Terms And Conditions

Young Scot Enterprise ("Young Scot") is a company incorporated under the Companies Acts in Scotland (registered number SC202687) and having its registered office at Rosebery House, 9 Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh, Midlothian EH12 5EZ.

Contents

These are the terms and conditions (the "Terms and Conditions") which apply to the use of this web site (this "Site") by you. These Terms and Conditions are divided into the following sections:

• Intellectual Property Rights
• General Terms and Conditions of Use
• Privacy Policy
• Further Information

In these Terms and Conditions, references to "we", "us" and "our" are to Young Scot.

Use of this Site is subject to these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions you must cease use of this Site immediately.

We reserve the right to change these Terms and Conditions from time to time at our discretion, including (though not only) in response to any changes in law that may apply to our operations. Any amended version of these Terms and Conditions will apply to your Use of this Site with immediate effect, once we have published that amended version on this Site.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Copyright and database rights

The entire content of this Site (including, but not limited to, text, software, photos, images and graphics of any sort) is protected by copyright and/or database rights throughout the world. You may not copy (except by downloading and printing off one copy, as expressly permitted by these Terms and Conditions), modify, publish, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works based on, or in any way exploit, any of the content of this Site, in whole or in part. Unauthorised use of this Site may breach copyright and other intellectual property rights.

You may download and print one copy of any of the information available on this Site, for your personal use only (or for use for internal business purposes only, if you are viewing this Site in the course of or in connection with the conduct of any business).

Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, no copying, redistribution, file sharing, retransmission, publication or commercial exploitation of any of the content of this Site will be permitted without our express, prior, written permission, and that of the copyright owner, if and to the extent that we do not own the copyright in that content. You must not delete or make any changes to (or allow anyone else to delete or make any changes to) any author attribution or copyright notice appearing as part of that content. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any intellectual property rights in any of the content of this Site by using this Site, including by downloading any material from it.

Trade marks

"Young Scot" and the Young Scot logo are registered trade marks of Young Scot.

Any other trade marks and brand names appearing on this Site are the property of their respective owners, and you must not delete or make any changes to (or allow anyone else to delete or make any changes to) any trademark legend appearing on this Site in respect of any trade marks or brand names.

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

Accuracy of information

We do our best to ensure that all information on this Site is accurate. If you believe any of the information to be inaccurate, please let us know and where we agree with you, we will correct it as soon as practicable. However, we make no representations that any of the information on this Site is in fact accurate and up to date or complete, and accept no responsibility for any loss or damage caused by the inaccuracy or incompleteness of the information on this Site. It is the responsibility of users of this Site who wish to act on the basis of information available on it, to check and verify that information themselves before acting.

Although we hope that this Site will be of interest to users, we make no representations and offer no warranties in relation to it and its content, to the fullest extent that such representations and warranties may be lawfully excluded.

Linking and other web sites

On this Site we may from time to time provide hypertext links to other web sites that are operated by third parties (i.e. people other than Young Scot). Please note that using such a link means that you are leaving our Site, and we take no responsibility for, and make no representations and give no warranties in respect of, any web sites accessed through any such links from this Site.

Our liability

The information on this Site is not intended to address your particular requirements. Such information does not constitute any form of advice or recommendation by us, and is not intended to be relied upon by you in making any decisions, including (though not only) in taking or refraining from taking any action.

We make available all information on this Site free of charge, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, we accept no liability for that information, or for any loss or damage suffered by you or anyone else, directly or indirectly, as a result of your use of this Site.

Governing law and dispute resolution

Scots law shall apply to these Terms and Conditions, notwithstanding the jurisdiction where you are based. You irrevocably agree that the Scottish courts will have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute which may arise out of, under, or in connection with these Terms and Conditions, and for these purposes irrevocably submit all such disputes to the jurisdiction of the Scottish courts. The place of performance of the contract created by your use of this Site subject to these Terms and Conditions shall be Scotland.

We make no representation and give no warranty that this Site, or any of the information available on it, complies with any laws other than Scots law.

General

Failure by us to enforce a right will not result in a waiver of such right.

If any of these Terms and Conditions is held to be invalid or unenforceable by any court having authority to determine such issues, the remaining provisions of these Terms and Conditions will not be affected, and accordingly will remain in full force and effect.

You may not assign or transfer your rights under these Terms and Conditions.

PRIVACY POLICY

Online privacy practices

Your privacy is important to us, and we are keen to ensure that you get the most out of this Site without prejudicing that privacy.

Young Scot is registered as a data controller under the Data Protection Act 1998, and we ensure that we comply with all the protection that that Act affords you. Further information on that Act is available on the internet at www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk.

Use of personal information

If you choose to contact us through this Site (whether using the Contact Form available on this Site, or in any other way) to provide feedback on any of the content of this Site, to ask us for additional information, or for any other reason, the information about you which you provide to us will be retained and used by us only for the purposes for which you have provided it to us, whether to provide information or other services to you, or otherwise. We will not pass any of that information to any third party, other than to any contractor duly appointed by us, who requires to have access to that information for those purposes. By submitting any personal information to us through this Site, you are giving us permission to retain and use your personal information in this way.

We will not retain or use your personal information for any reason, other than as described in the previous paragraph. In particular, none of your details will be passed to third parties for marketing purposes.

Cookies

We do not use cookies for collecting or storing personal information about you. You should be aware though that we do use a form of temporary cookie called a "session cookie" to allow this Site to function effectively. Session cookies only store a "session ID" - a string of random characters - which allows the Site to group together and distinguish page requests from your browser during each browsing session. They are not stored on your computer's harddisk and are held in memory, expiring automatically when you close down your browser. Please note though that if for any reason you do not want session cookies to be temporarily stored in the memory of your computer, you should not make any further use of our Site.

Security

We follow strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of personal information in order to ensure compliance with all applicable legal requirements, including by taking all reasonable steps to prevent unauthorised access to your personal information. However, please be aware that communications over the internet are not secure unless they are encrypted, and we do not accept responsibility for any unauthorised access to or loss of personal information due to circumstances beyond our control.

Other web sites

The Privacy Policy set out in these Terms and Conditions only covers this Site. It does not cover any other web site, including any web site to which you may find a link on this Site.

Correction of personal information

If you become aware that any of the information which we hold about you is inaccurate please contact us by email at info@youngscot.org, and we will ensure that the details we hold are corrected or updated as soon as possible.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Finally, should you have an enquiry about any aspect of these Terms and Conditions, or our use of your personal information, please contact us as follows:

by email: info@youngscot.org

by post: Young Scot Enterprise, 9 Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh EH12 5EZ

by telephone: 0131 313 2488

by fax: 0131 313 6800

and in each case please mark your correspondence for the attention of, or, if telephoning please ask to speak to, Young Scot's Management Accountant.