Legal
Last updated: August 2026
Common Ground UK Ltd is a private limited company registered in England and Wales. By using this platform you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the platform.
Common Ground UK is a civic accountability platform. It exists to record the difference between public opinion and parliamentary voting on the same questions, and to publish that record permanently. It is not a polling service, a petition platform, a campaign tool, or a news outlet. It does not tell users how to vote in elections.
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One vote per question per session is enforced at the database level. Votes are anonymous. Results are published with sample sizes and a clear disclaimer that they represent the views of people who chose to engage with the platform, not a weighted national survey. We actively monitor for coordinated voting and reserve the right to exclude anomalous vote patterns from published results.
Once an Accountability Gap is finalised: after a minimum of 100 votes and 48 hours of live voting, it is written to a permanent record and will not be altered or deleted. This permanence is central to the platform's purpose. By voting, you understand that your vote contributes to this permanent record.
Questions submitted via the Open Floor are subject to human review before publication. By submitting a question, you confirm that it does not target any individual, does not constitute harassment, and does not promote violence or hatred. We reserve the right to reject any submission without explanation. Accepted submissions become part of the platform's public record.
The platform's design, code, branding, and editorial methodology are owned by Common Ground UK Ltd. Aggregated results data is published openly for public use with attribution. Parliamentary data sourced via the official Parliament API is subject to Parliament's own open data licence.
This section applies to organisations purchasing a Starter, Professional, or Institutional data subscription, a School Subscription or Multi-Academy Trust plan, or any one-off product (24-hour data exclusivity, a structured data report, custom question commissioning, or an embeddable vote widget).
Billing. Subscriptions are billed monthly or annually in advance via our payment processor, Stripe. Annual plans are billed as a single upfront payment. Prices are as published on commongrounduk.uk/data at the time of purchase and may change for future billing periods with at least 30 days' notice to active subscribers.
Cancellation. You may cancel a subscription at any time by contacting data@commongrounduk.uk. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period. You retain access, and continue receiving scheduled briefings, until that period ends. We do not provide partial refunds for the unused portion of a billing period you choose to cancel part-way through.
Refunds on a first subscription. If you are not satisfied within the first 14 days of a new subscription, contact us and we will issue a full refund and cancel the subscription immediately. This applies once per organisation, to a first subscription only.
One-off products. Custom question commissioning, structured data reports, and 24-hour data exclusivity are delivered digitally, typically within the timeframe stated at the point of purchase. Once a report has been generated and sent, or an exclusivity embargo has been set and the data delivered to you, the product is treated as delivered and is non-refundable, in line with standard practice for digital content and time-sensitive data products. If a product has not been delivered within the stated timeframe through our fault, contact us for a full refund.
Permitted use of purchased data. Data, reports, and briefings supplied under a subscription or one-off product are licensed for your organisation's internal use and for citation in your own reporting and publications, with attribution to Common Ground UK. You may not resell, sublicense, or redistribute raw data to third parties as a standalone product, or represent it as your own original research. 24-hour exclusivity grants first rights to cite a specific result before general publication, not exclusive ownership of the underlying data.
Suspension and termination. We may suspend or terminate a subscription, with notice where practicable, for breach of these terms, non-payment, or misuse of supplied data. Where we terminate a subscription without cause partway through a paid period, we will refund the unused portion.
Liability. Data and reports are supplied on the basis set out in the Disclaimer section below: as evidence of how people who chose to vote responded to a specific question, not as a nationally representative survey, and without warranty as to fitness for any particular commercial purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability to a subscriber arising from a subscription or one-off product is limited to the fees paid by that subscriber in the 12 months preceding the claim, and excludes indirect or consequential loss.
Nothing in this section limits liability where the law does not allow it to be limited, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or fraud.
Results published on this platform represent the views of people who chose to vote on each question. They are not a nationally representative survey. They should not be cited as such. We make every effort to ensure accuracy of parliamentary data but cannot guarantee it. Parliamentary data is sourced directly from the official Parliament API and Hansard.
We may update these terms as the platform develops. The date at the top of this page reflects the most recent update. Continued use of the platform after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.
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