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Terms of Use
Last updated: 21 August 2026 · Version 1.0
These terms govern use of this website. They are not the terms on which a subscription is supplied — those are provided separately with each subscription, and they prevail where the two differ.
About these terms
This website is operated by [FULL NAME TO BE INSERTED], trading as Thurloe Bancroft, a sole trader established in the United Kingdom. References to "we", "us" and "our" mean that person.
By using this website you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.
- Postal address
- [ADDRESS TO BE INSERTED]
Permitted use
You may use this site for your own personal or business information, and you may print or save pages for that purpose — including the legal pages, which are written to be sent on and read elsewhere.
You may not:
- scrape the site, or extract content from it by any automated means;
- download or copy it systematically, in bulk, or repeatedly;
- reproduce, republish or redistribute its content as a substitute for it, other than as permitted in section 4;
- frame the site, or present its content as though it were part of another service;
- use it in any way that damages it, interferes with its availability, or attempts to gain access to systems or data you are not entitled to.
Intellectual property
The written content of this site, its design and presentation, the structure and arrangement of our compilations, and the name and wordmark Thurloe Bancroft are ours, and are protected by copyright, database right and the law of passing off as applicable.
The underlying facts are not. The particulars recorded in a public statutory register — that an application was made, by whom, for which premises, on what date — are public information. We do not claim ownership of those facts, and nothing in these terms should be read as an attempt to do so. Anyone is free to consult the same registers and reach the same facts. What we ask you not to take is the work we have put around them: the selection, verification, structuring and presentation that turns a scattered set of registers into a usable record.
The Thurloe Index
The Thurloe Index is published free of charge and is meant to be used.
You may quote and report the Index, in print or online, with attribution to Thurloe Bancroft. No permission is needed and no licence fee applies. Where you publish online, a link to this site is appreciated but not required. Journalists and trade publications are expressly encouraged to cite it.
We ask only that figures are quoted accurately, with the period they relate to, and that the Index is not presented as measuring something it does not — it counts applications recorded in public registers, not confirmed openings. If you want the underlying regional breakdown, or a comment for a piece, ask us at index@thurloebancroft.co.uk.
No warranty and accuracy
Information on this site is provided for general information. We take care over it, but we do not warrant that it is complete, current, or free from error, and we give no warranties of any kind in relation to the site or its content, whether express or implied, except as stated in these terms.
In particular, information derived from public registers records applications, not confirmed openings. Applications are sometimes withdrawn, refused, or never proceed, and details can change after they are filed. Publication practice differs between authorities. Decisions taken in reliance on the site are taken at your own risk.
No advice
Nothing on this site is legal, licensing, financial, tax or other professional advice, and nothing on it should be relied on as such. If you need advice — on a licence application, on data protection, or on anything else — take it from someone qualified to give it, on the facts of your own case.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect or consequential loss, or for any loss of profit, loss of business, loss of contracts, loss of anticipated savings, loss of goodwill, or loss or corruption of data, however caused, arising out of or in connection with your use of this site or your reliance on anything in it.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. That includes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, and any other liability which the law does not permit us to exclude.
This site is aimed at businesses. If you are a consumer, nothing in these terms affects your statutory rights, and any provision that would do so does not apply to you.
Third-party links
Where this site links to another — including a local authority licensing portal, or the website of the Information Commissioner's Office — we do not control that site and are not responsible for its content, its availability, or its handling of your data. A link is not an endorsement.
Availability
We do not guarantee that this site will be available without interruption or free from fault. We may suspend, withdraw or restrict all or part of it for business or operational reasons, and we will not be liable for doing so.
Subscription services
Subscriptions to our data services are governed by separate terms and conditions, provided at the point of sale. Those terms cover supply, payment, permitted use of the data, and termination. Where they conflict with anything on this page, those terms prevail.
Subscribers are required to comply with data protection and electronic marketing law in their own use of the data supplied to them. That obligation is set out further on our Data Protection page.
Privacy
How we handle personal data is set out in our Privacy Policy, and what this site stores in your browser is set out in our Cookie Policy. If your details appear in the public records we compile, section 7 of the Privacy Policy explains why, and how to have them removed.
Changes to these terms
We may amend these terms from time to time. The version published here, bearing the last updated date at the top of the page, is the version that applies. Please check it when you use the site if the point matters to you.
Governing law
These terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or with your use of this site, are governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.
Contact
- Postal address
- [ADDRESS TO BE INSERTED]
Anything concerning personal data — access, correction, removal from our records, or a complaint about how data has been handled — should go to privacy@thurloebancroft.co.uk instead, where it will be dealt with under our Privacy Policy.
These terms describe our own position. They are not legal advice, and they should not be adopted by anyone else as a template. We recommend independent review before relying on any document of this kind.