Terms of Use
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE
What's in these terms?
These terms tell you the rules for using our website porterdale.co.uk (our site).
Who we are and how to contact us
porterdale.co.uk is a website operated by Porterdale Ltd (We). We are a limited liability company registered in England and Wales under company number 09631468 and have our registered office at 213 Derbyshire Lane, Sheffield, England, S8 8SA.
To contact us, please email info@porterdale.co.uk
By using our site you accept these terms
By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.
If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.
Our site is intended for business users only. By using our site, you confirm that you are doing so in the course of a business and not as a consumer.
We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.
There are other terms that may apply to you
These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:
Our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and store your personal data.
Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.
If you book a Discovery Call or a Consultancy Appointment with us via our site (the Consultancy Services), our Consultancy Terms and Conditions (as notified to you at the time of booking) will apply.
We may make changes to these terms
We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. These terms were most recently updated on 7 July 2026.
We may make changes to our site
We may update and change our site from time to time. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any major changes.
We may suspend or withdraw our site
Our site is made available free of charge.
We do not guarantee that our site, 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 site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.
You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms of use, and that they comply with them.
We may transfer this agreement to someone else
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.
Our site is only for users in England and Wales
Our site is directed to people residing in England and Wales. We do not represent that content available on or through our site is appropriate for use or available in other locations.
How you may use material on our site
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the materials published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors. This restriction does not prevent you from using free templates, tools and other resources that we expressly make available for download on our site. We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to download and use those resources purely for your own internal business purposes. You must not, however, sell, sub-licence, redistribute or otherwise make those resources available to any third party, present them as your own, or remove any notice of our ownership or authorship.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, you are permitted to download, copy and use any templates, tools, checklists or other resources made available for download on our site free of charge for your own personal or internal business purposes, provided that you do not resell, redistribute, sublicense or commercially exploit such materials.
Do not rely on information on this site
The content and resources on our site — including any articles, guides, templates, tools, calculators and other materials — are provided for general information only and are not tailored to your particular circumstances. They are not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely and, in particular, do not constitute regulated financial advice, investment advice or a personal recommendation within the meaning of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, nor do they constitute accountancy, tax or legal advice. You must obtain professional or specialist advice appropriate to your circumstances before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content or resources on our site.
Any results or outputs you generate using our templates, tools or calculators depend on the information and assumptions you input. We are not responsible for those outputs, or for any decisions you take based on them.
Although we make reasonable efforts to update our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content or resources on our site are accurate, complete or up to date
No text or data mining, or web scraping
You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site for any purpose, including the development, training, fine-tuning or validation of AI systems or models. 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 our site 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 or develop, train, fine-tune or validate AI systems or models which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.
You shall not use, and we do not consent to the use of, our site, or any data published by, or contained in, or accessible via, our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site for the purposes of developing, training, fine-tuning or validating any AI system or model.
This clause will 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.
Rules about linking to our site
You may link to our home page, 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.
You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.
Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the following Acceptable Use Standards; it must not:
breach any local, national or international law or regulation;
have any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
have the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way;
bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person;
be defamatory;
be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory; or
infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
We will determine, in our absolute discretion, whether any use breaches these Acceptable Use Standards.
If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact info@porterdale.co.uk
We are not responsible for websites we link to
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such 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 those sites or resources.
We are not responsible for viruses
We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.
You must not introduce viruses
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful, or otherwise harmfully interacting with our site or any part of it. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site or any other equipment or network connected with our site. You must not interfere with, damage or disrupt any software used in the provision of our site or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party on which this site relies in any way. You must not attack our site 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 site will cease immediately.
Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you
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.
We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.
We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with: (a) use of, or inability to use, our site; or (b) use of or reliance on any content or materials displayed on our site.
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.
Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of our Consultancy Services, which will be as set out in our Consultancy Terms and Conditions (as notified to you at the time of booking).
How we may use your personal information
We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy.
Which country's laws apply to any disputes?
These terms of use, and any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter, are governed by the laws of England and Wales. You and we each agree that the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.