PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE OR THE BUSINESS CASE ACCELERATOR™

What's in these terms?

These terms tell you the rules for using our website wearecloudrock.com (our site) and also govern any use of the Business Case Accelerator.

Who we are and how to contact us

wearecloudrock.com is a site operated by Cloudrock Partners Ltd (We). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 11123511 and have our registered office at 73 Cornhill, London, United Kingdom, EC3V 3QQ. Our main trading address is Unit 744-750 (5th floor), Salisbury House, 29 Finsbury Circus, London, EC2M 5QQ. Our VAT number is 287 9504 49.

The Business Case Accelerator is an online business case accelerator service which we own and provide to new and prospective clients to assist in their evaluation of business projects. We use the term “Business Case Accelerator” in these terms to describe the services we provide to enable you to connect to our tool, and to take the benefit of it. We use the term “Reports” in these terms to describe all reports, data, materials and presentations generated through it (however these are presented).

To contact us, please email bca@cloudrockpartners.com or telephone us on +44 (0) 2039517903.

By using our site and/or the Business Case Accelerator you accept these terms

By using our site and/or the Business Case Accelerator, 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 or our Business Case Accelerator.

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 and the Business Case Accelerator:

We may make changes to these terms

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site and/or the Business Case Accelerator, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. These terms were most recently updated on 11th April 2024.

We may make changes to our site and/or the Business Case Accelerator

We may update and change our site from time to time to reflect changes to our services, our clients' needs and our business priorities. We may modify the nature, content or functionality of the Business Case Accelerator at any time without advance notice.

We may suspend or withdraw our site and/or the Business Case Accelerator

Our site and the Business Case Accelerator are each made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, or the Business Case Accelerator (or any part of 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 and/or Business Case Accelerator 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 and/or the Business Case Accelerator through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, 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.

Use of the Business Case Accelerator

Registration and use

If you wish to use the Business Case Accelerator, we will provide you with a link which will enable you to navigate directly to it. Your right to access and use the Business Case Accelerator is personal to the entity which has received the link and which you represent, and is not transferable to any other person or entity. You may only access and use the Business Case Accelerator for lawful purposes and in accordance with these terms.

When you click on the link, you will be asked to submit an online registration request to use the Business Case Accelerator. By submitting this request, you confirm that:

  • the entity you represent is legally capable of entering into binding contracts and that you have sufficient authority to register for and use the Business Case Accelerator;
  • you are using the Business Case Accelerator for your own business use and not on behalf of another individual or entity, or for your own personal use;
  • you will provide us via the Business Case Accelerator with such information as we may reasonably request in order to supply the Business Case Accelerator, and that such information is complete and accurate in all material respects; and
  • you have read and understood, and agree to abide by these terms.

You will be guided through the online registration request process by a series of onscreen instructions. Once you submit your registration request, we will review it and using our sole discretion, will decide whether or not to progress it. We take into account a number of factors in considering your registration request (including the suitability of the Business Case Accelerator's outputs for your organisation, based on the details provided) and act reasonably and in good faith in this regard. However, it is our sole decision as to whether we choose to progress it and we will have no liability to you if we decide, for whatever reason, not to progress it. We will notify you via email from bca@cloudrockpartners.com within two business days of submission of your registration request as to whether we will or will not progress it.

If we notify you that we will be progressing your registration request, you will be asked to complete a series of more detailed questions online which relate to and are more specifically directed to your business case.

You will be guided through the process of completing and submitting the requested business case drivers and project cost inputs to us by a further series of onscreen instructions. You must fully comply with these instructions and submit all information requested fully and in a timely manner. Failure to do so may result in us being unable to provide the Business Case Accelerator or the provision of an incomplete or inaccurate report.

There is no charge for submitting a registration request or for your use of the Business Case Accelerator.

The Report

The Business Case Accelerator will use the inputs provided to produce the Report. The Report will be available to you on screen as soon as the required inputs have been completed.

Subject to your compliance with these terms, you may download, store for any length of time and print hard copies of the Report for the purposes of planning and preparation of your technology transformation project.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of the Report must always be acknowledged (except where the content is your Content).

The Business Case Accelerator and the Report are provided and made available to you on an “as is” basis. You acknowledge that the Business Case Accelerator and the Report have not been developed to meet your individual requirements and that you should not rely solely upon information in the Report in making business decisions.

