General Terms and Conditions for Brouky Analytics Services

1. Introduction

1.1 These General Terms and Conditions govern access to and use of the Provider's analytics products and services, including in particular:

• a) access to the Provider's startup and venture-capital intelligence platform,
• b) access to subscriber-only dashboards, comparison tools, and analytical outputs,
• c) delivery of periodic PDF reports and similar analytical materials,
• d) related support and communication provided by the Provider.

1.2 These General Terms and Conditions apply to all orders, subscriptions, purchases, and use of the Services, unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing.

1.3 These General Terms and Conditions are intended for professional and business use. By ordering or using the Services, the Customer confirms that it is acting in connection with its business, investment, entrepreneurial, or professional activities and not as a consumer.

2. Definitions

For the purposes of these General Terms and Conditions:

"Customer" means the legal entity or natural person acting in a professional or business capacity that orders or uses the Services.

"Services" means the Provider's platform access, data products, analytics outputs, reports, subscriber-only materials, periodic PDF reports, and related services.

"Platform" means the Provider's online interface, database, dashboard environment, or similar digital access point through which the Services may be delivered.

"Report" means a PDF report or similar electronic deliverable prepared or made available by the Provider as part of the Services.

"Content" means all data, text, layouts, analytics, rankings, indicators, visualisations, reports, outputs, software-related elements, and other materials made available through the Services.

3. Contract Formation

3.1 A contract between the Provider and the Customer is formed when:

• a) the Customer completes a paid order through the Provider's checkout or order flow, and the Provider confirms the order, or
• b) the parties agree the order individually by email, order form, invoice, proposal, or similar written confirmation.

3.2 The exact service scope, pricing, billing cycle, subscription tier, user limits, and any service-specific conditions may be specified on the order page, invoice, quote, proposal, order form, or other written confirmation. In the event of conflict, the individual written confirmation takes precedence over these General Terms and Conditions.

4. Description of Services

4.1 The Provider offers a professional information and analytics service focused on the startup and venture-capital ecosystem.

4.2 The Services may include:

• a) access to a structured database of startups, funds, founders, investors, and related professional actors,
• b) professional relationship mapping and historical analytical views,
• c) limited person-linked and company-linked analytical indicators,
• d) market intelligence and benchmarking features,
• e) periodic PDF reports or similar analytical deliverables,
• f) other research and analytical outputs made available by the Provider.

4.3 The Services may include data sourced from public or otherwise professionally accessible sources, internally structured data, derived analytical outputs, and source-backed professional-context indicators.

4.4 The Provider may update, improve, refine, reorganise, or modify the structure, interface, categories, methodology, layout, data presentation, and technical delivery of the Services from time to time, provided that the core analytical nature of the subscribed service is preserved.

5. Monthly Analysis Reports

5.1 Where included in the relevant subscription tier or order, the Provider may deliver one periodic analytical report per calendar month in PDF or similar electronic format.

5.2 The monthly report may include, depending on the subscribed scope:

• a) market developments and relevant ecosystem changes,
• b) analysis of the Customer's relevant market segment,
• c) startup, VC, and relationship mapping insights,
• d) professional-context analytical outputs,
• e) comparisons, rankings, indicators, or summaries derived from the Provider's data and methodology.

5.3 The exact format, length, level of detail, delivery channel, and layout of the monthly report may change over time without constituting a reduction of service, provided the report remains a genuine analytical deliverable within the subscribed service model.

5.4 Unless otherwise agreed, the monthly report may be delivered by email, Platform access, download link, or another reasonable electronic method chosen by the Provider.

6. Access and Authorised Use

6.1 The Customer receives a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to access and use the Services for its internal professional and business purposes only, during the agreed subscription or service term and subject to these General Terms and Conditions.

6.2 Access credentials are personal to the authorised user or users assigned under the applicable subscription. The Customer shall keep credentials confidential and shall ensure that unauthorised persons do not access the Services.

6.3 The Customer is responsible for all use of the Services through its accounts, credentials, devices, or authorised users.

7. Permitted Use and Restrictions

7.1 The Customer may use the Services and Content solely for its own internal professional, business, investment, research, or analytical purposes.

7.2 Unless expressly agreed otherwise in writing, the Customer may not:

• a) republish, resell, sublicense, commercially redistribute, or otherwise make the Services or Content available to third parties,
• b) copy the database or any substantial part of it,
• c) bulk-extract, scrape, harvest, or systematically download Content,
• d) create, enrich, validate, or operate a competing database, directory, analytics product, or similar service using the Services or Content,
• e) use automated tools, bots, scripts, spiders, or similar means to access or extract Content except where expressly permitted,
• f) remove, alter, or obscure copyright notices, branding, source indications, or legal notices,
• g) use the Services or Content for unlawful discrimination, unlawful surveillance, or unlawful processing of personal data,
• h) use the Services or Content as the sole basis for decisions producing legal effects or similarly significant effects concerning an identified natural person,
• i) use the Services or Content to train, fine-tune, validate, or benchmark artificial intelligence or machine-learning models without the Provider's prior written consent.

7.3 The Provider may monitor usage reasonably necessary to protect the security, integrity, and lawful use of the Services.

8. Analytical Nature of the Services

8.1 The Services provide structured analytical information and decision-support material.

8.2 The Services do not constitute:

• a) legal advice,
• b) tax advice,
• c) regulated investment advice,
• d) credit-scoring services,
• e) a guarantee of future outcomes,
• f) a guarantee that any dataset, report, or output is complete, exhaustive, or error-free.

