Terms of Service
You can see our previous Terms of Service here
Updated October 10, 2024
These are the terms of service (“Terms”) for F6S Network Limited (registered number 08522020), whose registered office is at 124 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom (“our”, “us” and “we”) which, along with our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Cookie Table and Security Practices (together, the “Policies”) govern your access to and use of our website, platform (“Platform”) and services.
We offer a broad range of services and products to individuals, startups, companies, organizations, governments and other entities that are viewed, accessed and consumed both physically and virtually through a range of interfaces and devices such as our website(s) at www.f6s.com and related sites, APIs, email services, plug-ins, applications, widgets, features, apps, and other technologies. We call these collectively “Service(s)” in our Policies.
These Policies apply to our provision of the Services unless we expressly state otherwise in writing, or we confirm that separate provisions apply in place of these Policies.
These Policies also apply to any information, pictures, audio, decks, videos or any other materials that are downloaded from, appear on or are uploaded to the Services.
What are the Services?
Our Services are intended to help technology start-up founders make the world a better place for everyone. We provide the Services to enable our community to drive positive global change toward this mission.
Who can use the Services?
In order to use the Services:
- be 16 years of age or older;
- use your real name and the real name of your organization as well as provide accurate, correct and truthful information;
- not allow anyone else to use your account or authentication information, or make it known to any other party;
- be allowed to use the Services under any and all laws that apply to you or our provision of the Services;
- have the authority to bind any organization, government or legal entity on behalf of who you use the Services. In these circumstances, you represent, warrant and confirm that you are authorized by such organization, government or legal entity to use our Services. If you are representing and binding an organization, government or legal entity to these Policies, all references to “you“ and “your“ will also be interpreted as referring to that entity; and
- not have had an account with us that was deleted by us due to your violation of these Policies.
If you use the Services, you agree to comply with the Policies.
In line with our policies, companies or individuals from sanctioned countries, regions or related or connected to individuals or entities subject to sanctions, cannot use our Services. Additional countries, regions, individuals and entities may be added or removed based on applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
What is the Privacy Policy and how does it relate to you processing personal information?
We use your personal information and any other information provided by you as part of the way in which we provide the Services. Our Privacy Policy sets out and describes how we collect, process, store and use your personal information. Your use of the Services shall be considered by us to be valid consent for us to process your personal information as part of our provision of the Services.
Your use of the Services and your Content
You may upload information including, but not limited to, files, images, documents, opinions and other material (“Content”) in relation to your use of the Services. You shall at all times keep and retain all rights in relation to any Content you submit, provide, upload or make available through your use of the Service.
You represent and warrant that you have the right, title, license or permissions required to submit, provide, upload, make available or interact with a part of your Content through the Services. You also represent and warrant that none of your Content is subject to anyone else’s copyright or other proprietary rights that you do not have a license or permission to use.
You agree, confirm and acknowledge that you may not, at any time, submit, provide, upload or make available any content which, whether in whole or in part:
- is unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, infringing, harassing or racially or ethnically offensive;
- facilitates illegal activity;
- depicts sexually explicit images;
- promotes unlawful violence;
- is discriminatory based on race, gender, color, religious belief, sexual orientation, disability;
- is calculated to damage or hinder the operation of the Services; or
- is otherwise illegal or causes damage or injury to any person or property.
You hereby grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license and the right to sublicense during your use of the Services and as required for a reasonable time afterwards as set out in these Terms so that we can reproduce, adapt, publish, transmit, process and distribute your Content in any media and distribution method used by the Platform. The Services are regularly updated and improved and you agree that the ways in which others interact with your Content will change in accordance with such updates and improvements. You agree that the license you give us to your Content allows us to make your Content available to other organizations and individuals, providing that such use is subject to our Policies. The license for your Content does not require compensation to you from us.
Our license to use your Content is extinguished when you remove such Content from our Service, although your Content may still be accessible by other users if you have given permission to use your Content in the course of your use of the Service. Your Content will continue to be available for some time in places such as our backups and other users may still have your data when they have created a local copy (for example as a file or hard-copy) that exists outside of the Service or our control, as well as other uses. Please see our Privacy Policy for more information.
You agree that any and all Content that you give, provide, upload or make available to us is not confidential or proprietary in any way whatsoever and you acknowledge and agree that it will not be treated as such by us or any other party that can access it as a result of your use of the Service. For the avoidance of doubt, any and all processing by us of personal information shall be in accordance with the provisions of our Privacy Policy. You confirm that you have the right to authorize us to process information you give us about other people on your behalf in accordance with this Privacy Policy. As an example, you can give us information about employees of your start-up, business or other entity.
