Terms of Use

These are website terms. They cover the DealReview website, the Free Deal Assessment and the automated report produced from it.

A paid Detailed Deal Review is a professional engagement. It is governed by separate engagement terms agreed for that work, as explained in section 6 below, and not by these terms alone.

If you do not accept these terms, please do not use the site.

The site provides:

The Free Deal Assessment is provided free of charge. No payment is taken anywhere on this site, and no account, sign-in or password is required to complete the assessment or to view the result. No user account is created for you when you complete it.

Your result is reached through a unique reference rather than a login. Please keep that reference: it is the only route to your result and report, and we cannot recover it if it is lost.

A separate administrative area exists for DealReview staff. It is not available to the public.

You are responsible for the information you provide. You should only provide information you reasonably believe to be accurate and that you are entitled to disclose.

The analysis, scores and findings depend entirely on your answers. If an answer is inaccurate, incomplete or optimistic, the output will be affected accordingly and may understate risk.

You must not submit:

You must not submit automated or bulk requests, attempt to retrieve a result that is not yours, probe or interfere with the security or operation of the site, or use the service in any way that is unlawful.

The Free Deal Assessment is preliminary decision-support information. It is designed to help you decide where to concentrate attention, and to give you a defensible basis for the questions you ask next.

It does not:

A Detailed Deal Review is a professional service, separately scoped for each transaction. No price is published, because the work required varies materially between opportunities.

Requesting a review does not itself create an engagement, and does not oblige you or DealReview to proceed. Scope, information requirements, timing and fee are agreed individually and confirmed in writing. A professional engagement begins only when that scope is expressly agreed by both parties.

A Detailed Deal Review is not legal due diligence, tax advice, an audit, or a substitute for regulated professional advice where required, and it does not provide an opinion on whether a price is fair or reasonable. Specialist accounting, tax, legal or regulatory advice may still be necessary, and a review does not remove the need for it.

You may:

You may not:

The DealReview name, brand assets, assessment methodology, question structure, scoring model, report layouts, written content and the software behind the site are owned by DealReview and protected by copyright and other rights.

You keep ownership of the information you submit. You grant DealReview the limited permission needed to store and process that information in order to provide the service you have asked for — producing your result and report, responding to your enquiry, and maintaining the records described in the Privacy Notice.

The free assessment is provided on an 'as available' basis. We may change, suspend or withdraw any part of the site at any time, including the assessment questions, the scoring configuration and the report layout.

We may update the methodology as we refine it. Results are not guaranteed to be identical to those produced by an earlier version, and a result you hold may not reproduce exactly if the underlying methodology has changed since it was generated.

The site may link to third-party websites. We do not control those websites and are not responsible for their content or their practices. Their own terms and privacy notices apply to them.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, and for any other liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

Subject to that:

Where a Detailed Deal Review is commissioned, the liability provisions for that engagement are set out in the written scope agreed for it, which takes precedence over the previous section in respect of that engagement.

We may restrict or suspend access to the site where we reasonably believe it is being used for abuse, security attacks, scraping, automated bulk requests or any unlawful purpose, or in a way that interferes with the service.

These terms are governed by the laws of Scotland, and the courts of that jurisdiction have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.

We may amend these terms. The version in force is the one published on this page, and the date at the top shows when it was last updated.