Terms of use

These terms are a contract between you and UMZI LABS LTD. They govern your use of the website at umzilabs.co.uk, every page on it, and any file you download from it.

They do not govern research or engineering work. Where the company carries out work for a client, that is governed by a separate signed agreement, described in section 9. Nothing on this site forms part of such an agreement or varies one.

UMZI LABS LTD is a private company limited by shares, registered in England and Wales under company number 17061761 and incorporated on 1 March 2026. Registered office: 3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE, England, United Kingdom.

In these terms "we", "us" and "our" mean UMZI LABS LTD, and "you" means the person using the site. Officer details are held on the public Companies House record for company number 17061761 and are not reproduced here.

Using the site means accepting these terms. There is nothing to click and no account to create. If you do not accept them, please leave the site.

If you use the site for an organisation, you confirm you have authority to bind it, and these terms bind it as well as you. You must be at least 18 years old.

The site describes what kind of research and product engineering the company takes on, and how to start a conversation about it.

It is not an offer capable of acceptance. Nothing on it is a quotation, a proposal, a commitment on price, availability or timetable, or a warranty about an outcome. Descriptions of method describe how the company normally works, not promises about a particular engagement.

The company was incorporated in March 2026. Where a page says something is not yet in place, that is a statement of fact rather than a placeholder for a claim intended later.

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to view, print and store pages of this site for your own information and to evaluate the company as a supplier. The licence lasts while you comply with these terms and transfers ownership of nothing.

You may link to any page and quote a short passage, provided you do so accurately, do not present the material as your own, and do not imply an endorsement or relationship that does not exist.

You must not:

• copy, republish, sell, rent, sub-licence or commercially exploit any part of the site;
• scrape or systematically extract content by automated means, or use it to build or train a dataset or model, except that a search engine may index the site in the ordinary way;
• attempt unauthorised access to the site, the server it runs on, or any connected system;
• probe, scan or test the security of the site without prior written permission;
• introduce a virus, worm or other malicious material, or attack the site by denial of service;
• use the site unlawfully or in a way that infringes anyone's rights;
• misrepresent your identity or affiliation when contacting us.

Breach of this section may be an offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. Where we consider that it is, we will report it to the relevant authority and cooperate with them, including by disclosing your identity where we can establish it.

We own or are licensed to use all intellectual property rights in the site and its content, including text, layout, typographic arrangement, source code and stylesheet. All rights not expressly granted in section 5 are reserved. Typefaces are licensed from their owners and are not ours to sub-licence.

Third-party names and marks, where they appear, remain the property of their owners and are used descriptively. Their presence implies no endorsement or affiliation.

If you believe material here infringes a right you hold, write to the address in section 22 identifying the material, where it appears, the right and the basis of the claim. We will review it and respond.

An enquiry starts a conversation. It creates no contract, retainer or obligation on either side, and we may decline it without giving a reason.

Do not send confidential information in a first enquiry. Until a confidentiality agreement is in place we cannot treat what you send as confidential, and we ask you not to assume otherwise. If you need protection before you can describe the problem, say so and we will put an agreement in place first.

This matters more here than in most places, because research enquiries often carry unpublished technical detail. Send the shape of the problem, not the substance of it, until there is an agreement.

Work begins only on a signed written agreement. That agreement, with any statement of work under it, sets the scope, deliverables, acceptance criteria, timetable, fees and payment terms, confidentiality obligations, the data protection terms required by Article 28 of the UK GDPR where we act as processor, and the liability position for that engagement.

Where the signed agreement and this document differ, the signed agreement prevails for that engagement. This document continues to govern your use of the website.

Nothing said in a meeting, an email exchange or a call binds either side on scope, price or timetable unless recorded in the signed agreement or in a written variation to it.

Who owns what a research engagement produces is a commercial question settled in the signed agreement. Different engagements are structured differently, and no default position is stated here that a client could rely on.

