1. Important legal note
These Terms are intended to set clear rules for using the VIF website and starting a project conversation. They are not a guarantee that disputes, claims, complaints, app store reviews, platform actions, or lawsuits can never happen. No website terms can remove rights that the law does not allow to be removed.
Before relying on these Terms for paid client work, VIF should add the final legal entity name, registered address, registration number, VAT or tax details if applicable, governing law, court or dispute forum, and any mandatory consumer notices required in the countries where VIF offers services. Website and project request contact: eduard@vif-com.org.
2. Who operates this website
This website is operated under the VIF name. Until final company details are added, "VIF", "we", "us", and "our" mean the person or legal entity that owns and operates this website, receives project briefs, and provides any later VIF services.
When VIF publishes final company details, those details will identify the contracting party for the website and may also appear in proposals, invoices, app store listings, privacy notices, and client agreements.
3. Who these Terms apply to
These Terms apply to anyone who visits the website, uses the legal pages, submits an app or software project brief, sends information to VIF through website forms, or follows links from the website.
If you submit a project brief for a company, organisation, client, employer, or other person, you confirm that you have authority to share that information and to start the project conversation on their behalf.
4. Acceptance before submitting a project brief
Before submitting a project brief, you must confirm that you have read and accepted these Terms and acknowledged the Website Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not submit the brief.
The checkbox on the project brief form is part of the website process. It records that the project request is sent under these Terms, but it does not by itself create a paid project, reserve VIF availability, or make VIF responsible for delivering work.
5. The website is for information and first contact
The website presents VIF, current work, public app legal pages, and a way to start a conversation about app or software development. Website content is general information only.
Nothing on this website is legal, financial, tax, security, medical, investment, compliance, app store approval, advertising, employment, or business advice. You are responsible for getting qualified advice where your project needs it.
6. Project briefs are not accepted projects
A project brief is a request to discuss possible work. Sending a brief does not require VIF to accept the project, respond within a fixed time, keep prices open, reserve time, start work, sign an NDA, provide support, or deliver any product.
VIF may decline a project for any lawful reason, including unavailable capacity, unclear scope, legal or ethical concerns, conflict of interest, budget mismatch, technical risk, app store policy risk, security risk, payment risk, or a request involving prohibited content.
7. Separate agreement required for paid work
Any paid VIF work must be confirmed separately in writing. That separate agreement may be a signed contract, proposal accepted in writing, invoice terms, statement of work, email confirmation, or another written document accepted by VIF.
The separate agreement should define the client, scope, deliverables, milestones, price, taxes, payment schedule, deposit, refund or cancellation rules, timeline, communication channel, included revisions, launch support, maintenance, ownership transfer, licences, confidentiality, warranties, support period, and any app store or hosting responsibilities.
If a separate written project agreement conflicts with these Terms, the separate project agreement controls for that project only.
8. Estimates, prices, and timelines
Any price range, budget discussion, delivery estimate, timeline estimate, feature discussion, or technical suggestion before a final written agreement is non-binding. App and software work can change as requirements, platform rules, dependencies, design decisions, testing results, third-party tools, and client feedback become clearer.
Unless a separate agreement says otherwise, estimates do not include third-party costs such as hosting, domains, app store accounts, developer accounts, advertising, subscriptions, APIs, payment processor fees, legal review, copywriting, translations, stock assets, fonts, icons, analytics tools, SSL certificates, tax, or platform fees.
9. Your project responsibilities
You are responsible for giving accurate instructions, reviewing deliverables, answering questions, supplying required assets, obtaining permissions, choosing business rules, approving content, testing your own business flows, and making final business decisions.
You are also responsible for your product's legal basis, target audience, pricing, taxes, refunds, customer support, privacy disclosures, data safety disclosures, content rating, accessibility requirements, consumer notices, industry rules, and app store account decisions unless a separate agreement assigns a specific responsibility to VIF.
10. Information you must not submit through the website
Do not submit passwords, seed phrases, private keys, payment card details, bank credentials, full identity documents, medical records, criminal records, children's personal data, source code secrets, production credentials, trade secrets, security vulnerabilities, or confidential business information through the public project brief form.
If your project requires sensitive or confidential material, ask VIF for a separate secure process and written confidentiality terms before sharing it.
