Founder Terms of Use

1. What Janus Board is

Janus Board is an AI powered business mentorship and advisory platform.

It allows users to interact with AI representations of entrepreneurs, founders, executives and other experts who have authorised their participation in Janus.

Depending on your subscription, you may be able to:

• a. interact with individual AI Mentors;
• b. create a personal advisory board;
• c. ask multiple AI Mentors the same question;
• d. receive a Janus Board synthesis of different Mentor perspectives;
• e. provide information about your company so responses can be personalised;
• f. maintain conversation history and company context; and
• g. access other features introduced by Janus from time to time.

2. AI Mentors are AI, not the human Mentor

An AI Mentor is an artificial intelligence representation informed by material, frameworks, instructions and other content authorised by the relevant Mentor.

When you interact with an AI Mentor: you are interacting with AI, not directly with the named individual.

The real Mentor does not necessarily:

• a. see your question;
• b. personally write the response;
• c. review the response before you receive it;
• d. agree with every response;
• e. know that the interaction has occurred; or
• f. accept responsibility for the response.

Janus will take reasonable steps to identify AI Mentors clearly as AI representations.

3. Janus Board is not a legal board of directors

The term “Board” refers to the product experience of consulting multiple AI Mentors.

Janus Board does not create:

• a. a statutory board of directors;
• b. a non executive director relationship;
• c. a fiduciary relationship;
• d. an advisory board with legal authority;
• e. an agency relationship;
• f. a partnership; or
• g. any other formal corporate governance arrangement.

AI Mentors are not directors or officers of your company and have no power to make decisions or act on your behalf.

You remain responsible for all decisions relating to your business.

4. No professional advice

Janus is designed to provide general business information, perspectives and educational guidance.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, Janus does not provide regulated or professional:

• a. legal advice;
• b. tax advice;
• c. accounting advice;
• d. investment advice;
• e. financial advice;
• f. medical advice;
• g. employment law advice; or
• h. any other advice requiring professional authorisation.

You should obtain appropriate professional advice where necessary.

5. AI outputs can be wrong

Generative AI can produce information that is:

• a. inaccurate;
• b. incomplete;
• c. outdated;
• d. misleading;
• e. inconsistent;
• f. based on incorrect assumptions; or
• g. different from what the real Mentor would personally say.

You should independently evaluate important information before relying on it.

The existence of a named or authorised AI Mentor does not guarantee the accuracy of a response.

6. You are responsible for your decisions

You remain solely responsible for determining whether and how to use information generated through Janus.

Janus and its Mentors do not make business decisions for you.

You should consider relevant facts, professional advice and your own judgement before taking material actions such as:

• a. hiring or dismissing employees;
• b. raising capital;
• c. investing money;
• d. entering contracts;
• e. changing prices;
• f. taking on debt;
• g. restructuring a company; or
• h. making significant commercial decisions.

7. Mentor expertise and boundaries

Each AI Mentor may have defined areas of expertise and subject matter boundaries.

Janus may:

• a. refuse certain requests;
• b. redirect questions;
• c. provide safety warnings;
• d. prevent responses in areas outside the Mentor's intended expertise; or
• e. recommend that you speak to a human professional.

These restrictions may apply even where a User requests otherwise.

8. Human Mentor access

Where Janus offers an option to contact, book or enquire about working with the real Mentor, that functionality is separate from the AI Mentor service.

Unless expressly stated otherwise:

• a. there is no guarantee the Mentor will accept an enquiry;
• b. your Janus subscription does not entitle you to personal access to a Mentor;
• c. additional fees may apply; and
• d. any separate engagement may be governed by separate terms agreed between you and the Mentor.

9. Accounts

You must be at least 18 years old to create a Janus account.

You agree to provide accurate account information.

You are responsible for:

• a. keeping your login credentials secure;
• b. activity occurring through your account;
• c. notifying us promptly if you believe your account has been compromised; and
• d. ensuring that your use of Janus complies with these Terms.

You may not share your individual account with another person unless your plan expressly permits multiple users.

10. Business and Consumer Users

Janus is primarily designed for founders, entrepreneurs and people using the service for business purposes.

If you use Janus wholly or mainly for purposes relating to your trade, business, craft or profession, you are a Business User.

If applicable law classifies you as a consumer, nothing in these Terms removes or limits statutory consumer rights that cannot legally be excluded.

11. Company information and User Content

You may provide Janus with information about your company, including:

• a. company descriptions;
• b. business plans;
• c. goals;
• d. financial information;
• e. challenges;
• f. documents;
• g. questions;
• h. conversation content; and
• i. other information you choose to submit.

This information is referred to as User Content.

You retain ownership of User Content that you own.

