Your attention is particularly drawn to the provisions of clause 3.8 (What you are responsible for when using the Services), clause 4 (Conditions on your use of the Website) and clause 10 (Limitation of liability).

1. About us
   • Company details. Specspace Ltd (company number 14582565) (we and us) is a company registered in England and Wales and our registered office is at 1 Market Square, High Street, Cradley Heath, West Midlands, United Kingdom, B64 5HH. Our main trading address is 1 Market Square, High Street, Cradley Heath, West Midlands, United Kingdom, B64 5HH. We operate the website www.buildingregs.pro (Website).
   • Contacting us. To contact us, email us at hello@buildingregs.pro. How to give us formal notice of any matter under the Contract is set out in clause 2.
2. Our contract with you
   • Our contract. These terms and conditions (Terms) apply to the supply of Services by us to you (Contract) via our Website. They apply to the exclusion of any other terms that you seek to impose or incorporate, or which are implied by law, trade custom, practice or course of dealing.
   • Entire agreement. The Contract is the entire agreement between you and us in relation to its subject matter. You acknowledge that you have not relied on any statement, promise or representation or assurance or warranty that is not set out in the Contract.
   • These Terms and the Contract are made only in the English language.
   • Your copy. You should print off a copy of these Terms or save them to your computer for future reference.
3. Services
   • We provide access, via a subscription, to a web based information database on our Website from which, using the tools on our Website, you can select information to create your own specification document (Specification Document) and/or typical drawings.
   • Typical Drawings. Typical drawings are not tailored to the Specification Document, your project or specific building regulations. They are created as examples only based on manufacturer installation instructions. They can be inserted as examples into a Specification Document or downloaded independently.
   • Reasonable care and skill. We warrant to you that the Services will be provided using reasonable care and skill.
   • Accuracy of the information data base. The content on our Website 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 Website. Although we make reasonable efforts to ensure the information on our Website is compliant with English building regulations as at 01 June 2022 for residential properties up to two stories plus a habitable or non-habitable loft only, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our Website is accurate, complete or up to date
   • Suitable for use in England, Wales and Scotland only. Our Website and its content and the Services are only targeted to, and intended for use by, individuals located in England, Wales and Scotland only for residential building projects of no greater than two stories plus a habitable or non-habitable loft only. We do not represent that content available on or through our Website or the Services are appropriate for use or available in other locations. By continuing to access, view or make use of this Website and the content and Services, you hereby warrant and represent to us that the project is located in England, Wales or Scotland. You are responsible for checking the Services you choose are suitable for the country in which you intend to carry out the building works.
   • Suitable for residential properties only. The Services are suitable only for creating a Specification Document relating to a residential building of no greater than two stories plus a habitable or non-habitable loft only. We do not warrant that the content available on or through our Website is appropriate for use in relation to any other building project.
   • We cannot guarantee uninterrupted access. We do not guarantee that our Website, or any content on it or the Services, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our Website for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.
   • Viruses and bugs. We do not guarantee that our Website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Website. You should use your own virus protection software.
   • What you are responsible for when using the Services:
     • Please note that our Services are designed for use by a person who has a basic or technical knowledge of Building Regulations and construction and not for the layperson. You are strongly advised to cross check the Specification Document and/or typical drawings with appropriate professional consultants.
     • You are responsible for selecting the correct project type and information modules for inclusion in the Specification Document and typical drawings. We do not offer an advice service.
     • You are responsible checking that the Specification Document and typical drawings meet your requirements and the requirements of your project and applicable Building Regulations.
     • Any Specification Document or typical drawings you create using the Services is not verified or approved by us.
     • Where the information on our Website references a specific material or materials, if those materials are then used in the building project contemplated by the Specification Document you are responsible for following all manufacturer’s instructions in relation to the use, storage and installation of such materials. We do not accept any liability in this regard. The information on our Website is not a recommendation for the use of any specific material or any specific manufacturer or retailer of such material.
   • Specification Document. The Specification Document and/or typical drawings will be available to download in Microsoft Word or Adobe Pdf formats only. Whilst you may save a Specification Document and/or typical drawings in your account folder we cannot guarantee its availability to download at a later date and once your Subscription/Contract is terminated you will no longer have access to your account. It is therefore your responsibility to ensure that any Specification Document you create is downloaded on to your local storage device.
   • Other websites we may link to. Where our Website contains links to other Websites 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 Websites or resources.
4. Conditions on your use of the Website
   • • 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 use.
     • If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at hello@buildingregs.pro
   • You may not use our Website:
     • 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 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.
   • You also agree:
     • Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our Website in contravention of the provisions of our Contract.
     • Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
       • any part of our Website;
       • any equipment or network on which our Website is stored;
       • any software used in the provision of our Website; or
       • any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.
     • You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our Website or any services provided via, or in relation to, our Website. 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 the Website 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 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.

