Privacy

SCDC, which developed this site on behalf of Argyll & Bute Council, takes your privacy seriously.  We may use this site to maintain a list of e-mail addresses for distribution of our e-newsletters and bulletins.  This is used solely by SCDC and is never passed to any third party.

This site contains links to other websites of interest. SCDC is not responsible for the content of any third party website or website to which we have links or for the privacy or security practices of such websites.

SCDC may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

Terms & conditions

Please read these conditions of use carefully as by using this website you will be taken to have agreed to be bound by them.

This website is operated by Scottish Community Development Centre, a company limited by guarantee (Company Number SC361532) and having its registered office at Suite 305 Baltic Chambers, 50 Wellington Street, Glasgow, G2 6HJ  (“SCDC”).  SCDC takes reasonable care to ensure that information published on the website is accurate when posted and regularly updated, but does not warrant or guarantee its accuracy and may change the information or content at any time without notice.  The information and content in this website is not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed.  SCDC disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any user of this website, or by anyone who may be informed of its content. 

To the extent permitted by law, SCDC expressly excludes (a) all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity; (b) any liability for direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with this website or in connection with the use of, or inability to use, this website including, without limitation, any liability for loss of profits, loss of contracts or business opportunities, loss of anticipated savings, loss of income or revenue, loss of business, loss of data, loss of goodwill, loss of time, or any other loss or damage arising by breach of contract, in delict, or otherwise, even when such loss may be reasonably foreseeable or SCDC has been informed that it may arise.  Nothing in these Terms & Conditions shall limit or exclude SCDC’s liability for death or personal injury arising from its negligence, nor its liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, nor any other mater that can be excluded by any applicable law.

SCDC is not responsible for the content of any other website from which you have accessed the website or to which you may link to from the website. SCDC will not be held responsible for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger or inaccuracy contained in any information therein. SCDC cannot be held liable for any loss or damage you incur as a result of your use of any other site from which link to or from the SCDC website.

SCDC reserves the right to block or remove communications or materials from this website that are determined to be abusive, defamatory or obscene; fraudulent, deceptive, or misleading; in violation of any copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property right of SCDC or any  third party; or which is offensive or otherwise unacceptable to SCDC at its sole discretion.

SCDC shall have no liability to you for any interruption or delay in access to this website irrespective of the cause. The information, images and content contained on this website is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights. All rights reserved. Images, trade marks and brands are also protected by other intellectual property laws and may not be reproduced or appropriated in any manner without written permission of the relevant owner.  

Any copying, republication or redistribution of such content by framing or similar means is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of the relevant copyright owner. Unless specifically prohibited by a notice published on any page, you may view and display the contents of those website on your internet browser; download or make a print copy of such parts of the website as you may reasonably require for your own personal use use or for the use of your community group or similar non-commercial organisation and not for any commercial or business purposes whatsoever, provided that any copy has attached to it any relevant proprietary notices and/or disclaimers. Pages may be reproduced for the purpose of research or private study. All other use is strictly prohibited. You must not use any part of the information, images and content contained on this website for commercial purposes without first obtaining a licence to do so from SCDC or, where applicable, the relevant copyright or other intellectual property right owner.  Nothing in these Terms & Conditions shall confer on you any licence or ownership of any copyright or other intellectual property rights.

Some of the information, images and content contained on this website is supplied to SCDC by third parties.  SCDC requests that these third parties only supply such information, images and content if they either own or have obtained the consent of the owner of the copyright or any other intellectual property rights to allow SCDC to display  such information, images and content on this website. However, if you believe you are the owner of the copyright or any other intellectual property rights in any information, images or content that appears on this website, or if you believe your rights are being infringed in any other way by anything on this website, then please contact SCDC and provide full details including:

  1. your name, address, telephone number and email address;

  2. the specific URL(s) at which the content complained of is located; and

  3. evidence to support and evidence your assertion that you are the owner of the copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property rights in such information, images or content,  or your assertion that your other rights may have been infringed   

You may not misuse this website or knowingly introduce viruses, trojans, worms or any other harmful code to this website.  You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to this website or SCDC’s computer systems or to bypass any security.  To do so may be a breach of the Computer Misuse Act 1990.

If any provision of these Terms & Conditions is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of the provisions shall continue in full force and effect and shall be construed as if such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions had never been contained herein but shall be interpreted in such a manner as to achieve the general aim of such provision but without being invalid, illegal or unenforceable. 

SCDC may revise these Terms & Conditions from time to time and you are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes made.

These Terms & Conditions shall be governed by the laws of Scotland and Scottish Courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction to hear any disputes.