Our newly updated Carers’ Information Pack available now

SUPPORT in Mind Scotland's Carers' Information Pack - relaunched during Carers Week 2016 - gives information to carers, friends and families about mental illness and where to find support.

It aims to meet some of the basic information needs of carers, family members and friends of people who have been diagnosed as having a mental illness or serious mental health problem.

You can access the individual fact-sheets by clicking on the subjects below.

The newly-updated pack contains information on factsheets which cover –

Introduction - Who is a carer?

Mental illness

Psychosis

Treatments for mental illness

Where to get support

Legal issues and carers' rights

Forensic Mental Health Service

We welcome requests from individual carers and organisations. Please contact our National office if you are interested in obtaining a copy – 0131 662 4359.

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Upated May 2018

1. Introduction

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subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.

4.2 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.

4.3 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, or seek relevant permission, you must not:

(a) republish material from our website (including republication on another website);

(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;

(d) redistribute material from our website.

4.4 We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.

Acceptable use

5.1 You must not:

(a) use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;

(b) use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(c) use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;

(d) [conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent];

(e) [access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means[except for the purpose of [search engine indexing]]];

(f) [violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website]; or

(g) [use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing)].

5.2 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

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6.2 You may register for an account with our website by completing and submitting the account registration form on our website.

6.3 You must not allow any other person to use your account to access the website.

6.4 You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account.

6.5 You must not use any other person's account to access the website, unless you have that person's express permission to do so].

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7.1 If you register for an account with our website, you will be asked to choose a user ID and password.

7.2 Your user ID must not be liable to mislead and must comply with the content rules set out in Section 10; you must not use your account or user ID for or in connection with the impersonation of any person.

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7.4 You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password.

7.5 You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.

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8.1 We may:

(a) suspend your account;

(b) cancel your account

at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation.

8.2 You may cancel your account on our website [using your account control panel on the website].

Your content: licence

9.1 In these terms and conditions, "your content" means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website.

9.2 You grant to us a [worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence] to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media.

9.3 You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 9.2.

9.4 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.

Your content: rules

10.1 You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.

10.2 Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).

10.3 Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:

(a) be libellous or maliciously false;

(b) be obscene or indecent;

(c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right;

(d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;

(e) constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;

(f) constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity;

(g) be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order;

(h) be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;

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(j) be in breach of official secrets legislation;

(k) be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;

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(m) be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;

(n) be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;

(o) consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;

(p) constitute spam;

(q) be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or

(r) cause annoyance or needless anxiety to any person.

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11.1 We do not warrant or represent:

(a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;

(b) that the material on the website is up to date; or

11.2 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.

11.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 12.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.

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(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

12.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 12 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:

(a) are subject to Section 12.1; and

(b) govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.

12.3 To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

12.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

12.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

12.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

12.7 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

12.8 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).

Breaches of these terms and conditions

13.1 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:

(a) send you one or more formal warnings;

(b) temporarily suspend your access to our website;

(d) [block computers using your IP address from accessing our website];

(e) [contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website];

(f) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or

(g) [suspend or delete your account on our website].

Variation

14.1 We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.

14.2 The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions.

Assignment

15.1 You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

15.2 You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

Severability

16.1 If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

16.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

Third party rights

17.1 A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

17.2 The exercise of the parties' rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

Entire agreement

18.1 Subject to Section 12.1, these terms and conditions, together with our privacy and cookies policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.

Law and jurisdiction

19.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Scots law.

19.2 Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Scotland.

Our details

20.1 Support in Mind Scotland is the operating name of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship (Scotland), a company limited by guarantee registered in Scotland SC099179.

20.2 Charity number SC013649.

20.3 Our principal place of business is at 6 Newington Business Centre, Dalkeith Road Mews, Edinburgh EH16 5GA

20.4 You can contact us:

(a) by post, to the postal address given above

(d) by email at: [email protected]

Disclaimer

This disclaimer forms an agreement between you and Support in Mind Scotland. By using this site you accept the contents of the disclaimer.

Support in Mind Scotland seeks to ensure that the information on its website is up to date and accurate. However, the information on the site does not constitute legal or professional advice and is not a substitute for professional consultation with a qualified expert or practitioner. Support in Mind Scotland cannot accept any liability for actions arising from its use.

Views, opinions and recommendations from third parties, which are also included in areas of this site, do not necessarily reflect the views of Support in Mind Scotland.

Support in Mind Scotland cannot be held responsible for the contents of any pages referenced by an external link. If you use another site linked from this site you do so at your own risk and acknowledge that you will no longer be subject to the terms and conditions of this site but may be subject to the terms and conditions of the linked site.

You are responsible for ensuring that your computer system meets relevant technical specifications necessary to use the site and is compatible with the site Support in Mind Scotland cannot and does not guarantee or warrant that any material available for download from this site will be free from infection, viruses and/or other code that has contaminating or destructive properties.

Although the site has been built with accessibility in mind, we cannot guarantee that the site will be accessible to all visitors.

This disclaimer may be updated from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this website.

This disclaimer is subject to Scots Law and the jurisdiction of the Scottish Courts.

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