Terms & Conditions

Terms & conditions

The terms and conditions set out below apply to your use of the aogroup.co.uk website. By using www.aogroup.co.uk you agree that you have read and accept these terms and conditions.

1. The materials on this Web site (the “Site”) are provided by a&o systems + services UK Ltd (“a&o”) as a service to its shareholders, customers, employees and other interested persons and may be used for informational, non-commercial purposes only. You should assume that everything you see or read on the Site is copyrighted and may not be used except as provided in these Terms and Conditions or in the text on the Site without the express written permission of a&o. a&o neither warrants nor represents that your use of materials displayed on the Site will not infringe rights of third parties not owned by or affiliated with a&o.

2. While a&o uses reasonable efforts to include accurate and up-to-date information in the Site, a&o makes no warranties or representations as to its accuracy. a&o assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of the Site.

3. Your use of and browsing in the Site are entirely at your risk. Neither a&o, any of its affiliates, agencies, nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering the Site is liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, the Site. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the Site is provided to you “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITIED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NONINFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. a&o also assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for, any damages to, or viruses that may infect your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the Site or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from the Site. In addition, you expressly acknowledge and agree that a&o is not liable or responsible for any defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of third parties.

4. Any communication or material you transmit to the Site by electronic mail or otherwise, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions or the like is, and will be treated as, nonconfidential and nonproprietary. Anything you transmit or post becomes the property of a&o or its affiliates and may be used for any purpose, including, but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast and posting. Furthermore, a&o is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to the Site for any purpose whatsoever including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information.

5. Images of people or places displayed on the Site are either the property of, or used with permission by, a&o. The use of these images by you, or anyone else authorized by you, is prohibited unless specifically permitted by these Terms and Conditions or specific permission provided elsewhere on the Site. Any unauthorized use of the images may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes.

6. The trademarks, logos, and service marks (collectively the “Trademarks”) displayed on the Site are registered and common law Trademarks of a&o and others. Nothing contained on the Site should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any Trademark displayed on the Site without the written permission of a&o or such third party that may own the Trademarks displayed on the Site. Your use of the Trademarks displayed on the Site, or any other content on the Site, is strictly prohibited. You are also advised that a&o will aggressively enforce its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law, including the seeking of criminal prosecution.

7. a&o has not reviewed any or all of the sites linked to the Site and is not responsible for the content of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to the Site. Your linking to the Site, off-site pages or other sites is at your own risk and without the permission of a&o.

8. Although a&o may from time to time monitor or review discussions, chats, postings, transmissions, bulletin boards, and the like on the Site, a&o is under no obligation to do so and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such locations nor for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger, or inaccuracy contained in any information within such locations on the Site. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law. a&o will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing a&o to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials.

9. The software and technical data on this web site is subject to the laws, regulations, orders or other restrictions regarding import to, and export and re-export from, various countries, including export and re-export restrictions that may be imposed by applicable laws of the United States. By downloading or accessing software or technical data, you are agreeing not to import, export or re-export, either directly or indirectly (including transmission and shipment) except in accordance with all applicable laws, and you are accepting responsibility to determine what is necessary to assure such compliance. In particular, but without limitation, you agree not to export, re-export or provide the software or technical data:

1. to, or to a national or resident of Cuba, Iraq , Iran, Sudan, Libya, Syria, North Korea, or to any other country embargoed or restricted by the U.S. (This list of countries is current as of July 2002 but is subject to change)

2. to anyone on the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Denial Orders or the U.S. Department of Treasury's Specially Designated Nationals Lists, or
3. to any person or entity who has been prohibited from participating in U.S. export transactions by any agency of the U.S. Government.

You are also agreeing not to download, transfer, export or re-export a&o products, technology or software to your customers or any intermediate entity in the chain of supply if our products will be used in the design, development, production, stockpiling or use of missiles, chemical or biological weapons or for nuclear end uses, without obtaining prior authorization from the U.S. Government.

10. a&o may at any time revise these Terms and Conditions by updating this posting. You are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the then current Terms and Conditions to which you are bound.

11. The statements in this website that are not historical statements are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In addition, we have made in the past and may make in the future other written or oral forward-looking statements, including statements regarding future operating performance, short- and long-term revenue and earnings performance, the timing of the financial impact of new contracts, backlog, the value of new contract signings, business pipeline and industry growth rates and our performance relative thereto. Any forward-looking statement may rely on a number of assumptions concerning future events and be subject to a number of uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside our control, that could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements. For a discussion of these factors, reference is made to the Management's Discussion and Analysis section of our most recent Form 10-K or Form 10-Q.

The software and services provided herein by a&o are protected by one or more patents pending. a&o and the a&o logo are registered trademarks of a&o systems + services UK Ltd. a&o is an equal opportunity employer and values the diversity of its people.

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Privacy Policy

Privacy and Data Protection Policy

This privacy statement has been created by a&o in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy and data protection. This commitment as to a&o activities on the Internet is implemented through the a&o Web Privacy and Data Protection Policy.

In accordance with the a&o Web Privacy and Data Protection Policy, the following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site:

Use
The site collects data through a feedback form that allows users to request information about a&o and its products and services.

a&o collects data from users who request information, consisting of name and e-mail address. The form also allows a user to provide a message, as he or she may desire to provide. Information so collected is used solely for the purpose of responding to the request of the user.

