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Welcome to the official website of Sunderland AFC ("the Club"). This website is operated by the Club's internet joint venture Partner, Premium TV ("PTV") on behalf of the Club

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU USE THIS WEBSITE. In using this website, you agree to the following terms and conditions of use ("terms of use"). If you do not accept any of them, you should exit this website now. Sunderland Football Club reserves the right to change these terms of use from time to time and your use of the website following such change shall be deemed to be your acceptance of such change. Sunderland Football Club further reserves the right, at any time, to charge you for accessing certain materials on this website and/or to make access to certain materials on this website conditional on you agreeing to additional terms and conditions.

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1. Liability

THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS WEBSITE ARE THE VIEWS OF THE CONTRIBUTORS TO IT AND NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF THE CLUB OR WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE FOREGOING, THE CLUB

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(i) ANY DIRECT LOSS; OR

(ii) ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, BUSINESS OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS OR LOSS OF OR CORRUPTION OF DATA OR ANY INDIRECT LOSS OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS WHATSOEVER, IN EACH CASE, WHETHER SUCH LOSS ARISES IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, MISREPRESENTATION, BREACH OF STATUTORY DUTY OR OTHERWISE AND EVEN IF THE CLUB AND/OR FLPTV HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LOSS. THIS DOES NOT AFFECT YOUR STATUTORY RIGHTS AS A CONSUMER UNDER ENGLISH LAW.

Nothing in these terms of use shall exclude or limit the liability of the Club for death or personal injury due to its negligence or for its fraud.

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This website and its design, text, graphics, illustrations, images and other feed (audio and video), the selection and arrangement thereof and software are copyright of the Club or their licensors. The trade marks depicted on this website are the property of the Club, or their licensors and they retain all rights in such trade marks.

The sports audio and video recordings are used under licence and with the permission of the relevant proprietor.

The sports archive photographs are supplied and used under licence from EMPICS Limited, the Club and others.

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(c) you re-produce the extracted material in complete and unmodified form and, if the supply by you of the extract is via the internet, that you do not frame the extract within your own website.

For the purpose of these terms, non commercial supply or use shall mean that neither you nor any third party may charge for viewing any materials that have been downloaded or copied from this website, and that neither you nor any third party can use any materials from this website to attract others to buy goods or services.

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The personal data shall be used by the companies for the following purposes:

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(iii) to facilitate reviews, developments and improvements to the services/products offered to you.

The companies may inform you from time to time by e-mail, telephone, or mail about relevant news, information, services and products offered by any of them which they believe may be of interest to you.

By law you are entitled, upon payment of a fee, to receive a copy of information or data about you that is held by any of the companies. You are also entitled to require the rectification, erasure or blocking of any such information or data which is inaccurate or not up-to-date and held by the companies. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, or if you wish to opt-out of any future processing of your information or data held by the companies, please write to PTV at the address below stating your full name and address and providing any other relevant information.

4. Applicable Law

These terms of use shall be governed by, and construed exclusively in accordance with, English law. Any dispute arising under these terms of use shall be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

5. Addresses

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Any other configuration may not function properly.

Firewalls

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If you have an internet connection of greater than 256k such as broadband, but experience a lot of re-buffering when viewing the 256k stream, the problem is most likely to be caused by network congestion over your ISP connection. You can test out the current download bandwidth available to you using the following link

Although you may think your broadband is fast enough, your internet provider can throttle some IP addresses attempting to access streamed video content, and can slow down the bandwidth available to you

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The site has been designed to run most effectively on the following: Internet Explorer 6 or later, Firefox 1.5 or later Netscape 7 or later and Opera 7.

I have a Mac, am I able to watch the content?

At this time the Macintosh OSX platform is not supported, you may experience difficulties with the site when using Macs. The system is optimised for Windows XP, Internet Explorer 6 or higher and Media Player 9 or higher. It is not accessible using Real Player

I get an error message when I am trying to watch a video

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You need to ascertain the true speed of your internet connection. For example a 1MB broadband connection does not necessarily mean that you enjoy a continuous 1MegaBit/Sec bandwidth download, it merely describes the maximum speed at which you can receive data. In reality the speed of your connection fluctuates. You can right-click on the viewing window within Windows Media Player and take a look at the statistics regarding playback and connection speed. Usually Windows Media Player will advise you on what bit rate you are receiving and what you need to be receiving for optimal viewing.

I've tried the speed test and it appears to be enough, yet I'm still getting jerky playback - what now?

If you have an Internet connection of greater than 512k, but experience a lot of re-buffering ("jerkiness") when viewing the 300k stream, the problem is most likely to be caused by network congestion over your ISP connection. You can test out the current download bandwidth available to you by clicking here

The results of these tests need to be around 400kbits/s in order to successfully stream the 300k videos, and please take into account fluctuations in local bandwidth. Please contact your Broadband provider directly to resolve these issues.

Try watching a streaming media feed from another source eg the BBC website or the Channel 5 website, if this feed is acceptable or far exceeding the quality that you are experiencing on this site then please email customerservices@premiumtv.co.uk. Please note that we conduct regular tests to ensure that the picture quality of this site's video content is high. You may receive live streaming media from another site that runs continuously but is of much poorer quality. Our lowest streaming rate is 300kbps, the highest is 700kbps.

Please also check through the advice contained in the 'System Requirements' section

I'm getting an Error Message saying: We are unable to issue you a media rights licence to access this race / Your number of Licences has been exceeded

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I Have Broadband, but the videos seem to be choppy. How can I make it faster?

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Please also check through the advice contained in the 'System Requirements' section

Audio will play but video does not appear

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To make sure that you have the necessary software that is currently supported, re-install Windows Media Player. To do so, visit the Microsoft Media Player FAQ pages This issue may also occur if there is not enough bandwidth to play both audio and video. You may receive sound even though the video is not present because audio requires less available bandwidth.

Please also check through the advice contained in the 'System Requirements' section

I Have done all the above but I still can't watch the Video

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Please also check through the advice contained in the 'System Requirements' section

If you are still experiencing problems after trying out these fixes please email the following information to customerservices@premiumtv.co.uk:

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What ISP are you using, (e.g. AOL, Freeserve, NTL World etc.)

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