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Terms and Conditions of Entry


This page contains the Terms & Conditions of both entry to the John Logie Baird  Awards and the use of the Venture Navigator website. Please ensure that you have read and agree to both of these sets of Terms & Conditions before entering.

Terms and Conditions of the John Logie Baird Awards Programme 

Confidentiality and Data Protection

The John Logie Baird Awards Programme incorporates the use of VentureNavigator Application tool and data supplied by entrants on the VentureNavigator 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:

GO Group has licensed VentureNavigator platform to power the application process for the John Logie Baird Awards Programme. The data provided by the entrant in submitting their application to the John Logie Baird Awards Programme will be held by VentureNavigator under its own security arrangements. The Organiser of the John Logie Baird Awards Programme will have access to this information, but only for the purposes of the John Logie Baird Awards Programme.

The Organiser recognises that companies (entrants) 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 VentureNavigator, 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 VentureNavigator Application Form

Report Card

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) of the 2009 - 2010 Programme will be announced at an Awards Event to be held in Spring 2010.

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 following 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 date of the entry deadline 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.

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.


VentureNavigator



VENTURENAVIGATOR - Terms of Website Use

This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms on which you may make use of our website http://www.venturenavigator.co.uk/ (our site), whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms, please refrain from using our site.

Information about us

http://www.venturenavigator.co.uk/ is a site operated by UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX ("We"). We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Accessing our site

Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us.
 
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures (this excludes the use of promotional codes), you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

When using our site (www.venturenavigator.co.uk), you must comply with the provisions of our acceptable use policy (see below).

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site.

Intellectual property rights

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

Reliance on information posted

Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to investment or other advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

Our site changes regularly

We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

Our liability

The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:

All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for:

  • loss of income or revenue;
  • loss of business;
  • loss of profits or contracts;
  • loss of anticipated savings;
  • loss of data;
  • loss of goodwill;
  • wasted management or office time;
  • and for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.

This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Information about you and your visits to our site

We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

Uploading material to our site

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy (see below). You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.

You acknowledge that any information you upload is not under our control while in transit, is not encrypted and may be capable of interception.

With the exception of material relating to businesses and business ideas submitted in Assessments (please see our Privacy Policy) on this material) and unless otherwise specifically identified, any material you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose your identity to a third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy (see Privacy Policy).

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our site.

We have the right to remove any material or posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy (see below).

Viruses, hacking and other offences

You must comply with the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such abreach, your right to use our site will cease immediately. We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

Linking to our site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy (see below).

If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please contact us).

Links from our site

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

Prohibited uses

You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:

In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation. In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent. To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards (see below). To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam). You also agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of our terms of website use.

Interactive services

We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site, including, without limitation, bulletin boards.

Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical).

We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our site, and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.

Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.

Content standards

These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (“contributions”), and to any interactive services associated with it.

You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

Contributions must:

  • Be accurate (where they state facts).
  • Be genuinely held (where they state opinions).
  • Comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.

Contributions must not:

  • Contain any material which is defamatory of any person.
  • Contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
  • Promote sexually explicit material.
  • Promote violence.
  • Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
  • Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
  • Be likely to deceive any person Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
  • Promote any illegal activity.
  • Be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
  • Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
  • Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
  • Give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.
  • Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
     

Suspension and termination

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this acceptable use policy through your use of our site. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.

Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the terms of use upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

  • Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
  • Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site.
  • Issue of a warning to you.
  • Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
  • Further legal action against you.
  • Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.

Jurisdiction and applicable law

The English courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country. These terms of use are governed by English law.

Trade marks

UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX and VENTURENAVIGATOR are registered trade marks of the University of Essex.

Variations

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

Your concerns

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact us.

Awards
Apply for the John LOgie Baird Awards 2009