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The website has been designed with the needs of both researchers and European/Research Officers (and equivalents) in mind. We have tried to make it as self-explanatory as possible, but should you have any comments or suggestions please inform us and and we shall endeavour to address them!

By visiting the UK Research Office's website and using the information available, you agree to the following:

Disclaimer

UKRO has made all reasonable efforts to ensure that all information provided through its website is accurate, current and informative. However, there may be inadvertent and occasional errors for which we apologise. If you are using the site and notice what you believe to be a factual error, please advise us.

The information made available by UKRO through this website is for information purposes only and does not form part of any contract between UKRO and the user. Changing circumstances may cause UKRO to have to change the information and contents of its pages at any time. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of information presented, UKRO disclaims all responsibility for and accepts no liability for any errors or losses caused by any inaccuracies in such information or the consequences of any person acting or refraining from acting or otherwise relying on such information.

You agree to use this website only for lawful purposes, and in a manner that does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of this site by any third party. Such restriction or inhibition includes, without limitation, conduct which is unlawful, or which may harass or cause distress or inconvenience to any person, and the transmission of obscene or offensive content or disruption of normal flow of dialogue within this website.

Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, the contents of these pages are copyright of UKRO. Copyright also applies to all resources made available via the website, including (but not limited to), html documents, Word documents, PDF documents, images, and databases. Many of these resources can clearly be identified as being the copyright of a third party (e.g. the European Commission), and authorisation to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.

Personal use

Subject to the terms of this notice we permit you to make copies of this website in any format or medium for research, private study or for internal circulation within a subscribing organisation. This is subject to the material being reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. Where any of the UKRO copyright items on this site are being republished or copied to others within a subscribing organisation, the source of the material must be identified and the copyright status acknowledged.

The permission to reproduce UKRO material does not extend to any material on this site which can be identified as being the copyright of a third party. Authorisation to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.

Linking

You may link to us from your website. However you may not contain our pages within the frames of your site, in such a way as to pass off the material as your own.

External links

Many links in our website will lead to external websites over which we have no control. Although we endeavour to review the content of websites to which we provide links, we do not accept responsibility for the information contained in these websites. It is the responsibility of the user to make their own decisions about the accuracy, currency, reliability and correctness of information found at sites linked from this website.

The existence of external links do not represent an endorsement by UKRO of the site concerned, nor an endorsement by that site of UKRO.

Privacy

UKRO complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 with regard to the collection, processing, storage and disclosure of personal information.

UKRO may collect personal information from you via this website, for example, if you register with us for services, in order to receive news and announcements, to register for a training course, or when applying for jobs, and your information may be stored manually or electronically.

Certain information about your session on our site is collected automatically. This information is used only for system administration and for providing statistics to evaluate use of this site. This includes but may not be limited to:

  • the Internet domain or IP address from which you access our website;

  • the type of browser and operating system used to access our site;

  • the date and time you access our site;

  • the pages you visit;

  • We do not collect any additional personal information through the use of, for example, cookies. We do use session cookies to ensure that you are recognised when you move from page to page within the information services section and that any information you have entered is remembered. They are deleted once you close your browser or after a period of inactivity.

We do not make any personal information available to any third party. We may, for various reasons, collate information on enquiries, but no personal information will be included. We will include you on UKRO mailing lists only at your own request.

Contacts

For more details about this site, please contact UKRO via: ukro@bbsrc.ac.uk

Questions regarding the Privacy Policy, Copyright or the Freedom of Information Act should be addressed by e-mail to: cindy.mertens@bbsrc.ac.uk or by writing to:

Cindy Mertens
UKRO
Rue de la Loi 83 - Box 10
B-1040 Brussels
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