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Copyright
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Permission to copy does not permit incorporation of the material or any part of it into any other medium, whether to hard copy, an electronic file or any other format. In particular, no part of the Commonwealth Secretariat website may be distributed or copied for any commercial purpose.

No part of the Commonwealth Secretariat website may be reproduced on or transmitted to or stored on any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system nor may be accessed in such manner as to make them appear part of any third party's website or electronic database or retrieval system without the Commonwealth Secretariat's prior written permission.

Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.

Disclaimer
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The Commonwealth Secretariat disclaims all and any liability and responsibility to any person, whether a user of this website or not, in respect of anything and of the consequences of anything, done or omitted to be done by any such person in reliance, whether wholly or partially, upon the whole or any part of the contents of this website.

Whilst the Commonwealth Secretariat endeavours to ensure that the information on this website is correct, the Commonwealth Secretariat shall not be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of business or loss of profits) arising in contract, tort or otherwise from the use of or inability to use this website, or any information contained in it, or from any action or decision taken as a result of using this website or any such information.

The Commonwealth Secretariat accepts no responsibility for the content of any website to which a hypertext link from this website exists. The links are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, at customer's sole risk and without representations or warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or otherwise. Nor are any warranties or commitments made that access or use will be uninterrupted or error free, or as to the results to be obtained from any access or use.

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