Use of the COT website is subject to the following terms and conditions including the limitations of liability in paragraphs 2,4, 6 and 8. If you do not agree to any of these terms and conditions then please leave this site immediately.

  1. Information and tools available on this website

    We take care to ensure that any materials and information on this site are accurate, relevant and up to date but this site is intended primarily to provide guidance to members of COT and other UK healthcare professionals who have registered with COT for online services only and is not intended for and should not be relied upon as a substitute for specific advice or clinical assessment and professional judgement in individual case.

  2. Third party services and advertisements

    Any third party services, promotions or products which you use or acquire through any links, services or advertisements contained on this site will be used or obtained by you subject to such terms and conditions as are imposed on or agreed between you and the relevant third party provider of such service, promotion or products and COT to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law excludes all liability for any loss or damage incurred by you as a result of your dealings or communications with any such third party.

    You are not to link to this website or frame it without our express prior permission. Please e-mail any requests to web.team@cot.co.uk.

  3. Law

    Your use of this website and any downloads from it and the operation of these terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and the English Courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute between us arising out of or in connection with your use of this website.

  4. Liability

    You use the services provided on this site at your own risk and for the benefit of COT its employees, agents and contractors and all contributors, editors and authors of the contents of the site, we exclude to the fullest extent permitted in law all liability including any liability in negligence arising from the use of this website or any reliance on its contents and tools. This exclusion does not extend to liability for personal injury or death caused by negligence.

    All implied warranties and conditions are excluded to the maximum extent permitted by law including (without limitation) any implied term as to the provision of any services to a reasonable standard of care or in respect of any non- infringement of any intellectual property rights.

  5. Copying and printing

    The contents of this website and downloads including information, design, text and graphics are the property of COT or its licensors. You are welcome to download and store information for the purposes of viewing and you may also print copies for your own personal use or use by other healthcare professionals in your organisation provided that you maintain all copyright and other proprietary notices. You must NOT permanently store or otherwise copy contents for wider distribution or for commercial gain and nor must you plagiarise or create any derivative works from materials on this site unless expressly authorised by COT.

    You shall comply with all copyright laws worldwide in your use of the contents of this site and to prevent any unauthorised access or copying of its contents.

  6. Access to online services

    Members of COT [and others who register with COT for online services] will be issued with such passwords and other identifiers as we deem appropriate and which we may alter from time to time on reasonable notice. Any password is issued to the applicant only and is not transferable and must be kept confidential. You will indemnify us against any unauthorised use of a password by any third party.

    You must not permit any unauthorised third party to use the services provided on this site on your behalf.

    All equipment, which is used to access any online service, must be of the type which can be lawfully connected in the UK to the public switch telephone exchange system. You are wholly responsible for the operation and condition of such equipment, your user software and Internet connections.

    COT accepts no liability whatsoever for any inability you experience in accessing this website or any service due to failure or incompatibility of any kind between the equipment and/or software you use to access the site or service or poor or disrupted telephone and/or internet connections or electricity supply, or disruption to any communication facilities (including any internal or external network services) or for any interruption or break in any service or access to any service caused by any technical failure of your computer equipment or software or of the computers or computer network on which the relevant service is stored.

  7. Privacy and Data Protection Policy
    What Information Do We Collect?
    In order to provide you with services, we may collect personal information about you from our website, telephone conversations, emails and written and verbal communications. We may keep records of your name, address, email address, telephone number and details of any health needs or disabilities when booking an event in order to help to ensure your safety.
    How We Will Use Your Information?

    All personal information that we obtain about you will be recorded, used, and protected by us in accordance with current data protection legislation and this privacy policy. We will primarily use your personal information to provide our services to you and, for example:

    • to administer and process your information
    • for record keeping purposes
    • to carry out market research so that we can improve the services we offer
    • to provide information relevant to the profession, about events and conferences
    • to track activity on our website
    • to provide you with details about the development of our services, including information about BAOT/COT
    • to send you bulletins which we believe might be of interest to you

    We may share your information with our selected service and product providers whom we think may provide information, services or products of interest to you, for example information relating to conferences or book publications. We also share your information with Unison in order to provide you with industrial relations support.

    We will not otherwise pass information we hold about you to any company or organisation outside the BAOT/COT unless we have your consent to do so.

    If you do not want us to use the information in this way then please contact us at membership@baot.co.uk. However this may reduce the member services we can provide to you.
    Updating and correcting information
    You may correct your personal information by emailing us at membership@baot.co.uk. Please include your name, address and/or email address when you contact us as this helps us to ensure that we accept amendments only from the correct person. We encourage you to promptly update your personal information if it changes.
    Your rights to access your personal information
    You have the right to receive a copy of the personal information that we hold about you. We may charge a small fee towards the cost of administering any request you make. The current fee is £10.
    How to contact us
    Telephone: 020 7450 2348
    Email: membership@baot.co.uk
    Mail: Membership Administration Manager
    Fax: 020 7450 2331
    Cookies

    In common with many other website operators, we may use standard technology called 'cookies' on this site. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive and they are used to record how you navigate this website on each visit.

    Our cookies are used to enable us to develop our website to reflect our members’ interests and by noting who has seen which pages and advertisements, how frequently particular pages are visited and determining the most popular areas of our website. We may use cookies to enrich your experience of using the website by allowing us to tailor what you see to what we have learned about your preferences during your visits to the site.

    Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent cookies being stored. Please note, if you do turn cookies off this will limit the service that we are able to provide to you and may affect your visitor experience.

    For further information on cookies and how to switch them off see www.allaboutcookies.org.

    If you are submitting content for this website, you must ensure that you have obtained a signed consent form from any person mentioned. If you submit a photograph, you must obtain consent both from the person who took the photograph and any person who appears in it. Download the consent form (17KB pdf*)

  8. Security

    Any information which you provide to us may be stored or processed outside of the country where you entered the information. We will take steps to ensure the security of your data in accordance with these conditions of use but no transmissions over the Internet can be considered to be completely secure and we therefore give no warranty as to the security of your data which is supplies at your own risk.

  9. Forum

    COT is not responsible for any material posted on any [Discussion Forum ("Forum")]. In particular, without limitation, COT has no responsibility for any advice or information posted by any user of a Forum or for any reliance placed on that advice or information. You shall not upload, transmit, distribute or otherwise publish through these Forum any materials which:

    1. libels, defames, or is obscene, pornographic, abusive or threatening;
    2. infringes the intellectual property rights of any other person including (without limitation) infringing any person's copyright or trademark;
    3. is illegal;
    4. advocates illegal activity;
    5. advertises or solicits funds or is a solicitation for or offer to supply goods or services unless approved by us

      6. (together "Non-Approved Items").

    COT is not responsible for the contents of the messages posted to the Forum and cannot and does not review every message, it nevertheless reserves the right to delete, edit or move messages which we in our discretion consider are unacceptable. We also reserve the right to exclude from using this site any person whom we consider to be in breach of any of these terms and conditions.

  10. Indemnity

    You agree to indemnify us for any and all claims, damages, losses and causes of action arising out of your transmittal of any Non-Approved Items or your failure to comply with any of these terms and conditions.

  11. Contacts

    If you have any query or comment on any of these terms or conditions or the operation of the website then please contact web.team@cot.co.uk.

  12. Changes

    We reserve the right to make changes to these terms and conditions without notice to you. You should therefore read them from time to time and note any amendments.

The contents of this website and downloads including design, text and graphics are the property of and © COT or its licensors. ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED and all moral rights are asserted and reserved.

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