Status of these terms
1. These website terms tell you the rules for using our website www.s2u.global ("our site"). They also govern the contractual relationship between you and us (if any) and incorporate terms into the contractual relationship between Customers and Solution Providers. In the event of an inconsistency between these website terms and our General Terms and Conditions (referred to in clause 1.6(a)), the terms of our General Terms and Conditions shall prevail as between the relevant parties.
2. www.s2u.global is a site operated by S2U Limited ("we"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 12279539 and have our registered office at Howbery Business Park, Benson Lane, Wallingford, OX10 8BA.
3. To contact us, please email support@s2u.global.
4. By using our site, you confirm that you accept these website terms of use and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these website terms, you must not use our site. We recommend that you print a copy of these website terms for future reference.
5. These terms are version 1.1 and were last updated on 13 November 2024.
6. These website terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:
  
  (a) Our "General Terms and Conditions"(available when you click to register on our site).
  
  (b) Our “Privacy Policy”.
  
  (c) Our “Cookie Policy”, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.
7. We amend these website terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these website terms to ensure you understand the website terms that apply at that time.
8. We may update and change our site from time to time to reflect changes to our services, our users' needs and our business priorities.
9. 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. 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 website terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.
10. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these website 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.
11. Our site is directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that content available on or through our site is appropriate for use or available in other locations.
12. 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 (or procedures provided by a third party as part of our site’s 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 or a third party providing security procedures to our site, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these website terms of use. If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at support@s2u.global.
13. 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 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).
14. 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.
15. If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our site in breach of these website terms of use, 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.
16. 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):
  
  (a) 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 the site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same; and
  
  (b) any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information 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 Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790). This clause shall 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.
17. This site, its content and any services provided in relation to the same are only targeted to, and intended for use by, persons located in the United Kingdom. By continuing to access, view or make use of this site and any related content and services, you hereby warrant and represent to us that you are located in the United Kingdom and are over 18 years of age.
18. We only provide our site for commercial or business purposes. You agree not to use our site for any domestic and private use. If you are a consumer user, you may not engage a Solution Provider through our site. By using our site and entering into any Contracts, you are warranting that you are a business user.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. Our site and certain functional elements of it have been built by a third party providers who may have their own conditions of use which you agree to adhere to. Such conditions are separate to these website terms and do not affect these website terms.
23. This website may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the site, including to project specifications, social media pages, video-sharing sites, bulletin boards and chat rooms. 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.
24. If you become aware of any material that is illegal or wish to complain about any other content please contact us immediately on support@s2u.global.
Interpretation

The following definitions and rules of interpretation apply in these website terms.
1. Definitions:
  
  Business Day: a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday in England, when banks in London are open for business.
  
  ‍Conditions: any terms and conditions expressly agreed between the Customer and the Solution Provider in accordance with our General Terms and Conditions.
  
  ‍Contract: a contract between a Customer and a Solution Provider for the supply of Services in accordance with the Conditions and any terms implied into a Contract by these website terms or our General Terms and Conditions.
  
  ‍Customer: the person or firm (being a business user and not a consumer user) who purchases (or prospectively intends to purchase) Services from Solution Providers by registering through our site.
  
  ‍Deliverables: the deliverables produced by the Solution Provider for the Customer as set out in the Project or Specification.
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  ‍Fee: the commission payable by a Solution Provider to us in accordance with clause 7.1.
  
  Intellectual Property Rights: patents, utility models, rights to inventions, copyright and neighbouring and related rights, moral rights, trade marks and service marks, business names and domain names, rights in get-up and trade dress, goodwill and the right to sue for passing off or unfair competition, rights in designs, rights in computer software, database rights, rights to use, and protect the confidentiality of, confidential information(including know-how and trade secrets), and all other intellectual property rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered and including all applications and rights to apply for and be granted, renewals or extensions of, and rights to claim priority from, such rights and all similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection which subsist or will subsist now or in the future in any part of the world.
  
  Project: a project or job for Services posted on our site by a Customer.
  
  S2U Fee: any commission payable by a Customer to us in accordance with our General Terms and Conditions.
  
  Solution Provider: the person or firm who supplies (or prospectively intends to supply) Services to Customers by registering through our site.
  
  Services: the services, including theDeliverables, supplied by the Solution Provider to the Customer as set out in the Specification.
  
  Specification: the description or specification of the Services provided with the Project by the Customer to SolutionProviders (including in the ‘Detailed Description’ and ‘Project Terms’ sections of any Project on our site).
2. Interpretation:
  
  (a)   Unless expressly provided otherwise in these website terms, a reference to legislation or a legislative provision:
  
         (i) is a reference to it as amended, extended or re-enacted from time to time; and
  
         (ii) shall include all subordinate legislation made from time to time under that legislation or legislative provision.
  
