Website Terms of Use

1. About these terms

Please read these Terms carefully before using the Website. By using the Website, you confirm that you accept these Terms and agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use the Website.

 These Terms apply to use of the Website only. If you purchase, access or use Funding Scout or any other EnginuityAI product, tool, report, platform or paid service, additional product or service terms may apply. In the event of any conflict between these Terms and any specific product or service terms, the specific product or service terms shall prevail in respect of that product or service.

2. Other Terms that Apply

These Terms refer to the following additional terms and policies, which also apply to your use of the Website:

• our Cookie Policy, which explains how we use cookies and similar technologies;

• our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect and process personal data;

• any specific product, service, platform, report, subscription, purchase or account terms made available to you from time to time, including any Funding Scout terms where applicable; and

• any notices, disclaimers or additional terms displayed on particular pages or features of the Website.

You should read these documents carefully. You should read these documents carefully. The policies and additional terms listed above apply to your use of the Website where relevant. However, our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy describe how we process personal data and use cookies and are not intended to create contractual rights or obligations beyond those set out in applicable law.

3. Information About Us and How to Contact Us

The Website is operated by EnginuityAI Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 15668054 and registered office at Riverside House, 3 Place Farm, Wheathampstead, St. Albans, England, AL4 8SB (“EnginuityAI”, “we”, “us” or “our”). 

To contact us, please email compliance@enginuityai.io.

4. Accessing the Website

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to access the Website. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the Website through your internet connection are aware of these Terms and comply with them.

We may restrict, suspend, withdraw or disable access to the Website, or any part of it, at any time and without notice where we consider this reasonably necessary for operational, legal, regulatory, security or business reasons.

We may update, adapt, suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of the Website at any time, including any content, functionality, features, resources or pages. We do not guarantee that the Website, or any content on it, will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, accurate, complete or up to date.

Any content on the Website may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it, although we may do so from time to time.

5. Accounts, Login Credentials and Security

If you choose, or are provided with, a user identification code, password or other login or security information, you must treat that information as confidential and must not disclose it to any third party.

We may disable any user identification code, password or account at any time if, in our reasonable opinion, you have failed to comply with these Terms or if we consider it necessary for security, legal, regulatory or operational reasons.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your login credentials or has accessed your account without authorisation, you must promptly notify us at compliance@enginuityai.io.

6.  Acceptable Use of the Website

You may use the Website only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You must not use the Website:

• in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;

• in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;

• for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way;

• to bully, insult, intimidate, harass, abuse, threaten, defame or discriminate against any person;

• to transmit, upload, submit, post, procure the sending of, or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional material, spam or similar solicitation;

• to transmit, upload, submit, post or otherwise make available any material that is unlawful, defamatory, threatening, discriminatory, extremist, hateful, obscene, offensive, malicious, misleading, fraudulent, or that has the potential to radicalise any person;

• to transmit, upload, submit, post or otherwise make available any material that infringes intellectual property rights, privacy rights, confidentiality obligations, data protection rights or any other legal rights of any third party;

• to submit, upload, transmit or otherwise make available any classified information, export-controlled information, controlled technical data, government-restricted information or other information that you are not legally permitted to submit or disclose;

• to knowingly transmit, upload, submit or otherwise make available any data, material or code containing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs, code or similar technology designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software, hardware, system, network or data;

• to reproduce, duplicate, copy, scrape, harvest, extract, resell or commercially exploit any part of the Website, its content or its data except as expressly permitted by these Terms or with our prior written consent;

• to access without authority, interfere with, damage, disrupt or attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the Website, the server on which the Website is stored, any database connected to the Website, any software used in providing the Website, or any equipment, network or software owned or used by us or any third party;

• to attack the Website via a denial-of-service attack, distributed denial-of-service attack or similar attack;

• to use any robot, spider, crawler, scraper, data mining tool, automated process or similar technology to access, monitor, copy, extract, index or interact with the Website or its content without our prior written consent; or

• to use the Website in any way that may damage, disable, overburden, impair or compromise our systems, security, reputation, business or legal position. 

7. User Submissions and Interactive Features

Where the Website allows you to submit information, contact us, complete forms, upload content or interact with any feature, you are responsible for ensuring that any information or material you provide is accurate, lawful, not misleading and does not infringe any rights of any third party.

You must not submit any confidential, proprietary, sensitive, personal or third-party information unless you have all necessary rights, permissions and authority to do so. We are not responsible for verifying whether you have the right to submit any information to us, and our acceptance or processing of any submission does not mean that we have reviewed or approved your rights in that information.

By submitting any information or material through the Website, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use, copy, store, process and review that information or material for the purposes of operating the Website, responding to your enquiry, providing or improving our services, maintaining records, protecting our rights and complying with applicable law, subject to our Privacy Policy and any confidentiality obligations that apply.

We may remove, disable, restrict or refuse to process any content, material or submission where we reasonably consider that it breaches these Terms or may expose us, our users or any third party to legal, regulatory, security, confidentiality, data protection, intellectual property or reputational risk.

8. Suspension and Termination for Breach

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of these Terms through your use of the Website. Where a breach has occurred, we may take such action as we consider appropriate, including:

• immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use the Website;

• immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting, upload, content or material submitted by you;

• issue of a warning to you;

• suspension or disabling of your account or login credentials;

• legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of costs and losses resulting from the breach, including reasonable administrative, legal and professional costs;

• further legal action against you; and

• disclosure of relevant information to law enforcement, regulators or other authorities where we reasonably consider this necessary or are required to do so by law.

The actions described above are not exhaustive, and we may take any other action we reasonably consider appropriate. We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of these Terms to the fullest extent permitted by law.

