Terms of Use
The terms that govern your use of fons.vc during the pre-launch period. Short, in plain English.
1. Who you are agreeing with
By using fons.vc you enter an agreement with Lewis Rogers, trading as Fons.vc, based in the United Kingdom ("Fons.vc", "we", "us"). If you do not agree with these terms, please do not use the site.
2. What Fons.vc is today
Fons.vc is pre-launch. Today the site is a marketing surface, a founder registration form (capturing basic company and founder details and, optionally, a pitch deck so we can build your future founder profile), and a VC fund access-request form on the For VC funds page (capturing basic fund details so we can schedule a walkthrough). Some pages — including the decision-engine harness and any operator dashboards — are internal-only and gated behind authentication.
We are not investors. We do not provide funding, financial advice, legal advice, tax advice, or any kind of regulated activity. Anything we say about a business, its readiness, or its likely outcome is informational only and must not be treated as a recommendation to invest or as a basis for any investment decision.
3. Your account and your information
- The information you submit must be accurate and yours to share. If you submit information about a company, you confirm that you are authorised to do so (typically: you are a founder of that company). If you submit information about a VC fund, you confirm that you are authorised to do so on its behalf (typically: you are a partner, principal, or analyst at that fund).
- If you upload a pitch deck, you confirm you have the right to share it with us for the purpose described in our Privacy Policy.
- Keep your registration details up to date. Email us if anything changes.
4. Acceptable use
Don't use the site to:
- Impersonate another person, founder, or company.
- Submit content that is unlawful, defamatory, infringing, or fraudulent.
- Upload malware, attempt to break, probe, overload, or reverse-engineer the service, or extract data at scale without our written permission.
- Bypass authentication, rate limits, or technical controls.
- Resell or republish material from the site without permission.
We may suspend or terminate access for any breach, and remove content at our discretion.
5. Intellectual property
The Fons.vc name, logo, decision engine, scoring methodology, content, and codebase are owned by us (or licensed to us). You may share links to fons.vc and reference us in articles, decks, and posts with a credit. Anything else — copying our content, redistributing our methodology, scraping the directory — requires written permission.
You keep ownership of everything you submit (your company details, your pitch deck, your profile data). You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, process, and use your submission for the sole purpose of operating Fons.vc and providing the service to you. If we ever want to use your information for anything else — for example, public case studies or aggregated analyses that could identify you — we will ask first.
6. Decision-engine output
Where the site exposes any scoring, banding, or qualitative feedback (for example, a Launch Readiness Score band on a founder profile), it is generated by our deterministic rubric plus, where used, a structured language-model pass. It is intended as a structured signal for the founder, not as a guarantee, a credit rating, an audit, or an investment opinion. Investors who view a profile draw their own conclusions; outcomes are theirs.
7. Availability and changes
We may add, change, suspend, or remove features without notice during the pre-launch period. We do not promise uninterrupted availability of the site. We may also change these terms — we will update the "Last updated" date at the top and, for material changes, give registered users reasonable notice.
8. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law:
- The site is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind, express or implied (including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement).
- We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive losses, or for loss of profit, revenue, goodwill, opportunity, or data, arising out of or in connection with your use of the site.
- Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited — including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud.
9. Governing law and jurisdiction
These terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them are governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction, except that we may bring proceedings in another jurisdiction to protect our intellectual property rights.
10. Contact
Questions about these terms: admin@fons.vc.