12. Licence to process User Content

You give Janus a non exclusive licence to host, store, process, analyse and use your User Content solely as reasonably necessary to:

• a. operate Janus;
• b. personalise your experience;
• c. maintain company context;
• d. generate AI responses;
• e. provide conversation history;
• f. provide support;
• g. maintain security; and
• h. improve the operation of the Janus service.

This does not transfer ownership of your User Content to Janus.

13. Confidential information you upload

You are responsible for deciding what information is appropriate to provide to Janus.

You must not upload information where you do not have the legal right or authority to do so.

In particular, you should take care before uploading:

• a. confidential client information;
• b. trade secrets belonging to another organisation;
• c. personal data about other individuals;
• d. information subject to legal privilege;
• e. information restricted by an NDA; or
• f. commercially sensitive information belonging to another party.

14. Third party AI and technology providers

Janus uses third party technology providers to operate the service.

These may include providers of:

• a. artificial intelligence models;
• b. cloud hosting;
• c. databases;
• d. authentication;
• e. document processing;
• f. payments;
• g. analytics; and
• h. security infrastructure.

Your information may be processed by such providers where necessary to provide Janus.

Further information about personal data processing is set out in our Privacy Notice.

15. Mentor intellectual property

Mentors retain ownership of the intellectual property they provide to Janus.

Your subscription gives you access to the Janus service and Generated Outputs.

It does not give you ownership of:

• a. a Mentor's uploaded materials;
• b. the Mentor's frameworks;
• c. the Mentor's name;
• d. the Mentor's photograph or likeness;
• e. the Mentor's underlying intellectual property; or
• f. the AI Mentor itself.

16. Permitted use of Generated Outputs

Subject to these Terms, you may use Generated Outputs for your own personal or internal business purposes.

For example, you may use an output to:

• a. consider a business decision;
• b. create internal notes;
• c. develop a strategy;
• d. discuss an issue with your team; or
• e. help prepare your own work.

17. Prohibited exploitation of Mentor content

You may not use Janus to:

• a. systematically extract a Mentor's underlying knowledge base;
• b. reconstruct uploaded Mentor documents;
• c. scrape Mentor responses at scale;
• d. create a competing AI representation of a Mentor;
• e. use Mentor content to train another AI persona without permission;
• f. impersonate the Mentor;
• g. imply that an AI response was personally written or approved by the real Mentor;
• h. resell access to a Mentor;
• i. reproduce substantial Mentor content outside Janus; or
• j. circumvent safeguards designed to protect Mentor intellectual property.

18. Acceptable use

You must not use Janus:

• a. unlawfully;
• b. fraudulently;
• c. to harass or threaten another person;
• d. to generate malicious software;
• e. to attempt to access another User's data;
• f. to bypass security controls;
• g. to interfere with Janus infrastructure;
• h. through automated scraping or bots without permission;
• i. to conduct prompt injection or extraction attacks designed to reveal protected Mentor content or system instructions;
• j. to infringe intellectual property rights; or
• k. in any way that materially damages Janus, a Mentor or another User.

19. Subscriptions

Certain Janus features require a paid subscription.

Current plans, features and prices are displayed before purchase.

Plans may include, for example:

Single Mentor and Janus Board

The price displayed at checkout is the price applicable to your subscription, together with any applicable taxes.

20. Automatic renewal

Unless expressly stated otherwise, paid Janus subscriptions automatically renew.

For a monthly plan: your payment method will be charged each month until you cancel.

Before you subscribe, Janus will display:

• a. the price;
• b. the billing frequency;
• c. whether a trial applies;
• d. when the first payment will be taken; and
• e. how to cancel.

You authorise Janus and its payment provider to charge the applicable recurring subscription amount until cancellation.

21. Free trials and promotional periods

Janus may offer a free trial, discounted period or promotional access.

The applicable offer will state:

• a. how long it lasts;
• b. what functionality is included;
• c. whether payment details are required;
• d. when paid billing begins; and
• e. the amount that will be charged.

Where a trial automatically converts into a paid subscription, this will be clearly disclosed before you begin the trial.

22. Cancellation

You may cancel a recurring subscription through the functionality provided in your account or billing portal.

Unless applicable law requires otherwise:

• a. cancellation stops future renewal charges;
• b. your subscription remains available until the end of the period already paid for; and
• c. amounts already paid are not automatically refundable merely because you choose not to continue using the service.

Janus will not intentionally make cancellation unreasonably difficult.

23. Consumer cancellation rights

If you are legally acting as a consumer, you may have statutory cancellation rights.

Under current UK distance-selling rules, many online service and digital-content contracts carry a 14 day cancellation period, subject to rules concerning immediate supply and services already provided. Legislation.gov.uk

Nothing in these Terms removes rights that applicable consumer law gives you.

Where required, Janus will provide additional information or obtain additional consent before beginning immediate supply of digital services.

