Website terms Of use

Last updated November 2022.

Our website, https://www.dataledconsulting.com/, is owned and operated by Data Led Consulting Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 14436257 with our registered office at 27 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AX, United Kingdom (“we”, “us” or “our”).

By using our website, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them. If you don’t agree to these terms of use, you shouldn’t use our website.

About us

Data Led Consulting was created by Yahia El Mejjad, a tech guy and Product Owner with a background in banking, IT and coding. Driven by his desire to solve problems experienced by IT companies in a variety of sectors, it is his mission to help companies make informed decisions based on data insight and to help product teams leverage their data metrics to prioritise key features faster and scale their products.

Our website is intended to be a source of information for all those who share this mission and is a place where ideas can be shared and we can get talking. So that you can get the most out of our website, we recommend that you sign up to our newsletter. This means you will be able to comment on the articles we post and interact with us and other members.

Uploading content to our website

When you comment on the articles we post, or you contact other members via our website, it is essential that you follow our content standards. By using our website, you agree that you will not use our website:

  • in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
  • in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
  • to bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person;
  • to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which doesn’t comply with our content standards (see later in these website terms of use);
  • to transmit any spam (i.e. any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material);
  • in any way that involves the abuse or exploitation of any person.

You warrant that any contribution you make complies with those standards, and you’ll be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty, meaning 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 website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You will retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, licence to use, reproduce, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties or on other media, for our own commercial purposes.

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

Content standards

As explained above, these standards apply to any contribution you make to our website. By interacting with our website, you promise that each contribution will be accurate (where you are stating fact) and  genuinely held (where you are stating an opinion). In addition to this, all contributions must not:

  • be defamatory of any person, obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory, nor used to bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate anyone;
  • be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person, or deceive any person;
  • be threatening, abusive or an invasion of another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
  • promote sexually explicit material or include child sexual abuse material;
  • promote violence or any illegal content or activity ;
  • promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
  • infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person;
  • breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence, or be in contempt of court;
  • impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person, including as passing yourself as working for or with us;
  • contain any advertising or promote any services or web links to other websites.

Although we do moderate the interactions on our website and do our best to remove any content that breaches the standards set out in these terms of use, we can’t be held responsible for the opinions, comments, statements or activities of members of our website. If you come across any content you consider is contrary to our expected standards, we kindly ask that you notify us so we can take action to remove the content.

If you breach our standards, we reserve the right to delete your account and to delete all contributions you have made to our website without any liability or responsibility to you or any third party.

Intellectual property rights

In a nutshell, intellectual property rights means the rights granted to those that create anything, whether it is in trade marks, text content, typographical arrangements, designs, photos, graphics, layouts or anything else. Our website is full of intellectual property rights that we either own, including but not limited to the articles we post on our website that you can find here, or we have licensed from others, such as any stock graphics or templates.

All content you find on our website, save for user-generated consent (discussed earlier) 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 pages from our website for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our website.

That being said, you are not permitted to 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. You must not use any part of the content on our website for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our website must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated).

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

No text or data mining, or web scraping

You must not conduct, facilitate, authorise, or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our website or any services provided via, or in relation to, our website. This includes using (or permitting, authorising, or attempting the use of):

  • Any "robot", "bot", "spider", "scraper" or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process, or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of the website or any data, content, information, or services accessed via the same.
  • Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information which includes but isn’t limited to patterns, trends, and correlations.

The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).

This clause shall not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.

The content on our website 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 content on our website.

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

We won’t be liable to you, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, for any loss of profit, loss of business, interruption to business, for any loss of business opportunity, or for any indirect or consequential loss arising out of or in connection with your use of our website. Our total liability to you for all other losses arising out of or in connection with your use of our website, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, shall be limited to £500.

Nothing in these website terms of use seeks to limit or exclude our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence (including that of our employees, agents or subcontractors) any other matter in respect of which liability cannot be excluded or restricted by law.

Data protection

We comply with our obligations under the Data Protection Act 2018 and the EU law retained version of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) (2016/679). If any of these laws are replaced or superseded, will also comply with those. For information on how we collect and use your personal data, please read our privacy and cookie policy, available at www.dataledconsulting.com/privacy-and-cookies-policy.

Computer misuse

We don’t guarantee that our website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our website. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our website 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 website, the server on which our website is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to our website. You must not attack our website 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 website will cease immediately.

Where our website contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links shouldn’t 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 those website or resources.

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and doesn’t 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 website in any website that isn’t owned by you.

Our website must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any part of our website other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our website other than that set out above, please contact info@dataledconsulting.com.

Changes to these terms of use or website

We amend these terms of use from time to time. Every time you wish to use our website, please check these terms of use to ensure you understand the terms of use that apply at that time. You’ll see this by checking the date at the beginning of these terms of use.

We may also update and change our website from time to time to reflect changes to our goods and services, our users' needs, and our business priorities.

Suspending or withdrawing our website

Our website is made available free of charge. We don’t guarantee that our website, 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 website for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal where we can.

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

Transferring these terms of use

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms of use to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer won’t affect your rights under these terms of use.

Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms of use, and any non-contractual obligations arising hereunder, are governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction over any matter and proceedings arising out of these terms of use.