Terms of Service

Deep Space Commodities is operated by Shift AI Technology Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 17159725, whose address is Unit 14, The Maltings Industrial Estate, Southminster, Essex, CM0 7EQ. In these terms, "we" and "us" mean that company and "you" means the person holding the account.

These terms govern your purchase of the Deep Space Commodities course and your use of the site and the course. They form a contract between us from the moment you create an account or complete a purchase, whichever happens first.

Four other published documents form part of the same agreement and should be read with these terms: our Privacy and Data Protection Policy, our Refunds and Cancellations Policy, our Assessment, Certification and Academic Integrity Policy and our Complaints policy. Where these terms and one of those policies genuinely conflict, the more specific policy applies to its own subject matter.

The course is written for working professionals and accounts are for individuals aged 18 or over. If you are buying on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you have authority to commit that organisation to these terms.

You need an account to use the course. Accounts are personal to one named individual. They are not a licence for a household, a team or a company, and they cannot be transferred to somebody else.

• Give accurate details when you register, and keep your email address current so we can reach you about your access.
• Keep your password to yourself. Do not share your credentials, and do not let another person study, sit an exam or use the AI tutor under your login.
• You are responsible for what happens under your account. If you think someone else has access to it, tell us and change your password.
• A team pack buys a stated number of seats and each seat is for one named person. Five seats means five named people, not a login passed round a department. Seats can be reassigned when someone leaves the organisation; tell us and we will move the seat. They cannot be shared concurrently.

Credential sharing is the one rule we enforce firmly, because a shared login makes exam results meaningless and devalues the certificate held by every learner who earned it properly.

Prices are in pounds sterling. An individual seat is £495. A three-seat team pack is £1,425, which is £475 per seat. A five-seat team pack is £2,225, which is £445 per seat. The executive cohort and enterprise arrangements are quoted individually and are agreed in writing before anything is payable.

Payment is currently by bank transfer against an invoice. You request an invoice, we issue it, and we unlock access once the payment has cleared into our account. Bank transfer is not instant and is reconciled by a person, so allow for that if you have a deadline. We intend to add card payment through Stripe, at which point access will unlock automatically once a card payment succeeds; where this policy describes card payment, it describes how that will work and does not imply the option is available today.

The amount shown at checkout, or on the invoice we issue you, is the total amount payable. If we change our prices later, that does not affect a purchase already made and does not entitle you to a refund of the difference or to a top-up payment.

Requesting an invoice does not by itself create a debt. If you change your mind before paying, tell us and we will cancel it, or simply leave it unpaid. Access is not granted until payment clears.

We describe access as lifetime, and we should be precise about what that word is doing. It means we will not put a time limit on your access, will not convert your purchase into a subscription, and will not expire your account for inactivity. Buy once, come back in five years, and your progress and your certificate should be where you left them.

It does not mean we can guarantee that the service will exist forever. No company can promise that honestly, and a policy that implied otherwise would be a promise we could not keep. What we can commit to is how we would behave if we ever had to withdraw the service.

• We would give every account holder at least 90 days' notice by email before access ended.
• During that period we would issue certificates to anyone who had completed the assessed course, and would keep exams available so learners close to finishing could finish.
• We would email every certificate holder a signed PDF statement of completion that does not depend on our servers, so their achievement survives even if the online verification page does not. If the company were wound up we could not promise to keep that page online, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
• We would offer a refund on a fair basis to anyone who had bought within the previous twelve months and had not completed the course.

We may improve, reorganise or replace individual lessons over time, and we may add material. We will not remove a chapter that your certificate depends on without providing a replacement covering the same learning outcomes. Short interruptions for maintenance, or outages caused by the infrastructure providers listed in our privacy policy, are not a withdrawal of the service.

Use the course the way it is meant to be used. Specifically, do not do any of the following.

• Share your login, or study or sit an exam on behalf of another person.
• Download, record, copy, re-host, publish, resell or otherwise distribute the lesson videos, transcripts, quiz or exam questions, or any other course material.
• Scrape or bulk-extract content from the site, whether manually or by automated means.
• Use the course material, or the AI tutor's output, as training data for a machine learning model.
• Circumvent or attempt to circumvent access controls, paywalls, chapter sequencing, exam timing or rate limits.
• Attempt to obtain exam answer keys, interfere with how attempts are recorded, or otherwise breach the rules in our Assessment, Certification and Academic Integrity Policy.
• Misuse the AI tutor, including using it to generate material unrelated to the course, attempting to extract its instructions, or using it in a way designed to run up cost.
• Impersonate another person, or give a false legal name for a certificate.

We own or are licensed to use everything in the course: the video lessons, the scripts and transcripts, the written material, the question banks, the graphics and the software that delivers them. Nothing in these terms transfers any of that to you.

What you get when you buy a seat is a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to access and use the course for your own professional development, for as long as your account exists. That licence covers taking your own notes, using what you learn in your work, and quoting short passages with attribution in the ordinary way. It does not cover redistribution, resale, publishing the material, running your own training sessions from it, or using it to build a competing course. If you want more than one person in your organisation to learn from it, buy them a seat.

The material may not be used to train, fine-tune or evaluate a machine learning model, and may not be ingested into a system that makes it available to people who have not bought a seat. This is an express restriction rather than something we are leaving to interpretation.

