Terms and conditions

About AWEF

This website is operated by African Women Empowerment Forum Charity (AWEF), a registered charity in England and Wales, charity number 1191388, at Unit 2, Victoria Court, Kent Street, Nottingham NG1 3LZ.

By using this website you agree to follow these terms. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the website.

Using this website

You may use this website for lawful, personal and non-commercial purposes, including learning about AWEF, requesting support, joining, volunteering and donating. You must not:

• break the law or infringe another person’s rights
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to the website, accounts, servers or data
• introduce malware, overload the service, scrape it in a harmful way or interfere with another person’s use
• submit information that is knowingly false, abusive, discriminatory, defamatory or unlawful
• misrepresent your relationship with AWEF, or use our name or identity to solicit funds without written permission

We may restrict access where that is reasonably necessary to protect people, data, AWEF or the website itself.

Memberships, events and charitable services

Information on this website is general and does not replace medical, legal, immigration, financial or other professional advice. Eligibility, availability and delivery arrangements differ between programmes, and registering an interest does not guarantee a place or a particular outcome.

If you create an account, you are responsible for keeping your sign-in details secure and for telling us promptly if you suspect someone else has used them. Any prices, cancellation rules or service terms shown during a membership, event or other registration form part of these terms.

Donations and fundraising

Donations are gifts that support AWEF’s charitable purposes. They do not normally purchase goods or services. Payments may be handled by PayPal, Give as You Live or another external provider, whose own terms and privacy notice also apply to the part of the journey that happens on their pages.

Please check the amount and any appeal restriction before confirming a donation. If you make a mistake, contact us promptly. Donations can only be returned where AWEF is legally permitted to do so. Where a fundraising appeal states how surplus or insufficient funds will be used, those stated terms apply.

Nothing on this website is an offer of financial or tax advice. You are responsible for confirming whether any tax relief applies to you.

Our content and information you submit

Unless stated otherwise, AWEF owns or is licensed to use the text, branding, graphics, photographs and other content on this website. You may view, download or print reasonable extracts for personal, non-commercial use, provided you do not remove credits or change the meaning. Other copying, publication or commercial use requires our prior written permission.

You keep ownership of the information and material you send us. You give AWEF permission to use it only as reasonably needed to respond to you, provide a service you have asked for, administer our work and meet our legal obligations. We will not publish an identifiable story, photograph or testimonial for publicity without an appropriate permission or another lawful basis.

External websites and services

Links to other websites are provided for convenience. They do not mean AWEF controls or endorses everything on those sites. External services are responsible for their own content, availability, security and handling of personal information, so please check their terms before using them.

Availability, security and liability

We work to keep this website accurate, accessible and secure, but we cannot promise that it will always be available, free from errors or suitable for every purpose. Content can go out of date, so please confirm anything important with us directly before relying on it.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, AWEF is not responsible for losses that were not reasonably foreseeable from your use of this free public website or of an external service. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability where it would be unlawful to do so, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for your statutory rights.

Privacy, changes and governing law

Our privacy notice explains how we handle personal information, and our cookie notice covers the technology this website uses. We may update these terms to reflect changes to the website, our services or the law. The date shown beside this page identifies the latest version.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction, subject to any mandatory rights you have to bring proceedings elsewhere.