Privacy / FAQ

1. Copyright

No material (verbal or graphic) should be copied without the author's permission.  The website and other materials unless otherwise stated are authored and © Growing Global 2005.

We are happy for Mick, Martin and Patricia’s materials to be reproduced, provided prior permission is obtained.  Some of their articles are now being pre-licensed under the Creative Commons License scheme. These carry at the bottom of the article the Creative Commons logo

For all articles by our other contributors (including all writers of the articles section) the full copyright remains theirs, and is noted on their articles. Please respect this, and e-mail us for the appropriate permissions - we will secure the author's approval.

We reserve the right to refuse or delete material which inappropriately abuses author's copyright.

2. Privacy

Growing Global completely respects individual privacy.  We do not reveal personal information to third parties about any individual or organization that contacts us, unless there is prior agreement. Whilst most of the Growing Global site can be used without sharing any of your personal data, please note that in some sections you may be disclosing personal information about yourself.

Whilst the site is not designed for use by children under the age of 13, we do not intend to have anything on this site which would be offensive or damaging to anyone of any age, including children.

Please be aware that some of the sites we link to may use cookies and other data collection methods and usage that we do not control.

3. Service Mark

A US Service Mark has been applied for, for the phrase ‘Growing Global, where even smaller enterprises can think big’

4. Cookies

A cookie is a small data file that is sent from a web server to a browser and is stored on your local hard drive. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk - neither can it read cookie files created by other sites. Cookies do not damage your system.

You can reset your browser so as to refuse any cookie or to alert you to when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept Growing Global cookies, some of the features of the site may not work as well as intended. We only use cookies for system administration of the website.

5. How do I use Growing Global materials?

Subject to the note on copyright above, we are happy to give permission for our material to be used for teaching or other purposes, provided www.growing-global.com is recognised as the source and prior permission is obtained. Please e-mail us if you would like to use our materials.

6. How do I link to Growing Global?

We are very happy for the site to be linked to others. Please e-mail us if you would like to swap links.

7. How do I send a "Guest Article" to Growing Global?

Growing Global encourages the broadest possible conversation on going global, and the articles are a very popular feature of the site. Articles submitted will not be altered without prior permission, except for formatting, and the author retains full copyright.  Please submit your work as a text file via e-mail (Word, plain text etc.) with your formatting included if appropriate. Where possible please limit the use of tables and large size graphics. With your submission, please include a brief biography, a small photo, and reference to your other work. We will publish the necessary contact links to the author’s website or e-mail with your article.

Unless specifically pre-agreed, all articles are published non-exclusively - you are free to submit your work to other publishers. If your work is first published on Growing Global we request that you include a reference to Growing Global in any future publication.

Growing Global is often asked for articles we feature to be republished on other web sites or newsletters - we will normally allow this if our editors judge the context appropriate, as it extends the readership of the author's work and we are committed to providing excellent coverage of all of our authors.  We cannot accept liabilities from such republishing, but we will insist on proper copyright attributions for the author.  Thus an article's acceptance by Growing Global grants our editors the right to republish the material. If material is republished, we will of course inform the author.

We will only publish articles submitted if contact details are enclosed (although we will withhold the writer’s identity if requested). We reserve the right to publish. Publication does not suggest that Growing Global endorses the views expressed.

Please e-mail us your submissions.

8. Disclaimer

Growing Global reserves all rights in regards to the nature and any other detail of any material, program or service on the site. We reserve the right to change the site's contents without notice.

We reserve the right to publish articles submitted. Publication does not suggest that Growing Global endorses the views expressed. Neither does a link to another site in our link library suggest any form of endorsement or liability accepted on behalf of Growing Global.

All of the information on this site is based on the opinion of the writers who contribute to Growing Global. Most of these writers are professionals, but they often are not lawyers, financial advisors, therapists etc. unless otherwise stated in their biographies. Use of Growing Global is thus not a substitute for professional legal, financial or consultant advice.

We can take no liability arising from articles or other materials published on the site, whatever the source

All of the information on this site is based on the opinion of the writers who contribute to Growing Global. Most of these writers are professionals, but they often are not lawyers, financial advisors, therapists etc. unless otherwise stated in their biographies. Use of Growing Global is thus not a substitute for professional legal, financial or consultant advice.

We can take no liability arising from articles or other materials published on the site, whatever the source