Adopted January 2015. Amended August 2024.

General

  1. We are MI Capital Research Limited incorporated and registered in England and Wales with company number 08634361(“we” “us” “our”). You are a Provider, Sponsor or Promoter of Investment Products (“you“ ”your”).
  2. You provide financial products and services (“Offers”) that you distribute via, or sell directly to, financial advisers, other third parties and/or investors (collectively referred to as “Users”).
  3. Our website, “MICAP”, allows Users to access data about your products and services and those of other financial services product providers. Users undertake their research on MICAP and produce reports about the suitability and appropriateness of the products and services of the investments.  You acknowledge that Users will have access to the data in MICAP.  Users will rely on the data in materials we have obtained from you or you have made available to us and that we display on MICAP.  Users will make decisions about your products and services and they will compare your Offers with those of other providers of similar Offers.
  4. You will pay the Fees as agreed in writing between us and you, and for any other additional services and products you purchase from us. We may amend our Fees by giving you one months’ notice in writing.  If you do not want to pay a fee increase you may terminate this Agreement by giving us one month’s notice in writing.
  5. You may purchase additional services and products from us apart from those set out below, if you do so we will provide you with a quote in the form of a Purchase Order sent to you by email ahead of providing the services. You will accept additional services by printing, signing, scanning the signed Purchase Order and emailing it back to us. Purchase Orders incorporate these terms and conditions as if laid out in them. If payment is received for services but the associated signed Purchase Order is not signed and returned, payment will be taken to signify acceptance of the terms of this agreement.
  6. If you request that we carry out extra work or provide additional services not set out in a Purchase Order, we will charge you at our usual rates when the extra work is requested, which will be agreed with you before the work is carried out.
  7. We will provide Services to you with reasonable care and skill. If we cannot perform the Services by the date we agree with you, we will arrange a new date and time for delivery.
  8. Except by use of the tools provided on MICAP which you are licensed to use, you are not permitted to copy or reproduce any materials or content from MICAP without our express written permission. You must not “scrape” content from our website. You must not download content from MICAP for redisplay to the public.
  9. We may terminate this Agreement immediately on written notice to you, if we suspect you have breached the terms of this Agreement.
  10. Neither you nor we exclude or limit liability to the other for:
    1. fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
    2. death or personal injury caused by negligence;
    3. a breach of any obligations implied by section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 or section 2 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982; or
    4. any matter in respect of which it would be unlawful for the parties to exclude liability for respectively.
  11. Subject to clause 10, we shall not in any circumstances be liable whether in contract (by way of indemnity or otherwise), tort (including for negligence and breach of statutory duty howsoever arising), misrepresentation (whether innocent or negligent), restitution or otherwise, for:
    1. any consequential or indirect loss or damage; nor
    2. loss of profits, business, business opportunities, revenue, turnover, reputation, goodwill, loss or corruption of data or information, anticipated savings or wasted expenditure (including management time) (all however so arising); nor
    3. any loss or liability (whether direct or indirect) under or in relation to any other contract.
  12. Subject to clause 10, our total aggregate liability in contract (by way of indemnity or otherwise), tort (including negligence and breach of statutory duty howsoever arising), misrepresentation (whether innocent or negligent), restitution or otherwise, arising in connection with the performance or contemplated performance of this Agreement or any collateral contract shall in all circumstances be limited to the fee charged by us to you for the associated service provided under this Agreement.
  13. You indemnify us and will hold us harmless against any and all costs (including legal costs), damages, expense, losses and liabilities arising from allegations or actions that result from us providing Services to you and the reliance Users make in respect of the data entered by you into MICAP.
  14. A person who is not a party to this Agreement may not enforce any of its terms under the Contracts (Rights of Third parties) Act 1999.
  15. You may not assign any of the rights you have under this Agreement or this Agreement itself.
  16. You must keep your login credentials for MICAP secret and confidential. We will not be liable for misuse of your login credentials unless we have caused them to become public.
  17. The exclusions and limitations in this Agreement apply only to the extent that they are permitted by law.
  18. This Agreement, terms of use of our Website, privacy policy, Cookie policy and Purchase Orders constitute the whole and entire agreement between you and us.
  19. The Agreement is governed by the laws and England and Wales and you and we both submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts in respect of all disputes that arise between you and us.

Listing of Offer

  1. Unless a MICAP Fund Finder Licence has been purchased, we will provide you with sufficient access to MICAP to review the data about your products and services.
  2. You may request changes to your data in MICAP and, provided we agree with your changes, we will update it in accordance with your instructions.
  3. You will use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that all data on your Offer(s) in MICAP is accurate and not misleading. You will report inaccuracies to us. You acknowledge that Users will rely on the accuracy of the data and indemnify both them and us against loss and damage we and they suffer as a result of your verification or supply to us of inaccurate and/ or misleading data.
  4. You will ensure that you or your employees do not provide information that will cause your investment to be misrepresented, and in particular the factual data which is used for assessing the Impact Scores, filtering or selecting investments displayed on MICAP.
  5. We may reuse data entered into MICAP that is not identified by you as confidential.
  6. We try to have MICAP continuously available but there may be times when it is unavailable for planned and unplanned maintenance and service. If a change to data about your products and services is urgent and you need to update it immediately and cannot, due to MICAP being unavailable, you must notify us.

