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The Knowledge Practice Website Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy

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Terms and Conditions (including Changes to)

Introduction
Liability and Disclaimers
Terms of Use (including amendments)
Using this site
Submission of information
Submission of ideas
Links to other sites
Copyright
Disclaimers
Registration
User names and Passwords
Submitting your CV (including updates)
The accuracy of your CV
Keeping your CV up to date
TKP Vetting and Security

Introduction

Please read this section carefully. By accessing The Knowledge Practice website at www.tkp.co.uk (the "Site"), you are agreeing to the terms that appear below whether or not you register as a user. If you have any questions, please contact support@tkp.co.uk.
"The Knowledge Practice" shall mean The Knowledge Practice Ltd together with any Associated Company of The Knowledge Practice Ltd.

Liability and Disclaimers

Your access to and use of this website is governed by these Terms and Conditions and all applicable laws and you agree to be bound by them each time you access the site, without limitation or qualification. If you do not accept these terms and conditions you must not use this site

The Knowledge Practice may add to or change these Terms and Conditions from time to time. Continued use of this site after such changes to the terms and conditions constitutes acceptance of these posted changes.

The material on this web site is provided purely for your information and you should seek further guidance and make independent inquiries before relying on it. The Knowledge Practice may make alterations to the website at anytime. You will be deemed to accept such alterations when you next use the website following any such alteration.

This site and its contents are provided "as is" and TKP makes no representation or warranty of any kind with respect to this site or any site or service accessible through this site. TKP expressly disclaims all express and implied warranties including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. In no event will TKP be liable to any party for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, consequential, or other damages (including, but not limited to, lost profits, business interruption, loss of programs or data) without regard to the form of action and whether in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with this site, any content on or accessed through this site or any site service linked to, or any copying, displaying, or use thereof.

However, nothing in the above shall limit or exclude TKP's liability for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or to the extent otherwise not permitted by law.

The information provided on this site is free of charge and for informational purposes only and does not create a business or professional services relationship between you and The Knowledge Practice.

Any employment placement will be subject to The Knowledge Practice's current standard terms of business.
The information on this web site is updated from time to time. Whilst The Knowledge Practice has made every effort to ensure the accuracy and completeness of information on this website, The Knowledge Practice makes no representations or warranties whatsoever, express or implied, as to the quality, accuracy or completeness of such information.

The Knowledge Practice reserves the right to make this site unavailable at any time or to restrict access to parts or the entire site without notice and without any liability to you or any third party.

The Knowledge Practice accepts no liability in contract, tort or otherwise (including liability for negligence), for loss or damage of any kind including without limitation, direct or indirect loss or damage, loss of business, revenue or profits, corruption or destruction of data, or any other consequential loss or damage arising out of your use or inability to use the website (or other site linked to the web-site) or in connection with any computer virus or system failure and The Knowledge Practice excludes any such liability even if The Knowledge Practice is expressly advised of the possibility of such damage or loss.

Unless expressly stated otherwise herein, any information submitted by you through this site shall be deemed non-confidential and non-proprietary. You represent that you have the lawful right to submit such information and agree that you will not submit any information unless you are legally entitled to do so. Because of the open nature of the Internet, we recommend that you not submit information you consider confidential.

You will indemnify The Knowledge Practice against all costs, losses, expenses or other liabilities incurred by The Knowledge Practice arising from the use of the website by you.

You are responsible for complying with the laws of the jurisdiction from which you are accessing this site and you agree that you will not access or use the information on this site in violation of such laws. You will use the website for lawful purposes only.

Your use of this website and downloads from it, and the operation of these terms and conditions, shall be governed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. The English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of the use of this website. If any provision of these terms and conditions is held to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions, which shall remain in full force and effect.

Terms of Use (including amendments)

Using this site

The Knowledge Practice (TKP) provides you with access to the site in order to help you fulfil your consulting needs and offer you other specialist services. In using this site, you agree to use this site only for lawful purposes and in a manner which does not infringe the rights, of, or restrict or inhibit the use of or enjoyment of this site by any third party. This includes posting or transmitting on the Site inaccurate, incomplete or false information (including biographical information about you and/or information about your consulting requirements and/or ability to work in the United Kingdom).

Submission of information

If you contribute to the site, through submission of your CV, through features such as 'Forums' or submission to the 'Knowledge Vault', you agree:

• Not to contribute anything that is libellous, pornographic or otherwise objectionable or illegal.
• Not post or transmit on the Site any material which contains any virus or other disabling devices which interfere with the operation of the Site
• Not to infringe any intellectual property right of any third party or alters or deletes any information which you have no authorisation to do so or overload the website by spamming or flooding it
• Not to take any action or use any device, routine or software to crash, delay, damage or otherwise interfere with the operation of this site or attempt to decipher, disassemble or modify any of the software, coding or information comprised in the site or that affects The Knowledge Practices' reputation or that defames, abuses, harasses or threatens others or encourages any illegal activity.

