a) TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1. Introduction

Use by you of this web site ("nvqlearning.com") is conditional upon your acceptance of the following terms and conditions. Unless otherwise specified, your acceptance of this User Agreement shall be indicated by your use of and/or registration with nvqlearning.com which is provided by the Manley Summers Group at 26 Borough High Street London SE1 9QG and its suppliers ("we"/"our"/"us").

These terms and conditions and our Privacy Policy, (together comprising the “User Agreement”) form our entire agreement with you in respect of the non-chargeable use of nvqlearning.com and supersede any prior agreement with you in respect of nvqlearning.com. If a company name is included in your application for registration, then the User Agreement shall be between us and that company and accordingly unless the context otherwise requires, references to "you" and "your" in this User Agreement shall also be to that company. The purchase of services from us is subject to our Terms and Conditions of Purchase, copies of which are available from our offices or via e-mail upon request. If there are any significant updates to this User Agreement or to the Terms and Conditions of Purchase, we will bring this to your attention on the home page of nvqlearning.com.

2. Availability of nvqlearning.com

We will endeavour to ensure that nvqlearning.com is available 24 hours per day without any interruptions. However, we reserve the right to make nvqlearning.com unavailable at any time or to restrict access to parts or all of nvqlearning.com without notice. nvqlearning.com is a general information service. We will endeavour not to make it misleading, but we cannot guarantee that the information accessible on or via nvqlearning.com is accurate, not misleading, complete or up-to-date.

3. Use of nvqlearning.com

nvqlearning.com is designed for your personal, non-commercial use and you must not use it in any other way without our consent. Except as permitted under applicable law, you must not use, copy, translate, publish, licence or sell nvqlearning.com or any materials or information in nvqlearning.com or the structure, overall style and program code of nvqlearning.com without our consent.

4. Your contributions

You agree to only use nvqlearning.com for lawful purposes and you agree that any information you provide in connection with, or which forms part of nvqlearning.com will be, as far as you are aware, true and accurate and will not infringe any copyright or trade mark, or any right of privacy, publicity or personality or any other right, whether registered or unregistered, of any other nature or any person, or be obscene or libellous or blasphemous or defamatory and you agree to indemnify us against all claims, proceedings, damages, liabilities and costs, including legal costs arising out of your breach of this term. We cannot make any assurances about the information or contribution made by any other user and you should exercise caution before acting or otherwise relying upon any information you obtain via nvqlearning.com.

5. Viruses

We are unable to offer any guarantee that the contents of nvqlearning.com are free from viruses that have destructive or contaminating properties and shall therefore have no liability in respect thereof. We regularly check nvqlearning.com for viruses using the leading proprietary virus checking software.

6. Links

nvqlearning.com may include links to other internet sites. Without limiting what we say elsewhere, we make no representations or warranties about those sites or their content, nor that the links work.

7. Data protection

It is your responsibility to ensure that that you give us an accurate and valid e-mail address and other Contact details and tell us of any changes to them, however we cannot make any assurances about any other user you may meet using nvqlearning.com. We comply with all applicable Data Protection laws in the UK. For a description of how we use your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.

8. Intellectual property

nvqlearning.com, its style and structure, and the materials and information on it are protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights, and may not be used by you except as expressly provided in this User Agreement. The authors of the documents in nvqlearning.com assert their moral rights. You may not copy any of the contents of the site for business or commercial use.

9. Our liability

Since a substantial part of nvqlearning.com is both free and available to all, it is a condition that your use of nvqlearning.com is at your own risk. We shall not be liable to you or in breach of this User Agreement for any delay or failure to perform any obligation if the delay or failure is due to a cause beyond our reasonable control including, without limitation, the blocking or restricting of information to and/or from our network.

Information contained on this website including any information on recent market activity is given in good faith and we make all reasonable efforts to ensure its accuracy. However, we can give no representation or warranty in respect of such information and all such representations and warranties, whether express or implied, are excluded.

Except as expressly provided in this User Agreement, we disclaim any further representations, warranties, conditions or other terms, express or implied, by statute, collaterally or otherwise, including but not limited to implied warranties, conditions or other terms of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose or reasonable care and skill.