We may use user IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server and administer our Web site, to analyse trends, to track user movement and use, and to gather broad demographic information. Such data is not linked to any personally identifiable information. Personal information provided by the user may also be collected for the purposes of internal marketing research, user trend studies and site wide improvements. Such data will not be shared with third parties and is used solely to improve our understanding of our audience.

Data submitted to the site may be transferred within a&o, including to subsidiaries and approved third parties strictly in order to fulfil or expedite a user's request. Data submitted to this site will not be shared or sold to any other outside parties, unless specifically requested by the user.

Retention
Edsgfs.com will retain data submitted to the Web site for as long as it is needed to fulfil a user’s request, maintain records of interaction with users, and/or to facilitate and support the use of registration.

Correct/Update
Regular users may change or modify information previously provided to this site through e-mail to communications@aogroup.co.uk.

Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Any a&o employee who may have access to such information is aware of the a&o Web Privacy and Data Protection Policy through direct notification and training. Access to such information is limited to those required to fulfil the applicable user request, and security procedures in place include password protection and, as appropriate, physical protection.

Opt-Out
Regular users may opt-out of receiving further communications through
e-mail to communications@aogroup.co.uk.

Notification of Changes
In the event of any changes by a&o of its a&o Web Privacy and Data Protection Policy that may impact the practices described on this Web site will be posted on this site. In no event will any such changes to this policy apply with respect to data previously collected through this site.

Registered users will be notified of changes to the privacy statement if it effects the way their personal information is being handled.

Juniors
We do not intentionally invite data from Juniors (under the age of 13) to this site, but where we are aware of such submissions for educational purposes, we will treat such data as ‘Sensitive Data’. Data known to be from juniors and which is not specifically submitted for educational purposes will be immediately deleted.

Site Survey
Users may be invited (by pop-up screen) to participate in a site survey carried out by an independent organization. You may opt-out of participation at the time the survey is offered. The survey collects generalized statistics only. No personal data is held as a result of the site survey, unless you opt to provide specific comments. In this case your comments and address information will be passed directly to a&o and subject to the same provisions and safeguards as provided for information collected on the eds.com Web site. Contact for personal data submitted via the survey is info@eds.com. Personal data submitted through the survey will be used only by a&o, and only in order to respond to, and where appropriate to action, your comments.

The survey organization will place cookies on users opting to participate in the survey, solely for the purpose of avoiding repeat surveys within 180 days. Cookies will automatically expire after 180 days.

Contact
In the event of any question relating to this site, please e-mail us at communications@aogroup.co.uk or mail us at:
a&o systems + services UK Ltd
Prescott Road
Colnbrook
SL3 0AE

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Accessibility Statement

Accessibility Statement

This website has been designed to be as accessible as possible to people with disabilities and also to be compatible with the types of adaptive technology used by people with disabilities, including screen readers and text only web browsers.

Access keys
Access keys are keyboard shortcuts that replace the need to use a mouse for navigation. For this site, you can use:
ALT - A (press enter) for Accessibility page
ALT - H (press enter) to go to the homepage
ALT - M (press enter) to go to Main Menu links
ALT - S (press enter) to go to Sub Menu links
ALT - C (press enter) for main page content

Please note your browser may not support access keys.

Navigating this website
To navigate through this website, please use the menu on the left-hand side of the page. You can use the tab key to navigate through the menu links. Using a screen reader or text only browser you can skip the navigation using the skip navigation link.

Font sizes
You may change the display font size to your preference using your browser. In Internet Explorer, select View, then Text Size, and then your preferred size. In Netscape select View, then Text Zoom, and then your preferred percentage size. Other browsers may vary.

Style sheets
You may import your own style sheet into this website. In Explorer select Tools, then Internet options, and then Accessibility. Next click on any or all of three checkboxes to ignore colours, font styles or font sizes. In the same window you can change your style sheet by clicking the checkbox that says, 'format documents using my style sheet' then simply browse to your style sheet and click ok.
In Netscape select Edit, then Preferences and then Appearance. You will then be given the choice to specify your own colours and fonts.

Accessible PDF
We recommend that users download the latest version of Adobe Acrobat to view Adobe PDF files. Please note some of our older archived Adobe PDF files may not be completely accessible when using screen readers, as PDF files are only accessible when they have specifically been made to be so.
Adobe Acrobat 6.0 software provides a number of capabilities that improve access for disabled users. Including the following:

• Read Adobe PDF files aloud using standard operating system text-to-speech functionality
  
• Give greater control when using screen readers
  
• Evaluate the accessibility of an Adobe PDF file
  
• Create accessible Adobe PDF documents and forms quickly
  
• Reduce the size of tagged Adobe PDF files for faster download times
  
• Adobe Acrobat 5.0 software also provides improved access for disabled users:
  
• Converts new and existing PDF files to tagged Adobe PDF files with the optional Make Accessible plug-in
  
• Includes tools to help troubleshoot and optimise Adobe PDF files for accessibility, including the accessibility checker, the Tags palette, and more
  
• Provides usability enhancements, including enhanced keyboard shortcuts, support for high-contrast viewing, and the ability to zoom in and reflow text on the screen

 

For further information about Adobe's PDF accessibility, please visit: http://access.adobe.com/

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