1. These terms and conditions define the use of Our Website.
2. ABOUT US
2.1 Cbca.group (“Our Website”) is a site operated by the Cross-Border Council Alliance (we, us, our, etc.).
2.2 We are operating under Linkilaw Limited a company registered in England and Wales under company number 10007785. Our VAT number is 410554533.
2.3 Our address is 16 Curzon Street, W1J 5HP, London, UK.
2.4 To contact us, please write to this address or email hello@cbca.group.
3. BY USING OUR WEBSITE YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS
3.1 By browsing and using Our Website and/or signing up for our Services, you agree to comply with and be bound by our terms and conditions of use, which are a contract between you and the CBCA.
3.2 If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.
3.3 We recommend that you download and save or print a copy of these terms for reference.
4. DEFINITIONS
4.1 Content means any form of content, including textual, visual, and aural content, encountered during your use of Our Website. Content may include but is not limited to text, image, sound, video, and animation. Content includes content posted by you as part of your interaction with Our Website.
4.2 Intellectual Property means the intellectual property owned by the CBCA. We are the owners or licensees of all intellectual property rights in Our Website. This covers intellectual property of every kind including but not limited to all text, information, graphics, interfaces, photographs, video, designs, software, databases, domain names, discoveries, inventions, moral rights and other material available on Our Website and which is protected by copyright, trade mark, design, patent and other proprietary and intellectual property laws. Intellectual property covers both registered and unregistered rights, along with all rights deriving from those rights extant now and in future.
4.3 Post/Posting means to place, upload, or otherwise make available through any means, any Content or material of any kind on or into Our Website.
4.4 Services mean all of the services made available on or through Our Website.
5. PRIVACY AND COOKIE POLICIES
5.1 These terms of service refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of Our Website:
5.1.2 The CBCA take privacy seriously. Please read our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and store your personal data.
5.1.3 Please also read our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on Our Website.
6. CHANGES TO THESE TERMS
6.1 We update these terms periodically as appropriate.
6.2 Through continued use of this site, you confirm that you will review these terms on the occasion of each site visit in order to ensure that you have understood these terms and agree to be bound by the terms which apply at the time.
6.3 These terms were most recently updated on 10 January 2026.
7. CHANGES TO OUR WEBSITE
7.1 We may update and change Our Website periodically as appropriate.
7.2 We undertake, where practicable, to give reasonable notice of any major changes to Our Website.
7.3 Further, we may suspend or withdraw Our Website.
7.4 We do not guarantee that Our Website, 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 Website for business, operational, and other good reasons.
7.5 We undertake, where practicable, to give reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal of Our Website.
7.6 You are directly responsible for ensuring that any and all persons viewing, accessing, or in any way using Our Website through your internet connection, IP Address, and device are aware of and agree to these terms of service and all other applicable terms of service, and that they comply with them and are bound by them. If this class of persons does not agree to these terms, they must not use Our Website.
8. TRANSFERS OF THIS AGREEMENT
8.1 We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation.
8.2 Any transfer of our rights and obligations will be made evident through a notice on Our Website and reflected in these terms.
8.3 The transfer will not affect your rights under the contract.
9. YOUR ACCOUNT DETAILS
9.1 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 this information to any third party.
9.2 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 service.
9.3 If you know, are made aware of, or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must notify us immediately at [EMAIL].
10. THE USE OF MATERIAL ON OUR WEBSITE
10.1 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.
10.2 You may not use any of our intellectual property rights without our express written consent, however you are permitted to print or save to your individual PC, tablet or storage full-page extracts from Our Website for your own personal non-commercial use.
10.3 You must not modify the copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
10.4 Our status, and that of any identified contributors, as the authors of the content on Our Website must always be acknowledged.
10.5 This does not include downloading, storing, transmitting, displaying, copying or distributing any materials on the Website, or extracts from it, in a structured manner or creating a database in any form comprising all or part of any material on the Our Website.
10.6 You must not use any part of the content on Our Website for commercial purposes without first obtaining a licence to do so from us and/or our licensors.
10.7 If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of Our Website in breach of these terms of service, 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, excepting the permitted printed or downloaded copy of these terms of service.
11. NO TEXT OR DATA MINING, OR WEB SCRAPING
11.1 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 for any purpose, including the development, training, fine-tuning or validation of AI systems, tools, or models. This includes using, permitting, authorising or attempting the use of:
11.1.1 Any "robot", "bot", "spider", "scraper" or other any other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology in order to access, obtain, copy, recreate, monitor, re-publish, or in any way use any portion of Our Website or any data, content, information or services accessed through Our Website. 11.1.2 Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information or to develop, train, fine-tune, validate, or otherwise use AI systems, models, or tools, including but not limited to patterns, trends, and correlations.
11.2 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 the Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).
