Terms & Conditions

Last updated: April 2026

1. Who We Are, and How to Contact Us

1.1 These Terms & Conditions ("Terms") are an agreement between you (being any user of the Website) and F.O.C.U.S.™ ("F.O.C.U.S.™", "us", or "we") which governs your use of our Website.

1.2 Please read these Terms carefully. By using the Website, you agree that you have read, understood and agree to comply with these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms you must not use the Website.

1.3 Should you have any questions about these Terms or wish to contact us for any reason whatsoever, please contact us by email at hello@focus.coffee.

2. Definitions and Interpretation

2.1 In these Terms, unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall apply:

  • "Applicable Laws" means any applicable law, statute, bye-law or regulation in force from time to time;
  • "Confidential Information" means all confidential information which is disclosed, or made available, directly or indirectly by one party to the other whether before, on or after the date on which these Terms are entered into, and whether orally, in writing, in electronic form or other media, which relates to a party's business including without limitation its products, operations, processes, plans or intentions, developments, trade secrets, know how, market opportunities, personnel, suppliers and customers of the party disclosing it, together with the existence or provisions of these Terms and the negotiations relating to them;
  • "Data Protection Laws" means any applicable laws and regulations in any relevant jurisdiction relating to the use or processing of personal data including: EU Regulation 2016/679 ("GDPR"); any laws or regulations ratifying, implementing, adopting, supplementing or replacing the GDPR (including, in the UK, the Data Protection Act 2018 ("DPA") and the UK GDPR as defined in The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019); any laws and regulations implementing or made pursuant to EU Directive 2002/58/EC (as amended by 2009/136/EC); and any guidance or codes of practice issued by a governmental or regulatory body or authority in relation to compliance with the foregoing; in each case, as updated, amended or replaced from time to time;
  • "Force Majeure Event" means fire, explosion, flood, earthquakes, war, riots, acts of terrorism, acts of government, sabotage, civil commotion or severe weather conditions which cannot be mitigated by the exercise of reasonable endeavours by the party affected;
  • "Intellectual Property Rights" means any patents, utility models, rights in copyright (including "moral" rights), database rights, design rights, trade marks and service marks, all registrations or applications to register any such rights, and all rights in the nature of any such rights including trade names, business names, brand names, get-up, logos, domain names and URLs, rights in unfair competition and rights to sue for passing off;
  • "Virus" means any thing or device (including any software, code, file or programme) which may prevent, impair or otherwise adversely affect the operation of any computer software, hardware or network, or any programme or data, including worms, Trojan horses, viruses and other similar things or devices;
  • "Website" means the F.O.C.U.S.™ website at focus.coffee.

3. Our Website

3.1 The Website provides information about F.O.C.U.S.™ (the Farming Output Carbon Utilisation Standard), our carbon measurement methodology, regenerative farming practices (GAP77™), and related services for coffee farming and carbon sequestration.

4. Other Terms That May Apply

These Terms refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of the Website:

  • Our Privacy Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us.
  • Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on the Website.

5. Use of the Website

5.1 We may make changes to the Website

We may update and change the Website from time to time to reflect changes to our services, our users' needs or our business priorities.

5.2 We may suspend or withdraw the Website

  • We do not guarantee that the Website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted.
  • We may suspend, withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of the Website, without notice, for business or operational reasons.
  • We will not be liable to you for any reason if the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

5.3 Do not rely on information on the Website

The content on the Website is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content of the Website.

5.4 You must not copy or download the content of the Website

You shall not attempt to copy, modify, duplicate, create derivative works from, frame, mirror, republish, download, display, transmit or distribute all or any portion of the information available on the Website in any form or media or by any means without our prior written consent.

5.5 We are not responsible for websites we link to

Where the Website contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.

5.6 We are not responsible for Viruses and you must not introduce them

  • We do not guarantee that the Website will be secure or free from bugs or Viruses.
  • You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access the Website. You should use your own Virus protection software.
  • You must not misuse the Website by introducing Viruses. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Website, the server on which the Website is hosted, or any server, computer or database connected to the Website. You must not attack the Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.
  • By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such breach, your right to use the Website will cease immediately.

6. Contact Form and Communications

6.1 When you submit information through our contact form or communicate with us by email, you warrant that all information provided by you is accurate.

6.2 Any personal data provided through the contact form will be processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

7. Intellectual Property

7.1 You acknowledge and agree that F.O.C.U.S.™ and/or its licensors own all Intellectual Property Rights in the Website, including any such Intellectual Property Rights in any information accessible through the Website. These Terms do not grant you any rights to, under or in any Intellectual Property Rights, or any other rights or licences in respect of the Website.