11. Confidentiality and similar ideas
Information submitted through the public website form is not confidential unless VIF separately agrees in writing. VIF may already be working on similar products, receive similar ideas from other people, or independently develop similar concepts.
VIF may use general skills, know-how, patterns, workflows, components, architecture ideas, debugging knowledge, design approaches, and experience across different projects, provided VIF does not misuse confidential information that is protected by a separate written agreement.
12. Rights in your submitted materials
You keep ownership of project ideas, names, logos, text, designs, files, references, data, and materials that you submit. You give VIF a limited permission to receive, store, review, copy, discuss, analyse, and use those materials as needed to respond to your request, prepare a proposal, prevent abuse, keep records, and provide any later agreed services.
You confirm that you have the right to submit the materials and that your submission does not infringe intellectual property, privacy, confidentiality, publicity, employment, platform, or contract rights of any third party.
13. VIF intellectual property and reusable work
The VIF name, logo, website, visual design, page layouts, text, code, templates, processes, documentation structure, reusable components, know-how, concepts, proposals, estimates, and pre-existing materials belong to VIF or its licensors unless a separate written agreement says otherwise.
A client does not receive ownership of VIF pre-existing materials, general methods, tools, internal templates, reusable code, libraries, development environment, build scripts, or know-how unless a separate written agreement expressly transfers or licenses them.
14. Third-party assets, SDKs, APIs, and platforms
Apps and websites often depend on third-party services such as Google Play, Apple App Store, Hostinger, Supabase, Firebase, AdMob, payment processors, analytics providers, AI providers, maps, fonts, image libraries, social platforms, email providers, and domain registrars.
Those third parties control their own pricing, policies, approval decisions, APIs, uptime, security, review processes, data handling, account rules, and availability. VIF is not responsible for third-party decisions, outages, policy changes, fees, rejections, account suspensions, SDK bugs, API changes, or service discontinuation unless a separate agreement says otherwise and the law allows that responsibility.
15. App store and launch disclaimers
VIF may help prepare app pages, privacy policies, data deletion pages, store listing material, screenshots, builds, billing preparation, ads preparation, and launch checklists. VIF does not guarantee Google Play approval, Apple App Store approval, target API acceptance, policy acceptance, ranking, downloads, revenue, reviews, user retention, ad fill rate, payment conversion, or continued platform availability.
The final app owner or developer account holder is responsible for checking the final build, SDK list, permissions, Data safety or privacy nutrition labels, age rating, target audience, ads declaration, billing setup, tax setup, support contact, and legal disclosures before submission.
16. Regulated and high-risk projects
Some apps need special legal, compliance, safety, medical, financial, child-safety, accessibility, cybersecurity, privacy, gambling, employment, education, insurance, tax, or professional review. VIF does not provide regulated professional advice through this website.
VIF may refuse or pause projects involving health diagnosis, therapy, financial advice, investment decisions, gambling, age-restricted content, children, biometric data, precise location tracking, surveillance, employment scoring, credit scoring, legal advice, emergency services, weapons, controlled substances, political targeting, adult content, or other high-risk areas until appropriate expert review and written terms are in place.
17. Prohibited requests
You must not use the website or ask VIF to build, support, or promote anything unlawful, fraudulent, abusive, deceptive, exploitative, hateful, discriminatory, sexually exploitative, privacy-invasive, malware-related, spam-related, security-bypassing, impersonating, rights-infringing, platform-abusing, payment-abusing, or designed to harm people, systems, or organisations.
18. Website acceptable use
You must not interfere with the website, attempt unauthorised access, overload the server, scrape in an abusive way, inject malicious code, submit fake requests, impersonate another person, test security without permission, bypass technical limits, or use the website in a way that could harm VIF, visitors, hosting providers, or third-party services.
19. Website privacy
Personal data submitted through the project brief form, legal forms, or other website contact channels is handled under the Website Privacy Policy. The project form should not be used to send highly sensitive personal data.
20. No client relationship from browsing
Browsing the website, reading legal pages, sending a project brief, receiving an automated or informal reply, or discussing an idea does not create an attorney-client, accountant-client, employer-employee, agency, partnership, joint venture, fiduciary, support, maintenance, or paid development relationship.
21. Support, maintenance, and updates
Support, maintenance, updates, monitoring, backups, bug fixes, content updates, app store resubmissions, SDK upgrades, hosting support, security patches, and emergency response are included only if a separate written agreement says they are included.
