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Terms and Conditions

These terms and conditions apply to you regarding the material on this Website. You are responsible for bringing these terms to the attention of anyone who may read material on this site as a result of your access to it.

All material on this Website is (unless otherwise stated) copyright 1999-2010 Pearson Education Limited. Reading, copying or adapting any material implies agreement to these terms and conditions.

Users are permitted to view, print and download the material for personal, non-commercial use only but in so doing are not permitted to remove or amend any trademark, copyright or other proprietary notice. Users are not entitled to modify the content of this Website or reproduce, link, frame or deep-link it on any other Website without the express permission of Pearson Education Limited. Users may not distribute, transmit, reproduce or publish by electronic or any other means any part of the data without the prior written permission of Pearson Education Limited. All other rights reserved.

All trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. The use of any trademark on our website does not vest in the author or publisher any trademark ownership rights in such trademarks, nor does the use of such trademarks imply any affiliation with or endorsement of our website by such owners.

Whilst Pearson Education Limited endeavours to ensure that the information on this Website is correct, it is provided on an 'as is' basis, without warranties of any kind, and no warranty, express or implied, is given that the content of this Website is accurate, complete or up to date. Pearson Education Limited does not accept any liability for any error or omission. Use of content on this Website is at your own risk. Pearson Education Limited shall not be liable for any third party claims or losses of any nature including, but not limited to, loss of profits, direct, indirect, special or consequential damages arising from a third party's use or inability to use this Website.

Pearson Education Limited accepts no responsibility for the content on any Website to which a hypertext link from this Website exists or for any use of personal data by the third party operating such a Website. The links are provided 'as is' with no warranty, express or implied, for the information provided within them.

All authors or providers of a link into this Website should note that Pearson Education Limited does not necessarily read, check or edit the content from such links and Pearson Education Limited accepts such material linked to its site purely on the basis of an understanding that Pearson Education Limited is a distributor (not a publisher) of such material and by linking to this site, the author or provider of the link gives an implied warranty that he/she/it will indemnify Pearson Education Limited in the event of any action arising as a result of such material appearing on or via this Website. All persons accessing this Website are also put on notice of such fact.

Pearson Education Limited makes efforts to ensure that its publications, advertising and offers on this site fully meet the requirements of English law and foreign laws of any country where it is intended for such content to be viewed. In the event that a foreign country's law may not be fully complied with, then Pearson Education Limited shall be deemed not to be directing such content to that particular country.

With respect to any bulletin boards or forums available herein, statements and opinions expressed in the articles and communications are those of individual contributors or advertisers and not the statements and opinions of Pearson Education Limited.

While Pearson Education Limited makes all reasonable attempts to exclude viruses from the Website, it cannot ensure such exclusion and no liability is accepted for viruses. Thus, you are recommended to take all appropriate safeguards before downloading information from this site.
Information transmitted via this Website will pass over public telecommunications networks.

Pearson Education Limited makes no representation or warranty that the operation of this Website will be uninterrupted or error free and disclaims all liability in respect thereof.

If you submit any material to us you agree to abide by the following rules. PEARSON EDUCATION LIMITED reserves the right but does not have an obligation to monitor materials or any information which is posted on any bulletin boards, review features or forums or similar tools available on this Website (“the Public Areas”). We also have the right, but not the obligation, at any time to edit, delete, remove, or suspend the whole or any part of the materials on this Website or any content posted on them in any Public Areas without notice and without incurring any liability.

If you find objectionable or offensive material please let us know as soon as possible by emailing
digital.support@pearson.com.

The views, statements and opinions expressed in the Public Areas are those of the individual contributors or advertisers and not the statements and opinions of Pearson Education Limited.
By posting your comments or materials on the Public Areas, you grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, world-wide licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, publish, make available, distribute, sub-license and display any content you submit to us in any format now known or later developed. This includes the right to use your username should we wish to. If you do not want to grant us these rights, please do not submit your comments or materials to us. By submitting material you acknowledge that you waive any moral rights you may have in it.

By submitting content you represent and warrant that:

• you have all necessary permissions to post the content as at the date that the content is submitted to us,
• such content is accurate, and
• use of such content does not breach these Terms & Conditions.
You agree to indemnify Pearson Education limited and its affiliates for all claims brought by a third party against Pearson Education limited or its affiliates arising out of or in connection with a breach of any of these warranties.

You may use the Public Areas only to post content that is proper and appropriate to such areas and you must not do any of the following:

i. advertise, promote or offer to sell any goods or services;
ii. reveal any confidential or sensitive information.
iii. reveal any personal information on other persons (for example, email address, telephone number or postal address);
iv. post or link to any unlawful, defamatory, obscene, threatening, offensive, harmful or otherwise objectionable content (this includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio);
v. post content which you do not have permission to use, in particular, material that contains the intellectual property rights of third parties;
vi. post content that contains viruses or any other components with harmful or contaminating effects to any user or equipment;
vii. imply that any statements you make are endorsed by us;
viii. submit any political content;
ix. delete any author attributions, legal notices or proprietary designations or labels in any content that is posted;
x. falsify the origin or source of content that is posted;
xi. post content in a language other than English;
xii. contribute content with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act;
xiii. use inappropriate (e.g. vulgar or offensive) user names;
xiv. impersonate any living person or purport to represent any organisation;
xv. submit your content more than once under multiple log-ins;
xvi. submit spam or off-topic material;
xvii. submit URLs (unless allowed under the relevant local website rules);

If you are under 16, please obtain your parent or guardian's permission before you register to post any comments or materials.

Users are reminded that any personal information, such as your name, postal address, phone number, date of birth, job, personal interests, credit card information, e-mail address (“personal information”) that is voluntarily posted by a user on this Website may be collected and used by others (save where you enter such information as part of a transaction when it will be transmitted in a secure environment). We have no control over this and you agree not to misuse any personal information available on this Website.

Pearson Education Limited may immediately suspend or terminate your access to this Website without notice if any breach of these terms and conditions of use by you is brought to our attention.
These terms and conditions are governed by and shall be interpreted in accordance with English law.

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