Terms and conditions of use and privacy policy

 

Welcome to our website and associated social media channels:

This webpage provides the terms and conditions of use of our website and associated social media channels. It also provides our privacy policy as it applies to our collection, control and processing of personal information from individuals other than our employees, officers and associates.

If you continue to browse and use this website and associated social media channels, you are agreeing to be bound by and comply with the terms and conditions herein.

If you do not accept any part of these terms, do not use our website or social media channels.

 
  • Pragmatix Advisory Limited (“Pragmatix Advisory”, “we” and “us”) owns and controls this website and the content on associated social media channels.

    We are a strategy, economics and policy research consultancy that provides services to businesses, trade associations, charities, non-governmental organisations and public sector organisations worldwide.

    Registered in England number: 12403422. Registered address: 146 New London Road, Chelmsford CM2 0AW.

  • Telephone: +44 (0) 20 3880 8640

    Email: enquiries@pragmatixadvisory.com

    Issues or complaints relating to this website or associated social media channels: webmaster@pragmatixadvisory.com.

    Issues or complaints relating to your privacy or our use of your personal information: privacy@pragmatixadvisory.com.

    If you are unhappy with how we have used your personal information or how we have dealt with your privacy-related complaint, you can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office. Telephone: 0303 123 1113. Website: www.ico.org.uk. Postal address: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

  • The purpose of this website is to introduce Pragmatix Advisory and illustrate the services it offers. It is intended to be used by:

    • Current and former clients

    • Potential future clients

    • Candidates for employment and potential employees

    • Potential partner and supplier organisations

    • Organisations or individuals we engage as part of our research and consultancy assignments

    Although generally accessible on the internet, this website and the associated social media channels are not intended for use by the general public or for the promotion or execution of business-to-consumer commercial activity.

    This website and the associated social media channels are not intended for use by and may include content that is not suitable for children.

  • We use cookies, which are electronic files placed on your device by your browser when you visit a site, to help our website run effectively and to learn more about how visitors interact with it. To find out more about cookies, visit www.aboutcookies.org.

    Our website uses some necessary cookies so visitors can navigate and use key features. The functional and required cookies we use are:

    • Crumb (session): Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF).

    • RecentRedirect (30 minutes): Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects.

    • ss_cookieAllowed (30 days): Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies.

    • Test (session): Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors.

    We use analytics and performance cookies to collect information about how visitors interact with our site. These cookies are stored to enable our website service provider to provide us with their standard analytics data, which includes traffic sources and unique visitors. These cookies are:

    • ss_cid (two years): identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site.

    • ss_cpvisit (two years): identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site.

    • ss_cvisit (30 minutes): identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site.

    • ss_cvr (two years): identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site.

    • ss_cvt (30 minutes): identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site.

  • Pragmatix Advisory hold all intellectual property rights in this website and its content, unless where otherwise stated or indicated. This website and its content are copyright of Pragmatix Advisory. All rights reserved.

    You may not, except with the express written permission of a director of Pragmatix Advisory, distribute or commercially exploit the content. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.

    We hold all intellectual property rights and copyright in the content of our social media channels, unless where otherwise stated or indicated. You may reference and republish our social media posts through your own social media profiles in accordance with the rules and terms of the relevant social media platform and provided that you acknowledge fully and clearly us as the source and intellectual property owner.

    All trademarks used or referred to on this website are the property of their respective owners.

  • This website and associated social media channels are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. The contents of our website and associated social media channels are for general information only. They are subject to change at any time.

    Your use of this website and its content and of our social media channels and their contents is entirely at your own risk. We make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, timeliness, performance, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the website and social media channels for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is strictly and entirely at your own risk.

    We make reasonable effort to keep the website up and running smoothly. However, we take no responsibility for, and will not be liable for, the website being unavailable, including for temporary technical issues beyond our control. We do not warrant that the website or associated social media channels are uninterrupted or error free or free of viruses, worms, Trojan Horses or technical defects of any description. We accept no responsibility for any technical problems arising from your use of the website or associated social media channels. Our website and social media channels are facilitated by and reside on the cloud servers of what we reasonably believe to be reputable and robust service providers, such as SquareSpace.com, LinkedIn and Meta. We are not responsible and accept no liability for the actions or failures to act of these suppliers.

    We make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the extent to which this website and associated social media channels complies with the laws and regulations of any jurisdiction.

    We are not responsible for your access to our website or social media channels. We cannot guarantee that the transmission of any information over your internet connection will be secure nor can we guarantee that our website and social media channels will be compatible with any or all hardware and software that you may use to visit or access them.

    In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from loss of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this website.

    We shall not be liable to you for any loss or expense which is: indirect or consequential loss; or economic loss or other loss of turnover, profits, business or goodwill even if such loss was reasonably foreseeable or we knew you might incur it.

  • Content is illustrative only and cannot be regarded as constituting advice or recommendations.