When you use the Service you create an account that you will be solely responsible for. You can control most of the communications from us to you through the Service. In some cases, we may need to communicate with you about matters, such as support messages, messages sent in the course of helping you manage your account, updates, service announcements, moderating your profile or content, and similar types that you may not be able to opt-out from receiving. These will be sent in accordance with the terms of our Privacy Policy.
We love to receive feedback from you and do our best to use it to improve the Services. Please be aware that we may use your feedback for any reason and in any way whatsoever at our absolute discretion and without obligation to notify or compensate you.
The Platform, Content and our intellectual property rights
The Service provides and makes available Content submitted by entrepreneurs, startups, companies and other entities that have registered for an account with us. Any Content provided by any of these account holders is the responsibility of that user. We do not provide any advice of any kind whatsoever including, but not limited to, investment advice.
In general, your use or reliance on any Content or other information, material, views or opinions in, or in relation to, the Services is at your own risk. You should exercise good judgment and caution as many individuals and entities add their information to the Service and we do not represent, warrant or guarantee in any way whatsoever that anything in the Service is reliable, accurate, correct, accurate or truthful. Content on the Platform is the sole responsibility of those that submit it and can be harmful, incorrect, inappropriate or offensive. Please note that we do moderate Content on the Platform and F6S reserves the right to remove any content which is deemed illegal, criminal or otherwise inappropriate for display on our Platform, and/or to suspend or delete the account of any user responsible for such content. Where we do need to moderate content which you have posted, we will contact you to inform you of this action and of our reasons for doing so. You can however appeal this if you feel that your content has a valid reason to be on our platform, please contact support@f6s.com. Continued misuse or abuse of our service will result in suspension and possible deletion of a user’s profile. Please note that we investigate suspicious activity and are obliged to report any illegal or criminal activity to the relevant law enforcement authority. F6S will take no responsibility for any affiliation claims or actions that happen on the Platform.
We hereby give you a personal, world-wide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the Services as permitted by the Policies. that will only be modified by your exercise of your rights under the Policies and our rights amend, modify, restrict, delete or remove your use of the Services.
Controller-to-controller data sharing
Users of the Platform may have the functionality to export personal information of F6S users who have expressed interest by sharing and collaborating with other users in the Services’ community, consistent with the users’ preferences. For purposes of the GDPR, where there is a user-directed export of personal information or where the user already may access such personal information, the user and F6S will be independent controllers of that personal information originally derived on the F6S Platform. The parties agree that, for such cases, they would each act as a data controller with respect to their particular copy of the personal information. For clarity, parties agree that a joint controllership does not arise as the user has separate and independent reasons/purposes for processing the personal information. Each party will reasonably cooperate with the other party to enable the exercise of data protection rights as set forth in law only in relation to the personal information as processed on the Platform. Where the user exports data from the Platform, and that export results in a transfer of personal information out of the UK or the EEA, the user shall be solely responsible for compliance in relation to that data export/transfer.
There are links to many third-party sites and resources on the Platform that are provided by third-parties, which are provided for your information. The presence of any link on the Platform does not mean that we have approved them in any way and we make no representation, endorsement or recommendation of such links or their providers. We allow links in the Service to other websites that do not belong to us. The Policies apply only to the Service and not to any other websites, apps - really anything outside of the Service. Each third-party website may have policies different from our Policies and you should read and comply with these policies. We are not responsible for the terms, privacy practices or content of any of these third-parties or any harm you may encounter as a result of misuse of your data.
We have trademarks and intellectual property rights in the Services, including for example “F6S”, the F6S logo and the software used to provide the Services. You are not permitted to use or reproduce our trademarks or intellectual property, in whole or in part, without our prior written approval, and they are and shall at all times remain the exclusive and absolute property of ours and any of our licensors. We retain any and all rights whatsoever in and to our content.
You may not do any of the following while using the Service:
- crawl, scrape or otherwise retrieve any data whatsoever except through the interfaces that we support for direct, non-automated use by users, unless specifically permitted by our robots.txt file or explicitly authorized by us;
- scan or test the Service for vulnerabilities or try to get around authentication unless specifically contracted to do so by us;
- fake any e-mail message and/or e-mail address to make it appear as if it comes from us;
- use the Platform to misrepresent any other persons or organizations;
- interfere with the operation of the Service in such a way as to degrade use by other users;
- frame our website without our prior written permission;
- link to our website without permission; or
- suggest any association, approval or endorsement by us if none exists.
We do not disclose personal information to third-parties, except as described in our Privacy Policy. We do however reserve the right to read, record and disclose personal information as we believe is reasonably needed to enforce the Policies, comply with an applicable law, regulation or requests by a government entity, fulfill user support requirements and generally protect the security and integrity of the Service.