Unless agreed otherwise, VIF is not responsible for maintaining an app, website, backend, domain, hosting account, store listing, legal document, SDK version, API connection, analytics setup, billing setup, or advertising setup after delivery.
22. Testing and client approval
Software may contain bugs, device differences, browser differences, SDK issues, platform changes, or edge cases. Before launch, the client is responsible for reviewing and approving the product, testing important flows, checking content, checking business logic, and confirming that the product matches the agreed scope.
23. Public display of work
Unless a separate written agreement says otherwise, VIF may refer to completed public work in its portfolio, website, proposals, or social material using non-confidential project name, general description, screenshots, store links, or website links after the work is public. VIF will not intentionally publish confidential material protected by a separate written agreement.
24. Payments, deposits, refunds, and cancellation
This website does not currently sell paid services directly. Payment terms, deposit rules, refund rules, cancellation rules, late payment consequences, tax treatment, chargeback handling, and delivery obligations must be stated in a separate written project agreement or invoice terms.
If VIF later offers paid services directly through the website to consumers, VIF must provide any required pre-contract information, withdrawal rights, digital content notices, trader details, price and tax information, and complaint information before payment is taken.
25. Consumer rights and fair terms
If you are a consumer, nothing in these Terms limits rights that cannot legally be waived. These Terms are intended to be read fairly, clearly, and in good faith. If a term is found to be unfair, invalid, or unenforceable for a consumer, that term will not apply to that extent and the rest of the Terms will continue where legally permitted.
VIF does not intend to exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, intentional misconduct, mandatory consumer guarantees, or any other liability that the law does not allow VIF to exclude or limit.
26. Disclaimers for the website
The website is provided on an as-is and as-available basis. VIF does not promise that the website will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, current, complete, compatible with every device, free of harmful components, or available at all times.
Website examples, descriptions, launch notes, app pages, readiness checklists, and legal pages may become outdated as products, laws, platform rules, SDKs, or business details change.
27. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, VIF will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, exemplary, business, reputational, or economic losses arising from website use, project brief submission, reliance on website information, third-party links, third-party services, platform decisions, app store rejection, lost profits, lost revenue, lost opportunity, lost data, interruption, or delayed response.
For website-only claims, and where the law allows a limit, VIF's total liability will be limited to the greater of the amount you paid VIF directly for the specific website feature giving rise to the claim or EUR 100. This cap does not apply where the law does not allow liability to be capped.
28. Your responsibility for claims
To the extent permitted by law, you are responsible for claims, losses, costs, damages, penalties, platform actions, or expenses caused by your submitted materials, your instructions, your breach of these Terms, your unlawful project request, your lack of rights, your misuse of the website, or your product's business/legal decisions.
29. Force majeure and events outside control
VIF is not responsible for delay or failure caused by events outside reasonable control, including power failure, internet outage, hosting outage, platform outage, domain issue, cyberattack, third-party API change, illness, emergency, war, strike, legal restriction, natural event, government action, or app store review delay.
30. Changes to these Terms
VIF may update these Terms when the website, services, legal requirements, business details, project request process, or risk profile changes. The updated version applies when posted on the website, unless mandatory law requires another process.
31. Severability
If any part of these Terms is invalid, unfair, or unenforceable, that part will be limited or removed only to the extent required by law. The remaining parts will continue to apply where legally permitted.
32. Assignment and transfer
VIF may transfer the website, business, assets, contracts, or rights connected with the website as part of a business transfer, restructuring, sale, merger, or legal reorganisation, provided this does not remove rights that cannot legally be removed. You may not transfer rights or obligations under these Terms without VIF's written permission.
33. Governing law and disputes
The governing law and court jurisdiction should be finalised before public launch based on the final VIF legal entity, business address, customer locations, and services offered. Any signed project agreement may include its own governing law and dispute terms.
If you are a consumer, you may have mandatory rights to bring claims in your place of residence or to use consumer complaint or alternative dispute resolution channels. These Terms do not remove mandatory consumer dispute rights.
34. Contact and notices
For website terms, privacy questions, project requests, or legal notices, contact eduard@vif-com.org or use the official contact details published in a project proposal, invoice, app listing, or other official VIF communication.