ACCEPtABLE USE POLICY

This is the acceptable use policy, which, together with our terms of website use,
/terms-of-use sets out the terms under which we, Cathy Simmons trading as
The Simmons Practice allow you to use our sites cathysimmons.co.uk, cognitivehypnotherapylondon.com, cathysimmonstherapy.com and qchtherapist.com (“sites”) whether you are a visitor
or a registered user. All enquiries should be directed to cathy@cathysimmons.co.uk. Please read the
terms of this policy carefully, as by using our sites you indicate that you agree to comply with and be
bound by them.

PROHIBITED USES OF OUR SITE

Whether you are a visitor or registered user, you must comply with our terms of website use
www.qchtherapist.com/terms-of- use, and use our sites for lawful purposes only. In particular, you
must not use our sites for the uses listed (without limitation) below:-

• any fraudulent activity;
• any activity which breaches any applicable law or regulation, whether national or
  international;
• any activity which may cause or result in harm to a child under 18 years of age;
• sending unsolicited advertising or other content (spam), or entering into any arrangement
  for such material to be sent;
• reproducing, selling or otherwise handling our site or its contents in breach of our terms of
  website use;
• knowingly introducing to our site, or transmit or attempt to transmit to any other site,
  computer or network, viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material, code or
  programme which is malicious or technologically harmful;
• attempting to gain unauthorised access to our site, our software, our server, or any server,
  computer or database connected to our site; or
• attacking our site via a denial-of- service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

CONTRIBUTING AND INTERACTING

Our sites may offer users the facilities to upload or contribute content or other material, or to interact
with other users. When making use of these facilities, it is your responsibility to ensure that any contribution or interaction is, as far as you are aware, factually correct, represents your honest
opinion, and does not breach any applicable law or regulation.

In addition, any contribution or interaction must not include any material which (without limitation):-

• is defamatory, obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
• is, or refers to material which is, sexually explicit;
• promotes violence, illegal activity or any form of discrimination;
• infringes any other person’s copyright, database right or trade mark;
• threatens, harasses, upsets, embarrasses, alarms or annoys any other person, or is likely to
  do so;
• advocates, promotes or assists any illegal activity;
• is likely to deceive any person or is made in breach of a legal duty owed to a third party (such
  as a duty of confidence);
• invades another’s privacy or cause inconvenience or anxiety to any person;
  is used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any
  person; or
• gives the impression that the material emanates from us, if this is not the case.

MODERATION

If we at any time use our sites to provide users with any interactive service, the following moderation
provisions will apply:-

• we will notify users if moderation is in place, and, if so, whether the moderation is provided
  by a person or is automated;
• if moderation is in place, we will give you a means to contact the moderator;
• although we will do our best to assess any risks which such interactive service may pose, we
  will be under no obligation to moderate it, and we expressly exclude any liability for any loss
  or damage to any person caused by use of it; and
• children should at all times be supervised when using the interactive services on our site,
  whether such services are moderated or not.

BREACHES OF THIS POLICY

Any breach of this acceptable use policy will be dealt with in the same way as breach of our terms of
website use www.cathysimons.co.uk/terms-of- use and we reserve the right to take any other action
we reasonably deem appropriate, including restricting your use of our site and/or taking legal action against you.

We are not liable for any loss or damage caused by any breach of this acceptable use policy.

AMENDMENTS

Please check this page regularly, as we may revise this acceptable use policy at any time. We may also
change or update our acceptable use policy at any time by means of notices published anywhere on
our sites.