About this policy
This Acceptable Use Policy sets out what you can and can't do on torahactionlife.com. It applies whenever you use the site, whether or not you have an account, and forms part of our Terms of Website Use.
By using the site you confirm that you will follow this policy. If you don't, we may suspend your account, remove content you've contributed, refuse you future access, refer the matter to law enforcement where appropriate, or take legal action.
What you can't do
You must not use the site:
- For any purpose that is unlawful, fraudulent, or harmful;
- To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use, or re-use any material that doesn't comply with our content standards below;
- To send unsolicited advertising or marketing material (spam);
- To upload, send, or transmit any malware, viruses, Trojans, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware, or any other harmful programmes or code;
- To attempt to gain unauthorised access to the site, the server on which the site is stored, or any database, server, or computer connected to the site;
- To attack the site via a denial-of-service attack or distributed denial-of-service attack;
- To scrape, harvest, or systematically extract content from the site at a rate or volume that interferes with the site's normal operation;
- To impersonate any other person, including a TAL staff member or volunteer;
- To use anyone else's email address or magic-link without their explicit permission.
Content standards
When you submit content to us (through a contact form, vacancy application, venue-hire enquiry, or any other channel), that content must:
- Be accurate (where it states facts) and genuinely held (where it states opinions);
- Comply with the law applicable in England and Wales and in any country from which it's submitted.
It must NOT:
- Defame, harass, abuse, or threaten any person;
- Be obscene, offensive, hateful, or inflammatory;
- Promote violence, terrorism, or discrimination on grounds of race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age;
- Infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, or other intellectual-property rights;
- Reveal private information about anyone (address, phone number, medical details, financial details) without their explicit consent;
- Promote a competing service or product to ours, or our donors, in a way calculated to divert support from TAL.
CV uploads on the vacancies page
When you apply for a TAL vacancy and upload a CV, the file must be a genuine PDF document. We re-check the uploaded file's MIME type and PDF magic bytes server-side; any file that isn't a real PDF, or that exceeds 5 MB, is rejected automatically. Uploading malware, encrypted archives, or non-PDF files dressed up as PDFs is a breach of this policy and may be a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
Your CV is stored in a private filesystem outside the public web root, and only the admin reviewing your application can download it. We delete the file when the application is processed, or after 2 years (whichever comes first).
Forms, enquiries, and rate limits
Public forms on the site (contact, newsletter signup, vacancy applications, venue-hire enquiries, donations) are protected by per-IP and per-email rate limits and by a hidden honeypot. Bots that fill the honeypot are silently rejected. Submissions that exceed the rate limits are blocked at the application layer.
Repeatedly attempting to bypass these protections, whether by rotating IPs, faking user agents, or spinning up multiple accounts, is a breach of this policy and we will block the IP range outright.
If something seems wrong
If you spot something on the site that breaches this policy (harassment, malware, a security vulnerability, or content that shouldn't be here), please report it to info@torahactionlife.com with as much detail as you can share. We treat reports confidentially.
Enforcement
Breach of this policy may lead to all or any of the following:
- Immediate, temporary, or permanent withdrawal of your right to use the site;
- Immediate, temporary, or permanent removal of content you've contributed;
- A warning email;
- Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including reasonable legal fees);
- Disclosure of information to law enforcement where we reasonably believe it's necessary.
We exclude our liability for the actions we take in response to breaches of this policy.