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Quality statement

Philosophy

‘Erskine will consistently deliver exceptional creativity to its clients, along with high quality, robust research, sound strategic thinking and honest common sense advice’.

Objectives

‘To create a financially successful business working with local, national and international clients which will offer quality, enriching, fulfilling employment for its’ partners & staff, whilst working within its policies on quality, equal opportunities employment, health & safety, the environment and corporate responsibility’.

Overall

Reporting

Staff

Project management

Data control

Privacy policy

Information collection and use

Erskine Corporation is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Erskine Corporation collects information from our users at several different points on our website.

Registration

In order to use some parts of this website, a user must first complete a registration form. During registration a user is required to give their contact information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact the user about the services on our site for which they have expressed interest. It is optional for the user to provide demographic information and unique identifiers, but encouraged so we can provide a more personalized experience on our site.

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas of our site. For example, the user will not be able to participate in any of our contests, etc that may periodically take place. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.

Log files

We use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Sharing

We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

We may use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

We partner with other parties to provide specific services. When the user signs up for these services, we will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services.

These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

Links

This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we Erskine Corporation are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this web site.

Newsletter

If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address.

Security

This website takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line.

While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just ‘surfing’.

All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, accounts or administration) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to re-gain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and / or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers’ information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment, behind a locked cage.

If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to .

Site and service updates

From time to time we send the user site and service announcement updates. Members are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the website. We communicate with the user to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email or phone.

Correction / updating personal information

If a user’s personally identifiable information changes (such as your postal / zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavour to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user’s personal data provided to us. This can be done by emailing or you can contact us by post, telephone or fax at the registered office.

Choice / opt-out

Our users are given the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for the information. For example, our order form has an ‘opt-out’ mechanism so users who buy a product from us, but don’t want any marketing material, can keep their email address off of our lists.

Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials from our partners may opt-out of receiving these communications by emailing or you can contact us by post, telephone or fax at the registered office.

Users of our site are always notified when their information is being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with services that require an outside party, or not.

Notification of changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Sitemap

Below is a dynamically created sitemap reflecting current top level site section with associated sub-categories, and also details of all supporting material on the website. Individual articles are not listed for the purposes of brevity.

Email disclaimer

Any opinions expressed in the email are those of the individual and not necessarily the company. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use is strictly prohibited.

If you have received this email in error, please accept our apologies for our mistake, and please send it back to to let us know it has gone astray.

If you are concerned about the content of this message, please email to

The contents of an attachment to this e-mail may contain software viruses that could damage your own computer system. While the sender has taken every reasonable precaution to minimise this risk, we cannot accept liability for any damage that you sustain as a result of software viruses. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachments to this email.

Statutory information

Erskine Corporation is a Company Limited by shares and registered in the Isle of Man.

Directors

Simon J Campbell & Angela M Campbell

Registered office

Millennium House, Victoria Road, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM2 4RW

Registered number

002697V

VAT registration number

TBA

Data controller number

Registered with the Data Protection Supervisor: N002354

Accessibility

(Access keys info will appear here shortly)

Standards compliance

Links

Images

Visual design

Accessibility references

Accessibility software

Accessibility services

Related resources

Copyright notice and disclaimer8

This regulates your use of the Erskine Corporation (’Erskine’) website and all material within it. If you do not agree, do not use this site.

  1. The information contained in this website has been prepared solely for the purpose of providing information about ‘Erskine’ and its business.

  2. The materials contained within this website are directed at those who access the website from within the United Kingdom. Those who access the site from other locations are responsible for compliance with local laws to the extent that they are applicable.

  3. Top the fullest extent permitted at law, ‘Erskine’ is providing this website and its contents on an ‘as is’ basis and makes no (and expressly disclaims all) representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, with respect to this web site or the information, content, materials or products included in this site including, without limitation, warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In addition ‘Erskine’ does not represent or warrant that the information accessible via this website is accurate, complete or current.

  4. Except as specifically stated on this website, to the fullest extent permitted at law, neither ‘Erskine’ nor any of its affiliates, partners, members, employees or other representatives will be liable for damages arising out of or in connection with the use of this website or the information, content, materials or products included on this site. This is a comprehensive limitation of liability that applies to all damages of any kind, including (without limitation) compensatory, direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of data, income or profit, loss of or damage to property and claims of third parties. For the avoidance of doubt, ‘Erskine’ does not limit its liability for death or personal injury to the extent only that it arises as a result of the negligence of ‘erskine’, its affiliates, partners, members, employees or other representatives.

