Terms & conditions

Effective as of January 1, 2004 Introduction

Blue Cube Business - Legal notice and liability disclaimer

The proprietor of this site (www.bluecubebusiness.com), is Blue Cube Business ("BCB").

For the purposes of the Liability Disclaimer below, "information" includes (without limitation) any statement of fact or opinion, advice, data, documents or computer readable material in any form whatsoever.

Liability disclaimer
In preparing this site, we have endeavoured to offer current, correct and clearly expressed information. However, since inadvertent errors can occur and since relevant laws and regulations often change, the information may be neither current nor accurate.

Further, the information contained on this site is intended to provide general guidance on matters of interest. Nothing on this site constitutes professional advice, nor does any information on this site constitute a comprehensive or complete statement of the issues discussed.

No action should be taken or omitted to be taken in reliance upon information on this site. Users should obtain specific professional advice concerning specific matters and BCB accepts no responsibility for any loss resulting from reliance on any information contained on this site or in respect of any information on any other sites to which this site may be linked. None of the above shall be taken to exclude liability for fraud or for negligence causing death or personal injury.

Blue Cube Business - Copyright notice
This site (www.bluecubebusiness.com) and all the information and all graphic representations or images on it belong to Blue Cube Business ("BCB") in the absence of any contrary indication. Copyright and all intellectual property rights in any information and any graphics on this site or relating to it are vested in BCB and reserved, subject to any contrary indication. No part of the text or graphics on this site may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical or otherwise, including by photocopying, facsimile transmission, recording, re-keying or using any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from BCB. "Information" includes (without limitation) any statement of fact or opinion, advice, data, documents or computer readable material in any form whatsoever.

Blue Cube Business - Privacy policy
Blue Cube Business has developed this Internet Privacy Policy in order to assist in its position as a trusted business advisor and to ensure it upholds and maintains visitors' rights to privacy in the online environment.

Blue Cube Business ("BCB") is the data controller, as defined by the UK Data Protection Act 1998, collecting the information obtained by this web site, (www.bluecubebusiness.com), for specified purposes as outlined below.

Data collection & purpose
BCB will only collect and use personal data voluntarily provided by visitors to this site. Visitors are able to browse the site without disclosing any personal information. BCB, for the purposes of this site, will never collect and use information from other sources such as public bodies or private organisations. A visitor to the site may choose to provide BCB with limited personal data as required in order to register for certain services. Once registered the information will only be used for the specified service(s).

Visitors to this site can register for one or more of the following: 

• General contact with BCB
• Register for events and conferences
• Participate in online polls and benchmarking surveys.

Disclosure to third parties

We will only disclose your personal details for the following reasons:

• Where the transfer is necessary to fulfil your request and involves a third party organisation with which BCB has a relationship - see "Third Party Links" below
• When explicitly requested by a visitor
• As required by a court order or any other legal or regulatory requirement.

BCB does not collect or compile personal data or information obtained by its site for dissemination or sale to outside parties for consumer marketing purposes or host mailings on behalf of third parties.

BCB does not intentionally collect any sensitive information via the web site unless legally required to do so, eg, for recruiting purposes. Sensitive information includes race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or other beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, sexual life or criminal records. We would suggest that you do not provide information of this nature but by doing so you will be deemed as providing your explicit consent which will enable BCB to use the information for the specified purpose for which it was supplied. 

Data Amendments and Retention
Information collected from visitors to the site will only be kept in order to provide the required service. Once the service has been completed all information will be destroyed in accordance with BCB's data retention policies. Should you require your information to be updated, amended or deleted from our records please contact us at info@bluecubebusiness.com outlining your requirements.

Access
Under the UK Data Protection Act 1998 visitors to this site are entitled to a copy of their personal data held by BCB on payment of a fee. For further information please contact us at info@bluecubebusiness.com.

Security
BCB has implemented accepted standards of technical measures and security policies that protect the personal data it has under its control from:

• Unauthorised access
  
• Improper use or disclosure
  
• Unauthorised modification
  
• Unlawful destruction or accidental loss.

Measurement on www.bluecubebusiness.com
At BCB, we have focused on implementing fair information practices that are designed to protect your privacy. We are also keen to understand better what our visitors most appreciate on our site, and the sections and pages they deem of most interest. This will allow us to gear www.bluecubebusiness.com to the preference of our general audience.

To this effect, BCB uses software to measure and analyse visitor information related to www.bluecubebusiness.com. For that purpose, we collect web traffic data and data related to your browser type and PC - on the basis of your IP Address. We will not use that data to identify you personally.

Cookies are also used in this context. "Cookies" is a name for a technology that allows our site to store tokens of information in your browser, to give your browser an identifier used only by our site while you are on our site, but not to identify you. Cookies help us track traffic patterns in the aggregate so that we know what areas of our site users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. Cookies also help to prevent registration of multiple votes to any polls and surveys that may be run via the site, thus avoiding distorted results. We do not link personal data to the information contained in the cookie to determine or track the identity of any user on www.bluecubebusiness.com.

If you do not want to receive a cookie from ey.com or any other site, you have the option of setting your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, allowing you to determine whether to accept it or not.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding to our measurement activities and how they impact your privacy while using www.bluecubebusiness.com, please contact us at info@bluecubebusiness.com.

Children
The BCB site covered by this privacy statement is not intended for use by children. We understand the importance of protecting children's information, especially in an online environment, and we do not knowingly collect or maintain information about children.

Detailed Use of Data

Registering to be updated by e-mail on topics you select
BCB's web site contains a facility where visitors can register to be notified by e-mail from time to time about new developments in topic areas they select. The information we request when you register comprises of your name, position, organisation, location and e-mail address. This information is held on a secure database in the UK and is visible only to a small number of BCB's personnel. No one else can access the information without your password. Once registered you can access the information held, update your details or unsubscribe at any time by logging in with your e-mail address at www.bluecubebusiness.com If you unsubscribe all your information will be removed from our database, normally within 24 hours, after which you will receive no further e-mails from this system.

When you register you can give permission for the information you supply to be used in a number of ways, all of which are stated on the registration page. Currently personal data can only be used for:

• Keeping you up to date on the topics you select
• Informing you of new topics when they are added - but only if you have opted for this service on the registration form.

In addition we may analyse the information as a whole for internal research purposes - for example, to see what proportion of registrants hold particular positions or how many are located in a certain region. We will not use your data for any other purpose without your permission, nor will we disclose it to any third party (except as may be required by a court or for any other legal process). Please do not register if you do not accept these conditions.

Expressing an interest in working for Blue Cube Business,
or applying for a job
The careers section of the BCB website enables you to register your interest in working for BCB or apply for advertised vacancies. If you decide to register we will assume that, by doing so, you are signalling your agreement for BCB to use, hold and destroy any personal data you supply for the purpose of considering your application in accordance with our standard recruitment procedures.

• We may wish to retain your details on file for up to the next 12 months and notify you of any suitable vacancies that arise. You would then have the opportunity to apply for these vacancies if you wished to do so.
• We may use your personal data for the purposes of research relating to the improvement of our recruitment and HR policies and practices.

Please do not register if you do not accept these conditions.

Online surveys
In order to avoid distorting the results of surveys run via this site, due to multiple registration of votes, it may be necessary to identify, with the use of a cookie, limited personal data such as your e-mail address. The information identified by the cookie is not linked to any personal data provided as a result of participating in the study. More comprehensive information will be provided to individuals in the detailed guidance produced for each particular surveys.

Please note that www.bluecubebusiness.com contains links to other which are not governed by this privacy statement.