We’d like to make using this site and commenting on the Avis UK blog as easy and rewarding as possible. We do, however, need to have some rules and terms of use. Partly this is about making sure no one posts abusive or offensive comments. We have also included information about intellectual property and liability. For details of our Privacy Policy please click here.

A note about posting comments
We encourage you to post your comments on the blog and welcome your feedback. Please try to keep what you say relevant to the subject of the post. If your comment needs a response, the Avis UK blog team will do its best to get you an answer as soon as possible, but this may take a few days.

The Avis UK blog team will be moderating comments – in particular so we can block any blog spam. This means there may be a time delay before your comment goes live. We will also filter out anything that is inappropriate, abusive, defamatory or profane, and comments that are irrelevant to the blog post, but we do promise not to cut something just because it is not favourable to Avis.

We reserve the right to make spelling and other corrections so that your comment is easily readable can be read easily by other users.

Please also read the official Terms and Conditions of Use below.

Terms and Conditions of Use

Meanings and definitions used in this Agreement

‘Agreement’ means this agreement for users of the Sites;

‘Discussion’ means the facility to make comments about a blog post or to follow up on another person’s comment with a further comment;

‘Avis’ means Avis Rent A Car Limited of Trident House, Station Road, Hayes, Middlesex, UB3 4DJ, United Kingdom;

‘Service’ means the service(s) provided by the We Try Harder Site;

‘Site’ means the We Try Harder website www.wetryharder.co.uk owned and operated by Avis.

1. Introduction to the Agreement
1.1. This Site is owned and operated by Avis.

1.2. This Agreement governs the use of the Site and Service produced by Avis, including participation in the Discussion.

1.3. The Service is designed to provide Avis with the opportunity to tell you about its plans and offers (such as new cars in the fleet) and pass on useful information for your holidays and business travel. Avis would like you to use this blog to share your experiences, tips for other travellers, feedback and questions and, therefore, Avis requires its users to abide by the rules of this Agreement. Your use of the Service will constitute your agreement to comply with these rules.

1.4. If you do not agree with the rules contained in this Agreement, you should not use the Service.

1.5. Avis may modify this Agreement from time to time and notice of revisions to this Agreement will be posted here. Continued use of the Service by you will constitute your acceptance of any changes or revisions to the Agreement, so it is wise to check this page regularly.

1.6. We may terminate your access to the Service, without notice, in addition to our other remedies if you fail to follow this Agreement and the Service’s rules.

2. Use of the Service by you
2.1. Avis or its licensors owns all material on this Site. You may retrieve and display content from this Site on a computer screen, print individual pages on paper (but not photocopy them) and store such pages in electronic form on disk (but not on any server or other storage device connected to a network) for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may not in any way make commercial or other unauthorised use, by publication, re-transmission, distribution, performance, caching or otherwise, of material obtained through the Service.

2.3. You are responsible for all of your own use of the Service. You agree not to use any obscene, indecent or offensive language, or to place on the Service any material that is false, defamatory, abusive, harassing or hateful. Further, you may not place on the Service any material that is encrypted, constitutes junk mail or unauthorised advertising, invades anyone’s privacy, encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence or give rise to civil liability, or that otherwise violates any local, state, national or international law or regulation anywhere in the world. You agree to use the Service only for lawful purposes and you acknowledge that your failure to do so may subject you to civil and criminal liability.

2.4. You are responsible for ensuring that any material you provide to the Service or post in a Discussion, including but not limited to text, photographs and sound, does not violate the copyright, trade mark, trade secret or any other personal or proprietary rights of any third party, wherever in the world enforceable.

2.5. You acknowledge that Avis has not reviewed and does not endorse the content of all sites linked to from this Service and is not responsible for the content or actions of any other sites linked to from this Service. Linking to any other service or site from this Service is at your sole risk.

3. Taking part in Discussions
3.1 These Discussion rules have been put in place to help ensure that the Discussion is a welcoming and useful resource for everyone who participates. These rules outline what is deemed unacceptable behaviour and it is important to read them carefully.

• Do not post libellous or defamatory comments
• Do not post anything relating to any ongoing or pending criminal trial anywhere in the world
• Do not post content which you have copied from someone else (ie, in which you do not own the intellectual property rights)
• Do not use profanities
• Do not post anything which is racist, sexist or homophobic
• Do not post a personal insult about another user
• Do not advertise or solicit
• Do not impersonate another user
• Do not post a comment that not relevant to the discussion

3.2 Avis will be moderating comments – in particular so we can block any blog spam and comments that contravene the rules above. This means there may be a time delay before your comment goes live. Avis operates a ‘notice and take down’ policy which means that if Avis notices or is made aware of a post that contravenes these rules, Avis reserves the right in its absolute discretion and without assigning a reason to amend or remove the comment or prevent it from appearing on the site.

