Terms and Conditions
Last updated: 26 March 2026
These Terms and Conditions govern your access to and use of phhardy.com and all associated pages, forms, materials, content, and communications made available through or in connection with that website.
By accessing or using this website, you confirm that you accept these Terms and Conditions and agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to them, you must not use this website.
1. Who operates this website
This website is operated by Paul Hardy trading as P.H. Hardy.
Contact email: mail(at)phhardy.com
Where these Terms refer to “P.H. Hardy”, “we”, “us”, or “our”, they mean the operator identified above.
2. Purpose of the website
phhardy.com is a professional catalogue and rights enquiry platform presenting original intellectual property, related creative assets, and associated commercial opportunities for possible publishing, adaptation, option, licensing, acquisition, distribution, merchandising, translation, audio, game, screen, and related rights discussions.
The website is provided for information and business enquiry purposes. It is intended primarily for publishers, producers, agents, scouts, executives, rights buyers, licensees, distributors, and other legitimate industry professionals or commercial counterparties.
3. No offer and no binding commitment
Nothing on this website constitutes:
a. a binding offer to sell, assign, license, option, transfer, or otherwise dispose of any intellectual property or rights
b. a representation that any right, property, asset, format, or opportunity is available at the time you view it
c. a promise that any enquiry will receive a response, materials, or follow up
d. a commitment to enter into any negotiation, exclusivity arrangement, option agreement, licence, sale, assignment, or other transaction
Any discussion arising from an enquiry is non binding unless and until a definitive written agreement is executed by the relevant parties.
4. Rights status and catalogue information
Rights status labels, availability indicators, development stage labels, enquiry counts, commercial positioning labels, and similar descriptors are provided for general guidance only.
They may change without notice and do not amount to warranties, guarantees, or legally binding statements of availability, exclusivity, chain of title, freedom to operate, commercial viability, or suitability for your intended use.
We reserve the right at any time to:
a. amend, withdraw, suspend, replace, or relabel any property, asset, rights position, or supporting information
b. decline to discuss a property or disclose materials
c. cease offering any opportunity without liability to you
5. No professional advice
The content on this website is provided for general informational purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice, commercial advice, financial advice, investment advice, tax advice, acquisition advice, or representation and warranty on which you should rely without carrying out your own independent review and taking your own professional advice.
6. Eligibility and authority
By submitting an enquiry or otherwise engaging with this website, you confirm that:
a. you are at least 18 years old
b. you have legal capacity to enter into binding arrangements
c. any information you provide is accurate and not misleading
d. if you act on behalf of a company, publisher, producer, studio, agency, investor, or other organisation, you are authorised to make the enquiry and to discuss the relevant matter on its behalf
We may ask for evidence of identity, business status, or authority before responding substantively or sharing any further materials.
7. Acceptable use
You must not use this website:
a. in any way that breaches any applicable law or regulation
b. to gain or attempt to gain unauthorised access to systems, data, accounts, or materials
c. to upload, transmit, distribute, or request anything unlawful, infringing, defamatory, abusive, fraudulent, harmful, malicious, or confidential without authority
d. to impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity, role, affiliation, or authority
e. to scrape, crawl, harvest, bulk extract, mirror, index, reproduce, mine, train, fine tune, benchmark, or otherwise use any part of the website, its content, metadata, images, text, concepts, listings, supporting materials, or arrangement of data for machine learning, generative AI, dataset creation, model training, automated analysis, commercial intelligence gathering, or similar purposes without our prior written consent
f. to copy or use ideas, concepts, stories, settings, characters, artwork, game systems, titles, summaries, pitches, treatments, or other protectable or confidential elements except as expressly permitted in writing
8. Intellectual property rights
Unless expressly stated otherwise, all intellectual property rights in and to this website and its contents, including all text, graphics, artwork, images, logos, creative works, titles, concepts, story worlds, characters, written materials, summaries, designs, page layouts, databases, compilations, audio visual materials, downloadable materials, and all underlying intellectual property and rights opportunities, are owned by or licensed to P.H. Hardy and are protected by applicable copyright, trade mark, database, design, confidential information, and other intellectual property laws.
All rights are reserved.
9. No licence granted
Your use of this website does not grant you any ownership right, licence, assignment, option, consent, waiver, or other right in or to any intellectual property, except for the limited, revocable, non exclusive, non transferable right to access the website for legitimate internal review in accordance with these Terms.