  5. Copyright © 2008, Erskine Corporation. All website design, text, graphics, the selection and arrangement thereof, and all software compilations, underlying source code, software (including applets) and all other material on this website are copyright Erskine Corporation and its affiliates, or their content and technology providers. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

  6. No part of the text or graphics on this site may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from ‘Erskine’. However, you are permitted to print or save to your local hard disk one copy of reasonable extracts from the site for your personal use. Requests for permission for copying or use beyond this should be sent to .

  7. ‘Erskine Design’, ‘inclusive regeneration’, ‘beyond masterplanning’, ‘we do difficult’ and / or other ‘Erskine’ services / straplines / marks and logos referenced on this website are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Erskine Corporation in the United Kingdom, United States of America and / or other countries. Other product and company names mentioned on this website may be the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

  8. Any visitor to the ‘Erskine’ website who hyperlinks to any other website is deemed to acknowledge that ‘Erskine’ has not reviewed and disclaims responsibility for any information contained in any such site accessed through the hyperlink.

‘Erskine Design’ is a trading style of Erskine Corporation.

Health and safety policy

Erskine Corporation Health & Safety Policy Statement – Health & Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

This is the Health & Safety Policy Statement of Erskine Corporation

Our statement of general policy is to:

SIGNED

Simon J Campbell
Managing Director
DATED January 01st, 2008
REVIEW DATE December 31st, 2008

Responsibilities

Overall responsibility is that of Simon Campbell, who is also the designated Health & Safety (H&S) officer. Day to day responsibility for ensuring this policy is put into practice is delegated to Angela Campbell. If working off site responsibility is delegated to the Partner responsible for the off site work. They are also responsible to ensure health and safety standards are maintained and improved.

Angela and Simon Campbell are Directors of Erskine Corporation

Company responsibilities

The Directors have responsibility for developing an overall policy for staff training incorporating health and safety awareness. The Health & Safety (H&S) Officer has a key role in promoting awareness of, and developing positive attitudes to health and safety at Erskine Corporation.

With the help of designated staff, the H&S Officer shall be responsible for drafting, developing and updating policy, instruction and guidance on behalf of the company.

Employee responsibilities

Employees:

Management of Health & Safety at Work regulations 1999

Health & Safety risks arising from our work activities.

Key areas of risk

Risk assessments will be undertaken by the Directors and the finding of the risk assessment will be discussed at Directors meeting and any corrective action undertaken.

Action required to remove / control risks will be approved by the Directors. The partners are also responsible for ensuring that the action required be implemented and for checking that the actions have removed / reduced the risks.

Assessments will be reviewed every twelve months / or when the work activity changes.

Consultation with employees

Employee representatives are designated on rotation basis and consultation with employees is provided via the monthly staff meeting and monthly Directors meeting.

Safe plant & equipment

All staff & Directors are responsible for identifying equipment needing maintenance and report to the partners.

The Directors are also responsible for:

Safe handling of substances

The Directors are responsible for identifying substances requiring a COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) assessment, for undertaking COSHH assessments, for ensuring that all actions identified in the assessments are implemented and for ensuring that all relevant employees are informed about the COSHH assessments.

Assessments will be reviewed every six months or when the work activity changes, whichever is the soonest.

Information, instruction and supervision

The Health & Safety law poster is displayed on the staff notice board and leaflets are issued as part of the new employee induction process.
Health & Safety advice and responsibility for ensuring that our employees working at locations under the control of other employers are given relevant health and safety information is the job of the Directors.

Health & Safety induction training

Will be provided for all employees by the Director responsible for induction and training and this induction training will be recorded on individual staff training records.

Reporting accidents & first aid

All accidents and cases of work-related ill health are to be recorded in the accident book, which is kept at the Director’s office. The first aid boxes are also kept in the Director’s office.

The appointed first aiders are Simon J Campbell and Angela M Campbell and they are responsible for reporting accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences to the enforcing authority.

Monitoring

To check our working conditions and ensure our safe working practices are being followed, spot checks will be undertaken between risk assessments by the H&S officer. They are also responsible for investigating work-related causes of sickness absences, for investigating accidents and for acting on investigation findings to prevent recurrence.

Emergency procedures – fire and evacuation

The H&S officer is responsible for:

Standard terms of business

The services

The client hereby engages the services of Erskine to undertake services detailed in schedule A. Timescales, milestones and deadlines will be carried out in accordance with schedule A.

