terms and conditions

These are the Terms and Conditions of Service and Privacy Policy ("Terms") which govern the use of the Budding Entrepreneur site at www.BuddingEntrepreneur.com ("the Site"). These terms contain important information about your position under applicable law and regulations when using the Site. Please read these Terms carefully. By accessing the Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms, as amended from time-to-time, regardless of whether you register as a user. It is your responsibility to bring these Terms to the attention of anyone who may, through you, view material on the Site.

If you have any questions, please contact Budding Entrepreneur at info@BuddingEntrepreneur.com.

This Site is owned and operated by BuddingEntrepeneur.com ("Budding Entrepreneur") and provides information and documents to business start ups, owner managers, investors, and other professionals.

Certain areas on the Site are only available to registered users who have gone through the registration process.

All rights in the material on the Site and news by e-mail (together "the Content") belongs to Budding Entrepreneur or its third party licensors and is protected by copyright, trademarks, service marks and/or other proprietary rights and laws of the UK and other countries. All individual articles, columns, emails and other elements on the Site are also copyright works and you agree to abide by all applicable copyright and other laws, as well as any additional copyright notices or restrictions contained on the Site or in these Terms. Budding Entrepreneur may licence third parties to use the Content in its sole discretion.

The material contained in this site is provided for general information only and does not constitute legal or other professional advice. We make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability of any of the contents of the site or any representations or warranties of any kind in relation to this site or its contents.

Any liability for inaccuracies or errors is expressly excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

You agree to use the Site and the Content solely for your own use and benefit and not for resale or other transfer or disposition to any other person or entity. You further agree not to use, transfer, distribute or dispose of any Content in any manner that might compete with the business of Budding Entrepreneur.

Subject to the above, you may retrieve and display Content from the Site on a computer screen, print individual pages on paper (but not photocopy them) and store such pages in electronic form on disc (but not on any server or other storage device connected to a network).

Budding Entrepreur is a trade mark and may not be used without the express written permission of Budding Entrepreneur.

You are responsible for procuring the necessary equipment and the payment of telephone and other charges necessary to access the Site.

Neither Budding Entrepreneur nor any of its employees or other representatives will be liable for any loss or damage (including, but not limited to, compensatory, direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of data, income or profit, loss of or damage to property and claims of third parties).

In order to access certain areas of the Site, you will need to follow a registration process and select a User ID (your email address). You will provide Budding Entrepreneur with certain necessary details, all of which must be both accurate, complete and up to date. It is your responsibility to update Budding Entrepreneur immediately with any changes to the information provided by e-mailing info@BuddingEntrepreneur.com.

Your registration is personal to you and you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and User ID. You shall be responsible for all use of the Site made by anyone using that password and User ID. Any unauthorised use of the Site and/or of your password and User ID should be notified to Budding Entrepreneur immediately by e-mailing info@BuddingEntrepreneur.com.

Budding Entrepreneur may give the option to subscribe to its e-mail news service through the Site. Your use of that service and any Content shall be subject to these Terms.

Website content may contain software viruses. Whilst we have taken reasonable precautions to minimise any risk, we advise that you virus check any downloads before they are opened to avoid damage to your systems.

You agree not to post on or transfer to our website any material which is obscene, misleading, inaccurate, defamatory, in breach of any copyright or intellectual property rights or that will cause any damage to data, software or the performance of any computer system.

We use content management systems to track visitors to the web-site to determine which pages are most popular, where visitors stay the longest and, accordingly, which parts of the site are most useful. We will use this information to make changes to our site for the benefit of future visitors.

We have provided links to other external websites. However, we are not responsible for any information which they contain and we make no representations as to the security, quality or content of those websites.

The content of our web pages is © Budding Entrepreneur 2007. Unless you obtain our prior agreement, you may only print or copy items for your personal use and not for any commercial or business purposes.