Terms of Use

By using this web site you agree to be bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of this web site. If you do not agree to be bound by all of the following terms please do not access, use or contribute to this web site.

The information on this web site is intended solely to provide general guidance on matters of interest for the personal use of the reader, who accepts full responsibility for its use. The information on this web site is provided with the understanding that the authors and publishers are not herein engaged in rendering  professional advice or services. As such, it should not be used as a substitute for consultation with professional competent advisers.

We have made every attempt to ensure that the information contained on this web site is from reliable sources but Allen Sykes is not responsible for any errors or omissions, or for the results obtained from the use of this information. All information on this web site is provided "as is", with no guarantee of completeness, accuracy, timeliness or of the results obtained from the use of this information, and without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including, but not limited to warranties of performance, merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Nothing herein shall to any extent substitute for the independent investigations and the sound technical and business judgment of the reader. In no event will Allen Sykes or its employees or agents, be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made or action taken in reliance on the information on this web site or for any consequential, special or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Certain links on this web site connect to other web sites maintained by third parties over whom Allen Sykes has no control. Allen Sykes makes no representations as to the accuracy or any other aspect of information contained in other Web sites.

Allen Sykes is strongly committed to privacy issues. By using this site and submitting any personal data, you agree to the use by Allen Sykes of such data in accordance with this privacy statement. If you have questions on privacy issues, please contact one of our Partners.

We only collect identifiable personal data or information that is specifically and voluntarily provided by a visitor to our site such as via the Contact Us form.

When you provide us with personal data we use it solely for the purposes for which it was provided to us as stated at the point of collection or as is obvious from the context of collection.

Allen Sykes, registered as detailed at the foot of this page. is the data controller of any personal data collected through this website, and will process such data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

We will not share personally identifiable information about you with any third parties, unless required by law, or unless you request for us to do so

We use cookies placed on your hard drives to enable us to improve the content of this web site.  The information collected is anonymous in that it will not be traced back to you.

Your web browser may give you the ability to refuse a cookie in which case you will still be able to use our web site.

In order to maintain and manage this web site we may anonymously log information that identifies categories of visitors by, for example, domains and browser types. This information is unlikely to contain anything that could be used to identify you and we have no intention of using it to do so. The only purpose of gathering this information is improve our web site for visitors.

Google Analytics

This web site uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States . Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your web browser. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.