There is no charge for the Services but by agreement between the Mentor and the Client reasonable expenses incurred by the Mentor may be recoverable and the Mentor is at liberty to come to a separate arrangement concerning matters outside the ambit of the Services.

In providing the Services a Mentor is acting independently of any other party. Accordingly, the Client acknowledges that neither the ITC nor its subsidiary, The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists Charity ("the Charity Company") is a party to any contract or agreement between a Mentor and a Client and neither shall have any liability for any acts or omissions on the part of a Mentor.

The Client agrees to co-operate with the Mentor in the performance of the Services and to provide such support, facilities and information as may be reasonably required. All decisions and actions taken by Client in connection with its business or otherwise that may rely on any information or opinion received from a Mentor during the provision of the Services are solely the responsibility of the Client.

A Mentor shall have no liability to a Client or its business for any loss or damage whatsoever, whether direct, indirect, special or consequential, which arises in contract, tort, by statute or otherwise. Nothing in these conditions excludes or limits a Mentor's liability for death or personal injury caused by any wilful default or negligence.

If a Client provides a Mentor with information which infringes third party intellectual property rights, is defamatory, constitutes a breach of confidentiality or imposes some other liability upon the Mentor, the Client will indemnify the Mentor, the ITC and the Charity Company, against any liability they may assume by reason of the use of such information in the course of the Services or after they shall have been provided.

The Mentor undertakes not knowingly to cause or permit any action which may damage or endanger the intellectual property rights of the Client or the title thereto, nor to permit others to do so. The Client shall have no rights to, or to claim ownership of, any intellectual property provided or originated as part of the Services by the Mentor.

A Mentor shall not be deemed to have made any representations, warranties or undertakings of any kind to a Client in relation to the Services.

The Mentor and the Client will promptly disclose to each other any conflicts of interest of which either becomes aware during the provision of the Services.

Both Mentor and Client will keep confidential all information disclosed by one to the other that is not in the public domain provided that the Mentor may be permitted in good faith and with reasonable discretion to discuss issues arising with (a) other mentors duly appointed by the Client and (b), members of the Steering Committee of the ITC's Entrepreneurship Panel ("the Committee") where it is likely to be beneficial to the Client and/or the ethos and standing of mentoring generally. It is further agreed that the Mentor will use all reasonable endeavours to ensure in relation to discussions within the Committee that (i) such detail as is disclosed remains confidential within the Committee and (ii) that insofar as records are maintained by the Committee on progress of a Client, these will remain internal to the Committee and may only be disseminated outside the Committee on a suitably anonymised basis.

Either party has the right to terminate the provision of the Services, without thereby incurring any liability to the other, by notice to such effect given orally or in writing to that other. In the event of any termination before any Services shall have been completed, the terminating party undertakes to provide the other with reasonable explanation of the underlying reasons for so doing.

English law shall govern these terms and conditions.