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Terms of Use

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Draft for legal review. This page must be reviewed and completed by qualified legal counsel before the site is used to collect enquiries from the public. Highlighted items need to be confirmed.

These terms apply to your use of this website, which is operated by [COMPANY LEGAL NAME] (“Datascales”, “we”, “us”). By using the website you accept them. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.

In short

  • This website describes our business. It is not an offer to license data and not legal or technical advice.
  • Sending an enquiry does not create any contract. Partnerships and dataset licences are always agreed separately in writing.
  • Please do not send personal data about others, customer records or confidential material through our forms.
  • Use the site lawfully and do not try to disrupt it or access it without permission.

1. About us

[COMPANY LEGAL NAME] is a company registered in [England and Wales] under company number [number], with its registered office at [registered address]. You can contact us at info@datascales.co.uk or through our contact page.

2. Information on this website

Content on this website is general information about our business. It is not legal, regulatory, commercial or technical advice, and you should not rely on it as such.

Nothing on the site is an offer to license, sell or supply any dataset. Data categories, process descriptions, diagrams and examples are illustrative and do not depict real data. Whether any dataset is available depends on sourcing, a rights and suitability assessment, and a separate written agreement.

We aim to keep the site accurate and up to date, but we do not promise that it is complete, accurate or current at all times.

3. Enquiries

Submitting an enquiry does not create a contract, partnership, exclusivity or obligation for either party. Any data partnership or dataset licence will be governed only by a separate written agreement signed by both parties.

When you send an enquiry, you confirm that:

  • the information you provide is accurate and you are authorised to share it;
  • you have not included personal data about other people, employee communications, customer records or confidential information; and
  • any description of data you hold is a summary only. We will never ask for raw records through this website.

We handle the personal information in your enquiry as described in our Privacy Policy.

4. Acceptable use

You must not:

  • use the website in any way that is unlawful, fraudulent or harmful;
  • try to gain unauthorised access to the website, its server or any connected system;
  • introduce viruses, malware or other harmful material, or attack the site with denial-of-service;
  • submit automated, misleading, abusive or spam enquiries; or
  • scrape, copy or extract the site's content in bulk, including to train or evaluate AI models, without our written permission.

We may suspend access to the website, or ignore enquiries, where we reasonably suspect a breach.

5. Intellectual property

The website and its content, including text, graphics, the Datascales name and logo, design and code, are owned by or licensed to [COMPANY LEGAL NAME] and protected by intellectual property laws. You may view pages and print or share links to them for your own reference. You may not otherwise copy, adapt or use them commercially, or use our name or logo, without our written permission.

Where the website links to sites run by others, those links are for your information only. We have no control over those sites and are not responsible for their content or how they handle your information.

7. Availability

The website is provided free of charge. We do not guarantee that it will always be available or free from errors or interruptions, and we may change, suspend or withdraw any part of it at any time.

8. Our liability

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot be excluded or limited by law.

This website is intended for business use. To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss arising from your use of, or reliance on, the website or its content, including loss of profit, revenue, business, opportunity or data, or any indirect or consequential loss. [Limitation wording to be confirmed by counsel.]

9. General

If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest will continue to apply. If we do not enforce a right straight away, we can still enforce it later. These terms, together with our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, are the whole agreement between us about use of the website.

10. Governing law

These terms, and any dispute arising from them or from use of the website, are governed by the laws of [England and Wales], and the courts of [England and Wales] have exclusive jurisdiction.

11. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. The date at the top shows when they last changed. Please check this page whenever you use the site, as the version in force at that time will apply.