The client will supply Erskine at the earliest opportunity with all of the information and documentation necessary to the performance of this contract. Erskine Corporation shall return all materials belonging to the client on request and in any event on termination of this contract.

Subcontractors / associates

Where appropriate for the effective delivery of this contract, Erskine may engage additional consultants or subcontract aspects of the service. These arrangements are clearly outlined in schedule B. Any change to these arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the client in advance.

Payment

Invoices will be issued in accordance with the schedule set out in schedule C.
The client agrees to pay Erskine within seven days of invoice. Erskine reserves the right to charge interest on all overdue debts at the rate of 2% per month or part of a month.

Proposals

Proposals remain valid for 28 days from the date of issue unless otherwise stated.

Notices

Any notices to be given to the client at their head office and to Erskine at their registered office. These terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and the parties hereby submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

Project variation notices

Where variations to an agreed programme of work is specified by the client, and these variations are agreed to be likely to result in an increase in the chargeable hours, costs or expenses, a variation notice setting out the nature of the variation and the estimated adjustment to the budget, will be issued. Once issued, such a variation notice must be signed as agreed by the client prior to Erskine personnel being required to perform work resulting from the variation notice. Any work undertaken under a variation notice will be billed monthly in arrears.

Direct costs and expenses

Unless specifically included in the proposal, all expenses will be agreed in advance within an approved budget and billed, at cost, monthly in arrears. A full mileage and expenses schedule will be provided with the monthly invoice. All rates below are exclusive of VAT.

Mileage: £0.45 per mile
Accommodation outside M25 (per person per day): £65
Sustenance outside M25 overnight (per person per day): £25
Accommodation within M25 (per person per night): £95
Sustenance within M25 overnight (per person per day): £30
Printing / postage / copying / other disbursements: At cost
Trains / taxis / flights (economy class): At cost

From time to time there may be a requirement for Erskine to procure services or equipment outside the scope of this proposal. This will be carried out against a specification agreed with the client. The contract for the chosen services or equipment and responsibility for the quality of the delivered services or equipment will be directly with the client unless otherwise stated.

Publicity

The client allows use of their name and a description of the work undertaken in publicity material, press releases, websites and other media produced from time to time by Erskine. Use of detailed descriptions of the work will be subject to acceptance by the client and bound by the confidentiality agreement.

Copyright

The copyright of all intellectual property contained in all images, documents and / or presentations supplied to the client is wholly owned by Erskine unless specifically stated. Use of any of this material is strictly limited; if unsure you should contact Erskine. Erskine will credited in full as author and copyright holder in all subsequent use of such materials.

The Erskine website is governed by a separate agreement

Erskine will be free to make future use of the general market intelligence and research findings obtained during the contract.

Termination

In the event of either party being in material or fundamental breach of any of the terms and conditions of business the other may forthwith terminate the contract if the breach is incapable of remedy, or if it is capable of remedy the aggrieved party shall serve on the other seven days notice requiring such a breach to be remedied and, if such a breach is not remedied within the seven day period the contract shall automatically terminate.
In the case of dispute both parties agreed to abide by the decision reached by an independent mediator. The cost of mediation will be borne by the party against whom the judgement is made, or shared if no or equal fault is found.

Payment for any work is still due up to and including the day that the breach is notified in accordance with Schedules A, B and C.

Data protection

The company is registered with the data protection registrar number Z7034333

Insurance

Professional indemnity insurance

Erskine hold professional indemnity insurance to a level of £2,000,000 (plus costs and expenses) with Limit Underwriting Limited. Policy schedule is available on request.

Public, products and employee liability insurance

Erskine hold current employee liability insurance to a level of £10,000,000 with Royal & Sun Alliance. In addition public / products liability is also held at a level of £2,000,000. Policy schedules are available on request.

Commercial legal protection insurance

Legal expenses insurance is held with DAS at a level of £1,000,000 for employment disputes, compensation awards and £50,000 for other matters such as contractual disputes. Policy schedule is available on request.

Computer insurance

Erskine hold computer insurance which covers disaster recovery to a level of £20,000 with Royal & Sun Alliance. Policy schedule is available on request.

Computer data

Computer data is backed up daily with a copy taken off site. Some data is held on our dedicated servers at a secure data centre in Manchester which is backed up onsite.

Erskine offer to its clients facilities such as online libraries, discussion for a, secure chat services. These are governed by a separate agreement.