Where an engagement produces something the company wishes to publish, whether a technique, a benchmark or a write-up, publication happens only with the client's written agreement or under a term already in the signed agreement. We will not publish a client's results because we found them interesting.

Where an engagement uses open source components, their licences continue to apply and the signed agreement records which components are used. We make no representation that a third-party component is free of restriction.

The site is published for general information. It is not technical, legal, financial or professional advice, and it is not tailored to your circumstances.

Do not act, or refrain from acting, on the basis of anything published here. Where a decision needs advice, take it from someone briefed on your facts who accepts responsibility for it.

We make no representation and give no warranty that the site is complete, current or fit for any particular purpose, and we may change it at any time without notice.

The site is provided free of charge and on an "as available" basis. We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability, freedom from error, or that any defect will be corrected. We may suspend, withdraw or restrict it for business or operational reasons.

You are responsible for arranging your own access, and for ensuring that anyone reaching the site through your connection is aware of these terms and complies with them.

Where the site links to a website operated by someone else, the link is for information only. We do not control those sites, do not endorse them, and are not responsible for their content, availability or handling of your data. Follow such a link at your own risk and read the terms of the site you arrive at.

Personal data is handled as set out in the privacy notice, which forms part of these terms by reference. Storage on your device is covered by the cookie notice. Where we act as processor on a client's instructions, the signed agreement governs that processing rather than this document.

The site is aimed at businesses. If you use it as a consumer, meaning for purposes wholly or mainly outside a trade, business, craft or profession, you keep every right the law gives you as a consumer.

Nothing here affects your statutory rights, including those under the Consumer Rights Act 2015. Where any part of these terms conflicts with such a right, the right prevails. As a consumer you may bring proceedings in the courts of the part of the United Kingdom where you live, whatever section 21 says.

Read this section carefully. It limits what we are responsible for.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for: death or personal injury caused by our negligence; fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited; or, where you deal with us as a consumer, any liability under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 that cannot be excluded.

Subject to that, and because the site is provided free of charge:

• we exclude all conditions, warranties and other terms that would otherwise be implied by statute, common law or equity;
• we are not liable for loss of profit, revenue, business, anticipated savings, goodwill or data, or for any indirect or consequential loss, arising from your use of or inability to use the site, or from reliance on anything published on it;
• our total liability in connection with the site, whether in contract, tort including negligence, breach of statutory duty or otherwise, is limited in aggregate to one hundred pounds sterling.

That cap applies to the website only. Liability arising from engagement work is set in the signed agreement for that engagement and is not limited by this section.

We are not liable for loss or damage caused by a virus or other technologically harmful material that infects your equipment because you used the site. Use your own virus protection.

We are not liable for any failure or delay in making the site available where the cause is outside our reasonable control, including failure of a hosting provider, a network or power failure, an act of a public authority, industrial action, or a cyber attack on infrastructure we do not operate.

We may withdraw your permission to use the site immediately and without notice if you breach these terms. You must then stop using it, and we may take further steps including reporting the breach to a law enforcement authority.

We may revise these terms. The version in force is the one published on this page, and the effective date above tells you when it took effect. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the revised terms. A change here does not alter a signed engagement agreement.

Whole agreement. These terms, with the privacy notice and the cookie notice, are the whole agreement about your use of the site and replace anything said or written about it before.

Severability. If a court finds any provision invalid or unenforceable, that provision is severed and the rest continues in force.

No waiver. A delay in enforcing a right is not a waiver of it and does not prevent us enforcing it later.

Assignment. You may not transfer your rights or obligations under these terms. We may transfer ours to a company that acquires our business, and will say so on this page if we do.

Third parties. A person who is not a party to these terms has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any of them.

These terms, their subject matter and their formation are governed by the law of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with them, subject to the rights a consumer has under section 15.

Email hello@umzilabs.co.uk. For a matter about personal data, use the same address and put "Data protection" in the subject line, as set out in the privacy notice.

Formal notices may be sent to the registered office: UMZI LABS LTD, 3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE, England, United Kingdom.