3.3 Avis encourages you to contact us if you feel a comment violates these rules. Please click the Report link to let us know.

3.4 You are responsible for the content of your comments and Avis does not accept any liability for the content or accuracy of your messages or any liability in respect of any material submitted by users and published by Avis. Avis reserves the right to republish any material you submit.

3.5 If you want to submit material to the Discussion you may do so on the following terms and conditions:

3.6 Publication of any material you submit will be at the sole discretion of Avis and Avis is entitled to make additions or deletions to any such material prior to publication, after publication or to refuse publication.

3.7 You grant Avis a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free licence to republish any material you submit in any format, and you warrant to Avis that any material you submit is your own work and that you own the copyright and all relevant rights.

3.8 You warrant that the material you submit is not obscene, offensive, harassing, defamatory or otherwise illegal.

3.9 You agree not to post material that might reasonably be considered likely to upset other users.

3.10 You acknowledge that any breach of these warranties may cause Avis damage or loss and agree to indemnify and hold harmless Avis in full and permanently against any third party liabilities, claims, costs, loss or damage incurred by Avis as a result of publishing any material you submit to us, including consequential loss.

3.11 You agree to indemnify Avis against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred as a result of your breach of the above provisions.

4. Information and availability
4.1 While Avis takes every care to ensure that the information on this Site is accurate and complete, some of it is supplied to Avis by third parties and Avis is unable to check its accuracy or completeness. You are advised to verify the accuracy of any information before relying on it. Further, due to the inherent nature of the Internet, errors, interruptions and delays may occur in the Service at any time. Accordingly, Avis’s Sites are provided “as is” without any warranties or representation of any kind and Avis does not accept any liability arising from any inaccuracy or omission in the information or interruption in availability. All warranties, conditions and/or representations (apart from this clause 4) that may be implied from these terms and conditions, between you and Avis are hereby excluded.

5. Use of material posted by you
5.1. Comments on the Discussion are not private. You grant Avis and its designees a perpetual royalty-free non-exclusive licence to use, reproduce, modify, translate, transmit, distribute and sub-license any information or material you supply or communicate to the Service via such comments in any medium now in existence or hereafter developed, for any purpose, including commercial uses. Avis will not return it if submitted, and accepts no liability whatsoever for safe custody thereof.

5.2. All other information and material you supply or communicate to the Service is governed by the Privacy Policy, which is accessible at any time from the bottom of any page on the Service.

6. Intellectual property complaints
6.1. Avis respects the intellectual property of others, and we require our users to do the same. Avis may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, terminate the access of users, subscribers, and account holders who infringe the intellectual property rights of others.

6.2. If you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on any Avis Site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that the Site contains links or other references to another online location that contains material or activity that infringes your copyright, please contact Avis immediately.

7. Comments by users are not endorsed by Avis
7.1. Avis does not necessarily endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or agree with the comments, opinions or statements posted by users in Discussion or elsewhere in the Service. Any information or material placed online by users, including advice and opinions, is the view and responsibility of those users and does not necessarily represent the view of Avis.

8. Materials provided by others
8.1. You agree that Avis is not responsible, and shall have no liability to you, with respect to any information or materials posted by others, including without limitation defamatory, offensive or illicit material.

9. Editing and deletions
9.1. Avis reserves the right, but undertakes no duty, to review, edit, move or delete any material posted by users in the Discussion or elsewhere on the Site, in its sole discretion and without notice.

10. Disclaimer and limitation of liability
10.1. You understand and agree that neither Avis nor its affiliates nor any participant in the site and its services provides professional advice of any kind and that use of such advice or any other information is solely at your own risk and without our liability of any kind.

11. Termination
11.1. Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement, Avis has the right to terminate your ability to access the Site and its Service, for any reason, without notice.

12. Choice of law and jurisdiction
12.1. This Agreement, for all purposes, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. You also agree, subject to the following clause, to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts as regards any claim or matter arising under this Agreement.

13. General
13.1. This Agreement is the complete and entire agreement between the parties and supersedes any prior agreement, whether written or oral.

13.2. If any provision of this Agreement is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of that provision will not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Agreement, which shall remain in full force and effect.

13.3. Failure of either party to exercise any right or remedy under this Agreement does not constitute a waiver of that right or remedy.

Please leave the Site and its Service now if you don’t agree to the terms contained in this Agreement.