Website Use Terms & Conditions

Please read these Website Use Terms and Conditions carefully before accessing or using our website, www.cognanttech.com, including its subdomains (the “website”). These Website Terms regulate your access to and use of our website; by using or accessing our website, you agree to be bound by these Website Terms.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children. You can only use our website or purchase products or services from us if you are at least 18 years old.

Website Terms

1. By using our website you accept these terms and agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our website.
2. We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.
3. There are other terms that may apply to you: our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and store your personal data, and our Cookie Policy sets out information about the cookies on our website.
4. We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our website, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.
5. We may update and change our website from time to time to reflect changes to our products, our users’ needs or our business needs.
6. We do not guarantee that our website, or any content on it, will always be available or uninterrupted. We may suspend, withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our website for business and operational reasons.
7. You are responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our website through your internet connection are aware of these terms and other applicable terms, and that they comply with them.
8. If you choose, or 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 and must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password at any time if, in our reasonable opinion, you have failed to comply with any of these terms. If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your code or password, you must promptly notify us.
9. We are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in our website and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright and other 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 website for your personal use, and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our website.
10. 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 graphics separately from any accompanying text. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our website must always be acknowledged.
11. You must not use any part of the content or our intellectual property on our website for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us.
12. If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our website in breach of these terms, 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.
13. You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our website or any services provided via, or in relation to, our website 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 website or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same; or
    • 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, including patterns, trends and correlations.
14. The provisions in the clause above should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of the Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790). 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 applicable law.
15. 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 website, nor may you link to any part of our website other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
16. We will consider any content you upload to our website to be non-confidential and non-proprietary. You own your content, but you grant us and other users of our site a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform that content in connection with the service provided by the website and across different media, including to promote our website or the service.
17. Our website may include information and materials uploaded by other users. This information has not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our website do not represent our views or values.
18. The content on our website 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 on our website. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content is accurate, complete or up to date.
19. 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. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
20. We do not guarantee that our website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform to access our website, and you should use your own virus protection software. You must not misuse our website by introducing viruses or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to our website or any server or database connected to it. You must not attack our website via a denial-of-service attack. Breaching this provision would be a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990; we will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities, and in the event of such a breach your right to use our website will cease immediately.