Terms of Use

These terms govern your use of valence-dynamics.com. By using this website you accept them. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.

1. Who these terms are with

Valence Dynamics is a technology procurement advisory practice operating as a sole trader established in the United Kingdom. References to "we", "us" and "our" mean Valence Dynamics. References to "you" mean any person accessing this website.

Contact: [email protected]

2. This website is not an offer

Nothing on this website constitutes an offer capable of acceptance, a quotation, a proposal, or a binding commitment of any kind. This includes descriptions of services, references to commercial models such as gain share arrangements, statements about fees or fee structures, and any indication of scope, timescale or outcome.

An invitation to contact us, submit an enquiry, or book a discovery call is an invitation to treat and nothing more. We are under no obligation to accept any enquiry, respond to it, or enter into any engagement.

3. No advice and no client relationship

The content of this website, including all articles published in the Insights section, is provided for general information only. It is not professional advice and must not be relied upon as such. In particular it is not, and does not constitute:

• Legal advice
• Financial, investment or tax advice
• Accounting advice
• Regulatory or compliance advice
• Procurement, licensing or contractual advice specific to your circumstances

No advisory, consultancy, fiduciary or client relationship is created by your use of this website, by reading its content, by submitting an enquiry, or by any preliminary discussion including a discovery call. A relationship arises only on execution of a written engagement letter signed by both parties.

You should obtain advice from a suitably qualified professional, taking account of your own circumstances, before acting on anything you read here.

4. Accuracy, currency and third party pricing

We take reasonable care in preparing the content of this site, but we give no warranty that it is accurate, complete, current or fit for any purpose.

Some content refers to third party product names, licensing structures, commercial models and published prices. Those change frequently and without notice. Where a page carries a "current as of" date, that date indicates when the information was last reviewed and nothing more. It is not a commitment to update the page thereafter, and content may be out of date at the time you read it.

Any figures, percentages, ranges, benchmarks or industry statistics are illustrative and drawn from third party sources or general market observation. They are not a prediction, projection, estimate or guarantee of any result in your organisation. Your own position may differ materially. You must verify all third party pricing and product information against the supplier's current documentation and your own agreements before acting.

5. Your due diligence obligation

You are responsible for carrying out your own due diligence before acting on anything published on this website. Before relying on any statement, figure, range, percentage, product description, licensing structure or price referred to here, you must:

• Verify it against the relevant supplier's current published documentation
• Check it against your own contracts, order forms, price sheets and entitlements
• Assess whether it applies to your circumstances, which may differ materially from those described
• Obtain advice from a suitably qualified professional where the decision warrants it

We accept no liability for any loss arising from a failure to carry out that due diligence, or from reliance on any content on this website without independent verification. Where an article carries a date, that date records when the content was last reviewed and is not a warranty that it remains accurate.

6. No guarantee of results

Nothing on this site is a promise, warranty or guarantee of any particular saving, cost reduction, commercial outcome, negotiating position or result. Descriptions of the outcomes an engagement may pursue are descriptions of intent, not of guaranteed effect. Outcomes depend on factors outside our control, including your data, your suppliers, your timing, your internal decisions and market conditions.

7. Limitation of liability

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded. Subject to that:

• This website is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law we exclude all warranties, conditions and terms implied by statute, common law or otherwise.
• We shall not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort including negligence, breach of statutory duty or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with your use of this website or reliance on any content on it.
• Without limiting the foregoing, we shall not be liable for loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of anticipated savings, loss of business or business opportunity, loss of goodwill, loss or corruption of data, business interruption, or any indirect or consequential loss, however arising.
• Where liability cannot be wholly excluded, our total aggregate liability arising from or in connection with this website shall not exceed one hundred pounds sterling (£100).

This clause governs use of the website only. Liability arising under any engagement is governed exclusively by the engagement letter for that engagement, which will contain its own liability provisions.

8. Your responsibility for your own decisions

You retain sole and complete responsibility for all decisions you take regarding your technology estate, your suppliers, your contracts and your expenditure. This applies to decisions taken after reading this website, after any preliminary discussion, and during any engagement.

We do not execute contracts, commit funds, bind you to any supplier, or make procurement decisions on your behalf. Authority over every vendor relationship, contract execution and procurement decision remains with you at all times.

9. Independence

We take no commission, resale margin, referral fee, rebate or other consideration from any technology vendor, reseller or supplier. We are not a reseller and not a partner of any vendor referenced on this site.

References to third party products, vendors or services are descriptive only. They do not imply endorsement, affiliation, partnership, certification or authorisation by or with those parties.

10. Intellectual property

All content on this website, including text, layout, design, graphics and the Valence Dynamics name and logo, is owned by or licensed to us and protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights.

You may view, download and print content for your own internal, non-commercial reference. You may not reproduce, republish, redistribute, sell, licence, systematically extract, or use content for any commercial purpose, or use it to train, fine-tune or otherwise develop any machine learning or artificial intelligence model, without our prior written permission.

Third party trade marks and product names referenced on this site are the property of their respective owners and are used for identification purposes only.

11. Enquiries and information you send us

Please do not send confidential, commercially sensitive or privileged information through this website or by email before an engagement and appropriate confidentiality terms are in place. Information sent to us before a signed engagement letter is in place is not subject to any obligation of confidence on our part beyond our obligations under data protection law, and is provided at your own risk.

Please do not send credentials, passwords, account numbers or payment details at any time. We will never ask for them.

How we handle personal data is set out in our Privacy Policy.

12. Availability and links

We do not warrant that this website will be available, uninterrupted or error free, and we may change, suspend or withdraw all or part of it without notice.

Where this site links to third party websites, those links are provided for convenience. We have no control over and accept no responsibility for the content, accuracy or availability of any third party site.

13. Acceptable use

You must not misuse this website. In particular you must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to it or to any server or system connected to it, introduce malicious code, conduct any automated scraping or bulk extraction of content, or use it in any way that is unlawful or that may damage, disable or impair the site or another user's use of it.

14. Changes to these terms

We may amend these terms at any time by updating this page. The version in force is the version published here at the time you use the site. The date at the top indicates when it was last revised. Please review it periodically.

15. Precedence

If there is any conflict or inconsistency between these terms and a signed engagement letter between us, the engagement letter prevails in respect of the matters it covers. These terms continue to govern your use of the website.

16. General

If any provision of these terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it. A person who is not a party to these terms has no right to enforce them.

17. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter, whether contractual or non-contractual, are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.

Where you access this site from outside the United Kingdom, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. Content on this site is not directed at any person in any jurisdiction where its publication or availability would be contrary to local law or regulation.