Intellectual Property, Image Use and AI Anti-Scraping Policy

Effective date: 01 12 23
Website: https://www.takeeffecttraining.co.uk/

At Take Effect Training Ltd (“Take Effect Training”, “we”, “us” or “our”), we take the protection of our website content, images, brand assets and intellectual property seriously. This policy explains the rights that exist in the material published on this website and strictly prohibits unauthorised copying, downloading, scraping, data mining, extraction, AI training use and other misuse.

1. Ownership of website content

Unless otherwise stated, all content on this website — including but not limited to website copy, text, role-play and training descriptions, graphics, logos, branding, design, layout, page structure, visual presentation and the selection and arrangement of content — is owned by or licensed to Take Effect Training and is protected by applicable intellectual property laws in the United Kingdom and, where relevant, other jurisdictions. All rights are reserved.

2. Licensed third-party images, including Adobe Stock

The majority of images displayed on this website are used under licence from Adobe Stock. Adobe Stock’s licence terms allow licensed assets to be displayed on websites and social media, but do not permit distribution of the stand-alone asset file, and do not permit resale or redistribution where the primary value is the image itself unless a broader licence applies.

These Adobe Stock images are used only as part of our website pages and website content. We do not sell, resell, sublicense or redistribute Adobe Stock images as products, downloads or stand-alone files. No visitor, user, bot, scraper or third party is granted any right to copy, download, extract, save, reproduce, republish, redistribute, train on, or otherwise reuse any Adobe Stock image appearing on this website.

For the avoidance of doubt, the fact that an image can be viewed on a webpage does not grant any licence or permission to reuse it.

3. AI-assisted images used on this website

Some visual materials on this website have been created using Microsoft Copilot / AI tools under a paid Microsoft 365 commercial/business licence used for our business purposes. Microsoft states that its Customer Copyright Commitment applies to commercial Copilot services rather than free or consumer products, subject to Microsoft’s applicable terms and guardrails.

Where we use AI-assisted graphics or illustrations, they are used only as part of our website content, communications and brand presentation. No third party may copy, download, republish, adapt, scrape, ingest, analyse, train on, fine-tune on, or otherwise reuse those materials without our prior written permission.

4. Real photographs of people on this website

This website contains professionally taken photographs of real people. None of the people shown in those photographs have been generated by AI. In addition, no image on this website depicting a real person has been AI-generated.

These photographs are protected and may not be copied, downloaded, republished, manipulated, used for facial recognition, impersonation, deepfake creation, biometric analysis, AI training, model testing, dataset creation or any other unauthorised purpose. Any such use may infringe copyright and other legal rights.

5. Strict prohibition on AI scraping, automated collection and text/data mining

You must not, and you must not permit or assist any third party to:

6. Express reservation of rights for text and data mining and AI use

Take Effect Training expressly reserves all rights in and to the content on this website for the purposes of text and data mining, web scraping, automated extraction and all AI-related uses, including training, fine-tuning, retrieval and dataset creation, except to the extent that a mandatory legal exception applies and cannot lawfully be excluded.

For the purposes of applicable EU/EEA law, including Article 4 of Directive (EU) 2019/790, we expressly reserve our rights in respect of all content made publicly available online by us, including by this policy and by any machine-readable means we may deploy. Article 4 provides that the text-and-data-mining exception applies only where rights have not been expressly reserved by the rights holder, including by machine-readable means for online content.

For the purposes of UK law, no licence or consent is granted for scraping, copying, extraction, text and data mining or AI use of our content other than to the limited extent, if any, that a non-excludable statutory exception applies. In the UK, section 29A CDPA 1988 is limited to copying by a person with lawful access for non-commercial research, and UK government guidance confirms that this exception is for non-commercial research only.

Nothing in this policy grants any licence, waiver or consent for AI training, automated reuse or scraping of our content.

7. Permitted use of this website

You may access and view this website in the ordinary course using a standard web browser for legitimate informational and business enquiry purposes only. This does not include any right to copy substantial parts of the website, download images for reuse, republish any content, mirror pages, build datasets, train AI systems, or exploit any part of the website for commercial extraction or competing services.

Any limited permission to view the website is revocable and must cease immediately if we ask you to stop.

8. No licence granted

Except for the limited right to access and view this website in your browser for lawful informational purposes, no rights or licences are granted to you in relation to any content on this website. In particular, no right is granted to copy, store, download, reproduce, republish, exploit, scrape, analyse, mine, adapt or use any website content for AI, machine learning, automated analytics, commercial extraction or redistribution.

9. Technical and organisational protections

We may use legal notices, contractual notices, robots instructions, HTTP headers, watermarking, bot-detection technology, access controls, rate-limiting, monitoring and other technical or organisational measures to protect our website and its content. You must not interfere with, bypass or attempt to defeat any such measures.

10. Enforcement

We reserve the right to block or restrict access, investigate suspicious activity, issue takedown demands, require deletion of unlawfully obtained content or datasets, pursue legal remedies, and report misuse to hosting providers, search engines, AI providers, relevant platforms, regulators or law enforcement where appropriate. Unauthorised use of our content may amount to copyright infringement, breach of contract, unlawful extraction, database misuse or other actionable misconduct.

11. Third-party rights

Nothing in this policy limits or excludes any rights of third-party licensors, photographers, contributors, image libraries or other rights holders whose content is used on this website under licence or permission. Where content is licensed to us, unauthorised use by you may infringe both our rights and the rights of the original rights holder.

12. Permission requests and reporting misuse

If you wish to request permission to use any content on this website, or if you believe any content has been copied, scraped or used unlawfully, please contact us at:

Email: info@takeeffecttraining.co.uk

No permission is granted unless expressly confirmed by us in writing.

13. Governing law This policy and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it, the website or any use of website content shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction, unless mandatory law requires otherwise.