LEGAL NOTICES

Important Information - Disclaimer

YFM Private Equity Limited, (registration number: 2174994), is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority is a member of the BVCA and is part of the YFM Group. For further information on the FSA, please follow this link http://www.fsa.gov.uk

Whilst YFM Private Equity Limited has taken all reasonable steps to ensure that the information contained within these pages is accurate and up-to-date, no liability can be accepted for any error or omissions appearing in this site.

If you are in any doubt as to the validity of information made available within these pages, or if you wish to rely on this information, then it may be in your best interests to seek verification by contacting us.

Everything in our site is provided for information purposes only, and is not investment advice. Professional advice from an authorised independent adviser should always be sought before acting or relying on any of the information, and we accept no responsibility for any loss which may arise from reliance on the information in our site, or any site to which we have provided a link.

With reference to the annual reports of British Smaller Companies VCT plc, British Smaller Technology Companies VCT plc and British Smaller Technology Companies VCT 2 plc, the maintenance and integrity of this website is the responsibility of the directors of those companies and the directors of YFM Private Equity Limited on whose website they are presented. The work carried out by the auditors of British Smaller Companies VCT plc, British Smaller Technology Companies VCT plc and British Smaller Technology Companies VCT 2 plc does not involve consideration of these matters and, accordingly, the auditors accept no responsibility for any changes that may have occurred to the financial statements of those companies since they were initially presented on the website.

The pages on this site are issued in the United Kingdom, and comply with appropriate UK legislation and regulation.

We welcome interest and enquiries from users worldwide. However, if you are accessing this site from outside the UK, local legislation and regulation may not permit us to provide products for you in your own country. We will be pleased to confirm the position to you on request, if you complete the enquiry form

No contracts will be entered into by electronic means.

Privacy Statement

The names, logos, domain names, images and web site design of YFM Group and associated Companies form part of its intellectual property. No-one has the right to use or reproduce any of the above without the permission of YFM Group and any such attempt will be regarded as a breach of its intellectual property rights and will result in steps being taken to protect those rights.

The North West Business Investment Scheme site does not store or capture personal information, but merely logs the user's IP address which is automatically recognised by the web server. Information that has been provided whether of a personal or financial nature will only be used by the YFM Group, will be held in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and will not be passed on to a third party without prior written consent. We will only obtain personal data from you for specified and lawful purposes and any personal data which we obtain will be processed fairly and lawfully. We do not disclose personal information to third parties, except where you have given your consent or where we have a legal obligation to do so. We do not provide your details to third parties for any marketing or promotional purposes. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the data held is adequate, relevant and not excessive for this purpose. We may need to share personal information with other companies within the YFM Group. All these Group companies follow the same Data Protection policy and maintain the same levels of confidentiality and security. We take all reasonable steps to protect the confidentiality and security of your personal information and to keep your personal information accurate and, where necessary, up to date. We take all reasonable steps to retain data only for the duration of the purpose for which it was obtained. Where requested, we will delete personal information from current operational systems where it is no longer required. We may need to continue to hold some details about you after your relationship with us has ended, for example for legal and regulatory purposes.

In accordance with the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998, you are entitled to a copy of the information that we hold about you. On receipt of your written request, together with a cheque in the sum of £10 made payable to YFM Group Limited, we will release a copy of such information within 40 days.

We do not use cookies for collecting user information from the site and we will not collect any information about you except that required for system administration of the web server.

The privacy policy only covers the North West Business Investment Scheme and the YFM Private Equity websites. Other links within this site to other websites are not covered by this policy.