# VenturePath Terms of Use: Owner and Counsel Review Copy

**Version:** 0.3
**Review date:** 16 August 2026
**Operator:** `[INSERT REGISTERED LEGAL ENTITY, FORM, ADDRESS, REGISTRATION NUMBER]`  
**Contact:** `[INSERT SUPPORT AND LEGAL CONTACTS]`

> This owner and counsel review copy supports service design. It is not legal advice. Bracketed provisions must be completed before a broader public launch or any paid offering.

## 1. The service

VenturePath is an educational business-planning and venture-learning service for small teams. It helps users structure assumptions, research customers, record evidence, model a business, plan operations and finances, consider social impact, and compile approved work.

The current early-access service uses verified accounts, server-enforced workspace membership, account-backed storage and a device recovery copy. Users can export portable copies of their work. The service does not currently process payments, provide connected AI, or provide live professional advice.

## 2. Agreement and electronic records

By selecting “I agree” during production registration, you enter an electronic agreement with the Operator. Before acceptance, the service must let you open, download, and retain these Terms; identify and correct input errors; and receive an acceptance confirmation. The production system will record the Terms version, content hash, time, account, locale, and acceptance route.

The Privacy Notice is presented separately. Acknowledging that notice does not create blanket consent for every processing purpose. Optional marketing, analytics, research, and model-training choices must be separate.

## 3. Eligibility and authority

You must be at least 18 years old. If you create or use a workspace for an organization, program, or venture team, you confirm you have authority to do so and to bind that organization where these Terms say you do. Accounts for minors are excluded until separately reviewed age, parental/institutional consent, and safeguarding controls exist.

## 4. Accounts and security

Accounts require verified control of the registered email address through the configured authentication service. You must provide accurate account information, keep credentials and recovery methods secure, review active sessions, and notify the Operator promptly of suspected compromise. The Operator may require stronger authentication for owners, administrators, or sensitive actions.

Do not share credentials or use hidden links, invitation codes, or another person’s session as authorization. Workspace roles and permissions determine access.

## 5. Venture teams and permissions

A VenturePath project may have up to five active venture members in the initial product. Owners invite members, assign roles, and control mentor/reviewer visibility subject to server-enforced permissions. Members may see shared project evidence, decisions, and outputs; private reflections and restricted customer identifiers remain separately controlled.

The Operator does not decide ownership, equity, employment, partnership, fiduciary, or governance relationships among team members. Teams should document these matters separately with qualified advisers.

## 6. Your content

You retain ownership of business plans, venture records, evidence, files, comments, financial inputs, and other content you submit (“User Content”). You grant the Operator a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide licence to host, copy, process, transmit, back up, and display User Content only as necessary to provide, secure, support, and comply with law for the service.

The Operator may not use confidential venture content to train a shared model or build a cross-customer benchmark without a separate, specific, revocable opt-in and appropriate de-identification/governance. A customer agreement may impose stricter terms.

You confirm you have the rights and lawful basis needed to submit User Content, including personal data, interviews, recordings, confidential information, and third-party intellectual property. Minimize and pseudonymize customer data. Do not upload special-category, regulated, children’s, health, government-ID, bank-login, payment-card, or similarly sensitive data unless the product explicitly supports it under a separately approved process.

## 7. Acceptable use

You must follow the [Acceptable Use Policy](acceptable-use-policy.md). You may not use VenturePath for unlawful, deceptive, harmful, discriminatory, infringing, abusive, surveillance, credential-theft, or security-attack activity; fabricate evidence or approvals; impersonate others; evade access controls; upload malware; or expose data you lack authority to share.

## 8. AI-assisted features

If activated in a later release, AI may help research public sources, suggest questions, challenge assumptions, or summarize linked evidence. The current service does not provide connected AI. Any future AI output can be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, stale, or unsuitable and remains a proposal, not customer evidence, an approved decision, a deterministic calculation, or professional advice.

Users remain responsible for verifying sources, protecting confidential data, conducting primary research, approving decisions, and obtaining qualified legal, tax, accounting, investment, employment, technical, sectoral, or regulatory advice. See the [AI Data Use Notice](ai-data-use-notice.md).

