Terms of Use
These terms are the agreement between you and Orcasci Ltd covering your use of orcasci.com and the email updates you can sign up for on it. Please read them. They are short, they are in plain English, and they say what happens if something goes wrong — which is the only reason terms are worth having.
01Definitions, and what forms this agreement
| “we”, “us”, “our” | Orcasci Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 07387280, registered office 27/28 Eastcastle Street, London, W1W 8DH, United Kingdom. Contact: hello@orcasci.com. |
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| “you” | The person using the Site. |
| “the Site” | orcasci.com and everything served from it. |
| “the Updates” | The occasional email updates you can sign up for on the Site. |
| “the Privacy Notice” | The notice published at orcasci.com/privacy, as amended from time to time. |
The Privacy Notice is expressly incorporated into these terms and forms part of them. It is not a separate document we have merely linked to for convenience: it governs how we handle your personal data, and it binds us. Where the Privacy Notice and these terms conflict on a question of personal data, the Privacy Notice prevails.
By using the Site you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the Site.
02Who may use the Site
The Site is open to anyone to read. You must be 16 or over to sign up for the Updates. We have set a single age everywhere rather than track the different national ages of consent for information society services under GDPR Art. 8 — 16 is at or above the threshold in every jurisdiction we expect readers in, and one clear rule is more useful to you than an accurate but unreadable table.
If you are under 16 and have signed up, tell us at privacy@orcasci.com and we will delete the address. A parent or guardian may do the same.
03Using the Site
You may read the Site and sign up for the Updates. It is provided free of charge and there is nothing to buy.
You agree not to:
- enter an email address that is not yours;
- submit addresses in bulk, or by any automated means;
- attempt to access any part of the Site, its database, or its administrative functions that is not made publicly available;
- probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Site, or breach its security or authentication measures, other than in accordance with a responsible-disclosure request made to us in advance;
- introduce malicious code, or do anything that interferes with the proper working of the Site or imposes an unreasonable load on it;
- scrape, harvest or systematically extract content from the Site for republication.
We may block access, without notice, where we reasonably believe any of the above is happening. Where we do so and you think we are wrong, write to us and we will look at it.
04The Updates
Signing up requires you to confirm by clicking a link we email you. We will not send you the Updates until you do.
We do not promise a schedule. The Updates go out occasionally, may be irregular, and may stop altogether without notice. They are not a subscription, nothing is owed to you, and no refund arises because nothing is paid.
Every email carries a one-click unsubscribe link and we act on it immediately. You can also unsubscribe by writing to privacy@orcasci.com.
05What the Site is not
This is a holding page. It states what we are working on. It is not:
- An offer. Nothing on the Site or in the Updates is an offer capable of acceptance, a contract, or a commitment to build, release, supply or support anything.
- Advice. Nothing here is professional, legal, financial, technical, medical or investment advice. Do not act on it without taking your own.
- A financial promotion. Nothing on the Site is an offer or invitation to buy, subscribe for, or otherwise acquire securities or any interest in Orcasci Ltd, and it is not directed at any person in any jurisdiction where such an offer would be unlawful.
- A forecast. Statements about what we intend to do are statements of present intention. They may change, and we are not undertaking to update them.
06Our intellectual property
The Site — its text, design, layout, images, code, and the OrcaSci name, logo and marks — belongs to us or is used with permission, and is protected by copyright, trade mark and other rights.
You may read the Site, and quote short extracts with attribution and a link. You may not copy it wholesale, republish it, use it commercially, or use the OrcaSci name, logo or marks in any way that suggests an association, endorsement or connection that does not exist.
Nothing in these terms transfers any right in our intellectual property to you.
07Links to other sites
Where we link to another site we do so because we think it is useful. We do not control those sites, we do not endorse their content, and we are not responsible for what they do with your data. Their terms and privacy practices are theirs.
08Availability
We do not promise that the Site will be available, uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, and we may change, suspend or withdraw all or part of it at any time without notice. It is provided “as is” and “as available”.
09Our liability to you
Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for: death or personal injury caused by our negligence; fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; any breach of the terms implied by section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979; or anything else that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded.
If you are a consumer
We are responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breaking these terms or failing to use reasonable care and skill. We are not responsible for loss or damage that is not foreseeable.
We do not exclude or limit your rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 or any other consumer protection law, and nothing here takes those rights away. If you live in the EEA or Switzerland, you keep the benefit of any mandatory consumer protections of your own country — see §17.
We are not liable for business losses. The Site is provided for private use; if you use it for any commercial purpose, the paragraph below applies to you instead.
If you are using the Site in the course of a business
Subject to the first paragraph of this section, we exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations and other terms to the fullest extent permitted by law; and we are not liable for loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, loss of goodwill, loss of anticipated savings, or any indirect or consequential loss, however arising.
10Suspension, termination and survival
You may stop using the Site at any time, and unsubscribe from the Updates at any time. We may suspend or end your access under §03.
Sections that survive: §01 (definitions and incorporation), §05 (what the Site is not), §06 (intellectual property), §09 (liability), this §10, §12 (waiver), §13 (severability), §15 (entire agreement), §16 (third parties) and §17 (governing law) continue to apply after your use of the Site ends, however it ends. Any right or liability that accrued before termination is unaffected.
11Assignment
We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation — for example on a sale, merger or reorganisation of the business. We will tell you in writing if that happens, and it will not reduce your rights under these terms. Where personal data transfers with it, the Privacy Notice governs that transfer.
You may not transfer your rights or obligations under these terms to anyone else without our written agreement.
12Waiver
If we do not insist that you do something you are required to do under these terms, or if we delay in taking steps against you in respect of a breach, that does not mean we have given up the right and does not prevent us taking steps later. A waiver is effective only if we give it in writing, and waiving one breach does not waive any other.
13Severability
Each paragraph of these terms operates separately. If any court or authority decides that any of them is unlawful or unenforceable, the rest remain in full force.
14Events outside our control
We are not liable for any failure or delay in providing the Site caused by an event outside our reasonable control — including failure of public or private telecommunications networks, failure of a hosting or upstream provider, cyber attack, power failure, industrial action, act of government, natural disaster, epidemic, war or civil unrest.
15Entire agreement
These terms, together with the Privacy Notice incorporated by §01, are the entire agreement between you and us in relation to the Site and the Updates, and replace any previous version. You confirm that you have not relied on any statement, promise or representation that is not set out in them — but nothing in this section limits any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
16Third parties
These terms are between you and us. No one else has any right to enforce any of them under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
17Complaints, governing law and jurisdiction
Complaints first. If something has gone wrong, write to hello@orcasci.com. We will acknowledge it and try to resolve it directly. Most things are cheaper and faster to fix this way than through a court, and neither of us gives anything up by trying.
These terms, their subject matter and their formation are governed by the law of England and Wales.
If you are a consumer: you may bring proceedings in the courts of England and Wales, or in the courts of the country where you live, and you keep the benefit of any mandatory consumer protections of that country. Nothing in this section deprives you of the protection of the law of your own country of residence.
If you are using the Site in the course of a business: the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.
18Changes to these terms
We may change these terms. The version number and date at the top change with them, and the version live at the time you use the Site is the one that applies to that use. Where a change materially affects you and we hold your address, we will tell you.