9. Intellectual Property Rights

We are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in the Website and in the material published on it, including text, software, source code, object code, data, databases, designs, graphics, images, audio, video, branding, trademarks, logos, layout, user interface, reports, documents, resources, models, methodologies and other content. Those works are protected by copyright, trademark, database right and other intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of pages from the Website for your personal use or internal business reference, and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on the Website.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way. You must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or graphics separately from any accompanying text. Our status, and that of any identified contributors, as authors of content on the Website must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the content on the Website for commercial purposes, create derivative works from it, copy, distribute, reproduce, publish, transmit, resell, license, sublicense, scrape, extract, train models on, or otherwise exploit it without obtaining a licence from us or our licensors. If you breach these Terms, your right to use the Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

10. No Reliance on Website Content

The content on the Website is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from taking, any action on the basis of content on the Website. 

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on the Website, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the Website or any content on it is accurate, complete, up to date, suitable for your particular circumstances or free from errors or omissions.

Nothing on the Website constitutes legal, financial, investment, tax, funding, grant, technical, intellectual property, procurement or other regulated professional advice, nor does it constitute an offer, recommendation, endorsement or guarantee of any funding, investment, market demand, commercial opportunity, procurement outcome or business result.

If you are a business user, these Terms, together with any applicable product or service terms, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of the Website and supersede any prior statements, understandings or arrangements relating to such use.

11. Viruses and Security

We do not guarantee that the Website will be secure or free from bugs, viruses or other harmful material. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access the Website and should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse the Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Website, the server on which it is stored, or any server, computer, database, system or network connected to it.

By breaching this section, you may commit a criminal offence. We may report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and cooperate with those authorities by disclosing your identity or other relevant information to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use the Website will cease immediately.

12. Linking to the Website

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement by us where none exists. You must not establish a link to the Website in any website that is not owned by you. The Website must not be framed on any other site, and you may not create a link to any part of the Website other than the home page without our prior written consent.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. Any website in which you link to the Website must comply in all respects with the acceptable use requirements set out in these Terms.

If you wish to make any use of content on the Website other than that set out above, please contact compliance@enginuityai.io.

13. Links to Third-Party Websites

From time to time, the Website may include links to or from third-party websites, platforms, tools or services. These links are provided for your information only.

We have no control over, and accept no responsibility for, the content, availability, practices, privacy standards, security or functionality of those third-party websites, platforms, tools, services or resources. Such links should not be interpreted as approval, endorsement or recommendation by us of those third parties or their content.

14. Personal Data

We process personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Please read our Privacy Policy to understand how we collect, use, store and share personal data in connection with the Website and our services.

15. Our Liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to the Website or any content on it, whether express or implied.

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:

• use of, or inability to use, the Website;

• use of or reliance on any content displayed on the Website;

• any error, omission, inaccuracy, interruption, delay, outage, security issue or unavailability affecting the Website;

• any virus, distributed denial-of-service attack or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of the Website or downloading of any content from it or any website linked to it; or

• any third-party website, platform, tool, service or resource linked to from the Website.

If you are a business user, we will not be liable for any loss of profits, sales, business, revenue, anticipated savings, business opportunity, goodwill, reputation, data, or for any business interruption, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user, the Website is provided for general informational use. Nothing in these Terms affects your statutory rights as a consumer.

16. Events Outside Our Control

We shall not be liable for any delay or failure to perform our obligations under these Terms where such delay or failure is caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, pandemics, epidemics, war, civil unrest, terrorism, labour disputes, governmental or regulatory actions, changes in law, power or internet outages, cyberattacks, platform outages, payment provider issues, cloud hosting failures, third-party service provider failures, or other events beyond our reasonable control.

17. Transfer of Rights and Obligations

You may not, without our prior written consent, assign or transfer these Terms, by operation of law or otherwise. Any attempt by you to assign or transfer these Terms without such consent shall be ineffective. We may assign or transfer these Terms as part of any merger, reorganisation, sale of business, transfer of assets, investment, group restructuring or similar transaction, provided that this does not materially reduce your rights under these Terms. Subject to the foregoing, these Terms will bind and benefit the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.

18. Third Party Rights

These Terms do not and are not intended to confer any rights or remedies on any person other than you and us. No person other than you and us shall have any right to enforce these Terms, whether under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise.

19. Severance

If any provision of these Terms is held to be illegal, void, invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part by any court or competent authority, that provision shall apply with the minimum modification necessary to make it legal, valid and enforceable. If such modification is not possible, the relevant provision or part-provision shall be deemed deleted. This shall not affect the legality, validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions of these Terms.

20. Waiver

Our rights and remedies shall not be affected by any failure or delay in exercising any right or remedy. No waiver of any right or remedy shall be effective unless given in writing by a duly authorised representative of EnginuityAI. No single or partial exercise of any right or remedy shall prevent any further or other exercise of that or any other right or remedy.

21. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

To the fullest extent permitted by law, these Terms and any disputes, controversies or claims arising out of or in connection with them, including any non-contractual disputes or claims, are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. If you are a consumer resident outside England and Wales, you may also benefit from any mandatory consumer protection rights available to you under the laws of the country in which you live.

The courts of England and Wales shall have jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms, except that if you are a consumer resident in another part of the United Kingdom or in another country, you may also bring proceedings in the courts of the place where you live where required by applicable consumer law.

Nothing in this section limits our right to seek interim, injunctive or equitable relief in any competent court, including in relation to intellectual property, confidentiality, security or misuse of the Website.

22. Complaints and Contact

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about the Website or these Terms, please contact us at compliance@enginuityai.io.

23. Changes to these Terms

We may revise these Terms from time to time by amending this page. Please check this page regularly to take notice of any changes, as they are binding on you from the date they are published unless otherwise stated.

Your continued use of the Website after any changes are published will be deemed to constitute acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must stop using the Website.