Terms of Service

1. Acceptance

These Terms of Service govern your access to and use of the website at vertial.net (the "Website"), operated by Vertial Telecom LLC ("Vertial", "we", "us"), a limited liability company with its registered office at 1507 Lampman Court, Cheyenne, WY 82007, United States. By accessing the Website you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the Website.

2. Scope — website only

These terms apply to the Website itself. They do not govern the provision of any service by Vertial. Infrastructure, hosting, development, data, security and audit engagements are provided exclusively under a separate written agreement, which sets out scope, deliverables, service levels, fees, warranties, confidentiality and liability for that engagement. In the event of any conflict, the signed engagement agreement prevails over these terms.

3. No offer and no advice

The content of the Website is provided for general information about Vertial and its areas of work. It does not constitute a binding offer, a quotation, a warranty of any particular result, or professional advice on which you should act without a specific engagement. Any statement about capability, methodology, availability or timescale is indicative and becomes binding only when set out in a signed agreement.

4. Intellectual property

All content on the Website — including text, page structure, layout, design, graphics, the Vertial name and the Vertial "V" logo, and the underlying source code — is owned by Vertial Telecom LLC or licensed to us, and is protected by applicable intellectual property law.

You may view the Website, and print or download extracts for your own internal, non-commercial reference. You may not otherwise reproduce, republish, distribute, modify, frame, or create derivative works from the content, nor use our name or logo in a way that suggests endorsement or association, without our prior written permission.

The Ubuntu typeface used on this Website is distributed under the Ubuntu Font Licence and remains the property of its respective rights holders. Nothing in these terms transfers any right in that typeface to you.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the Website for any unlawful purpose or in breach of any applicable regulation;
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Website, the server hosting it, or any connected system;
• probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our infrastructure without our prior written authorisation;
• interfere with the availability of the Website, including through denial-of-service activity or excessive automated requests;
• introduce malicious code, or use the Website to distribute it;
• systematically extract content by scraping or similar means for the purpose of building a competing or derivative service.

We reserve the right to restrict access where we reasonably believe these terms have been breached, and to report unlawful activity to the appropriate authorities.

6. Responsible disclosure

If you believe you have found a security vulnerability affecting this Website or our infrastructure, we would genuinely like to hear from you. Please report it privately to [email protected] before disclosing it publicly, and give us a reasonable opportunity to remediate. Do not access, modify or exfiltrate data belonging to us or to any third party while investigating. Reports made in good faith and in line with this paragraph will be treated as such.

7. Availability

We aim to keep the Website available, but we do not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We may change, suspend, restrict or withdraw all or part of the Website at any time, including for maintenance, without notice and without liability to you. Nothing in this paragraph affects service levels agreed in a contracted engagement.

8. Accuracy of content

We take reasonable care to keep the information on the Website current and correct, but we make no representation or warranty that it is complete, accurate or up to date at any given moment. Technical descriptions are simplified for a general audience and should not be relied upon as a specification.

9. External links

The Website may contain links to third-party websites. Those links are provided for convenience only. We do not control, endorse, or accept responsibility for the content, availability, security or privacy practices of any external site, and accessing them is at your own risk.

10. Limitation of liability

The Website is made available "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all warranties, conditions and representations in relation to the Website that are not expressly set out in these terms, whether express or implied.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Vertial shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, nor for any loss of profit, revenue, business, goodwill, anticipated savings or data, arising out of or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, the Website — even where such loss was foreseeable.

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

11. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify Vertial against any loss, damage, cost or expense reasonably incurred as a result of your breach of these terms or your unlawful use of the Website.

12. Privacy

Our handling of personal data in connection with the Website is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms. In short: this Website sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads no third-party content.

13. Communications

Contacting us through the addresses published on the Website does not create a contractual relationship, a retainer, or any duty of care on our part. A relationship arises only once a written agreement is signed by both parties. Unsolicited material sent to us is not treated as confidential unless we have agreed in writing to receive it in confidence, so please do not send sensitive information before that is in place.

14. Changes to these terms

We may revise these terms from time to time. The version published on this page at the moment you access the Website is the version that applies to that visit. The date of the current version is shown above.

15. Severability and waiver

If any provision of these terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

16. Governing law

These terms and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. The state and federal courts located in Laramie County, Wyoming shall have exclusive jurisdiction — save that we retain the right to bring proceedings in any other jurisdiction where a breach occurs, and save for any mandatory consumer protections available to you in your country of residence.

17. Contact

Questions about these terms: [email protected], or by post to Vertial Telecom LLC, 1507 Lampman Court, Cheyenne, WY 82007, United States.