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Last Updated 9/01/2024

Agreement to Terms
1. These Terms and Conditions constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity (you), and Watergate AI Limited, doing business as Hero Labs, located at 5 Jardine House, Bessborough Road, Harrow HA1 3EX (we, us, Hero Labs), concerning your access to and use of Hero Labs applications as well as any related applications (App, Apps).
  
  The App provides the following services: leak detection, water monitoring (Services). You agree that by accessing the App and/or Services, you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by all of these Terms and Conditions and Hero Labs’ Privacy Policy (a copy of which is accessible here).
  
  If you do not agree with all of these Terms and Conditions and Hero Labs’ Privacy Policy, then you are prohibited from using the App and Services and you must discontinue use immediately. We recommend that you print a copy of these Terms and Conditions for future reference.
2. Hero Labs’ Privacy Policy, as well as any supplemental terms and condition or documents that may be posted on the App from time to time, are expressly incorporated by reference in these Terms and Conditions.
3. We may make changes to these Terms and Conditions at any time. The updated version of these Terms and Conditions will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. You are responsible for reviewing these Terms and Conditions to stay informed of updates. Your continued use of the App represents that you have accepted such changes.
4. We may update or change the App from time to time to reflect changes to our products, our users’ needs and/or our business priorities.
5. Our App is directed to people residing in the UK and the European Union. The information provided on the App is not intended for distribution to or use by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation or which would subject us to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country.
Acceptable Use
1. Our Acceptable Use policy sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of this App.
2. You may not access or use the App for any purpose other than that for which we make the App and Services available. The App may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavours except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by us.
3. As a user of this App, you agree not to:
  - Make any unauthorized use of the App, including collecting usernames, email addresses and/or other personal data or identifiers of users to send unsolicited email or creating user accounts under false pretences
  - Use the App to advertise or sell goods and services
  - Circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the App, including features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of any content or enforce limitations on the use
  - Engage in unauthorized framing of or linking to the App
  - Trick, defraud, or mislead us and/or other users, especially in any attempt to learn sensitive account information such as user passwords and other user personal data
  - Use the App in any way that compromises other people’s confidentiality
  - Make improper use of our support services, or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct
  - Interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on the App or the networks and services connected to the App
  - Attempt to impersonate another user or person, or use the username of another user
  - Sell or otherwise transfer your profile
  - Use any information obtained from the App in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person
  - Use the App or our content as part of any effort to compete with us or to create a revenue-generating endeavour or commercial enterprise
  - Decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the App
  - Attempt to access any portions of the App that you are restricted from accessing
  - Harass, annoy, intimidate, or threaten any of our employees, agents, or other users
  - Delete the copyright or other proprietary rights notice from any of the content
  - Copy or adapt the App’s software
  - Otherwise infringe the copyright or trademarks of Hero Labs
  - Upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) viruses, Trojan horses, or other material that interferes with any party’s uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the App, or any material that acts as a passive or active information collection or transmission mechanism
  - Use the App in a manner inconsistent with any applicable laws or regulations, or in a way that could be regarded as illegal, offensive, discriminatory, indecent or otherwise objectionable
  - Threaten users with negative feedback or offering services solely to give positive feedback to users
  - Misrepresent experience, skills, or information about a User
  - Advertise products or services not intended by us
  - Systematically retrieve data or other content from the App to a compile database or directory without written permission from us
  - Falsely imply a relationship with us or another company with whom you do not have a relationship
Information you provide to us
1. You represent and warrant that: (a) all registration information you submit will be true, accurate, current, and complete and relate to you and not a third party; (b) you will maintain the accuracy of such information and promptly update such information as necessary and in order to keep your account secure; (c) you will keep your password confidential and will be responsible for all use and security of your password and account; (d) you have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with these Terms and Conditions and Hero Labs’ Privacy Policy; and (e) you are not a minor in the jurisdiction in which you reside, or if a minor, you have received parental permission to use the App.
  
