General guidance and conditions of use

[Technical Admin]

We hope that http://www.innovationindex.org.uk/ will become an important influence on the development of the Index project.

The website is hosted by Ning. For the full Terms & Conditions, please see the ‘Terms of Service’ page located on the bottom right of the main page).

However, a few particularly important rules of the road:

* Since this is a consultation, by posting material on the website you grant to NESTA a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty free licence to use the material without necessarily attributing you as the author for the purposes of the development of the Innovation Index;
* Please do not post copyrighted material or any other content that you do not have a right to make available. Please do, however, make clear references and/or links available to any articles or other material that you cite to help others
* Please do not post any material that could be considered defamatory, unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, libellous, or invasive of another's privacy
* Please be honest about your identity and affiliation
* Please do not make any post that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitationor
* Please contact us immediately if you come across any material that contravenes these guidelines

Finally, although this is a consultative process, NESTA reserves the right to remove or edit specific responses or revoke the memberships of individuals if they (in our sole opinion) contravene the guidelines outlined above. We will, however strive to remain open to free and fair debate.

Please also bear in mind that if you delete your profile, all of your associated contributions will be removed from public view but we may retain copies of the data.

Entire responses may also be e-mailed to [e-mail]. Please indicate if you would prefer all or part of your response to remain confidential.

Thanks again,

The Innovation Index Project team