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SCAN will use its reasonable endeavours to ensure that the information contained on the www.scan.org.uk website is correct at the time of publication, but SCAN reserves the right to make subsequent changes to it, and services may be modified, supplemented or withdrawn.

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We may suspend or vary the whole or any part of the service offered by the www.scan.org.uk website for any reason at any time at our sole discretion.

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