  If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user information (such as an identification code or user name) and/or password you must promptly notify us at [email protected].
2. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, we may suspend or terminate your account. We may remove or change a user name you select if we determine that such user name is inappropriate.
3. As part of the functionality of the App, you may link your account with online accounts you may have with third party service providers (each such account, a Third Party Account) by either: (a) providing your Third Party Account login information through the App; or (b) allowing us to access your Third Party Account, as is permitted under the applicable terms and conditions that govern your use of each Third Party Account.
  
  You represent that you are entitled to disclose your Third Party Account login information to us and/or grant us access to your Third Party Account without breach by you of any of the terms and conditions that govern your use of the applicable Third Party Account and without obligating us to pay any fees or making us subject to any usage limitations imposed by such third party service providers, and you agree to indemnify and hold us harmless against any such fees or associated costs.
4. By granting us access to any Third Party Accounts, you understand that (a) we may access, make available and store (if applicable) any content that you have provided to and stored in your Third Party Account (the “Social Network Content”) so that it is available on and through the App via your account, including without limitation any friend lists; and (b) we may submit and receive additional information to your Third Party Account to the extent you are notified when you link your account with the Third Party Account.
  
  Depending on the Third Party Accounts you choose and subject to the privacy settings that you have set in such Third Party Accounts, personally identifiable information that you post to your Third Party Accounts may be available on and through your account on the App. Please note that if a Third Party Account or associated service becomes unavailable or our access to such Third Party Account is terminated by the third party service provider, then Social Network Content may no longer be available on and through the App.
  
  You will have the ability to disable the connection between your account on the App and your Third Party Accounts at any time. Please note that your relationship with the third party service providers associated with your third party accounts is governed solely by your agreement(s) with such third party service providers. We make no effort to review any Social Network Content for any purpose, including but not limited to, for accuracy, legality or non-infringement, and we are not responsible for any Social Network Content. Any Social Network Content will be held, and may be accessed and processed, in accordance with Hero Labs’ Privacy Policy.
  
