Terms and Conditions

Draft under legal review. These terms describe how we intend to sell and license research on the new site; items in square brackets are still to be confirmed and the wording may change before they take effect.

These terms govern your use of prohibitionpartners.com and every purchase of research, data or other digital content made through it. By placing an order you agree to them. Please read them before you buy; they explain what you are licensed to do with the research, when a contract is formed, and how delivery and refunds work.

1. Who we are

Prohibition Partners is the trading name of [Prohibition Partners Ltd / Prohibition Holdings Ltd — legal to confirm the contracting entity], a company registered in England and Wales under company number [number], with its registered office at [registered office address]. Our VAT registration number is [VAT number]. You can contact us at info@prohibitionpartners.com.

We publish market intelligence on the legal cannabis industry. We are not a law firm, an investment adviser or a healthcare provider, and nothing we publish is advice of that kind (see section 8).

2. Definitions

• Content — any report, white paper, dataset, data pack, spreadsheet, chart, forecast, market profile, article or other material we publish, whether sold, offered free of charge or shown on the Website.
• Purchased Content — Content you have paid for through the Website or by invoice.
• Order — your request to buy Purchased Content, placed through our checkout or by accepting a quotation or invoice.
• Licence — the permission set out in section 6 to use Purchased Content.
• Organisation — the company or other body on whose behalf you buy, as named at checkout or on the invoice.

3. Ordering and contract

1. Prices are shown in pounds sterling. Prices [exclude / include — finance to confirm] VAT; VAT is calculated at checkout according to your billing country and, for business customers in the EU, the VAT number you provide. The amount shown on the final checkout page is the amount you will be charged.
2. Card payments are taken by Stripe on a checkout page hosted by Stripe. We do not see or store your card details.
3. An Order is accepted, and a contract formed, when we send you the order confirmation email. Until then we may decline an Order, for example where a price was displayed in error or the Content is not available for your Organisation’s use.
4. Organisations may instead request an invoice through the “Request an invoice” option on a product page. Invoices are payable within [30] days of the invoice date and Purchased Content is delivered once payment has been received, unless we agree otherwise in writing.
5. We issue a VAT invoice for every Order. Your invoice is sent by Stripe with your receipt; for invoice Orders it is sent by us directly.
6. Our Content is sold to businesses and professionals. If you buy as a consumer (that is, wholly or mainly outside your trade, business or profession) the additional rights described in section 7 apply to you.

4. Delivery

1. Purchased Content is delivered digitally. Where a file is available for immediate download, a link is shown on the order confirmation page and sent by email. Otherwise we send the files by email to the address given at checkout within one working day (Monday to Friday, excluding UK public holidays).
2. If you have not received your files within one working day, check your spam folder and then email info@prohibitionpartners.com quoting your order number. We will resend them.
3. Data packs and datasets are delivered in the formats stated on the product page (typically Excel or CSV). Reports are delivered as PDF. We may update a file to correct an error; if we do so within [90] days of your Order we will send you the corrected version.
4. You are responsible for giving us a correct email address and for keeping the files you receive.

5. Prices and payment

1. We may change prices at any time. Changes do not affect Orders we have already accepted.
2. If a payment fails or is reversed after Content has been delivered, we may suspend your Licence until payment is made in full.
3. Where Stripe Tax or your VAT number produces an incorrect VAT charge, tell us within [30] days and we will issue a corrected invoice and refund or collect the difference.

6. Licence — what you may do with Purchased Content

We own, or hold the rights to, all intellectual property in the Content. Buying Content does not transfer that ownership to you. Instead we grant you the following Licence, which starts when we deliver the Content and continues for as long as you comply with these terms.

Standard licence

• Who may use it: employees and officers of the Organisation named at checkout. If you buy as an individual, you alone.
• What you may do: read, store and print the Content for the Organisation’s internal business purposes; quote short extracts (a sentence, a figure or a single chart) in internal documents and in external presentations, articles and reports provided each extract is attributed to Prohibition Partners and the source edition is named.
• What you may not do: share the Content, or any substantial part of it, with anyone outside the Organisation, including clients, portfolio companies, group companies not named at checkout, advisers or the public; post it on any website, intranet open to third parties, or file-sharing service; resell, sublicense, rent or lend it; remove our name, notices or watermarks; use it to build a competing product, database or index; or use it, in whole or in part, to train, fine-tune or evaluate a machine-learning or artificial-intelligence model.

