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Who we are

Barnardo’s online risk guide is a website operated by Barnardo’s. Barnardo’s is a registered charity (registered in England and Wales No. 216250, registered in Scotland No. SC037605) and a company limited by guarantee (61625 England). Our registered office is: Barnardo House Tanners Lane, Barkingside Ilford Essex IG6 1QG.

You can use the main Barnardo’s website to:

  • find out more about Barnardo’s
  • contact us

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.

For the purposes of this document:

  • “we” refers to Barnardo’s
  • “you” refers to you, an individual user of the Barnardo’s online risk guide website

Terms of Use

When you use Barnardo’s online risk guide, we do not:

  • guarantee that information is accurate, complete or up to date (although we make reasonable efforts to do so subject to our charitable resources)
  • provide an exhaustive list of online risks and environments
  • provide legal or safeguarding advice or related services

When using Barnardo’s online risk guide, you will:

You may view, print, download or store extracts from Barnardo’s online risk guide for your personal, non-commercial reference without alteration, addition, or deletion.

When using Barnardo’s online risk guide, you will not:

  • use the information on Barnardo’s online risk guide to cause harm to individuals, particularly children and young people
  • share someone’s private or otherwise sensitive information when contributing to Barnardo’s online risk guide
  • contribute false information, or information that could be harmful
  • post information or material that is unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, profane, threatening, racially or sexually or otherwise discriminatory, offensive, inaccurate, in breach of confidence or a third party’s intellectual property rights or which otherwise includes objectionable material of any kind or nature, that encourages or engages in conduct that could constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, national or international law or regulation
  • use the information in Barnardo’s online risk guide for commercial or financial gain without the express written permission from Barnardo’s
  • use Barnardo’s online risk guide in a way that might reasonably be expected to cause the same to be interrupted, damaged, rendered less efficient or which could in any way damage the operation of another’s computer
  • copy, replicate, distribute, publish, commercially exploit or otherwise transfer any Barnardo’s online risk guide material or content without prior consent from Barnardo’s

Responsibility and liability

Limitation of liability

Use of the Barnardo’s online risk guide website and the information is entirely at the user's sole risk.

The content in Barnardo’s online risk guide is for general information only and does not constitute advice. You should get professional or specialist advice before you take or refrain from any action based on the information on the website.

In no event will Barnardo’s be liable for any damages including, without limitation, indirect or consequential damages, or any damages whatsoever arising from the use or in connection with such use or loss of use of the site, whether in contract or in negligence.

This website and the information are provided on an 'as is' basis, with no warranties of any kind whatsoever, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, any warranties or any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

Intellectual property

Barnardo’s reserves all rights to the Barnardo’s online risk guide website and its contents.

Some content has been published on this site with the permission of the relevant copyright owners (who are not Barnardo’s). All rights are reserved on these documents and permission to copy them must be requested from the copyright owners. The sources are indicated within the relevant content.

All third party trademarks and logos used in this website are the trademarks or logos of their respective owners.

We will cite all quotes from published or publicly available research appropriately. If quotes come from internal research, users’ identities will be anonymised before being published and cited.

The photographs of children used in this site are models and do not portray actual events.

Other

Our site free to use.

Barnardo’s reserves the right in its absolute discretion at any time to edit, alter, delete or move any material whatsoever posted to, appearing on, or distributed by Barnardo’s online risk guide.

Barnardo's may change these terms of this agreement on this site from time to time. Any updated version will feature the date of update. You must check these terms periodically to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons.

Our site is directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that content available on or through our site is appropriate for use or available in other locations.

These terms of use, their subject matter, and their formation, are governed by English law. Any disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.