Save as provided below, we disclaim all and will not be liable in contract, tort (including, without limitation, negligence) or otherwise arising in connection with this User Agreement or nvqlearning.com for: (i) consequential, indirect or special loss or damage; or (ii) any loss of goodwill or reputation; or (iii) any economic losses (including loss of revenues, profits, contracts, business or anticipated savings), in each case, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such loss or damage and howsoever incurred.

Our maximum liability to you in contract, tort (including, without limitation, negligence) or otherwise arising in connection with this User Agreement or nvqlearning.com shall be limited to £50. Notwithstanding any other provision of this User Agreement, we will be liable to you without limit for any death or personal injury caused by our negligence and to the extent that liability arises under Part 1 or section 41 of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 and for liability arising from statements made fraudulently by us.

You agree to indemnify us and keep us indemnified against all costs, claims, expenses, losses, liabilities or proceedings arising against us from use or misuse by you of this site.

Nothing in this User Agreement affects your statutory rights as a consumer.

10. Termination

Either of us may terminate this User Agreement at any time. You may not transfer any of your rights or delegate any of your obligations under this User Agreement without our prior written consent.

11. Enforcement

If we fail to enforce any provision of this User Agreement, that failure will not preclude us from enforcing either that provision (or any similar provision) on a later occasion. Nothing in this User Agreement shall confer on any third party any benefit or the right to enforce any term of the User Agreement.

12. Jurisdiction

This User Agreement is governed by English law and any dispute connected with this agreement is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

13. Complaints

If you believe that your intellectual property or other rights are being infringed by nvqlearning.com, or if you are dissatisfied with any aspect of our service, please contact info@nvqlearning.com or 020 7403 8177.

b) PRIVACY POLICY

1. Data Protection

Manley Summers Group is committed to providing our candidates and clients with a secure and confidential service that conforms to our obligations under the provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998). Any information you submit to Manley Summers Group will only be used in accordance with the purposes stipulated in this document and will at no time be sold or distributed to third parties.

2. Clients

Company and/or personal information including your name, address, email address, phone number or any other information pertaining to you or your company will be stored on our system in order to provide us with an easy means of communicating with you and may be utilised in the following ways:

3. Candidates

Personal information including your name, address, email address, work and education history, skills, or any other information pertaining to your experience and/or education as well as sensitive information that we may be required to collect by law (which may include nationality, ethnic origin, religious beliefs and physical or mental health) will remain on our system in order to be utilised in the following ways:

Your CV may be available online to registered authenticated clients of Manley Summers Group in order to help promote you in an efficient manner but will not be made publicly available. Clients will not have access to your address or contact information without your prior permission.

We may also collect information in the aggregate in order to provide us with better overall information on the users of our website but this will not include personally identifiable data. Aggregate data may be shared with third parties but no individual information is disclosed.

4. Consent

By using this website, you consent to us processing your information for the purposes of providing you with our services and maintaining our records. You also consent to your data being disclosed to prospective employers or to any person, firm or company to whom we sell the whole or a substantial part of our business or to whom we may transfer any part of our rights or obligations. You also consent to the sharing of aggregate information with selected third parties.

5. Cookies

Cookies are small files that are sent to your browser and stored on your computer's hard disc. Whenever you visit nvqlearning.com and unless you elect not to receive cookies, then your computer will store an identifying code in the cookie that may mean you do not need to type in your email address each time you return to the site. Other than this, we do not store your password or any other information in the cookie, or use it for any other purpose. You can at any time set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie, giving you the opportunity to decide whether to accept it. You can also set your browser to turn off cookies.

At no time will your information be distributed to third parties (apart from Manley Summers Group clients) without your prior consent.

6. Opt-Out Policy

If at any time you wish to be removed from the Manley Summers Group database please email, telephone or write to us and we will remove all information about you on our system.

7. Changes to Privacy Policy

At present, the option of storing candidates CV's within our database exists, and at this time no option exists for third parties to access this database. If a decision is made to change this aspect of the site then we will seek your consent first. While all reasonable security measures have been implemented, we are unable to accept responsibility for intrusion by third parties acting illegally.

If Manley Summers Group amends its Privacy Policy the changes will be posted on this page, and if substantial may be published on the Home Page of this website or through e-mail notification. If you have any questions regarding this document or Data Protection or Privacy in general then please e-mail info@nvqlearning.com

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