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Is your web site business content: something fit to be imitated; a pattern after which others should be made. If so, you may be an "Exemplar".

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Process

Endorsement proceeds via self-assessment, email application, and independent validation (so far as practicable). Endorsement is a negotiated process intended to ensure that each applicant is trading is a manner that is right for them, and fair to customers. It looks solely at business acumen, and does not seek to judge artistic, or web design capability.

 

Self-assessment

bpDoes your web site comply with the UK Distance Selling Regulations 2000 by providing the following information:

your "brick building" contact details?
a description of your goods or services?
the price of your goods or services?
delivery costs (where appropriate)?
arrangements for payment?
arrangements for delivery (e.g. cost, method, timing)?
customer's cancellation rights/returns?

bpMore about cancellation rights for goods. Do you:

provide your customers with a copy of your terms and conditions in a "durable medium"?
tell customers of their right to return goods within 7 working days?
accept postal charges for goods that are returned?

bpMore about cancellation rights for services. Do you:

inform customers of your cancellation terms, and allow a cooling-off period of 7 working days for them to agree those terms in writing?

bpDo you demonstrate responsible online citizenship via:

a declaration of "family friendly" content (or warning notices if appropriate)?
a privacy policy?

bpDo you safeguard your business opportunities via:

copyright notices?

 

If you can tick all the boxes, or are willing to work towards this goal, you are an "Exemplar", and deserve to be accredited as such.

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Endorsement benefits

Sample badgeEndorsed web sites will clearly be identified in our Links to Artists page. Dependant upon the number of successful applications we may, at a future date, only link to endorsed artists?

Endorsed web sites will be invited to display a graphic indicating acknowledgement of professionalism, verifiable by a link.

Further benefits are under consideration/development.

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