Terms of Use

1. About these terms

These terms govern your use of the Digital Creators Network platform, operated by Holoclone Limited, trading as Talent for Tech, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 12719014. In these terms, "we", "us" and "our" mean that company, and "you" means the person using the platform.

By joining Digital Creators Network or using any part of the platform, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use it.

2. What the platform is

Digital Creators Network is a professional community for people working in digital creative fields and with the technologies that serve them, including games, film and television, immersive technology, AI in creative workflows and virtual production. Depending on how you join, you may have access to:

• The main community — free to access, with topic spaces, posts and comments, direct messaging, a member directory, an events calendar and member offers
• DCN Communities — independent communities hosted on our platform and run by their own leaders
• Programmes — training and development programmes such as Aideation, some of which are commissioned, sponsored or paid
• Member offers — discounts and benefits provided by partner organisations

We may add, change or withdraw parts of the platform. Where a change materially reduces what is available to you, we will give reasonable notice.

3. Which documents apply

Your agreement with us is made up of:

• These Terms of Use
• The Membership Agreement you accepted when you joined, or the community terms you accepted if you joined through a DCN Community
• Our Privacy Notice, which explains how we handle personal data
• Where you have joined a DCN Community, that community's own terms
• Where you take part in a programme, any specific terms for that programme

Where a community's terms or a programme's terms conflict with these Terms of Use, these Terms of Use take precedence. A community may add rules of its own, but may not remove or reduce the protections set out here.

4. Eligibility and your account

• You must be at least 18 years old, unless you join through an education partner programme that states otherwise, in which case the age and consent conditions of that programme apply
• You must provide accurate information and keep it up to date
• You must register as yourself. Accounts are personal and must not be shared, sold or transferred
• You are responsible for keeping your password secure and for activity under your account
• Tell us promptly if you believe someone else has accessed your account

Meeting these criteria does not entitle you to join any particular programme or community. Membership is subject to approval.

5. Your profile and the member directory

The platform works because members can find each other. The information in your profile is visible to other members so they can find you and get in touch. Your email address and telephone number are not displayed.

Only a small number of profile fields are required. Everything else is optional, and you can edit or remove any of it at any time through your account settings.

6. Acceptable use

You must not:

• Post anything unlawful, defamatory, discriminatory, harassing, threatening or obscene
• Impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your identity, qualifications or affiliations
• Post content you do not have the right to share, including anything that infringes someone else's intellectual property, breaches an obligation of confidence, or is covered by a non-disclosure agreement
• Send unsolicited commercial messages, spam, or repeated sales or recruitment approaches to other members
• Use the platform to promote a competing service without our written agreement
• Introduce malware, attempt to gain unauthorised access, or interfere with the platform's operation
• Use automated tools to scrape, copy or extract data from the platform

7. Other members' information

Access to member profiles is given to you for professional connection. You may contact members individually about genuine professional matters, including collaboration, commissions and roles.

You must not add members to mailing lists, sales pipelines, recruitment databases or CRM systems without their agreement, compile or export information about them, or pass their details to anyone outside the platform.

Treat other members' information as you would want yours treated. If you would not be comfortable explaining your use of someone's details to them directly, do not do it.

8. Creative work, ideas and intellectual property

Members share work in progress, showreels, concepts and prototypes here. That only works if everyone respects the rights in them.

Sharing work on the platform does not transfer any rights in it and does not give other members permission to use, copy, adapt or commercialise it. Do not use another member's work, characters, designs, code or assets without their express permission.

Think before you post. Publishing an idea, a design or a piece of code in a group setting may affect your ability to protect it later. Do not post anything you owe a duty of confidence about, including work for a client, an employer or a publisher that has not been released.

The platform is not a rights registry or an escrow service, and it is not a safe place for material you would not be comfortable seeing shared beyond the community.

9. Your content

You keep ownership of what you post. We do not claim ownership of your profile content, posts, comments, messages, uploads or any creative work you share.

By posting content, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce and display it for the purpose of operating the platform and making it available to other members. This licence ends when you delete the content or close your account, except where it has been shared with others who retain a copy, or where we are required to keep it.

We will not use your content in our own marketing, or outside the platform, without asking you first.

You confirm that you have the right to post what you post, and that doing so does not breach any obligation you owe to anyone else, including any confidentiality or intellectual property obligation you owe an employer, a client or a publisher.

We may remove content that breaches these terms.

10. DCN Communities

This section applies if you join a community hosted on our platform.

We provide the platform. We do not run the communities. Each community is run independently by its own leaders, who decide who is admitted, what is published, what events are held, what rules apply, and what is communicated to members. They are not our employees, agents or partners.