  You acknowledge and agree that we may access your email address book associated with a Third Party Account and your contacts list stored on your mobile device or tablet computer solely for purposes of identifying and informing you of those contacts who have also registered to use the App. At your email request to [email protected] or through your account settings (if applicable), we will deactivate the connection between the App and your Third Party Account and attempt to delete any information stored on our servers that was obtained through such Third Party Account, except the username and profile picture that became associated with your account, but accept no liability for failure to do so.
Content you provide to us
1. There may be opportunities for you to post content to the App or send feedback to us (User Content). You understand and agree that your User Content may be viewed by others and that they may be able to see who has posted that User Content.
2. You further agree that we can use your User Content for other business purposes in our reasonable discretion without payment to you, and combine your User Content with other content for use within the App and otherwise. We do not have to attribute your User Content to you.
3. In posting User Content, including reviews or making contact with other users of the App you shall comply with our Acceptable Use Policy.
4. You warrant that any User Content does comply with our Acceptable Use Policy, and you will be 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 this warranty.
5. We have the right to remove any User Content you put on the App if, in our opinion, such User Content does not comply with the Acceptable Use Policy.
6. We are not responsible and accept no liability for any User Content including any such content that contains incorrect information or is defamatory or loss of User Content. We accept no obligation to screen, edit or monitor any User Content but we reserve the right to remove, monitor, screen and/or edit any User Content without notice and at any time in our sole discretion. User Content has not been verified or approved by us and the views expressed by other users on the App do not represent our views or values.
7. If you wish to complain about User Content uploaded by other users please contact us at [email protected].
Our content
1. Unless otherwise indicated, the App and Services including source code, databases, functionality, software, webApp designs, audio, video, text, photographs, and graphics on the App (Our Content) are owned or licensed to us, and are protected by copyright and trademark laws.
2. Except as expressly provided in these Terms and Conditions, no part of the App, Services or Our Content may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever, without our express prior written permission.
3. Provided that you are and remain eligible to use the App, you are granted a limited licence to access and use the App and Our Content for your personal, non-commercial use.
4. You shall not (a) try to gain unauthorised access to the App or any networks, servers or computer systems connected to the App; and/or (b) make for any purpose, including error correction, any modifications, adaptions, additions or enhancements to the App or Our Content.
5. We shall prepare the App and Our Content with reasonable skill and care and ensure that digital content provided to you is of satisfactory quality and matches any description given by Hero Labs, in accordance with your statutory consumer rights and remedies.
6. The content on the App 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 taking, any action on the basis of the content on the App. The App should only be operated in conjunction with leak detection or water monitoring hardware that has been fitted and maintained by a trained, accredited plumbing professional in accordance with the relevant Installation Guidance and Warranty and Safety Information, and only a trained, accredited plumbing professional should modify or remove such hardware.
7. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our App, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that Our Content on the App is accurate, complete or up to date. Your statutory consumer rights and remedies are unaffected.
Link to third party content
1. The App may contain links to webApps, applications or services operated by third parties. We do not have any influence or control over any such third party webApps, applications or services, or the third party operator. We are not responsible for any third party webApps, applications or services, or their availability or content.
2. We accept no responsibility for adverts contained within the App. If you agree to purchase goods and/or services from any third party who advertises in the App, you do so at your own risk. The advertiser, and not us, is responsible for such goods and/or services and if you have any questions or complaints in relation to them, you should contact the advertiser.
App Management
1. We reserve the right at our sole discretion, to (1) monitor the App for breaches of these Terms and Conditions; (2) take appropriate legal action against anyone in breach of applicable laws or these Terms and Conditions or the Privacy Policy; (3) refuse, restrict access to or availability of, or disable (to the extent technologically feasible) any of your User Content; (4) remove from the App or otherwise disable all files and content that are excessive in size or are in any way a burden to our systems; and (5) otherwise manage the App in a manner designed to protect our rights and property and to facilitate the proper functioning of the App and Services.
2. We do not guarantee that the App will be secure or free from bugs, viruses or other malware.
3. You are responsible for configuring your hardware and software to access the App and you should use your own cybersecurity software.
Modifications to and availability of the App
1. We reserve the right to change, modify, or remove the contents of the App at any time or for any reason at our sole discretion without notice. We also reserve the right to modify or discontinue all or part of the Services without notice at any time.
2. We cannot guarantee the App and Services will be available at all times. We may experience hardware, software, or other problems or need to perform maintenance related to the App, resulting in interruptions, delays, or errors. You agree that we have no liability whatsoever for any loss, damage, or inconvenience caused by your inability to access or use the App or Services during any downtime or discontinuance of the App or Services. We are not obliged to maintain and support the App or Services or to supply any corrections, updates, or releases.
3. There may be information on the App that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions that may relate to the Services, including descriptions, pricing, availability, and various other information. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions and to change or update the information at any time, without prior notice.
Disclaimer/Limitation of Liability
1. The App and Services are provided on an as-is and as-available basis. You agree that your use of the App and/or Services will be at your sole risk except as expressly set out in these Terms and Conditions and subject to your statutory consumer rights and remedies. Save as expressly set out in these Terms and Conditions and subject to your statutory consumer rights and remedies, any liability of Hero Labs at common law or otherwise is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.
  
  Save that we exercise reasonable care and skill and warrant that digital content provided to you is of satisfactory quality and matches any description given by Hero Labs, we make no warranties or representations about the accuracy or completeness of the App’s content and are not liable for: (1) any errors or omissions in content; (2) any unauthorized access to or use of our servers and/or any and all personal information and/or financial information stored on our server; (3) any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from the App or services; and/or (4) any bugs, viruses, trojan horses, other malware or the like which may be transmitted to or through the App by any third party. We will not be responsible for any delay or failure to comply with our obligations under these Terms and Conditions if such delay or failure is caused by an event beyond our reasonable control.
2. Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you:
  
