Website Terms of Use

Please read these website terms of use carefully before using this site

Who we are and how to contact us

This website is operated by Discover your Pulse Ltd (“DYP”, “we”, “us” or “our”).

Discover your Pulse Ltd is incorporated and registered in England and Wales under company number 17190330. Its registered office is at G8 Lynch Lane Offices, Lynch Lane, Weymouth, Dorset, England, DT4 9DN.

Discover your Pulse Ltd is part of the Nova Ripples group of companies. Certain intellectual property in this website, the Discover your Pulse framework and materials made available through the website is owned by Nova Ripples Ltd and used by Discover your Pulse Ltd under licence.

You can contact us at info@discoveryourpulse.com

By using our site you accept these terms

By using our site, 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 site.

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 site:

Our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and store your personal data;
Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.

If you purchase goods or services from our site, terms and conditions applicable to your purchase will apply and these will be provided to you during the sales process.

We may make changes to these terms

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.

We may make changes to our site

We may update and change our site from time to time to reflect changes to our products, our users' needs and our business priorities. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any major changes.

We may suspend or withdraw our site

Our site is made available free of charge with the option to purchase different tiered subscription packages.

We do not guarantee that our site, 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 site 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 site 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 site is primarily operated from the UK

Our site is operated from the United Kingdom and is intended for users in the United Kingdom and other territories in which we make our services available. We do not represent that content available on or through our site is appropriate or available in every jurisdiction.

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 info@discoveryourpulse.com, or via the contact us page.

How you may use material on our site

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, 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) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.

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

You must not use any part of the content on our site 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 site in breach of these terms of service, your right to use our site 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 site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site 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 site 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 constitute an express reservation of our rights in relation to text and data mining, web scraping and the use of our content for the development, training, fine-tuning or validation of AI systems or models.

You shall not use, and we do not consent to the use of, our site, or any data published by, or contained in, or accessible via, our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site for the purposes of developing, training, fine-tuning or validating any AI system or model or for any other purposes not explicitly set out under Acceptable Use (see below).

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.

We do not warrant or represent that our site or its content complies with the laws of every jurisdiction in which it may be accessed.

Acceptable Use

These acceptable use standards apply to any material you upload or share to our site or generate on our site (User Content). They also apply to any contact you make with other users on our site, links to our site, and any other ways you use our site.

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 site breaches these acceptable use standards.

You may not use our site:

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:

Be defamatory of any person;
Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person;
Include video content that has been or would be likely to be given an R18 certificate by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC);
Include video content not suitable for BBFC classification;
Include material that might impair the physical, mental or moral development of persons under the age of 18;
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;
Give the impression that the User Content emanates from us, if this is not the case;
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;
Contain a statement which you know or believe, or have reasonable grounds for believing, that members of the public to whom the statement is, or is to be, published are likely to understand as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism;
Be pornographic.

Illegal content

In addition, you must not use our site in any way that involves the following:

Terrorism;
Child sexual exploitation or abuse including grooming and child sexual abuse material;
Hate offences;
Harassment, stalking, making threats or abuse;
Controlling or coercive behaviour;
Intimate image abuse;
Extreme pornography;
Sexual exploitation of adults;
Human trafficking;
Unlawful immigration;
Fraud and financial offences;
Proceeds of crime offences;
Drugs or psychoactive substance offences;
Firearms, knives and other weapons offences;
Encouraging or assisting suicide;
Foreign interference offences;
Animal cruelty.

Content very harmful to children

The following must not be uploaded, shared or generated directly on this service:

Pornographic content;
Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for suicide;
Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for an act of deliberate self-injury;
Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for an eating disorder or behaviours associated with an eating disorder.

Offences

You must not upload, post, create on our site, share or cause any uploading, posting, creation or sharing, of any of the following:

A grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing message intending to cause offence, menace, distress or anxiety;
A false message knowing it to be false, intending to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience, and with no reasonable excuse;
A message threatening death or serious harm while intending or being reckless as to whether the object of the threat would fear that the threat would be carried out;
Flashing images when it is reasonably foreseeable that an individual with epilepsy will see it and the sender intended that the individual would suffer harm and the sender has no reasonable excuse for sending the images;
A communication that intends to encourage serious self-harm;
An unsolicited sexual image, including a manufactured intimate image or "deepfake" intending the recipient to be caused alarm, distress or humiliation, or for the purpose of sexual gratification and being reckless as to whether the recipient will be caused alarm, distress or humiliation;
A sexually explicit deepfake.

Advertising

You must not upload, post, create on our site or share content containing any advertising or promoting any services or web links to other sites.

Hidden advertising (where a content creator has been paid or otherwise has an incentive to endorse a product but does not clearly identify the content as advertising) is not allowed on our site.

Reviews

Fake reviews are not allowed on our service. Fake reviews include reviews that conceal that the reviewer has been incentivised in some way to post the review, or where the review contains information that is false or misleading.

Rules about linking to our site

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 site in any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the directions under our Acceptable Use (see above).

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact us.

Our trade marks

Nova Ripples, Discover your PULSE and their associated logos are UK trademarks of Nova Ripples Ltd. You are not permitted to use them without our approval, unless they are part of material you are using as permitted under How you may use material on our site (see above).

Uploading content to our site

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to create content directly on our site, upload or share content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the standards set out under Acceptable Use (see above).

You warrant that any such contribution complies with those 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.

Content you upload to public areas of our site may be treated as non-confidential. This does not apply to information, documents, PULSE content or other customer content submitted through the Discover your PULSE platform or services, which is governed by the applicable Platform Terms. You own your content, but you are required to grant us a limited licence to host, store, copy, process and display that content as described under ‘Rights you are giving us to use material you upload’ below.

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 in under Acceptable Use (see above).

If you wish to contact us in relation to content you have uploaded to our site and that we have taken down, please contact info@discoveryourpulse.com

Rights you are giving us to use material you upload

When you upload or post content to our site, you grant us the following rights to use that content:

A worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, process, display and otherwise use User Content only to the extent necessary to operate, provide, secure and improve the relevant website or service, and as otherwise permitted by the applicable Platform Terms;
This licence does not permit us to use private customer content for advertising or promotional purposes unless you have expressly agreed to that use.

User-generated content is not approved by us

Our site may include information and materials uploaded by other users. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.

Do not rely on information on this site

The content on our site 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 site.

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

We are not responsible for websites we link to

Where our site 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.

We are not responsible for viruses

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

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

You must not introduce viruses

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful, or otherwise harmfully interacting with our site or any part of it. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site or any other equipment or network connected with our site. You must not interfere with, damage or disrupt any software used in the provision of our site or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party on which this site relies in any way. You must not attack our site 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 site 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.
Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any products, software and services to you, which will be set out in the appropriate terms and conditions.

If you are a business user:

We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site 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 site; or
use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.

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 site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site 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 a dispute

If you are a consumer, these terms of service, their subject matter and their formation are governed by English law. However, you will also benefit from any mandatory protections available to you under the laws of the country in which you live. You may bring proceedings in the courts of England and Wales or, where applicable, in the courts of the country in which you live.

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.