This means:

• We are not responsible for the decisions a community's leaders make, including decisions about your membership
• We are not responsible for content published by a community, its leaders, or its members
• We do not endorse, verify or guarantee any information, opinion, offer or recommendation shared within a community
• We are not a party to any arrangement you enter into with a community, its leaders, or another member

Community leaders can see your community profile, your activity within that community, and your contact details, and can contact you about the community using tools we provide.

If you have a concern about how a community is run, raise it with that community's leaders first. If you believe something breaches these terms or the law, report it to us using the details in section 19.

If a community stops using our platform, we will give affected members reasonable notice and a reasonable opportunity to retrieve their content.

11. Programmes, events and paid services

Membership of the main community is free and carries no entitlement to any paid service.

Some programmes, events and services carry a fee, or are commissioned or sponsored by a partner organisation. Where you purchase a place or a service from us:

• Fees, terms and what is included will be set out to you before you commit
• Fees are payable in advance unless agreed otherwise
• Where we are unable to provide a material part of what you paid for, we will offer a pro-rata refund
• Where a place is free but limited, please cancel if you can no longer attend, so someone else can take it

Events listed in the calendar may be run by us, by a community, or by a third party. Where an event is run by someone else, the listing is signposting: the organiser's own terms apply, and any ticket you buy from them is a contract between you and them.

Where a programme is delivered with an education or industry partner, that partner may see your participation and progress for the purposes of the programme.

12. Data protection

Our Privacy Notice explains what personal data we hold, why, who we share it with, and what rights you have. It forms part of your agreement with us.

Where you use a DCN Community, we and that community's leaders each have responsibilities for your data. We are responsible for the security of the platform and the technical measures protecting your data. The community's leaders are responsible for decisions about membership, the content they publish, and the communications they send you.

13. Availability

The main community is provided free of charge and on an "as is" basis. We aim to keep the platform available and working well, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access, and we may suspend it for maintenance, upgrades or security reasons.

14. Suspension and termination

You may leave at any time by closing your account.

A community's leaders may remove you from their community in accordance with their own terms. That is their decision, not ours, and we will not normally intervene in it.

We may suspend or remove your access if you breach these terms, if your conduct puts other members or the platform at risk, or if we are required to do so by law. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will tell you why and give you an opportunity to respond.

On termination, sections 7, 8, 9, 15, 16 and 17 continue to apply.

15. Our liability

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

Subject to that:

• We do not accept liability for the acts, omissions, decisions or content of any community, its leaders, or any other member
• We do not accept liability for any use another member makes of work you have chosen to share on the platform
• We do not accept liability for business losses, including loss of profit, revenue, business, opportunity, contracts or anticipated savings
• We do not accept liability for loss or corruption of data or content, although we take reasonable steps to prevent it
• For free membership, our total liability arising out of or in connection with these terms is limited to £100
• For a paid programme, event or service, our total liability is limited to the fees you paid us for it in the twelve months before the claim arose

We give no warranties beyond those that cannot be excluded by law. In particular, we do not warrant that the platform will be error-free, secure or continuously available, or that information shared on it is accurate, complete or fit for any purpose.

16. Your responsibility to us

If we suffer loss, damage, cost or expense as a result of your breach of these terms, your misuse of the platform, or content you have posted, you agree to reimburse us for it. This includes reasonable legal costs and any claim brought against us by a third party in connection with your conduct or content.

17. No professional advice

Information shared on the platform, by us, by communities, or by members, is for general information and professional networking. It is not legal, financial, tax, regulatory or other professional advice, and you should not rely on it as such. Take your own advice before acting on anything you read here, including on funding, grants and commercial terms.

Where we list or recommend third-party organisations, offers, events or opportunities, including member offers and funding calls, we do so as signposting. We do not endorse them, we are not responsible for their services, and any arrangement you make with them is between you and them.

18. General

Changes to these terms. We may update these terms. Where changes are material, we will notify you and give you an opportunity to review them before they take effect. Continuing to use the platform after that point means you accept the updated terms.

Transfer. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation, and will tell you if we do. You may not transfer yours without our written agreement.

Severability. If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.

No waiver. If we do not enforce a term immediately, we do not lose the right to do so later.

Third parties. Only you and we may enforce these terms. No other person has rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, except that the limitations in sections 15 and 16 may be relied on by our directors and personnel.

Entire agreement. These terms, together with the documents listed in section 3, form the whole agreement between us in relation to your use of the platform.

Governing law. These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere in the United Kingdom, you may also bring proceedings in your local courts.

19. Contact us

For questions about these terms, or to report a concern:

Email: info@digitalcreatorsnetwork.com

Our registered office details are held on the public register at Companies House under company number 12719014.