Ethica Consulting Ltd: Website Acceptable Use Policy
Last updated: October 2026
1. About This Policy and Acceptance of Terms
This Acceptable Use Policy sets out the terms between you and Ethica Consulting Ltd ("we", "us", or "our") under which you may access and use our website, located at www.ethica-consulting.co.uk (referred to as "our site"). This policy applies to all users of, and visitors to, our site.
Your use of our site signifies that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the rules set out in this Acceptable Use Policy. This policy supplements our Terms of Website Use, Privacy Notice, and Cookie Policy.
2. Information About Us
Our site is operated by Ethica Consulting Ltd:
- Company Name: Ethica Consulting Ltd
- Company Type: Private Limited Company registered in England and Wales
- Company Registration Number: 16996972
- Registered Office Address: 124-128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX
- Nature of Business: Adult social care management consultancy and independent quality assurance advisory
- Managing Director & Data Protection Lead: Adam Tighe
- General Enquiries: hello@ethica-consulting.co.uk
- Data Protection Contact: dpo@ethica-consulting.co.uk
- Primary Switchboard: 0203 576 7712
Please note that Ethica Consulting Ltd is an independent advisory and management consultancy providing professional governance, audit, and quality improvement services. We advise organisations regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), but we are not ourselves a CQC-registered health or social care provider.
3. Prohibited Uses of Our Site
You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You must not use our site:
- In any way that breaches any applicable local, national, or international law or regulation.
- In any way that is unlawful, fraudulent, deceptive, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
- For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors or vulnerable adults in any way.
- To transmit, upload, or submit any confidential personal data, sensitive health records, or identifiable resident safeguarding information relating to any third party without lawful authority.
- To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use, or re-use any material that does not comply with our Content Standards set out in Section 5 below.
- To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional material, or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
- To transmit unlawful material, or material that is defamatory, threatening, abusive, discriminatory, extremist, or promotes violence or unlawful acts.
- To transmit material that infringes the intellectual property rights, database rights, trade marks, or privacy rights of Ethica Consulting Ltd or any third party.
- To knowingly transmit any data, send, or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware, or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
You also agree:
- Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, scrape, or re-sell any part of our site or its contents in contravention of the provisions of our Terms of Website Use.
- Not to harvest, scrape, or systematically extract data, blog resources, or proprietary assessment models without our express written permission.
- Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage, or disrupt any part of our site, any equipment or network on which our site is stored, any software used in the provision of our site, or any equipment or network owned or used by any third party.
4. Interactive Services and Submissions
We may from time to time provide interactive features and communication facilities on our site, including:
- Online contact forms and service enquiry portals.
- Integrated consultation booking calendars (such as Cal.eu / Cal.com).
- Thought-leadership blogs, commentary features, and feedback boards.
- Live or pre-recorded webinars and video workshops.
Where we provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information about the nature of the service offered, whether it is moderated, and what form of moderation is used (including whether it is human or automated).
We are under no legal obligation to oversee, monitor, or moderate any interactive service or commentary facility provided on our site. We expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our Content Standards, whether the service is moderated or not.
The use of our interactive services by a minor is strictly subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. We advise parents and guardians to discuss online safety with their children before allowing them to use any interactive facility.
5. Content Standards
These content standards apply to any and all material that you contribute to our site (contributions), including messages sent via our contact forms, calendar booking notes, and comments on our blog resources.
You must comply with both the letter and the spirit of the following standards. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.
Contributions must:
- Be accurate (where they state facts).
- Be genuinely held (where they state opinions).
- Comply with the applicable laws of England and Wales, as well as the laws of any country from which they are posted.
Contributions must not:
- Contain any material that is defamatory, libellous, or derogatory of any individual or organisation.
- Contain any material that is obscene, offensive, hateful, or inflammatory.
- Promote sexually explicit material or violence.
- Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age.
- Infringe any copyright, database right, trade mark, or proprietary design of Ethica Consulting Ltd or any third party.
- Be likely to deceive, mislead, or misinform any person.
- Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, including contractual duties, duties of confidentiality, or professional duties of care.
- Include unredacted, confidential details relating to real-world adult safeguarding cases, ongoing police enquiries, or identifiable care home residents.
- Promote or facilitate any illegal activity.
- Be threatening, abusive, or invasive of another person's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience, or needless anxiety.
- Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm, or annoy any other person.
- Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person or organisation.
- Give the false impression that contributions emanate from Ethica Consulting Ltd if that is not the case.
- Advocate, promote, or assist any unlawful act, including copyright infringement or computer misuse.
6. Proprietary Frameworks and Intellectual Property Protection
The materials published on our site embody our specialised methodologies, developed through extensive operational and regulatory experience. These include:
- The Evidence Triangulation Gap Analysis framework.
- The Figure-of-8 Closed Audit Loop methodology.
- The Ethica Compliance and Care Matrix.
- All original blog articles, downloadable guidance checklists, and diagnostic self-assessment tools.
Using our site does not grant you any ownership rights over these materials. You are strictly prohibited from copying, adapting, redistributing, white-labelling, or commercially exploiting these proprietary frameworks without a formal, written intellectual property licence issued by Ethica Consulting Ltd.
7. Suspension, Enforcement, and Termination
We will determine, in our sole discretion, whether a breach of this Acceptable Use Policy has occurred through your use of our site. When a breach occurs, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with this Acceptable Use Policy constitutes a material breach of the Terms of Website Use upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking any of the following actions:
- Immediate, temporary, or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
- Immediate, temporary, or permanent removal of any posting, comment, or material uploaded by you to our site.
- Issuing a formal warning to you.
- Commencing legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all losses and costs on an indemnity basis (including reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
- Taking further legal action against you, including reporting criminal conduct.
- Disclosing such information to law enforcement or statutory regulatory authorities as we reasonably believe is necessary.
We exclude all liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this Acceptable Use Policy. The responses described in this policy are not exhaustive, and we may take any other legal or operational action we reasonably deem appropriate.
8. Changes to This Acceptable Use Policy
We may revise this Acceptable Use Policy at any time by amending this page. Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. Certain provisions contained in this policy may also be supplemented or superseded by specific legal notices published elsewhere on our site.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding this policy, or if you suspect that a user has violated any of these standards, please contact us: