1. Acceptance of These Terms
These terms of service set out the basis on which GREAT DIVIDE INVESTMENTS LLC offers its website, its public information and its professional engineering services, marketed under the Great Divide name, at https://www.greatdivide.buzz/. By viewing, browsing or otherwise using our website you agree to be bound by these terms. By requesting a proposal, accepting a quotation or signing a statement of work you agree to be bound by these terms together with the specific document that describes your engagement.
If you do not agree to any part of these terms, please do not use the website and do not submit personal or business material to us. Access to the public pages of our site is provided free of charge for general information, while professional services are supplied subject to a separately agreed commercial contract.
GREAT DIVIDE INVESTMENTS LLC reserves the right to change these terms from time to time. When a change is made the updated version is placed at this page and replaces all earlier versions. Your continued use of the website, or continued receipt of our services, is taken as acceptance of the applicable version in force at that time.
2. Who We Are
The company that operates these terms is GREAT DIVIDE INVESTMENTS LLC, a limited liability company registered and engaged in Computer Systems Design and Related Services within the Professional, Scientific and Technical Services sector. Our registered and principal place of business is 1171 Nathan Pl, Lafayette - 80026, United States (US). We can be reached at enquiry@greatdivide.buzz and by telephone on +62895392577115.
The website describes engineering capabilities in portfolio systems architecture, market data platform integration, custom analytics development, fund flow data pipelines, risk and compliance engineering, and managed operations and support. All of these activities are delivered by personnel engaged through GREAT DIVIDE INVESTMENTS LLC or by specialist contractors operating under our direction and under their own terms with us.
References in these terms to we, us or our mean GREAT DIVIDE INVESTMENTS LLC and its engaged personnel. References to you and your mean the individual or the entity that uses our site or that enters an engagement with us.
3. Nature of These Terms
These terms perform two distinct roles. The first is to govern the way any reader uses our public website, content and the information messages it carries. The second is to lay down the foundational rules that will apply whenever we provide professional engineering services, which rules will be joined by an engagement specific description whenever work begins.
In the event of a conflict between these general terms and a signed statement of work, charter or service agreement, the signed document takes precedence for the matters it specifically addresses. Where a signed document is silent on a topic, these general terms continue to apply to that topic as a fallback rule.
Nothing in these terms creates a partnership, a joint venture, an agency or an employment relationship between you and GREAT DIVIDE INVESTMENTS LLC. Each party continues to act as an independent operator with full responsibility for its own personnel, tax and obligations.
4. The Website and Its Content
We make reasonable efforts to ensure that the public information on https://www.greatdivide.buzz/ is accurate and up to date. The website is intended for general introduction and marketing purposes and does not constitute legal, financial, tax or investment advice to any reader. Any business decision you take on the strength of content found on this site is taken entirely at your own judgment.
The website content, layout, distinctive design language, text, illustrations and underlying code are protected by intellectual property law. You may view and print pages for your own legitimate business awareness, but you may not reproduce for commercial distribution, resell, or present substantial portions of the site as being your own work without our prior written authority.
We may change, suspend or withdraw any part of the website without prior notice where that is reasonable for maintenance, security or operational reasons. We owe no obligation to keep any particular page available, although we will ordinarily seek to inform our followers of planned outages where we have their contact details.
5. Information You Send Us
When you send us an enquiry through the contact form or by any other channel you should only include information that you have permission to share. Please do not attach confidential client data, trade secrets, passwords, security tokens or regulated material to a first message without a prior confidentiality agreement in place between us.
We will treat the content of an early enquiry as business confidential to the extent that it is clearly proprietary, but we cannot guarantee the confidentiality of a completely open first message on our public channels. If you wish to discuss matters of a plainly confidential nature, ask our team for a mutual non disclosure agreement before you put details on the record.
By submitting material to us through an early enquiry you grant us permission to use that material for the purpose of evaluating your request and preparing a proposal. You remain the owner of your underlying business material, but any generic methodology, reusable code pattern or engineering technique that our team develops in the course of responding to an enquiry belongs to us.
6. Proposals and Quotations
Any proposal, estimate or quotation that we issue is prepared in reliance on the information you have given us and is valid for the period that its cover letter states, usually thirty days. Figures are provided on a best estimate basis and may need to be revisited if the description of the work, the underlying data or the environment changes materially before it is signed.
Unless a quotation states otherwise, its price excludes taxes, levies and duties that apply to the transaction. Our standard invoices describe any applicable tax separately so that you can reconcile them with your own records.
No work begins on the strength of a discussion or an email. Work starts only after you have approved a written scope and, where required by the amount, we have opened a proper engagement with a purchase order, a signed charter or an equivalent authorisation that we can rely upon as an instruction.
