This Site

This is the website of Expat Network Ltd, and our registered address is Advertiser House, 19 Bartlett Street, Croydon, Surrey, CR2 6TB, England. A company registered in England & Wales under number 2473476, and VAT Registration Number 521898132. We are part of the Collinson Group of companies under the common ownership of The Collinson Group Ltd.

We aim to provide up-to-date and relevant information, products and service specifically for our members. However, there are many areas within this site that are either fully accessible or have restricted access to non members.

We believe that transparency is essential to the success of our organization, so would actively encourage users of this site to refer to the following information:

Definitions

“You/your” means You, the user; “We/Us/Our” means Expat Network Ltd; “our site” means the website located at www.expatnetwork.com, which is the property of Expat Network Ltd; “Collinson Group” means the Collinson Group of companies

Security

It is important that you take all reasonable precautions against the use of unauthorized persons using your passwords, PIN and email addresses.

We use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged with our site.

Within our physical capabilities, We have the appropriate security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that We have collected from you at our site.

All Our employees, and those of any companies within the Collinson Group, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, will respect the confidentiality of personal data.

Your personal data will not be disclosed to any authorities unless required by law

Intellectual Property

All copyright, trade marks and all other intellectual property rights in all material or content supplied as part of our site shall at all times remain vested in Us or Our licensors. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring by implication or otherwise any licence or right to use any trade mark, patent, design right or copyright of Us or any of our licensors. You are only permitted to use Our material and content if expressly authorized to do so in writing by Us and you may not assist or facilitate any third party to copy, reproduce, transmit, distribute, commercially exploit or create derivative works of such material or content.

If you require further information on permitted use, please email us at info@expatnetwork.com or telephone +44 (0)20 8256 0311. If you are granted permission to reproduce content full acknowledgement of the source must be included as a condition of that permission.

You acknowledge that by posting materials on our site you grant to Us an irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide licence to use the materials within our site and in any other manner. The licence extends to copying, distributing, broadcasting and otherwise transmitting and adapting and editing the materials.

The material and content on our site is provided “AS IS” and on an “IS AVAILABLE” basis without any representations or any kind of warranty made (whether express or implied by law) to the extent permitted by law, including the implied warrabtues if satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. Any material downloaded or otherwise accessed through the use of our site is obtained entirely at your risk. We do not warrant that functions contained in the material and content on our site will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected or that our site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs. To the extent permitted by law We accept no responsibility for any resulting damage to software or computer systems and/or any resulting loss of data arising directly or indirectly out of your use of our site

Privacy

We are committed to protecting your privacy. We comply with the principles set out in the applicable UK Data Protection legislation from time to time in place, which ensure fair, proper and accurate processing of all personal information that you provide to Us. We will do our utmost to ensure that any information you convey via our site or otherwise is treated in the strictest confidence and is used only for the purpose specified. By providing us with personal or company information via our site, you consent to the collection, storage and processing of this information.

Any changes to our privacy policy will be notified on our site and emailed to you if possible.

We do no provide or sell your details to third parties unless you have specifically requested that we do so, in order that these advertisers and/or third parties can offer you information, services and products which may be of interest to you.

We may contact you by post, telephone or email with details of our products and services.

From time to time we may disclose information about individual usage and demographics to advertisers and partners, but we will not pass on your personal identity relating to the disclosure of this information. We may also log users IP addresses and standard web log information for statistical purposes

Access to Personal Information

Upon request we will provide you with access to all information (including proprietary information) that is held about you. If you would like to obtain a copy of this information, please send an email to info@expatnetwork.com

Email

When you send us an email We collect your name, contact details and the nature of your enquiry. This allows us to respond quickly, efficiently and appropriately. This information, the content of your email and our response is kept on a database and may be used to notify you about relevant information.

There is an email option in 'Personal Profile' which, when ticked, allow members to receive particular information via email from Us. This can be de-activated by the member at any time. However, We reserve the right to send members information regarding their membership via email.

We may occasionally send non-members information regarding Expat Network via email. You can choose not to receive emails from Us by ticking the relevant box at the point in which our personal data is collected.

If you wish to opt out from email communications, please email us at info@expatnetwork.com

Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of information sent from our server and stored by your browser. It does not contain any personal information about you. We use cookies to store and track information about visitors to our site and this, in turn, helps us to ensure that our site continues to meet user expectations.

Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies. If you want to know how to do this please look at the help menu on your browser. However, switching off cookies may restrict your use of our site and/or delay or affect the way in which our site operates.

To find out more about cookies and how they are used please go to www.cookiecentral.com

Third Party Advertising Cookies

Some of the advertisements you see on our site may be generated by third parties, who can generate their own cookies to track how many people have viewed their advertisement, or they may use a third party to do this. If you want to disable these cookies, you can turn them off by going to the relevant website and ask them to generate a ‘no thanks’ cookie, which will stop any further cookies being written to your computer.

