Terms and Conditions

The content that appears on our sites is for informational purposes only. Despite our efforts to provide useful and accurate information, errors may appear from time to time. Some of the content you find on our sites was not created, edited, or posted by us (for example, forum postings). Though we hope the advertisers, merchants, and users you meet through our sites treat you honourably and fairly, we can’t vouch for the information, goods, or services they offer. Before you act on information you've found on or through our site, confirm any facts that are important to your decision.

1. Acceptance of User Agreement

Our website is provided free of charge to you under this Agreement. If registration or fees are required, additional terms will be placed on the site, which explains the special terms that apply with respect to those services. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not register for, pay for, or enter the site. We may amend this Agreement at any time by posting a revised version on the CareerTech website(s). The revised version will be effective at the time we post it. In addition, if the revised version includes a substantial change, we will provide you with at least 30 Days’ prior notice by posting a notice on the “Policy Updates” page of the CareerTech website(s). This is an important document which you must consider carefully when choosing whether to use the Services at any time. If you do not agree to any changes made in the agreement, please arrange to discontinue your use of the Site. Your continued use of a site signifies your acceptance of any changes in the Visitor Agreement.

2. Rules for Submissions and Messages

If you are under 16 years old, you are not allowed to register with CareerTech or to participate in a discussion forum.

Responsibility for what is posted in the discussion groups or other public forums lies with each user. You alone are responsible for the content of your messages, and the consequences of any such messages. However any complaint made by members regarding an inappropriate entry on any of the forums will be investigated. Any member found to be using the forum that CareerTech views as discriminate or inappropriate will have their CareerTech membership revoked.

You agree not to use the sites in any way to send or submit materials:

• that are false, inaccurate or misleading;

• that infringe any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;

• that violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including without limitation those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);

• that are defamatory, libellous, threatening or harassing; that are obscene or contain any kind of pornography;

• that contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information;

• that might create liability for us or might cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our internet service providers or other suppliers;

• that interfere with the ability of others to enjoy our site;

• that impersonate any other person or entity, whether actual or fictitious, including impersonating an employee or consultant of CareerTech;

• that link to or include descriptions of services that: (i) are prohibited under this Agreement; or (ii) you do not have a right to link to or include.

We cannot and do not review every submission a user may make. We neither endorse nor guarantee the accuracy or propriety of any submission. We do, however, reserve the right to restrict or prohibit your use of our sites if we believe you are violating any of the terms of the Agreement and to remove, edit, or relocate any submission as we see fit whether for legal or other reasons.

In order to encourage users to feel free to share their e-mail addresses in public posting areas, you may not use any other user’s information, personal or otherwise, for any commercial purpose, chain letters, junk mail, "spamming," bulk communications, or developing lists. Any such use by you shall be deemed to be a violation of this Agreement.

3. Rights

You acknowledge that: we permit access to content that is protected by copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual and proprietary rights ("Rights") and, except as expressly provided otherwise, the Agreement and applicable copyright, trademark and other laws govern your use of such content.

You are free to display and print for your personal, non-commercial use information you receive through our sites. You may not reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use any of the materials without the prior written consent of the CareerTech. Requests for permission to reproduce, distribute or otherwise use materials found on our sites should be made by contacting us. The burden of determining whether any content on our sites is or is not protected by Rights rests with you. You are free to encourage others to access the information themselves on our sites via the normal subscription channels. We welcome links to our service. You are free to establish a hypertext link to our sites so long as the link does not state or imply any sponsorship of your site by us or make use of a logo without written consent of the logo owner.

We do not want anyone to be confused about which materials and services are provided by us and which are not. You may not use any mark appearing on our site without the prior written consent of the owner of the mark. The urls representing the CareerTech Website(s), “CareerTech,” and all related logos of our products and services described in our Website(s) are trademarks or registered trademarks of CareerTech. In addition, all page headers, custom graphics, and scripts are either copyrighted by CareerTech, service marks, trademarks, and/or trade dress of CareerTech. You may not copy, imitate, modify, alter, amend or use them without our prior written consent. You may not use HTML logos provided by CareerTech through our merchant services without prior written consent for the purpose of directing web traffic to the service. You may not alter, modify or change these HTML logos in any way, use them in a manner that is disparaging to CareerTech or display them in any manner that implies CareerTech’s sponsorship or endorsement.

You acknowledge that we acquire all Rights to use any posted materials as described below so that we do not violate any Rights you may have in materials you post. By submitting content to or through our sites, you grant us the non-exclusive right to reproduce, modify and distribute it as we see fit in any medium and for any purpose in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. You also permit any other user to access, display, and print such content for personal use. You vouch that any material you submit does not violate, plagiarize or infringe upon the right of any third party, including copyright, trademark or proprietary rights. If non-original content is included in your posting, you must obtain permission from the content owner and attribute it.

If you are an owner of intellectual property who believes your intellectual property has been improperly posted or distributed via this website, please notify us by sending an e-mail or by post to:

CareerTech

58 Cadogan Drive

Wigan

Lancashire

WN3 6JH

Please note that we may access and disclose your personally identifiable information in order to address any infringement claim.

