BDQ Website Terms & Conditions

1. Introduction

1.1    These terms and conditions govern your use of the BDQ website.

1.2    By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.

1.3    We provide a range of services, including migration services, managed services, devops and consultancy. We also license our own software and resell certain third party software and solutions, including Atlassian and Sonatype software and solutions. Each of these is subject to separate terms and conditions.

2. Copyright notice

2.1    Copyright (c) 2023 Business Data Quality Limited (trading as BDQ).

2.2    Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:

(a)    we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and

(b)    all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.

3. Permission to use website

3.1    You may:

(a)    view pages from our website in a web browser;

(b)    download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;

(c)    print pages from our website for your own personal and non-commercial use, providing that such printing is not systematic or excessive; and

(d)    stream audio and video files from our website using the media player on our website,

subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.

3.2    Except as expressly permitted by Section 3.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.

3.3    You must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.

3.4    Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

(a)    republish material from our website (including republication on another website);

(b)    sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;

(c)    show any material from our website in public;

(d)    exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or

(e)    redistribute material from our website, save to the extent expressly permitted by these terms and conditions.

3.5    We reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to our website, to areas of our website and/or to functionality upon our website. We may, for example, suspend access to the website during server maintenance or when we update the website. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the website.

4. Downloadable content

4.1    We may make downloadable content (such as white papers, reports and technical documentation) available on our website.

4.2    In addition to the rights granted under Section 3.1 above, you may redistribute print and electronic copies of downloadable content within your business, organisation, company or group of companies, providing that copies of downloadable content must not be edited or amended in any way and must retain:

(a)    the name of our business;

(b)    any disclaimers, copyright notices and other legal notices; and

(c)    any authorial credits.

5. Misuse of website

5.1    You must not:

(a)    use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility, integrity or security of the website;

(b)    use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(c)    hack or otherwise tamper with our website;

(d)    probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our website without our permission;

(e)    circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our website;

(f)     use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;

(g)    impose an unreasonably large load on our website resources (including bandwidth, storage capacity and processing capacity);

(h)    decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our website without our permission;

(i)     conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;

(j)     access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;

(k)    use our website except by means of our public interfaces;

(l)     violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website; or

(m)   do anything that interferes with the normal use of our website.

5.2    You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

6. Limited warranties

6.1    We do not warrant or represent:

(a)    the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;

(b)    that the material on the website is up to date;

(c)    that the website will operate without fault; or

(d)    that the website or any service on the website will remain available.

6.2    We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.

6.3    To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 7.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.

7. Limitations and exclusions of liability

7.1    Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

(a)    limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

(b)    limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(c)    limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or

(d)    exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

7.2    The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 7 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:

(a)    are subject to Section 7.1; and

(b)    govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.

7.3    To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

7.4    We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

7.5    We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

7.6    We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

7.7    We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.Breaches of these terms and conditions

8. Breaches of these terms and conditions

8.1    Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:

(a)    send you one or more formal warnings;

(b)    temporarily suspend your access to our website;

(c)    permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;

(d)    block computers using your IP address from accessing our website; and/or

(e)    commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise.

8.2    Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking.

9. Third party websites

9.1    Our website includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties; such hyperlinks are not recommendations.

9.2    We have no control over third party websites and their contents, and subject to Section 7.1 we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

10. Trade marks

10.1  BDQ, BUSINESS DATA QUALITY, DATAQA our logos and our other registered and unregistered trade marks are trade marks belonging to us; we give no permission for the use of these trade marks, and such use may constitute an infringement of our rights.

10.2  The third party registered and unregistered trade marks or service marks on our website are the property of their respective owners and, unless stated otherwise in these terms and conditions, we do not endorse and are not affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such we cannot grant any licence to exercise such rights.

11. Variation

11.1  We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.

11.2  The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions.

12. Assignment

12.1  You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

12.2  You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

13. Severability

13.1  If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

13.2  If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

14. Third party rights

14.1  A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

14.2  The exercise of the parties' rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

15. Entire agreement

15.1  Subject to Section 7.1, these terms and conditions shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.

16. Law and jurisdiction

16.1  These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.

16.2  Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.

17. Our details

17.1  This website is owned and operated by Business Data Quality Ltd.

17.2  We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 04497196, and our registered office is at Leytonstone House, 3 Hanbury Drive, Leytonstone, London E11 1GA.

17.3  You can contact us:

(a)    by post, to the postal address given above;

(b)    using our website contact forms;

(c)    by telephone, on the contact number published on our website; or

(d)    by email, using the email address published on our website.