Acceptable Use Policy

This policy forms part of the Terms of Service and applies to everyone using Founders 8, including anyone you give access to your account.

• Tax evasion — as distinct from lawful tax planning. We will help you structure a company properly; we will not help you hide income from an authority entitled to see it.
• Money laundering, or moving the proceeds of crime.
• Sanctions evasion, or acting for a person or entity on a sanctions list. We cannot serve customers or companies in jurisdictions under comprehensive U.S. sanctions.
• Fraud of any kind, including invoice fraud and identity fraud.
• Concealing beneficial ownership from a registry, a bank or an authority entitled to it.

• Do not give a false name, a false address, or a document that is not yours.
• Do not form an entity for someone whose identity you are hiding from us.
• Do not use a business address we provide as evidence of a physical presence you do not have, where a bank, an authority or a counterparty is relying on it.

Identity checks are not a formality. A partner, a bank or a state will reject a filing built on a false answer, and we are the ones who have to unwind it.

Some activities are lawful but outside what our partners and payment providers will underwrite. We cannot support:

• Unlicensed financial services — deposit-taking, money transmission, lending or investment advice without the licence the activity requires.
• Unregistered securities offerings, or investment schemes that depend on recruiting new investors to pay old ones.
• Weapons, ammunition, explosives and controlled goods requiring an export licence we cannot verify.
• Controlled substances, and products marketed as treatments without the approval that claim requires.
• Gambling, betting and lotteries in jurisdictions where they are not licensed.
• Content involving minors, non-consensual content, or any content unlawful where it is produced or consumed.

If your business is near one of these lines, ask us before you sign up rather than after. A clear answer early is cheaper than a closed account later.

• No probing, scanning or testing the security of the platform without our written permission.
• No accessing an account, a document or a record that is not yours.
• No scraping, automated bulk access, or reverse engineering.
• No uploading malware, or anything designed to disrupt the service or the people using it.

If you find a vulnerability, report it through our contact form before doing anything else with it. We will not pursue anyone who reports a genuine finding in good faith and gives us a chance to fix it.

Where we can, we ask first: most breaches are a misunderstanding, and a question resolves them. Where the breach is serious — fraud, sanctions, an attack on the platform — we suspend immediately and without notice.

We may suspend or close an account, refuse to instruct a partner, report what the law requires us to report, and decline to act further. We will still let you export your own records, unless a law or an authority prevents it. Closing an account for a breach does not entitle you to a refund of fees for the current period.