Terms & Conditions

Website Terms & Conditions

LEGAL NOTICE

Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully before using the Site.

By using this Site you signify your consent to these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to the Terms, please do not use the Site. The Site is owned and operated by Merlin Entertainments Group. Merlin Entertainments Group maintain the Site for your personal entertainment and information. Please feel free to browse the Site. You may download material displayed on the Site for non-commercial, home personal use only, provided you keep intact all copyright, trademark and other proprietary notices. You may not, however, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute in any way the contents of this Site including the text, images, audio and video for public or commercial purposes, without written permission from Merlin Entertainments Group.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

  1. You should assume that everything you see or read on this Site is protected by copyright unless otherwise stated and may only be used according to these Terms and Conditions. Merlin Entertainments Group do not warrant or represent that your use of materials displayed on this Site will not infringe rights of third parties not owned by or affiliated with Merlin Entertainments Group. Images are either the property of, or used with permission by, Merlin Entertainments Group. The use of these images by you, or anyone else authorized by you, is prohibited unless specifically permitted by these Terms and Conditions. Any unauthorized use of the images may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes.
  2. Merlin Entertainments Group use reasonable efforts to include accurate and up-to-date information on the Site. However, Merlin Entertainments Group make no warranties or representations as to the accuracy of the information. Merlin Entertainments Group assume no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the contents of this Site.
  3. Furthermore, your use of and browsing in this Site is at your risk. Neither Merlin Entertainments Group nor any other party involved in creating, producing or delivering the Site is liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, the Site. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the Site is provided to you "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Please note that some the jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of above exclusions may not apply to you. Check your local laws for any restrictions or limitations regarding the exclusion of implied warranties. Merlin Entertainments Group also assume no responsibility and shall not be liable for any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the Site or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from the Site.

INCLUDED SOFTWARE AND LICENSES

The following Open Source Software is distributed and is provided under other licenses and/or has source available from other locations.

MIT licensed software:

Apache licensed software:

Social Media Rights

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS (TERMS) CAREFULLY. BY HASH TAGGING [#LEGOLANDDISCOVERYCENTERCOLUMBUS, #LEGOLANDDISCOVERYCENTER, #YESLEGOLANDDISCOVERYCENTERCOLUMBUS], OR TAGGING [@LDCCOLUMBUS] YOU ARE CONFIRMING YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS IN RELATION TO OUR USE OF YOUR CONTENT.

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO OUR REQUEST TO USE YOUR CONTENT.

Who we are and how to contact us

LEGOLAND Discovery Center Columbus LLC (a Merlin Entertainments Group Company) operating under the name LEGOLAND Discovery Center Columbus is registered in United States of America under the company number 6501386.

What these terms cover

These are the terms and conditions on which you license LEGOLAND Discovery Center Columbus LLC, its subsidiaries, affiliates, licensees, its subcontractors, consultants and agents including without limitation Merlin Entertainments Limited (company number 08700412) (referred to as " LEGOLAND Discovery Center " "we" or "us") the use of all images and materials (including photographs, audio and video material) (Content), which is owned or licensed by you in whatever medium or form.

Term of this license

This license shall commence on the date that you indicate your acceptance of these Terms by placing a hash tag on the relevant social media platforms and/or emailing across content to the LEGOLAND Discovery Center, LEGOLAND Discovery Center’s use of the Content. 

Grant of license

In consideration of LEGOLAND Discovery Center displaying your Content on a website connected with LEGOLAND Discovery Center or a website promoting ‘LEGOLAND Discovery Center’, you hereby unconditionally and irrevocably grant LEGOLAND Discovery Center, a perpetual, non-exclusive, fully-transferable, royalty-free, worldwide, sub-licensable license to use, copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, edit, display and make derivative works of the Content on any media now known, or hereafter developed, in formats and contexts for any purpose including but not limited to the promotion of the service or related business activities and the right to make commercial use of the Content and excerpts of the Content in advertisements for, and in marketing and promotional materials related to, LEGOLAND Discovery Center (the "Licensed Rights").

 

You hereby waive any and all moral rights or similar rights that you may have in the Content and understand LEGOLAND Discovery Center shall be under no obligation to credit you or publicly acknowledge your rights in the Content.

Your rights in the Content

You retain all rights in the Content and nothing in these Terms shall be taken to grant any rights to LEGOLAND Discovery Center in relation to ownership of the Content.

You understand that in providing us with the Licensed Rights, LEGOLAND Discovery Center shall have absolute discretion in whether it uses the Content and shall not be obliged to use, distribute, display or make derivative works of the Content.

Warranties

Each party warrants to the other that it has full power and authority to enter into these Terms.

You warrant to LEGOLAND Discovery Center that you:

  • Own or control all the rights necessary to grant LEGOLAND Discovery Center the Licensed Rights referred to above;
  • the Content does not infringe the rights of any third party (including without limitation copyright, moral rights, privacy rights and publicity rights);
  • and you have obtained all relevant consents, releases and waivers to permit the public distribution of the Content;
  • the Content does not infringe any third party's intellectual property rights, other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
  • the Content does not contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, cancel bots or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.

Limitation of remedies and liability

Nothing in these Terms shall operate to exclude or limit either party's liability for:

  • death or personal injury caused by its negligence; or
  • any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Transfer of rights to someone else

You may only transfer your rights or your obligations under these Terms to another person if we agree to this in writing. However, we may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to another organization.

 

Notices

Any notice or other communication given to a party under or in connection with these Terms shall be in writing and shall be by pre-paid first-class post or other next working day delivery service at its registered office (if a company); or sent by email to the address specified in above (in relation to us) or the email address used on the social media website for which we obtained your Content.

Entire agreement

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes and extinguishes all previous agreements, licenses, promises, assurances, warranties, representations, and understandings between them, whether written or oral, relating to its subject matter.

Nobody else has any rights under this contract.

No one other than the parties, their successors and permitted assignees, shall have any right to enforce any of its terms.

Variation to these Terms

No variation of these Terms shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by the parties (or their authorised representatives).

Which country's laws apply to any disputes?

These Terms and any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection with its subject matter or formation are governed by and construed in accordance with the law of United States of America. The parties irrevocably agree that the courts of Unites States of America have non-exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes or claims) that arises out of or in connection with these Terms or its subject matter or .

Consent

Subject to the below, you have the right to revoke your consent to the use of your Content. If you wish to revoke consent, please contact the email address in the Contact and Complaints clause below.

You acknowledge that whilst you can revoke your consent and prevent the use of your Content in future projects, it may not be possible for your Content to be completely removed from some materials, including but not limited to, physical marketing materials already in circulation.

Contact and Complaints

The primary point of contact for all issues arising from this Policy, including requests to exercise data subject rights, is Merlin’s Data Protection Officer. The Data Protection Officer can be contacted in the following way:

Data.Protection@merlinentertainments.biz

To exercise your data subject rights, please complete the request form available here.

 

For additional information, please see our Privacy Policy here.

 

 

 

 

 

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