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Direct Intelligence Ltd - the terms on which this site and its published material are made available - Version 1.0 - September 2026

Last updated: September 2026·Version 1.0

Draft pending legal review

These terms were drafted in September 2026 and have not yet been reviewed by a solicitor. They are published as a good-faith statement of how this site is intended to be used. They are not a substitute for terms prepared for a specific commercial engagement, and any actual engagement is governed by its own contract.

Section 01

Who We Are

This site is operated by Direct Intelligence Ltd, a company registered in England & Wales under company number 16278923, with its registered office at 6th Floor, 37 Lombard Street, London, EC3V 9BQ. The Institute of Critical Infrastructure Decision Making (ICDM) is a trading name of Direct Intelligence Ltd.

Section 02

Acceptance

By using this site you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site. We may revise these terms at any time by amending this page, and the version in force is the one published here at the time you use the site.

Section 03

Information, Not Advice

Everything published on this site, including sector and corridor analysis, catalyst records, regulatory summaries, research, and The Signal, is general information about the institutional and regulatory environment. It is not legal, financial, regulatory or professional advice, and it is not tailored to any organisation's circumstances.

Regulatory positions change, sometimes quickly, and dates and statuses stated here reflect our understanding at the time of writing. You should not act, or refrain from acting, on the basis of anything published here without taking appropriate professional advice on your own situation and verifying the current position against primary sources.

Section 04

Intellectual Property

All content on this site is owned by or licensed to Direct Intelligence Ltd and is protected by copyright. The DIRECT framework and the associated models are intellectual property of Gary Daniel Doran, administered through Direct Intelligence Ltd.

You may read this site, and print or download extracts for your own internal reference. You may not republish, redistribute, sell, or exploit our content commercially, present it as your own, or use it to build a competing product or dataset, without our written permission. Where you quote from this site, please attribute it.

Section 05

Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

  • -Use this site for any unlawful purpose, or in any way that could damage or impair it.
  • -Attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the site, its servers, or any connected system.
  • -Scrape, harvest, or systematically extract content from the site by automated means without written permission.
  • -Introduce malicious code, or attempt to interfere with the site's security features.
  • -Submit false information, or another person's details, through any form on the site.
Section 06

Gated Material

Some material is made available only on request and through a time-limited access link. Where you receive such material, it is provided for the use of you and your organisation. It is confidential, and it must not be distributed, reproduced, or shared beyond your organisation without our written consent. Access links are personal to the recipient and must not be forwarded.

Personal data submitted when requesting access is handled as described in our Privacy Policy.

Section 07

Availability

We aim to keep this site available, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access. We may suspend, withdraw, or change any part of the site without notice. We are not liable if this site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

Section 08

Third-Party Links

This site links to legislation, regulators, standards bodies and other external sources. Those links are provided for reference only. We do not control those sites, we are not responsible for their content, and a link does not imply endorsement.

Section 09

Liability

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

Subject to that, we exclude all implied conditions, warranties and representations relating to this site to the fullest extent permitted by law, and we are not liable for any loss of profit, loss of business, loss of anticipated savings, loss of data, or any indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of, or inability to use, this site or from reliance on anything published on it.

Section 10

Governing Law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them or from your use of this site.

Section 11

Contact

Questions about these terms can go to enquiries@directintelligence.co.uk. Data protection enquiries go to privacy@directintelligence.co.uk, and are covered by our Privacy Policy.