SATER – Legal Notices

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

You are required to accept the terms and conditions set out below in order to use this site or to register with the Scottish Accountancy Trust for Education and Research (SATER). If you do not consent to these Terms and Conditions, you should not register with SATER and you should leave the web site.

CONTENTS

1. Disclaimer
2. Copyright
3. Privacy Policy
4. Other conditions of use
5. Links

Disclaimer

The material on this web site is provided purely for your information and you should seek further guidance and make independent inquiries before relying on it. SATER reserves the right to make alterations to the web site at any time without notifying you. The information on this web site is updated from time to time. However, SATER makes no representation or warranty whatsoever as to the quality, accuracy, efficacy, completeness, operation or fitness for a particular purpose of the web site or any of its contents. To the full extent permissible by law, SATER assumes no responsibility for the material contained on this web site and disclaims all liability arising from negligence or otherwise in respect of the material or arising from a user's use of or inability to use the web site. The views expressed on this web site and published on the web site are not necessarily the views of SATER and SATER disclaims all responsibility for any discussions published. If you are dissatisfied with any part of this web site your sole remedy is to discontinue using it. We make no warranty that the web site or any information posted on it is free from infection by viruses or anything else that has contaminating or destructive properties and shall have no liability in respect thereof. Where part of the web site contains advertising and other material submitted to us by third parties please note that those advertisers are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on the web site complies with all legal requirements. Although acceptance of advertisements on the web site is subject to our terms and conditions, we do not accept liability in respect of any advertisements.

Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and similar rights in this web site and in all the material contained on this web site belong to SATER. You are only permitted to copy or print extracts of the material for your own personal use. You may not use any of this material for commercial or public purposes. Without SATER's written permission, you may not (whether directly or indirectly including through the use of any programme) create a database in an electronic or other form by downloading and storing all or any part of the pages from this web site. Without the permission of SATER, no part of this web site may be reproduced, transmitted to or stored on any other web site, disseminated in any electronic or non-electronic form, or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system. Any request for permission may be sent to infoservice@scottishaccountancytrust.org.uk.

Privacy Policy

SATER is committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with the UK Data Protection Acts 1984 and 1998. SATER collects, uses and disseminates the personal information you provide to us only in accordance with the policies and procedures outlined in this section. However, you should note that collection, use or dissemination might occur in our offices outside the European Economic Area.

Latest news and site developments

If you do elect to, SATER may, from time to time, send you information on selected products and services. SATER may also invite others to do the same or use the information supplied by you to SATER for research or marketing.

Improving our site and services for you

Either SATER or third parties, such as independent auditors, may access all or part of your registration information to find out about use of the web site. Generally, the data that SATER or third parties use for this purpose will be in aggregate form, meaning that your registration information will be collated together with that of other users. However, SATER may convey all or part of your registration information to independent auditors in order to verify usage statistics. As part of this verification process, you may be contacted to confirm that you have registered on the web site with SATER. If you object to the uses of your registration information outlined in this paragraph, please e-mail infoservice@scottishaccountancytrust.org.uk.

Updating your registration information

You have the right to request a copy of the information held by us about you in our records in return for the payment of a small fee. If the data we have is inaccurate, you may have such data corrected or erased.

Other Conditions of Use

Changes to these Terms and Conditions

SATER may add to or change these Terms and Conditions from time to time. All additions and changes will be notified to you by being posted on this page. You should review these Terms and Conditions regularly because they are binding on you.

The accuracy of your registration information

You are responsible for ensuring that any information you provide to SATER is accurate, complete and your own. If SATER has any reason to believe that any information you have supplied is false, inaccurate or not your own, we may prohibit you from using this site.
Information you post on the web site - SATER reserves the right at any time to remove any material from the site which it believes to be salacious, defamatory or offensive or which SATER believes may be in breach of a third party's rights, such as a third party's intellectual property or confidentiality rights. You agree to indemnify SATER on a full and continuing basis against any loss or damage suffered or costs (including legal costs) incurred by SATER in defending any action brought against SATER as a result of any information you have posted on the web site.

Governing Law

These terms and conditions are governed by Scottish law and visitors to this web site must submit to the jurisdiction of the Scottish courts.

Links

You should note that certain links on the web site lead to resources located on servers, or web sites maintained by third parties, over whom we have no control. Accordingly, SATER accepts no responsibility or liability for any of the material contained on those servers or the accuracy or legality of information contained on other web sites.

Dated: 13 January 2006