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These terms and conditions regulate the legal effects of how you use this website or utilise any of the Services accessed via this website. 

By using this website in any way, registering for the Great British Businesswoman Series or any of our other services or utilising any of the Services accessed via this website, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.

Services

The Services include the following:

The Great British Businesswoman Series;
Webinars;
Any other service provided through this website from time to time.
(collectively “the Services”)

Third Party Sponsors
Our ability to provide access to the Services free of charge is due to the participation of commercial sponsors (“our Sponsors”) who may provide content of their own which is accessible via this website.

These terms and conditions shall, to the extent applicable, also govern your relationship with our Sponsors and, in particular, all indemnities and all exemptions from and limitations of liability contained herein shall likewise apply to the benefit of our Sponsors as well as Ideas Forums.

Intellectual Property / Utilisation of this website and the Services
For the purposes of this Clause:

“Content” includes, but is not limited to, all or part of any text, graphics, layout, logos, images, audio material, films or other moving images, product details and/or software published or otherwise available on this website or as part of the Services from time to time (including, without limitation, anything made available for download);

“Intellectual Property” means any trademarks, logos and service marks (whether or not registered) displayed on this website and any copyright vesting in any of the Content.

We are the owner or the licensee of all Intellectual Property rights in this website and the Content. Subject to these terms and conditions and to any specific terms and conditions stipulated in relation to any particular part of the Content or Intellectual Property, we grant you a limited, temporary, revocable, and non-exclusive license to access, browse and use this website, the Content and Intellectual Property for your personal and non-commercial use only.

While accessing, browsing and/or using this website you must:
comply with all applicable laws, regulations and codes;
not impersonate another person or use a false name or email address;
not deep-link to and/or frame or use framing techniques to enclose this website or any part of this website without our prior written consent;
not modify or attempt to modify all or any part of the Content or this website;
not gain or attempt to gain unauthorised access to this website, the server on which this website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to this website;
not post, transmit, submit, refer to, make available or link to or from (or authorise or permit any other person to do the same) any material which:
is untrue, fraudulent, inaccurate or incomplete; and/or
is obscene, threatening, menacing, offensive, defamatory, abusive, causes annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety, is in breach of confidence, in breach of any intellectual property right (including, without limitation, copyright) or otherwise is in breach of or violates any applicable law or regulation or code, and/or
makes excessive demands for bandwidth; and/or
constitutes advertising (unless approved or otherwise authorised by us); and/or
contains any virus or other harmful code, or which may otherwise impair or harm this website or our computer systems or any third party computer system, and we shall have sole discretion as to whether any material is in breach of this clause.

Except as set out in the limited licence in this Clause 5 or as required by law, the Content, Intellectual Property and/or any other part of this website may not be used, reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, accessed, modified, or otherwise exploited, in full or in part, for any purpose without our prior written consent. In particular, you are not permitted to republish any part of this website (including the Content) on another website, in any other medium (print, electronic or otherwise) or as part of any commercial service without our prior written permission which may be withheld without reason having to be given.
At any time and without giving you any advance notice, we may permanently or temporarily and for any reason:
terminate, suspend or deny your access to this website (whether in whole or in part);
terminate, suspend or deny you access to the Content or the registration areas of this website;
remove or edit any Content on this website at any time, and in such circumstances all liability of Ideas Forums, its directors, employees or other representatives for any loss whatsoever arising from our removing or editing Content and/or your limited use of or inability to use this website (either in whole or in part), email services and/or password is excluded, insofar as it is possible to do so in law.

Data Protection and Privacy

Full details of the way in which we use cookies on this website and how we hold and process personal data are set out in our privacy policy.

Third party links

This website contains hypertext links to third party websites.

We are not responsible for, nor do we endorse in any way, such third party websites or their content.

If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to this website, you do so entirely at your own risk.

Advertising and Sponsorship

Parts of this website contain advertising and sponsorship.

Advertisers and our Sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on this website complies with all legal and regulatory requirements and does not contain any material which is objectionable including, without limit, information which is defamatory, obscene, threatening or untrue.

We are not responsible for any such material or any error or inaccuracy contained in such material and any issues which you may have should be raised directly with the relevant advertisers or our Sponsors.

