Terms of Service

DRAFT — NOT YET IN FORCE. This document was prepared by the operator of Venditas with AI assistance. It has not been reviewed by a qualified solicitor. It is not legal advice. Several clauses below — in particular the limitation of liability, the governing law and jurisdiction clause, and the consumer-law carve-outs — are exactly the clauses that are unenforceable if drafted wrongly, and they need a lawyer's eye before this goes live. Do not publish on venditas.in with this banner removed until that has happened.

Draft version 0.1 — 2 September 2026

Venditas Bhoomi Elite, Sector 28, Nerul, Navi Mumbai 400706, India founder@venditas.in — https://venditas.in

Venditas is operated by a sole trader based in India ("Venditas", "we", "us"). These terms apply between us and the business using the service ("you", "your").

By uploading a CV to venditas.in you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the service.

Venditas is offered to businesses only. It is not intended for consumers, and you confirm when you use it that you are doing so in the course of a business.

1. What the service does

You upload a candidate CV as a PDF or Word file, along with your agency name and optional branding. Venditas extracts the content, and returns a Word document laid out in your branding. Unless you switch redaction off, the candidate's name, email address, telephone number and links are removed and replaced with a reference code.

2. Machine-generated output — you must check it before you send it

This is the most important clause in this document, so it is not buried.

The structured content of the document Venditas returns is produced by an automated system, including a large language model. Automated extraction is not perfect. It can misread a date, attach a bullet to the wrong employer, drop a role, mangle a name, or fail to pick up something that was in a sidebar or an image.

Accordingly:

• You must review every document Venditas produces, against the original CV, before you send it to a client or to anyone else. The output is a draft for you to check, not a finished document you can forward unread.
• You are responsible for what you send to your clients. A document produced by Venditas is your work product once you send it, and you represent it to your client, not us.
• We instruct the model not to invent information and to copy the candidate's own wording, and we do not knowingly rewrite or embellish. We cannot guarantee it never gets something wrong.

2.1 Redaction is verified, but it is still your check

After building the document we read it back and confirm that the candidate's name, email, phone number and links are absent. If any of them survived, we return an error and no document.

That check is genuine and it catches the ordinary failure cases. It is not a warranty. It compares against the details our extraction identified — if a contact detail appeared in a form we did not identify as a contact detail (split across a line in an unusual way, inside an image, written out in words), the check cannot know to look for it. Confirm the document is clean before you send it to a client. Your commercial exposure if a client contacts your candidate directly is yours, not ours.

3. Your account and the free tier

• You must give a working work email address to use the service. Disposable and throwaway email domains are blocked.
• The free tier is five CVs per day per email address. There is also a cap on the number of requests from a single internet connection per day, to stop abuse. Both reset daily.
• We may change these limits, introduce paid plans, or change prices. We will give registered users notice by email before a change that affects them.
• You will receive email from us about Venditas. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe link. See the Privacy Policy.

4. Your responsibilities regarding candidate data

You confirm that, for every CV you upload:

• you have the right to process that candidate's personal data and to disclose it to a service provider for the purpose of reformatting it;
• you have given the candidate whatever privacy information the law requires you to give, and have a lawful basis for the processing;
• you are the data controller and Venditas is your processor;
• you are not uploading data that you have been asked to delete, or that you are otherwise not entitled to hold.

We do not verify any of this, and we cannot. If you are a UK or EU agency, sign our Data Processing Agreement (legal/dpa.md) before you put real candidate data through the service. If you have not signed one, the DPA terms apply anyway as a matter of contract between us, but you will probably want a signed copy for your own records.

5. Acceptable use

Do not:

• upload files you have no right to upload;
• use the service to process anything that is not a candidate CV;
• automate, script or otherwise batch requests against the endpoint;
• attempt to get around the rate limits, including by rotating email addresses or connections;
• attempt to probe, reverse engineer, overload or interfere with the service;
• resell the service, or present it to your own customers as your own product, without a written agreement with us.

