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    Terms and conditions


    Introduction

    Your use of this website is subject to the conditions outlined in this document and the linked related documents. By entering this website, registering for access, or submitting information you are deemed to have accepted these terms.

    Related documents

    Please see also: Your obligations

    You agree to:
    • Assume sole responsibility for any activities undertaken using your website registration ID;
    • Promptly update your registration details if your points of contact, employment or company's activities change;
    • Ensure that information you supply to us is accurate and is not defamatory;
    • Notify us as soon as possible of any inaccuracies in information you have supplied to us;
    • Virus-Scan any attachments you send before sending them;
    • Indemnify Route 2 Market Ltd, PIARC, Route One Publishing Ltd, Route One Communications Ltd and its partner companies from any liability arising as a result of information you submit.
    You agree not to:
    • Allow anyone else to use your registration account;
    • Violate our copyright policy;
    • Attempt to access or reverse-engineer any part of the website code;
    • Use any facilities at the website for sending abusive messages or unsolicited commercial email (spam);
    • Do anything likely to affect the performance of the website for other visitors.
    Legal forum

    Any disputes arising from this website are subject to UK law.


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    Disclaimer


    Route 2 Market Ltd, PIARC, Route One Communications Ltd and Route One Publishing Ltd disclaim any liability for any damages or loss suffered by you as a result of using this website or relying upon information published here.

    We aim to be the leading provider of accurate industry information online, but must disclaim liability for inaccuracies or omissions in our content. We will not be liable under any circumstances for any consequences of decisions taken based on information published on this website. We welcome your help in correcting any mistakes or oversights. Please email the enquiries@itshandbook.com

    Opinions published on this website do not necessarily reflect those of Route 2 Market Ltd, PIARC, Route One Publishing Ltd, its agents or its team members.

    The website and its contents are provided as-is and without warranty and any services may be withdrawn at any time. We do not guarantee that the website will be available to you at any time.

    We work hard to maintain a secure website but will not be responsible for any damage caused by software errors, viruses or malicious software, however introduced into our systems.

    This website includes links to third-party websites over which we have no control. We are not responsible for anything you find on linked websites or on sites they link to, but would appreciate your letting us know if the content of a website we link to changes and is no longer relevant.

    Please address any enquiries regarding this disclaimer to enquiries@itshandbook.com.


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    Copyright policy


    What's covered by this policy

    This website code, concept of the ITS Handbook- 2nd Edition is © Route 2 Market Ltd.

    The editorial content, is © PIARC and the content contributors.

    Copyright material includes but is not limited to editorial articles, photographs, images, databases, website designs, and website code published on our websites or in our book.

    Restricted activities

    You may not copy, reuse, reproduce, republish, adapt, translate or otherwise circulate anything from this website for profit or otherwise without the permission of the copyright holder.

    Your contributions

    By e-mailing Route 2 Market Ltd, you grant Route 2 Market Ltd an irrevocable perpetual licence to use your contributions or ideas for any purpose (commercial or otherwise) in any medium now known or to be invented.

    Permissions

    Copyright © 2004 PIARC

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

    All terms used in this book known to be trademarks or service marks have been indicated by capitalisation. While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this information, the publisher cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions. Use of a term in this book should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark or service mark.

    If you would like to share information on this website with colleagues, you are invited to use the 'e-mail a friend' facility or to forward the link of the relevant page to your contacts.

    We are happy for students to cite up to 700 words from our website for academic study provided that:

    • our content represents no more than 10% of the completed article or essay;
    • all material totals no more than 700 words;
    • our articles are correctly attributed as © PIARC; and you include the website address or book page of the story and turn this into a link where appropriate, if your work appears online.
    The logos of PIARC, Route 2 Market Ltd, Route One Publishing Ltd, Route One Communications Ltd, ITS International, World Highways may not be reproduced without permission and may not be used to link to this or other websites.

    We are happy for businesses and individuals to link to any content on our website from their websites without permission, provided that they do not frame our website or otherwise make it look like we have a business relationship.

    Enquiries

    Please address permissions requests or questions to: enquiries@itshandbook.com.


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    Privacy Policy


    Introduction

    This document provides more detail on what information we store about you and what we do with it.

    Why you have to register to access our site

    The Book and websites published by Route 2 Market Ltd are principally financed by book sales, CD-Rom and website sales.

    We ask you to register for this website so that:

  • * We can better understand our readers' editorial needs and tailor our products accordingly;
  • * We can assess your qualification for a discounted subscription to other products.

    What information we collect about you

    When you register to access the website, we store all the information you provide on a secure system. This information is used to administer your website registration and any subscriptions you have and to send you editorial and commercial messages which reflect your business interests.

    We also record the last time you logged in to the site and the total number of times you have accessed the site.

    We analyse our server logs to assess how many visitors we are getting and where they are coming from. Information your computer provides to our server for the purposes of enabling you to access this site might also be available to us.

    We do not link any of this information to you personally, but may share aggregated data about visitors with other parties. This information includes which country visitors come from, which internet service providers they are using, which browser versions they are using, how long they spend on the site, and how many pages they view per visit.

    If you use the feature on our site "Email to a friend" about an article we store the chapter, article title, your email address and the recipients Email address the message and the date and time it was sent. This is used to make sure you are keeping to our copyright policy.

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    Our use of cookies

    To protect your privacy, we will require you to login before we disclose any of your personal information or allow you to edit it.

    Who we share your data with

    If you use the website to forward an article to a colleague or friend, your email address will be disclosed to the recipient.

    We may from time to time use carefully selected third-party mailing houses to send you special offers and product news on behalf of partner companies in the construction and transport industries. These mailing houses will only use your data for the purposes of the mailing services we have commissioned them for. This information may be sent by post, email or fax unless you opt out.

    Some of these mailing houses may be based outside the EU. If you are based in the EU, by registering for our website, you consent to us exporting your data abroad.

    Our website support team at Man or Mouse Ltd and hosting company Globus Media may have access to our databases for the purposes of maintaining and improving the website.

    We reserve the right to share your data with other parties as required by law.

    Opting out of communications

    You can opt out of:

  • Receiving promotional messages and special offers by fax, email or post

    You can do this when registering or by editing your profile on the website.

    We use email to communicate with you about your website registration and book and CD-Rom orders. It's not cost-effective for us to use other communication means, so you cannot opt out of receiving admin messages like this from us. By registering for or using our websites you give us permission to use your information in this way.

    You can cancel your account and have your information deleted by emailing us at enquiries@itshandbook.com

    Updating the policy

    If we update this Privacy Policy, you will be notified by email using the last email address we have for you on record. You are responsible for keeping your registered email address and other contact details up to date.

    If you object to any of the terms in the updated privacy policy, you can review your communications preferences (opt out) or cancel your account.

    Transfer of business

    Your registered information may be transferred to another business in the event that we sell or license the book CD-Rom or website for which you are registered. If there is such a transfer, you will be notified if there is a change of Privacy Policy and will have the option to cancel your account.

    More information

    If you have any questions that are not answered here, please address any questions to enquiries@itshandbook.com