www.business-support-wales.gov.uk is a government website (“Website”) managed by the Welsh Ministers, who are referred to as 'we' or ‘us’ in these Terms and Conditions. In entering the Website you the user (referred to as 'you' or “your”) are accepting our Terms and Conditions (“Terms”).

The Website and its associated sites are maintained for your personal use and viewing. Access and use by you of this site constitutes acceptance by you of these Terms, which take effect from the date of first use regardless of whether or not you choose to register with us. If you do not accept these terms, do not use the Website.

You may access most areas of the Website without registering your details with us.

From time to time we may modify these Terms. Accordingly please continue to review these Terms whenever accessing or using the Website.

Intellectual Property

The Website, including (but not limited to) text, names, images and logos (“Content”) identifying us is legally protected. The Content includes content owned or controlled by us or controlled by others and licensed to us. Copying or use of the Content is not permitted without prior written approval from either us or the person who has given us a licence.

Requests for permission to use our logo should be should be directed to the Welsh Assembly Government Corporate Communications Branding Team. Email: brandingqueries@wales.gsi.gov.uk. Tel: 0845 010 3300

Licence and Download Rights

You are permitted to print and download extracts from the Website for your own use on the basis that:

• you make no more than one printed copy of such download and no further printed copies of such printed copy are made;
• you only make personal, non-commercial use of such download and/or printed copy; and
• you retain on such download and/or printed copy all copyright notices and shall remain bound by the terms of such wording and notices.

Additionally, you may not sell or distribute the Content over any other medium. You may not make any part of the Website available as part of another website, whether by hyperlinking framing on the internet or otherwise. The Website and the information contained in it may not be used to construct a database of any kind, nor may the Website be stored (in its entirety or in any part) in databases for access by you or any third party or to distribute any database websites containing all or part of the Website.

Hyperlinking

You do not have to ask permission to link directly to pages hosted on this site. However, we would prefer it if our pages were not to be loaded into frames on your site. Our web pages should load into the user's entire window. If you wish to include our web pages within a portal site then please contact the webmaster@business-support-wales.gov.uk Please include your contact details name, address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail and a description of your portal site. We expressly reserve the right to revoke any licence which we may grant to you for linking to pages directly hosted on this site, if you breach any of these Terms. You shall fully indemnify us for any loss or damage suffered by us for breach of any licence which we may grant to you.

From this website

Websites or pages to which the Website is linked are for information only and have not been reviewed by us. We are not responsible for the content or reliability of the linked websites and we do not accept any liability or responsibility for any losses or penalties whatsoever that may be incurred as a result of linking to any location on linked websites. Listing should not be taken as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over the availability of linked pages. If you decide to access anyone else’s website linked to this Website you do so entirely at your own risk.

Virus protection

We make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the Internet. We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from Welsh Assembly Government websites.

Service Access

Whilst we shall try to ensure the Website is normally available 24 hours a day, we shall not be liable if it is not. Access to the Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond our control.

Disclaimer

The Website and its information, products and services, (or third party information, products and services), are provided 'as is' without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. We do not warrant that the functions contained in the material contained on this Website will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this Website or the server that make it available are free of viruses or represent the full functionality, accuracy, reliability of the materials.

Save in respect of fraudulent misrepresentation and death or personal injury caused by our negligence, in no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including, without limitation, direct loss (whether loss, of income, profits, goodwill, data), indirect or consequential loss or damage(whether loss, of income, profits, goodwill, data), or any loss or damages whatsoever arising from or in connection with the Website in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or use the results of the Website..

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales as applied in Wales. Any dispute arising under these Terms and Conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.