Legal

Legal assertions and disclaimers for hertsdirect.org

Conditions of using hertsdirect.org

The Hertfordshire County Council website www.hertsdirect.org offers the public information and advice from its departments and with permission, from other organisations and Partners.
To this end, unless otherwise stated:

• the information on www.hertsdirect.org is the copyright of Hertfordshire County Council. You can read our Copyright declaration by selecting HCC at the end of the Information section.
• If you wish to link to our site you can seek permission by selecting the contact us facility. If we permit a link to be made, we will email you our logo. Unauthorised users of our logo will be asked to remove it.
• We display information containing names and contact numbers of people in our clubs, societies and organisational entries, but only in strict observance to the Data Protection Act 1998. Other information we hold and how we safeguard it, is contained in our Privacy Policy, which you can read by selecting Privacy
• Selecting Legal will enable you to read HCC's disclaimers.
• We have made an FOI link to the County Council's Publication Scheme which we are pleased to make publicly available under the Freedom of Information Act.

Links to Other Sites

www.hertsdirect.org contains links to other websites. Please be aware that the inclusion of links to other organisations and websites from any pages of hertsdirect.org does not constitute a recommendation or endorsement of that organisation or its website.

HCC is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of other sites, but you might encounter the use of session cookies and permanent cookies. For more information about cookies please see our section entitled Cookies in our Privacy Policy.

Links to hertsdirect.org

Users should not set up links from their own websites to any part of the Hertfordshire County Council website (whether by hypertext linking, deep-linking, framing, tagging or otherwise) without the prior written consent of Hertfordshire County Council. Any request for consent to link to the hertsdirect.org website should be sent by email to hertsdirect@hertscc.gov.uk. Hertfordshire County Council may, at its absolute discretion, and without providing a reason, grant or withhold such consent.

If we grant consent we will provide you with written consent and our logo to use as the link.

You should not assume that because you reached our website via a link from a third party site that the County Council has given its consent to such a link.

Virus Protection

Hertfordshire County Council takes protection against viruses very seriously and seeks to protect all its information with regularly updated virus checkers. We cannot guarantee that other websites which you may visit from www.hertsdirect.org will take the same rigorous precautions and it is therefore recommended that your home pc is protected by a virus checker and regularly updated.

Advertising on HertsDirect

While HCC makes every effort to check the legal status of advertisers, the appearance of any advertisement on hertsdirect.org, does not constitute a recommendation of any product, service or company by HCC.

Information provided in an advertisement or by the advertiser in connection with the advertisement does not constitute information or advice from the County Council or its partners. HCC, its employees and partners will not be responsible for any loss, however arising, from the use of, or reliance on the information contained in any advertisement.

The County Council reserves the right to decline advertising from companies which

• based on information available to the County Council's Trading Standards department, have unresolved complaints or court judgements against them
• it considers to be in breach of relevant advertising laws or codes of conduct or which may conflict with advice or guidance given by the County Council itself.

Disclaimer

Best endeavours are taken in the preparation of hertsdirect.org. Care is used to ensure that the information contained on it is accurate. However, no warranty or representation of satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement of title, whether express or implied, is given, nor is any warranty or representation given that the information and materials contained on this website are free from errors or inaccuracy.

To the extent permitted by applicable laws, no liability is accepted for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage however resulting from the access to and use of the hertsdirect.org website and the information and materials contained on it.