Privacy

School for Startups Email Language (5 Feb 2010)

School for Startups supports entrepreneurs through our website, online events and face to face classes. In addition to these resources, we also publish newsletters and special reports about essential business topics.

Fill in our registration form to receive information on events, classes, articles and other resources designed to help you start and run your business more profitably.

TERMS & CONDITIONS FOR USE OF SCHOOL FOR STARTUP WEBSITES & EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS

Important: These are the terms and conditions upon which we provide Doug Richard’s School for Startups Ltd. content to you. By accessing the Site, or registering to accept our Email communications you agree to these terms and conditions. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, you should not use or access the Site or elect to register to receive our Email communications.

Definitions

“You” means the user of the Site, “We/us” means Doug Richard’s School for Startups Ltd. and all its associated and subsidiary companies, “Site” means the sites of Doug Richard’s School for Startups Ltd. on the World Wide Web. “Content” means the information and other material available within the Site, created by you and posted on the site or emailed to us, and data we deliver to you via email. “3rd Party Sponsors” are those individuals, organizations and businesses who work with us to provide information and services to those who visit our sites, read our emails or attend our events. “Partners” are individuals and businesses who support Doug Richard’s School for Startups Ltd and/or our customers by providing information, product or services.

Email Communications

You agree to receive email messages from us addressing content available on our website and on other websites, our online and face to face events, information from our 3rd party sponsors and partners that we believe may be of interest to you, and information about about opportunities, products and services that we think may be of use to you in starting and running a more profitable business. If you do not wish to receive our email messages, you may remove yourself from our email lists using the links that appear in email messages, or by emailing info@schoolforstartups.co.uk a request to be removed from our list.  Please note, you must provide the email address you wish to have removed from our database.  People often register multiple times with different addresses.

Data Collection & Distribution

We may collect and process data from you, including information that you provide on registering as a user/opening a new account on our site or signing up to attend one of our online or face to face events. This information may include your name, email address, geographical address, telephone numbers, country of registration, password and user name as well as other data.

We may also collect and process information that you input into forms on our site. This includes information you provide in order to request (or to take) services from or via our site, when requesting further services or information or when you report a problem with our site.

If you contact us, we may keep a record of that communication or correspondence. We may keep and anylyze details of your visits to our site and resources that you access including information we receive about your internet use such as your IP address, other sites that you link to or access through our site, information relating to your browser and any ISP that you use.

We may use the information we collect and hold about you to provide you with information about services or other matters which we consider may be of interest to you, to notify you of changes in the services we provide and events you have registered for, to administer your account with us, to allow you to use the interactive features of our site, to provide you with promotional material, to customise the services we provide to you and to enable us to serve you with advertisements that we think will be of interest to you.

Information that you share with others via our site will also be available to us and to those others and to those whom you have given permission to access it.

In order for you to receive some of the services available from our site, or to register to attend some of our events, we will share your information with our third party partners and sponsors.

We will not sell, rent or otherwise provide your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes, except to selected partners of School for Startups with whom we work closely and to other selected third parties whom we consider provide services or products which may be of interest to you. Such partners and others may use your information to provide, contact or advise you in relation to any services about which you have requested information, for analysing the user base and user profile of our site and related services for their internal purposes in order to support the services that they are able to offer to the users of our site, to contact you with information and materials which they consider may be useful to you, including information about products and services they provide from time to time and information about events, deals and offers, to provide market commentary and to invite you to participate in research or surveys that they carry out from time to time.

We may also need to disclose your information for business purposes such as the sale of a part of our business or a corporate reorganisation. In those circumstances we will take steps to protect the privacy of your information when we pass it on to the relevant third party.

Rights granted/rights reserved

You acknowledge that all Content is made available to you through our website and email communications are for your personal use only and that you may download the Content onto one computer hard drive. You agree not to (and agree not to assist or facilitate any third party to) copy, reproduce, transmit, distribute, publish, commercially exploit or create derivative works of the content.

Warranty

The site and the content (which includes Content that is supplied to us by third parties either directly or indirectly) is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis and we make no warranties or representations, whether express or implied, in relation to the Site or the Content, including but not limited to, implied warranties or conditions or completeness, accuracy, satisfactory quality and fitness for a particular purpose.

Liability

You agree that, except for death and personal injury arising from our negligence, we shall not be liable in contract, tort, negligence, statutory duty or otherwise, for any loss or damage whatsoever arising directly or indirectly from or in any way connected with the Site or your use of or reliance upon the Content or any information you obtain by means of the Site or your use of or reliance upon the Content or any information you obtain by means of the Site or any bookings or purchases you make of goods and/or services through your use of the Site, including, without limitation, damage for loss of profits, loss of business, or any other consequential or pecuniary loss (even where we have been advised of the possibility of such loss or damage.

You agree and acknowledge that you are solely responsible for evaluating any goods or services offered by third parties via the Site. You acknowledge any bookings or purchase of goods or services made by you through the Site shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the third party supplying the service and/or goods concerned and that we will not be a party to or in any way responsible for or liable to you in respect of any transactions between you and third parties.

We do not make any representations or warranties as to the security of any information (including, without limitation, credit card and other personal information) you might be requested to give to any third party.

Availability of the site

You acknowledge that it is technically impossible to provide the Site free of faults and that we do not undertake to do so; that faults may lead to temporary unavailability of the Site; and that the operation of the Site may be adversely affected by conditions and performances outside our control, including, without limitation, transmission and telecommunications links between us and you and between us and other systems and networks.

Links to other sites

We may provide links to other websites. You acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the availability of such external sites, and do not endorse and are not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, services or other materials on or available from such sites.

Use of the site/indemnification

You undertake:

i. not to use the content for any unlawful purpose;

ii. that you shall not make any use of the Site such that the whole or part of the Site is interrupted, damages, rendered less efficient, or the effectiveness or functionality of the Site is in any way impaired;

iii. not to use the Site for the transmission or posting of any computer viruses or any material which is defamatory, offensive or of an obscene or menacing character, or in such a way as to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.

Intellectual property

You acknowledge that all copyright, trademarks and all other intellectual property rights in the content shall remain vested in us or our licensors.

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive by your web browser. On revisiting the website our computer server will recognise the cookie, giving us information about your last visit. Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but usually you can alter the settings of your browser to prevent automatic acceptance.

This website, and other Doug Richard’s School for Startups Ltd. group websites to which it is linked, may use cookies to:

• enable the signing in process to operate after you have registered with us;

• enable us to estimate and report on our total audience size & traffic;

• conduct research to improve our content and services.

By going to the Help section of the menu of your browser you should be able to configure your browser preferences to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. If you reject the use of cookies please note that the efficient operation of this site may be affected.

Other websites linked from this site may take a different approach to the use of cookies and you should check what that approach is with those who operate those sites. Doug Richard’s School for Startups Ltd.. take no responsibility or liability for the practices undertaken by sites linked to this website.

Changes to these terms and conditions

We reserve the right to change these terms and conditions from time to time. By continuing to use the Site following such change you will be deemed to have accepted such change. It is your responsibility to check regularly to determine whether these terms and conditions have been changed. If you do not agree to any such change you must immediately stop using the Site.

Entire agreement

Those terms and conditions (as amended from time to time) together with any document expressly referred to in them comprise the entire agreement between you and us.

Severability

Each provision of these terms and conditions excluding or limiting liability shall be construed separately, applying and surviving even if for any reason one or other provisions is held to be inapplicable or unenforceable in any circumstances.

No waiver

No waiver by us shall be construed as a waiver of any proceeding or succeeding breach of any provision.

English Law

These terms and conditions shall be governed by English law and you submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.