5. Subscription
   • In consideration of us providing the Services you must pay our charges (Subscription) in accordance with this clause 5
   • We offer a monthly Subscription or an annual Subscription. It is your responsibility to select which Subscription you wish to sign up to by clicking on the Website prompts during the sign up process.
   • We reserve the right to increase the Subscription with effect from the anniversary of the Commencement Date. Any price increase shall be limited to once per 12 month period.
   • The Subscription is exclusive of VAT. Where VAT is payable in respect of some or all of the Services you must pay us such additional amounts in respect of VAT, at the applicable rate, at the same time as you pay the Subscription.
6. How to pay
   • Payment for the Services is in advance. We will take your first payment upon your completion of the online sign up process and will take subsequent payments monthly and/or yearly in advance depending on which Subscription you have selected, until such time as you cancel the Subscription (see clause 1).
   • Payment for the Services is by direct debit. Your designated bank account will be charged automatically each month or year depending on which Subscription you have selected.
   • We will send you an electronic invoice on each Subscription renewal date (monthly or annually depending on the Subscription your selected). For any failed or cancelled payments, a £20 administration fee may be levied.
   • If you fail to make a payment under the Contract by the due date, then, without limiting our remedies under clause 12 (Termination), you will have to pay interest on the overdue sum from the due date until payment of the overdue sum, whether before or after judgment. Interest under this clause 4 will accrue each day at 4% a year above the Bank of England’s base rate from time to time, but at 4% a year for any period when that base rate is below 0%.
7. Cancelling the Contract and Subscription
   • You may cancel the Contract and therefore your Subscription at anytime. There will be no refund to you for the remaining period of the Contract, you will however continue to have access to the Website for the remaining period of your Contract, which will depend on the Subscription you selected.

For example, if you selected a monthly Subscription and you cancelled at any point during the month for which you have already paid, you will continue to have access to the Website until the end of that month at which time your access to the Website will be terminated. 

• To cancel the Contract and therefore the Subscription, you must complete the cancellation form in the “My Account” section on our website. You can do this at any time. We will email you to confirm we have received your cancellation.
• Consumers: Consumers have slightly different rights to businesses who enter into a Contract with us. If you are a Consumer the following terms also apply:
  • When you can’t change your mind. You can’t change your mind about a Subscription and receive a refund, once you have accessed the Services or used the Services to create a Specification Document whether in full or in part.
  • The deadline for changing your mind. If you change your mind about a Subscription you must let us know no later than 14 days after the day you sign up for the Contract.
  • You have to pay for services you received before you change your mind. If you have accessed the Services or created a Specification Document in full or in part we don’t refund you for the time you were receiving it before you told us you had changed your mind and the provisions of clause 1 will apply.

8. Intellectual property rights
   • We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Website, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
   • If you modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, you are responsible for the effect of such modifications.
   • Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our Website must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated).
   • If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our Website in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
   • All intellectual property rights in or arising out of or in connection with the Services will be owned by us.
   • We agree to grant you a fully paid-up, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence during the term of the Contract to copy the Specification Document(s) and/or typical drawings created by you using the Website for the purpose of receiving and using the Services and such Specification Document and/or typical drawings for the purpose of submissions to Building Control, professional advisers and consultants or your clients. You may not sub-license, assign or otherwise transfer the rights granted in this clause 6.
9. How we may use your personal information
   • We will use any personal information you provide to us to:
     • provide the Services;
     • process your payment for the Services;
     • to exercise our rights under the Contract (this may include sharing your personal information with our professional advisers);
     • to perform our obligations under the Contract; and
     • inform you about similar services that we provide, but you may stop receiving these at any time by contacting us.
   • We will process such personal information for the duration of your Contract with us and then for a period of six years following the termination of the Contract.
   • You are not permitted to input any personal information into the Website or Specification Document that is stored on our Website about third parties without having lawful grounds to do so. You will remain the controller (as defined in the Data Protection Act 2018) in relation to such personal information regarding third parties.
10. Limitation of Liability
    • We have obtained insurance cover in respect of our own legal liability for individual claims not exceeding £1,000,000 per claim. The limits and exclusions in this clause reflect the insurance cover we have been able to arrange and you are responsible for making your own arrangements for the insurance of any excess loss.
    • Nothing in the Contract limits any liability which cannot legally be limited, including liability for:
      • death or personal injury caused by negligence;
      • fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; and
      • breach of the terms implied by section 2 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 (title and quiet possession).
    • Subject to clause 2, we will not be liable to you, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), for breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, arising under or in connection with the Contract for:
      • loss of profits;
      • loss of sales or business;
      • loss of agreements or contracts;
      • loss of anticipated savings;
      • loss of use or corruption of software, data or information;
      • loss of or damage to goodwill; and
      • any indirect or consequential loss.
    • Subject to clause 2, our total liability to you arising under or in connection with the Contract, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, will be limited to the total Subscription charges paid under the Contract. If, which we do not agree, such a financial limit is determined to be unreasonable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the our liability will be limited to the amount of insurance cover we have in place as stated in clause 10.1.
    • We have given commitments as to compliance of the Services with the relevant specification in clause 2. In view of these commitments, the terms implied by sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 are, to the fullest extent permitted by law, excluded from the Contract.
    • We are not liable for the decisions or advice that other third parties may give you based on or as a result of the Specification Document or typical drawings you produce using the Services.
    • Consumers only. Where you contract with us as a consumer (that is in your private capacity and not in a business capacity) your statutory rights are not affected by this clause 10.
11. Confidentiality
    • We each undertake that we will not at any time, disclose to any person any confidential information concerning one another’s business, affairs, customers, clients or suppliers, except as permitted by clause 2.
    • We each may disclose the other’s confidential information:
      • to such of our respective employees, officers, representatives, subcontractors or advisers who need to know such information for the purposes of exercising our respective rights or carrying out our respective obligations under the Contract. We will each ensure that such employees, officers, representatives, subcontractors or advisers comply with this clause 11; and
      • as may be required by law, a court of competent jurisdiction or any governmental or regulatory authority.
    • Each of us may only use the other’s confidential information for the purpose of fulfilling our respective obligations under the Contract.
12. Termination, suspension of Subscription, consequences of termination and survival
    • Consequences of failure to comply with clause 4 (Conditions on your use of the Website): When we consider that a breach of clause 4 has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate which may include but are not limited to:
      • Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our Website.
      • Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any Specification Document(s) stored on your account or other personal information uploaded by you to our Website.
      • 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.
      • Termination of the Contract on immediate notice.