We may suspend or block access without notice if we believe any of these is happening. For a suspension that is not urgent we will email you first.

6. What we store, and what we do not

We do not store the uploaded CV, its contents, or the document we produce. They are processed in memory and discarded when your request completes. We keep your email address, agency name, timestamps and usage counters. The Privacy Policy sets this out in full.

One consequence worth stating plainly: we cannot re-send you a document. If you lose the file, run the CV again.

7. Availability

Venditas is provided on an "as available" basis. There is no uptime commitment on the free tier. We may take the service down for maintenance, change how it works, or withdraw it entirely. If we withdraw it we will tell registered users by email.

The service depends on third parties, including Google's Gemini API. If they are unavailable or change their terms, Venditas may be unavailable or may have to change.

8. Intellectual property

• Your content. You keep all rights in the CVs you upload and in the documents Venditas returns to you. We claim no ownership of either, and we do not use your content to train models. (We send CV content, with direct identifiers removed, to Google's Gemini API on its free tier, whose terms let Google use it to improve its products — see the Privacy Policy and the DPA.)
• Your branding. You keep all rights in the logo, colours and text you supply. You give us permission to use them only to build your document, for the duration of the request.
• Our service. The Venditas name, website, software, prompts, templates and document layouts remain ours. Nothing in these terms transfers any of it to you.
• Referring to you. We will not use your agency's name or logo as a customer reference without asking you first.

9. Warranties

Except as expressly stated in these terms, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, the service is provided without warranty of any kind. We do not warrant that the output will be accurate, complete, free of error, or fit for any particular purpose, or that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

10. Limitation of liability

To be settled with a solicitor. The figures and carve-outs below are a starting position, not a considered one. In particular: a cap set at fees paid is meaningless on a free tier, and a UK customer's procurement team will usually insist that liability for a data protection breach sits outside the cap. Expect to negotiate this. See legal/compliance-notes.md.

Subject to clause 9:

• We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, loss of business, loss of a placement or fee, loss of goodwill, or loss of or damage to data.
• We are not liable for any loss arising from your use of a document produced by Venditas that you did not check before sending, including a loss arising from an inaccuracy in the output or from a candidate's contact detail remaining in the document.
• Our total liability arising out of or in connection with these terms, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, is limited in aggregate to the greater of the fees you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim and [AMOUNT TO BE AGREED].

Liability arising under the Data Processing Agreement is dealt with in that agreement.

11. Indemnity

You will indemnify us against claims brought against us by a third party (including a candidate or one of your clients) arising from your breach of clause 4 or clause 5.

12. Suspension and termination

You can stop using the service at any time. Email founder@venditas.in to have your account data deleted.

We can suspend or terminate your access for breach of these terms, or with reasonable notice for any reason. Clauses 8 to 11 survive termination.

13. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. The version in force is the one published at venditas.in at the time you use the service. For a change that materially affects you, we will email registered users before it takes effect.

14. Governing law and jurisdiction

Decision required — see legal/compliance-notes.md. An Indian law-and-courts clause is normal for a business based in India, but a UK agency's legal team may refuse it, and it makes the contract expensive for you to enforce against a UK customer too. The alternatives are English law and courts, or arbitration seated somewhere neutral. This is a commercial decision as much as a legal one and it should be made deliberately, not defaulted into.

These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts of Mumbai, Maharashtra have exclusive jurisdiction — [SUBJECT TO THE DECISION ABOVE].

Nothing in this clause affects any mandatory rights a UK or EU customer has under their own data protection law, or the jurisdiction provisions in the Data Processing Agreement, which take precedence over this clause for matters within its scope.

15. General

• These terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Data Processing Agreement, are the whole agreement between us.
• If a clause is found unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.
• Failing to enforce a term is not a waiver of it.
• Nobody other than you and us has any right to enforce these terms.

Contact

founder@venditas.in Venditas, Bhoomi Elite, Sector 28, Nerul, Navi Mumbai 400706, India