athenedata.com (the “Website”) is a website operated by Arete Research Services LLP ("we”, “our” or “us”). We are a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under company number OC303210 and have our registered office at 10 Queen's Street Place, Queen Street Place, London, England, EC4R 1AG.

We may amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our Website, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. These terms were most recently updated on 26 September 2024.

We may update and change our Website and Platform from time to time to reflect changes to our products, our users' needs and our business priorities.

Our Website is made available free of charge. We do not guarantee that our Website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. The Platform is also made available to you free of charge where we give you a free trial. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our Website or the Platform at any time and without notice to you.

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our Website or the Platform for any purpose, including the development, training, fine-tuning or validation of AI systems or models. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):

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).

We do not guarantee that our Website or the Platform will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform to access our Website and Platform. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our Website or Platform by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful, or otherwise harmfully interacting with our Website or Platform or any part of it. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Website or Platform, the server on which our Website or Platform is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Website or Platform or any other equipment or network connected with our Website or Platform. You must not interfere with, damage or disrupt any software used in the provision of our Website or Platform or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party on which this Website or Platform relies in any way. You must not attack our Website or Platform via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. 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 and Platform will cease immediately.

During the course of any trial period you will be given access to content within our Platform (“Materials”). You shall treat the Materials as confidential and shall not share the Materials with any unauthorised personnel. You shall establish and maintain adequate security measures to protect and safeguard the Materials from unauthorised access. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Materials may be disclosed by you to the extent that you are required to do so by law or as is lawfully required by any governmental, judicial, regulatory, supervisory or administrative authority.

You hereby acknowledge and agree that breaches of this clause regarding the use and treatment of the Materials would be likely to result in irreparable damage to us, and any remedies at law may be inadequate for us, and that we may be entitled to equitable relief (including injunctive relief) in order to restrain any such threatened, actual or potential breaches.

We (and, where applicable, our licensors) shall retain ownership of all intellectual property rights in the Website, the Platform and all Materials. Such works are protected by copyright laws around the world. All such rights are reserved.

We hereby grant to you a fully paid-up, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, nontransferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to use the Platform during the free trial period, the length of which shall be as determined by us.

You must not use any part of our Website or the Platform for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us.

Nothing in these terms of use limits any liability which cannot legally be limited, including liability for death, personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation or a breach of the terms implied by section 2 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982.

Subject to the foregoing, we exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our Website, our Platform or any content on it.

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:

We accept no liability in respect of any transactions that you may carry out based upon your use of the Platform or the Materials contained therein and you accept that before making any transactions you must carry out your own enquiries and research to the extent reasonably necessary.

Materials provided by us do not constitute legal advice or advice to buy or sell securities or other financial instruments and are not a regulated service. You hereby acknowledge that any reliance by you on the Materials is at your own risk.

The Athene product is not regulated and, therefore, you will not have access to the UK Financial Ombudsman Service or the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.

Personal Data that you provide to us during your use of the Website and the Platform is processed in accordance with our Privacy policy, available on the Athene website.

Force Majeure. We are not liable to you if we fail to comply with these terms of use because of circumstances beyond our reasonable control.

Assignment. We may at any time assign, transfer, novate, mortgage, charge, subcontract, delegate or deal in any other manner with any or all of our rights or obligations under these terms including to assign or novate these terms to a group company.

Severance. If any provision of these terms of use is or becomes invalid or unenforceable under any applicable law, then such provision shall be deemed to be deleted, but that shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the rest of these terms. If any provision or part-provision of these terms is deemed to be deleted the parties shall negotiate in good faith to agree a replacement provision that, to the greatest extent possible, achieves the intended commercial result of the original provision.

Third party rights. Nothing in these terms of use shall give rise to any rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 for a third party to enforce any term of these terms of use.

No waiver. A waiver of any right or remedy under these terms of use or by law is only effective if given in writing and shall not be deemed a waiver of any subsequent right or remedy. A failure or delay by a party to exercise any right or remedy provided under these terms of use or by law shall not constitute a waiver of that or any other right or remedy, nor shall it prevent or restrict any further exercise of that or any other right or remedy. No single or partial exercise of any right or remedy provided under these terms of use or by law shall prevent or restrict the further exercise of that or any other right or remedy.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction. These terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.