We exclude our liability for all action we may take in response to breaches of clause 4.

• Termi Without limiting any of our other rights, we may suspend your access to the Website, or terminate the Contract with immediate effect by giving written notice to you if:
  • you commit a material breach of any term of the Contract and (if such a breach is remediable) fail to remedy that breach within 14 days of you being notified in writing to do so. Breach by you of clause 4, clause 8 or clause 3 would be considered a material breach;
  • you fail to pay any amount due under the Contract on the due date for payment;
  • you take any step or action in connection with you entering administration, provisional liquidation or any composition or arrangement with your creditors (other than in relation to a solvent restructuring), applying to court for or obtaining a moratorium under Part A1 of the Insolvency Act 1986, being wound up (whether voluntarily or by order of the court, unless for the purpose of a solvent restructuring), having a receiver appointed to any of your assets or ceasing to carry on business or, if the step or action is taken in another jurisdiction, in connection with any analogous procedure in the relevant jurisdiction;
  • you suspend, threaten to suspend, cease or threaten to cease to carry on all or a substantial part of your business; or
  • your financial position deteriorates to such an extent that in our opinion your capability to adequately fulfil your obligations under the Contract has been placed in jeopardy.
• Consequences of termination. On termination of the Contract under clause 2 your access to the Website and your account will immediately terminate. You will not be entitled to a refund. You will not be able to access the Specification Documents saved on your account.
• Any provision of the Contract that expressly or by implication is intended to come into or continue in force on or after termination will remain in full force and effect.

13. Events outside our control
    • We will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of our obligations under the Contract that is caused by any act or event beyond our reasonable control (Event Outside Our Control).
    • If an Event Outside Our Control takes place that affects the performance of our obligations under the Contract:
      • we will contact you as soon as reasonably possible to notify you; and
      • our obligations under the Contract will be suspended and the time for performance of our obligations will be extended for the duration of the Event Outside Our Control.

14. Communications between us
    • When we refer to “in writing” in these Terms, this includes email.
    • Any notice or other communication given by one of us to the other under or in connection with the Contract must be in writing and be by email. We will use the details you provided to us when you signed up for the Subscription. You may change these at any time in the “My Account” section.
    • A notice or other communication is deemed to have been received if sent by email, at 9.00 am the next working day after transmission.
    • In proving the service of any notice, in the case of an email, that such email was sent to the specified email address of the addressee.
    • The provisions of this clause will not apply to the service of any proceedings or other documents in any legal action.
15. General
    • Assignment and transfer
      • We may assign or transfer our rights and obligations under the Contract to another entity but will always notify you by posting on this webpage if this happens.
      • You may only assign or transfer your rights or your obligations under the Contract to another person if we agree in writing.
    • Any variation of the Contract only has effect if it is in writing and signed by you and us (or our respective authorised representatives).
    • If we do not insist that you perform any of your obligations under the Contract, or if we do not enforce our rights against you, or if we delay in doing so, that will not mean that we have waived our rights against you or that you do not have to comply with those obligations. If we do waive any rights, we will only do so in writing, and that will not mean that we will automatically waive any right related to any later default by you.
    • Each clause and subclause of these Terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them is unlawful or unenforceable, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.
    • Third party rights. The Contract is between you and us. No other person has any rights to enforce any of its terms.
    • Governing law and jurisdiction if you are a Business. The Contract is governed by English law and we each irrevocably agree to submit all disputes arising out of or in connection with the Contract to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
    • Governing law and jurisdiction if you are a Consumer. The Contract is governed by English law and we each irrevocably agree to submit all disputes arising out of or in connection with the Contract to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English and Welsh courts except that if you are a resident of Wales, you may also bring proceedings in Wales, 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.