Terms of Service

01About these terms

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a legal agreement between you and Veriqium (“Veriqium”, “we”, “us” or “our”). They govern your use of www.veriqium.com, the Veriqium waitlist, and the referral programme (together, the “Services”).

By using the Services, or by ticking the box and joining the waitlist, you confirm that you have read and agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

The Veriqium contributor platform, where verified people complete tasks and receive VQM, is not yet available. When it is, it will be governed by separate platform terms that you will be asked to accept before using it. These Terms do not give you a right to use that platform.

How we handle personal data is explained in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

02Who can use the Services

To use the Services and apply for the waitlist, you must:

• be at least 18 years old and have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract;
• be an individual acting on your own behalf, not on behalf of a business or another person;
• not be located in, ordinarily resident in, or a national of a country or region subject to comprehensive sanctions, and not be listed on, or owned or controlled by anyone listed on, any sanctions list maintained by the United Nations, the European Union, the United Kingdom or the United States;
• not have previously been removed from the Services by us for breaching these Terms; and
• not be prohibited by the laws that apply to you from using the Services.

Joining the waitlist is open to anyone who meets these requirements, but the Veriqium platform and VQM may not be available in every country. We may restrict availability where the law or our compliance obligations require it.

03The waitlist

1. One person, one application. You may hold only one waitlist entry, linked to one Google account. Applications made using multiple accounts, other people’s details, or automated means will be removed.
2. Accurate information. The information you give us must be true, accurate and your own, and you must keep your Google account secure. You are responsible for activity under your waitlist entry.
3. No guarantee of admission. Joining the waitlist does not guarantee that you will be invited, or when. We review applications and admit people at a pace that keeps quality high, and we may approve or decline any application at our reasonable discretion, including on the basis of our fraud and duplicate-account checks. Your position, referrals or the time you joined do not create any entitlement.
4. Verification later. Your age confirmation is a self-declaration. If you are invited to the platform you will need to pass identity and uniqueness verification, and you may be declined if you do not.
5. Leaving. You can leave the waitlist at any time by emailing [email protected].
6. No cost. Joining the waitlist is free. We will never ask you to pay, or to send cryptocurrency, to get a place or move up the list. Anyone who does is not acting for Veriqium.

04Referral programme

Once you join, you receive a personal referral code to share with people you know. When sharing it you must:

• share it only with people you reasonably believe would want it, and comply with anti-spam laws;
• not post it on coupon, deal or referral-exchange websites, buy advertising that uses the Veriqium name, or pay or incentivise people to sign up;
• not use it to refer yourself, fake or duplicate people; and
• not describe Veriqium or VQM in a misleading way, or promise anyone rewards, returns or admission.

We may use referrals as one factor when prioritising invitations. Unless we expressly announce otherwise in writing, referrals do not earn rewards, tokens or money. We may change, suspend or end the referral programme at any time, and we may disregard referrals that break these rules.

05VQM and important information about digital assets

The website describes how Veriqium intends to reward verified contributors with VQM, a token on an EVM-compatible blockchain. Please read this section carefully.

1. No offer. Nothing on the Services is an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any token, security, financial instrument or other investment, and nothing on the Services is investment, financial, legal or tax advice. VQM is intended to be earned as a reward for accepted contributions, not bought from us.
2. Illustrative only. Features, reward amounts (such as example balances shown on the website), verification levels and timelines are illustrative and forward-looking. They may change or not happen at all, and the terms of any actual rewards will be set out in the platform terms.
3. No promise of value. We make no promise that VQM will have any value, be transferable to or tradable on any exchange, or keep any value it has. The value of digital assets can be highly volatile and you could lose all of it.
4. Blockchain risks. Blockchain transactions are public and generally irreversible. Digital assets carry risks including software bugs, network failures, loss of private keys, hacks and changes in law or regulation that may restrict or prevent their use in your country. You alone are responsible for any wallet you use and its keys; we cannot recover them.
5. Taxes. You are responsible for any taxes that apply to rewards you receive.

