Terms of Service

Founders 8 is operated by Founders 8 LLC, a limited liability company formed in Wyoming, United States. In these terms “we” and “us” mean Founders 8 LLC.

By creating an account you agree to these terms. If you are using Founders 8 on behalf of a company, you confirm you are authorised to bind it, and “you” means that company. You must be at least 18 years old.

The service is software plus coordination: we help you assemble and maintain a U.S. company and the records that go with it, we track deadlines, and we introduce and instruct qualified partners on your behalf where you ask us to.

Founders 8 is not a law firm, an accounting firm, a bank, a money transmitter or a licensed immigration adviser. Nothing we publish or send you is legal, tax, accounting or immigration advice, and no relationship of attorney and client, or accountant and client, is created by using Founders 8.

Regulated work is performed by independent, qualified third parties who contract with you directly and are responsible for their own advice and filings. We do not supervise their professional judgement. The full statement is in the Disclaimer.

You are responsible for everything done under your account. Keep your credentials secure, do not share them, and tell us promptly if you believe someone else has access. We may suspend an account we reasonably believe has been compromised, and we will tell you when we do.

• Give us accurate, current information. Formation documents, tax filings and bank applications are only as good as what goes into them, and a wrong answer can invalidate a filing.
• Keep your credentials secure, and tell us promptly if you believe your account has been accessed by someone else.
• Use Founders 8 lawfully, and within the Acceptable Use Policy. You may not use it to further tax evasion, sanctions evasion, money laundering, or any activity unlawful where you live or where your company is formed.
• Meet your own obligations. We can track a deadline and remind you of it; we cannot file on your behalf without your instruction and, where required, your signature.

The Acceptable Use Policy forms part of these terms.

Subscription fees are charged in advance for the period you select. Government fees, state filing fees and third-party partner costs are separate, charged at cost, and disclosed before they are incurred. We will give at least 30 days’ notice before changing the price of an existing subscription. Prices are in U.S. dollars and exclude any sales, use, VAT or withholding tax, which is yours to pay.

If a payment fails we may retry it and may suspend the service until it clears. Card details are handled by our payment processor; we never see or store them.

You may cancel at any time, effective at the end of your current billing period. Cancelling stops the subscription; it does not itself dissolve your company, terminate a registered-agent appointment or end an obligation to a tax authority. You can export your documents before your access ends, and we will keep them available for 30 days afterwards.

What is refundable, what is not, and how to cancel are set out in the Refund and Cancellation Policy, which forms part of these terms.

We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, that we are legally required to close, or that a partner or payment provider requires us to stop serving. Except where a law or a sanctions rule prevents it, we will tell you why and give you a chance to fix it first, and we will let you export your records.

The platform, the site and everything we write for it stay ours. You get a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the service while your subscription is live, and nothing more.

Your documents and data stay yours. You give us only the licence we need to run the service for you: to store your content, and to transmit the part of it a partner or an authority needs in order to do the work you asked for. We do not use your content for anything else, and we do not use it to train models.

Banks, payment processors, tax authorities and immigration authorities make their own decisions on their own timelines. We prepare applications properly and follow them up. We cannot and do not promise that an account will be opened, a residency granted, or a filing accepted on a particular date.

We aim to keep the service available and accurate, but it is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for any claim arising out of the service is limited to the subscription fees you paid in the twelve months before the claim, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, including lost profits or penalties assessed by an authority.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited. If you are a consumer, your mandatory statutory rights are unaffected.

You will cover us against claims, losses and reasonable legal costs arising from your use of the service in breach of these terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, or from information you gave us that was untrue. This does not apply to anything caused by our own breach or negligence.

You agree to receive notices, agreements and disclosures from us electronically — in the app or by email to the address on your account — and that this satisfies any requirement that they be in writing. You agree that an electronic signature you apply through the service has the same effect as a handwritten one, under the U.S. E-SIGN Act and equivalent laws.

You can withdraw that consent by writing to us, but the service depends on electronic delivery, so withdrawing it means we can no longer provide it. You are responsible for keeping a working email address on file.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the courts of Sheridan County, Wyoming have exclusive jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident in the UK, EU or another country whose law gives you the right to sue where you live, that right is unaffected.

Before filing anything, tell us what the problem is and give us 30 days to fix it. Most disputes end there, and it costs neither of us anything to try.

Neither of us is liable for a delay caused by something outside reasonable control — a government shutdown, an authority’s processing backlog, an outage at an infrastructure provider, war or natural disaster. We will tell you when one is affecting your matter.

You may not assign these terms without our consent; we may assign them to a buyer of the business. If a clause is unenforceable, the rest stands. Not enforcing a term once does not waive it. These terms, together with the Acceptable Use Policy, the Refund and Cancellation Policy, the Disclaimer and the Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement between us about the service.

We may update these terms. If a change materially affects your rights we will tell you by email before it takes effect, and continuing to use the service after that date means you accept the change.

Questions about these terms go through our contact form, or by post to the address in section 1. How we handle your data is set out in the Privacy Policy.