Terms of use
This site shares the same accessibility, privacy, disclaimer and copyright terms as the main Department for Business, Innovation and Skills website, with the following additions and amendments:
Disclaimer
BIS accepts no responsibility for the content of external sites linked from this website, and linking should not be taken as endorsement of any kind. Published comments submitted by users of this website are not statements of official policy.
Privacy
Subscribing to email updates or commenting via this site requires you voluntarily to submit personal data. Commenting consists of your specified username and optional website address which will be visible to other users of the site, and your email and IP addresses which will not. The information is held solely for the purpose of providing access to this service, and to contact you about your use of the service. We do not pass on any of your personal information on to third parties and data will be held only for as long as needed, up to a maximum of one year.
Copyright
User-submitted material (the content of user comments) is not subject to Crown Copyright, and may not be reproduced by third parties without the permission of its author. By submitting material, you grant BIS the right to reproduce, publish and broadcast it. This right is non-exclusive, and you are not prevented from re-using your own submitted material elsewhere. You retain copyright in your work.
