I did, but I'm nobody really. I'm not a church-goer. I'm not "with" any other company. I'm not selling anything. I do appear to have found myself with a bunch of mixed skills and interests acquired through authoring one "Which? Web Trader" compliant, "Thawte" certified commercial site, via a post-grad course in software engineering, and far too much loud music since the mid-seventies. My initial contact with www.birkenhead.net, was a simple mistake on my part. For a moment, I mistakenly took a job advertisement at face value. .

By either "web link", or "hyperlink" I mean : That little bit of text, or maybe a picture, clicked on to display another page. Any hyperlink still active between any sites mentioned here proves no assumption when examined in isolation.

By "business link" I mean : Owned and run by the same individual and/or company. The business link table uses colours to categorise links between a sample of a large group of sites found to have common postal addresses, email addresses, and many instances of one particular phone number. Any business link still active between any sites mentioned here also proves no assumption when examined in isolation.

Investor World defines a "Franchise" as : "A form of business organization in which a firm which already has a successful product or service (the franchisor) enters into a continuing contractual relationship with other businesses (franchisees) operating under the franchisor's trade name and usually with the franchisor's guidance, in exchange for a fee."

Franchise Direct U.K. & Ireland, quotes The International Franchise Association's definition as : "A contractual relationship between the franchisor and the franchisee in which the franchisor offers or is obliged to maintain a continuing interest in the business of the franchisee in such areas as know-how and training; wherein the franchisee operates under a common trade name, format or procedure owned by or controlled by the franchisor, and in which the franchisee has made or will make a substantial capital investment in his business from his own resources."

Town-Index definition(1) of "franchise".
The Town-Index "Local Operators" terms(2).

Town-Index "Local Operators" do not constitute "franchisees" as defined above. Their definition(1) and terms(2) do not adhere to any commonly known definitions of "franchisee".

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