  Whether you are a consumer or a business user:
  - 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.
  - If we fail to comply with these Terms and Conditions, we will be responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breach of these Terms and Conditions, but we would not be responsible for any loss or damage that were not foreseeable at the time you started using the App/Services.
  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Disclaimer/Limitation of Liability section, our liability to you for any cause whatsoever and regardless of the form of the action, will at all times be limited to a total aggregate amount equal to the greater of (a) the sum of EUR 5,000 (five thousand) or (b) the amount paid, if any, by you to us for the Services/App during the six (6) month period prior to any cause of action arising.If you are a business user: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:
  - use of, or inability to use, our App/Services; or
  - use of or reliance on any content displayed on our App.
  In particular, we will not be liable for:
  - loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
  - business interruption;
  - loss of anticipated savings;
  - loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
  - any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
  If you are a consumer user:
  - Please note that we only provide our App for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our App for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, sales or revenue, loss of business, business interruption, loss of anticipated savings, loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation, or any indirect or consequential loss or damage associated with business use.
  - You have legal rights in relation to goods that are faulty or not as described. Advice about your legal rights is available from your local Citizens’ Advice Bureau or Trading Standards office. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions will affect these legal rights.
Term and Termination
1. These Terms and Conditions shall remain in full force and effect while you use the App or Services or are otherwise a user of the App, as applicable. You may terminate your use or participation at any time, for any reason, by following the instructions for terminating user accounts in your account settings, if available, or by contacting us at [email protected]. Clauses 12.8 and 12.9 of these Terms and Conditions (jurisdiction) survive termination.
2. Without limiting any other provision of these Terms and Conditions, we reserve the right to, in our sole discretion and without notice or liability, deny access to and use of the App and the Services (including blocking certain IP addresses), to any person for any reason including without limitation for breach of any representation, warranty or covenant contained in these Terms and Conditions or of any applicable law or regulation.
  
  If we determine, in our sole discretion, that your use of the App/Services is in breach of these Terms and Conditions or of any applicable law or regulation, we may terminate your use or participation in the App and the Services or delete your profile and any content or information that you posted at any time, without warning, in our sole discretion.
3. If we terminate or suspend your account for any reason set out in this Section 9, you are prohibited from registering and creating a new account under your name, a fake or borrowed name, or the name of any third party, even if you may be acting on behalf of the third party. In addition to terminating or suspending your account, we reserve the right to take appropriate legal action, including without limitation pursuing civil, criminal, and injunctive relief. In such a case, you irrevocably agree that damages are not an adequate remedy for Hero Labs and that injunctive relief may be granted against you.
Mobile Application
1. If you access the Services via a mobile application, then we grant you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to install and use the mobile application on electronic devices owned or controlled by you, and to access and use the mobile application on such devices strictly in accordance with the terms and conditions of this license.
2. For consumers only – If you are a customer in the UK or European Union, you have certain rights to decompile the Software if:
  - this is necessary to obtain the information that you need to make the software interoperable with other software and
  - we have not made that information available to you.
  Before reverse engineering or decompiling the software, you must first write to us and ask us to provide you with the interoperability information that you need. Please provide us with full details of your requirements so that we can assess what information you need. We may impose reasonable conditions on providing you with interoperability information. You must use that information only for the purpose of making the software interoperable with other software. You must not use that information for any other purpose.
3. For business users only – You will not:(a) reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise try to discover the source code of the software/application;(b) make any modification, adaptation, improvement, enhancement, translation or derivative work from the application;(c) breach any applicable laws, rules or regulations in connection with your access or use of the application;(d) remove, alter or obscure any proprietary notice (including any notice of copyright or trademark) posted by us or the licensors of the application;(e) use the application for any revenue generating endeavour, commercial enterprise, or other purpose for which it is not designed or intended;(f) make the application available over a network or other environment permitting access or use by multiple devices or users at the same time;(g) use the application for creating a product, service or software that is, directly or indirectly, competitive with or in any way a substitute for the application;(h) use the application to send automated queries to any webApp or to send any unsolicited commercial e-mail; or(i) use any proprietary information or any of our interfaces or our other intellectual property in the design, development, manufacture, licensing or distribution of any applications, accessories or devices for use with the application.11.4 The following terms apply when you use a mobile application obtained from either the Apple Store or Google Play (each an App Distributor) to access the Services:(a) The licence granted to you for our mobile application is limited to a non-transferable licence to use the application on a device that utilizes the Apple iOS or Android operating system, as applicable, and in accordance with the usage rules set forth in the applicable App Distributor terms of service;(b) We are responsible for providing any maintenance and support services with respect to the mobile application as specified in these Terms and Conditions or as otherwise required under applicable law.
General
1. Visiting the App, sending us emails or messages and completing online forms constitute electronic communications. By using the App you consent to receive electronic communications and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications we provide to you electronically, via email and on the App, satisfy any legal requirement that such communication be in writing. You may modify or limit your consent to receiving electronic communications at any time in accordance with the Privacy Policy by providing us with reasonable notice; however, you should be aware that in some cases we will not be able to continue providing you with Services without your consent to data collection and processing.
  