    You are solely responsible for any decisions you make based on the content of our website and associated social media channels. We disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials from any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

    Our content does not constitute investment or financial advice, nor does it solicit dealing in securities or investments. We expressly exclude all liability for such content to the fullest extent permitted by law.

  • Through this website and our social media channels, you may be able to link to websites and internet apps provided by third parties. These links are provided for your information only. We have no control over nor responsibility for the availability or content of such other websites and apps, nor for any products or services available from them. Any such link should not be seen as an endorsement or recommendation of such websites, or any products, services, opinions or views contained on them.

    We are not responsible for the websites or social media channels of our employees, partners or associates of Pragmatix Advisory. We are not responsible for websites or social media channels with similar or the same names, URLs or identifiers except those specified herein.

    Your use of such other websites and apps may be subject to additional terms and conditions imposed by their owners. Your dealings with such third parties are between you and the third party. We accept no liability as a result of you accessing such websites or entering into contractual arrangements with the third parties.

    You may link to our home page and social media channels, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal, is not detrimental to our current or future commercial performance and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but 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 from any website that is not owned by you. You must contact us for permission if you want to charge your website’s users to link to our website or social media channels or if you want to place such a link behind a paywall or within a subscriber-only part of your website, social media channels or apps. Such permission can only be given in writing by a director of Pragmatix Advisory. Our website must not be framed on any other site except with the express written permission of a director of Pragmatix Advisory.

    We reserve the right to withdraw permission for you to link to our website or social media channels without notice or reason. You must remove all links to our website or social media channels from your websites, social media channels and apps within 24 hours of receiving notice from us by post or email of withdrawal of permission.

    If you wish to make any use of material on the website or associated social media channels other than that set out herein, please contact us.

  • In your use of our website and social media channels, you must not:

    • defame, abuse, harass, stalk, intimidate, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy or intellectual property rights where applicable) of others;

    • impersonate any other person or entity, whether actual or fictitious or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent yourself, your age or your affiliation with any person or entity;

    • upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make available any content that we deem or might reasonably be believed to be obscene, indecent, unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, fraudulent, hateful, or racially, ethnically, sexually or otherwise objectionable;

    • upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make available any material which contains a statement which you know or believe, or have reasonable grounds for believing, that members of the public to whom the statement is, or is to be, published are likely to understand as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of criminality or terrorism;

    • upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make available any unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail", "spam", "chain letters", "pyramid schemes", or engage in any other form of solicitation;

    • upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make available content unless you are sure there are no restrictions on your ability to do so;

    • upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, corrupted files, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;

    • delete any required author attributions, legal notices or proprietary designations or labels in, or falsify the origin or source of, any material that is uploaded;

    • use automated scripts to collect information from or in any way seek to change the website or otherwise interact with the website and associated social media channels; or

    • upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make publicly available on the website or associated social media channels any private information of any other party, including but not limited to addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and credit card numbers, without first having obtained their written consent to this.

    We will determine, in our sole discretion, whether an activity breaches these terms.

    You must not misuse the website and associated social media channels by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the website or associated social media channels, the servers on which they are stored or any server, computer or database connected to them.

    You must not attack the website or associated social media channels via a denial-of-service attack, a distributed denial-of service attack or any similar method. We will report any such action to the relevant law enforcement authorities, internet service providers and social media platform providers. We will co-operate with those authorities and organisations by disclosing to them your identity and any other details we know about you and your activities. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our website and social media channels will cease immediately.

    You agree to indemnify us and keep us indemnified in perpetuity against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities and reasonable costs arising from or in connection with your use of and conduct on our website and associated social media channels, including your breach of any of the terms.

    If you access, use or reference our website and associated social media channels from a jurisdiction other than England and Wales, you are responsible for ensuring that our content, website and social media channels meet the requirements of the relevant laws and regulations of that jurisdiction.

  • These terms of use, policies and any disputes or claims arising out of them shall be governed by English law. English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear any such disputes and claims.

    We may change these terms of use and policies from time to time without warning. An up-to-date version will be available on our website.

    Where you require permission from us, this can only be provided in writing and by a director of Pragmatix Advisory.

    The terms are not intended, nor shall they operate, to create a partnership or joint venture of any kind between us and you. You are not authorised to act as our agent.

    Where these terms of use exclude or restrict our liability, such exclusions and restrictions apply equally to our directors, officers, employees, subcontractors, agents and affiliated companies, who may enforce this clause under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, as well as to ourselves.

    If any term or provision of this agreement is at any time held by any jurisdiction to be void, invalid or unenforceable, then it shall be treated as changed or reduced, only to the extent minimally necessary to bring it within the laws of that jurisdiction and to prevent it from being void and it shall be binding in that changed or reduced form. Subject to that, each provision shall be interpreted as severable and shall not in any way affect any other of these terms.

February 2022