SPOTcheck

Terms of Use

Access to and use of this site is provided to you by Oak Tree Press, subject to the following terms and conditions. Please read these carefully. By accessing the site you are agreeing to the terms that appear below which take effect from the date on which you first access the site, and may change subsequently. If you cannot accept these Terms and Conditions in full, you should cease using this site immediately.

Purpose
The purpose of the SPOTcheck website is to allow entrepreneurs to self-assess (and consultants or enterprise support agencies to assess) the growth potential of their business and the areas where intervention (training, new staff with new skills, further finance, etc) is required for successful growth.

Copyright
This site is owned and operated by Oak Tree Press. All material on the website belongs to Oak Tree Press and/or third parties and all rights including copyright and database rights in this website are owned by or licensed to Oak Tree Press or otherwise used by Oak Tree Press in accordance with the applicable law.

The names, images and logos identifying SPOTcheck, Oak Tree Press or third parties and their products/services are proprietary marks of Oak Tree Press and/or third parties. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring by implication, or otherwise any licence or right to use any trade mark of Oak Tree Press, and/or third party.

Prohibited uses
Except with the written permission of Oak Tree Press or as necessary to access and print a copy of this website for personal, non-commercial use, you agree not to copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, frame in another web page, use on any other website or networked computer environment, transfer, or sell any content or information on this website save as permitted by the relevant sections of the Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000.

You agree not to use this site or any content contained in it for any illegal or inappropriate activities. You agree to comply with all applicable laws, statutes, ordinances, and regulations regarding your use of this website. You agree that you will not use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this website. You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure.

You agree that you will not create links from any web site or web page to any page within this website with the exception of the homepage of this website, currently located at http://www.spotcheckonline.com. You agree that if you create any link to this website that you will not employ any technology that results in the placement of content from this website in a frame and/or a reduced pop-up window.

Accuracy
As a user of this website, you agree that this site and information, names, images, pictures, logos contained in this site relating to Oak Tree Press and or to any third parties their products and their services are provided to you strictly "AS IS" and strictly on an "IS AVAILABLE" basis without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory of quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility and accuracy. The material provided through this site is for information only and does not constitute financial advice.

Limitations of Liability
As a user of this website, you accept that neither Oak Tree Press nor any third parties who may provide information to Oak Tree Press for the purposes of this website accept any responsibility or liability of any nature wheresoever arising from either the content of or the use by any party of the site or of any information contained or accessible therein.

In no event will Oak Tree Press be liable for any damages including without limitation indirect or consequential damages, or any damages whatsoever arising from use or loss of use, data, or profits whether in action of contract, negligence or other tortious action arising out of or connection with the use of this website or the SPOTcheck model. Users should take professional advice before making any commitment.

Oak Tree Press does not warrant that the functions contained in the material contained in the site will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this website or the server that makes it available are free of bugs or viruses.

This site contains links to other sites. Oak Tree Press is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

Reserved rights
Oak Tree Press reserves the right to prohibit use of any robot, spider, or other automatic device to monitor or copy this website or the content contained herein.

Oak Tree Press reserves the right at any time to alter the terms by posting the changes on this page. You are responsible for reviewing regularly information posted online to obtain notice of such changes and your continued use of the site following the posting of those changes constitutes your acceptance of this agreement as modified by those changes.

Oak Tree Press reserves the right at any time to revise, amend, alter or delete the information provided on this website.

Oak Tree Press reserves the right at any time to temporarily or permanently cease publication of this website. In such event, Oak Tree Press will accept no liability to any user in respect of information stored on a database or otherwise within the website.

Oak Tree Press reserves the right in its sole discretion to terminate your access to and use of this website, or any part thereof, with or without notice at any time.

Jurisdiction
The laws of Ireland apply to this Agreement. You agree that any action at law or equity arising out of or relating to this Agreement shall be filed only in the courts. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be unenforceable, then such provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision, and the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect. The failure of Oak Tree Press to exercise its rights under this Agreement will not be deemed to constitute a waiver of any such rights, or other rights or remedies available to Oak Tree Press. Unless you have executed or agreed to another written agreement with Oak Tree Press for a particular service, this Agreement and Oak Tree Press' privacy policy (see below, which is incorporated herein) is the entire understanding between you and Oak Tree Press regarding the operation and use of this website and the services offered on this website.

Privacy Statement
Oak Tree Press takes the privacy of its users seriously.

While registration is essential to the functioning of this website, no data will be disclosed about any individual company and any information provided for the purposes of benchmarking comparisons will be in aggregate form only, except to the orginiator of such data.The information collected when a user signs up for a service can include an e-mail address and name. You must provide Oak Tree Press with accurate, complete registration information and it is your responsibility to inform Oak Tree Press of any change to that information.

When ever you provide such personal information, Oak Tree Press shall hold your personal information on its systems for as long as you use the service you have requested. All personal information provided to Oak Tree Press shall be held in accordance with Oak Tree Press's obligations under the Data Protection Act, 1988.

Oak Tree Press will not disclose a user's personally identifiable information to any third party without the user's express permission.

Certain online purchase options on require users to give us financial information (such as their credit card numbers), and demographic information (such as their address etc.). Financial information that is collected is used solely to bill the user for products and services.

We use your IP address, log user agents and referring address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our Web site and to identify unique users. Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic information.

Oak Tree Press may perform statistical analyses of user behavior in order to measure interest in the various areas of our site (for product development purposes)

If you are under 18, please ensure that you obtain your parent/guardian's permission before you provide personal information to the site. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

Given that the Internet is a global environment, using the Internet to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis. Therefore, by using this site and communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree to our processing of personal data in this way.

Further information on your data privacy rights are available on the website of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner. http://www.dataprivacy.ie/2.htm

Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Oak Tree Press cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

Comments and Feedback
Oak Tree Press welcomes your comments and feedback regarding this site. However, we do not want and cannot accept any ideas, materials, or suggestions you consider being confidential or proprietary. Accordingly, all comments, feedback, ideas, suggestions, and other similar submissions disclosed, submitted, or offered to Oak Tree Press using this site or otherwise (collectively, "Submissions") are not confidential and will become and remain the property of Oak Tree Press.

Further Information
If you have any questions, concerns or comments regarding these Terms and Conditions, our Privacy Statement or the operation or use of this site, please contact us by email.

Acknowledgement
When the SPOTcheck model, this site or any of its content is referred to in any medium, we ask that full acknowledgement be given to Oak Tree Press.