11.3 You shall not use, and we do not consent to the use of, Our Website, or any data published by, or contained in, or accessible through, Our Website or any services provided through, or in relation to, Our Website for the purposes of developing, training, fine-tuning or validating any AI system or model.
11.4 This clause shall not apply insofar as 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.
12. LINKING TO OUR WEBSITE
12.1 You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
12.2 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.
12.3 You must not establish a link to Our Website in any website that is not owned by you.
12.4 Our Website must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of Our Website other than the home page.
12.5 We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
12.6 Should you wish to link to or make any use of content on Our Website other than in any manner allowed by the terms set out above, please contact hello@cbca.group.
13. UPLOADING CONTENT TO OUR WEBSITE
13.1 In the event that you make use of a feature which allows you directly to create content on Our Website, or to upload or share content to Our Website, or to make contact with other users of Our Website, you must comply with our terms of use.
13.2 You warrant that any such contribution complies with our standards, and you are liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. You will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.
13.3 We consider that any content you upload to Our Website is non-confidential and not protected by any trade mark, patent or copyright ("non-proprietary") in the public domain. You own your content, but you are required to grant us and/or other users of Our Website as may be necessary a limited licence to use, store, and copy that content and to distribute and otherwise make it available to others. The rights you license to us are described at (14) below.
13.4 We have the right to disclose your identity to anyone who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to Our Website violates their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy.
13.5 We have the right to remove any posting you make on Our Website should, in our view, your post not comply with the acceptable use standards as set out in our terms of use.
13.6 Should you wish to contact us in relation to content which you have uploaded to Our Website and which we have taken down, please contact us at hello@cbca.world
14. RIGHTS YOU GIVE US TO USE THE MATERIAL YOU UPLOAD
14.1 When you upload or post content to Our Website, you grant us the following rights to use that content:
14.2 A worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the website and across different media, including to promote Our Website or the service, to expire when the user deletes the content from Our Website.
15. USER-GENERATED CONTENT IS NOT APPROVED BY US
15.1 Our Website may include information and materials uploaded by other users. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on Our Website do not represent our views or values.
16. DO NOT RELY ON INFORMATION ON THIS SITE
16.1 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.
16.2 Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on Our Website, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that its content is accurate, complete or up to date.
17. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR LINKED WEBSITES
17.1 Where Our Website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links are not and should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.
17.2 We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
18. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR VIRUSES
18.1 We do not guarantee that Our Website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
18.2 You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs, and platform safely to access Our Website. You should use your own virus protection or antivirus software.
19. YOU MUST NOT INTRODUCE VIRUSES
19.1 You must not misuse Our Website by knowingly or otherwise introducing to it viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs, or other malicious or technologically-harmful material, or by otherwise harmfully interacting with Our Website or any part of it.
19.2 You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to Our Website, the server on which Our Website is stored, or any server, any computer, or any database connected with Our Website, or any other equipment or network connected with Our Website.
19.3 You must not interfere with, damage or disrupt any software used in the provision of Our Website or any equipment, or network, or software owned or used by any third party on which Our Website relies in any way.
19.4 You must not attack Our Website using a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denialof-service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
19.5 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 Website will cease immediately.
20. OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR LOSS OR DAMAGE
20.1 Whether you are a consumer or a business user:
20.1.1 We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you in circumstances in which it would be unlawful for us to do so. These circumstances include liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or by the negligence of our employees, agents, or subcontractors, and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
20.2 If you are a business user:
20.2.1 We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to Our Website or any content on it.
20.2.2 We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort, negligence, breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with the: a) Use of, or inability to use, Our Website; or b) Use of or reliance on any content displayed on Our Website.
20.2.3 In particular, we will not be liable for:
a) Loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
b) Business interruption;
c) Loss of anticipated savings;
d) Loss of business opportunity, goodwill, or reputation; or
e) Any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
20.3 If you are a consumer user:
20.3.1 We provide Our Website only for domestic and private use.
20.3.2 You agree not to use Our Website 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.
20.3.3 If defective digital content which 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 shall either repair the damage or pay you compensation.
20.3.4 However, we will not be liable for damage which you could have avoided by following our advice to apply an update offered to you free of charge or for damage that was caused by you failing to correctly follow installation instructions or to have in place the minimum system requirements advised by us.
21. OUR PERMITTED USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
21.1 We will only use your personal information as set out in our [LINK TO PRIVACY POLICY].
22. THE JURISDICTION OF ANY DISPUTE
22.1 If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of service, their subject matter, and their formation, are governed by English law. We agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction, with the exception of residents of Northern Ireland who may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and residents of Scotland, who may also bring proceedings in Scotland.
22.2 If you are a business, these terms of service, their subject matter, and their formation , including any non-contractual disputes or claims, are governed by English law. We agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.