  (b)   Any words following the terms including, include, in particular, for example or any similar expression, shall be construed as illustrative and shall not limit the sense of the words, description, definition, phrase or term preceding those terms.
  
  (c)   A reference to writing or written does not include fax.
Use of our site
1. You shall at all times act in good faith towards us and any other users of our site (including Customers and Solution Providers) when using our site or performing Contracts.
2. You shall comply with all applicable laws, regulations, codes and sanctions relating to your use of our site, the performance of any Contract and the Services.
3. You shall comply with all applicable laws, regulations, codes and sanctions relating to anti-bribery and anti-corruption including but not limited to the Bribery Act 2010.
4. Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy found at the Schedule below.
5. You warrant that any contribution to our site complies with the standards set out in these website terms, 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.
6. When registering on our site (whether as a Customer or a Solution Provider, you agree to provide full, clear, accurate, current and complete information and promptly update such information to maintain it as full, clear, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information in breach of this clause 3.6, or if we have reasonable cause to suspect you have, we may (at our sole discretion) suspend your access to our site or terminate your access to our site without notice. We shall have no liability to you (or the other party to a Contract) in respect of any Contract that cannot be fulfilled as a result of the suspension or termination of your access to our site (subject to clause 6).
7. Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary (other than as set out in our General Terms and Conditions). You retain all of your ownership rights in your content (other than as set out in this clause 3.7), but you are required to grant us and other users of our site a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. The rights you license to us are described in clause 3.15. Any chat logs between a Customer and Supplier on our site shall be owned by us to the extent they are not owned by any third party providing the chat log function on our site.
8. We have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights or of their right to privacy.
9. We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in in our Acceptable Use Policy found at the Schedule below.
10. If you wish to contact us in relation to content you have uploaded to our site and that we have taken down, please contact support@s2u.global.
11. You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.
12. You must not upload any material that could incite a terrorist offence, solicit any person to participate in terrorist activities, provide instruction on any method or technique for committing a terrorist offence or threaten to commit a terrorist offence.
13. If you upload material that is clearly illegal, or is otherwise in breach of these website terms, or you in any way materially breach these website terms, we may (at our sole discretion) suspend your access to our site or terminate your access to our site without notice. We shall have no liability to you (or the other party to a Contract) in respect of any Contract that cannot be fulfilled as a result of the suspension or termination of your access to our site (subject to clause 6).
14. If we receive complaints about you from Customers or Solution Providers in relation to your conduct or your performance of the Services, we may (at our sole discretion) suspend your access to our site or terminate your access to our site without notice. We shall have no liability to you (or the other party to a Contract) in respect of any Contract that cannot be fulfilled as a result of the suspension or termination of your access to our site (subject to clause 6).
15. When you upload or post content to our site, you grant us the following rights to use that content (subject always to our General Terms and Conditions):
  
  (a) a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the website and across different media including to promote the site or the service forever; and
  
  (b) a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence for other users, partners or advertisers to use the content in accordance with the functionality of the site forever.
16. We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
17. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.
18. 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. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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 unless otherwise agreed in writing by us.
21. You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.
22. 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.
23. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
24. The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy found at the Schedule below.
25. If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact support@s2u.global.
Basis of contract

By using our site and purchasing or selling Services through it, you accept any terms that are explicitly incorporated or are implied into a Contract by these website terms, including as set out in clause 7.
Data Protection
We will only use your personal information as set out in our privacy policy.
Limitation of liability: YOUR ATTENTION IS PARTICULARLY DRAWN TO THIS CLAUSE.
1. If you use our site, 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.
2. We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.
3. 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:
  
  (a) use of, or inability to use, our site; or
  
  (b) use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
4. In particular, we will not be liable for:
  
  (a)   loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
  
  (b)   business interruption;
  
  (c)   loss of anticipated savings;
  
  (d)   loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
  
  (e)   any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
5. Our total liability to you in respect of loss or damage arising under or in connection with your use of our site (including in relation to contractual terms incorporated between us and you pursuant to our General Terms and Conditions), whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, shall in no circumstances exceed any S2U Fee paid in the 12 months prior to the liability arising in respect of any Contracts you were a party to.
6. References to liability in this clause 6 include every kind of liability arising under or in connection with your use of our site including liability in contract, tort (including negligence), misrepresentation, restitution or otherwise.
7. Nothing in this clause 6 shall limit the Customer's payment obligations under our General Terms and Conditions.
8. Nothing on our site shall constitute us giving any form of financial advice.
9. If you engage with a Customer or a Solution Provider through our site, we provide no warranty as to the qualifications or quality of such person. You are solely responsible for doing due diligence on such person and for taking any advice (including financial and legal advice) prior to entering into a Contract. A person appearing on our site as a Customer or Solution Provider is not an endorsement by us.
Interpretation of Contracts and relationship with these website terms
1. The following clauses shall be incorporated into Contracts, unless otherwise varied by the Conditions:
  