7. Scopes of Work and Charters
Each engagement is described in a statement of work or charter that names the objectives, the deliverables, the boundaries of responsibility, the assumed constraints and the acceptance criteria. This document is the single source of truth for what the engagement includes. Anything not captured within that document is out of scope unless both parties later agree to add it in writing.
We will bring to your attention, as soon as we reasonably identify them, any requirement that appears to be missing, contradictory or impossible within the stated constraints. You agree to give our team timely access to the people, systems, data and decisions needed to complete the work, because delays in providing access are not something we can absorb at our own cost.
Once a scope is agreed it changes only by written change order. Routine clarifications that do not alter the outcome, the effort or the timeline are not treated as changes, but any request that affects cost or schedule is priced and agreed before the additional work is performed.
8. Delivery Milestones and Acceptance
We structure every engagement around milestones so that progress can be measured the way a stream gauge measures the daily flow of a river. Each milestone carries a defined output, and every significant output is reviewed against criteria that were agreed at the start of the engagement.
When we deliver a milestone in a form suitable for your review, the acceptance period stated in the charter begins. During that period you should test the deliverable against the agreed criteria and report any defect that means it does not satisfy those criteria. We will then correct reported defects before we regard the milestone as accepted.
If you do not raise a defect in writing during the acceptance period, the milestone is treated as accepted and the relevant invoice becomes due. Acceptance of a milestone does not waive any later claim that arises from a defect that was both latent and genuine, but it does mark the point at which ongoing change requests and defect fixes are governed by the separate arrangements set out below.
9. Our Fees and Payment Terms
Our fees are stated in the quotation or the statement of work. Unless another arrangement is agreed, we invoice on a monthly basis according to the milestone plan, and payment is due within the period named on the invoice, commonly thirty days from its date.
Invoices are payable in the currency stated on the quotation. Where an invoice is not settled by its due date, we may suspend ongoing work until the overdue amount is cleared, and we may submit a reminder or engage in standard collection activity. Interest on overdue amounts, where it applies in your jurisdiction, accrues from the due date at the rate permitted by law.
We review our standard rates from time to time. A change of rate applies only to work quoted after the change takes effect; work already quoted or under a signed charter continues at the agreed figures unless both parties sign a revised arrangement.
10. Who Owns What
Ownership of work products is settled explicitly within each charter, and the default position is described here. Intellectual property and continuing work on top of tools, frameworks, libraries and engineering techniques that existed before the engagement, or that we develop independently across more than one engagement, remains our property. You receive a permanent, non exclusive and royalty free licence to use that underlying material to the extent needed to benefit you from the engagement.
The reports, configuration, data layouts and bespoke material that our team produces specifically and solely for you within an engagement are delivered to you once your invoice for that work has been paid in full, subject to the licence granted back to us enabling the material to remain usable and maintainable by our operations team.
Both of us warrant that the content we contribute is material that we have the right to use, and neither of us will knowingly hand the other material that infringes the rights of a third party.
11. Confidentiality
During an engagement each party may see the other confidential business material. Confidential material includes technical designs, financial terms, client names, data samples, internal processes and any item marked or reasonably understood to be confidential.
Each of us agrees to keep the other confidential material secure, to use it only for the purposes of the engagement, and to avoid disclosing it to third parties except where the material is demonstrably public, is required by law, or is given to a professional adviser who is equally bound. This duty continues after the engagement ends.
A written non disclosure agreement may strengthen these protections where an engagement involves intensely sensitive information or regulated client data. Where such an agreement exists its terms sit alongside this clause, and the more protective provision of the two prevails for any given piece of material.
12. Our Client Data and Security Duties
Where we process client data on your behalf the exact obligations are set in the data processing schedule of the relevant charter. In general we agree to process that data only for the purposes of the engagement, to apply security controls equal to accepted professional practice, and to follow your reasonable written instructions regarding the data.
We will give notice of any suspected breach of the security of client data without undue delay once we become aware of it, so that you can take the steps required of you. We will cooperate with your reasonable investigation and with any regulator that has lawful jurisdiction over the matter.
On the close of an engagement we will return or destroy client data as you direct, except for the minimal copies that remain to evidence proper record keeping or that we are obliged by law to keep.
13. Warranties and Attempted Remedies
We warrant that the services we deliver will be performed using reasonable professional skill and care, that the deliverables will meet the agreed acceptance criteria when used in the environment for which they were designed, and that the work will not knowingly infringe the rights of a third party.
We do not warrant that any system will be free from every possible fault or immune to events beyond our control. Software and systems operate within changing environments, so our warranty is to exercise care and to correct defects that we can reproduce, and it is not an assurance against failure caused by misuse, unauthorised modification or a component we did not provide.
