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This website is owned by Durham Enterprise Associates Ltd, trading as DEAL Group, all rights are reserved. We have made commercially reasonable efforts to check for viruses on our site. We have also endeavoured to ensure that the information on or available via this website is correct, not misleading and secure at the time of inclusion. However, it is possible that the information is out of date, incomplete, or has occasional and inadvertent errors. We therefore give no warranties, express or implied as to its completeness or accuracy.  

 

Copyright / Proprietary Rights

All materials on this site are the property of DEAL Group, unless otherwise specified. You must have our prior written permission to use any material, whether commercially or otherwise.

 

Disclaimer

All of the information on this site is provided without warranty of any kind, whether they be the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement or any other.

 

DEAL Group will not be liable to any party for any kind of damages, including lost revenues or lost profits, whether incurred by you or by a third party, which may result from the use of this site or any other site linked to this site, even if we are advised of the possibility of such damages.

 

This site may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Information on this site and any products, or services to which this site refers may be changed at any time without notice. DEAL Group makes no representations whatsoever about any other website which you may access through this one. Such linked sites are not under our control, and DEAL Group is not responsible for the contents of any linked site.

 

Such links are provided as a convenience, and the inclusion of a link does not imply DEAL Group endorsement of the linked site. If you decide to access linked third-party websites, you do so at your own risk. Any concerns regarding any external link should be directed to its respective site administrator or webmaster.

 

Links to this website are permitted, although we reserve the right to withdraw such permission at any time, and provided that links are only made to the homepage of this website.

 

Terms and Conditions of Use

By accessing this website you and DEAL Group agree that the statutes and laws of the UK will apply to all matters relating to the use of this website.

 

We may update and/or revise these terms at any time without notice.  You are responsible for reviewing these terms on each occasion that you revisit our site and if you continue to use our site after changes are made you are deemed to have accepted them.  Your use of this website implies acceptance of these terms.  If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, you must not use this website.

 

Company Registration Details

Durham Enterprise Associates Ltd, trading as DEAL Group.

Registered Office: 11 Lindisfarne Road, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 2HE.

Company Registration Number: 918 218421

 

We respect the privacy of everyone who visits this site. Please read our Privacy Policy carefully so that you can understand how we collect, store and use the personal information that you provide to us. 

 

By submitting your personal data to us, you will be treated as having given your permission for disclosures referred to in this policy. If you do not agree with our Privacy Policy then please do not use our website.

 

What does this privacy policy cover?

This privacy policy covers our use of your personal information, which is collected through or in connection with this site. For the purposes of this policy, "this site" means www.deal-group.com

 

Who is responsible for the personal information collected on this site?

DEAL Group controls the personal data collected on this site. The data is collected and stored securely and we will not make any use of the data other than in ways prescribed in this privacy policy.

 

Information collection, storage and use

We collect and use personal information (including name, company, telephone number and email) in order to:

·         respond to queries or requests submitted by you

·         send news and updates via email, if you have positively consented to this service

 

DEAL Group also collects data when visitors respond to surveys or promotional activities on our website. This information is used solely to administer the survey or promotion. Except as set out in this privacy policy, we will not disclose any personally identifiable information without your permission unless we are legally entitled or required to do so (for example, if required to do so by legal process).

Information about data protection issues can be found at Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) http://www.ico.gov.uk, including the Data Protection Public Register on which DEAL Group are registered.  ICO Registration Number: Z1924805

 

Collection of non-personal information

We may automatically collect non-personal information about you such as the type of internet browsers you use or the website from which you linked to our site. You cannot be identified from this information and it is only used to assist us in providing an effective service on this website. We may from time to time supply third parties with this non-personal or aggregated data for uses in connection with this site.

 

The use of cookies

We may store some information (commonly known as a "cookie") on your computer when you look at our site. They enable a website to ‘remember’ who you are. We are able to read these cookies for information purposes when you revisit our website. The type of information we collect as a result of a cookie being accepted by you is specific to your PC and includes the IP address, the date and time the PC visited the website, what parts of our website were looked at and whether the web pages requested were delivered successfully. This information is anonymous; it represents a computer rather than a person. We use the cookie information to improve our knowledge of the use of our website and to enable us to be able to ascertain whether the website is operating at an optimal level. This allows us to enhance our web offerings to you and to provide an enjoyable and an innovative online experience.
 

You can erase or block this information by changing the settings on your computer (please refer to your help screens or manuals). If you do erase or block this information you may not be able to utilise some features of the site. More information on cookies can be found at http://allaboutcookies.org.uk/ .

 

Use of your personal information submitted to other websites

We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other websites even if:

·         you accessed the third party website using links from our website; or

·         you linked to our website from a third party website.

 

We recommend that you check the policy of each site you visit and contact the owner or operator of such website if you have any concerns or questions.

 

Will this privacy policy change?

From time to time we may make changes to this privacy policy. If we make any substantial changes to this privacy policy and the way in which we use your personal data we will post these changes on this page and will do our best to notify you of any significant changes. Please check our privacy policy on a regular basis.

 

How you can contact us

If at any time you would like to contact us about our privacy policy, you can do so by emailing us at info@deal-group.com. If you have subscribed to our updates and wish to be removed from our database, you can send an email to info@deal-group.com with the word ‘unsubscribe’ in the subject line or contact our head office on 07900 690 118.

 

DEAL Group endeavour to make sure that every page within this site complies with the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), as part of its Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). This site has been built to achieve Priority Level 2 checkpoints. 

 

How This Benefits Disabled Visitors

To illustrate how compliancy has made this site more accessible, we have listed representative disabilities below and explained how this site meets the users' needs.

 

Visual (Impaired)

Those with visual impairments (e.g. myopia) can scale on all pages on the site to suit their own requirement. All text on pages is scaled, including all menu items.   Where images are used to convey information, text-based alternative descriptions are provided. 

 

Hearing

There is no content on this site that cannot be accessed by deaf or hard of hearing people.  If we were to include audio clips we would also provide a text version of the soundtrack.   If we were to include movie clips or video streaming we would also provide time-indexed subtitles.

 

Speech

This site may be accessed using voice-controlled computer and web browser.

 

Cognitive

The layout of this site is uniform on all pages. The main menu is structured identically on all pages (i.e. any page can be accessed from anywhere in the site).

 

Neurological

There are no animated images or flashing text on this site which could – in extreme cases – cause difficulty for some people with particular neurological disorders.

We are committed to providing an accessible service at DEAL Group. If you experience problems or have any suggestions for improvement, please email us on info@deal-group.com, or call us on 07900 690 118.