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Terms and Conditions of Entry

Terms and Conditions of the John Logie Baird Awards Programme 2008

Confidentiality and Data Protection

The John Logie Baird Awards Programme incorporates the use of VentureNaviagtor Application tool and data supplied by entrants on the VentureNaviagtor registration form will be held by the GO Group (the “Organiser”) in accordance with the data protection policy of the John Logie Baird Awards Programme which follows below. If you wish to proceed with your application in the John Logie Baird Awards Programme you will be deemed to have read, understood and agreed to the following:

The details of your Application will be held securely by Library House Limited, who in addition to licensing the GO Group to use VentureNaviagtor, also host, and will store your data under its own security arrangements. The Organiser will have access to this information but only for the purposes of the John Logie Baird Awards Programme and its assessment.


The Organiser recognises that companies may have concerns regarding confidentiality. The John Logie Baird Awards Programme assessors and judges will all have signed confidentiality agreements with the Organisers.

Data Protection Policy

By submitting your entry to the John Logie Baird Awards Programme through VentureNaviagtor, you agree that you have consented to and will be deemed to have consented to the storage and use by the Organiser and any of their agents, directors or employees of the following information for the purposes of operating, managing and judging the John Logie Baird Awards Programme:

(a) your name and that of your company
(b) contact address, telephone numbers, fax numbers and e-mail address
(c) all other information contained within the VentureNaviagtor Application Form

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In the event that you subsequently withdraw your consent to your information being used in accordance with this data policy prior to the final judging of the John Logie Baird Awards Programme, the Organiser reserves the right to disqualify any entry you have made in the John Logie Baird Awards Programme.

The Organiser would also like to contact you from time to time regarding:

  • Future John Logie Baird Awards Programmes, competitions or events
  • Other information that the Organiser reasonably believes may be of interest to you
  • Opportunities to access help and advice for your business
  • Please let the Organiser know if, other than for the purposes of the John Logie Baird Awards Programme, you do NOT wish to be contacted.

The John Logie Baird Awards Programme

1. Awards

The John Logie Baird Awards Programme process is briefly described as follows:-

  • Applications are received by the GO Group via the completion of the VentureNavigator on-line application tool
  • Applicants may provide supplementary information as part of their application
  • Applications are filtered by GO Group, assessed and scored
  • Business plans are assessed and scored by internal and external experts
  • Selected applicants are invited to present to various assessment panels
  • Winners are selected by a Judging Panel made up of the prime partners

2. The decision of the Judging Panel is final

3. The winner(s) will be announced at an Awards Event to be held in December 2008

4. The John Logie Baird Awards Programme winner(s) may be required to undergo a due diligence review and detailed analysis to the reasonable satisfaction of the Organiser follwing the Judging Panel before the Award can be confirmed.

Eligibility

To qualify to enter the John Logie Baird Awards Programme, your principal place of business must be in Scotland.

Details of the John Logie Baird Awards Programme process are available on the John Logie Baird Awards Programme website at www.johnlogiebairdawards.co.uk.

You may enter for as many Awards Categories as you wish.

Entries received after midnight on 29th September 2008 will not be eligible for the John Logie Baird Awards Programme.

The Organiser cannot accept responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion or delay to transmission of entry or for the John Logie Baird Awards

Programme Application

By submitting your entry to the John Logie Baird Awards Programme you and your company agree to participate in PR surrounding the John Logie Baird Awards Programme, including interviews with media and quotes in press releases.

The Organiser has the right to amend the John Logie Baird Awards Programme rules, dates and processes without prior notice. Any changes will be posted on the John Logie Baird Awards Programme website at www.johnlogiebairdawards.co.uk.

The Organiser reserves the right to disqualify any entrant if it has reasonable grounds to believe the entrant has breached the terms and conditions of the John Logie Baird Awards Programme.

All expenses associated with entry to the John Logie Baird Awards Programme incurred by entrants, including travel and subsistence, are the sole responsibility of the entrant.

Terrms and Conditions of Use (website)
IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE

ATTENTION: This legal notice applies to the entire contents of this website under the domain name ”www.johnlogiebairdawards.co.uk” (“Website”) and to any correspondence by e-mail between us and you. Please read these terms carefully before using this Website. Continuing to use this Website indicates that you accept these terms as amended from time to time regardless of whether or not you choose to register with us. These terms include the Privacy Policy. If you do not accept these terms, do not use this Website.

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. Glasgow Opportunities is the accountable body for the activities of the GO Group (both together referred to as "the GO Group") and is based at the address shown in our “contact us” page.

1.2. Worldwide copyright laws and treaties protect this Website and the domain name "johnlogiebairdawards" and "John Logie Baird Awards Programme" are the sole property of the GO Group unless expressly acknowledged otherwise.
1.3. The logos, "GO Group " and “John Logie Baird Awards Programme " are the trade marks of the GO Group.

1.4. The GO Group may revise this legal notice at any time by updating this posting. You should check this Website from time to time to review the current legal notice, because it is binding on you. Certain provisions of this legal notice may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages of this Website.