Verification of Offer

  1. You may upgrade your listing to a Verified Listing by request in writing (including email), and the entire fee for the Verified Listing (“Verified Listing Fee”) is due to us immediately on receipt of a corresponding invoice from us.
  2. Verified Listings will expire at the earlier of 12 months from the date the invoice was issued (“Verified Listing Term”) or when the relevant Offer is marked as closed. For evergreen listings (i.e. listings for Offers that do not have a close date), Verified Listings will automatically renew in successive periods of 12 months unless cancelled by you in writing (including email) prior to the end of the Verified Listing Term. Verified Listings paid by monthly direct debit may be cancelled at any time after the Verified Listing Term by giving notice in writing (including email).
  3. If you have requested to upgrade your listing to a Verified Listing and have paid for this service, in addition to clauses 22 and 23, you will undertake to:
    1. confirm on at least a quarterly basis that that all data on your Offer(s) is up to date and correct. This includes confirming whether your investment documents have changed (and providing any updated documents as appropriate), your latest funds raised for your Offer(s) and your total assets under management.
    2. use all reasonable endeavours to complete any outstanding questions on the relevant Impact Assessment Questionnaire(s) for your Offer(s) within one month of the data window opening.
  4. We reserve the right to remove the Verified Listing status of your Offer(s) without recourse to a return of the Verified Listing Fee if you fail to adhere to clause 28 or if the data and documents on your Offer(s) are found to be out of date. If the Verified Listing status of an Offer is removed it will be reinstated as soon as the Offer has been updated by you.
  5. Verified Listings are non-transferable.

MICAP Review

  1. Our analysts will begin writing a MICAP Review (“Review”) once it has been commissioned by you in writing (including email), and the entire fee for writing the Review (“Review Fee”) is due to us immediately on receipt of a corresponding invoice from us.
  2. We may offer a discount on the Review Fee to incentivise you to commission an early renewal of a Review. You acknowledge that any discount offered is subject to payment of the Review Fee no later than 10 months after the publication date of the previous Review that is being renewed. You further acknowledge that a failure to pay the Review Fee by that date will result in an additional fee being owed to us equivalent to the amount of the discount applied (“Additional Review Fee”).
  3. You acknowledge and agree that you have all necessary rights or licences over any data you supply to us to include in the Review.
  4. We will provide a first draft of the Review to you to ensure factual accuracy. We will not provide a first draft of the Review to you until the Review Fee and any Additional Review Fee has been paid.
  5. You retain the right to request that a Review is not published on MICAP. You acknowledge that any such request shall not entitle you to a refund of any monies paid.
  6. Once published, Reviews can only be accessed via MICAP. You are not permitted to copy, reproduce or distribute Reviews other than via MICAP.
  7. We will issue you with a unique URL for your Review; Users who click the link are invited to register or log in to MICAP. On accessing the site via the link Users are given full access to your Offer for 48 hours (during which they can download the Review) and the Offer is added to the User’s list of “Monitored” Offers.
  8. We will provide you with a MICAP Reviewed image. We give our express permission that this image may be used on your website and/or any marketing material. The unique URL referred to in the preceding clause can be embedded into this image.
  9. Reviews are valid for 12 months following their publication after which we reserve the right to mark them as expired or remove them from MICAP.
  10. You acknowledge that Users will rely on the accuracy of the data you supply to us for the purposes of a Review. You indemnify both the Users and us against loss and damage we and they suffer as a result of your verification or supply to us of inaccurate and/ or misleading data.
  11. If, subsequent to the publication of the Review, we discover information or data that was not made available to us during the review process, we reserve the right to amend the Review to reflect the new information or data.
  12. We reserve the right to cancel the Review without recourse to a return of monies paid by you or without affecting our entitlement to be paid the Review Fee and any Additional Review Fee, if at any time during the Review process we are prevented from progressing the Review towards publication for a period of 30 days, due to any action or inaction on your part including but not limited to a failure to respond to our emails, a failure to provide answers to our questions, a failure to provide comments on a draft of the Review or a failure to pay the Review Fee and/or any Additional Review Fee.
  13. We reserve the right to reasonably charge for any additional time spent on the Review should you materially change your Offer during the Review process. If you do not wish to pay this additional charge, we reserve the right to cancel the Review without recourse to a return of monies paid by you or without affecting our entitlement to be paid the Review Fee and any Additional Review Fee.

MICAP Fund Finder Licence

  1. If you elect to pay for access to MICAP you will be granted a MICAP Fund Finder Licence (“Licence”) which will allow you to use the full MICAP website including all features and access to all Offers
  2. Licences are for a minimum period of 12 months and can be cancelled following that initial period with one month’s notice in writing.
  3. Licences are for a maximum of three Users per firm. Multiple licences can be purchased.
  4. You will allow us to ensure that the number of your employees who access MICAP is accurate. That will enable us to be certain that Fees we charge are correct.