You must not reproduce, adapt, republish, distribute, publicly communicate, exploit, extract, reverse engineer, decompile, sell, sublicense, frame, or create derivative works from any part of this website or its contents without our prior written permission.
10. Enquiries and communications
If you submit an enquiry:
a. you agree to provide complete and accurate information
b. you understand that submission of an enquiry does not create any contract, fiduciary duty, agency relationship, partnership, joint venture, advisory relationship, or exclusivity arrangement
c. you understand that we may decline to respond, may verify your identity or organisation, and may refuse to share additional materials at our discretion
d. you must not include confidential third party information unless you are entitled to disclose it
e. you accept that we may keep records of the enquiry and related correspondence for legal, administrative, evidential, security, and business development purposes
11. Unsolicited ideas and materials
Unless we have expressly invited a particular submission in writing, you must not send unsolicited scripts, manuscripts, concepts, formats, pitches, artwork, treatments, game mechanics, or other creative materials to us.
If you do send any such unsolicited materials, you acknowledge that:
a. they will not be treated as confidential
b. no obligation to review, return, acknowledge, compensate, or refrain from developing similar ideas will arise merely because they were sent
c. no fiduciary or implied contractual relationship is created by receipt of them
This clause does not override any separate signed written agreement between you and us.
12. Confidential and restricted materials
From time to time we may provide additional materials, pitch documents, manuscripts, excerpts, prototypes, decks, concept art, development notes, or other confidential materials to selected parties.
Unless otherwise agreed in writing, any such materials are provided solely for your internal evaluation of a potential commercial transaction with P.H. Hardy. You must not:
a. share them beyond those within your organisation who genuinely need to review them for that purpose
b. copy, circulate, publish, or exploit them
c. use them to compete with, replicate, or derive creative or commercial advantage outside the specific evaluation purpose
d. remove any copyright notice, watermark, confidentiality legend, or identifying mark
We may require additional terms, a non disclosure agreement, or verification before sharing such materials.
13. Third party links and services
This website may include links to third party websites, platforms, tools, or services. Those links are provided for convenience only. We do not control and are not responsible for the content, availability, security, privacy practices, or terms of any third party websites or services.
14. Website availability and security
We do not guarantee that this website, or any content on it, will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, error free, or free from bugs, malware, or vulnerabilities.
We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue, or change all or any part of the website without notice.
15. Disclaimer of warranties
To the fullest extent permitted by law, this website and all content made available through it are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations, and other terms that may apply to the website or any content on it.
Without limitation, we do not warrant that:
a. any content is complete, current, error free, or suitable for your purposes
b. any property or right is available, unencumbered, exploitable, or appropriate for acquisition or licensing
c. any negotiation will proceed or conclude
d. any particular commercial outcome will be achieved
16. Limitation of liability
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where it would be unlawful to do so, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or fraudulent misrepresentation.
Subject to the paragraph above, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, we shall not be liable to you for any:
a. indirect or consequential loss
b. loss of profit
c. loss of business
d. loss of opportunity
e. loss of anticipated savings
f. loss of goodwill or reputation
g. business interruption
h. loss, corruption, or misuse of data
i. reliance loss arising from your use of or inability to use the website or reliance on any content
If you are using the website in the course of business, our total aggregate liability to you in connection with the website and these Terms shall not exceed £100, except where a higher cap is expressly agreed in writing.
17. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and keep indemnified P.H. Hardy, its operator, representatives, contractors, and advisers against all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses, including reasonable legal costs, arising out of or in connection with:
a. your breach of these Terms
b. your misuse of the website or any materials
c. your infringement of any intellectual property, confidentiality, privacy, or other rights
d. any false, misleading, or unauthorised information you provide
18. Privacy and cookies
Our use of personal data is governed by our Privacy Policy. Where cookies or similar technologies are used, they are governed by our Privacy Policy and any separate Cookies Policy or cookie consent mechanism in use from time to time.
19. Changes to these Terms
We may amend these Terms at any time by updating this page. The revised version takes effect when published, unless stated otherwise.
20. Governing law and jurisdiction
These Terms, their subject matter, and any non contractual disputes or claims arising out of or in connection with them are governed by the law of England and Wales.
The courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction, except that if you are a consumer resident in another part of the United Kingdom, you may also have mandatory rights to bring proceedings there.