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The owner of this site, Single Market Ventures sprl of Brussels, Belgium (referred to below as THIS COMPANY or THE COMPANY), draws the attention of all users to the following conditions of use.

1. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
The company accepts no liability for the consequences of use or misuse of its reports, recommendations, or advice. Much of the material on this site presents analysis and information assembled by this company, in a field where new and updated data is constantly emerging. The company's editorial material presents the latest information available to the company, and also presents the company's view of relative priorities and consequences of the developments to which the information refers. The company uses a wide range of sources, published and unpublished, and normally uses data which is in the public domain. The company warrants that its work is performed with due diligence, care and attention, but makes no claim to include references to every item of conceivable relevance, makes no claim to refer to data not in the public domain even when such data may be demonstrably relevant, and makes no claim to legal certainty in its interpretation of the developments it reports.

The company accepts no liability for the content or interpretation of third-party texts presented on or via this site. In the case of official documents originating with EU institutions, only the European Community's legislation printed in the Official Journal of the European Communities is deemed to be authentic, and only the European Courts have the right to issue legally binding interpretation of that legislation. The European Commission itself issues a legal notice to indicate that the distribution of its texts is subject to a disclaimer and limitation of liability which are applicable to texts made available indirectly through this site.

Further detailed limitations of the company's liability appear in the paragraphs below.
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2. COPYRIGHT AND TRADE-MARK
Material made available on this site includes material developed by this company and publicly available material developed by outside organisations and made available as a service by us.

For all material developed by the company and presented on this site, the company asserts its copyright. The company considers the name of the company itself and the name of the Europe-link Service on EU Product Approvals to benefit from trade-mark protection. Except where expressly agreed in writing, material developed by this company and presented on this site may be downloaded as a single copy only to a single computer connected to a single user screen, and may not be printed or otherwise reproduced or distributed as more than a single copy, regardless of whether such copies are sold for payment or distributed free-of-charge. It is the company's commercial policy to negotiate multiple-user and copying arrangements with individual clients in individual contracts, and any client or user is welcome to contact the company to enquire about conditions for such arrangements. Any such individual contract may override the copyright conditions presented in this paragraph, but in the absence of any such user-specific contract, the copying restriction above applies. The company reserves the right to claim, from any person or company making unauthorised copies or unauthorised electronic transmission of our material, the full purchase or subscription cost for such copies as well as compensatory damages.

For any document developed by any other organisation and quoted or otherwise made available by us via this site, the company makes no claim to copyright or to any exclusive reproduction rights. That applies notably to official documents and to links to Internet sites of European institutions or government organisations, who retain the copyright to documents produced by them, and whose support we are happy to recognise in making their information available free-of-charge to a wider public audience. [An example of such information is that available on the europa server of the European Commission.] Such third-party material may itself be subject to copyright restrictions imposed by the original author. Appearance of a third-party text on this site does not indicate that that text is free of copyright restrictions.

3. USE AND MIS-USE OF PASSWORDS
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You agree not to copy or transfer any password, or cookie containing your password or authorisation to access our site, to any person or organization without our written authorisation. We reserve the right to monitor usage of any password or user name used to access our Internet site.

If evidence reaches the company that a password is being used by an unauthorised user, the company reserves the right to terminate all access by that password, and immediately, and to cancel any contract between the registered holder of the password and the company. In any such case where a password-holder is a subscribing client to our services, the company will communicate the evidence to the client, will acknowledge receipt any explanation which the client provides, and will attempt to re-instate access by the client if conclusive evidence is produced that the client did not breach the terms of access.

A registered password-holder who communicates his/her password to an unauthorised third-party accepts full responsibility for the use or mis-use of any information obtained from this company by the unauthorised third-party, and for any damage caused to the company as a result, for example by hacking or sabotage.

4. PRIVACY
The company respects the privacy of personal data and of commercial data we receive from our clients and registered users on their activity. We allow any client for our services who wishes to do so to specify that any personal information he provides should only be used for purposes directly related to the reasons for which it was originally provided to us, and not for purposes unrelated to those reasons. We do not communicate telephone contact numbers to third-parties who we believe might make unsolicited telephone calls. We take all reasonable measures to prevent the loss, misuse, alteration, disclosure of information clients provide to us, or unauthorised access to that information. We respect the confidentiality of any data which any client provides on the client's markets, products, or finance unless such data is in the public domain, and of any detailed financial information such as bank accounts or credit card references. Payment details requested over the Internet are channelled through recognised third-party systems offering encryption and other security features to prevent leakage of data.

The company seeks to collect and analyse data on visits to this web-site for its own purposes only, and with the primary objectives of preventing misuse of the site, and of identifying opportunities for improving our service through the site. The company therefore reserves the right to use, for any purpose whether commercial or non-commercial, any other data supplied by any user of this site other than the confidential data listed in the previous paragraph, and notably log-in access data or what is commonly called clickstream data (information from visits to our sites, the domains from which people visit, and measures of visitor activity), but will make reasonable efforts to restrict access to such data on receipt of an explicit, written request from any user. We may use "cookies" (elements of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your system), which offer you various options if you wish to block them: for example, you can set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it, or you can also set your browser to turn off cookies, although if you do that, some areas of our site may not function properly.