Terms & Conditions

These Terms govern your use of the 1found1 app and website (the "Service"), operated by Victoria von Schmettow, Gabelsbergerstraße 9, 80333 München, Germany ("1found1", "we", "us"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

You must be at least 18 years old and have the legal capacity to enter into a binding agreement. The Service is intended for founders and prospective founders seeking co-founders and professional connections.

You sign in via Google. You are responsible for activity on your account and for keeping your access secure, and you agree to provide accurate, up-to-date information.

1found1 is a platform that helps people discover and connect with potential co-founders. We provide the technical means (profiles, expressions of interest, matches, messaging). We are not a party to, and take no part in, any relationship, agreement, collaboration, venture, or communication between users.

You agree NOT to:

• provide false, misleading, or impersonating information;
• harass, threaten, abuse, defame, or discriminate against others;
• post unlawful, infringing, sexually explicit, or hateful content;
• use the Service for spam, advertising, unrelated recruiting, or fraud;
• scrape, disrupt, or reverse-engineer the Service or other users’ data.

You retain ownership of your content (profile text, photos, messages) and grant 1found1 a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, and display it solely to operate the Service. You represent that you own or have all necessary rights to your content, including any photographs, and that it infringes no third-party rights.

1found1 is a platform for making connections; it is not a guarantee of any outcome. We do not guarantee that you will find a match, a co-founder, a compatible partner, or any business or personal success. We do not verify, vet, background-check, or endorse any user, their identity, statements, skills, or intentions.

Any interaction with another user, online or in person, is entirely at your own risk. You are solely responsible for your decisions, your safety, and your own due diligence before meeting, collaborating, sharing information, or entering any arrangement. To the maximum extent permitted by law, 1found1 is not responsible for the conduct of any user, whether online or offline.

The Service necessarily involves users discussing business ideas, plans, and projects. You acknowledge and agree that:

• no confidentiality obligation, non-disclosure agreement, or fiduciary relationship is created between you and any other user, or between you and 1found1, by your use of the Service or anything you share through it;
• you share any idea, concept, or confidential information entirely at your own risk;
• you are solely responsible for protecting your own ideas and intellectual property, e.g., by choosing what to disclose, entering your own written NDA before sharing sensitive information, and securing your own IP rights;
• 1found1 is not liable for any "idea theft", misappropriation, copying, misuse, or disclosure of any idea or information by any user. 1found1 does not monitor and is not responsible for what users do with information they receive.

You can report users or content via the in-app reporting function. We may review reports and remove content or accounts at our discretion, but we are not obliged to monitor content and do not guarantee any particular outcome or timing.

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate access if you breach these Terms or if we discontinue the Service.

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied (e.g., fitness for a particular purpose, availability, accuracy), to the maximum extent permitted by law.

To the extent permitted by law, Victoria von Schmettow is liable only for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, for injury to life, body, or health, and under mandatory statutory liability (e.g., the German Product Liability Act). For slight negligence, we are liable only for breach of a material contractual obligation (cardinal duty), limited to the foreseeable, typical damage. Any further liability is excluded. In particular, 1found1 is not liable for the conduct of users, for the success or failure of any connection or venture, or for the misuse of ideas or information shared between users (see §§ 7–8).

You agree to indemnify and hold Victoria von Schmettow harmless from claims, damages, and reasonable costs arising out of your content, your use of the Service, or your breach of these Terms or third-party rights, except to the extent caused by our intentional or grossly negligent conduct.

We may amend these Terms; the current version is always available in the app. Material changes will be communicated appropriately, and continued use constitutes acceptance.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Mandatory consumer-protection provisions of your country of residence remain unaffected. Place of jurisdiction is Munich, where legally permissible.

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