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balance has been designed by the Centre for Enterprise at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, funded through the European Social Fund. It is supported by SEDI (Social Enterprise Development Initiative), 3se (Third Sector Enterprises), Burnley Enterprise Trust Ltd, MPEN (Manchester Progressive Enterprise Network) and Nornir Ltd.

Acceptance of Terms and Conditions

The Centre for Enterprise makes the information on this website available for your use subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this document ("the Terms of Use"). By accessing and using this site you agree to the Terms of Use. If you breach any of the Terms of Use, your login name and password (see below) will be deactivated and authorisation to use this website will automatically terminate. In such cases you must immediately destroy or return to the Centre for Enterprise any materials downloaded or printed from the site. The Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

Use and Protection of Login Name and Password

When you register to use this site you will be provided with a login name and password. You must keep your login name and password confidential and must not disclose it to or share it with any third party. You are responsible for all uses of your account, whether or not actually or expressly authorised by you. If you know or suspect that someone else knows your password you should notify the Centre for Enterprise immediately. The Centre for Enterprise reserves the right to change your password if it believes that it is no longer secure.

Copyright Notice

The copyright and/or any other intellectual property rights in the material on this site reside at all times with the Centre for Enterprise’s funding body, the Centre for Enterprise or its nominee. You may view or download information from the site for personal, informational, internal, non-commercial purposes only. The information on the site may not be copied, modified, distributed or published in any other format without the express written permission of the Centre for Enterprise.

Disclaimer

balance provides suggestions for business improvement through incremental actions and steps, with the aim of promoting best practice in the sector. Whilst the Centre for Enterprise makes every effort to ensure that the website is up to date and accurate, it cannot give any warranty that this is the case. The Centre for Enterprise excludes to the fullest extent lawfully permitted all liability whatsoever for any loss or damage howsoever arising out of the use of this website or reliance upon the content of this website. The Centre for Enterprise does not exclude liability to you for personal injury or death resulting from its negligence, for fraud or for any matter which it would be illegal to exclude or to attempt to exclude.

"Use of this website" includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Reliance placed upon information on the site
• The downloading of materials from the site
• The accessing of other sites from links on this site
• In the case of downloading of virus materials it is your responsibility to ensure that material is virus checked by up to date virus software.

This website contains links to other third party websites. These links are used to provide further information and are not intended to signify that the Centre for Enterprise endorses such websites and/or their content. The Centre for Enterprise takes no responsibility for any loss or damage suffered as a result of using any information published on any of the pages on the linked third party websites.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold the Centre for Enterprise harmless against all claims, demands, costs and expenses arising whether directly or indirectly from your breach of the Terms of Use or any liability which you incur for the Centre for Enterprise through your use of any of the information on this website.

Privacy/Data Protection

The Centre for Enterprise is committed to protecting the privacy of users of this website and the confidentiality of any personal information which subscribers may provide to us.

The Centre for Enterprise will comply with its obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998 in all dealings with any personal information which subscribers may provide us with. The Centre for Enterprise confirms that:

• It will never sell personal information or share it with third parties without the explicit consent of the individual concerned; and
• To the extent that individuals provide the Centre for Enterprise with personal information as part of an information or service request through this website, the Centre for Enterprise will only use the data to process that request.