Terms of reading, not of advice.

1. Who you are dealing with

The site is published by cleanserdata, 25 Sansome Pl, Worcester WR1 1UA, UK. Contact [email protected] or +44 7700168490. References to "we" and "the desk" mean that publisher. References to "you" mean the person reading or writing to us.

2. What the essays are

Essays are general information about UK business life, written for a broad readership and dated so you can see their age. They are not legal advice, tax advice, accounting advice, financial advice, insurance advice, or employment advice. They are not a recommendation to incorporate, to resign, to register for VAT, to hire, or to adopt any particular price. Thresholds, rates, and allowances change. Statutes have exceptions that a short essay cannot exhaust. Your facts will differ from the composites in the founder notes.

Before you file, sign, resign, or spend, check the current position on GOV.UK or with a qualified person who can see your documents. Nothing on this site creates a duty of care to you personally, and nothing on it is a substitute for advice that is allowed to be specific.

3. No professional relationship by default

Reading the site, citing it, or sending an email does not make us your adviser and does not make you our client. We are free to ignore pitches. If we ever agree to do a piece of paid work, that work will be described in a separate written agreement. Until that agreement exists, there is none. Do not send us confidential material you would only show a retained adviser. Email is not a locked room.

4. Using the site

You may read the pages, link to them, and quote short extracts with credit to cleanserdata and a link to the page. You may not copy an entire essay, mirror the site, train a model on the archive as a substitute for the site, or present our sentences as your own advice product. You may not scrape the site in a way that degrades it for other readers. You may not attempt to break the host, probe accounts that do not exist, or send us malware under the heading of a pitch.

The site is made available as a static publication. We may change, correct, or remove an essay without notice when a figure goes stale or a sentence is wrong. We do not promise that the site will be uninterrupted.

5. Intellectual property

Unless we say otherwise, the text, layout, and mark of cleanserdata are owned by the publisher. Photographs commissioned for the journal are used under our rights in them. Our name and mark may not be used as if we had endorsed a product, a course, or a formation service. If we have credited a source, that credit is not a transfer of the source's rights to you.

If you pitch writing to us, you promise you have the right to offer it. We will not publish it without an agreement on rights. Sending a pitch does not transfer copyright to us, and it does not oblige us to publish or to pay.

6. Third parties and links

The site loads fonts and icons from third-party networks, described in the privacy policy. Links to GOV.UK, the ICO, or anywhere else are there for orientation. Those sites have their own terms. We are not responsible for them. Companies House, HMRC, and the courts are not bound by our paraphrases.

7. Liability

We take care with public figures and we correct errors when they are shown to us. We still exclude, to the extent UK law allows, liability for loss arising out of the use of the essays or the unavailability of the site. In particular, we are not liable for lost profits, lost resignation plans, tax penalties, or decisions you take without advice, whether or not we have been told they might occur.

We do not exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot be excluded under the law of England and Wales. If you are a consumer, you also have rights that these terms cannot take away. Nothing here tries to.

Where liability is not excluded and a limit is allowed, our total liability to you for all claims arising out of the site in a year is limited to £100. If a court finds that cap unfair in your case, it will not apply to the extent it is unfair, and the rest of these terms will remain.

8. Your responsibility

You are responsible for the information you send us and for the decisions you take after reading. You agree not to rely on an essay as if it were a personal opinion addressed to your return, your contract, or your insurance proposal.

9. Law and where disputes are heard

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction, except that if you are a consumer living in another part of the United Kingdom you may also have the right to bring a claim in the courts of your home country, and we may bring a claim in those courts. Nothing in this clause removes a right you have to complain to a regulator.

10. Changes to the terms

We may update these terms by posting a new version on this page with a new date. The version on the page on the day you read it is the version that applies to that use. A change does not rewrite a separate written agreement if we have one with you.

11. Contact

Questions about these terms go to [email protected], cleanserdata, 25 Sansome Pl, Worcester WR1 1UA, UK, or +44 7700168490 on weekdays between 9:30 and 17:30 UK time.