Terms & Conditions of Use

Access & Use

The SALT site is split into multiple sections. Areas that are: (1) accessible to all; (2) accessible to registered members; (3) accessible to publication subscribers and (4) recent conference attendees.

All material available on SALT (including content available on our email) (the "Content") belongs to SALT, its agents, its authors or its licensors. SALT, its agents, authors or licensors own all intellectual property rights (including copyright and database rights) in the Content and any selection or arrangement of the Content. You may retrieve and display Content on a computer screen, PDA or mobile telephone, print individual pages on paper (but not photocopy them) and store such pages in electronic form on disk or on your mobile telephone (but not on any server or other storage device connected to a network) for your personal, non-commercial use. You may also email articles to a maximum of ten individuals using our 'Email this' service.

You may not use the SALT site for any unlawful purpose. Except as expressly set out above, you may not reproduce, publish, broadcast, transmit, modify, adapt, create derivative works of, store, archive or in any way commercially exploit any of the Content. Without limitation, you may not do any of the following without an organizational license, prior written permission from the author or SALT (and neither may you allow a third party to do any of the same):

• redistribute any of the Content (including by using it as part of any syndication, content aggregation, archive or similar service); or
• remove the copyright or trade mark notice from any copies of Content made under these terms and conditions; or
• create a database in electronic or structured manual form by systematically downloading and storing all or any of the Content; or
• deep link to, frame, spider, harvest or scrape the Content or otherwise access the Content for similar purposes; or
• use any machine, electronic, web based or similar device to read or extract the Content by automated or machine based means.

Privacy Policy & Registration

All information received by you from your use of SALT will be used by SALT in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

If you provide SALT with an email address, that will result in any emails SALT may send you being sent to you via a computer network or telephone operated or owned by a third party (e.g. your employer or college) then you warrant that you are entitled to receive those messages.

SALT takes the privacy of its members seriously. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our members while providing a personalized and valuable service. This Privacy Policy statement explains the data processing practices of SALT. If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries with regard to these practices please contact us by visiting the "Contact Us" link at the left.

Information collected

Personal information is collected by the SALT web site. We collect personal information from you through the use of enquiry and registration forms and when you e-mail us your details.

We also collect information automatically about your visit to our sites. The information obtained in this way, which includes demographic data and browsing patterns, is only used in aggregate form.

Use and Disclosure of personal information

We process personal information collected via the site for the purposes of:

• Understanding our users preferences, likes and dislikes so we can provide the best service possible
• Providing a personalized service
• Providing you with information about products and services we offer.

We also use information in aggregate form (so that no individual user is identified):

• to build up marketing profiles
• to aid strategic development
• to audit usage of the site

Use of cookies

We use "cookies" to identify you when you visit SALT and to build up a demographic profile.

A cookie is a small piece of information sent by a web server to a web browser, which enables the server to collect information back from the browser. Find out more about the use of cookies on http://www.cookiecentral.com

Our use of cookies also allows registered users to be presented with a personalized version of the site.

Internet-based transfers

Given that the Internet is a global environment, using the Internet to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis. Therefore, by browsing the SALT site and communicating electronically with us you acknowledge and agree to our processing of personal data in this way.