7.2 F.O.C.U.S.™ and GAP77™ are trademarks of F.O.C.U.S.™. All content on this Website — including text, graphics, logos, images, videos, and software — is the property of F.O.C.U.S.™ or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws.

8. Confidential Information

8.1 You may have access to Confidential Information of F.O.C.U.S.™ by virtue of having access to the Website or through communications with us. You agree to hold our Confidential Information in confidence and not to make any such Confidential Information available to any third party, or to use any such Confidential Information for any purposes other than as intended.

8.2 Notwithstanding the above, you may disclose Confidential Information to the extent such Confidential Information is required to be disclosed by any Applicable Law, by any governmental or other regulatory authority or by a court or other authority of competent jurisdiction, provided that, to the extent it is legally permitted to do so, you provide F.O.C.U.S.™ with as much notice of such disclosure as possible.

8.3 You will indemnify and hold F.O.C.U.S.™ harmless against all liabilities, costs, expenses, damages and losses (including any direct, indirect or consequential losses, loss of profit, loss of reputation and all interest, penalties and legal costs calculated on a full indemnity basis) suffered by F.O.C.U.S.™ arising out of your breach or alleged breach of this clause 8.

8.4 This clause 8 shall survive expiry or termination of these Terms for any reason.

9. Data Protection

9.1 Any personal data which is provided to us by you may be collected, stored and processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy and at all times we will only process your personal data in compliance with the Data Protection Laws.

9.2 You will indemnify and hold F.O.C.U.S.™ harmless against all liabilities, costs, expenses, damages and losses suffered by F.O.C.U.S.™ arising out of your breach or alleged breach of this clause 9.

10. Liability

10.1 You agree that the Website is provided without warranty and we do not warrant or represent that the Website will meet your requirements or that its operation will be uninterrupted or error free. We do not make any warranty as to the accuracy or reliability of any information obtained through the Website.

10.2 We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors, and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

10.3 We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to the Website or any content on it.

10.4 We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

  • (a) use of, or inability to use, the Website; or
  • (b) use of or reliance on any content displayed on the Website.

10.5 In particular, we will not be liable for:

  • (a) loss of profits, sales, business or revenue;
  • (b) business interruption;
  • (c) loss of anticipated savings;
  • (d) loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation;
  • (e) any indirect or consequential loss or damage; or
  • (f) any loss or corruption of data.

11. Indemnity

11.1 You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless F.O.C.U.S.™ against any and all claims, losses, expenses or demands of liability, including reasonable legal fees and costs incurred by F.O.C.U.S.™ in connection with any claim by a third party (including an intellectual property claim) arising out of: (i) the materials and content you submit or transmit through the Website, or (ii) your use of the Website in violation of these Terms or in violation of any applicable law.

12. Force Majeure

12.1 We will not be responsible or liable to you for any failure to make the Website available or the performance of any of our obligations under these Terms where such failure is caused by a Force Majeure Event.

13. General

13.1 No partnership or agency

Nothing in these Terms is intended to or shall operate to create a partnership or joint venture between the parties, or to authorise either party to act as agent for the other and neither party shall have authority to act in the name of or on behalf of the other.

13.2 Cumulative remedies

Save as expressly provided in these Terms, the rights and remedies provided under these Terms are in addition to, and not exclusive of, any rights or remedies provided by law.

13.3 Exclusion of third party rights

Unless expressly provided in these Terms, none of these Terms are enforceable pursuant to the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 by any person who is not a party to it.

13.4 Severance

If any court or competent authority finds that any provision of these Terms (or part of any provision) is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision (or part) shall, to the extent required, be deemed to be deleted, and the validity and enforceability of the other provisions of these Terms shall not be affected.

13.5 Waiver

No failure or delay by a party to enforce or exercise any right or remedy under these Terms or by law shall be deemed to be a waiver of that or any other right or remedy, nor shall it operate so as to bar the enforcement or exercise of that or any other right or remedy at any time subsequently.

13.6 Entire agreement

These Terms constitute the entire agreement and understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter of these Terms and supersede any prior agreements, representations, understandings or arrangements between the parties (oral or written) in relation to such subject matter. Nothing in this clause shall limit or exclude any liability for fraud.

14. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

14.1 These Terms and any dispute or claim (whether contractual or non-contractual) arising out of or in connection with them, their subject matter or formation shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.

14.2 Each party irrevocably agrees that the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim (whether contractual or non-contractual) arising out of or in connection with these Terms, their subject matter or formation.