8.3 The Customer remains solely responsible for its own assessments, decisions, and actions. The Customer shall not treat the Services as the sole basis for any materially significant decision concerning an identified natural person or any investment, hiring, partnership, lending, or comparable business decision.

9. Subscriptions, Fees, and Payment

9.1 The price, billing cycle, scope of access, included outputs, and applicable taxes are stated on the relevant order page, invoice, quote, order form, or other written confirmation.

9.2 Unless otherwise stated, fees are payable in advance.

9.3 Unless otherwise agreed in writing, subscriptions renew automatically for successive billing periods corresponding to the originally agreed billing cycle, unless cancelled before the start of the next billing period.

9.4 The Customer shall pay all invoices properly issued by the Provider by the due date stated on the invoice.

9.5 The Provider may suspend access to the Services where payment is overdue.

9.6 Unless mandatory law requires otherwise, paid fees are non-refundable for billing periods already commenced.

10. Intellectual Property and Database Rights

10.1 All rights, title, and interest in and to the Services and Content, including the Platform, reports, database structure, selection and arrangement of data, methodology, visualisations, text, software-related elements, trade names, branding, and all related intellectual-property or database rights, belong to the Provider or its licensors.

10.2 No ownership rights are transferred to the Customer. Only the limited use right expressly stated in these General Terms and Conditions is granted.

10.3 The Customer shall not challenge the Provider's intellectual-property rights, database rights, or ownership of the Services or Content.

11. Customer Data and Communication

11.1 The Provider may process the Customer's contact and account data to administer the contract, provide access, deliver reports, issue invoices, provide support, and communicate about the Services.

11.2 Where the Services include personal data relating to third persons, the Provider acts as an independent controller in relation to its own data collection, structuring, and analytics activities, unless the parties expressly agree otherwise in writing for a separate service model.

11.3 Information about the Provider's processing of personal data is set out in the Provider's Privacy Policy.

12. Availability, Support, and Changes

12.1 The Provider will make reasonable efforts to keep the Services available, but does not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free availability.

12.2 The Provider may temporarily suspend or restrict access where reasonably necessary for maintenance, updates, technical changes, security, legal compliance, misuse prevention, or system protection.

12.3 The Provider may change the Services where reasonably required by technical development, data-source changes, legal requirements, product evolution, or security needs.

13. Term and Termination

13.1 The contract remains in force for the agreed service term and, where applicable, any renewed term.

13.2 Either party may terminate the contract in accordance with the agreed billing cycle or notice arrangement stated in the applicable order or subscription plan.

13.3 The Provider may suspend or terminate access with immediate effect where:

• a) the Customer materially breaches these General Terms and Conditions,
• b) the Customer misuses the Services,
• c) the Customer infringes the Provider's intellectual-property or database rights,
• d) the Customer uses the Services in a way that exposes the Provider to legal, regulatory, or security risk,
• e) payment remains overdue after a reasonable reminder.

13.4 Upon termination, the Customer's access rights end immediately, except to the extent the Provider expressly allows limited post-termination access to historical reports.

14. Liability

14.1 The Provider shall be liable only for damage actually caused by a breach of its obligations and only to the extent permitted by applicable law.

14.2 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Provider shall not be liable for:

• a) indirect or consequential damage,
• b) loss of profit,
• c) loss of opportunity,
• d) loss of goodwill,
• e) loss of anticipated savings,
• f) investment losses,
• g) losses caused by third-party actions or decisions based on the Services,
• h) losses caused by source inaccuracies outside the Provider's reasonable control.

14.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Provider's total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with the Services during any twelve-month period shall not exceed the total fees actually paid by the Customer to the Provider for the Services during that same period.

14.4 Nothing in these General Terms and Conditions excludes or limits liability where exclusion or limitation is not permitted by law.

15. Confidentiality

15.1 Each party shall treat as confidential any non-public commercial, technical, pricing, product, or business information received from the other party in connection with the Services, where such information is confidential by its nature or has been identified as confidential.

15.2 The Customer shall in particular keep confidential all non-public reports, subscriber-only outputs, methodologies, pricing, and access credentials, except to the extent internal disclosure is reasonably necessary for the Customer's authorised internal use.

16. Compliance with Law

16.1 Each party shall comply with applicable law in connection with its performance under the contract.

16.2 The Customer is solely responsible for ensuring that its own use of the Services and Content complies with applicable data-protection, competition, investment, employment, and other relevant laws.

17. Amendments to These General Terms and Conditions

17.1 The Provider may amend these General Terms and Conditions where reasonably necessary due to legal, regulatory, technical, operational, or product changes.

17.2 The updated version shall be published on the Provider's website or otherwise communicated to the Customer.

17.3 If the amendment materially adversely affects the Customer and the Customer does not agree to it, the Customer may terminate the subscription before the amended version takes effect, unless the amendment is required by law or is purely technical or administrative.

18. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

18.1 These General Terms and Conditions and any contractual relationship between the Provider and the Customer shall be governed by the laws of the Czech Republic, excluding conflict-of-laws rules to the extent permitted.

18.2 Any disputes not resolved amicably shall be submitted to the competent courts of the Czech Republic. Unless mandatory law requires otherwise, the courts having local jurisdiction for Prague shall have jurisdiction.

19. Contact

For contractual, billing, or service matters, the Customer may contact: