Terms and Conditions.
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE
Who we are and how to contact us
www.mtmresearch.com (the "Platform") is a site operated by MTM Data Research Ltd. ("We"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 14145566 and have our registered office at 8 Frenchay Road, Oxford, England, OX2 6TG. Our VAT number is 432714807.
To contact us, please email [email protected].
Our Platform
The Platform enables subscribers to access historical performance data of listed shares on various stock exchanges to enable them to evaluate stock performance of individual stocks or market sectors, and assess the performance of their stock portfolio against the market (the "Service").
By using our site, and accessing our Platform, you accept these terms
By creating an account for our site, and using our Platform, you confirm that you:
- accept these terms of use, including the Third Party Terms, and that you agree to comply with them;
- are at least 18 years old; and
- are using the Service in a personal, non-business capacity.
If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our Platform. These Terms and Conditions shall apply to your use of the Platform during the Trial Period and any subsequent Subscription Periods.
We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.
There are other terms that may apply to you
These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:
- Our Privacy Policy. See further under How we may use your personal information below.
- Our Third Party Terms, which are set out in Exhibit 1 to these terms
- Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.
Commercial and business users
You have signed up to our Platform as a consumer user.
By signing up as a consumer you are confirming that you will not use the information on our site for any professional or commercial purposes.
In the event we determine that you have breached this term we may suspend your access to our services, and charge you the difference in the cost of a business user subscription and the amount you have actually paid.
If you wish to take out a subscription for the Platform in a business capacity, please contact us at [email protected] as different Terms and Conditions will apply to use of the Platform in a business capacity.
Subscriptions
When you register to take out a subscription to access and use the Platform ("Subscription"), you shall be entitled to a free trial period of one month ("Trial Period"), during which access to the Platform shall be provided free of charge. Following expiry of the Trial Period, your Subscription shall, unless we have received prior written notice from you confirming that you wish to cancel your Subscription at the end of the Trial Period or the then current Subscription Period, automatically renew for successive periods of one month (each a "Subscription Period").
When registering for a Subscription, you shall be required to submit payment details to enable us to take payments for your Subscription ("Subscription Fees") and you authorise us to take payment for the Subscription Fees using the payment details provided by you. You shall notify us if your payment details change.
Following the expiry of the Trial Period, the charges for your Subscription shall be charged at the prices set out on the Platform and payments will be taken automatically from your chosen payment method at the start of each successive Subscription Period.
We reserve the right to change our pricing at any time with reasonable notice of at least a month to subscribers.
You may cancel your Subscription at any time by changing your user preferences on the Platform. If you are unable to cancel your Subscription via your user preferences, you can also cancel your Subscription at any time by contacting us at [email protected].
In the event you cancel part way through Subscription Period, you will not be entitled to a refund.
We are not subject to financial regulation
We are not providing any advice nor facilitating or undertaking any financial activities and as such are not subject to regulation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission nor any other financial regulatory body. Any rights you would have by virtue of such regulation shall not apply.
We may make changes to these terms
We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our Platform, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. By reloading this page, you will have the most up-to-date version available.
We may make changes to our Platform
We may update and change our Platform from time to time to reflect changes to our products, our users' needs and our business priorities.
We may suspend or withdraw our Platform
We do not guarantee that our Platform, 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 Platform for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.
We may transfer this Agreement to someone else
We may transfer our rights and obligations under these 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.
You must keep your account details safe
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 [email protected].
How you may use material on our Platform
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Platform, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our Platform must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the content on our Platform for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our Platform in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our Platform will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
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 Platform or any services provided via, or in relation to, our Platform. 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 Platform 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.
Do not rely on information on this Platform
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our Platform, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our Platform is accurate, complete or up to date. The information set out on our website is general information, and is not intended to and must not be taken as advice.
You should not rely on any information contained in this website and you should rely on separate financial and legal advice in respect of any investment activities.
Our Platform should not be relied upon as a substitute for extensive independent market research before making your actual trading decisions.
We will not accept liability for any loss or damage, including without limitation any loss of profit, which may arise directly or indirectly from use of or reliance on such information.
We do not recommend the use of technical analysis as a sole means of trading decisions.
We may have interests in relevant companies
We do not make any representation that we are independent of any companies that may be listed within our Platform.
MTM Data Research Limited and staff, employees and persons associated with MTM Data Research Limited may own shares or have direct or indirect interests in companies whose information is listed on our Platform.
We are not responsible for websites we link to
Where our Platform 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.
How to complain about or report content
If you wish to complain about any content, please contact us on [email protected].
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. 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.
- You assume sole responsibility for results obtained from your use of the Service and the Platform by you, and for conclusions drawn from such use.
- Please note that we only provide our Platform for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our Platform for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
- If defective digital content that we have supplied, damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation.
- Our total liability in contract, tort (including negligence or breach of statutory duty however arising), misrepresentation (whether innocent or negligent), restitution or otherwise, arising in connection with the performance or contemplated performance of the Contract shall be limited the Subscription Fees paid by you in the 12 months preceding the date of any claim.
How we may use your personal information
We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy.
We may suspend your service if you behave inappropriately
- If you breach the these Terms and Conditions, including the Third Party Terms, we shall be entitled to suspend or ban your use of our Service.
