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MSDUK's Benchmarking Tool is a site operated by Minority Supplier Development UK Limited ("We" “MSDUK”). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 5882418 and have our registered office at Studio 5, Phoenix Square, 3 Burton Street, Leicester, LE1 1TB.
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We may, but are not obligated to, monitor or review any areas on the site where users transmit or post communications or communicate solely with each other. We, however, will have no liability related to the content of any such communications, whether arising under the laws of copyright, libel, privacy, obscenity, or otherwise.
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We will only use your personal information as set out in our privacy policy: https://www.msduk.org.uk/privacy-policy/.
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to this site, or to contact other users of this site (for example, through using the Forum area), you may not use this site:
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Any content you upload to this site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of this site a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. The rights you license to us are described below.
We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with our content standards.
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These content standards apply to all material which you contribute to this site (Contribution), and to any interactive services associated with it.
The Content Standards must be complied with in spirit as well as to the letter. The standards apply to each part of any Contribution as well as to its whole.
MSDUK will determine, in its discretion, whether a Contribution breaches the Content Standards.
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When we consider that a breach of this acceptable use policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with this policy constitutes a material breach of these terms of use upon which you are permitted to use this site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
We exclude our liability for all action we may take in response to breaches of this policy. The actions we may take are not limited to those described above, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
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We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
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If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland, you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.
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As a part of the initial application to become a member of MSDUK, we will obtain information from you which may consist of personal and business information and data. Such information will be shared on your business profile and will be accessible through our database, which is accessible by our corporate network. It is a requirement that you share such information with us to enable us to share it with our network and any concerns about the sharing of such information should be communicated to us in advance of your registration.
MSDUK is keen to know how successful its efforts are amongst different ethnic groups and other minorities. You agree that any information you provide can be used by MSDUK for statistical purposes. Any such information shall be used in accordance with our privacy policy.
We may need to update these Terms of Use periodically, so we recommend that you revisit this information from time to time. This version was last updated on 4th June 2021.