Team, site and enterprise licences

If you need to share Content with a wider group, another group company, clients, or to reproduce more than short extracts, you need a team, site or enterprise licence. Contact us at info@prohibitionpartners.com or through the enquiry form; these licences are priced individually and set out in a separate agreement.

Free Content and the Website

Free publications, market profiles, news, International Cannabis Weekly and everything else shown on the Website is provided for your personal or internal business information. You may link to any page. You may quote short extracts with attribution and a link. You may not scrape, copy or republish the Website or any dataset shown on it, or use its content to train an artificial-intelligence model, without our written permission.

7. Cancellation and refunds

[Legal to decide the refunds position. The wording below reflects the standard treatment of digital content in the UK.]

1. Purchased Content is digital content supplied in a form that is not on a tangible medium. Because delivery begins immediately, by completing checkout you request that we start delivery straight away and acknowledge that, once the Content has been delivered, an Order cannot be cancelled and no refund is due.
2. If you buy as a consumer, you have a statutory right to cancel within 14 days of the Order under the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013. That right is lost once the Content has been delivered with your express consent as described above. To cancel before delivery, email info@prohibitionpartners.com.
3. If a file is corrupt, incomplete or does not match the product description, tell us within [30] days and we will replace it or, if we cannot, refund the price paid. This does not affect any statutory right you have to a repair, replacement or refund for digital content that is faulty or not as described.
4. If we cancel an Order after accepting it, we will refund you in full within 14 days.

8. What our research is, and is not

1. Our Content is market intelligence: estimates, forecasts and analysis prepared from public sources, proprietary research and our own models, and it reflects our judgement at the date of publication. Markets, laws and regulations change, and figures may be revised in later editions.
2. The Content is provided for information. It is not investment, legal, tax, medical or regulatory advice, and it is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any security, or to enter or leave any market. You should take your own professional advice before acting on it.
3. Cannabis remains a controlled substance in many jurisdictions. Nothing in the Content is an encouragement to do anything unlawful where you are, and you are responsible for complying with the laws that apply to you.
4. Where the Content includes third-party data, we use it under licence and identify the source. Third-party data is subject to the source’s own terms.

9. Our liability

1. Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded.
2. Subject to that, we do not warrant that the Content is complete, accurate or free from error, and we are not liable for any loss arising from reliance on it, or for any indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, revenue, business, goodwill or data.
3. Subject to that, our total liability to you in connection with any Order, however it arises, is limited to the price you paid for that Order.
4. If you buy as a consumer, these limits apply only to the extent the law allows, and nothing in this section affects your statutory rights.

10. Bespoke research and consulting

Bespoke research, data subscriptions, consulting engagements and sponsorship are provided under a separate proposal or statement of work, which will state the price, deliverables, timing and licence for that engagement. Where that document conflicts with these terms, the separate document prevails for that engagement.

11. Using the Website

1. You may use the Website for lawful purposes only. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of it, to any dataset or download behind a payment or sign-up step, or to the systems that serve it; introduce malicious code; or use automated means to extract its content beyond what search engines do to index it.
2. We aim to keep the Website available but do not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we may suspend or withdraw it, or any part of it, without notice.
3. The Website links to other sites, including our group brands and third-party publishers. We are not responsible for their content or their terms.
4. The names Prohibition Partners, Cannabis Europa, Business of Cannabis and Cannabis Health News, and their logos, are our trade marks. You may not use them without our written permission, except to attribute an extract as section 6 allows.

12. Privacy and cookies

How we handle personal information is set out in our Privacy Policy, and the cookies we use in our Cookie Policy. Both form part of these terms.

13. Changes to these terms

We may revise these terms from time to time. The version in force when you place an Order is the one that applies to that Order. The date at the top of this page shows when the terms were last changed.

14. General

1. These terms are the whole agreement between you and us for the Website and Purchased Content, and replace any earlier terms.
2. If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.
3. If we do not enforce a right immediately, we have not given it up.
4. You may not transfer your Licence or your rights under these terms to anyone else without our written consent. We may transfer ours to a successor to our business.
5. These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere in the United Kingdom or in the European Union, you may also rely on the mandatory consumer protections of, and bring proceedings in, the courts of the country where you live.

15. Contact

Email info@prohibitionpartners.com, or write to us at [registered office address]. For licensing enquiries, purchase orders and bespoke research, use the enquiry form.