Terms of service

Website Terms of Use & Acceptable Use Policy (en-global)

Created: 22 February, 2023 - 10:44

Terms

1.1            These Terms explain how you may use the website available at builtintelligence.com, any of its subdomains, or any other of our websites (the Site). You should read these Terms carefully before using the Site, the Platform (as defined in our terms of service) or any of their services. 

1.2            By accessing or using the Site or otherwise indicating your consent, you agree to be bound by these Terms and the documents referred to in them. If you do not agree with or accept any of these Terms, you should stop using the Site immediately. 

 

Who we are/Definitions/You

2.1            The Site is operated by Built Intelligence Ltd (‘we’ or ‘us’), a limited company incorporated and registered in England and Wales under company number 08323228. Our registered office address is Third Floor Mariner House, 62 Prince Street, Bristol, England, BS1 4QD. Our VAT number is 172429407.

2.2            Contact us. You can contact us via email at support@builtintelligence.com

2.3            Definitions. The following defined terms are used throughout these Terms and have the following meanings:

Services

the web-based services provided by Built Intelligence, including the application, database, system, server and any third-party software, and accessible via the Site;

Submission

means any text, images, video, audio or other multimedia content, software or other information or material input, submitted and/or transmitted by you or other users via the Site and Services;

Terms

means these terms of use as updated from time to time under clause 12;

You/your

means the legal person accessing or using the Site, Services and/or its content.

2.4            Your use of the Site is also subject to other terms, including:

i.       our privacy policy, as further described in clause 5 of these Terms;

ii.      our cookie policy, which sets out information about the cookies and other tracking devices we use on our Site; and

iii.     in relation to our Services, our terms and conditions of service.

 

Using the Site

3.1            You agree that you are solely responsible for:

i.       all costs and expenses you may incur in relation to your use of the Site; and

ii.      keeping your password and other account details (if applicable) confidential.

3.2            You are responsible for compliance with any local laws applicable to your access to and use of our Site and Services.

3.3            We may prevent or suspend your access to the Site if you do not comply with any part of these Terms, any terms or policies to which they refer, or any applicable law.

 

Restrictions on use

4.1            You agree that you shall not access, use or in any way exploit the Site and/or Services (or any part thereof, including any software):

i.       for any purpose that is unlawful under any applicable law or prohibited by these Terms;

ii.      to commit any act of fraud;

iii.     to infringe a person’s privacy rights or breach any duty of confidentiality;

iv.     to distribute viruses or malware or other similar harmful software code;

v.      for purposes of promoting unsolicited advertising or sending spam;

vi.     to simulate communications from us or another service or entity in order to collect identity information, authentication credentials, or other information (‘phishing’);

vii.   in any manner that disrupts the operation of our Site or business or the website or business of any other entity;

viii.  to promote or facilitate any unlawful activity;

ix.     to represent or suggest that we endorse any other business, product or service unless we have separately agreed to do so in writing;

x.      to gain unauthorised access to or use of computers, data, systems, accounts or networks;

xi.     to attempt to circumvent password or user authentication methods;

xii.   to conduct any systematic or automated data scraping, data mining, data extraction or data harvesting, or any similar activity; and

xiii.  to attempt to modify, adapt, reverse-engineer, decompile, or create derivative works of any element of our Site or Services (including software therein) .

4.2            We are not obliged to monitor or moderate Submissions but may do so in our sole discretion. We may remove or edit any Submissions whether they are routinely monitored by us or not.

4.3            Any Submission you make must comply with our Submission standards set out below.

 

Submission standards

5.1            Any Submission or communication to other users of our Site and Services must conform to standards of accuracy, decency and lawfulness, which shall be applied at our discretion, acting reasonably. In particular, you warrant that any Submission or communication is:

i.       your own original work, or licensed for the intended use, and lawfully submitted;

ii.      factually accurate or your own genuinely held belief;

iii.     provided with the necessary consent of any third party;

iv.     not defamatory or likely to give rise to an allegation of defamation;

v.      not offensive, obscene, sexually explicit, discriminatory or deceptive; and

vi.     unlikely to cause offence, embarrassment or annoyance to others.

5.2            Submissions and communications must not consist of or contain any advice, instructions or information that, if acted upon, would or may cause death, personal injury, illness, property damage, or any other loss or damage.

5.3            You hereby grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to use and distribute Submissions via our Site and Services.

5.4            We do not verify, approve or endorse any Submissions accessible via our Site and Services, so do not accept any responsibility or liability for Submissions. The views expressed by users on our Site and Services do not represent our views and values. If you wish to complain about any Submission made by another user, please contact us at support@builtintelligence.com.

 

Your privacy and personal information

6.1            Your privacy and personal information are important to us. Any personal information that you provide to us will be dealt with in line with our privacy policy, which explains what personal information we collect from you, how and why we collect, store, use and share such information, your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a query or complaint about the use of your personal information.

6.2            Our privacy policy is available on the applicable Site.

 

Ownership, use and intellectual property rights

7.1            This Site, the Services, and all associated intellectual property rights including but not limited to any software are owned by us, our licensors or both (as applicable). Intellectual property rights means rights such as: copyright, trade marks, domain names, design rights, database rights, patents and all other intellectual property rights of any kind whether or not they are registered or unregistered (anywhere in the world). We and our licensors reserve all of our rights in any intellectual property in connection with these Terms. This means, for example, that we and they remain owners of them and free to use them as we and they see fit.