2. LICENCE

2.1. You are permitted to print and download extracts from this Website for your own lawful personal use, or such other use as the GO Group may agree with you in writing from time to time, but only on the following basis:

2.1.1. no documents or related graphics on this Website are modified in any way;
2.1.2. no graphics on this Website are used separately from accompanying text;
2.1.3. The GO Group copyright and trade mark notices and this permission notice appear in all copies.

2.2. Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all material on this Website (including, without limitation, photographs and graphical images) are owned by the GO Group or its licensors. If you breach any of the terms in this legal notice, your permission to use this Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from this Website.

2.3. Subject to paragraph 2.1, no part of this Website may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without the GO Group’s prior written permission.

2.4. Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.

3. SERVICE ACCESS

3.1. While the GO Group endeavours to ensure that this Website is normally available 24 hours a day, the GO Group shall not be liable if for any reason this Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

3.2. Access to this Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond the GO Group reasonable control.

4. VISITOR MATERIAL AND CONDUCT

4.1. Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered under Our Privacy Policy, any material you transmit or post to this Website, shall be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. The GO Group shall have no obligation with respect to such material. The GO Group and its designees shall be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use such material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied in it for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.

4.2. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Website any material:

4.2.1. that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial or religious hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, or in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience; or
4.2.2. for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals; or
4.2.3. that constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law or infringe the rights of any third party, in the UK or any other country in the world; or
4.2.4. that is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).

4.3. You may not misuse the Website or information on it (including, without limitation, by hacking) and YOU SHALL FULLY INDEMNIFY THE GO GROUP, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OWNERS, TRUSTEES AND AGENTS FOR YOUR MISUSE.

4.4. The GO Group shall fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing the GO Group to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of paragraph 4.2 or paragraph 4.3.

4.5. If the GO Group considers it appropriate it may act on complaints received about inaccuracies or errors on the Website without reference to you.

5. LINKS TO AND FROM OTHER WEBSITES

5.1. Links to third party websites on this Website are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave this Website. The GO Group has not reviewed all of these third party websites, does not control and is not responsible for them or their content or availability. The GO Group therefore does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. IF YOU DECIDE TO ACCESS ANY OF THE THIRD PARTY WEBSITES LINKED TO THIS WEBSITE, YOU DO SO ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.

5.2. If you would like to link to this Website, you may only do so on the basis that you link to, but do not replicate, the home page of this Website, and subject to the following conditions:

5.2.1. you do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of any logo on this website;
5.2.2. you do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around this Website;
5.2.3. you do not in any way imply that the GO Group is endorsing any products or services other than its own;
5.2.4. you do not misrepresent your relationship with the GO Group nor present any other false information about the GO Group;
5.2.5. you do not otherwise use any trade marks displayed on this Website without express written permission from the GO Group or the relevant licensor;
5.2.6. you do not link from a website that is not owned by you;
5.2.7. your website does not contain content that is distasteful, offensive or controversial, infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or otherwise does not comply with all applicable laws and regulations in any country to which this Website is targeted.

5.3. Other links may be made by agreement – please contact us on info@johnlogiebairdawards.com.
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5.4. The GO Group expressly reserves the right to revoke the right granted in paragraph 5.2 for breach of these terms and to take any action it deems appropriate.

5.5. YOU SHALL FULLY INDEMNIFY THE GO GROUP FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE SUFFERED BY THE GO GROUP OR ANY OF ITS GROUP COMPANIES FOR BREACH OF PARAGRAPH 5.2.

6. DISCLAIMER

6.1. While the GO Group endeavours to ensure that the information on this Website is correct, the GO Group does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on this Website. The GO Group may make changes to the material on this Website, or to the products and prices described in it, at any time without notice. The material on this Website may be out of date, and the GO Group makes no commitment to update such material.

6.2. The material on this Website is provided “as is”, without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the GO Group provides you with this Website on the basis that the GO Group excludes all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) which but for this legal notice might have effect in relation to this Website.

6.3. The pages on this Website contain general information only and nothing in these pages constitutes professional advice of any kind. The GO Group accepts no responsibility for loss that may arise from reliance on information contained in this Website from time to time. The GO Group recommends that for specific professional advice, you obtain advice from a suitably qualified professional in the area of your enquiry.


6.4 Business plans and other information provided by the participants of the John Logie Baird Awards will only be made available to persons outside of the GO Group with professional experience in matters relating to innovation for the purposes of Judging Panels or Due Diligence prior to confirming winning entries.

7. LIABILITY

7.1. The GO Group, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering this Website), and any of the GO Group related companies and the officers, directors, employees, owners, trustees or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party (including, without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, investment value or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption), and whether in tort (including, without limitation, negligence), contract or otherwise in connection with this Website in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of this Website, any websites linked to this Website or the material on this or such websites, including but not limited to, loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use, or browsing of this Website or your downloading of any material from this Website or any websites linked to this Website.

7.2. Nothing in this legal notice shall exclude or limit the GO Group liability for:

7.2.1. death or personal injury caused by negligence (as such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977); or
7.2.2. fraud; or
7.2.3. any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
7.3. If your use of material on this Website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you assume all costs of such.


8. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

This legal notice shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the Law of Scotland. Disputes arising in connection with this legal notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Scottish Courts.

Issue Date: 9th June 2008.

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