Your certificate is yours. You can display it, publish it, send it to employers and put it on a professional profile. We make no claim over what you write about your own learning.

The AI tutor is a study aid built on a third-party language model. It is scoped to the lesson you are watching and it is not available during a module exam.

Its answers are generated automatically and are not reviewed by a person before you see them. It can be confidently wrong, it can miss nuance, and it should not be relied on as a statement of fact or as professional advice. Where the tutor and the taught material disagree, the taught material is what counts and what you are assessed on. If you find the tutor giving a wrong answer, tell us, because that usually means a lesson needs to be clearer.

We may apply reasonable usage limits to the tutor to keep it available and to control cost. Normal study will not hit them.

What the tutor sends to OpenAI and what we store is set out in our Privacy and Data Protection Policy.

This matters more here than it would on most courses, because the subject is commodity markets, resource valuation and space law.

The course is educational. It is not investment advice, financial advice, legal advice, tax advice or a recommendation to buy, sell or hold anything. We are not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and we do not provide regulated financial services. Nothing in the course, and nothing the AI tutor says, should be treated as a personal recommendation or as a substitute for advice from a professional who knows your circumstances.

Space law, resource rights and the regulation of off-world activity are unsettled and are moving. We teach the position as we understand it at the time a lesson is made, and we update the material, but you should take your own legal advice before acting on anything in a commercial context.

Any decision you make after taking the course is yours.

How you are assessed, what the pass marks are, how many attempts you get, and what happens if integrity rules are broken are all set out in our Assessment, Certification and Academic Integrity Policy, which forms part of this agreement.

A certificate attests that you completed the assessed course. It is not a regulated qualification, it does not confer a professional licence and it does not give you a right to practise anything. We issue it in the legal name you give us, and each one carries a public verification page so a third party can confirm it is genuine.

We may revoke a certificate where it was obtained in breach of the integrity rules, where the underlying purchase was refunded or reversed, or where you ask us to. We will tell you before we do and give you a genuine opportunity to respond, except where you asked for it yourself.

We may suspend or end your access if you breach these terms in a way that matters, and in particular if you share credentials, redistribute the course material, breach assessment integrity, or reverse a payment after receiving access.

Before we terminate we will tell you what we believe happened, and give you a fair chance to explain or to put it right, unless the breach is serious enough that leaving access open would cause continuing harm. In that case we may suspend first and then hear from you. Where the breach turns out to be a misunderstanding, access is restored and nothing further happens.

Termination for a serious breach does not automatically entitle you to a refund, and where the breach involved redistributing the material or having someone else sit an exam, it normally will not. Any decision to terminate can be challenged under our Complaints policy.

You can close your account at any time by asking us. Closing an account is not the same as a refund; refunds are dealt with in our Refunds and Cancellations Policy.

We will provide the course with reasonable care and skill, and the digital content will be of satisfactory quality, fit for purpose and as described. If it is not, you have statutory remedies under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and nothing here takes them away.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. We are not attempting to write those away and any clause that tried to would be unenforceable in any event.

If you are a consumer, we are responsible for loss you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breaking this contract or failing to use reasonable care and skill. We are not responsible for loss that was not foreseeable at the time the contract was made. We do not supply the course for business use by consumers, and if you use it for a business purpose we have no liability to you for loss of profit, loss of business or business interruption.

If you are a business customer, our total liability arising out of or in connection with this contract, whether in contract, tort including negligence, breach of statutory duty or otherwise, is limited to the amount you paid us for the seats in question. We are not liable to a business customer for loss of profit, loss of revenue, loss of anticipated savings, loss of business opportunity, loss of goodwill or any indirect or consequential loss.

We are not liable for any decision you take, or any loss you suffer, as a result of acting on the educational content of the course or on anything the AI tutor said. That is the practical effect of the section above on advice, and it is the limit we would ask a court to enforce.

We may change these terms to reflect changes in the law, in how the service works, or in how we do business. For minor or clarifying changes we will update the page and change the date at the top.

Where a change materially affects your rights, we will email account holders at least 30 days before it takes effect and explain what is changing and why. We will not use a change of terms to remove access you have already paid for, to introduce a charge for something that was included when you bought, or to apply a new restriction retrospectively to conduct that was permitted at the time.

If you do not accept a material change, tell us within those 30 days. We will discuss it with you, and where the change genuinely takes away something you paid for we will offer a fair refund rather than insisting you accept it.

If something has gone wrong, tell us at info@spaceeconomy.education. How we handle complaints, how long we take and how to escalate if you are not satisfied are set out in our Complaints policy.

These terms and any dispute arising out of them are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you may also bring proceedings in the courts of the country you live in, and the law of that country may give you protections that continue to apply.

• If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.
• If we do not enforce a term straight away, that does not mean we have given up the right to enforce it later.
• We may transfer this agreement to another company if our business is transferred, but not in a way that reduces the rights you have under it. You cannot transfer your account or your seat to someone else without our agreement.
• Nobody other than you and us has any right to enforce these terms.

Questions about these terms, your account or your purchase: info@spaceeconomy.education. By post: Shift AI Technology Ltd, Unit 14, The Maltings Industrial Estate, Southminster, Essex, CM0 7EQ.