Terms of Service

Who provides the service

In these terms, “Coira”, “we”, “us” and “our” mean the operator above. “You” means the person or organisation using the service. If you use Coira for an organisation, you confirm that you have authority to bind it to these terms.

The service

Coira provides construction cost intelligence and decision support tools based on public procurement records, published rates, user inputs and selected community-submitted data. Features and datasets may change as the service develops.

You must be at least 18 and legally able to enter a contract. The service is primarily intended for business and professional use in Ireland.

Accounts and access

• You must provide accurate account information and keep it up to date.
• You are responsible for activity under your account and for protecting your login credentials.
• You must tell us promptly at fionan971@gmail.com if you suspect unauthorised access.
• You may not share, resell or automate access except where a plan or written agreement expressly permits it.

Subscriptions, billing and cancellation

Paid subscriptions renew monthly until cancelled. Unless the checkout states otherwise, displayed prices exclude VAT and other applicable taxes. Payments are processed by Stripe. Coira does not receive your full card details.

You may cancel before the next renewal by using any account billing controls we provide or by emailing fionan971@gmail.com. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid billing period. Except where law requires otherwise or a billing error has occurred, fees already paid are not refundable.

Nothing in these terms limits mandatory consumer cancellation, conformity, refund or other statutory rights that apply to you.

Decision support, not professional advice

Coira outputs are indicative decision support. They are not quantity surveying, valuation, legal, tax, engineering, procurement or other professional advice, and using Coira does not create a professional client relationship.

Submit/hold guidance, benchmark ranges, comparable projects, inflation adjustments and margin calculations can be affected by incomplete notices, classification choices, changing market conditions and differences in scope. We do not guarantee accuracy, completeness, tender success, profitability or any particular commercial outcome.

You remain responsible for checking inputs, scope, exclusions, rates, arithmetic, contractual obligations and the final bid or investment decision. See the full disclaimer.

Your information and project content

You retain ownership of information you submit. You give us a limited licence to process it only as needed to provide, secure, support and improve the service, comply with law and exercise our legal rights, as described in the Privacy Policy.

• Only submit information you are authorised to use and disclose.
• Do not submit personal data or commercially sensitive material that is unnecessary for the requested output.
• Do not submit unlawful, misleading, infringing or malicious content.

Acceptable use

You must not:

• interfere with, probe, overload or bypass security or access controls;
• scrape or systematically extract the service or dataset without written permission;
• reverse engineer the service except where law expressly permits it;
• use Coira to mislead a client, contracting authority or other person; or
• use the service in breach of law, procurement rules, contract or another person’s rights.

Data sources and intellectual property

Public procurement notices remain subject to their original source terms. Community data may be edited, normalised or withheld before publication. Coira’s software, interface, methodology, branding and original presentation are owned by or licensed to us and may not be copied except as these terms permit.

You may use reports and exports internally for legitimate project and business purposes. You may share a generated report with relevant clients or advisers, provided its source, qualifications and disclaimers remain intact.

Adjudicate: tender returns you upload

Adjudicate compares tender returns for you. To do that you upload documents you received from third parties — contractors and suppliers who priced a package. Those documents contain their confidential pricing, and usually the names, job titles and contact details of the people who prepared them. This section governs that material, and it prevails over section 07 to the extent of any conflict.

• You remain the controller of it. You decide what to upload and why. Coira processes it only to run the comparison you asked for and to show you the result. We do not use it to train models, we do not pool it with other firms' data, and we do not use it for any purpose of our own.
• You confirm you are entitled to upload it. You have the tenderers' material lawfully, and using an adjudication tool to evaluate it is consistent with the basis on which you hold it and with the tender documents you issued. We cannot check this and do not; it is the one thing only you can know.
• Your firm's data stays your firm's. An adjudication is visible to members of your firm and to nobody else. The vocabulary the tool learns from your review queue is yours and is never merged into a shared model or another customer's.
• The decisions are yours. Coira proposes; a named person at your firm accepts or rejects. A report records who decided what and when. Where a decision was made about content that later changes, the decision is cleared and returned to you rather than carried over.
• You can have it removed. An adjudication can be deleted, and deleting it removes the uploaded files as well as the records. Where we cannot reach something, we tell you rather than reporting success.

Processing terms meeting Article 28 of the GDPR are set out at /terms/processing and form part of this agreement wherever you upload personal data belonging to third parties.

Availability and changes

We aim to provide a reliable service but do not promise uninterrupted or error free availability. We may maintain, modify, suspend or withdraw features where reasonably necessary. If a material change adversely affects a paid subscription, we will give reasonable notice where practicable.

No warranty

Coira is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we exclude all warranties, conditions and representations not expressly stated in these terms, including any implied warranty of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy or non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, secure or error free, that faults will be corrected, or that any dataset, benchmark, comparable, rate or AI assisted output is complete, current or free from error. See the Disclaimer for the specific limits on what Coira’s outputs are and are not.

Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profit, lost opportunity, tender loss, business interruption, or loss arising from a decision made using an indicative output.

Subject to liabilities that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, our total liability arising from the service is limited to the fees you paid us for the service during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing excludes liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any other liability or statutory right that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us against reasonable costs, damages and liabilities we incur because of your breach of these terms, your misuse of the service, the information you submit, or your infringement of another person’s rights : except to the extent we caused the loss ourselves.

Suspension and termination

You may stop using the service at any time. We may suspend or terminate access where you materially breach these terms, create a security or legal risk, fail to pay fees, or misuse the service. Where reasonable, we will give notice and an opportunity to remedy the issue.

General terms

• Entire agreement. These terms, the Privacy Policy and the Disclaimer are the whole agreement between you and us about the service, and replace any earlier discussion of it.
• Severability. If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.
• No waiver. Not enforcing a term straight away does not stop us enforcing it later.
• Assignment. You may not transfer your rights under these terms without our consent. We may transfer ours as part of a genuine business sale, merger or restructuring, and will tell you if this affects your subscription.
• Force majeure. Neither of us is liable for delay or failure caused by events reasonably outside our control, such as internet, infrastructure, provider or utility failure.
• No partnership. These terms do not create a partnership, joint venture, agency or employment relationship between you and us.

Irish law and contact

These terms are governed by Irish law. The Irish courts have jurisdiction, without limiting any mandatory right a consumer may have to bring proceedings elsewhere.

We may update these terms to reflect legal, security or service changes. The effective date above will be updated when we do. Questions can be sent to fionan971@gmail.com.