Cortyne Terms of Service
These Terms of Service govern access to and use of Cortyne, a professional consortium and pre-award coordination platform operated by Innovyance Ltd. If your organisation has a separate signed order form, contract or data-processing agreement, that document may add to or override these terms where it expressly says so.
1. Professional use
Cortyne is intended for organisations and people acting in a professional capacity, including universities, research organisations, consultancies, companies, public bodies and consortium partners. You must have authority to use Cortyne on behalf of the organisation or proposal you represent.
2. Accounts and security
You must provide accurate registration information, protect your credentials, use your own account and promptly tell us if you reasonably believe your account has been compromised. Email verification or account approval does not itself prove authority to bind an organisation.
3. Acceptable use
You must not attempt unauthorised access, bypass permissions, interfere with security controls, upload malware, scrape restricted information, impersonate another person, misuse invitation links, infringe third-party rights or use Cortyne in breach of applicable law.
4. Proposal and partner information
You and your organisation remain responsible for information entered into Cortyne and for deciding what information may lawfully be shared with consortium participants. Cortyne structures collaboration but does not replace institutional approvals, funder guidance, legal advice or professional judgement.
5. AI and automated assistance
AI-generated summaries, comparisons, drafting and answers are assistance tools and may contain errors. They must be reviewed by an appropriate user. Cortyne does not delegate partner-selection decisions to AI. Deterministic workflow records, verified call rules and source material remain authoritative where the product distinguishes them from generated output.
6. Invitations and partner workspaces
Proposal teams are responsible for sending invitations only to appropriate recipients and for the information they choose to disclose. Guest links and partner workspaces must not be shared beyond their intended recipient or organisation.
7. Intellectual property
Innovyance Ltd retains rights in Cortyne, its software, branding, platform design and service materials. Users and their organisations retain the rights they hold in content submitted to Cortyne, while granting the permissions reasonably necessary for us to host, process, secure and display that content to provide the service.
8. Confidentiality and privacy
We use access controls and other safeguards designed to keep proposal information within authorised boundaries. Our handling of personal information is described in the Privacy Notice. Organisations remain responsible for any separate confidentiality obligations they owe to consortium members, funders or third parties.
9. Service changes and availability
We may maintain, improve, replace or change features and may suspend access where reasonably necessary for maintenance, security, abuse prevention, legal compliance or material breach. We do not promise uninterrupted or error-free availability.
10. Suspension and termination
We may suspend or terminate access where reasonably necessary to protect Cortyne, other users or third parties, or where these terms are materially breached. You may stop using Cortyne at any time and may submit an account deletion request. Some records may need to be retained where required for legal, security, contractual or audit purposes.
11. No funding or eligibility guarantee
Cortyne does not guarantee grant eligibility, proposal compliance, partner performance, funding decisions or proposal success. Users remain responsible for checking official funder documents and completing their organisation's required review and submission processes.
12. Liability
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability where doing so would be unlawful. Any liability allocation agreed in a signed commercial agreement or order form takes precedence. Cortyne is a professional coordination tool and should not be treated as a substitute for legal, financial, tax, regulatory or funder-specific professional advice.
13. Governing law
Unless a separate written agreement states otherwise, these terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction.
14. Contact
Innovyance Ltd operates Cortyne. Legal enquiries: info@cortyne.com.