Terms of Use

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE USE

These Terms of Use ("Terms of Use") govern your access to, and use of, any Applications, Websites, Information, Products, and Services (collectively "Services") provided, owned and operated by Business and Research Ltd ("Business and Research", "we", "us", or "our").

By accessing or using any of the Services, you agree to comply with and be bound by these Terms of Use and our Acceptable Use Policy. If you do not agree, you must not use the Services.

We make changes to these Terms of Use

We may amend these Terms of Use at any time by posting an updated version on our website. The updated Terms of Use will take effect when posted, unless otherwise specified. Please check for the latest version before using our Services to ensure you understand the Terms of Use that apply at that time.

What's in these Terms of Use?

These Terms of Use tell you the rules for using our Services.

Who we are and how do you Contact Us?

Services are operated by Business and Research Ltd ("We"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 8981246 and have our registered office at 44 Tulworth Rd, Poynton, Stockport, Cheshire SK12 1BL.

We are a limited company.

To contact us, please email support (at) businessandresearch.com or telephone our customer service line on 01625 838 459.

By using our Services you accept these Terms of Use

By using our Services, you confirm that you accept these Terms of Use and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, you must not use our Services.

There are other Terms that Apply

These Terms of Use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our Services:

• Our Privacy Policy. See further under how we may use your personal information.

• Our Acceptable Use Policy. See further under what we deem acceptable usage.

If you purchase products via our Services, our Terms of Purchase will apply to these sales.

We make Changes to Our Services

We may update and change our Services from time to time to reflect changes to our products, our users' needs and our business priorities.

We may Suspend or Withdraw Services

Some of our Services are made available free of charge, E.g. Websites and free apps

We do not guarantee that our Services, or any content, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our Services for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Services through your internet connection are aware of these Terms of Use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

We may Transfer this Agreement to Someone Else

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms of Use to another organisation. If we do so, we may give public notice of the transfer by posting on our website, and, where we hold your contact details, also notify you by email. We will ensure that any such transfer does not affect your rights under these Terms.

You Must Keep Your Account Details Safe

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms of Use.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at support (at) businessandresearch.com or call us at 01625 838 459.

How you may Use Our Services Material

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Services, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any materials or page(s) from Services for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our Services.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content via our Services must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the content from our Services for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our Services in breach of these Terms of Use, your right to use our Services will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

Do Not Rely on Services Information

The materials accessed via our Services 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, any action on the basis of the materials accessed via our Services.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our Services, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the materials accessed via our Services is accurate, complete or up to date.

We Are Not Responsible for Websites We Link To

Where our Services contain links to other sites, services and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked services or information you may obtain from them.

We have no control over the contents of those services or resources.

User-Generated Content is Not Approved by Us

Our Services may include information and materials uploaded by other users of our Services, including to bulletin boards, chat and message services. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.

Our Responsibility for Loss or Damage Suffered by You

Whether you are a consumer or a business user:

• We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
• Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any products to you, which will be set out in our Terms of Purchase.

If you are a business user:

• We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our Services or any materials on them.
• 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, our Services; or
• use of or reliance on any materials displayed on our Services.
• In particular, we will not be liable for:
• loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
• business interruption;
• loss of anticipated savings;
• loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
• any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user:

• Please note that we only provide our Services for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our Services for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
• If defective digital content that we have supplied, damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation. However, we will not be liable for damage that you could have avoided by following our advice to apply an update offered to you free of charge or for damage that was caused by you failing to correctly follow installation instructions or to have in place the minimum system requirements advised by us.

How We May Use Your Personal Information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy.

Uploading Content to Our Site

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our Services, or to make contact with other users of our Services, you must comply with our Reasonable Content Standards.

Reasonable Content Standards along with additional Acceptable Use Policy terms are found in our Acceptable Use Policy.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any content you upload to our Services will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of our Services a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our Services constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We have the right to remove any posting you make to our Services if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with our reasonable content standards.

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.

We do not store terrorist content.

Rights You Are Giving Us to Use Material You Upload

When you upload or post content to our Services, you grant us the right to use that content for the purpose of administering and managing the Services and operating our business.

We Are Not responsible for Viruses and You Must Not Introduce Them

We do not guarantee that our Services will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Services. You should use your own virus and malware protection software.

You must not misuse our Services 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 our Services, the servers and infrastructure on which our Services are stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Services. You must not attack our Services via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Services will cease immediately.

Rules About Linking to Our Services

You may link to our Services, 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 on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our Services in any website or services that is not owned by you.

Our Services must not be framed on any other service, nor may you create a link to any part of our Service other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The Service in which you are linking must comply in all respects with our reasonable content standards.

If you wish to link to or make any use of materials on our Services other than that set out above, please contact support (at) businessandresearch.com

Which Country's Laws Apply to Any Disputes?

If you are a consumer, please note that these Terms of Use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, these Terms of Use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Updated July 2025