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Who we are and how to contact us

www.acorncompliance.com is a site operated by Value Associates Limited (t/a Acorn Compliance) ("we"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 05770395 and have our registered office at 7 Bell Yard, London, United Kingdom, WC2A 2JR. To contact us, please email info@acorncompliance.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.

There are other terms that may apply to you

These terms refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:
- Our Privacy Policy (/privacy-policy).
- Our Cookie Policy (/cookie-policy).

Separate Terms of Use apply to the receipt of any services from us, including access to our platform.

We may make changes to these terms and to our site

We amend these terms from time to time and may update and change our site 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 suspend or withdraw our site

Access to our site is made available free of charge. 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.

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.

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. 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; 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.

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.

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, and you must not introduce them

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 must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. 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. You must not attack our site via a denial of service attack or a distributed denial of service attack.

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any services to you, which are set out in our separate Terms of Use. 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. 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.

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, these terms, their subject matter and their formation are governed by English law and 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, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law, and we both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.