## 9. No professional advice or guaranteed outcome

VenturePath is an educational and planning aid. It does not certify a business, guarantee funding, customers, compliance, profitability, social impact, or investment readiness. Financial, risk, market, and impact outputs depend on user inputs and assumptions. A conclusion to change, pause, or stop a venture is a valid outcome.

## 10. Frameworks and third-party services

The Business Model Canvas is provided with attribution to Strategyzer AG under the applicable Creative Commons terms and [Strategyzer usage guidance](https://www.strategyzer.com/legal/usage-of-our-tools). VenturePath is not endorsed by Strategyzer. Third-party sites, services, authentication, hosting, email, storage, and integrations have their own terms and availability.

## 11. Early access, fees, and cancellation

Early access is free. Before any paid offering, the Operator must publish the price, taxes, billing interval, included usage, renewal, cancellation, refund, trial, and account-deletion terms before the user places an order, and provide an electronic receipt. Qatar and other consumer cancellation rules must be reviewed for the final service and customer type.

## 12. Availability and changes

The early-access service may change, pause, or end without a guaranteed availability commitment. Material feature removals, price changes and legal-term changes require reasonable advance notice unless urgent security, legal or abuse response requires faster action.

## 13. Suspension and termination

The Operator may restrict or suspend access to protect users, investigate abuse, comply with law, or address material breach. Except where unsafe or unlawful, the user should receive the reason and a way to appeal. Users may stop using the service at any time. Termination includes the export and deletion handling described in the Privacy Notice and Retention & Deletion Schedule.

## 14. Confidentiality

The service will treat non-public User Content as confidential and limit access to authorized delivery, support, security, legal, and vendor functions. This clause does not replace a mutual NDA, pilot agreement, data processing addendum, or institutional confidentiality requirements.

## 15. Intellectual property

The Operator and licensors retain rights in the service, software, brand, original guidance, design, and documentation. Subject to these Terms, users receive a limited, revocable, non-transferable right to access the service for internal venture planning. Feedback may be used to improve the product if it does not disclose confidential venture/customer information and the user has permission to provide it.

## 16. Warranty and liability

`[COUNSEL MUST REWRITE FOR THE OPERATOR, CUSTOMER TYPE, AND APPLICABLE MANDATORY LAW.]`

To the maximum extent legally permitted, the early-access service is provided “as is” and “as available.” Nothing excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including liability arising from fraud, wilful misconduct, or mandatory consumer/data-protection rights. Any later liability cap, excluded loss categories, remedy and enterprise service level must be stated fairly and conspicuously.

## 17. Indemnity

`[COUNSEL INPUT REQUIRED.]` Any indemnity should be proportionate and should not waive mandatory consumer rights. A possible business-customer scope is third-party claims caused by unlawful User Content, infringement, or material breach of the Acceptable Use Policy.

## 18. Governing law and disputes

`[INSERT GOVERNING LAW, COURT/ARBITRATION, CONSUMER RIGHTS SAVINGS, COMPLAINT ROUTE, AND LANGUAGE PRECEDENCE AFTER ENTITY/JURISDICTION CONFIRMATION.]`

If the Operator is established in Qatar, counsel should assess Qatar Law No. 13 of 2016, Decree Law No. 16 of 2010 on Electronic Commerce and Transactions, Consumer Protection Law No. 8 of 2008, civil/commercial law, and applicable NCSA/MCIT/MOCI guidance. Because the intended user community includes Philippine users and business owners, counsel must also assess the Philippine Data Privacy Act, consumer/e-commerce rules and other Philippine obligations triggered by the actual operator, contracts and processing. Relevant country-specific GCC requirements must be assessed where a venture operates or serves customers.

## 19. Changes to these Terms

Material changes require a new immutable document version and advance notice. A production user should be asked to re-agree when the contractual change is material; continued use alone should not be relied on where express acceptance is legally or commercially appropriate. Historic versions and acceptance receipts must remain available.

## 20. Contact

Support: `[INSERT]`  
Legal notices: `[INSERT]`  
Privacy requests: `[INSERT]`  
Registered address: `[INSERT]`