North East Business and Innovations Centre (BIC) Ltd
Company registered in England and Wales
Registration number: 2441306
VAT number:             569268195 

A) Web-site Terms of Use

Use of the North East Business and Innovation Centre's web site is subject to acceptance of these Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, Copyright/Trade Mark Notices and Disclaimers as well as other notices posted on this web site from time to time.

Your use of this site or the services provided on it will constitute your acceptance of all the terms and other notices herein. Once accepted, the terms and notices will constitute a binding agreement. The Centre reserves the right to deny access to a user where there is reasonable suspicion of violation of any law by that user.

CHANGES - The North East Business and Innovation Centre reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove any portion of these terms in whole or in part, at any time. Users should check the terms and notices regularly to ensure that they are conversant with changes effected. Your use of the site after changes have been effected will constitute your agreement to the changes.

WARRANTY - The Centre has used utmost care to ensure and maintain the accuracy, completeness and currency of information published on this site. We, however, take no responsibility for any errors or omission, though if notified of any we will endeavour to rectify such immediately.

WEBSITE USER CONDUCT - Users of this web site are prohibited from:
¨ disrupting or interfering with the security of the site or otherwise abusing any service provided on the site or linked web site.
¨ disrupting, interfering or abusing any other user's enjoyment of the site.
¨ obtaining unauthorised access to any part of the site that is restricted from public access.
¨ Defaming, abusing, harassing, threatening or otherwise violating the legal rights of others.
¨ impersonating another person or entity or falsifying anyone's attributions.
¨ restricting or prohibiting any other user from using this web site

LINKS - The web site may contain links to other sites. Although utmost care is exercised in providing links to sites that share our high standards, The North East Business and Innovation Centre shall not be responsible for the content, security, availability and privacy practices used by such linked sites.

The linked pages are provided for the convenience of our web site users only and do not constitute an approval of their services or practices.

Links from other web sites to our home page do not require prior permission from us but deep linking into any other page of our site should not be effected without prior permission from us.

SITE SECURITY - Users of this web site are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the site or services provided herein. Any such violation may result in liability. Violation of the security of the site and services include, without limitation, the following:
¨ Accessing secured data or using secured services not intended for the particular user.
¨ Tampering, hacking, modifying or otherwise corrupting the web site.
¨ Transmitting material that contains viruses, trojan horses or worms with the intention of damaging, destroying, disrupting or otherwise impairing the web site functionalities or the operation of the site.
¨ Altering any software or computer data or intentionally enabling others to do so.
¨ Interfering with, intercepting or information on the web site.

INDEMNIFICATION BY USERS - Users of the Centre's web site agree to indemnify, defend and hold the web site operators, officers, directors, employees, agents and business partners harmless from any loss, liability, claim, demand, damage or expense asserted by any third party relating to a visitor's use of this web site or breach of these terms of use.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY - The operators of this web site will not be liable to users or any third party for any damages however caused, whether direct, indirect, incidental or consequential relating to or arising out of a visitor's use or misuse of this web site. Where a user is dissatisfied with the site terms or services provided the sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the site or the services.

PRIVACY POLICY - The Privacy Policy of the Centre is incorporated by this reference into this web site terms of use and describes the information collected when you visit this site and how such information is used. Please read the Privacy Policy carefully for more information on this.

APPLICABLE LAW - These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English Law and any dispute between the North East Business and Innovation Centre and its web site users will be settled by English courts.

B) Privacy Policy

The Centre is committed to protecting the personal information of all visitors to this web site. We recognise our obligation to keep personal information secure and believe it is important for our customers and web site users to know how we treat their personal information.

INFORMATION COLLECTED - Users of our web site can visit the site without revealing their identity or providing information about themselves.

We collect information directly from users when they voluntarily submit their personal information to us. At certain parts of our web site, we provide the opportunity for users to fill an application form.

Whenever information is collected at any part of the web site the Centre will provide the reason for collecting the information and how the information will be used. We reserve the right to add to this list of opportunities available to our users to interact with us. It is completely up to users to provide us with their personal information.

Before submitting an application form users should check that all details are accurate. On submitting your personal information to us, we will take all necessary steps to ensure the confidentiality and security of that information. After submitting your details to us you can pull out at anytime before any contract is concluded and your personal information will be completely deleted from our system.

USE OF COLLECTED INFORMATION - Generally, visitors are informed of the use of their personal information at the time of collection. Normally, personal information provided or collected is used to respond to inquiries or to process requests.

Any information supplied on the application form will be used for the purpose specified on the form, in accordance with the Centre's privacy policy and UK Data Protection/e-Privacy Laws.

Once your application form has been processed and a contract entered into, we may use your details to contact you in order to provide information on our services. You will always have the opportunity to opt-out of receiving such information.

SHARING OF INFORMATION

We may share visitors' personal information with other companies that we have hired to provide services to us. Such companies are contractually bound to adhere to our privacy policy and to use such personal information strictly for the performance of those services only.

Your personal information will not be shared with third party companies without your explicit consent. However, we reserve the right to release personal information where we are required to do so by law.

SECURITY OF COLLECTED INFORMATION - The Centre maintains strict physical, electronic and administrative safeguards to protect user's personal information from unauthorised or inappropriate access. Employees, business partners and affiliates who misuse a user's personal information are subject to disciplinary actions.

USER'S ACCESS TO COLLECTED INFORMATION - Maintaining accurate and up-to-date information about our client is important to us. Users of our web site and clients may request access to their personal information that we hold. They have the right to request that such information be updated, corrected or deleted on written request to the Centre.

C) Copyright/ Trade Mark Notices

The web site operator, affiliates and business partners each reserve copyright in all content that they provide to the site, including but not limited to design, text, software, drawings, graphics and other files.

No part of this web site may be republished, reproduced, downloaded, displayed, distributed, posted transmitted or sold in any form or by any means in whole or in part without prior written permission of the copyright owner. Users of this web site may not reproduce or reuse for any commercial purpose whatsoever any aspect of the web site content.

The rights owners, therefore, retain copyright in all page headers, button icons, collection material, custom graphics and all other types of graphics used on this site and these may not be copied or imitated without the rights owners' permission.

The trade marks logos and service marks displayed on this site belong to the operators of this web site and others who have contributed to the design of the site. The owners of the marks on this site retain exclusive rights in and to the marks. Nothing grants users the right to use, reproduce or display any of the marks without prior authorisation from the North East Business and Innovation Centre.

D) Disclaimers

The Centre has used its best efforts to obtain and post on this web site the most accurate and reliable information available and does not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of any information on or accessed through this web site.

WEB SITE LEGAL NOTICES
for
North East Business and Innovation Centre's Web-site

Prepared by
Dr Rita Esen
Cyber Law Consultant