Terms
Terms of service: the sites and the account
These terms cover reading uksrs.org.uk and using the UK SRS account, which is the one account for every site in the family.
The site is free to read without an account. The workspace is a beta, it is free while it is, and nothing it tells you is advice.
Who we are
Who provides this
Fractional Quest Ltd, company no. 17322105, 71–75 Shelton Street, London WC2H 9JQ.
These terms are between you and us, and using the site or the account means you accept them.
Write to hello@uksrs.org.uk about anything on this page.
Scope
Which sites these cover
These terms cover uksrs.org.uk, and the account on every site in the UK SRS family.
The other nine sites (sustainabilityreportingstandards.co.uk, srsreport.co.uk, srsreport.com, uksrsreport.co.uk, uksrs.finance, secr.quest, srs.credit, srs.green and carbon.legal) have no sign-in, and each has its own terms for reading it.
For anything to do with an account, those terms point here.
Reading
Information, not advice
Every page here is open without an account, and it stays that way.
You may read it, quote it with a link back, and share it; we keep the copyright in what we wrote.
The pages explain UK sustainability-reporting rules and cite the instrument behind every figure.
They are general information, not legal, accounting, financial or other professional advice, and they are not a substitute for your adviser or your auditor.
We check our pages against the primary sources and correct them when we find an error, but we do not promise that every page is complete or current on the day you read it.
Acceptable use
What you must not do
Do not try to get into any part of the site, the workspace or another member’s data that you are not given access to.
Do not interfere with the service, overload it, or probe it for weaknesses, and do not use automated means to extract its content in bulk.
Do not use the site or the workspace to break the law, to infringe anyone’s rights, or to upload anything harmful.
Do not present our pages or the assistant’s answers as your own professional advice to someone else.
The account
Who may have one
An account is optional: every page on every site in the family is open without one.
You may make an account if you are 18 or over and you are using it in the course of your work.
The account belongs to you, and you join an organisation through it: the one your verified work email places you in, or one that invites you.
Keep your sign-in to yourself; you are responsible for what is done with it.
The workspace is a beta and it is free while it is: no card, no plan and no trial clock. If we ever charge, nothing starts charging without you choosing it.
Features may change, move or break during the beta.
The assistant
Its answers are provisional
The assistant answers from a corpus of UK regulations we maintain, and every figure it gives carries the provision behind it.
It states a position provisionally, with what would change it and a route to a person who can confirm it.
The assistant’s answers are information with citations. They are not legal, accounting, financial or other regulated or professional advice, and they must not be the only basis of a reporting or compliance decision. Confirm anything that matters with your adviser before you act on it.
It can be wrong, and a figure you give it can be misread; check its citations, and tell us when something is wrong so we can correct it.
Your content
What you put in
Your figures, messages and uploads stay yours.
You let us store and process them to run the workspace for you, as the privacy policy describes, and for nothing else.
You are responsible for the accuracy of the figures you enter, and for having the right to give us anything you upload, such as a tender document; do not upload anything you are not allowed to share.
What you add to your organisation’s workspace can be read by the other people in that organisation, and by any guest it invites.
If your organisation switches on its API, a webhook or Slack, the organisation decides who receives its record through them.
Ending it
Suspension and deletion
You can delete your data, or your whole account, at any time from Settings, without asking us.
We may suspend or close an account that is being used to attack the service, to break these terms or to break the law; we will tell you why unless the law or the safety of the service prevents it.
If we stop offering the workspace, we will tell you in time to download what you hold first.
Liability
What we do not promise
We do not promise that the site or the workspace will always be available or free of errors, and during a beta it sometimes will not be.
As far as the law allows, we are not liable for a decision you take on the strength of a page or an answer, which is why every page and every answer tells you to check.
Nothing in these terms limits or excludes any liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
Law
Changes and law
When these terms change, the date at the top moves.
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction.
What we hold about you and what we do with it is in the privacy policy.
Sources
The law these rest on
The statutes that limit what terms may exclude, the law on misuse, and the public record of who we are.
- legislation.gov.ukConsumer Rights Act 2015, section 62 — unfair terms
Why nothing here tries to exclude what the law does not allow us to exclude.
- legislation.gov.ukUnfair Contract Terms Act 1977, section 2 — negligence liability
Liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence cannot be excluded.
- legislation.gov.ukComputer Misuse Act 1990
The law behind the acceptable-use rules on access and interference.
- Companies HouseFractional Quest Ltd — company 17322105
Who provides the sites and the account.