Effective 14 July 2026
These terms are an agreement between you and HOOK VENTURES LTD (“zantau”, “we”, “us”, “our”) and govern your access to and use of the zantau website and service (the “service”). By creating an account or using the service, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service. If you use zantau on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to accept these terms for it, and “you” includes that organisation.
zantau is a trading name of HOOK VENTURES LTD, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 16969873), whose registered office is at 71–75 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom. You can reach us about these terms at legal@zantau.com.
zantau is a research library of publicly available advertising. We collect ads that businesses run on public advertising platforms — sourced from those platforms’ public ad-transparency libraries and comparable public sources — and add editorial analysis such as patterns, storyboards, transcripts and written breakdowns. The service is a competitive-research tool provided on an “as is” basis. We may add, change, suspend or remove features, and change how the library is compiled, at any time.
You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding contract to use the service. Accounts are personal to you, and Team seats are named — each seat is for one named individual and may not be shared. You are responsible for all activity under your account and for keeping access to your sign-in email secure. Tell us promptly at legal@zantau.com if you suspect any unauthorised use of your account.
Your use of the service is subject to our Acceptable Use Policy, which forms part of these terms. In short, you must not resell or redistribute library content, scrape or systematically extract the service, circumvent access limits or plan gating, share an account or seat, reverse-engineer or attack the service, or use it unlawfully. Breaching that policy is a breach of these terms.
The advertising creatives, copy and related material in the library are the property of their respective advertisers and rights-holders. We index, host and annotate this material for the purpose of commentary, review and competitive research; we do not claim ownership of it, and your access does not grant you any rights in it beyond viewing it within the service. If you are a rights-holder and want material removed, see our Content & Takedown Policy.
Our own software, design, brand, and editorial analysis (patterns, storyboards, transcripts and breakdowns) are owned by us or our licensors. While your account is in good standing, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the service and its analysis for your own internal business research. You may not copy, publish, resell or redistribute our analysis or library content except as the service expressly allows (for example, exports made available on your plan, used for your own internal purposes). Any feedback you send us may be used by us without restriction or obligation to you.
Zantau Studio can insert third-party brand marks — company logos, app icons, app-store badges and payment marks — into a creative you build. Those marks are the trade marks of their respective owners. We make them available for identification and reference only, on an “as is” basis, and we grant you no licence or right in any of them. Nothing in the service implies that any brand owner endorses, sponsors or is affiliated with you or your advertising.
Some marks may only be used if a particular fact is true of your product — an app-store badge is for promoting an app you actually publish on that store, and a payment acceptance mark is for a payment method you actually accept. Where we know of a condition like this, we show it to you at the point of use, along with a link to the brand owner’s own guidelines where one is available.
You are solely responsible for determining whether your use of a brand mark is permitted, and for obtaining any permission the brand owner requires. You warrant that you have the right to use each mark in the creatives you produce, and that your use does not imply endorsement or affiliation. You agree to indemnify us in respect of any claim arising out of your use of a third-party mark, on the terms set out under Indemnity below.
We operate a curated set of marks, not an open logo search, and we remove marks on request from the rights-holder. If you own a mark and want it removed, email trademarks@zantau.com or see our Content & Takedown Policy. Removal is permanent: a withdrawn mark is not restored by a later update to our sources.
If you are a consumer in the UK or EU, you have a legal right to cancel a purchase of digital services within 14 days of buying it and receive a refund. We do not ask you to give that right up. If you take out a paid subscription and change your mind within 14 days, email us at legal@zantau.com and we will refund that payment in full, whether or not you have used the service in the meantime.
The 14-day period runs from the day you subscribe. It applies to a new subscription, not to an automatic renewal of one you already have — you can stop a renewal at any time by cancelling in your billing settings before the period ends. No payment is taken during a free trial, so there is nothing to cancel or refund while you are on one.
This does not affect your other legal rights, including in respect of a service that is not as described or not carried out with reasonable care and skill.
The library contains third-party advertising and public data that we did not create and do not endorse, verify or warrant. The service and all content are provided “as is” and “as available”, and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all warranties, whether express or implied. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, secure or error-free, or that the library or its analysis is complete, current or accurate for any particular purpose. You are responsible for your own decisions made using the service.
Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law. If you are a consumer, nothing in these terms affects your statutory rights, and the limits below apply only to the extent permitted by law.
Subject to the paragraph above, and to the fullest extent permitted by law: we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or for any loss of profits, revenue, business, goodwill or data; and our total liability arising out of or in connection with the service or these terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you paid us for the service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) £100.
If you use the service other than as a consumer, you agree to indemnify us against any claims, losses, liabilities and reasonable costs arising from your breach of these terms, your unlawful or infringing use of the service, or your use of a third-party brand mark in a creative you produce.
You may stop using the service and delete your account at any time from your account settings. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, if required by law, or where reasonably necessary to protect the service, other users or third parties. On termination, your right to use the service ends; sections that by their nature should survive — including intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity and governing law — will continue to apply.
We may update these terms from time to time. The “effective” date above shows when the current version took effect, and we will take reasonable steps to notify you of material changes. Your continued use of the service after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the updated terms; if you do not agree, you should stop using the service.
These terms and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction, except that if you are a consumer resident elsewhere you retain the benefit of any mandatory protections and the right to bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence.
Questions about these terms? Email us at legal@zantau.com or use the contact page.
zantau is a trading name of HOOK VENTURES LTD, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 16969873), whose registered office is at 71–75 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom.
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