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This website is produced by Wellcome Connecting Science Courses and Conferences, a programme governed by the registered charity and legal entity Genome Research Limited (GRL).

Access to and use of this site is subject to the following conditions:

1. You accept the following Terms and Conditions, which take effect on the date of your first use of the site;
2. We reserve the right to change the Terms and Conditions at any time.

We endeavour to make this site as useful as possible to our visitors. Please use the contact page if you have queries, want to suggest improvements or report deficiencies.

Terms and conditions

The material contained in this website is provided for general purposes only and, as such, should not be considered as a substitute for advice covering any specific situation.

Although we make reasonable efforts to ensure that the information is accurate and up to date at the time of inclusion, Genome Research Limited accepts no responsibility for loss arising from reliance on information contained in this site or other sites that may be linked to from our site.

We do not endorse or recommend commercial products, processes or services and no such conclusion should be drawn from content provided in or linked from this website.

Links to other internet sites are provided only for the convenience of users of our website. We are not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

We endeavour to maintain this site but do not warrant that the site will be continuously available or error-free, nor does we that this service will be free of defects or bugs or malicious software or code.

Neither us nor those contributing to the site shall be liable for any losses or damage that may result from use of the website as a consequence of any inaccuracies in, or any omissions from, the information, which it may contain.

We reserve the right to make changes to this website at any time without notice.

You agree to use this site only for lawful purposes.

If you do not accept these Terms and Conditions in full, you will cease using this site immediately.

Privacy Policy

Our policy is simple: we will not share your information with third parties without users’ consent.

We will however store the following information for purpose of evaluating our site: the domain name from which you access the Internet, the date and time you access our site, terms entered into our search engine, and the Internet address of the website from which you direct-linked to our site. This information is used to measure the number of visitors to the various sections of our site and to help us make our site more useful to our visitors. Other information collected during the course of your usage of the site, such as pages visited, may be collected in server log files and used for statistical analysis of traffic patterns.

From time to time, we may ask for further information about you (such as your name, job title, postal address, telephone, fax number and e-mail address) as part of online surveys/services. If you provide us with your information we will only use it for the purposes you designate.

Your information will be used to enable us to improve our website. Your data may be provided to a third party for evaluation purposes, not commercial exploitation.

If you choose to provide us with personal information, as in an e-mail message or online form, we will use this information to respond to your request. There might be times when your e-mail is forwarded within our organisation to employees who are better able to assist you. We will not retain this information for longer than is necessary.

Use of Cookies

Customisation of this website requires that our server can identify the computer and web browser that requests data over a period of time. To do this, a small file is saved on the user’s computer. This file contains no personal data, only an encrypted numeric identifier. Visitors’ page settings are stored in a user database against this identifier, making it possible for us to save your settings without storing any other information about you.

Additional information held in user account

Of necessity, all user accounts are accessible to our web database administrators. However passwords are stored in one-way encrypted format and cannot be retrieved by these administrators. This does not affect your statutory rights.

Creative Commons Licence

Online content created and hosted by us is, unless otherwise stated, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. The terms of the license can be found here.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence.

Further information

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