4. Third Party Services

As a convenience to you, we may provide links to third party’s web sites. Those web sites and parties are beyond our control. We make no representations as to the content, quality, suitability, functionality or legality of any sites to which we may provide links, and you hereby waive any claim you might make against us with respect to such sites and their operators. You may order services or merchandise through links on our sites from persons not affiliated with us. All matters concerning the merchandise or services, including but not limited to purchase terms, payment terms, warranties, guarantees, maintenance and delivery, are solely between you and the merchants with whom you chose to do business. We make no warranties or representations whatsoever with regard to any goods or services provided by those merchants. You will not consider us – nor will we be construed as – a party to such transactions, whether or not we may have received some form of revenue or other remuneration in connection with the transaction. Nor will we be liable for any costs or damages arising out of any transaction (whether directly or indirectly) between you and any other person.

5. Disclaimer of Warranties

YOU AGREE THAT USE OF THE SITES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. CAREERTECH CANNOT AND DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS,  NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OF THE INFORMATION OR APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICE. NOR IS THE SERVICE GUARANTEED TO BE ERROR-FREE, SECURE OR CONTINUOUSLY AVAILABLE OR FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

YOU ALSO AGREE THAT YOU USE ANY DATA OR INFORMATION OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK. YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF SUCH MATERIAL OR DATA.

CAREERTECH  MAKE NO WARRANTY REGARDING ANY GOODS OR SERVICES REFERRED TO, ADVERTISED ON, OR OBTAINED THROUGH OUR SITES.

6. Limitation of Liability

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL CAREERTECH  BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF USE OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, OR SIMILAR DAMAGES, EVEN IF WE ARE ADVISED BEFOREHAND OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. YOU AGREE THAT THE LIABILITY OF CAREERTECH IF ANY, ARISING OUT OF ANY KIND OF LEGAL CLAIM IN ANY WAY CONNECTED TO THE SERVICE SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO THE SERVICE FOR THE USE OF THE SERVICE.

7. Discontinuance, Modification & Restrictions

We may discontinue, change, suspend, or restrict access to this service or any portion of this service at any time without liability to you or any third party.

8. Legal compliance

This site is controlled and operated by CareerTech. Those who choose to access our site do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with this agreement.

9. Dispute Resolution.

You must lodge a claim with CareerTech within 30 days of the grievance date.  If you do not lodge the claim with in 30 days, CareerTech will close the Dispute and you will not be eligible to proceed with the claim within the boundaries of the CareerTech claims procedure.

10. Miscellaneous

In the event that any provision of the User Agreement conflicts with the law under which the User Agreement is to be construed or if any provision is held invalid by a court with jurisdiction over the parties to the User Agreement, such provision will be restated to reflect as nearly as possible the original intentions of the parties in accordance with applicable law, and the remainder of this User Agreement will remain in full force and effect. If either party fails to insist upon or enforce strict performance by the other party of any provision of the User Agreement, or to exercise any right under the User Agreement, such a failure will not be construed as a waiver or relinquishment to any extent of such party’s right to assert or rely upon any such provision or right in that or any other instance. That is, all provisions and rights will remain in full force and effect.

This User Agreement and any express additional terms (which will be identified as such when posted by us on our other sites) constitute the entire understanding between the parties as to subject matter hereof, and supersede all prior agreements and understandings.

Unauthorised distribution or reproduction is forbidden. If you have questions or wish to obtain more information from or about CareerTech, please write to:

CareerTech
58 Cadogan Drive
Wigan WN3 6JH
England

11. Refund Policy

CareerTech will refund the initial subscription, provided a refund claim is submitted within 14 days. If the claim is submitted later than 14 days, a refund will not be granted. You should read the agreed terms and conditions carefully before agreeing to subscribe to CareerTech’s services.

12. Cancellation of Subscription by User

If you intentionally cancel your subscription without notice, we will be notified by the payment processor and your user login will be disabled. You will be sent an email explaining why you have been refused access to further modules. If the subscription cancellation has been due to a fault with processing your payment, we will re-enable your account whilst the fault is rectified.
 

Privacy Notice

Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated. This policy may change from time to time in order to address new issues and reflect changes on our site so please check back periodically. By using this service after we post changes, you indicate your acceptance to those changes.

Our Commitment to Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

The Information We Collect:

This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the CareerTech website. The types of personal information collected at these pages are:

Name

Postal address

Email address

The Way We Use Information:

We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.

We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website and to share with advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.

Finally, CareerTech may provide personal information to the extent necessary to comply with applicable laws, police investigations, or in legal proceedings where such information is relevant. We may also disclose account information in cases where we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or investigate or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our User Agreement or may be causing injury to or interference with our rights or property, our other website users and their rights or property, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities.

Our Commitment to Data Security

To prevent unauthorised access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. CareerTech is also bound by the Data Protection Act (DPA) and is obliged to ensure that all personal information held in its records is secure and not passed on to third parties.

Our Commitment to Children's Privacy:

Children under 16:

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. We will not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under 16 years of age. We do not market via our website or by direct marketing to children less than 16 years of age.

How You Can Access or Correct Your Information

You can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows error.

To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

How to Contact Us

Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please contact us via email or by writing to us.

Policy Statement Changes:

We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy from time to time without prior notice.