Terms of use

These terms cover the Effective Advocacy Project partner portal at app.effectiveadvocacyproject.org and the API behind it. They are short on purpose. By signing in, you agree to them.

1. What this service is

The portal gives an invited organisation access to briefings and analysis about a policy debate: what was published, who said it, how positions are moving. The material is assembled from publicly available and official sources.

2. Who may use it

• Access is by invitation. There is no sign-up: an administrator creates an account against your email address and grants access to specific projects.
• Your account is personal to you. Do not share your sign-in link or let someone else use your account.
• Access is per project and can be changed or withdrawn at any time, including when the work with your organisation ends.

3. Briefings are confidential to you

An edition is written for the organisation it was produced for. Share it inside your organisation freely; do not publish it or pass it to a third party without asking us first. Quoting from it in your own work is covered by section 8. The underlying sources are public and you can of course quote and cite them directly — that is what the links are for.

4. Accuracy — please read this one

The material is assembled by machine from public sources, and language models do the summarising, ranking and scoring. It gets things wrong. It will occasionally misattribute a quote, misdate a document, miss something important, translate clumsily, or state a pattern more confidently than the evidence supports. That is a description of how the system behaves, not a lawyer’s hedge.

Check anything you intend to act on or repeat publicly against the linked source document. Every claim in a briefing carries a link for that reason. We provide the service as it is, with no warranty that it is complete, current or correct, and we ask you to tell us when you find an error — the thumbs and comment box on each briefing exist for that.

5. API tokens

• Your token is a password. Keep it secret and do not share it.
• Each token carries a monthly request quota. Do not work around it by creating extra tokens or accounts.
• Do not use the API to bulk-export the corpus, to resell access, or to feed another product.
• Tell us straight away if a token leaks. We can revoke any token at any time, and will if we see abuse.

6. Acceptable use

• Do not try to reach projects you have not been granted, or interfere with anyone else’s access.
• Do not attempt to disrupt the service or to circumvent its access controls.
• The system holds information about named individuals. Use it for policy analysis and advocacy — not to harass, threaten or target anyone.

7. Your data, and other people’s

What we hold about you, and about the people the research is about, is set out in the privacy notice. If you use the material in your own work, you are responsible for how you use the personal data in it.

8. Who owns what, and what you may do with it

• The analysis and the briefings are ours. Your organisation may use them for its own advocacy work: freely inside the organisation, and externally you may quote short extracts — a finding, a figure, a sentence — with attribution to the Effective Advocacy Project. What we ask you not to do is republish a whole edition or pass one on as a document; for that, ask us first.
• Quoted source material belongs to whoever published it. We quote it for analysis and always link back.
• Feedback you leave (thumbs, comments) may be used to improve the product.

9. Ending it

Either side can end this at any time. We will revoke your access; what we keep afterwards, and for how long, is covered in the privacy notice.

10. Liability and governing law

Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law — including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. Beyond that, we are not liable for decisions taken on the basis of the material (see section 4) or for indirect or consequential loss, and our total liability is limited to whichever is the greater of the fees your organisation paid us in the twelve months before the claim and HK$10,000.

These terms are governed by the law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the courts of Hong Kong have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute about them.

11. Changes

We may update these terms. The date at the top changes when we do, and we will email partners if the change is significant.

12. Contact

The portal is operated by Lucence Limited, 9 Queen’s Road Central, Central, Hong Kong. The Effective Advocacy Project is a service Lucence Limited operates, and Lucence Limited is the party you are contracting with. Questions about these terms go to info@lucenceltd.com.