Terms of Service

1. Description of the Service

Fonda is a web-based platform, accessible via desktop and mobile browsers, that uses artificial intelligence and proprietary algorithms to help individuals generate, explore, structure, and validate business ideas.

The Service may include, among other features, idea generation, business planning, validation guidance, market exploration, website generation, pitch materials, and other tools designed to support the founder journey.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service. The Service is currently intended for individual users and not for companies, unless otherwise agreed with Fonda.

3. User Accounts

You must create an account to access certain features of the Service. You may only create one account per user and must provide accurate, complete, and up-to-date information. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials.

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, misuse the Service, create security risks, or otherwise harm the platform or other users.

4. User Inputs, Profiles, and Generated Content

You may provide information such as your skills, experience, interests, objectives, constraints, business ideas, project descriptions, CV, LinkedIn profile, or other professional information. This information is used to personalize the Service and help the AI model suggest relevant ideas, next steps, and business choices.

You retain ownership of the content you input into the Service, including your business ideas, personal profile information, LinkedIn profile data, CV, project descriptions, and any other materials you provide.

You also retain ownership of the business ideas, business plans, and other outputs generated for you through the Service, subject to Fonda retaining ownership of the platform, software, brand, workflows, templates, and underlying technology.

User inputs and generated business ideas are private. They are not sold, shared with partners, or made available to other users. Fonda team members do not access user-generated business ideas or profile data as part of normal operations. Access may occur only where strictly necessary for security, debugging, legal compliance, support requested by you, or to protect the Service.

5. Privacy and Data Use

The Service collects and processes user data to operate the platform, personalize recommendations, generate relevant outputs, improve the user experience, and provide support. This processing is designed to allow the AI model and related systems to suggest the most relevant ideas, choices, and next steps for each user.

Professional profile information, including LinkedIn profile data, CV information, experience, skills, and business ideas, remains private and is not shared with third parties for their own use. Further information on how personal data is processed is available in our Privacy Policy.

6. Pricing and Subscriptions

Fonda offers a free plan as well as paid subscription plans billed on a monthly basis, unless otherwise stated at checkout. Subscription fees are non-refundable to the extent permitted by applicable law, as value is deemed to be provided upon access to the Service, including the generation of business ideas and related outputs.

You may cancel your subscription at any time through the cancellation option available in your user account. Billing will continue until the end of the current subscribed month, unless mandatory applicable law provides otherwise.

7. Payments and Taxes

Payments are processed securely through Stripe or another payment provider displayed at checkout. Prices are displayed in the currency shown on the Service or at checkout. Prices displayed on the Service may be exclusive of taxes. Applicable taxes, including VAT where relevant, may be calculated and added at checkout based on your location and applicable laws. You are responsible for the payment of such taxes unless otherwise required by law.

8. Intellectual Property

Fonda retains all rights, title, and interest in and to the Service, including the platform, brand, software, workflows, templates, design, proprietary algorithms, and underlying technology.

You retain ownership of the content you input into the Service and the personalized outputs generated for you, including business ideas and business plans. However, any websites generated through the Service and corresponding hosting or domain-related services remain available only for the duration of an active subscription, unless otherwise agreed in writing.

If you cancel your subscription, access to such websites, hosting, domain-related services, or other subscription-based outputs may be suspended or terminated at the end of the current billing period.

9. Use of AI and Limitations

Outputs generated by the Service are provided for informational and educational purposes only. They do not constitute legal, financial, tax, investment, medical, or other professional advice.

You are responsible for independently assessing any outputs before relying on them for commercial, financial, legal, or other decisions. Any reliance on AI-generated outputs is at your own risk.

10. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use the Service for illegal, harmful, misleading, or abusive activities. You also agree not to reverse engineer, scrape, copy, resell, redistribute, or attempt to extract source code, models, prompts, workflows, or proprietary logic from the Service.

You may not use the Service to build, train, or operate a competing product or service, or to misuse the outputs in a way that infringes the rights of Fonda or any third party.

11. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, availability, and non-infringement.

We do not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or that any generated idea, plan, output, recommendation, or website will lead to commercial success, funding, customer acquisition, or any specific result.

12. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Fonda shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, data, goodwill, revenue, business opportunities, or expected savings, arising out of or related to your use of the Service.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where such exclusion or limitation is not permitted by applicable law.

13. Termination

You may delete your account at any time. Subscription fees will continue to apply until the end of the current billing period, unless mandatory applicable law provides otherwise.

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Service if you breach these Terms, misuse the Service, create security or operational risks, or otherwise harm Fonda, the Service, or other users.

14. Applicable Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms are governed by applicable laws, including any mandatory consumer protection rules that may apply in your country of residence. Nothing in these Terms limits rights you may have under mandatory laws.

If a dispute arises, you agree to first contact Fonda at hello@fonda.co so that we can try to resolve the matter amicably. Where permitted by law, any dispute that cannot be resolved amicably shall be brought before the competent courts determined under applicable procedural rules.

15. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you by email or through the Service. Continued use of the Service after such changes constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

16. Other Policies

Your use of the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which forms an integral part of these Terms.

17. Contact

For any questions or legal matters relating to these Terms, please contact: hello@fonda.co