Terms of service

1. Agreement

These terms are an agreement between you and Founders Verify (“Founders Verify”, “we”, “us”) about your use of foundersverify.com (the “Site”). By using the Site you agree to these terms and to our privacy policy. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the Site.

2. Founders Verify is a for-profit business

Founders Verify is operated for profit. It is not a charity, a nonprofit, a consumer advocacy group or a government body. We run the Site to make money.

3. We earn affiliate commissions

Many links on the Site are affiliate links, and we earn commissions from them. If you click an affiliate link and buy something, the seller or an affiliate network may pay us a commission. This is our main source of income. You won’t pay more because you used our link.

Affiliate links on the Site usually go through an address beginning foundersverify.com/go/, and we label buy buttons as affiliate links. Assume any link to a product or service you can buy may be an affiliate link. We may also, in the future, earn money from sponsorships or advertising, which we will label “Sponsored”. Commissions and sponsorships never decide a review score. See How we make money for details.

4. Reviews are opinions, not advice

• Reviews, scores and recommendations on the Site are the honest opinions of the people who wrote them, based on their own experience. Your experience may be different.
• Content on the Site is for general information only. It is not medical, health, sleep, legal, tax, financial or investment advice. Talk to a qualified professional about your situation, especially before making health decisions.
• Prices, features, availability and offers change, and we can’t guarantee that what you see on the Site is current. Always check the seller’s site before you buy.

5. Purchases are with the seller, not us

We don’t sell the products we review. Any purchase you make is between you and the seller, under the seller’s terms. Questions about orders, shipping, returns, warranties, subscriptions or refunds go to the seller. We aren’t responsible for third-party websites, products or services, even when we link to or recommend them.

6. Using the Site

You may use the Site for your own personal, non-commercial use. You agree not to:

• copy, republish or sell our content without permission, except for short quotes with a link back;
• scrape the Site in bulk or use automated tools that put a heavy load on it;
• tamper with or misuse affiliate links, or generate fake clicks;
• send spam, malware or unlawful content through our forms;
• try to break, bypass or interfere with the Site’s security.

7. Content you send us

If you submit a review, a take, a pitch or other content (“Submissions”), you confirm that it’s your own honest opinion, based on real use, and that you’ve told us about any connection to the brand (for example, being an employee, investor or shareholder, or getting the product free). You keep ownership of your Submission, and you give Founders Verify a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual license to use, edit, publish and promote it, with credit to you, on the Site and in our newsletter and social channels. We may decide not to publish any Submission. Guest reviewers are not paid unless we agree otherwise in writing.

8. Our content

The Site’s text, scores, design, logo and photos belong to Founders Verify or our licensors and are protected by intellectual property laws. Brand and product names belong to their owners; mentioning them doesn’t mean those brands endorse us or we are affiliated with them, other than through affiliate programs as described above.

9. Disclaimer

The Site and its content are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including accuracy, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We don’t promise that the Site will always be available or error-free.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Founders Verify and its owners will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss arising from your use of the Site, any product or service you buy after reading the Site, or any third-party website. Our total liability for any claim related to the Site is limited to US$100. Some places don’t allow these limits, so they may not fully apply to you.

11. Indemnity

You agree to cover Founders Verify against claims and costs arising from your Submissions or your breach of these terms.

12. Changes and ending access

We may change the Site or these terms at any time. When we change the terms, we’ll update the date at the top; using the Site after that means you accept the new terms. We may suspend or block access for anyone who breaks them.

13. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and of the state where Founders Verify is organized, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be handled in the courts of that state, unless the law where you live requires otherwise.

14. Contact

Questions about these terms: hello@foundersverify.com.