Privacy Policy
At times we may collect and process your personal information; this, along with the tools we use, is standard among many sites. We do respect, and aim to protect, your privacy.
What we collect
We collect personal data that you send us by email and/or when you fill in online forms.
We collect data about your computer, such as your IP address, operating system and web browser, and the pages that you visit (this is about your browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify you).
Our website uses cookies to tell you apart from other users when we look at how people use the site. For more information on the cookies we use and why we use them please see our cookie policy below.
How we use this information
We will only use your personal data to contact you in response to a request by you or to provide information that we think you may want.
We will not give your personal data to third parties, unless you have given us permission, or we are required to do so by law, or to enforce our terms of use.
We will inform you before collecting your data if we intend to use it for marketing purposes. At any time you can ask us not to process your personal data for such purposes by contacting us at hello [at] openopportunities.co
You can access your data under The Data Protection Act 1998 for a small administration fee.
The data we collect from you may be stored and processed outside the European Economic Area.
Other caveats
If you follow a link from our site to another you are no longer covered by our privacy policy.
We cannot guarantee the security of your data whilst in transmission to our site.
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page or sent to you by e-mail.
Contacts
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be sent to hello [at] openopportunities.co.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We store three cookies, firstly a cookie for Google Analytics, so that we can track which pages users visit on our site. More here.
Secondly we store a CSRF token to validate the data you submit to us an to prevent malicious code being injected into the forms you send us, this protects us and you from intrusive or destructive individuals who want to steal credit card details or amend our data more here.
Finally, we store a record of your session id in a small file. This allows us to determine when you start and finish using the site, so that we can store data like your searches and direct you back to the most recent searches you have made, more here.
Rather than annoy you with a facile pop-up explaining that, we’re working on the basis of viewing your use of our site as approval of our privacy policy. So, if you use any of the features in our site, for example searching for data, or click of any of the links on the site, you consent to our privacy policy, including the placing of these non-intrusive cookies on your machine.
You can block these cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may have a limited experience on our site, and may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is Ticon UK Ltd of The Rain Cloud Victoria, 76 Vincent Square, London, England, SW1P 2PD. Our nominated representative for the purpose of the Act is Ian Makgill.
Licensing
Legal/Licence info
The goal of the Open Opportunities websites (“Open Opportunities”) is to allow users to analyse government procurement data. We strongly believe in open data, but we are still a business and Open Opportunities is a profit making enterprise. Open Opportunities is published by Ticon UK Ltd, a company limited by shares and registered in England under company number 04962733 (“we”, “us”, “our”). These are the terms on which we make Open Opportunities website available to you:
We offer free and paid for access to our products. If you have agreed to a paid-for use of our services or API, these terms and conditions supplement that contract and, in cases of conflict, the wording of the paid-for contract will take precedence.
Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability
The content available through the Item being technically accessible and publicly available current procurement data for public contract notices, awards and related notice data for the organisations that are bound by the public procurement regulations (“Public Procurement Data”), together with related information, text, images, artwork, features, analytical tools, functionalities or other content as may be available from Ticon UK Ltd and any representation or analysis of such data or other content as well as historical Public Procurement Data held by Ticon UK Limited insofar as it is or may be made available by Ticon UK Limited. In some cases the Public Procurement Data may have errors which we have not yet detected and in other cases the data has been provided in very complex and impenetrable formats, which may have given rise to errors in the way it is presented on Open Opportunities. Therefore we cannot make any promises as to the quality of Public Procurement Data. You use the Public Procurement Data entirely at your own risk.
For this reason, and because Open Opportunities is sometimes made available without charge, we limit our liability as follows:
Open Opportunities is provided “AS IS” and on an “IS AVAILABLE” basis without any representations or any kind of warranty made (whether express or implied by law) to the extent permitted by law, including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.
Under no circumstances will we be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such losses were foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties; or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of Open Opportunities regardless of the form of action.
We do not warrant that functions contained in Open Opportunities content will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that Open Opportunities or the servers that make it available are free of viruses or bugs.
Paying customers
Subject to the following limitations an organisation that pays to access Open Opportunities (“Licensee”) shall have a fully paid-up, royalty-free, revocable, non-exclusive licence to access and use Open Opportunities and any content therein (“the Item”) for named employees of the Licensee (“Users”).
The Licensee shall not use the Item and any content therein for the purpose of creating any product or service similar to, either in whole or in part, to any service provided by Ticon UK Limited. This includes but is not limited to: the provision of Public Procurement Data to users external to the Licensee; the use of any of our data in any machine learning models and chatbot tools, save with the written permission from Ticon UK Limited. The Licensee may not cause, through intent or negligence, a user to create a product or service similar to, either in whole or in part, to the Item, whether for use internal to that User’s organisation or any and all external use.
Use of the Item is conditional upon payment of all fees due to Ticon UK Limited. If the Licensee fails to pay any fees due Ticon UK Limited, at its sole discretion Ticon UK Limited may suspend the Licensee’s rights to the Item until such time that the fees have been paid. This quotation may be accepted to form a binding contract upon agreement of these terms.
Your use of Open Opportunities
Our goal is to make purchasing information widely available and available for reuse, and because of that we provide an API to allow easy access to the underlying data. However, we do need to ensure that we can continue to provide the service for the benefit of all, and so need to charge for access to the site. You must not scrape the Open Opportunities website to extract data, and if you wish to make use of purchasing data in bulk, then you should contact us.
For this reason, and others (e.g. abuse, spam, etc), we may have to forbid use of Open Opportunities in some circumstances. You may not use Open Opportunities if we have previously forbidden you to do so, nor may you do so on behalf of someone else we have forbidden from using Open Opportunities. Access to Open Opportunities in these circumstances may constitute a criminal offence under section 1 of the UK Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will consider prosecuting individuals or companies who access our site when forbidden to do so.
Copyright over site content
This Agreement does not grant the Customer any rights to, or in, patents, copyright, database right, trade secrets, trade names, trade marks (whether registered or unregistered), or any other rights or licences in respect of the Services. Permissions beyond the scope of this licence may be available. Please contact us if you think you may need additional permission.
By subscribing to any of our email automation services, then you agree that we may publish your name and any logo, on this website and on any successor website that we may operate from time to time, on such page and in such position as we may determine in our sole discretion.
Site software
Please note that site software for our sites do not fall under this licence or this copyright policy. We often use open-source software, and for more on the software we use, you should visit their respective homepages.
Fair dealing, Fair use, and other exceptions to copyright law:
Some content on this website is presented here as a result of copyright exceptions such as fair dealing, fair use, or other exceptions. Our copyright policy does not cover content used here under these exceptions. As a result, your use of this material may not come under the same legal exception.
We do not restrict your fair use or other copyright exceptions that you may have for our materials covered under this policy.
Content on our site and third party copyright:
It is the policy of this website to respect the copyright of others.
If you see anything that you think shouldn’t be here, let us know via hello [at] openopps.com.
Trade marks
The site copyright licence does not apply to any trade marks, registered or unregistered, used on this site. The site copyright licence also does not apply to any copyright that applies to different elements of a trademark, such as a logo or particular work representing the trade mark.
Use of the names Open Opportunities or any site logos are not covered by this licence.
If you have any questions, get in touch at hello [at] openopps.com.
Thank you. The Open Opportunities team.