Use of AI in F6S Platform
F6S has integrated artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into its solutions. This AI functionality enhances our ability to analyze threats and provide more accurate, real-time security insights to protect your data and profile. It also helps us to tailor and recommend content to you based on your use of our Platform, such as communications we send to users based on interests or your profile. Please note that you can unsubscribe from receiving communications. F6S remains committed to protecting your privacy. We have taken appropriate steps to ensure that the use of AI aligns with our privacy and data security policies, and we continue to comply with all relevant regulations, including GDPR and UK GDPR.
What if you see something on F6S that infringes your intellectual property rights, or you just think we should know about?
Please e-mail us at support@f6s.com if you believe that your copyright or trademark rights are infringed by Content on the Platform, or if you are concerned about anything else on the Platform. Please include detailed information about your concern, including the specific rights, marks or actions that give rise to your concern. We will reply to notices of alleged copyright and intellectual property infringement that comply with applicable law.
When does F6S remove users, items and Content from the Platform?
We reserve the right to terminate, limit, restrict, suspend or warn users and Content. Actions that may lead to this include, but are not limited to, trademark and copyright infractions, illegal actions, criminal activity, harassing other users and posting fake profiles or information. Please report any behaviors that concern you through the Support feature on the site or directly to support@f6s.com.
F6S removes the Company Pages and Personal Profiles of companies and individuals from sanctioned countries and regions, as well as individuals and entities subject to sanctions and persons who are related or connected to such individuals or entities. The list of countries, regions, individuals and entities has changed occasionally and is expected to continue to do so. This data is deleted in line with our Privacy Policy and these Terms.
Out-of-Court Dispute Resolution Options
If you are based in the EEA and are a user of F6S services, you have a right to contact us if you feel that we have erred in removing content or disabling your access to our Platform. We generally only undertake such action where we strongly believe that your use of our services involves criminal or illegal activity and/or is in breach of our Terms.
To begin with, you can appeal by contacting us at support@f6s.com where we would be happy to review your request and revert with you as to our decision.
However, you also enjoy alternative options such as choosing other certified out-of-court dispute avenues, depending on the Member State in which you are located. We will at all times endeavor to work with a certified dispute settlement authority although we are not necessarily bound by its decision. For more information on this, please see here.
What if I want to add data from a third-party property into F6S?
If you are sharing data of a third-party with us (whether personal information or not) as part of your use of the Services, you must use commercially reasonable efforts so that the operator of the third party property, such as a a website, app or data source that is not under your control, obtains and documents valid consent from the users.
What Policies apply to your use of the Services?
These Terms, our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy apply to your use of the Services.
Changes, Liability and General
We are constantly updating and improving the Service to make them better for the community and for you. This may result in changes to features and configurations of Services, changes in our policies regarding Content and the discontinuation of specific features at our sole discretion. It also may result in our need to update these Terms and the Policies so that they correctly describe the Services and what we are doing for you.
We will post any change to the Policies on the relevant webpage and, if the changes are significant, provide a notice on a page where you use the Services, or by sending you notification by email. We encourage you to review our Policies when you use the Services to stay informed. If you choose to continue using the Services after any updated Policies become effective you agree to be bound by the new Policies. If you choose not to continue using the Services you can close your account at any time by selecting the option to request deletion of your profile in the settings section of your personal profile and not using any of the Services anymore.
We will use reasonable care and skill in providing you the Services, but we can’t guarantee that the Services will always be free from errors, always available or perfect and they may indeed cease operation, have errors or not operate as you desire. We shall not be liable to you in any way whatsoever for any loss, costs, expenses, claims or damages arising out of or in connection with your use of the Services whether the same are indirect or consequential loss, or economic loss or other loss of turnover, profits, business or goodwill. This applies whether in an action of contract, negligence or otherwise, even if such loss was reasonably foreseeable or we knew you might incur.
Any and all implied terms, conditions, warranties and representations are hereby excluded to the fullest extent permissible by law.
Our total liability (as well as our suppliers and distributors) for your use of the Services is limited to the amount you paid us to use the Service in the previous twelve (12) months, including for any implied warranties. In general, you agree when you use the Service that our liability and that of our affiliates, officers, directors, partners, licensors and any related entities is limited to the maximum extent allowed. Of course, the above does not limit our liability where to do so is not permitted by law.
The remaining part of the Policies will continue to be in full force and effect if any part of the Policies is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable.
No parties other than you and us shall have any rights whatsoever under these Terms and the provisions of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or other equivalent acts, laws or regulations shall not apply to these Terms.
All of our rights and obligations under the Policies will be assignable by us in the event of an acquisition, asset sale, assignment to an affiliate or merger.
These Terms (and the Policies) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and you and we hereby agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
How to contact us
We are F6S Network Limited, a company registered in England and Wales. Our company registration number is 08522020 and you can contact us by post at our registered office at 124 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom. Alternatively, you can reach us through the support features available on the Service and by e-mail through support@f6s.com.