Terms of Use

Please read these terms of use carefully. Use of this Website by you indicates that you accept the relevant terms. If you do not accept these terms, do not use this Website.

Subscriber: If you have been authorised by your employer to access and use the Conect Intelligence Platform please refer to the Subscriber Terms of Use.

Counterparty: If you have been invited by email to complete an assessment please refer to the Counterparty Terms of Use.

Subscriber Personnel Terms of Use (“STU”)

Please read these terms of use carefully. Use of this Website by you indicates that you accept these terms. If you do not accept these terms, do not use this Website.

  1. Using the Website

1.1 This Website https://www.albanygrp.com (“Website”) is provided by Albany Group (“we”).

1.2 The organisation that you represent (the “Subscriber”) has nominated you as an authorised user of this Website. Accordingly, a User ID and Password provided by us will give you access via the Internet to this Website.

1.3 Access to this Website is by invitation and is subject to this STU.

1.4 This Website provides a facility enabling you, on behalf of the Subscriber to evaluate current or prospective suppliers of the Subscriber. For example by using this Website you may (i) request information from suppliers (typically in the form of questionnaires known as “Assessments”); and/or (ii) requisition reports relating to the financial status of suppliers directly from our Data Suppliers (together or individually the “Services”).

1.5 By proceeding to use this Website you agree to:

1.5.1    the STU terms;

1.5.2    our privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) and our cookies policy (“Cookie Policy”) are available at https://www.albanygrp.com 

2     Licence and Permitted Use:

2.1 We hereby grant you a non-exclusive, non-sub-licensable, non-transferable licence to use, on behalf of your organisation and for internal business use only, the Website in accordance with the permissions and purposes made known to you by the organisation you represent.

2.2 For the purposes of the STU ‘internal business use’ shall not include onward vending, distributing, sublicensing, copying, transmitting, publishing, broadcasting, displaying, altering, modifying, (including abbreviating, re-organising or restructuring), posting on the internet, making available on a network, reproducing, licensing or otherwise dealing with this Website either directly or indirectly, in any medium in whole or part, other than as permitted by the STU, without our prior written consent.

2.3 You must always ensure that you use the Website fairly which means that you must (i) only use the Website in accordance with the levels made known to you by the Subscriber; and (ii) act reasonably in the way that you print, store, download or share contents of the Website.

2.4 You may not, and you may not assist a third party to:

2.4.1    attempt to reproduce, assign, resell, copy, reverse engineer, modify, reuse, disassemble, decompile transfer or make any derivatives of the Website

2.4.2    remove or alter any proprietary notices or marks on the Website

2.4.3    access all or any part of the Website in order to create any product or services which competes with the Website

2.4.4    use the Website or Assessments to operate the business of a third party that offers EU regulatory monitoring services

2.4.5    circumvent any security measures or technical limitations of the Website

2.4.6    licence, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, display, disclose, download or otherwise commercially exploit or otherwise make use of the Website and or the Services available to any third party

2.4.7    take any screen-shots of the contents or pages of this Website or

2.4.8    use the Website for any unlawful purposes, in an unlawful manner or in any way that may bring us or any of its Data Suppliers into disrepute.

3     Data Protection:

3.1 In processing your personal data, we will at all times comply with the obligations we set out in our Privacy Policy.

3.2 You shall not post or upload any special categories of personal data onto this Website, which may include information about yourself or another person that may relate to race, ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or political beliefs, trade unions memberships, health data or any other special categories of personal data as defined by the General Data Protection Legislation or the Data Protection Act 2018.

4     Disclaimer

4.1 The Website is provided on an “as is” basis and we do not make any representations or warranties, including without limitation, representations or warranties relating to the timeliness, currency, continuity, accuracy, completeness, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose of the Website. By using this Website you acknowledge that every business decision involves the assumption of a risk and that we, in making the Website available to you; do not underwrite that risk, in any manner whatsoever. Subject to Clause 4.6 neither we nor any of our Data Suppliers, shall be liable for any loss caused in whole or in part by your use of the Website.

4.2 You acknowledge that no component of the Website shall constitute any financial, legal, investment or any other professional advice.

4.3 Access to the Website is granted to you for the purposes set out in Clause 2.1 and is not intended to facilitate the formation of any business decisions.

4.4 To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of the Website.

4.5 Albany Group shall not under any circumstances (i) assume any responsibility for the quality, approval, verification, endorsement or legality of Assessments or any responses to Assessments (“Contributions”); or (ii) be liable whatsoever for any reliance, loss claim or complaint arising from or in connection with the Contributions.

4.6 Nothing in the STU shall exclude or limit our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so.

5     Uploading content onto the Website:

5.1 Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload any Contribution to our Website or to make contact with other users of the Website, you must comply with the content standards set out in clause 5.2.

5.2 Your Contribution must:

5.2.1    be accurate;

5.2.2    comply with the laws of England and Wales;

5.2.3    not be defamatory;

5.2.4    not Promote unlawful violence;

5.2.5    not infringe any copyright, database right, trademark or any other third party rights;

5.2.6    not breach data protection legislation or confidentiality rights;

5.2.7    not deliberately nor negligently introduce viruses, worms, bombs, Trojan horses and trap doors; or

5.2.8    not be in contempt of court.

