The TheyWorkForYou API (“API”, the “Service”) is operated by SocietyWorks Ltd, company no. 5798215, of 483 Green Lanes, London N13 4BS (“we” or “us”).
By using the Service or signing up for an account, you’re agreeing to these Terms, which form a legally binding agreement. Please read them carefully - they define the conditions under which you’re allowed to use the Service.
In order to use the Service, you must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into contracts. If you use the Service on behalf of a company or organisation you warrant that you have the authority to accept these Terms on behalf of that company or organisation.
We reserve the right to update and change these Terms from time to time without notice and at our sole discretion.
We reserve the right to block, without warning, usage which violates any of the following restrictions.
The ‘call limit’ is the number of calls which can be made to the API in any one month.
Without subscribing to a plan, you may call the API 10 times per day.
Call limits are described on our main API page. When creating an account you can pick the most appropriate plan for your needs. In any one month, if you reach the call limit associated with your current plan, you will have to cease your usage until the next month, or upgrade to the next pricing level.
Low-volume charitable use of the TheyWorkForYou API is free. This means direct use by registered charities (not paid contractors working on behalf of a charity) or by individuals pursuing a non-profit project on an unpaid basis, with a volume of up to 1,000 calls per month. Higher volume charitable users get a 50% discount off our standard pricing.
You can request charitable status as part of the account creation process, and also at a later stage by updating your subscription (but we don’t provide the discount retroactively).
You will be asked to provide charity registration details (if you represent a charity), or (if you're an individual) enough about you and your project to show us you meet the conditions above: you agree to provide true and complete information, and inform us if your circumstances change.
You must provide a valid email address in order to complete the signup process. This email address will be used if we need to contact you about anything relating to your account or usage - please ensure you keep your contact information up to date.
You’re responsible for all activity that takes place under your account, so you must keep your password secure. We cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage from your failure to maintain the security of your account and password. You should immediately notify us if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account.
You can terminate this agreement at any time and for any reason by ceasing use of the API and cancelling any subscription you have. You may also choose to ask us to close your account.
We may suspend your access to the API if:
We also reserve the right to modify or terminate the API for any reason, without notice at any time.
Our pricing is posted at /api/ and is subject to change upon 30 days notice from us.
Your plan is billed in advance on a monthly basis and is non-refundable. You must at all times ensure we are provided with valid credit or debit card information and authorise us to deduct the monthly charges against that card.
If we’re unable to process your payment we’ll try to contact you by email. We reserve the right to limit or suspend your account until we can take payment.
Nothing in these Terms is intended to transfer the ownership of any intellectual property from one party to the other.
The API contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence; Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2018; NISRA data © Crown copyright; Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2018; National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2018.
The data is generated from outside sources and so we cannot, and do not, warrant that it is accurate. We accept no liability for any errors. For the same reason, while we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that all data that is made available will continue to be available in the future, we cannot, and do not, agree to keep the data up to date. We may, in our absolute discretion, add new data sources, data fields or other forms of information from time to time but we are under no obligation to do so.
We believe that the data may be used in accordance with these licences given by third parties:
but we cannot know whether those licences were validly given, and in consequence, give no warranty as to the ownership of the data or the use to which it may be put.
You must comply with the licence or licences relevant to the data you use, and you are responsible for satisfying yourself that any use for which you employ the data is lawful and does not infringe anyone’s intellectual property rights.
Please attribute us by linking to TheyWorkForYou with wording such as “Data service provided by TheyWorkForYou” on the page where the data is used. You must also give any appropriate attributions required by the data licences.
We offer no guarantee as to the availability of the Service, and will not be liable if it is unavailable for any reason.
If you need to contact us you can do so via our contact page.
These Terms are subject to the law of England and Wales. They constitute all the terms and conditions agreed upon between you and us and supersede any prior agreements, whether written or oral.
You expressly understand and agree that to the maximum extent permitted by law we exclude all liability and responsibility to you for any loss or damage resulting, directly or indirectly, from your use of or inability to use the API. In any event, our total liability for all claims made about the API in any month will be no more than what you paid us for the Service the month before.
We shall not be deemed to have waived our right to enforce any of our rights under this agreement merely because we have previously failed to enforce our rights under this agreement, or permitted you to breach any term of this agreement on one or more occasions.
If a court, or other competent authority, finds that any term of this agreement is illegal or otherwise unenforceable, that term is to be treated as if it had been severed from this agreement. Its severance will be treated (as far as possible) as having no effect on the remainder of this agreement.
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