if this contract is otherwise terminated, then these Terms shall terminate as an agreement between you and us, but this section, the section above called "Your Commitments", and the section below called "Our Agreement and What Happens if We Disagree" will still apply even after your account is terminated, disabled or deleted, or this contract is otherwise terminated.

Our Agreement

If any aspect of this agreement is unenforceable, the rest will remain in effect.
Any amendment or waiver to our agreement must be in writing and signed by us. If we fail to enforce any aspect of this agreement, it will not be a waiver.
We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.

Who has rights under this Agreement.

This agreement does not give rights to any third parties.
You cannot transfer your rights or obligations under this agreement without our consent.
Our rights and obligations can be assigned to others. For example, this could occur if our ownership changes (as in a merger, acquisition or sale of assets) or by law.

Who is responsible if something happens.

We will use reasonable skill and care in providing our Service to you and in keeping a safe, secure and error-free environment, but we cannot guarantee that our Service will always function without disruptions, delays or imperfections. Provided that we have acted with reasonable skill and care, we do not accept responsibility for: losses not caused by our breach of these Terms or otherwise by our acts; losses which are not reasonably foreseeable by you and us at the time of entering into these Terms; any offensive, inappropriate, obscene, unlawful or otherwise objectionable content posted by others that you may encounter on our Service; and events beyond our reasonable control.

Unsolicited material

We always appreciate feedback or other suggestions, but may use them without any restrictions or obligation to compensate you for them, and are under no obligation to keep them confidential.

Updating these Terms

We may change our Service and Policies, and we may need to make changes to these Terms so that they accurately reflect our Service and policies. Unless otherwise required by law, we will notify you (for example, through our Service) at least 30 days before we make changes to these Terms and give you an opportunity to review them before they go into effect. Then, if you continue to use the Service, you will be bound by the updated Terms. If you do not agree to any updated Terms, or wish to terminate your agreement to this contract, you can do so by leaving the Ceramics Community area, or by deleting your account through your account settings, and no longer accessing or using any part of the Ceramics Community Service.

Effective date: 3 July 2026

Terms & Conditions - The Ceramics Community