- If you use the Service in a business capacity, we shall be entitled to suspend or ban your use of our Service.
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If you frequently submit notices or complaints that are clearly unfounded, we may suspend the processing of any further notices or complaints from you for a reasonable period of time. We will warn you in advance if we propose to suspend
processing of your notices or complaints. When deciding whether to suspend you, we will consider:
- how many items of clearly unfounded notices or complaints you submitted within a given time frame in terms of the volume of other notices or complaints submitted by other users during that time;
- the gravity of the misuse;
- where possible to identify, your intention in submitting the notices or complaints.
If we suspend your use of the Service, you shall not be entitled to a refund of an subscription fees relating to any period of such suspension.
Your rights to claim against us if we suspend or ban your use of our Service
If we suspend or ban you from using our Service in a way that breaches these terms of service, you have a right to bring a claim against us for breach of contract.
We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them
We do not guarantee that our Platform will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Platform. You should use your own virus protection software.
You must not misuse our Platform 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 Platform, the server on which our Platform is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Platform. You must not attack our Platform 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 Platform will cease immediately.
Acceptable use
You may not use our Platform:
- In any way that breaches any 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, share, post, 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.
Rules about linking to our Platform
You may not link to our home page without our prior written consent, and any such consent shall be conditional on you linking 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 Platform in any website that is not owned by you.
Our Platform must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any part of our Platform other than the home page.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in the Acceptable Use section of these terms.
If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our Platform other than that set out above, please contact [email protected].
Which country's laws apply to any disputes?
These terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that 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 resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.
Our trade marks are registered
"MTM" is a trade mark of MTM Data Research Limited. You are not permitted to use them without our approval, unless they are part of material you are using as permitted under How you may use material on our Platform.
Exhibit 1 - Third Party Terms
The "Information Product" is any data or service provided by Refinitiv. Refinitiv or its third party providers own and retain all rights, title and interest, including but not limited to copyright, trademarks, patents, database rights, trade secrets, know-how, and all other intellectual property rights or forms of protection of similar nature or having equivalent effect, anywhere in the world, in the Information Product and user is not granted any proprietary interest therein or thereto. The Information Product constitutes confidential and trade secrets of Refinitiv or its third party providers. Display, performance, reproduction, distribution of, or creation of derivative works or improvements from Information Product in any form or manner is expressly prohibited, except to the extent expressly permitted hereunder, or otherwise, with the prior written permission of Refinitiv.
User may use the Information Product for internal purposes only. User may copy, paste and distribute internally only an insubstantial amount of the data contained in the Information Product provided that: (a) the distribution is incidental to or supports user's business purpose; (b) the data is not distributed by user in connection with information vending or commercial publishing (in any manner or format whatsoever), not reproduced through the press or mass media or on the Internet; and (c) where practicable, clearly identifies Refinitiv or its third party providers as the source of the data. Data will be considered in "insubstantial amount" if such amount (a) has no independent commercial value; or (b) could not be used by the recipient as a substitute for any product or service (including any download service) provided by Refinitiv or a substantial part of it.
To the extent that the Information Product contains any third party data referred to in the General Restrictions/Notices page set forth on https://www.refinitiv.com/en/policies/third-party-provider-terms , the terms set forth on such General Restrictions/Notices page shall apply to user.
User acknowledges that access to certain elements of the Information Product may cease or may be made subject to certain conditions by Refinitiv or upon the instructions of the third party provider of those elements. Upon termination or expiration of this user license, all rights granted hereunder shall immediately terminate and user shall cease to use the Information Product and delete or destroy all copies thereof in its possession or control.
NEITHER REFINITIV NOR ITS THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS WARRANT THAT THE PROVISION OF THE INFORMATION PRODUCT WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR FREE, TIMELY, COMPLETE OR ACCURATE, NOR DO THEY MAKE ANY WARRANTIES AS TO THE RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED FROM USE OF THE SAME. USE OF THE INFORMATION PRODUCT AND RELIANCE THEREON IS AT USER'S SOLE RISK. NEITHER REFINITIV OR ITS THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS WILL IN ANY WAY BE LIABLE TO USER OR ANY OTHER ENTITY OR PERSON FOR THEIR INABILITY TO USE THE INFORMATION PRODUCT, OR FOR ANY INACCURACIES, ERRORS, OMISSIONS, DELAYS, COMPUTER VIRUS OR OTHER INFIRMITY OR CORRUPTION, DAMAGES, CLAIMS, LIABILITIES OR LOSSES, REGARDLESS OF CAUSE, IN OR ARISING FROM THE USE OF THE INFORMATION PRODUCT. THE INFORMATION PRODUCT IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. NO WARRANTIES EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, INFRINGEMENT OR OTHERWISE IS PROVIDED HEREUNDER.
IN NO EVENT WILL REFINITIV OR ITS THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DIRECT OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOSSES OR EXPENSES ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH INFORMATION PRODUCT EVEN IF REFINITIV OR ITS THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS OR THEIR REPRESENTATIVES ARE ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, LOSSES OR EXPENSES. FURTHER, REFINITIV OR ITS PARTY PROVIDERS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE IN ANY MANNER FOR REDISTRIBUTOR'S PRODUCTS OR SERVICES.