Third-party trademarks and copyrighted material are used with the permission of their respective owners.

Disclaimers, Exclusions and Limitations of Liability

No representations, warranties or terms of any kind are given or to be implied as to satisfactory quality, conformity to contract, accuracy, adequacy, conformity to description or fitness for any particular purpose or that this website and/or the Services are free of defects.

Ideas Forums, its directors, employees, agents or other representatives and our Sponsors shall not be liable for any error or omission or for any loss or damage whatsoever including, without limitation, consequential losses of any nature, whether arising in contract, tort or otherwise, arising out of the utilisation of this website or the Services or from any disruption or non-availability of this website or the Services due to any cause whatsoever.

Ideas Forums, its data providers and affiliates and our Sponsors gives no warranty or guarantee relating to availability of this website or our operation of it, or that the Content or the server that makes this website available are error or virus free or free of other harmful components or that your use of this website and/or the Content will be uninterrupted.

In the event that any of the disclaimers, exclusions or limitations contained herein are found to be unlawful, invalid or otherwise unenforceable, either in whole or in part, such the disclaimer, exclusion or limitation shall be deemed severed from these terms to the extent of such invalidity and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining the disclaimers, exclusions or limitations.

Indemnity

You will indemnify and will keep indemnified Ideas Forums, its data providers and affiliates and our Sponsors on demand against all claims, costs, proceedings, demands, losses, damages, expenses (including legal expenses) or liability whatsoever arising directly or indirectly as a result of:
any breach of these terms and conditions by you; or
your fault, negligence or breach of statutory duty; or
your use of software or extraction tools, or any other action you take that imposes an unreasonable burden or load on this website.

General

All notices shall be given by e-mail to us at hello@ideasforums.com or, to you at either the e-mail or postal address you provide during the registration process (if any). Notice will be deemed received 24 hours after e-mail is sent or 3 days after the date of posting.

These terms and conditions (together with any variations to them pursuant to section 12) form the entire agreement between the parties concerning your access to, browsing and/or use of this website and supersede all prior agreements, arrangements, understandings and representations made between us (whether written or oral) concerning this website.

If the whole or any part of any provision of these terms and conditions is or becomes invalid, void or unenforceable for any reason the same shall to the extent required to be severed from these terms and conditions and rendered ineffective so far as is possible without modifying the remaining provisions of these terms and conditions and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of any other provisions.

No waiver by Ideas Forums of any breach of these terms and conditions shall constitute a waiver of any other prior or subsequent breach and Ideas Forums shall not be affected by any delay, failure or omission to enforce or express forbearance granted in respect of any of your obligations.

These terms and conditions and/or your use of this website shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and the English Courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute which may arise.

Changes to these Terms and Conditions

We reserve the right to change these terms and conditions at any time by uploading amended terms and conditions to this website.

Any changes shall be effective immediately upon uploading to this website provided that, in the event of any conflict between these terms and conditions and any prior versions thereof, the provisions of the updated terms and conditions shall prevail unless it is expressly stated otherwise.

Your continued use of this website or utilisation of the Services constitutes your agreement to all such amended terms and conditions.

Ideas Forums Ltd

01 February 2021

Email: hellogbbw@ideasforums.com

This website is owned and operated by Ideas Forums Ltd (“Ideas Forums”), a company registered in England and Wales with company registration number 11428044 and having its registered office at The Cottages, Jones Court, Womanby Street, Cardiff, Wales, CF10 1BR.

These terms and conditions regulate the legal effects of how you use this website or any linked websites and web/native apps (collectively “the Websites”) or utilise any of our services accessed via the Websites. By using the Websites in any way, setting up an account or utilising any of our services accessed via the Websites, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.

Ideas Forums Ltd believes in respecting your privacy. We do not collect any personally identifiable data from visitors to this website other than when you subscribe to any of our services. The basis on which we collect such data and other relevant information are set out in our Data Privacy Notice below.

We explain below how we analyse data from this website. Any links to external sites are out of our control and we encourage you to always read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.

Visits to our websites

We use a third-party service, Strikingly, to host our website. The security of the website is protected by industry standard encryption processes (SSL encryption).

