Overview of Standards and Protocols
Be Seated is a web based social networking platform that turns communication into active dialogue. Beseated provides an efficient, cost-effective and informative platform.
Intellectual Property:
The Terms of Service of the BeSeated.com project will mention that content creators can publish their work under Creative Commons licenses. The licenses will allow users to preserve the copyrights of the content that they are sharing in this system, whether it is a photo or text. There are many types of creative commons licenses that can be specified by the content creators that allow them to grant permissions and state whether their content can be distributed, used commercially or not, and whether it can be used to derive other works or not.
As a result, having Attribution (CC BY) license means that the content can be shared, distributed and commercially used by others only if they give credit to the content creator. In contrast, Non-Commercial licenses (CC NC) allows the content to be consumed for non-commercial purposes only . In addition, No Derives license (CC ND) gives other users the permission to use the original content as it is without deriving other works from it. A Share Alike license (CC SA) lets people derive other works but they have to share it under the same license of the original work.
For example: The content and information on the TripAdvisor Website (including, but not limited to, messages, data, information, text, music, sound, photos, graphics, video, maps, icons, software, code or other material), as well as the infrastructure used to provide such content and information, is proprietary. One has to agree not to otherwise modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell or re-sell any information, software, products, or services obtained from or through this Website.
Safeguarding and Data Protection
According to gov.uk, ‘the Data Protection Act’ lists the data protection principles in the following terms:
1 – Fair and lawful: Personal data shall be processed fairly and lawfully.
2 – Purposes: Personal data shall be obtained only for one or more specified and lawful purposes, and shall not be further processed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or those purposes.
3 – Adequacy: Personal data shall be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purpose or purposes for which they are processed.
4 – Accuracy: Personal data shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date.
5 – Retention: Personal data processed for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
6 – Rights: Personal data shall be processed in accordance with the rights of data subjects under this Act.
7 – Security: Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data.
8 – International: Personal data shall not be transferred to a country or territory outside the European Economic Area unless that country or territory ensures an adequate level of protection for the rights and freedoms of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data.
Protocols
Protocols are designed to alert the members and users of the online community of expected standards and to alert them of the potential problems that may arise in the use of social networking sites.
The Privacy Protocol sets out the terms which govern the collection, retention and processing of information collected from customers during uploading of content on beseated.com and during the use of our seating guides as part of the Beseated Community.
Personal Information
When the users register with Be Seated, they provide their email address , and have the option to provide additional information including, Facebook Account details.
Following registration and account activation, users may share their seating reviews across as many venues as they wish including but not limited to, a personal profile, reviews and photos.
Information Sharing
All the email address will be kept by Be Seated who may contact users from time to time with updates and site changes. Their email address and personal information are never given to third parties unless we are required to do so by law.
At certain points during a visit to Be Seated, our servers may log their IP address and this may be disclosed to our service providers.
Removing And Updating Information
Once a seat review has been uploaded to the site, it can only be delete by the administrator of the system.
Data Security
Users must protect against unauthorised access by ensuring that the email address and password combinations that they use to access Beseated remain confidential. If they choose to adopt the automatic login option on Beseated, they must ensure that the machine used to access the site is itself secure since this machine will automatically log any user into the site.
Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of information stored by a website on their computer’s hard drive. Cookies are extensively used by websites as a convenient way to store information that they know about users. We use cookies to help us to continue improve our services and enhance their experience whilst using the site.
Data Protection Information
The Internet is not secure and any information that you post on it can be collected, disseminated and processed by others.
Changes
Be Seated reserves the right to change or update this document without prior notice to you. The latest versions will always be available on the site and by using the site, you are accepting the latest version available.
References:
- Social Media Practices, www.lawsociety.org.uk
- Data Protection Act, www.gov.uk
- Intellectual Property, Tripadvisor.co.uk