  You hereby agree to the use of electronic signatures, contracts, orders and other records and to electronic delivery of notices, policies and records of transactions initiated or completed by us or via the App. You hereby waive any rights or requirements under any statutes, regulations, rules, ordinances or other laws in any jurisdiction which require an original signature or delivery or retention of non-electronic records, or to payments or the granting of credits by other than electronic means.
2. These Terms and Conditions, the Privacy Policy and any policies or operating rules posted by us on the App or in respect to the Services (as updated from time to time) constitute the entire agreement and understanding between you and us. You acknowledge that in using the App and agreeing these Terms and Conditions you have not relief on any express or implied representation, warranty, collateral contract or other assurance made by or on behalf of Hero Labs before entering into this agreement which is not set out in these Terms and Conditions, the Privacy Policy and any policies or operating rules posted by us on the App or in respect to the Services (as updated from time to time).
3. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms and Conditions shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision.
4. We may assign any or all of our rights and obligations to others at any time.
5. We will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in the performance of, any of our obligations under a contract that is caused by an act or event beyond our reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of God, strikes, lock-outs or other industrial action by third parties, riot, terrorist attack, war, fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, epidemic or other natural disaster, failure of public or private telecommunications networks or impossibility of the use of railways, shipping, aircraft, motor transport or other means of public or private transport.
6. If any provision or part of a provision of these Terms and Conditions is or becomes unlawful, invalid, void or unenforceable, that provision or part of the provision is deemed severable from these Terms and Conditions and does not affect the legality, validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
7. There is no joint venture, partnership, employment or agency relationship created between you and us as a result of these Terms and Conditions or use of the App or Services.
8. For consumers only – Please note that these Terms and Conditions, their subject matter and their formation (and any contractual or non-contractual disputes or claims arising out of the same), are governed by English law. You and we both irrevocably agree that the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction in respect of any such dispute and you agree that you may not bring proceedings against Hero Labs in any jurisdiction other than England and Wales, 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. At its election, Hero Labs may bring proceedings against you in the Courts of England and Wales and/or any other court with jurisdiction. To the extent permitted by law, Hero Labs may take concurrent proceedings in any number of jurisdictions. If you have any complaint or wish to raise a dispute under these Terms and Conditions or otherwise in relation to the App please follow this link: http://ec.europa.eu/odr.
9. For business users only – These Terms and Conditions, their subject matter and their formation (and any contractual or non-contractual disputes or claims arising out of the same) are governed by English Law. You and we both irrevocably agree that the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction in respect of any such dispute and you agree that you may not bring proceedings against Hero Labs in any jurisdiction other than England and Wales. At its election, Hero Labs may bring proceedings against you in the Courts of England and Wales and/or any other court with jurisdiction. To the extent permitted by law, Hero Labs may take concurrent proceedings in any number of jurisdictions.
10. The following are trademarks of Watergate AI Limited. You are not permitted to use them without our approval, unless they are part of material our App explicitly states you are permitted to use.
  - Hero Labs
  - HeroLink
  - Sonic
  - Signal
  - HD Ultrasonic
  - SmartShield
11. Except as stated under the Mobile Application section, a person who is not a party to these Terms and Conditions shall have no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of these Terms and Conditions.
12. In order to resolve a complaint regarding the Services or to receive further information regarding use of the Services, please contact us by email at [email protected] or by post to:
  - Watergate AI Limited
  - 5 Jardine House
  - Bessborough Road
  - Harrow HA1 3EX
  - United Kingdom