Terms of Service

Template disclaimer: These Terms of Service are a template for an early-stage SaaS product. They should be reviewed and adapted by a qualified legal professional before publication.

1. Introduction

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of ValentProof, a web application operated by [Company Name] ("we", "us", or "our").

ValentProof helps users validate business or product ideas before investing significant time, money, or resources into building them.

By using ValentProof, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, you must not use the service.

2. Acceptance of Terms

By creating an account, accessing ValentProof, using any feature, submitting an idea, starting a subscription, or otherwise using the service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to these Terms.

If you use ValentProof on behalf of a company, organization, or other legal entity, you confirm that you have authority to bind that entity to these Terms.

3. Description of the Service

ValentProof allows users to:

• Create and manage business or product ideas
• Answer guided validation questions
• Receive validation-oriented feedback
• Track validation progress
• Review risks, assumptions, and next steps
• Manage account and billing information
• Access paid or free features, depending on the applicable plan

ValentProof may include admin tools, analytics, activity logs, payment integrations, security monitoring, and support tooling.

The service may change over time.

4. Eligibility

You may use ValentProof only if you are legally able to enter into a binding agreement under the laws of your country or region.

You must not use ValentProof if you are prohibited from doing so under applicable laws.

5. User Accounts

To access certain features, you may need to create an account.

You agree to:

• Provide accurate and current information
• Keep your login credentials secure
• Not share your account with unauthorized users
• Notify us if you suspect unauthorized access
• Be responsible for activity under your account

We are not responsible for losses caused by unauthorized account access resulting from your failure to protect your credentials.

6. User Responsibilities

You are responsible for how you use ValentProof and for all content you submit.

You agree to use ValentProof only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms.

You are responsible for evaluating whether ValentProof is suitable for your needs and for making your own business, product, financial, legal, and investment decisions.

7. User-Submitted Ideas and Content

ValentProof allows you to submit business ideas, product ideas, answers, notes, assumptions, and other content ("User Content").

You are responsible for ensuring that your User Content is lawful, accurate, and does not violate the rights of others.

You must not submit content that is illegal, harmful, abusive, misleading, confidential to a third party, infringing, or otherwise unlawful.

8. Ownership of User Content

You retain ownership of the business ideas, product ideas, answers, notes, and other User Content you submit to ValentProof.

We do not claim ownership of your User Content.

9. License to Operate the Service

By submitting User Content to ValentProof, you grant us a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, host, store, process, reproduce, display, and analyze your User Content only as reasonably necessary to:

• Provide the service
• Generate or display validation-related feedback
• Maintain your account
• Track validation progress
• Provide support
• Improve and secure the service
• Monitor abuse or technical issues
• Comply with legal obligations

This license ends when your User Content is deleted from our active systems, except where retention is required for legal, security, backup, compliance, or legitimate business purposes.

10. Confidentiality Limitations

ValentProof may be used to submit commercially sensitive business or product ideas.

However, ValentProof is not a dedicated confidential disclosure platform, legal escrow service, patent filing service, or professional advisory service.

We will apply reasonable safeguards as described in our Privacy Policy, but we do not guarantee confidentiality beyond those protections.

You are responsible for deciding what information to submit. You should not submit information that you are not comfortable processing through an online SaaS product.

11. Prohibited Use

You must not use ValentProof to:

• Break any applicable law or regulation
• Submit illegal, harmful, abusive, hateful, or discriminatory content
• Submit confidential information belonging to a third party without authorization
• Submit copyrighted, trademarked, or otherwise protected content without permission
• Infringe intellectual property, privacy, or contractual rights
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to systems or accounts
• Interfere with or disrupt the service
• Reverse engineer, scrape, copy, or misuse the service except as permitted by law
• Upload malware or malicious code
• Use the service for spam, fraud, phishing, or deceptive activity
• Misrepresent your identity or affiliation
• Abuse free trials, promotions, or plan limits
• Use the service to make unlawful or harmful business decisions

12. Paid Plans, Subscriptions, and Billing

ValentProof may offer free features, paid plans, subscriptions, usage limits, or one-time purchases.

Pricing, features, plan limits, billing periods, and availability may be shown on our website or inside the application.

Payments may be processed by a third-party provider such as [Payment Provider]. By purchasing a paid plan, you may also agree to that provider's terms and privacy policy.

