Terms & Conditions

1. Acceptance of Terms

By creating an account, accessing, or using Founder First, you agree to be bound by these Terms & Conditions and any policies referenced in them. If you do not agree with these terms, you should not use the platform.

Founder First is a platform designed to help founders, businesses, and investors discover each other and initiate potential business or investment discussions. Founder First is not an investment firm, broker, financial adviser, investment adviser, lender, or party to any transaction between users.

2. Eligibility

You must be legally capable of entering into a binding agreement to use Founder First. By using the platform, you confirm that the information you provide is accurate, complete, and not misleading.

You are responsible for ensuring that your use of Founder First complies with all laws, regulations, and professional obligations applicable to you.

3. Accounts and Account Security

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity performed through your account. You must not share your account credentials with another person or allow another person to use your account.

If you believe that your account has been accessed without your authorization, you should notify Founder First promptly and take reasonable steps to secure the account.

4. Profiles, Businesses, and Portfolio Information

Founders, businesses, investors, and other users may submit information, images, descriptions, links, business details, investment preferences, portfolio information, and other materials for publication on the platform.

You are solely responsible for the information and materials you submit. You must not submit information that is false, fraudulent, materially misleading, unlawful, defamatory, or intended to deceive another user.

You must also have the necessary rights and permissions to submit and publish any content, image, logo, document, or other material that you upload to Founder First.

5. Review and Approval

Founder First may review submitted profiles, businesses, portfolio entries, and other content before making them publicly available. Approval means that the submission has passed Founder First's applicable review process; it does not mean that Founder First independently guarantees, verifies, or endorses every statement made by the user.

Founder First may reject, edit, restrict, suspend, or remove content or accounts where it believes that the content or activity violates these terms, applicable law, platform policies, or creates a risk to users or the platform.

6. Investment Opportunities and Business Information

Information displayed on Founder First may be provided directly by founders, businesses, investors, or other users. Users should independently evaluate any business, investment opportunity, financial information, claims, projections, representations, and other information before relying on it.

Founder First does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, profitability, viability, valuation, financial performance, or future prospects of any business, founder, investor, portfolio company, or investment opportunity listed on the platform.

Nothing on Founder First constitutes financial, investment, legal, tax, accounting, or other professional advice. Users should obtain independent professional advice where appropriate.

7. Connections and Transactions

Founder First may provide tools that allow users to express interest, send enquiries, reveal permitted contact information, or otherwise communicate with one another.

Any communication, negotiation, investment, financing, partnership, acquisition, or other transaction between users is solely between those users. Founder First is not a party to such arrangements and does not guarantee that a connection will result in a transaction or that any transaction will be completed successfully.

8. Contact Limits and Platform Usage

Certain features, including investor or founder contact functionality, may be subject to limits based on the applicable account plan or platform rules.

You must not attempt to bypass, manipulate, or circumvent contact limits, usage restrictions, subscription controls, or other technical or commercial limitations imposed by Founder First. This includes creating or controlling multiple accounts for the purpose of avoiding applicable restrictions.

9. Prohibited Activities

You must not use Founder First to commit fraud, impersonate another person or organization, distribute misleading information, harass other users, conduct unlawful activities, abuse platform functionality, interfere with platform security, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to accounts, systems, or data.

You must not use automated systems, scraping tools, bots, or other mechanisms to collect or misuse information from Founder First except where expressly authorized by Founder First.

10. User Content and Intellectual Property

You retain ownership of content that you submit to Founder First, subject to the rights and permissions necessary for Founder First to operate the platform.

By submitting content, you grant Founder First the permission necessary to host, store, reproduce, display, process, and distribute that content for operating, maintaining, improving, and providing the platform and its related services.

Founder First's software, branding, design, trademarks, interface, and other platform materials remain the property of Founder First or their respective rights holders and may not be copied, reproduced, modified, or commercially exploited without appropriate authorization.

11. Privacy and Contact Information

Founder First may process personal information as necessary to provide account functionality, facilitate permitted connections, maintain platform security, and operate its services. The handling of personal information is also subject to Founder First's Privacy Policy.

Users should not publish another person's private or confidential information without the appropriate permission or legal basis.

12. Third-Party Websites and Services

Founder First may contain links to third-party websites or services. These websites are operated independently from Founder First. We are not responsible for their availability, content, policies, security, or practices.

13. Suspension and Termination

Founder First may suspend, restrict, or terminate access to an account where necessary to protect users, maintain platform security, enforce these terms, investigate suspected abuse, or comply with applicable law.

You may stop using Founder First at any time. Provisions that by their nature should continue after termination may remain applicable, including provisions relating to intellectual property, disclaimers, limitations of liability, and indemnification.

14. Disclaimer

Founder First is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Founder First does not guarantee that the platform will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.

Founder First does not guarantee any particular investment return, business outcome, funding result, partnership, transaction, introduction, or commercial opportunity arising from use of the platform.

15. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Founder First will not be responsible for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive losses arising from or related to use of the platform, user interactions, investment decisions, business dealings, inaccurate user-submitted information, or third-party services.

16. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify and hold Founder First and its applicable officers, employees, and service providers harmless from claims, losses, liabilities, damages, and expenses arising from your violation of these terms, unlawful use of the platform, or content you submit to Founder First.

17. Changes to These Terms

Founder First may update these Terms & Conditions from time to time. The updated version will be published on this page with a revised update date. Your continued use of Founder First after the updated terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the revised terms to the extent permitted by law.

18. Governing Law

These Terms & Conditions shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws applicable to Founder First and its operations, subject to any mandatory rights or protections available to users under applicable law.

19. Contact

If you have questions regarding these Terms & Conditions, you may contact Founder First through the official contact channels provided on the platform.