Terms & Conditions
Access to and use of this site (http://www.edinburgh-inspiringcapital.com/) is
provided by the Edinburgh City Region Brand Team. The brand is a
public/private partnership. The group consists of organisations of
the major sectors of the Edinburgh economy, including local
business, finance, higher education, local government, festivals,
tourism, voluntary, bio-technology, information technology, retail,
creative industries, local enterprise and other professional
sectors. The public sector partners are the City of Edinburgh
Council, Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and Lothian, VisitScotland
Edinburgh Network Office and Edinburgh Convention Bureau. The brand
is used to promote the Edinburgh City Region on a national and
international scale as a place to live, invest, study and
visit.
CONTENTS
These are the terms and conditions (the "Terms and Conditions")
which apply to the use of this web site (this "Site") by you. The
links below take you to the relevant sections on this page.
1. Copyright and
Domain Names
2. General Terms and Conditions of Use
3. Online Privacy
Policy
4. Website content
5. Terms and conditions -further
Information.
In these Terms and Conditions, references to "we", "us" and
"our" are to The Edinburgh City Region Brand Project. 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. However,
any amended version of these Terms and Conditions will only apply
after we have published that amended version on this Site.
1. COPYRIGHT, TRADE MARKS AND DOMAIN NAMES
Copyright
You may copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast,
transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use the site
content only if you are using the content to promote the Edinburgh
City Region as a place in which to live, study, invest or visit.
Any other use of the site content requires the prior written
permission of the Edinburgh City Region Brand Team. Unauthorised
use of this Site and its content may breach copyright and other
intellectual property rights.
The City of Edinburgh Council (on behalf of the Edinburgh City
Region Brand) may go to Court to enforce its rights if there is any
unauthorised or undesirable use of the brand.
Domain names
The domain name listed below is the property of The City of
Edinburgh Council on behalf of Edinburgh City Region Brand:
www.edinburgh-inspiringcapital.com
2. 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 do provide hypertext links to other web sites that
are operated by third parties (i.e. people other than the Edinburgh
City Region Brand project ‘Edinburgh Inspiring Capital’). 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. In addition, such third party
websites may have data-collection, privacy and security policies
that differ from those of Edinburgh City Region Brand, and you
should consult such third party policies prior to proceeding.
Edinburgh City Region Brand has no responsibility or liability
whatsoever in connection with your use or your exchange of any
information with such third party websites.
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 (or refraining from making) any
specific decisions.
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.
3. ONLINE PRIVACY PRACTICES
4. WEBSITE CONTENT
The figures reproduced in this website are the most up to date
available to the editorial team at the time of going to press
(February 2008). While every effort has been made to ensure a high
degree of accuracy the authors can make no guarantees as to the
accuracy or reliability of information quoted.
NOTE ON DEFINITIONS: In this publication ‘City Region’ is used
to describe the area encompassing the local authority areas of the
City of Edinburgh, East, West and Mid Lothian, Fife, Forth Valley
and the Scottish Borders.
5. TERMS AND CONDITIONS - 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@edinburgh-inspiringcapital.com
by our online feedback form
by post:, Edinburgh City Region Brand Project, The City of
Edinburgh Council, 329 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1PN
by telephone: 0131 529 4449
by fax: 0131 529 7479
