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Eurofound maintains this website to enhance public access to information about its initiatives and its policies in general. Our goal is to keep this information complete, accurate and up to date. If errors are brought to our attention, we will try to correct them without delay.
In light of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union on 31 January 2020, it should be noted that data published on the Eurofound website may include the 28 EU Member States, as the UK was covered in earlier research. This will be progressively amended to reflect the current composition of the 27 EU Member States.
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Restrictions on your use of this website
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- use this website in any manner that is not permitted or that violates any law, regulation or statute in an applicable jurisdiction
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- The original meaning or the message of the documents should not be distorted.
- Eurofound cannot be held liable for any consequence stemming from the reuse.
Reuse is understood as: ‘reproduction of textual data and multimedia items which are the property of Eurofound or of third parties and for which Eurofound holds the rights of use’.
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Any queries regarding the above shall be addressed in writing to: copyright@eurofound.europa.eu.
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- Linked information to eurofound.europa.eu should not be displayed in a manner which suggests endorsement of or affiliation with any commercial product or service.
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Eurofound’s logo is the exclusive property of the Agency. Its use is prohibited without the prior written permission of the Agency.
Logos whose ownership does not belong to Eurofound and which may appear on this website are the property of the respective owners, who must be contacted in case of any conflict that may arise with respect to the said logos.
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Many of our web pages have a 'Contact' button, which activates your email software and invites you to send your comments to a specific email address.
When you send such a message, your personal data are collected only to the extent necessary to reply. If the management team of the mailbox is unable to answer your question, it will forward your email to another service. You will be informed, via email, about which service your email has been forwarded to. To know more on the processing of your personal data, please see our page on Data protection.
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Any processing of personal data by Eurofound within the use of this website shall be carried out in accordance with the applicable data protection legislation, namely Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data. For further information, see our page on Data protection.
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Eurofound accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to the information on this site. This information is:
- of a general nature only and is not intended to address the specific circumstances of any particular individual or entity
- not necessarily comprehensive, complete, accurate or up to date
- sometimes linked to external sites over which Eurofound services have no control and for which Eurofound assumes no responsibility
- not professional or legal advice (if you need specific advice, you should always consult a suitably qualified professional)
It is our goal to minimise disruption caused by technical errors. However, some data or information on our site may have been created or structured in files or formats that are not error-free and we cannot guarantee that our service will not be interrupted or otherwise affected by such problems. The user acknowledges and agrees that Eurofound shall have no responsibility for any material or content on websites the user may access through this website. Eurofound does not control such third-party websites and the existence of any hyperlinks does not imply any endorsement or affiliation with Eurofound.