Confidentiality

We take our responsibility to protect your business interests very seriously, and we undertake that we will not at any time disclose to any person any confidential information concerning your business, affairs, customers, employees, clients or suppliers or which you otherwise submit to us via the Business Case Accelerator, except as permitted by these terms. Whilst the Business Case Accelerator does not rely on personal information to operate, personal information may be included in the information that we collect from you when you submit your registration request or otherwise contact us. All personal information submitted to us is treated confidentially and in accordance with our Privacy Policy https://www.cloudrockpartners.com/privacy-policy.

You must keep your account details safe

If you choose to register, or you are otherwise provided with, a user identification code, 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.

We have the right to disable any user identification code 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 or password, you must promptly notify us at bca@cloudrockpartners.com.

Information that you provide

You acknowledge and agree that:

  • you are solely responsible for all information that you make available to us via the Business Case Accelerator (or otherwise through our site) (your “Content”). Accordingly, you represent and warrant that you are the sole and exclusive owner of the Content and that it does not infringe, misappropriate or violate a third party’s rights, and that it is lawfully provided; and
  • you will (as between you and us), own all rights, title and interest (including all intellectual property rights) in and to your Content. You hereby grant to us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, transferable, sub-licensable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to access, copy, display, and review any such Content (and allow others to do any of the foregoing) for the purpose of providing the Business Case Accelerator and Report. You also acknowledge and agree that we may (but are not obliged to) retain a copy of any such Content submitted to us for as long as we deem reasonably necessary for that purpose.

Ownership of the Business Case Accelerator

You acknowledge and agree that we will (as between you and us), own all rights, title and interest (including all intellectual property rights) in and to the Business Case Accelerator (including in the Report). You have no intellectual property rights in or to the Business Case Accelerator or Report other than the right to use them in accordance with these terms.

Subject to these terms we grant to you a non-exclusive, no-transferable right (without the right to grant sub-licences) to access and use the Business Case Accelerator and the Report. We are giving you the right to use the Business Case Accelerator and the Report and you may not transfer either of the foregoing to someone else.

We use the name BUSINESS CASE ACCELERATOR as a trade mark and all rights in it are reserved to Cloudrock Partners Ltd. You are not permitted to use it without our approval, unless they are part of material you are using as permitted under these terms.

How you may use material on our site or provided via the Business Case Accelerator

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, the Business Case Accelerator, and in the material published on either of them, or resulting from either of them, including the Report. Those works 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 page(s) from our site and Business Case Accelerator for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site and Business Case Accelerator. You may use the Report as stated above.

You must not 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.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site and/or the Business Case Accelerator must always be acknowledged (except where the content is your Content).

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

If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our site, Business Case Accelerator or Report in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site, the Business Case Accelerator and Report 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 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, including the Business Case Accelerator. 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 site, Business Case Accelerator or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same; and/or
  • any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information which includes but is not 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.

Acceptable use policy

You may not use our site or the Business Case Accelerator:

  • 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 transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
  • to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

You also agree:

  • not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site or Business Case Accelerator in contravention of these terms;
  • not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
  • any part of our site or Business Case Accelerator;
  • any equipment or network on which our site or the Business Case Accelerator is stored;
  • any software used in the provision of our site or the Business Case Accelerator; or
  • any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Do not rely on information on this site or the Business Case Accelerator

The content on our site and the Business Case Accelerator 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 of any of the foregoing.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site (including on the Business Case Accelerator), we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site (and Business Case Accelerator) is accurate, complete or up to date.

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.

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. The Business Case Accelerator and the Report are provided and made available to you on an “as is” basis. You acknowledge that the Business Case Accelerator and the Report have not been developed to meet your individual requirements.
  • 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:
  • use of, or inability to use, our site, the Business Case Accelerator or Report; or
  • use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site, or in the Business Case Accelerator or Report.
  • 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.
  • Subject to these terms, our maximum aggregate liability under or in connection with your use of the site, the Business Case Accelerator and/or the Report whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, shall in all circumstances be limited to £50.00.

How we may use your personal information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our privacy policy https://www.wearecloudrock.com/privacy-policy.

We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them

We do not guarantee that our site or the Business Case Accelerator will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site and Business Case Accelerator. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site 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 site, Business Case Accelerator, the server on which they are stored or any server, computer or database connected to them. You must not attack our site or the Business Case Accelerator 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 and the Business Case Accelerator will cease immediately.

Rules about linking to our site and Business Case Accelerator

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 or Business Case Accelerator in any website that is not owned by you.

Our site and Business Case Accelerator must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site or Business Case Accelerator 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 content standards set out above.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact us at bca@cloudrockpartners.com.

Which country's laws apply to any disputes?

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.