Terms of use

Agreement to these terms

These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) are a legal agreement between you and TheVVProject (“TheVVProject”, “we”, “us”, “our”) covering your access to and use of the website at thevvproject.com and everything published on it (the “Site”). By using the Site you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, please stop using the Site — that is the entire remedy on both sides.

If you are using the Site on behalf of a company or other organisation, you confirm you have authority to accept these Terms for that organisation, and “you” means both you and it.

Who you are dealing with

TheVVProject is a management consulting firm founded in 2024, headquartered in the United States and delivering to clients internationally. We are a consultancy and nothing more: we are not a law firm, an accounting or audit firm, a registered investment adviser, a broker-dealer, a licensed insurance producer, a customs broker, or an immigration adviser, and we do not hold ourselves out as any of those. Where an engagement needs one of them, we say so and we work alongside yours.

Permitted use of the site

You may read the Site, print or save pages for your own business or personal reference, and share links to it. That is what it is for.

You may not:

Copy, republish, resell, or redistribute substantial parts of the Site’s content as your own or as part of a commercial product or service;
Scrape, crawl, harvest or bulk-download the Site or use it to train a machine-learning model without our written permission;
Interfere with the Site or attempt to gain unauthorised access to it or to any system or network connected to it, including probing, scanning or testing vulnerabilities;
Use any form or contact address on the Site to send spam, chain messages, malware, or unlawful, deceptive, harassing or infringing content;
Misrepresent your identity or your affiliation with any person or organisation when contacting us;
Remove, obscure or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice;
Use the Site in violation of any applicable law, including export control and sanctions law.

We may restrict or block access to the Site, or to any form on it, if we reasonably believe it is being used in breach of these Terms.

No advice without a signed engagement

This section matters more than any other on this page. Please read it properly.

Everything on this Site is general information, not advice. Articles, frameworks, checklists, service descriptions, method descriptions, timelines, examples and anything else published here are written for a general audience of small-business owners. They are not tailored to your company, your numbers, your market, your contracts, your jurisdiction or your risk tolerance, and they should not be relied on as if they were. Nothing on this Site constitutes legal, tax, accounting, audit, investment, financial-planning, insurance, immigration, customs, or regulatory-compliance advice, and it is not an offer, solicitation or recommendation to buy or sell any security or financial instrument.

No consulting relationship is created by this Site. Browsing the Site, downloading something from it, subscribing to updates, emailing us, calling us, filling in the contact form, or holding an introductory or discovery call with us does not create a consulting, advisory, fiduciary or other professional relationship between you and TheVVProject, however useful the conversation is.

A relationship begins only when there is a signed engagement. We are engaged — and only then owe you the duties of a consultant — when both parties have signed a written engagement agreement or statement of work that identifies the client, the scope, the deliverables, the fee and the term. Until that document is signed by both sides, no scope exists, no deliverable is owed, no duty of care arises, and nothing said in a call or written in an email should be treated as an instruction to act. A proposal is not an engagement. A verbal “let’s do it” is not an engagement. A purchase order alone is not an engagement.

Discovery calls are exploratory. We will happily give you two or three honest observations on a discovery call, and we would rather be useful than coy. Those observations are preliminary reactions formed in thirty minutes without access to your numbers, your systems, or your team. They are not a diagnosis, they are not a recommendation to act, and they carry no warranty. Do not restructure your company on the strength of a first conversation — with us or with anybody else.

Confidentiality before engagement. We treat information you send us as confidential and we do not disclose it to third parties, but please do not send trade secrets, privileged material, or highly sensitive data before a mutual non-disclosure agreement or engagement agreement is in place. Information sent through the Site is not covered by any privilege and is not protected by the terms of an engagement that does not yet exist.

Always get your own advice. Before acting on anything you read here, consult a qualified professional licensed in your jurisdiction who knows your situation. Business decisions carry risk, and outcomes depend on execution, market conditions and factors outside anyone’s control.

Engagements and which terms control

These Terms govern the Site. They do not govern client work. Client work is governed by the signed engagement agreement, statement of work, and any associated confidentiality or data processing terms between us.

If anything in these Terms conflicts with a signed engagement agreement, the engagement agreement controls for the subject matter it covers. Descriptions of services, phases, timeframes and engagement models published on this Site are illustrative of how we typically work; they are not a contractual specification, they do not create an obligation to deliver any particular scope, outcome or timeline, and they may be superseded entirely by what the engagement agreement actually says.

We state on this Site that our fees are fixed and agreed up front rather than billed hourly. That is our standard commercial practice and we intend to keep it. It is not a price quotation, an offer capable of acceptance, or a guarantee of any particular fee for any particular scope of work.

