V.A.N.T.

    Terms of Service

    Effective Date: January 2026

    VANT ("VANT", "we", "us", or "our") is a technology development studio that designs, builds, and deploys software products and services.

    By accessing or using our primary landing portal, brand infrastructure, or general website (collectively, the "Foundry Portal"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you do not agree to these Terms, you must immediately discontinue your access to and use of the Foundry Portal.

    VANT operates as a parent incubator and engineering foundry that designs, builds, and deploys multiple distinct software categories, including commercial Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms, autonomous open-source systems, and interactive digital software.

    These Terms serve as an umbrella legal framework governing your general access to the VANT Foundry Portal and brand assets.

    Important Delegation Clause

    When you access, download, subscribe to, or utilize any specific software product, application, game, or service engineered by VANT (each a "VANT Product"), your relationship regarding that specific product is governed exclusively by its own dedicated End-User License Agreement (EULA), Product Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, or Open-Source License (collectively, "Product-Specific Terms").

    In the event of any conflict between these general Umbrella Terms and the Product-Specific Terms of a deployed product, the Product-Specific Terms shall strictly take precedence and govern your use of that respective product.

    All content, visual interfaces, architectural philosophies (including the four-pillar engineering framework: Vision, Architecture, Neutralization, and Thrive), brand identifiers, graphics, design layouts, codebases, and text displayed on the Foundry Portal are the exclusive proprietary assets of VANT and its creators, protected by applicable copyright, trade dress, and common law intellectual property principles.

    • a. Brand Asset Restrictions: While our official corporate entity registration is evolving, the name "VANT", our logos, slogans ("Engineering Logic. Securing the Core"), and visual styling represent our unregistered trademarks and commercial brand identity. You are strictly prohibited from copying, reproducing, republishing, framing, or utilizing our brand identifiers to market, endorse, or misrepresent external software, services, or commercial entities without our express written authorization.
    • b. Independent Product Branding: Individual commercial applications and open-source projects developed under the VANT umbrella maintain their own distinct brand names, logos, and trade dress, which remain equally protected under this clause against unauthorized commercial exploitation.

    To maintain engineering transparency while building sustainable software, VANT categorizes its output into two primary licensing streams:

    • a. Open-Source Engineering Categories: Certain software systems, autonomous tools, and foundational libraries are released to the global developer community under permissive open-source licenses (such as the MIT License, Apache 2.0, or equivalent), as explicitly declared in their respective public source code repositories. Your rights to use, modify, and distribute such code are governed entirely by the bundled open-source license text. However, such licenses grant no rights to use the "VANT" name or corporate branding for modified derivative distributions (forks) in a manner that implies endorsement or official affiliation.
    • b. Commercial Platforms & Proprietary Applications: Our cloud-assisted SaaS utilities, specialized safety applications, and proprietary interactive entertainment products are closed-source commercial assets. Access to these systems is granted solely on a limited, revocable, non-exclusive subscription or licensing basis, strictly governed by their dedicated Product-Specific Terms and payment conditions.

    VANT partners with third-party payment processors and Merchants of Record (MoR) for commercial transactions. The applicable MoR will be identified at the point of purchase.

    By purchasing a subscription or commercial license for any VANT Product, you agree to abide by the respective MoR's or payment processor's terms and conditions. All refund eligibility rules, zero-usage cancellation clauses, and chargeback dispute mechanisms are defined strictly within the Product-Specific Terms of the individual service being purchased. VANT does not directly store, process, or transmit raw credit card data or banking financial instruments.

    A core pillar of the VANT engineering philosophy is refusing to rely on bloated cloud services, instead engineering lightweight, high-performance solutions that maximize local hardware execution and enforce absolute privacy by design.

    • a. Local System Compatibility: Many of our software products execute natively on your local hardware. VANT is not liable for hardware incompatibilities, insufficient system resources, or conflicts arising from your hardware or operating system configuration.
    • b. Third-Party Infrastructure & Network Routing: For products that require external connectivity, VANT integrates with third-party infrastructure and network providers. We do not warrant or guarantee uninterrupted availability, zero latency, or error-free routing across third-party networks outside our direct architectural control.

    When interacting with the Foundry Portal or any VANT system, you agree not to:

    • Engage in any activity that disrupts, degrades, or interferes with the security, performance, or integrity of our edge servers, APIs, or routing infrastructure (including DDoS attempts, scraping, or probing for vulnerabilities).
    • Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code of any proprietary commercial VANT Product or internal infrastructure.
    • Utilize our engineering assets, safety applications, or communication tools for unlawful surveillance, spamming telecommunication carriers, generating false emergency dispatches, or violating the privacy rights of third parties.

    TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE VANT FOUNDRY PORTAL AND ALL GENERAL BRAND ASSETS ARE PROVIDED STRICTLY ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE.

    VANT EXPLICITLY DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE FOUNDRY PORTAL WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR FREE OF ERRORS, BUGS, OR ARCHITECTURAL DEFECTS.

    TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL VANT, ITS CREATORS, ENGINEERS, DEVELOPERS, OR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR ACCESS TO, USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE THE FOUNDRY PORTAL OR ANY VANT PRODUCT, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

    You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless VANT and its engineering team from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including legal fees) arising out of your violation of these Terms, your misuse of any software product, or your infringement of any intellectual property or privacy rights.

    These Umbrella Terms and your general relationship with VANT shall be governed by and construed in accordance with standard international commercial law principles and the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to conflict of law provisions. Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to this general Foundry Portal framework shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in New Castle County, Delaware, USA.

    Note: Financial disputes, billing claims, and transactional agreements arising within specific commercial VANT Products remain strictly subject to the jurisdiction and dispute resolution mechanisms defined by the authorized Merchant of Record (MoR) in the respective Product-Specific Terms.

    True to our "Thrive" pillar, our software and legal frameworks continuously evolve. We reserve the right to modify, update, or replace these Terms at any time at our sole discretion. When changes are made, we will update the "Effective Date" at the top of this document. Your continued use of the Foundry Portal following the posting of any changes constitutes your binding acceptance of the updated framework.

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