Terms & Conditions

City Path is operated by William Breach as a sole trader (not a registered company). References to "we", "us" and "our" in these terms mean that person. A postal address for service is available on request from wb.citypath@gmail.com.

You can reach us at wb.citypath@gmail.com. We aim to answer within two working days.

Access to the City Path directory collection: compiled PDF directories of London firms across 13 sectors, each entry listing the firm's name and address, its website, and telephone and email contact details where those could be confirmed. What is available today is listed on the directories page.

Directories are delivered as downloads inside your account. Each is reissued in Q1 and Q3, and reissues — along with any new directory released during your access — are added to your account at no extra cost.

Individual access does not expire. An institutional licence runs for the period it was bought for — normally twelve months — and ends on the day it expires unless it is renewed.

If we ever had to stop operating the service, we would give account holders reasonable notice and, where possible, the opportunity to download what they had access to first.

You may hold one account, and it is for you alone.

You are responsible for keeping your login details secure, and for anything done through your account. Tell us promptly if you think someone else has access to it.

Accounts are personal. Sharing your login, or passing directory files to people who have not bought access, is a breach of these terms.

Individual access costs £25.00 as a single payment in pounds sterling. It is arranged by email rather than bought through a checkout, and once granted it does not expire. There is no subscription and no further charge.

Institutional licences are priced per seat per year, from a minimum of 20 seats, and are invoiced annually against a purchase order. A licence runs for twelve months and must be renewed to continue. Seats are not transferable, so a new cohort requires a new licence.

Payment is by bank transfer against an invoice. We do not currently take card payments, and we never receive or hold card details. Access opens once payment has cleared and we have confirmed it — this is done by hand, so allow a working day rather than expecting it the same minute.

Discount codes issued to university societies reduce the price for the people that society shares them with. A code is only valid while it is active and within any usage limit or expiry date set when it was issued.

We may change the price of access in future. Any change applies only to purchases made after it takes effect — it never affects what you have already bought.

Access is licensed to one named individual. An account is personal to the person who opened it, and the directories downloaded through it are for that person's use only. It is a single-user licence in the ordinary sense of the phrase: one person, one account, one set of files.

That holds however the licence was paid for. Where an organisation buys seats in bulk, each seat is licensed to one named individual for the licence year, and seats are not transferable. A seat does not pass to a replacement when someone leaves, may not be shared between two people at the same time, and one seat cannot be used to supply a department. When a new cohort arrives, a new licence is taken out for it.

Within that, the licence is a personal, non-exclusive right to use the directories for your own job search and professional purposes — researching firms and contacting them about opportunities. You may print or keep a copy for that purpose.

You may not:

• resell, sublicense, publish, lend or otherwise distribute the directories or any substantial part of them;
• share your account or your login, or pass directory files to anyone who has not bought their own access;
• upload them to file-sharing sites, shared drives, forums, group chats or course pages;
• extract the data in bulk, whether by hand or by software, to build or feed another product, dataset or mailing list;
• remove or obscure any notice identifying the directories as ours.

The single most common way this is breached is the most casual one: forwarding a file to a friend, or dropping it in a society group chat. That is redistribution, and it is treated as such.

We own the copyright in the compiled directories, and the database right in the compilation. Individual facts about a firm are not ours to own — the work of finding, checking and arranging them is, and that work is what the law protects here.

Redistributing the directories is therefore not merely a breach of these terms. It is an infringement of copyright under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and of database right under the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997. Both are legally actionable, and both carry remedies that a court can grant against an individual as well as an organisation.

If you redistribute the directories, or allow someone else to, we may:

• suspend or close your account immediately and without refund;
• require you to delete every copy, and to tell us who else received one;
• bring a claim for copyright and database right infringement;
• seek an injunction to stop further distribution, damages or an account of profits, and our legal costs.

We would rather never do any of this, and we have no interest in pursuing someone who made an honest mistake and put it right. But the directories are the whole of the business, and a single file passed around a cohort of three hundred is the difference between this existing next year and not. If you are asked to share a copy, send the person this page instead.

The directories are a research tool. When you use the contact details in them, you must comply with the law that applies to contacting businesses — including data protection and electronic marketing rules.

In plain terms: applying for a job, or making a genuine individual enquiry, is what these are for. Loading the addresses into bulk mailing software, or using them to send marketing, is not, and is your responsibility rather than ours.

Every entry is compiled from primary sources — the firms' own websites and public records — and checked at the time of compilation. Where a detail could not be confirmed, it is left out rather than estimated or guessed.

Firms move, merge, rebrand and close. Details that were correct when a directory was compiled will not all stay correct, and we do not warrant that every entry is accurate or current at the moment you use it. Tell us about anything you find to be wrong and we will correct it in the next revision.

The directories are not exhaustive. They do not claim to list every firm in a sector.

We do not promise that using the directories will get you an interview, a response or a job. What we sell is the research, not an outcome.

We will take reasonable care to keep the site available, but we cannot promise it will be uninterrupted or fault-free. Access may be unavailable during maintenance or because of a problem at one of our providers.

Nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited. Your statutory rights as a consumer are not affected by anything here.

Beyond that, our total liability to you in connection with your purchase is limited to the amount you paid us. We are not liable for loss of opportunity, loss of earnings, or any indirect or consequential loss.

Access is digital content supplied immediately, and the position on refunds is set out in full in our refund policy, which forms part of these terms.

You can ask us to close your account at any time. Closing it ends your access and does not entitle you to a refund.

We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms — in particular the licence restrictions on what you may do with the directories — without refund.

We may revise these terms. The current version always appears on this page with the date it was last changed. A revision does not alter the terms that applied to a purchase you have already made.

If something has gone wrong, email wb.citypath@gmail.com and we will try to put it right.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction. If you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you may also bring proceedings in the courts there.