Founding Partner Terms

These terms apply to the company that builds and operates the systems the Club runs on, and that is named as its founding partner.

They take effect when you complete the partner form on the Club's website, accept these terms and sign. Ticking the box and typing your name is your signature, and it binds the company you name as much as a signature on paper would.

Nothing here replaces the Membership Terms. A partner is not a member, and holds no member entitlement unless the Club admits it as one separately.

The Club's founder is also the owner of the founding partner. That is a conflict of interest, and hiding it would be worse than having it.

It is managed by three rules. The founding partner charges the Club nothing for the systems it provides. The Club buys no service from it on terms the board has not seen. And where the board decides anything concerning the founding partner, the founder does not vote on it.

Members are told which company runs the Club's systems, on the partners page, without having to ask.

The founding partner provides the website, the member console, the customer relationship system behind it and the matchmaking engine, at no charge to the Club and with no claim over the Club's activity.

The Club's data belongs to the Club. The founding partner processes it on the Club's instructions and for no purpose of its own: it does not market to members, does not sell or share the data, and does not use it to build a product.

On request, and in any event when this partnership ends, the founding partner returns the Club's data in a usable form and deletes its own copies, keeping only what the law requires it to keep.

The founding partner may offer its services to members, like any other partner. Members are under no obligation to buy anything from it, and nothing in the Club's membership depends on doing so.

An enquiry sent from the founding partner's page on the Club's website goes to the founding partner. The Club does not read it as a member record and does not act as an intermediary in the work that follows.

Either side may end this partnership on ninety days' notice — longer than the usual notice, because the Club needs time to move its systems.

During those ninety days the founding partner keeps the systems running and helps the Club migrate. The Club's data leaves with the Club.

Each of us may use the other's name to describe the partnership factually, and neither of us may use the other's name or marks to suggest an endorsement of a product, a price or a third party.

The Club publishes your logo only once you have given permission in writing, and displays it according to any brand rules you supply. Until then the Club writes your name in plain text — and the Club's own database refuses to store a logo against a partnership that is not signed.

Either of us may withdraw that permission at any time, in writing. The Club removes the logo at its next publication of the site and in any event within seven days.

This is not a contract for services, an agency, a partnership in the legal sense, a joint venture, or an employment relationship. Neither of us may commit the other to anything.

It is not exclusive. The Club may accept partners in the same sector, and you are free to support any other organisation.

The Club does not promise attendance numbers, business introduced, coverage, or any commercial outcome. What the Club promises is what this document says it gives, and nothing beyond it.

The partnership runs for twelve months from the date you sign, and renews for a further twelve months unless either of us says otherwise.

Either of us may end it at any time, in writing, without giving reasons. Your name comes off the partners page at the next publication of the site.

Ending the partnership does not undo an occasion already held, and does not entitle either of us to a refund or a payment, except where the section on fees says so.

The Club holds the details you give on the form to run the partnership, and handles them as set out in its Privacy Policy. Your signature record — the version of these terms, the name signed and the moment — is kept for as long as the partnership runs and for six years afterwards.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Nevada, and sit alongside the Terms of Use, the Code of Conduct and the Privacy Policy.

Questions, or a change to what you provide, go to legal@lvbbc.org.