7.2            Nothing in these Terms grants you any legal rights in the Site other than as necessary to enable you to access the Site. Additional rights may be granted in our terms of service, where applicable, subject to the conditions and restrictions set out in the applicable terms.

7.3            You agree not to adjust to try to circumvent or delete any notices contained on the Site (including any intellectual property notices) and in particular in any digital rights or other security technology embedded or contained within the Site or Services.

7.4            Trade marks and trade names may be used on this Site. Your use of any trade marks on the Site is strictly prohibited unless you have our prior written permission.

 

Software

8.1            Software may be made available for you to download, or for access as an online solution, in order to enable you to make full use of the Services. You may only use such software if you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions that apply to such software, including as set out in the applicable terms of service. You should read any terms and conditions carefully to protect your own interests (they may contain provisions that set out what your legal rights are, what your legal responsibilities are when using software, what the software provider’s legal responsibilities are, and provisions that limit a software provider’s legal responsibilities to you).

8.2            Using the software in an unlawful way (such as reproducing or redistributing it in a way that breaches these Terms and any others that apply to it) is expressly prohibited and may result in civil and criminal penalties.

 

Accuracy of information and availability of the Site

9.1            While we try to make sure that the Site and Services are accurate, up-to-date and free from bugs, we cannot promise that they will be. Furthermore, we cannot promise that the Site or Services will be fit or suitable for any purpose. Any reliance that you may place on the information contained on or accessible via the Site and Services is at your own risk.

9.2            We may suspend or terminate operation of the Site (or any part thereof, including any Service) at any time as we see fit.

9.3            Content is provided for your general information purposes only and to inform you about us and our products and news, features, services and other websites that may be of interest. It does not constitute technical, financial or legal advice or any other type of advice and should not be relied on for any purposes.

9.4            While we try to make sure that the Site and Services are available for your use, we do not promise that the Site and/or Services will be available at all times nor do we promise the uninterrupted use by you of the Site or Services.

 

Hyperlinks and third party sites

10.1         The Site and Services may contain hyperlinks or references to third party websites other than the Site. Any such hyperlinks or references are provided for your convenience only. We have no control over third party websites and accept no legal responsibility for any content, material or information contained in them. The display of any hyperlink and reference to any third party website does not mean that we endorse that third party's website, products or services. Your use of a third party site may be governed by the terms and conditions of that third party site.

10.2         You may create a link to our Site from another website without our prior written consent provided no such link:

i.       creates a frame or any other browser or border environment around the content of our Site;

ii.      implies that we endorse your products or services or any of the products or services of, or available through, the website on which you place a link to our Site;

iii.     displays any of the trade marks or logos used on our Site without our permission or that of the owner of such trade marks or logos; or

iv.     is placed on a website that itself does not meet the acceptable use requirements of these Terms.

10.3         We reserve the right to require you to immediately remove any link to the Site at any time, and you shall immediately comply with any request by us to remove any such link.

 

Limitation on our liability

11.1         Except for any legal responsibility that we cannot exclude in law (such as for death or personal injury), we are not legally responsible for any:

11.1.1      losses that:

(a)             were not foreseeable to you and us when these Terms were formed; or

(b)             that were not caused by any breach on our part.

 

11.2         Our Site and Services are intended for business use only and these exclusions and limitations are drafted for business users (rather than consumers). Except to the extent set out in our Terms of Service, we do not accept any liability in relation to your use of our Site and Services. In particular:

11.2.1      we exclude all express, statutory or implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our Site, Services or any content on it or them;

11.2.2      we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with: 

(a)             use of, or inability to use, our Site or Services;

(b)             use of or reliance on any content displayed on our Site or Services;

(c)             any loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;

(d)             any loss of anticipated savings, business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or

(e)             any indirect or consequential loss or damage;

 

11.2.3      to the extent that we are liable to you for any direct losses, our aggregate liability, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, shall not exceed £5,000 (five thousand pounds) in aggregate. 

 

Events beyond our control

We shall have no liability to you for any breach of these Terms caused by any event or circumstance beyond our reasonable control including, but not limited to, strikes, lock-outs or other industrial disputes; breakdown of systems or network access; or flood, fire, explosion or accident.

 

Rights of third parties

No one other than a party to these Terms has any right to enforce any of these Terms.

 

Variation

We reserve the right to vary these Terms from time to time. Our updated terms will be displayed on the Site and by continuing to use and access the Site and any of its Services following such changes, you agree to be bound by any variation made by us. It is your responsibility to check these Terms from time to time to verify such variations.

 

Disputes

15.1         We shall apply these Terms in our absolute discretion. In the event of your breach of these Terms we may terminate or suspend your account and use of the Site/Services, remove or edit Submissions, disclose Submissions to law enforcement authorities or take any action we consider necessary to remedy the breach.

15.2         We will try to resolve any disputes with you quickly and efficiently. If you are unhappy with us please contact us as soon as possible.

15.3         If either party wants to take court proceedings, the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction in relation to these Terms.

15.4         English law will apply to these Terms.