Comments Policy
These are standard rules about comments posted to this blog by the public. They are designed to ensure all users feel safe and keen to visit regularly, and the blog keeps its focus.
1. Debate should be lively but also constructive and respectful.
2. Don’t incite hatred on the basis of race, religion, gender, nationality, age or sexuality or other personal characteristic.
3. Don’t swear, use hate-speech or make obscene or vulgar comments.
4. Don’t break the law. This includes libel, condoning illegal activity and contempt of court (comments which might affect the outcome of an ongoing or approaching court case).
5. Don’t submit comments which are substantially material from another website, publication, news feed or blog. Clearly attribute any content from another website or publication or it could constitute a breach of copyright.
6. Don’t engage in ‘spamming’. Don’t advertise or promote products or services.
7. If you are under 16, please get permission from a parent or guardian before commenting on this blog.
8. Don’t impersonate or falsely claim to represent a person or organisation.
9. Don’t post in a language other than English. (We hope in the future to be able to support translation.)
10. Protect your privacy and that of others. Please don’t post private addresses, phone numbers, email addresses or other online contact details.
11. Stay on-topic. Please don’t post messages that are unrelated to this blog.
Comments are moderated by the blog authors before going live. Comments will go live as soon as possible within a 48 hour period. If a comment contravenes the Comments Policy it will not be published or will be removed from the blog.
Virus protection
The site operators make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. It is always wise for users to run an anti virus program on all material downloaded from the internet.
Martins Boots cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material from the website.
Your privacy
Cookies are pieces of data that are often created when you visit a website and are stored in the cookie directory of your own computer.
Cookies are used to store a session ID which allows you to log-in and make comments. No personal information is stored in the Cookie.
Other websites linked from this site are not covered by this privacy policy.
This site does require a user to enter a name and working email address in order to post a comment on this blog. This information is securely stored and will not be passed on to any third parties.
Links to and from other websites
Martins Boots is not responsible for the contents or reliability of the external websites and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them. Links to external sites should not be taken as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over the availability of the linked pages.
Martins Boots encourages users to establish hypertext links to the site. You do not have to ask permission to link directly to pages hosted on the website. We do not object to you linking directly to our information, but you should obtain permission if you intend to use our logo.