The Knowledge Practice reserves the right, at your cost, at any time to remove any material from the site which it believes to be libellous, salacious, defamatory or offensive or in breach of a third party's rights, such as a third party's intellectual property or confidentiality rights.

You agree to indemnify The Knowledge Practice on a full and continuing basis against any loss or damage suffered or costs (including legal costs) incurred by The Knowledge Practice in defending any action brought against The Knowledge Practice as a result of any information you have posted on the website.

Submission of ideas

TKP does not accept unauthorized idea submissions outside of established business relationships. To protect the interests of our current clients and ourselves, we must treat the issue of such submissions with great care. Importantly, without a clear business relationship, TKP cannot and does not treat any such submissions in confidence.

Accordingly, please do not communicate unauthorized idea submissions to The Knowledge Practice through this website. Any ideas disclosed to The Knowledge Practice outside a pre-existing and documented confidential business relationship are not confidential and The Knowledge Practice may therefore develop, use and freely disclose or publish similar ideas without compensating you or accounting to you.

The Knowledge Practice will make every reasonable effort to return or destroy any unauthorized idea submissions without detailed review of them. However, if a review is necessary in The Knowledge Practice's sole discretion, it will be with the understanding that The Knowledge Practice assumes no obligation to protect the confidentiality of your idea or compensate you for its disclosure or use. By submitting an idea or other detailed submission to The Knowledge Practice through this website, you agree to be bound by the terms of this stated policy.

The Knowledge Practice therefore cannot accept responsibility or liability for any third party unauthorised access of personal information sent to The Knowledge Practice or held by The Knowledge Practice on your computer system.

Links to other Sites

The knowledge Practice provides links to services and sites on the world wide web. The Knowledge Practice accepts no responsibility or liability for the accuracy or legality of any content contained in such web sites. A link to another site or service is not an endorsement of that site or service.

Please note that neither you nor any third party may link another site to the 'The Knowledge Practice' web site without The Knowledge Practice's prior written consent.

Copyright

All of the information contained on this website is the property of The Knowledge Practice Limited. This includes the content, but is not limited to, the text and images contained herein and their arrangement. All trade marks, logos, software or any other of its intellectual property rights are the exclusive property of The Knowledge Practice Limited.

Without The Knowledge Practice's written permission, you may not (whether directly or indirectly including through the use of any programme) create a database in an electronic or other form by downloading and storing all or any part of the pages from this website.

You may not copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmitt, or distribute in any way, without the prior written consent of The Knowledge Practice, the content provided in this site, including, but not limited to, graphic images, audio, video, html code, buttons, and text with the exception that you may download, display, and print one copy of the materials on any single computer solely for your personal, non-commercial use, provided that you do not modify the material in any way and you keep intact all copyright, trademark, and other proprietary notices. For permission please contact support@tkp.co.uk.

Disclaimers

We do not guarantee that any employer or client will ask for a candidate's information, or will interview or hire a candidate, or that any candidates will be available. Please note that where TKP introduces either by mail, telephone or e-mail any candidate for an assignment or employment then the introductions shall be subject to our Standard Terms of Business as applicable. We will provide all of our clients and consultants with a copy of the Standard Terms of business applicable to them at the point of registration or following registration. The responsibilities and conditions are contained within our Business Terms. Please email us on support@tkp.co.uk for a copy.
Registration (including updates)

Registration

When you register with The Knowledge Practice you may elect to have sent to your email address information about jobs that correspond with the information you have entered or other The Knowledge Practice services. The information you provide when registering is stored on The Knowledge Practice's internal system and is accessed and used by The Knowledge Practice's staff or other organisations in the limited circumstances set out below.
Information collected at registration is protected using industry-standard encryption technology as it is sent over the Internet. All information is required in order to view any of the databases.

At the time of registration, you can check a box to automate the log-in process, which allows you to be automatically logged on when you return to our personalised section(s) using the same computer. We use registration information for internal research and analysis purposes only, to help us understand who is viewing our data, and become better equipped to serve your needs.

The Knowledge Practice does not sell, distribute or disclose personally identifiable information collected at registration to any third parties, except as may be required by subpoena, search warrant, or other legal process.

The Knowledge Practice gives you choices regarding the collection and usage of your personally identifiable information. If you have registered for Alerts, and do not wish to receive future emails, please open a previous email you have received, and click the link (or copy and paste the URL) at the bottom: "To remove you from the mailing list..." If you do not have a previous email, use the "update your profile" function, where you can also submit any changes to your personal profile, including being removed from the email list.