For more information on how to opt out please click here

Testimonials

If you submit a testimonial to be used on our site, by completing this information you have given us permission to include and edit your comments. If you have submitted a testimonial and wish this to be removed from our site, please email us at info@expatnetwork.com or telephone +44 (0)20 8256 0311

Third Party Links

Some areas within our site include links to external websites. We have included these links to provide what we believe to be useful and relevant information. You acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the availability of any third party websites or material you access via our site and do not endorse and are not responsible nor liable for any content, advertising, products or services or available from such third party websites or material, nor for any damage, loss or offence caused, or alleged to be caused, by or in connection with use of, or reliance on, any content, advertising, products or services available on or from such third party websites or material

Promotional Advertising & Sponsors

This site may contain advertising and sponsorship from third parties, who are responsible for ensuring that what they are advertising or promoting on the site meets all legal and regulatory requirements, and does not contain information or material without limit, which is objectionable or obscene. Any dealings between you and any third party advertisers or sponsors found on or via our site, including payment for and delivery of products, services and any other terms and conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and the relevant third party advertiser or sponsor. You agree not to hold us liable for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a direct or indirect result of any such dealings

Financial Information

This site provides information about offshore investments for expatriates and international investors. The Regulatory Authorities in some countries forbid the advertising of unauthorized investments. Our site does not constitute an invitation to make deposits to any person to whom it is unlawful to make such an invitation. We always recommend you take professional advice before proceeding

E-commerce

The majority of online sales e.g. are provided by us as an agent for third party suppliers, or directly by third party websites who are advertising on our site. For goods and services purchased through the Expat Shop, we act as the principal. This means that the legal contract for the goods or services is made directly between Us and yourself

Jobseekers

Refund policy
Cancelling your Membership.
You can cancel your Expat Network membership at any time by contacting the EN Team at expats@expatnetwork.com. You can also telephone us on +44 (0)20 8256 0311 Monday to Friday between 09.00 am and 17.30 pm. If you choose to cancel your membership, we will issue a pro-rata refund for any unused proportion of your membership. All refunds will be credited to the payment card which was used to join. If you have paid by any other means your refund will be made by cheque, which will be posted to you within 30 days of your cancellation.

Your CV
When you store your candidate profile and CV on our database you do so at your own risk and you agree that it can be made available free of charge for searching, viewing and downloading by any recruiter, employer or other person who requests CVs matching your criteria. We do not verify the identity or the nature of the business of such organizations. Under no circumstances will we be liable for any loss or damage sustained by you as a direct or indirect result of you storing your candidate profile and CV on our database.

It is solely your responsibility to keep your details up to date, especially if your contact details have changed from contract to contract.

We reserve the right to remove CV’s from our database, which we at our sole discretion believe to be inaccurate or offensive.

Remember that your current employer may be a client of one of our recruiters, and we cannot be held responsible for any eventuality that arises directly or indirectly as a result of this. However, you have the option to 'hide' certain information from potential recruiters and it is your responsibility to decide whether or not you wish to make use of this facility.

We may also from time to time use the information you have provided to compile statistical, employment or salary trends, however, your personal information will not be identified for this purpose.

You acknowledge and agree that you will not seek to hold us liable for any loss or damage arising, either directly or indirectly, as a result of a recruiter retaining a copy of your CV and any use such recruiter may make of your CV. You may remove your CV and candidate profile from the database at any time

Recruiters

Job Advertisements
If you are an employment agency (as defined by the Employment Agencies Act 1973) it is your responsibility to ensure that the job advertisements you place on our site must comply with these regulations and all subsequent laws and regulations. Expat Network reserve the right to remove a vacancy at any time if this is considered to be in appropriate, inaccurate or fraudulent.

Job advertisements must be bona fide, and not for other products or services, not relating to recruitment, including but not limited to ‘business opportunities’ ‘pyramid schemes’, etc.

Candidate Responses
Candidates who are responding to job advertisements placed on our site by you must be dealt with fairly and professionally at all times. You agree that you will indemnify us from and against any claim brought against us by any candidate arising from your breach of this obligation.

CV Database
If you are an employment agency (as defined by the Employment Agencies Act 1973) it is your responsibility to ensure that the use you make of our CV database complies with these regulations.

We do not verify nor guarantee any candidate’s details. It is your responsibility you as the recruiter to take up references and satisfy yourself as to the accuracy, availability, suitability, integrity and reliability of the information given on any CV provided by us on behalf of any of our members. You agree that you will not seek to hold us responsible for any loss or damage arising out of the dealings between you and our member.

Due to the sensitive nature of information contained in a CV, you the recruiter may not transmit nor distribute the CV or other information received from us to any person(s), company or businesses other than for the purpose of finding employment for the member

Security

You the recruiter must undertake all reasonable precautions for securing the confidentiality of information on our members gained from our site against unauthorized persons using their passwords, pin numbers and email addresses in an attempt to access such information.

It is a condition of allowing you to use our site that you the recruiter must at all times comply with the Data Protection legislation of the United Kingdom and the EC in force from time to time and all changes thereto

Members Forum

The Forum is a place where expatriates can find real solutions to expatriate related problems and issues. It is hoped that you will use the forum to exchange ideas, information and socialize. We encourage you all to make a regular presence on the Forum - the more you participate the more you will learn.

Before you can use the Forum you are required to accept its terms and conditions, which will be made available to you at the time of registering

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

Your use of our site, downloads from it and the content of the section called 'This Site', are governed in accordance with the laws of England. The English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of your use of our site

Website Use

Expat Network reserve the right to terminate your account at any time if you have used the website illegally, or if you default on payment.