If a deliverable does not meet its criteria, within the stated warranty period and on reasonable notice from you, we will repair it in a professional manner. Repair within a reasonable time is our primary and preferred remedy, and we attempt it before any other form of remedy is considered.
14. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, GREAT DIVIDE INVESTMENTS LLC and its personnel will not be liable to you for indirect, incidental, consequential or special losses, including loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of opportunity, loss of data or the cost of substitute systems, arising from the website or an engagement, whether the claim sounds in contract, negligence or otherwise.
Our total aggregate liability to you for all claims arising in any twelve month period in connection with an engagement is limited to the fees you have paid to us for that engagement within the relevant period. Where a single piece of work stands alone, the limit is the fee paid for that work.
Nothing in these terms operates to exclude or restrict liability that the law does not allow us to exclude or restrict, including liability for that which is fraudulent, for personal injury caused by our negligence where we owe you a personal safety duty, or for any matter in respect of which such exclusion would be unlawful in your jurisdiction.
15. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless GREAT DIVIDE INVESTMENTS LLC, its engaged personnel and its officers against claims brought against us by a third party and arising from content or data that you supplied to us, from your use of a deliverable in a manner that we did not approve or define, or from your breach of these terms or of a signed charter.
We agree to defend and indemnify you against a claim that a deliverable we created specifically for you infringes the intellectual property of a third party, provided that you promptly notify us of the claim, give us control of the defence and do not admit any settlement without our agreement. Where such a claim appears likely we may, at our option, modify the deliverable to avoid the infringement or replace it with a non infringing equivalent.
The party that owes an indemnity must not settle the underlying claim in a way that imposes an obligation or a restriction on the other party without that other party written agreement.
16. Termination
Either party may end a convenience relationship by giving the written notice period named in the charter. Where no period is named, a reasonable period reflects the phase of the work and the cost of an orderly handover.
Either party may end an engagement immediately by written notice if the other party commits a material breach that is not remedied within the period stated in a prior written warning, or if the other becomes insolvent or is unable to meet its obligations as they fall due.
On termination you pay for all agreed work properly performed up to the effective date, together with any unavoidable cancellation cost that our team has reasonably incurred. Any obligations that by their nature should survive termination, including confidentiality, ownership, warranty and limitation of liability clauses, continue in force.
17. Governing Law and Disputes
These terms are governed by the law that applies to the state where GREAT DIVIDE INVESTMENTS LLC is registered, which is the state of Colorado, United States (US), without reference to its rules on the choice of law. You agree that the courts located in Colorado will be the exclusive forum for any dispute that arises from these terms, unless mandatory law in your own territory gives you access to a different forum.
Before either of us starts formal proceedings we will attempt to settle the dispute through a senior member of the other management team by friendly discussion and, where the value justifies it, through mediation on a jointly selected accredited mediator. Neither party will unreasonably refuse to consider a genuine offer of settlement.
Nothing in this clause prevents either party from seeking interim relief from a court where that is necessary to protect an urgent or irreparable interest, and neither party is prevented from enforcing a judgment already obtained in its favour.
18. Severability and Entire Agreement
If a court holds that any part of these terms is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that part will be treated as removed to the minimum extent required, and the remainder of the terms stays in full effect as if the removed part had never been written.
Together with the signed charter, quotation and any confidentiality or data processing agreement that accompanies your engagement, these terms constitute the entire agreement between you and GREAT DIVIDE INVESTMENTS LLC about the subject matter. They replace all prior oral or written representations that are not incorporated into the signed documents.
Our failure to enforce a provision on one occasion does not amount to a waiver of that provision or prevent us enforcing it on a later occasion.
19. Contact and Notices
Notices under these terms or under an engagement are validly given when sent to the business email address that the other party has nominated for the relationship, or when delivered in writing to the registered address of that party.
Notices intended for GREAT DIVIDE INVESTMENTS LLC should be sent to enquiry@greatdivide.buzz, or by post to 1171 Nathan Pl, Lafayette - 80026, United States (US). General business calls may be placed to +62895392577115.
This document does not confer any right on a person who is not a party to an engagement, and to the extent permitted by law nothing here creates rights enforceable by a third party.
20. General Information and Thanks
Thank you for reading the full terms of service. GREAT DIVIDE INVESTMENTS LLC tries to run an honest and straightforward engineering practice, and we kept this document detailed so that there are no surprises on either side of a working relationship.
If a point is unclear to you, or if it does not fit the particular shape of your project, please raise it with us at enquiry@greatdivide.buzz before you accept a quotation, and we will happily talk through the intended meaning.
Our website and our professional services are provided as described within the listed address of GREAT DIVIDE INVESTMENTS LLC, 1171 Nathan Pl, Lafayette - 80026, United States (US), and this is the starting place for all formal correspondence relating to these terms of service.