If you are interested in securing information from TKP, but you do not wish to provide any personally identifiable information, you can read the executive summaries posted on the site which requires no registration.

User names and Passwords

When you register with this site or sign in when you visit the site, you will need to use a user name and password. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of these Log-in details and must not allow anyone else to use these Log-in details. You must notify us immediately if you believe that your password is known to someone else or if it may be used in an unauthorised way. We accept no liability for any unauthorised or improper use of disclosure of any password. If you believe that someone has unauthorised use of your password, you must notify The Knowledge Practice immediately by e-mail to support@tkp.co.uk

The username and password you select will not be distributed to any The Knowledge Practice staff or third parties and will be protected.

TKP reserves the right to suspend or terminate your access to this site and/or Log-in details at its sole discretion and without notice.

Submitting your Curriculum Vitae (including updates)

The 'The Knowledge Practice' web site allows you to submit your CV to The Knowledge Practice either with your Registration details or directly into the database or by email to a member of the support team in response to a particular job offered on the site. Your CV will be stored on The Knowledge Practice's internal computer system. Access to The Knowledge Practice computer system is password protected.

Once The Knowledge Practice has obtained your CV, The Knowledge Practice will enter summaries of the information contained in your CV to create a record about you on our internal computer system. The Knowledge Practice may add to the information obtained from your CV with written or verbal information taken directly from you together with information which we think would add value to the presentation of your skills and experiences.. The only information that will be added to the record about you on The Knowledge Practice's internal computer system will be information that is considered necessary or helpful to assist in the recruitment process.

TKP reserves the right to amend the descriptions of work assignments for presentation purposes. However, TKP will only publish these on the site once you have had the opportunity to review and if necessary amend these, using an advance preview and edit facility that is available to you on the site.

The Knowledge Practice will not send your CV to any organisation without your consent. However, The Knowledge Practice may send a link to the profile of your skills and experience to organisations selected by The Knowledge Practice together with details of selected assignments.. The profile would be created from your CV and other written or verbal information you have provided, but would not have any identifying information about you such as your name or your contact details. The Knowledge Practice understands that if you have a rare skill, it may be possible to identify you even without the identifying information mentioned above. If you do not want The Knowledge Practice to send profiles out to prospective employers, please contact the web administrator at support@tkp.co.uk
If you wish to request the removal of personal information from the 'The Knowledge Practice' server, please contact the web administrator at support@tkp.co.uk.

The accuracy of your CV

You are responsible for ensuring that any information you provide to The Knowledge Practice, including your CV, is accurate, complete and your own. If The Knowledge Practice has any reason to believe that any information you have supplied is false, inaccurate or not your own, we may remove your ability to log-in to the site and may prohibit you from using this site. The Knowledge Practice is entitled, forthwith and without notice, to remove from the website any such information found to be false, inaccurate, incomplete or not your own.

Keeping your CV up-to-date

We would appreciate it if you would update your registration details and CV whenever your details change. We are reliant on you supplying us with a factually accurate and complete picture of you, your experience and requirements.

You can update the registration information you have provided to us by following the update procedures included in the website. If you update your information, the new information will replace the old registration information we have stored on The Knowledge Practice's internal system. However, if you have previously submitted curriculum vitae (CV), you should resubmit an up-dated CV as well as updating your registration information on The Knowledge Practice's website as The Knowledge Practice may not check that the information you entered on the web site and the information in your CV are consistent.

Because we do require a password from you to use the up-date functionality, you are given complete access to view and/or change your personal profile. This is for your privacy and protection. Any requests we receive via the "update your personal profile" function will be verified via your email address, which means you must enter the same one you entered when first registering.

TKP Security and Vetting Policy

The Knowledge Practice supplies resources to UK Government bodies and to consultancies who work with them. As such we conduct baseline identity checks on our consultants. Click here to download the form used to do this.

In certain cases we may need to conduct further security clearance. The following summarises the 3 main levels of security clearance which can be required by UK public bodies and which TKP will work with those bodies to obtain.

Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) is required for people who will be working in close proximity to public figures, or who will have access to information or material vulnerable to terrorist attack, or whose work involves unrestricted access to certain government or commercial establishments. A CTC does not allow access to, or knowledge or custody, of protectively marked assets and information.

Security Check (SC) is for people who will have substantial access to SECRET assets or occasional access to TOP SECRET assets and information.

Developed Vetting (DV) is the highest level of clearance produced by the the Agency and is required for people who will have substantial unsupervised access to TOP SECRET assets, or for working in or with the intelligence and security agencies.

N.B. You do not have to be a British National in order to gain Security Clearance, but you will have to meet specific criteria depending on the level of clearance required.