Permissions and Legal

Site Owner:

The Chief Officers' Network at www.chiefofficers.net is a product of Vortex Centrum Limited (VCL) a UK corporation. For full corporate details see Corporate Info at the Anti Money Laundering Network

Publishing:

All content on this website is published by its author. Vortex Centrum Limited is merely the supplier of a platform for the presentation of articles by those who write the articles. In the event of objection to any article, the complaint must be addressed to the author. VCL has no liability for such publication.

Contributions:

Contributions may be made only by registered members who must be real people using their own names and meeting such criteria as VCL from time to time sets out. All contributions are edited for compliance with both the Contribution Guidelines and the Style Guide, but they are not fact checked - that is the responsibility of the contributor who bears all legal and other liability - including fully indemnifying VCL against any costs including internal costs or losses it may suffer as a result of the publication of the contribution.

Contributors are bound by the Style Guide and the Contribution Guidelines.

Copyright:

All material is copyright its date of publication by the author. News items are copyright VCL.

USA FAIR USE CLAUSE: VCL does not permit the reproduction of substantial parts or the whole of any article by any person. Claims that a substantial part or all of an article may be reproduced under US copyright law and protected as fair use are expressly excluded. If you wish to refer to an article in The Chief Officers'' Network you must place a link on your website in the terms "Read the article at The Chief Officers' Network" and link to http://www.chiefofficers.net.

Use of contributions by VCL:

Contributors grant to VCL the right to reproduce their work within The Chief Officers' Network from the date of publication and for eternity and to assign this right upon sale or other disposal of The Chief Officers' Network either within the Group or otherwise.

Deep Linking:

Deep linking (i.e. linking to a page other than the front page) is not permitted.

Framing:

No article may be framed by any website.

Trademarks:

We recognise all trademarks. In the event that you consider that a contributor as breached your trademark, please let us know and we will consider the matter. If it is clear to VCL that there has been a breach, VCL will remove the offending passage and invite the contributor to correct the article to exclude the trademark. If it is not clear to VCL that there has been a breach, VCL will recommend that you take issue direct with the contributor who published the article. Nothing in this paragraph says or implies that VCL is in any way liable in the event that a contributor breaches your trademark rights.

Liability to readers or third parties:

This publication is provided "as is" and VCL its servants, agents and assignees shall not be liable for any loss, damage or injury whatsoever and howsoever occasioned suffered by any person as a result of any reliance on any information herein. All persons are cautioned to take advice on their particular circumstances.

Endorsements:

Nothing within The Chief Officers' Network is intended to be or shall be regarded as an endorsement of any product or service, company or person. If you choose to deal with any person mentioned in these pages, you are cautioned to undertake appropriate due diligence.

Errors and Omissions:

From time to time contributors may decide that their contribution requires correction, additions or clarification. If they do so, they are entitled to update their contribution. They may do this by addendum or by alteration of the original text. For this reason, the most recent published version is to be regarded as the definitive (for the time being) version. For this reason, readers are encouraged to review documents that they may have previously read to see if they have been updated.

Privacy:

The Chief Officers' Network is published in the United Kingdom by a UK company on servers in the UK. It is therefore subject to UK Data Protection laws. For the avoidance of doubt, information that members subscribers and advertisers provide to us is confidential within our group of companies. VCL is majority owned by The Anti Money Laundering Network Limited, a Hong Kong corporation. Its staff operate from locations all over the world and its group administration server is in the USA (Texas) as a result your data will be accessed from within the group from anywhere worldwide. It may be stored on computers in other countries, or on portable computers or other mobile devices. However, we will take reasonable efforts to ensure that that data is protected against loss and distribution to any third parties.

Non-Commercial Use:

No part of the website except for paid for advertisements or sponsorship may be used for commercial purposes including the promotion of any business or business idea. For the avoidance of doubt, contributions that are in the opinion of VCL in its sole discretion promotional or public relations pieces will be rejected.