24. Refunds

Refunds will be provided where required by law.

Otherwise, requests for discretionary refunds may be considered by Janus on a case by case basis.

Nothing in this clause limits statutory rights available to Consumer Users.

25. Changes to prices

Janus may change subscription prices.

Any price increase affecting an existing subscription will be communicated in advance where required by law.

The new price will not ordinarily apply before the next applicable billing period after any required notice.

You may cancel if you do not wish to continue at the new price.

26. Changes to Mentors

The availability of individual Mentors may change.

A Mentor may:

• a. leave Janus;
• b. pause their AI Mentor;
• c. withdraw their content;
• d. restrict areas of expertise; or
• e. become unavailable.

Janus does not guarantee that a particular Mentor will remain available for the duration of your subscription.

Where practical, Janus may allow you to select another Mentor.

27. Changes to the service

Janus is an evolving product.

We may add, modify or remove features where reasonably necessary for:

• a. product development;
• b. safety;
• c. legal compliance;
• d. technical reasons;
• e. Mentor requirements; or
• f. commercial reasons.

We will not intentionally remove a material paid feature during an active subscription without considering the impact on affected users.

28. Availability

We aim to keep Janus available, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access.

The service may occasionally be unavailable because of:

• a. maintenance;
• b. software errors;
• c. third party outages;
• d. security events;
• e. internet disruption; or
• f. circumstances outside our reasonable control.

29. Suspension and termination

Janus may suspend or terminate an account where we reasonably believe that a User:

• a. materially breaches these Terms;
• b. misuses Mentor intellectual property;
• c. creates a security risk;
• d. acts fraudulently;
• e. uses Janus unlawfully; or
• f. materially harms other Users, Mentors or Janus.

Where reasonable, we will provide notice and an opportunity to remedy the breach.

30. Our intellectual property

Made in Bloomsbury Ltd owns or licenses the intellectual property relating to Janus Board, including:

• a. software;
• b. branding;
• c. interfaces;
• d. platform architecture;
• e. workflows;
• f. system prompts;
• g. databases;
• h. retrieval systems; and
• i. other Janus technology.

Except for the limited right to use Janus under these Terms, no rights in Janus intellectual property are transferred to you.

31. Feedback

If you voluntarily provide suggestions or feedback about Janus, you permit us to use that feedback to develop and improve the product.

We will not treat feedback as transferring ownership of your separate business intellectual property.

32. Liability for Business Users

If you are a Business User, to the maximum extent permitted by law:

• a. Janus is not liable for business decisions made using AI Generated Outputs;
• b. Janus is not liable for loss of profits, revenue, business opportunity, goodwill or anticipated savings arising indirectly from use of Janus;
• c. Janus is not liable for indirect or consequential losses; and
• d. Janus's aggregate liability arising out of your use of the service will ordinarily be limited to the amount you paid to Janus during the 12 months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

This limitation does not apply where liability cannot lawfully be limited.

33. Consumer Users

If you are a Consumer User, nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability or statutory rights where doing so would be unlawful.

UK law prevents digital-content providers from contracting out of various mandatory consumer rights, including requirements relating to satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and conformity with description. Legislation.gov.uk

34. Liability that is never excluded

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for:

• a. death or personal injury caused by negligence where exclusion is prohibited;
• b. fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or
• c. any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

35. Privacy

Our processing of personal data is governed by the Janus Board Privacy Notice.

The Privacy Notice should be made available separately during signup.

These Terms are not intended to replace the Privacy Notice.

36. Communications

We may contact you regarding:

• a. your account;
• b. security;
• c. billing;
• d. subscription renewal;
• e. changes to Janus;
• f. Mentor availability;
• g. changes to these Terms; or
• h. other service-related matters.

Marketing communications will be handled separately and subject to applicable law.

37. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms where reasonably necessary.

Where a change materially affects existing Users, we will provide reasonable notice.

If applicable law requires consent to a material change, we will obtain it.

38. Transfer of Janus

Made in Bloomsbury Ltd may transfer these Terms in connection with:

• a. a sale of Janus Board;
• b. a sale of the relevant business;
• c. a merger;
• d. a corporate restructuring; or
• e. a transfer to an affiliated company.

Any successor remains subject to applicable law and existing contractual obligations.

39. No third party rights

Except where expressly stated otherwise, these Terms do not give rights to third parties under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

40. Severability

If part of these Terms is found invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to apply.

41. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales.

For Business Users, the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.

For Consumer Users, any mandatory rights relating to jurisdiction or applicable law remain unaffected.

42. Contact

Questions about these Terms may be sent to:

Made in Bloomsbury Ltd Trading as Janus Board Flat 2 Devonshire Court Boswell Street London WC1N 3PX United Kingdom

Email: michael.testa@zeraftech.com