Terms of Use
These terms govern use of Idea Vault. They are a starting draft for this release. A qualified lawyer should review them for each jurisdiction before public launch.
Idea Vault records do not automatically transfer intellectual property, issue equity, create employment, or replace legal documents. Use qualified legal, tax, securities, employment, and accounting professionals before relying on a participation record as a binding transaction.
1. Eligibility and accounts
You must be legally able to enter these terms and provide accurate account information. Keep credentials confidential, use your own account, and promptly revoke sessions you do not recognize. You are responsible for activity under your active sessions.
2. The service
Idea Vault helps people assess and define ideas, track evidence, build teams, control project access, and keep offers, agreements, and work on record. AI output, matches, Project Health, Marketplace suggestions, and APM previews can help with decisions. They are not guarantees, professional advice, valuations, or promises of success.
3. Your content and intellectual property
You retain the rights you hold in content you submit. You grant the service a limited permission to host, process, display, back up, and transmit that content only as needed to operate the service and honor the access settings you choose. You must have the right to submit the content and must not upload another person’s confidential information or intellectual property without authorization.
A Public Teaser is intentionally public. Publishing it authorizes display in Discover until you unpublish it. Do not place trade secrets or confidential material in the public fields.
4. Collaboration and confidentiality
Access labels and acknowledgments state the team’s expectations. They do not replace a negotiated NDA, invention-assignment agreement, contractor agreement, employment agreement, license, or other legal document. Users must follow the access they receive and may not copy, disclose, use, or redistribute protected project information outside the allowed purpose.
5. Participation and economic records
Offers, counteroffers, future commitments, ownership entries, revenue obligations, contribution records, and integrity hashes record what users entered or accepted. They do not by themselves issue equity or complete a legal transaction. Pre-company commitments still require review and appropriate legal documents after formation. “Approved pending issuance” is not issued equity. The 100% percentage limit does not decide capitalization, dilution, taxes, securities compliance, or enforceability.
6. AI and automated suggestions
AI questions, plans, summaries, suggested roles, scores, and next steps may be incomplete or wrong. Check them against the actual project, evidence, law, and qualified advice. A category guides the questions; it does not validate the idea. Yes/No answers and AI output are not legal advice, regulated decisions, or factual guarantees.
7. Acceptable use
Do not use Idea Vault to violate law or another person’s rights; impersonate others; upload malware; probe or bypass security; scrape private data; manipulate contribution or ownership records; send spam; publish deceptive teasers; harass users; or build, finance, or coordinate harmful or prohibited activity. Operators may restrict or close access needed to protect users or the service.
8. Files, backups, and availability
Production configurations require persistent data storage and verified backups, but no service can guarantee uninterrupted availability or recovery of every item. Keep independent copies of important originals and signed legal documents. File limits and supported formats may change for security or operational reasons.
9. Marketplace and third parties
Marketplace listings and external links may identify possible specialists, assets, programs, or providers. Idea Vault does not endorse or guarantee third parties. Users are responsible for diligence, contracts, payment, licensing, safety, and compliance outside the service.
10. Privacy
The Privacy Notice explains data handling, disclosure layers, exports, retention, and account closure. By using the service, you acknowledge that notice.
11. Account closure and retained records
You may close your account from Account security. Unfinished Founder Idea Intakes are deleted. Projects you own become read-only historical records; Founder-only planning content is sealed, public listings are withdrawn, and your stored files enter a verified deletion queue. Active project access ends. Accepted agreements and material money, work, ownership, obligation, and integrity records remain under “Former member” when other participants rely on them. Transfer project ownership first if active work should continue.
12. Disclaimers and liability
The service is provided on an “as available” basis to the extent permitted by applicable law. Idea Vault does not warrant idea viability, assessment accuracy, project success, match quality, funding, IP protection, enforceability of a record, uninterrupted access, or error-free AI output. To the extent permitted by law, the operator is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or lost-opportunity damages arising from service use. Deployment-specific terms should add the operator identity, governing law, required consumer notices, and any applicable liability cap.
13. Changes and termination
Terms may change as the service develops. Material changes should be dated and communicated appropriately. You may stop using the service at any time; operators may suspend access for security, legal, or material-breach reasons.
14. Contact
Idea Vault is not a law firm, and product guidance is not legal advice. Questions about these terms can be sent through the Idea Vault contact form.