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Terms of use

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING OUR PLATFORM.

These terms apply to your use of our platform, comprising our website, https://www.quodit.io, and associated services (together, the “platform”).

BY YOUR USE OF OUR PLATFORM, YOU CONFIRM THAT YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS IN FULL AND THAT YOU AGREE TO COMPLY WITH THEM. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, YOU MUST NOT USE THE PLATFORM.

The platform is owned and operated by Quodit Ltd. (“we“, “us”, or “our”). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 09775120, and have our registered office at 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom.

To contact us, please email: enquiries@quodit.io.

If you purchase our services, or otherwise use them for commercial purposes, other terms will also apply, and we will notify you of them at the time.

We may amend these terms from time to time. Whenever you wish to use our platform, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. We may also update and change our platform from time to time.

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

For most users, our platform is made available free of charge. We do not guarantee that our platform, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our platform for business and operational reasons. Our platform may be unavailable from time to time due to mechanical, telecommunication, software, hardware or third-party failures; we cannot predict or control when such downtime may occur, nor control its duration.

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens, and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under the contract.

 

Licence restrictions

In consideration of your access to and use of the platform, you agree that you will:

  • comply with all applicable laws in relation to your use of the platform;
  • not rent, lease, sub-license, loan or provide the platform to any person, or otherwise make it available, in any form, in whole or in part, without prior written consent from us;
  • not copy our websites, services or their contents, except as part of the normal use of the platform or as otherwise set out in these terms;
  • not translate, merge, adapt, vary, alter or modify the whole or any part of the platform, nor permit the platform or any part of it to be combined with, or become incorporated in, any other software or third party websites, except as necessary to use the platform as permitted in these terms;
  • not disassemble, de-compile, reverse engineer or create derivative works based on the whole or any part of the platform, nor attempt to do any such things, except to the extent that such actions cannot be prohibited under sections 50B and 296A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

You must keep your account details safe. If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code (username), 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, or allow a third party to access your account.

We have the right to disable any user account 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 and password, or otherwise has access to your account, you must notify us promptly at: enquiries@quodit.io.

 

How you may use material on our platform

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our platform, and in the material we publish on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved. You have no intellectual property rights in, or to, the platform or the content on it, other than the right to use it in accordance with these terms.

You may print one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our platform for your personal use, but must not distribute them without explicit permission and in accordance with these terms of use.

Our platform also hosts user-generated content which may be accessible to other users, such as research materials which may be accessible within researchers’ “tasks” and “studies”. You must not share with others the contents of any tasks or studies, or any other user-generated content, or post any of it on social media, unless the owner of the relevant material has granted you explicit permission to do so.

You must not modify in any way the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed or downloaded, 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 on our platform must always be acknowledged.

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

If you print, copy or download any part of our websites or their content in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our platform will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

 

Do not rely on information on the platform

The content on our platform is provided for research purposes and for general information. 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 any content on our platform.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our platform, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that any content is accurate, complete or up to date.

 

We are not responsible for external websites or content we link to

Where our platform contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.

We have no control over the contents of third party websites or resources.

 

How we may use your personal information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our privacy policy.

 

Rules about linking to our platform

You may link to our home page, or to any studies or services on our platform, 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. Our websites must not be framed on any other site without explicit permission. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

 

User-generated content is not approved by us

Our platform may be used to deliver information and materials uploaded by other users. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our platform do not represent our views or values.

If you wish to complain about any content, please contact us at: enquiries@quodit.io.

 

Uploading content to our platform

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our platform, including by creating or participating in a study, you must ensure that your content:

  • is accurate where it states facts;
  • is genuinely held where it states opinions;
  • does not contain third party personal data unless you have consent or other legal grounds to share that personal data;
  • complies with the law applicable in England and Wales and in any country from which it is posted;
  • is not defamatory, likely to deceive any person, obscene, threatening, abusive, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
  • does not promote sexually explicit material, violence, discrimination, terrorism or illegal activity;
  • does not infringe any intellectual property rights of another person;
  • does not breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a duty of confidence;
  • does not impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person or organisation;
  • does not advocate, promote, assist or incite any party to commit any unlawful or criminal act, such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse; and
  • does not contain any advertising or promote any services or web links to other sites for commercial purposes,

together the “Content Standards”.

The Content Standards must be complied with in spirit as well as to the letter. Quodit will determine, in its discretion, whether any content breaches the Content Standards.

You warrant that any content you submit to our platform complies with the Content 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. We have the right to remove any content you submit through our platform if, in our opinion, it does not comply with the Content Standards above.

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content, including, if you are a researcher, participant responses to your studies.

 

Rights you are giving us when you upload content to our platform

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

When you upload or post content to our platform, you grant the following rights to use that content, as applicable:

  • a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence for us and our partners to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, and display that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the platform, and across different media, including to promote the platform or services forever; and
  • a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence for users of our platform to access the content to the extent necessary for their use of the platform in accordance with these terms, and to exercise the rights granted by these terms.

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 platform constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

 

No text/data mining or web scraping

You must not conduct, permit or facilitate any text or data mining, or web scraping, in relation to our platform. This includes, but is not limited to, the use of statistical techniques to analyse text or data from our platform (except as expressly permitted), and using “spiders” or other automated tools to access, copy or republish any portion of our platform or the data it contains.

This constitutes an express reservation of our rights, including as per Article 4(3) of the Digital Copyright Directive (EU) 2019/790. These reservations and restrictions shall apply to the greatest extent permitted by applicable law.

 

Security

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

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

You must not misuse our platform 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 platform, the servers on which our websites and services operate, or any server, computer or database connected to our platform. You must not interfere with our platform via denial-of-service attacks or other means. 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 platform will cease immediately.

We take data security seriously, and all transmissions of data to and from our platform are encrypted. However, please be aware that internet transmissions can never be guaranteed to be completely private or secure.

 

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

Whether you are a consumer or a business user:

We exclude and limit our liability to the greatest extent permitted by law. 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 may apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any services to you, which will be set out in separate terms and conditions.

If you are a business user:

We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our platform or any content on it.

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

  • use of, or inability to use, our platform; or
  • use of or reliance on any content displayed on our platform.

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:

  • You agree not to use our platform 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 we fail to comply with these terms, we are responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breaking these terms or failing to use reasonable care and skill, but we are not responsible for unforeseeable loss or damage. Loss or damage is foreseeable if it is obvious that it will happen, or if, when you accepted these terms, both we and you knew it might happen.
  • If defective digital content that we have supplied, and for which we are responsible, damages a device or digital content belonging to you, and if this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation.

 

Governing law

If you are a consumer:

If you are a consumer (i.e., not a business), you will benefit from any mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which you are resident. Nothing in these terms affects your rights as a consumer to rely on such mandatory provisions of local law.

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 or, if you prefer, in the relevant UK or Irish courts where you live. That means that if you live in Scotland, Northern Ireland or the Irish Republic, you can bring legal proceedings in either England or the courts of Scotland, Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland respectively.

If you are a business user:

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.