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Last updated: June 2025
Next review: December 2025
Who we are: Thiscovery is operated by THIS Labs, an independent organisation. Our principal office is THIS Labs, c/o Regus, Chivers Way, Histon, Cambridge, CB24 9AD.
Contact us: hello@thiscovery.org
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We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.
These terms refer to our Privacy Policy, which also applies to your use of our website.
Individual Thiscovery research and engagement projects have their own specific terms and information, which will be provided to you before you decide whether to participate. These project-specific terms may include additional provisions regarding:
We may revise these terms at any time by amending this page.
Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you.
We may update and change our website from time to time to reflect changes to our services, our users' needs and our business priorities.
We do not 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.
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If you choose, or you are 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 hello@thiscovery.org.
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You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our website for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our website.
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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.
If you print off, copy or download 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.
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Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.
To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our website or any content on it, whether express or implied.
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We do not guarantee that our website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
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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.
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 website in any website that is not owned by you.
Our website must not be framed on any other site, 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 hello@thiscovery.org.
Where our website 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.
These terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.
Thiscovery is a UK-registered trade mark of the University of Cambridge, licensed to THIS Labs. You are not permitted to use this trade mark without our approval, unless they are part of material you are using as permitted under "Intellectual Property Rights" above.
Questions or concerns about these terms should be directed to hello@thiscovery.org.
For data protection specific queries, contact our Data Protection Officer at DPO@thiscovery.org.
Last updated: June 2025
Next review: December 2025