Terms & Conditions for use of this website

(1)    Introduction

These terms of use govern your use of our website; by using our website, you accept these terms of use in full. If you disagree with these terms of use or any part of these terms of use, you must not use our website.

(2)    Licence to use website

Unless otherwise stated, we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website.  Subject to the licence below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms of use.  

You must not:

(a)    republish material from this website (including republication on another website);

(b)    sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;

(c)    show any material from the website in public;

(d)    reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on our website for a commercial purpose;

(e)    edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or

(f)    redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.

(3)    Acceptable use

You must not use our website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent.


(4)    Restricted access

Access to certain areas of our website is restricted.  We reserve the right to restrict access to other areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion.

If we provide you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of our website or other content or services, you must ensure that that user ID and password is kept confidential.  

We may disable your user ID and password in our sole discretion without notice or explanation.

(5)    Limited warranties

Whilst we endeavour to ensure that the information on this website is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up-to-date.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to this website and the use of this website (including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care and skill).

(6)    Limitations of liability

Nothing in these terms of use (or elsewhere on our website) will exclude or limit our liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Subject to this, our liability to you in relation to the use of our website or under or in connection with these terms of use, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, will be limited as follows:

(a)    to the extent that the website and the information and services on the website are provided free-of-charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature;

(b)    we will not be liable for any consequential, indirect or special loss or damage;

(c)    we will not be liable for any loss of profit, income, revenue, anticipated savings, contracts, business, goodwill, reputation, data, or information;

(d)    we will not be liable for any loss or damage arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control;

(7)    Indemnity

You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers) incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms of use, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms of use.

(8)    Breaches of these terms of use

Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms of use, if you breach these terms of use in any way, we may take such action as we deem appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

(9)    Variation

We may revise these terms of use from time-to-time.  Revised terms of use will apply to the use of our website from the date of the publication of the revised terms of use on our website.  Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

(10)    Assignment

We may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms of use without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms of use.  

(11)    Severability

If a provision of these terms of use is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.  If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

(12)    Exclusion of third party rights

These terms of use are for the benefit of you and us, and are not intended to benefit any third party or be enforceable by any third party.  The exercise of our and your rights in relation to these terms of use is not subject to the consent of any third party.

(13)    Entire agreement

These terms of use , together with our privacy policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

(14)    Law and jurisdiction

These terms of use will be governed by and construed in accordance with English law, and any disputes relating to these terms of use will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.


(15)     Our details

The full name of our company is Venture Programmers ltd.  

We are registered in England & Wales.

You can contact us using our online form.

Privacy Policy

Venture Programmers Ltd will use personal details supplied to us by Programmers, Venturists or Investors for the purposes of selecting Programmers to collaborate on Projects agreed with Venturists and/or Investors or for our company administration and accounting processes. Venture Programmers Ltd will not pass on personal details collected for these purposes to any other organisation without the express permission of the Programmer, Venturist or Investor.

If you wish to be considered for any fully paid work as a Programmer, you must agree to Venture Programmers Ltd sharing your details with our sister company, Celtic Internet Ltd, which will deal with any such work. You will have to agree to these terms if you tick the Paid Work checkbox on your VProfile.

Removal

If at any time you wish to be removed from our database, you can Contact Us and we will facilitate the deletion of your records from any databases kept by our organisation. The exception will be if your details are required for accounting purposes (i.e. if you have done some work through us, we will need to keep records).

Financial Services 

Please note that nothing on this website is meant to constitute 'financial advice' and no content has been approved by an authorised person (as defined by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000). Any investment (of time or money) may result in the loss of any or all of your investment.

Non Disclosure Agreements

All Programmers and Investors will be required to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) with Venture Programmers before we will share any information about our projects and investment opportunities. Once you have signed one NDA, then you will not have to sign additional ones if you participate in additional projects in the future.

This is to allow both the Venturist and Venture Programmers to discuss the broad details of the project freely with suitable Programmers and Investors before entering into a full contract for the work.

Additionally, each Programmer will be required to sign an NDA between themselves and the Venturist once they have accepted and invitation to join the project. The Venturist will then be in a position to share full details of the project, including any commercially sensitive information.



We will not enter into any NDA agreement with a Venturist prior to evaluating a business proposal. Therefore any commercially sensitive information that may be relevant to your proposal should be omitted. Simply give an outline of the information you have available.

In such a case, should the proposal proceed past the initial evaluation, then Venture Programmers would be prepared to sign an NDA before proceeding further.