Intellectual property

The Site, and its text, graphics, layout, design, code, the VV mark, the TheVVProject name and the “Vision × Velocity” line, are owned by TheVVProject or used under licence, and are protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. Fonts and any third-party components are used under their own licences.

Nothing on the Site grants you any licence to our intellectual property except the limited permission to view and reference the content described in “Permitted use of the site” above. Ownership of work product created during a client engagement is dealt with in the engagement agreement, not here.

If you believe material on the Site infringes your copyright, email us with enough detail to identify the work and the allegedly infringing page and we will investigate promptly and remove anything that should not be there.

What you send us

You keep ownership of the information you send us through the Site. By sending it, you grant us permission to read it, store it, and use it for the purpose you sent it for — typically to reply to you, assess fit, and prepare a proposal — in line with our Privacy policy.

You confirm that anything you send is yours to send, is accurate as far as you know, does not infringe anyone else’s rights, and does not breach a confidentiality obligation you owe someone else.

If you send us unsolicited ideas, suggestions or feedback about our services, our website or our published material, we may use them without restriction, without compensation and without obligation of confidentiality. This does not apply to your confidential business information, which we treat as confidential as described above.

Third-party links and resources

The Site may link to third-party websites, tools, standards, or articles. We link to things we think are useful; we do not control them, we do not vet them continuously, and we are not responsible for their content, accuracy, availability, security or privacy practices. A link is not an endorsement or a recommendation to purchase. Your use of a third-party site is between you and them, under their terms.

Availability and changes to the site

We may change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Site at any time, including removing or rewriting published material. We do not guarantee the Site will be available without interruption or free of errors, and we may take it offline for maintenance or for reasons outside our control. Published material reflects our view at the time of writing; markets, regulations and best practice move, and we are under no obligation to keep older material current.

Disclaimers

The Site and all content on it are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, and any warranties arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

We do not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, that defects will be corrected, that the Site is free of viruses or other harmful components, or that any information on the Site is complete, current or suitable for your circumstances. Any reliance you place on Site content is at your own risk.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited — including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or, for consumers, any statutory rights that cannot be waived.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, TheVVProject and its owners, employees, contractors and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, lost goodwill, or business interruption, arising out of or connected with your use of — or inability to use — the Site or any content on it, whether the claim is in contract, tort (including negligence), statute or otherwise, and even if we have been advised that such damages are possible.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Site and these Terms will not exceed one hundred US dollars (US$100). This cap applies to the Site only. Liability arising from a signed engagement is governed by the limitation of liability in that engagement agreement, not by this section.

These limitations are a fundamental part of the bargain between us: the Site is published free of charge, and it could not be published on any other basis.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless TheVVProject and its owners, employees, contractors and agents from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities and reasonable legal fees arising out of your misuse of the Site, your breach of these Terms, your violation of any law, or your infringement of a third party’s rights. We will tell you promptly about any such claim and cooperate reasonably in the defence; you will not settle anything that imposes an obligation on us without our written consent.

Privacy

Our handling of personal information is described in the Privacy policy, which forms part of these Terms. It covers what we collect through the Site’s forms, why, who processes it on our behalf, how long we keep it, and how to exercise your rights — including under the GDPR, UK GDPR, and the CCPA as amended by the CPRA.

Governing law and disputes

These Terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or the Site (including non-contractual disputes), are governed by the laws of the State of [STATE], United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. You and we agree that the state and federal courts located in [COUNTY, STATE] have exclusive jurisdiction, and each of us submits to the personal jurisdiction of those courts and waives any objection based on inconvenient forum.

Before filing anything, please email us and give us 30 days to resolve the matter directly. Most disputes are misunderstandings and are cheaper to fix in an inbox than in a courtroom.

If you access the Site from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with your local law. Nothing in this section deprives a consumer of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of their country of residence.

Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms as the Site or our practices change. The “last updated” date at the top always reflects the current version, and the version in force is the one published when you use the Site. If a change is material we will make it obvious rather than burying it. Continuing to use the Site after a change means you accept the updated Terms.

General provisions

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy policy, are the whole agreement between us about the Site, and replace anything said or written about it before. They do not replace a signed engagement agreement.
Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent needed to make it enforceable, or struck if that is not possible; the rest stays in force.
No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of it, then or later.
Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition or reorganisation.
No third-party beneficiaries. These Terms create rights only between you and us.
Force majeure. Neither party is liable for failure to perform caused by events outside its reasonable control.
Survival. The sections on advice, intellectual property, submissions, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification and governing law survive any end to your use of the Site.
Headings and language. Headings are for convenience only. These Terms are drafted in English, and the English version controls.

How to contact us

Questions about these Terms, notices, or anything else legal:

Email: hello@thevvproject.com
Phone: +1 (786) 557-1842
Post: mailing address available on request

If you want to talk about actual work rather than terms, the faster route is a discovery call.