06Acceptable use

You must not, and must not help or allow anyone else to:

• use the Services in a way that breaks any law or infringes anyone’s rights;
• use bots, scripts, emulators, farms or other automated or non-human means to access the Services, create applications or generate referrals;
• create more than one entry, impersonate anyone, or give false, misleading or someone else’s information;
• evade, test or interfere with our security, rate limits, fraud checks or verification, including by using techniques to hide your device, location or identity for that purpose;
• scrape, crawl or harvest content or data from the Services, other than by standard search engine indexing;
• copy, modify, reverse engineer or attempt to extract the source code of the Services, except where the law expressly allows it;
• introduce malware or overload, disrupt or damage the Services or the networks connected to them; or
• sell, transfer or trade waitlist entries, invitations or referral codes.

If you discover a security vulnerability, please report it responsibly to [email protected] and give us a reasonable time to fix it before disclosing it. Good-faith research that follows these principles and does not access other people’s data will not be treated as a breach of this section.

07Intellectual property

The Services, including the Veriqium name and logo, website design, text, graphics and software, are owned by Veriqium or our licensors and are protected by intellectual property laws. Subject to these Terms, we give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the Services for your own non-commercial purposes. No other rights are granted.

If you send us ideas, suggestions or feedback, you allow us to use them freely without any obligation to you. We are not obliged to use them.

08Third-party services

The Services rely on or link to services provided by others, such as Google Sign-In, Cloudflare and, in future, blockchain networks and wallets. Your use of those services is governed by their own terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for them, and their availability is outside our control.

09Suspension and removal

We may suspend or remove your waitlist entry, or restrict your access to the Services, if we reasonably believe that you have breached these Terms, that your application is fraudulent, automated or duplicated, or that we must do so to comply with the law or protect Veriqium, other users or the public. Where it is lawful and does not compromise security or an investigation, we will tell you why, and you can ask us to reconsider by emailing [email protected].

We may also change, pause or discontinue the Services or the waitlist, in whole or in part, at any time. If we close the waitlist, we will tell applicants by email where we reasonably can.

Sections that by their nature should survive the end of these Terms will do so, including those on VQM, intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, misuse, governing law and general terms.

10Disclaimers

The Services are provided free of charge, on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we make no warranties or representations of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, and we do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free or free of harmful components, or that you will be admitted to the platform.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms affects your statutory rights as a consumer.

11Limitation of liability

What we do not limit. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or for anything else that cannot be excluded or limited under the law that applies to you.

Subject to the paragraph above and to the fullest extent permitted by law: (a) we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, opportunity, goodwill, anticipated rewards or tokens, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, even if we were told they were possible; and (b) our total liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to the Services or these Terms is limited to one hundred euros (€100).

If you are a consumer in the EEA or the UK, we are responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breach of these Terms or our failure to use reasonable care and skill, but we are not responsible for loss or damage that is not foreseeable. We provide the Services for private use only and are not liable for any business losses.

12Your responsibility for misuse

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify Veriqium against claims, losses and reasonable costs (including legal fees) brought by third parties that arise from your breach of these Terms or your misuse of the Services. This does not apply to the extent a loss was caused by our own breach or negligence, or where the law that protects you as a consumer does not permit it.

13Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms to reflect changes to the Services, the law or our business. We will change the “Last updated” date whenever we do. If a change is material, we will give you reasonable notice by email or on the website before it takes effect. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you may leave the waitlist and stop using the Services; continuing to use them after the change takes effect means you accept it.

14Governing law and disputes

These Terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them, are governed by the laws of the country in which Veriqium is established, and its courts have jurisdiction, subject to the paragraph below.

If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country.

Before starting any formal proceedings, please contact us at [email protected] so we can try to resolve the issue informally. Most concerns can be settled quickly this way.

15General

• Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Services and replace any earlier understandings.
• Severability. If any part of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the rest stays in full effect.
• No waiver. If we delay or do not enforce any part of these Terms, we can still enforce it later.
• Assignment. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms. We may transfer ours to another organisation, for example in a reorganisation or sale, and will make sure it does not reduce your rights.
• Events outside our control. We are not responsible for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
• Third-party rights. No one other than you and Veriqium has any right to enforce these Terms.
• Language. These Terms are written in English. Any translation is for convenience, and the English version prevails to the extent permitted by law.

16Contact us

For questions about these Terms:

• Email: [email protected]
• Privacy and data requests: [email protected]