For more information about how Strikingly secures and processes data, please see Strikingly's privacy policy. We have no legal means of finding out the identities of persons visiting our website and do not make any attempt to do so.

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Our Policy

The UK Data Protection Act 2018 (“DPA”) as read with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) give individuals enhanced rights over the use of their personal data.  Ideas Forums Limited respects your privacy and is the controller of your personal data for the purposes of this privacy policy.  In this privacy policy, we explain the legal basis on which we process personal data, the purposes for which we use personal data, how we use and protect personal data and what your rights are.

The Great British Businesswoman Series brand is owned by Ideas Forums Ltd.

How we collect your personal data

When you join our community or register for the Great British Businesswoman Series or any of our other services, we will request certain personal information from you necessary for processing your registration, running the Awards or other services and keeping you informed.  Our legal basis for processing your personal data for these purposes is consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR).

How we use your personal data

We use your personal data which you have supplied us with or will supply to us for the following purposes:

To run, organise and operate the Great British Businesswoman Series and/or our other services, as applicable
To bring you news and information about the Great British Businesswoman series, our partners and our other services
To provide you with further information about Great British Businesswoman series initiatives and our other services 

You are able at any time to unsubscribe from our communications by following the unsubscribe link in any emails we send you or by emailing a request to unsubscribe to us at: hello@greatbritishbusinesswoman.co.uk

Cookies

We use a number of different cookies for various purposes, including enhancing website functionality. These cookies are all strictly necessary for the running of the website. We do not use cookies for collecting personal data or analytics or marketing purposes.

Protection of your personal information

We will not share your personal data with third parties except in the following circumstances:

We use certain third-party processors for the purpose of delivering our services and will give them access to your personal data where this is necessary for delivering those services.  Our processors are contractually bound by contract to keep your personal data confidential and secure and to comply with our instructions regarding your data

Where you register for a specific event, such as a webinar, we may share your data with the sponsor of that event, but this would only be with your specific consent given at the time of registration

We will take all reasonable and necessary technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data.

We do not ourselves transfer your personal data outside of the UK.  However, certain of our data processors may do so and where this occurs, we will ensure that such transfer is properly authorised.

Any links to external sites are out of our control and we encourage you to always read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.

Data retention

In accordance with the principle of minimising data retention, we will retain your personal data only for so long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was acquired, subject to legal and other relevant requirements, in accordance with our data retention policy, as follows:

Data acquired for contractual purposes – 7 years
Data acquired for the purposes of the Great British Businesswoman Series – 2 years from the end of the year of entry
Data acquired for any other services or purposes – such period as is appropriate in the circumstances
At the expiry of the relevant period, personal data will be deleted or anonymised.

Your rights

Your rights under the DPA/GDPR include the following:

The right at any time to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data
The right to be informed of what personal data of yours we hold, how we obtained it and how long we intend to keep it
The right to have your personal data rectified in the event that it is inaccurate or incomplete

The right to request the erasure of your personal data (also called the right to be forgotten)

The right to restrict the processing of your personal data

The right to data portability (i.e. transfer of your personal data to another organisation)

Your rights above can be exercised free of charge by:

Sending an email to hello@greatbritishbusinesswoman.co.uk ; or
By telephoning 0845 5000 328 and asking for somebody from the team.

In certain cases, we will need to satisfy ourselves of your identity before we can action a request under the DPA/GDPR.

If you feel that any of your rights have been infringed, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Sharing your data with our partners and sponsors

We work with a wide range of industry related sponsors and partners. If you register for an event, webinar, award programme or download our content, we may share your personal data with the sponsors of the that campaign or event. This processing is carried out based on our legitimate business interests. Being able to share the data relating to our attendees with our partners and sponsors allows us to grow and develop our business.
The way in which our sponsors and partners use your personal data is their responsibility only, and details will be set out in their own privacy notices. Please ensure that you read and are happy with such notices. If you would prefer for us not to share your data with our sponsors or partners, please email entries@greatbritishentrepeneurawards.com after each registration.

Get in touch

If you have any queries, please get in touch with the team on 0845 5000 328 or email: hello@greatbritishbusinesswoman.co.uk

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to make changes from time to time to our Privacy Policy which will be effective from the time that they are published on this website.

Ideas Forums Limited

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London

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7 October 2021