  (a)    clause 1.1;
  
  (b)    clause 2; and
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  (c)    clause 3.1 to clause 3.3 (inclusive).
2. The following clauses shall be incorporated intoContracts, and shall override any provisions of the Conditions if there isinconsistency:
  
  (a) clause 4; and
  
  (b) this clause 7.
General
1. Entire agreement.
  
  (a) These website terms and any documents referred to in them constitutes the entire agreement between us and you and supersedes and extinguishes all previous agreements, promises, assurances, warranties, representations and understandings between us, whether written or oral, relating to its subject matter.
  
  (b) You acknowledge that in using our site you do not rely on, and shall have no remedies in respect of, any statement, representation, assurance or warranty (whether made innocently or negligently) that is not set out in these website terms. You agree that you shall have no claim for innocent or negligent misrepresentation or negligent misstatement based on any statement in these website terms.
  
  (c) Nothing in this clause shall limit or exclude any liability for fraud.
2. Notices.
  
  (a)   Any notice or other communication given to us under or in connection with these website terms shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or by pre-paid first-class post or other next working day delivery service at our registered office; or sent by email to support@s2u.global.
  
  (b)   Any notice or other communication given by us under or in connection with these website terms shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or by pre-paid first-class post or other next working day delivery service at its registered office (if a company) or its principal place of business (in any other case); or sent by email to the email address specified in when you register to use our site.
  
  (c)   Any notice or communication shall be deemed to have been received:
  
           (i) if delivered by hand, at the time the notice is left at the proper address;
  
           (ii) if sent by pre-paid first-class post or other next working day delivery service, at 9.00 am on the second Business Day after posting;
  
          (iii) if sent by email, at 9.00 am on the first Business Day after posting; or
  
          (iv) if sent through our site, at 9.00 am on the first Business Day after posting.
  
  (d)   This clause 8.2 does not apply to the service of any proceedings or other documents in any legal action or, where applicable, any other method of dispute resolution.
3. Third party rights. Unless they expressly state otherwise, these website terms shall not give rise to any rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any terms of them.
4. Governing law and jurisdiction. These website terms, 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.

Schedule - Acceptable Use Policy

Please read the terms of this policy carefully before using the site

What's in these terms?

This acceptable use policy sets out the content standards that apply when you upload content to our site, make contact with other users on our site, link to our site, or interact with our site in any other way. It should be read alongside our website terms.

Prohibited Uses

You may not use our site:

If you are under 18.
In any way that breaches any applicable 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, 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.
In any way that involves child sexual exploitation or abuse.
To upload terrorist content.

You also agree:

Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell anypart of our site in contravention of the provisions of our website terms.
Not to access without authority, interfere with,damage or disrupt:
- any part of our site;
- any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
- any software used in the provision of our site; or
- any equipment or network orsoftware owned or used by any third party.

ContenT Standards

These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (Contribution).

The Content Standards must be complied with in spirit as well as to the letter. The standards apply to each part of any Contribution as well as to its whole.

We will determine, at our discretion, whether a Contribution breaches the Content Standards.

A Contribution:

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.

A Contribution must not

Be defamatory of any person.
Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
Bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate.
Encourage, promote or provide instructions for deliberate self-harm.
Encourage, promote or provide instructions for suicide.
Encourage, promote or provide instructions for an eating disorder or behaviours associated with an eating disorder.
Promote sexually explicit material.
Include child sexual abuse material.
Incite violence or hatred against particular groups.
Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
Include content that would be considered a criminal offence under laws relating to terrorism, child sexual abuse material, racism or xenophobia.
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 Contribution 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.

For the avoidance of doubt, for any Contribution in the form of video content:

You must tell us immediately, if you upload a video containing any of the following: criminal material (relating toterrorism, sexual exploitation of children, child pornography, racism and xenophobia), unclassified or unclassifiable videos, videos rated R18 or suitable for R18 rating and other material that might impair the physical,mental or moral development of persons under the age of 18 (restricted material).
You must not upload a video containing harmful material.

Breach of this policy

When we consider that a breach of this acceptable use policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.

Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of our website terms upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any Contribution uploaded by you to our site.
Issue of a warning to you.
Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
Further legal action against you.
Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary or as required by law.

We exclude our liability for all action we may take in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The actions we may take are not limited to those described above, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.