This document sets out the practices for MNA Ltd. MNA Ltd is the single trading name for the Express & Star, Shropshire Star, MNA Digital, Star Employment Services, Xpress Distribution, The Farmer, Select Magazine and Shropshire Magazine, the terms set out in this document applies to all these websites.

Thank you for visiting our wesbite. Please note that by using this website (the "Site") you accept the following terms and conditions (the “Terms”) and agree to abide by them, whether as a guest or a registered user, and whether you use the Site for domestic and private use or for any commercial or business purposes (including without limitation where you are engaged to do so by us). If you do not accept these Terms, please refrain from using this Site. We may change these Terms from time to time, so you should review them each time you visit the Site. The date that we last updated the Terms will be set out above.

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our Site and form part of these Terms:

1.1 This Site is operated by MNA Ltd ("we", "us", "our"), you can contact us using the following email address: webdesk@expressandstar.co.uk

2.1 Access to the Site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on the Site without notice (see below).

2.2 We do not guarantee that the Site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted, and we will not be liable if for any reason the Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

2.3 From time to time we may restrict access to some parts of our Site, or our entire Site, to users who have registered with us.

2.4 If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party.

2.5 We reserve the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

2.6 When using our Site, you must comply with the provisions of our Acceptable Use Policy.

2.7 You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our Site (including without limitation ensuring that you have the correct equipment, infrastructure and browser to access the Site).

2. 8 You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Site through your internet connection are aware of these Terms, and that they comply with them.

3.1. You must be 16 years old or older to register and submit material (e.g., comments) to the Site.

3.2. Only one registration per person is allowed. You are responsible for keeping your registration information up to date.

3.3 On registration, you must provide us with an email address which gives you frequent access to emails sent to that address, as we need to be able to 

contact you. You must keep your password confidential.

3.4 You must not:

(i) impersonate or try to impersonate another person;

(ii) disclose your password to anyone else;

(iii) allow anyone else to use your account;

(iv) use anyone else's account.

3.5 You are responsible for everything done using your account. If you think that someone else may have access to, or be using, your password or account, you must tell us as soon as possible by emailing webdesk@expressandstar.co.uk.

4.2 Where we suspend, terminate or prevent your registration, you must not attempt to re-register or submit content (e.g., using someone else's registration), without our permission. The period of any suspension depends on all the circumstances and shall be at our discretion.

5.1 We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in the Site and in the material published on it (including without limitation the content, rights in computer software including source and object code, trademarks, logos, trade names, domain names, copyright and related rights (including without limitation in the text, photographs and layout), moral rights, look and feel, database rights, rights in designs, patents, rights to inventions, rights in get-up, goodwill and the right to sue for passing off, rights to use, and protect the confidentiality of, confidential information (including know-how) and all other intellectual property rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered and including all applications and rights to apply for and be granted, renewals or extensions of, and rights to claim priority from, such rights and all similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection which subsist or will subsist now or in the future in any part of the world). Those works are protected by laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

5.2 You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from the Site for your personal reference. You may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our Site.

5.3. You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

5.4 Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on the Site must always be acknowledged.

5.5 You must not use any part of the materials on the Site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

5.6 If you print off, copy or download any part of the Site in breach of these Terms, your right to use the Site will cease immediately (and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made).