Terms and Conditions
The Sussex Business Network is an open network of businesses in the county of East and West Sussex, UK. The aim is to provide a directory service to list company details and offer a service to allow people to post articles, news, events and job opportunities.
This is a moderated but self managed service and in this respect the details contained within the posting categories and business directory are the responsibility of your company. Every post will link to your company profile and all profiles will have some means of contact. If, for any reason, you have a comment or complaint about content within the network, please use our contact form, highlighting the URL and company of the material and state your point about it. Our aim is to maintain a quality service and we actively scan the boards for inappropriate content but if we miss something, we need to know and will act accordingly.
Privacy
The registration form collects information about your company, including contact details. All this information collected becomes public the moment you’re approved. The aim of listing this information is for the discovery of your goods and services along with your contact details for potential clients to get in touch. However, we’re aware of the nature of unsolicited emails, how they harvest their sources and how important privacy is. We too spend too many hours a week wading through junk to reach genuine correspondence so will do our utmost to protect you from this.
- The first step is we’ve obscured the email address to assist the abatement of automated email harvesters. It’s not foolproof but certainly stops many of them.
- Secondly, your email address and telephone numbers are batch stored in our database within this website. These details are only ever used for the following reasons:
- For administrative purposes such as change of details, service notifications etc.
- Future Sussex Business Network services such as an Editor controlled newsletter which you’ll be notified about and you’ll need to opt-in to receive.
- Research purposes to assist us identify which areas of Sussex are under represented, which market sectors are the most popular and other useful data. The results of such research will be published from time to time within the news section of the network for all to see.
Being a free network, this website runs at a loss. The value of the website comes from the community within it and the contributions of the network members. The bigger the network becomes the more valuable it becomes and the further our news and events will reach. We see this as a more valuable return on the investment than advertising or introducing third parties to access the contents of the database so we can categorically say, that won’t happen. Your details are safe.
Copyright
The material posted within the network is the responsibility and copyright of the owner, both of which are highlighted on a per-post basis with contact details in the directory. Reproduction of content is strictly prohibited unless under direct authority of the owner of the material.