PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF SERVICE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE PLATFORM

What's in these terms?

These terms tell you the rules for using our grant management platform (the "Platform").

Click on the links below to go straight to more information on each area:

Who we are and how to contact us

The Platform is operated by Welcome Break Group Limited ("Welcome Break"/"we"/"us"/"our"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 03147949 and have our registered office at 2 Vantage Court, Tickford Street, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, MK16 9EZ.

To contact us, please email charitablefund@welcomebreak.co.uk.

By using our Platform you accept these terms

By using our Platform, you confirm that you accept these terms of service and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our Platform.

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 service refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our Platform:

• Our Privacy Policy Click here which explains how we collect, use and store your personal data.

• Our Cookie Policy Click here which sets out information about the cookies on our Platform.

The following documents also form part of these terms of service: Grant agreements and application and reporting guidance

We may make changes to these terms

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our Platform, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. These terms were most recently updated in October 2024.

We may make changes to our Platform 

We may update and change our Platform from time to time to reflect changes to our users' needs and our business priorities or to reflect changes in applicable laws or best practice. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any major changes.

We may suspend or withdraw our Platform 

Our Platform is made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our Platform, 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 Platform 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 Platform through your internet connection are aware of these terms of service and other applicable terms of service, 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.

Our Platform is only for users in the UK

Our Platform is directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that content available on or through our Platform is appropriate for use or available in other locations.

You must keep your account details safe

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 service.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at charitablefund@welcomebreak.co.uk.

How you may use material on our Platform 

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Platform, and in the material published on it. 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) relating to your grant application from our Platform for your personal use.

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 Platform must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated).

You must not use any part of the content on our Platform 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 Platform in breach of these terms of service, your right to use our Platform will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made (except that you are permitted to print off a copy of these terms of service).

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 Platform or any services provided via, or in relation to, our Platform 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 Platform or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.
• 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 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 the Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).

You shall not use, and we do not consent to the use of, our Platform, or any data published by, or contained in, or accessible via, our Platform or any services provided via, or in relation to, our Platform for the purposes of developing, training, fine-tuning or validating any AI system or model or for any other purposes not explicitly set out in these terms of service.

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 the laws which are applicable to us.

Our Platform, its content and any services provided in relation to the same are only targeted to, and intended for use by, individuals located in the UK (the "Permitted Territory"). By continuing to access, view or make use of our Platform and any related content and services, you hereby warrant and represent to us that you are located in the Permitted Territory. If you are not located in the Permitted Territory, you must immediately discontinue use of our Platform and any related content and services.

Rules about linking to our Platform 

You must not establish a link to our Platform in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

Our trade marks are registered

"Welcome Break Charitable Fund" is a UK registered trade mark of Welcome Beak Limited. You are not permitted to use it without our approval, unless it is part of material you are using as permitted under How you may use material on our Platform.

Uploading content to our Platform 

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload or share content to our Platform, you must comply with the standards set out under Acceptable use.

You warrant that any such contribution complies with these standards, and you are liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

We will consider any content you upload to our site to be non-confidential and not protected by any trade mark, patent or copyright ("non-proprietary"), that is, in the public domain. You own your content, but you are required to grant us a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to others. The rights you license to us are described below ("Rights you are giving us to use material you upload").

We also have the right to disclose your identity to anyone who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site violates their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the acceptable use standards set out below.

If you wish to contact us in relation to content you have uploaded to our site and that we have taken down, please contact us using the messaging facility on the Platform.

Rights you are giving us to use material you upload

When you upload content to our Platform, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce and distribute that content in connection with the grant management service provided by the Platform and across different media including to promote our Platform or the grant management service provided by the Platform to expire in accordance with the terms of your grant agreement.

Acceptable use

These acceptable use standards apply to any material you upload or share to our Platform or generate on our Platform (the "User Content"). They also apply to any links to our Platform, and any other ways you use our Platform.

You must comply with these standards in spirit as well as to the letter.

We will determine, in our discretion, whether any User Content or your use of our Platform breaches these acceptable use standards.

You may not use our Platform:

• In any way that breaches any local, national or international law or regulation.
• In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
• For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
• To bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person.
• To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, share, post, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards.
• 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.

User Content:

• Must be accurate (where it states facts).
• Only contain opinions that are genuinely held.
• Must comply with the law applicable in any country from which it is posted and to which the website is targeted.

User Content must not:

• Contain any personal data within the meaning of the UK GDPR unless you have the consent of the data subject to upload such personal data.
• Be defamatory of any person.
• Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
• Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
• Be likely to deceive any person.
• Breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
• Contain illegal content or promote any illegal content or activity.
• Be in contempt of court.
• Be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
• Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
• Impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
• Advocate, promote, incite any party to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
• Be pornographic.

Do not rely on information on this Platform

The content on our Platform 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 Platform.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our Platform, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our Platform is accurate, complete or up to date.

We are not responsible for viruses

We do not guarantee that our Platform will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform to access our Platform. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not introduce viruses

You must not misuse our Platform by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful, or otherwise harmfully interacting with our Platform or any part of it. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Platform, the server on which our Platform is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Platform or any other equipment or network connected with our Platform. You must not interfere with, damage or disrupt any software used in the provision of our Platform or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party on which this Platform relies in any way. You must not attack our Platform 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 Platform will cease immediately.

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

Whether you are a consumer or a business user, 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.

If you are a business user:

• We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our Platform or any content on it.

• 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 Platform; or
  • use of or reliance on any content displayed on our Platform.

• 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.

• If you are a consumer user:
  • We only provide our Platform for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our Platform for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
  • If defective digital content that we have supplied damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation. However, we will not be liable for damage that you could have avoided by following our advice to apply an update offered to you free of charge or for damage that was caused by you failing to correctly follow installation instructions or to have in place the minimum system requirements advised by us.

How we may use your personal information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy policy

Which country's laws apply to any disputes?

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of service, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. 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 a resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, these terms of service, 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.