Unless otherwise stated:

• Fees are billed in advance
• Subscription fees may renew automatically
• You authorize payment of applicable fees, taxes, and charges
• You are responsible for keeping billing information accurate
• We may suspend access if payment fails or billing information is invalid

ValentProof does not store full payment card details unless explicitly stated. Full card details are typically handled by [Payment Provider].

13. Cancellations and Refunds

You may cancel your subscription according to the cancellation process available in your account settings or by contacting us at [Contact Email].

Unless required by law or expressly stated otherwise:

• Cancellations may take effect at the end of the current billing period
• Fees already paid are non-refundable
• Partial billing period refunds are not guaranteed
• Access to paid features may continue until the end of the paid period

Any refund policy should be clearly stated on the pricing page or checkout flow.

14. Admin Access and Moderation

Authorized administrators may access user accounts, ideas, validation answers, billing status, activity logs, and related information where necessary for:

• Support
• Moderation
• Billing
• Security
• Debugging
• Product improvement
• Analytics
• Abuse prevention
• Legal compliance

We may review, restrict, remove, or disable access to content or accounts if we believe these Terms have been violated or if required to protect the service, users, or third parties.

15. Suspension and Termination

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to ValentProof if:

• You violate these Terms
• You fail to pay applicable fees
• Your use creates security, legal, operational, or reputational risk
• We are required to do so by law
• We discontinue the service or certain features

You may stop using ValentProof at any time.

Termination does not automatically delete all data immediately. Some information may be retained as described in our Privacy Policy.

16. No Guarantee of Business Success

ValentProof is designed to help users think more clearly about business or product ideas.

However, ValentProof does not guarantee:

• Business success
• Product-market fit
• Market validation
• Customer demand
• Funding
• Revenue
• Profitability
• Investment outcomes
• Legal compliance
• Accuracy of market assumptions
• Correctness of strategic decisions

All feedback, scores, recommendations, and next steps are informational only.

You remain solely responsible for your decisions and actions.

17. Third-Party Services

ValentProof may rely on or integrate with third-party services, including:

• [Hosting Provider]
• [Payment Provider]
• [Analytics Provider]
• Authentication providers
• Email providers
• Monitoring and logging tools
• Customer support tools

We are not responsible for third-party services, websites, terms, policies, availability, or actions.

Your use of third-party services may be subject to separate terms and privacy policies.

18. Intellectual Property

ValentProof, including its software, design, branding, text, workflows, interface, validation structure, and other service materials, is owned by [Company Name] or its licensors.

Except for your User Content, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, distribute, sell, lease, reverse engineer, or create derivative works based on ValentProof unless permitted by law or authorized by us in writing.

All trademarks, logos, and brand elements are the property of their respective owners.

19. Service Availability and Changes

We aim to provide a reliable service, but we do not guarantee that ValentProof will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.

We may change, suspend, remove, or discontinue any part of the service at any time, including:

• Features
• Pricing
• Plans
• Limits
• Integrations
• Availability
• User interface
• Validation logic
• Reports or outputs

We may also perform maintenance or updates that temporarily affect access.

20. Disclaimers

ValentProof is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied, or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, availability, and reliability.

ValentProof does not provide legal, financial, investment, tax, or professional business advice. You should seek professional advice where appropriate.

21. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, [Company Name] and its owners, employees, contractors, partners, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, revenue, data, business opportunities, goodwill, or expected savings.

Our total liability for any claim related to ValentProof will be limited to the amount you paid to us for the service during the period of [Insert Liability Period] before the claim arose, or [Insert Liability Cap], whichever is lower, unless applicable law requires otherwise.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so some limitations may not apply to you.

22. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless [Company Name] from claims, damages, liabilities, losses, and expenses arising from:

• Your use of ValentProof
• Your User Content
• Your violation of these Terms
• Your violation of applicable law
• Your infringement of third-party rights

This obligation applies to the extent permitted by applicable law.

23. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of [Jurisdiction], without regard to conflict of law principles.

Any disputes will be handled by the courts or dispute resolution bodies located in [Jurisdiction], unless applicable consumer protection laws require otherwise.

24. Changes to the Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time.

If we make material changes, we may notify users through the service, by email, or by other reasonable means.

Your continued use of ValentProof after updated Terms become effective means you accept the updated Terms.

25. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms, contact us at:

[Company Name] [Company Address] Email: [Contact Email]