6     Third Party Claims:

6.1 If you are notified by a third party that your use of the Website infringes the rights of a third party you agree to (i) notify us as soon as reasonably possible; and (ii) at our request immediately cease to use any element of the Website that allegedly infringes third party rights.

7     General

7.1 Change to these Terms: We may amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use the Website, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. We will endeavour to give you notice of any material changes to these terms.

7.2 Data Suppliers: You acknowledge and agree that (i) the Services and the Website include information that we obtain from our third party suppliers of data (“Data Suppliers”); and (ii) our Data Supplier(s) are third party beneficiaries to these Subscriber Terms of Use and that each such Data Supplier may seek to enforce, on its own behalf, these Subscriber Terms of Use.

7.3 Governing Law: These terms shall be governed by English law and the English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction.

Counterparty Terms of Use (“CTU”)

Please read these terms of use carefully. Use of this Website by you indicates that you accept these terms. If you do not accept these terms, do not use this Website.

  1. Using the Website

1.1 This website https://www.albanygrp.com (“Website”) is provided by Albany Group (“we”).

1.2 Access to this Website is by invitation and is subject to this “CTU”.

1.3 The organisation you represent (the “Counterparty”) has been has been invited by a client of ours (the “Subscriber”) to access this Website to enabling you, on behalf of the Counterparty, to respond electronically to requests for information from the Subscriber typically in the form of questionnaires known as “Assessments” (together or individually referred to as the “Services”).

1.4 A User ID and Password, provided by us, will give you access via the Internet to this Website

1.5 By proceeding to use this Website you on behalf of the Counterparty agree to:

1.5.1    the CTU;

1.5.2    our privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) and our cookies policy (“Cookie Policy”) are available at https://www.albanygrp.com 

2     Licence and Permitted Use:

2.1 We hereby grant you a non-exclusive, non-sub-licensable, non-transferable licence to use, on behalf of the Counterparty, the Website for the purposes of completing, saving, storing, drafting and submitting Assessments in response to requests from the Subscriber.

2.2 You may not, and you may not assist any third party to:

2.2.1    attempt to reproduce, assign, resell, copy, reverse engineer, modify, reuse, disassemble, decompile transfer or make any derivatives of the Website or the Assessment(s);

2.2.2    remove or alter any proprietary notices or marks on the Website;

2.2.3    access all or any part of the Website in order to create any product or service which competes with the Website;

2.2.4    use the Website or Assessments to operate the business of a third party that offers EU regulatory monitoring services.

2.2.5    circumvent any security measures or technical limitations of the Website;

2.2.6    take any screen shots of the contents on the Website;

2.2.7    licence, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, display, disclose, download or otherwise commercially exploit, or otherwise make use of the Website and or the Services available to any third party; or

2.2.8    use the Website for any unlawful purposes, in an unlawful manner or in any way that may bring us or the Subscriber, or any third party suppliers of data contained on the Website into disrepute.

3     Data Protection:

3.1 In processing your personal data we will at all times comply with the obligations we set out in our Privacy Policy.

3.2 You shall not post or upload any special categories of personal data onto this Website, which may include information about yourself or another person that may relate to race, ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or political beliefs, trade unions memberships, health data or any other special categories of personal data as defined by the General Data Protection Legislation or the Data Protection Act 2018.

4     Disclaimer

4.1 The Website is provided on an “as is” basis and we do not make any representations or warranties, including without limitation, representations or warranties relating to the timeliness, currency, continuity, accuracy, completeness, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose of the Website. By using this Website you acknowledges that every business decision involves the assumption of a risk and that we, in making the Website available to you, do not underwrite that risk, in any manner whatsoever. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we nor the Subscriber shall not be liable for any loss caused in whole or in part by your use of the Website.

4.2 You acknowledge that no component of the Website shall constitute any financial, legal, investment or any other professional advice.

4.3 Access to the Website is granted to you for the purposes set out in Clause 2.1 and is not intended to facilitate the formation of any business decisions.

4.4 We shall not, under any circumstances (i) assume any responsibility for the quality, approval, verification, endorsement or legality of the Assessments or your responses (“Contributions”); or (ii) be liable whatsoever for any, reliance, loss, claim or complaint arising from, or in connection with, the Assessments or Contributions.

5     Changes to these Terms

5.1 We may amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use the Website please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. We will endeavour to give you notice of any material changes to these terms.

6     Uploading content onto the Website:

6.1 Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload any Contribution to our Website, you must comply with the content standards set out in clause 6.2.

6.2 Your Contribution must:

6.2.1    be accurate;

6.2.2    comply with the laws of England and Wales;

6.2.3    not be defamatory;

6.2.4    not promote unlawful violence;

6.2.5    not infringe any copyright, database right, trademark or any other third party rights;

6.2.6    not breach data protection legislation or confidentiality rights;

6.2.7    not deliberately nor negligently introduce viruses, worms, bombs, trojan horses, and trap doors; or

6.2.8    not be in contempt of court.