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The use of this website is governed by the terms and conditions below. Please read them carefully as by using the site you indicate your acceptance of them.. Before using the site we recommend that you carefully read these terms and conditions.

Data Protection

The Ethics Foundation Ltd. complies with its obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998 relating to the holding of personal data. Where we hold data about you we will only use this for the purposes you have agreed to.

You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold on you in return for the payment of a small fee and to require us to correct any inaccuracies in the personal data.

If you ask us to email you information that is personal or confidential, we may need to ask you for extra information to check your identify and to give your authority to send that information to you.

Privacy Statement

The information collected by us will be used only for the purposes stated by us and agreed by you.
Information disclosed for the purposes of the Directory of Values Statements will be publicly available.

Unless you ask otherwise, we may also send you emails about our latest news and services. We will always give you the choice of whether to receive these emails. If you communicate with us by email, we may keep your email, together with your email address and our reply, for our business records

We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information to others. We may give general statistics about our customers, sales, and related site information to other companies. These statistics will not include any information that personally identifies you, unless we have said otherwise in this policy.

We may also collect information about using our website to show us which parts of our site are most commonly used and those that we may need to develop to make it easier for you to use. We cannot identify individuals from this information.

Liability for Web Site Availability and Content

Whilst the Ethics Foundation has taken all reasonable steps to ensure that the information contained within the pages of this site is accurate and current, and complies with the relevant legislation and regulations as at the date of issue, no warranty is given and no representation is made regarding the accuracy of or completeness of the content of this site. Consequently, the Ethics Foundation accepts no liability for any losses or damages (whether direct, indirect, special, consequential or otherwise) arising out of errors or omissions contained in this website.

The Ethics Foundation does not verify the validity of the information provided in the Directory of values statements, which is input directly by the individual representing themselves or their organisation or company. The statements are the declared policies, opinions and actions of the Directory entrant, and do not necessarily represent the Foundation’s views. If you disagree with any of the published statements, you are invited to contact the Directory entrant directly.

The links to other sites on the Internet are purely to allow you access to more information on related topics. The Ethics Foundation does not necessarily own or control such sites and so accepts no responsibility for information contained in any such other sites or for the fact that such sites may not be available at all times. Please note that when accessing another site by way of a hypertext link you may leave the Ethics Foundation site.

Furthermore, no warranty is given that this site shall be available on an uninterrupted basis and no liability can be accepted in respect of losses or damages arising out of such unavailability. In addition, no liability can be accepted in respect of losses or damages arising out of changes made to the content of this site by unauthorised third parties.

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You may store, manipulate, analyse, reformat, print and display the content of this site solely for your own personal use, or for commercial use with our written permission.