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Website Terms and Conditions

Niche Clever | 4 November 2026

1. The website and these terms

This website, nicheclever.co.uk, is operated by Jacob Bettany, trading as Niche Clever. These terms govern ordinary access to the public website and Ask Niche Clever. They do not replace separate contracts for consultancy work, paid software, subscriptions or other commissioned services. Questions about these terms may be sent to jacob@www.nicheclever.co.uk.

Accessing the website or asking a question does not, by itself, create a client, professional advisory or confidential relationship with Jacob Bettany or Niche Clever.

2. Published work and availability

Niche Clever presents writing, publishing work, technology projects, prototypes and professional services. Some material describes experimental, developing or historical work and should not be taken as an assertion that every described product or service is currently available. Content may be corrected, updated, moved or removed.

3. Ask Niche Clever

Ask Niche Clever uses an automated system to help you explore selected published material. It may provide a saved answer or obtain a fresh response through OpenAI, using service instructions, your question and relevant selected source material. Previous questions and answers from the same conversation may also be included where follow-up context is enabled.

Answers can be inaccurate, incomplete or outdated. They should not be treated as verified facts merely because they are confidently written or refer to source documents. Ask Niche Clever does not provide legal, medical, financial or other regulated professional advice. Check important matters with appropriate sources and qualified professionals.

We may decline to answer a question or give a limited response where necessary to protect people, privacy, security or the service.

4. What you must not submit

Do not enter sensitive personal information about yourself or anyone else. This includes medical or health details, information about children, criminal matters, identity documents or numbers, passwords, financial credentials, payment-card details, sensitive relationship information, and other private or special-category personal data.

Do not submit unnecessary details that identify another person or attempt to obtain private information about them. Do not submit confidential client or business information without a separate agreement covering its handling. Only provide material you have a right to submit.

This prohibition is a condition of use, not a promise that such text is technically impossible to receive. An accidentally submitted question may already have been transmitted to OpenAI or stored in the site’s records. Contact jacob@www.nicheclever.co.uk promptly if you need to raise a privacy concern.

5. Acceptable use

You may read, research, ask questions, disagree and criticise in good faith. You must not:

  • harass, threaten, intimidate or repeatedly target someone through the site or Ask service;
  • attempt to identify, expose, infer or obtain non-public personal information about any individual;
  • impersonate another person or misrepresent your authority;
  • post unlawful, malicious or deliberately harmful material;
  • flood the service with automated or bulk requests, evade rate limits or materially interfere with availability;
  • attempt unauthorised access to private content, source material, internal instructions, credentials, accounts or technical systems;
  • probe, exploit or interfere with security controls, or introduce malware; or
  • reproduce protected content or software beyond what applicable law, licences or permissions allow.

These rules do not prevent legitimate criticism, ordinary research, lawful rights requests or good-faith security reporting. To report a vulnerability, email jacob@www.nicheclever.co.uk, describe it without disclosing other people’s data, avoid disruptive testing and allow a reasonable opportunity to investigate.

6. Safety and service restrictions

The site uses automated input checks and rate limiting, but it does not detect or stop every form of misuse. We may investigate credible concerns and take proportionate technical or administrative steps, including restricting interactive use where reasonably necessary. We will handle any personal information involved in line with the Privacy Notice and applicable law. These terms do not themselves authorise unrestricted monitoring, public identification of visitors or indefinite retention of their information.

7. Submitted questions and reuse

You retain any rights you have in your own original material. By submitting a question, you permit the processing necessary to respond and the other processing explained in our Privacy Notice under the relevant legal basis. This does not transfer ownership of your words to Niche Clever.

Visitor questions are not currently selected for publication or public reuse. We do not claim a blanket right to publish identifiable questions. Any future process for quoting or reusing submissions would require a separately established purpose, consideration of rights and privacy, and appropriate information and permissions. Saved answers may be used to respond efficiently to later questions, but this does not authorise publication of a visitor’s identity or sensitive question content.

8. Copyright and intellectual property

The rights in Jacob Bettany’s original writing, designs and Niche Clever-developed original code belong to him to the extent he owns those rights. WordPress, open-source components, third-party libraries, separately owned plugins, external source material, commissioned work and client-owned content remain subject to their applicable licences and agreements. Nothing in these terms claims ownership of material belonging to others.

You may quote, link to or reuse material where permitted by law or licence. An AI-generated answer does not grant a licence to reproduce protected source works or imply endorsement by Niche Clever.

9. External websites

Links to websites and services operated by others are provided for information and convenience. Their own terms and privacy practices apply. We are not responsible for their continuing availability or for every statement they contain.

10. Reliability and liability

We aim to keep the website available, secure and useful but cannot guarantee uninterrupted access or that every page or automated answer is correct, complete or suitable for a particular purpose.

Nothing in these terms limits liability where doing so would be unlawful, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation. Your mandatory statutory rights remain unaffected.

11. Privacy and cookies

The Privacy Notice explains what information the website and Ask Niche Clever process. The Cookie and Storage Notice explains device-storage technologies and the choices available to visitors. Using this website or submitting a question is not, by itself, consent to optional Analytics or Ask usage tracking.

12. Governing law and contact

These terms are intended to be governed by the laws of England and Wales, subject to any mandatory legal protections that apply to you. Contact jacob@www.nicheclever.co.uk with questions or concerns.

We may revise the terms when the website or applicable obligations change. The date at the top identifies this version.