Virus checking software is also updated daily through Computer Associates / McAfee). Email and files are continuously checked for viruses but our responsibility is limited and governed by a separate agreement. Mail is also virus checked, cleaned and ‘spam’ removed by spamsoap

Company policies

These comprehensive policies including those on equal opportunities, employment, environment and health and safety can be viewed here

Confidentiality

Erskine hereby agree to treat as secret and confidential and not at any time for any reason to disclose or permit to be disclosed to any person or otherwise make use of or permit to be made use of any unpublished information relation to the client’s technology or other know-how business plans or finances or any such information relating to any subsidiary, supplier, customer or client of the client and to deliver up to the client all working papers, computer discs and tapes or other material and copies provided to or prepared by us or our employees should the current discussions terminate. Erskine further agree to procure that our employees observe the terms of this clause.

This agreement is drawn up in duplicate to be signed by both parties.

Environmental policy

Policy context

Growing international concern about increasing pressures on the global environment have led Erskine to adopt and adhere to the following policy. We take it very seriously.

Erskine resolves to: “promote the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources, to minimise environmental pollution, and to promote the development and maintenance of sustainable economies and communities in all of its activities and through its influence over others.

Erskine will continue to review programmes and services and to undertake to act wherever possible to meet best environmental practices.”

This environmental policy is supported by, and makes a contribution to, delivering those commitments. This policy recognises that Erskine can contribute to a better quality of life and sustainable development by promoting and integrating the protection of the environment into its services and activities so that natural processes and systems are respected.

Policy aim

Erskine aims to set an example in caring for the environment by continually improving its environmental performance across its operations.

Principles

Two guiding principles will be applied when in seeking to achieve this aim:

A. Aim to conserve natural resources and reduce pollution by:

B. Aim to encourage best practice by:

Energy

Climate change is now seen as a threat to sustainable development. Burning of fossils fuels releases carbon, a gas blamed for global warming. While the consumption of fossil fuels for heating, cooling and lighting of buildings and facilities by Erskine may be small, it is recognised that reducing energy consumption and maximising energy efficiency are important considerations in all areas of business.

Erskine will aim to:

Waste

Waste disposal whether by landfill or incineration contributes to global and local environmental problems. Recycling reduces the demand for landfill sites and avoids contamination of land and water by minimising environmentally damaging wastes and discharges.

Erskine will aim to:

Purchasing

Integrating environmental considerations into purchasing policy is a high priority. This process must not compromise compliance with Finance Regulations and recognise general procurement directives, to achieve value for money, ensure that goods are fit for service and that they can be procured in a timely manner.

Erskine will aim to:

Estate management

All building alterations and new constructions must comply with building regulations. When developing, planning, managing and maintaining its buildings, structures, lands and grounds it is vital that Erskine also recognises that it must set a high standard environmental performance.

Building management

Erskine will aim to:

Grounds and land management

Erskine will aim to:

Transport

Energy-efficient vehicles are essential for sustainable transport. Increases in traffic have serious consequences for all of us. Promoting the efficient use of existing means of transport can reduce congestion and pollution that comes from commuting, official travel, fleet management, visitors and deliveries from commercial vehicles and is critical to maintaining the environment.

Erskine will aim to:

Responsibility

Responsibility for integrating environmental considerations into the operations of Erskine is taken by the relevant director within Erskine (Simon Campbell). The corporate and business plans produced by Erskine will reflect this policy. All staff and contractors are required to follow the principles of this policy and any relevant guidance to assist Erskine to meet its overall aim.

Monitoring and auditing

Erskine will aim to ensure that the practice of its staff, contractors and suppliers is consistent with this statement.

Equal opportunities employment policy

Erskine Corporation aims to be an equal opportunities employer.

This policy is designed to ensure that no person is treated unlawfully or discriminated against unfairly in any way on the grounds of gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, race, colour, ethnic origin or religion. This policy complies with the statutory obligations under the Race Relations Act 1976 and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

To ensure that this policy is operating effectively (and for no other purpose) records are maintained of employees and applicants racial origins, gender and disability. Ongoing monitoring and regular analysis of these records provide the basis for appropriate action to eliminate unlawful direct and indirect discrimination and promote equality of opportunity.

The company’s long term aim is that the composition of our workforce should reflect that of the community. The managing partner is responsible for the effective operation of the company’s Equal opportunities employment policy.

Policies

Vacancy advertising
Selection and recruitment
Personnel records
General

The objectives of this Equal Opportunities Employment Policy are to:

Corporate responsibility policy

Our policy will be posted here shortly.