Parley Beta Participation & Confidentiality Agreement

This agreement is between The Hendy Collective Ltd (England and Wales), operating the Parley platform ("we", "us"), and you, the beta participant - whether you join as a creator, on behalf of a rights organisation or collecting society, or as a licensee. It governs your access to the Parley closed beta. 1.2 If you participate on behalf of an organisation (a rights organisation, collecting society, or licensee), additional onboarding terms - including a separate non-disclosure agreement - may apply to your organisation. Those terms align with and sit in addition to this agreement.

Parley is in active development. Features may be incomplete, may change without notice, and data may occasionally be migrated or reset (we will warn you when we can). The service is provided "as is" during the beta, with no service-level commitment. We will look after your data with care, but you should keep your own copies of anything irreplaceable.

3.1 "Confidential Information" means everything you see or receive through the beta that is not public: the platform's architecture, features, designs and technical workings; pricing, benchmarks and commercial models; roadmaps and plans; documents, demonstrations and pitch materials; information about other participants, partners or prospective clients; and anything a reasonable person would treat as confidential. 3.2 You agree to keep Confidential Information strictly confidential; not to share, publish, post or forward it (including screenshots and recordings) except to colleagues who need it for your beta participation and who accept the same obligations; and to use it only for taking part in the beta. 3.3 These obligations do not apply to information that is already public (through no fault of yours), that you already lawfully held, that you independently developed, or that you must disclose by law - if so, tell us first where legally possible. 3.4 You will tell us promptly if you become aware of any unauthorised disclosure. 3.5 These confidentiality obligations survive for five (5) years after your beta participation ends.

4.1 Ours stays ours. Nothing in the beta grants you any licence or rights to Parley's software, designs, methods or other intellectual property. You will not use Confidential Information to build, or help build, a competing platform or service. 4.2 Yours stays yours - entirely. You (or your members or principals) retain all rights in the works, catalogues and content you register or import. Parley claims no ownership and takes no licence beyond the minimum needed to operate the service for you: processing your metadata, generating identifiers and fingerprints (e.g. ISCC), and publishing the machine-readable licensing signals you choose to switch on. 4.3 If you leave the beta, we will delete or anonymise your content data on request, except records we must keep by law or that form part of the audit trail of actions you took on the platform.

We want your feedback, and the beta exists to gather it. You agree we may use ideas, suggestions and bug reports you share to improve the platform, without payment, attribution or obligation. (Genuine product collaboration beyond this would be agreed separately - this clause is not a land-grab.)

No security probing, scraping, automated bulk access outside documented APIs, or attempting to access other participants' data. Registering works requires that you hold the rights you declare - the ownership declaration you make at import is contract-forming.

7.1 Nothing in this agreement excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law (including fraud, or death or personal injury caused by negligence). 7.2 Otherwise, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the beta is provided free of charge and as an experimental service, and we accept no liability for any loss or damage (including indirect or consequential loss) arising from participation in it.

Either of us may end your participation at any time with notice. Clauses 3, 4, 5 and 7 survive. On exit, Clause 4.3 applies to your content; you delete or destroy any Confidential Information you hold on request.

England and Wales law; England and Wales courts.