Terms of Use

1. Acceptance of these terms

This website is operated by Venus AI Consulting ("Venus AI Consulting," "we," "us," or "our"), a consulting firm providing advisory, governance, deployment-strategy, and technical consulting services in intellectual property, data privacy and protection, and AI operations. We are consultants, not your legal counsel, and we do not provide legal representation through this site. By accessing or using this site, including any tool or form on it, you agree to these Terms of Use and to our Privacy Policy.

If you are using the site on behalf of an organization, you represent that you are authorized to accept these terms for that organization. If you do not agree, please stop using the site.

2. Informational purposes only — not legal advice

Everything on this site — service area pages, representative matters, fee structures, checklists, articles, and every output produced by our AI tools — is general information. It is consulting information only. It is not legal advice or a legal opinion, and it is not a substitute for advice from a licensed attorney who knows the facts of your situation.

The law changes and varies by jurisdiction. Content may become out of date, and it may not apply to you. Do not act, or decline to act, based on anything on this site or on our consulting deliverables without confirming the position with counsel licensed in your jurisdiction.

3. No consulting engagement and no attorney-client relationship

Visiting this site, submitting a form, running a tool, or emailing us does not create a consulting engagement and does not create an attorney-client relationship. A consulting engagement begins only after we have signed a statement of work or engagement agreement that defines the scope, deliverables, and fees.

Information you send before an engagement agreement is in place is not confidential and is not protected by legal privilege. Because our services are consulting services, communications with us are generally not privileged even during an engagement. Please do not send sensitive or confidential material until we have confirmed in writing that we can receive it, and route anything privilege-sensitive through your counsel.

4. Scope of our services

We deliver consulting and technical advisory services: program design, governance frameworks, risk assessments, deployment strategy, vendor diligence support, training, and implementation guidance. We do not practice law, appear in proceedings, file registrations on your behalf, or render legal opinions, and nothing on this site is an offer to do so. Where an issue requires a legal determination, we will say so and work alongside your counsel.

Descriptions of prior matters are anonymized and simplified. Prior results do not guarantee, warrant, or predict a similar outcome in any future matter.

5. Using the AI tools

This site offers automated tools including a policy draft generator, an AI governance risk assessment, a knowledge assistant, and a tool directory. They exist to help you organize your thinking, not to replace professional judgment. By using them you agree to the following:

• Every output is an unreviewed first draft that a qualified professional must review, edit, and validate before you rely on it or publish it.
• AI systems can produce inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated statements, including citations or standards references that are wrong. Verify anything you intend to use.
• Do not submit confidential, privileged, trade secret, export-controlled, health, financial, or other sensitive personal information into these tools.
• You are responsible for the inputs you provide, for having the right to provide them, and for how you use any output.
• Do not use the tools to break the law, infringe anyone's rights, generate misleading compliance or legal claims, or scrape, probe, overload, reverse engineer, or disrupt the site or the systems behind it.
• We may change, limit, or withdraw any tool at any time, and we may set usage limits to keep the site available for everyone.

6. Accounts and restricted areas

Some areas of this site — such as the inquiry console and the knowledge base — are restricted to authorized Venus AI Consulting personnel. Do not attempt to access them without authorization. If you hold credentials, you are responsible for keeping them secure and for activity carried out under your account, and you agree to notify us promptly of any suspected unauthorized use.

7. Agent and MCP connections

If you connect an AI assistant or agent to this site through our published connection instructions, you are responsible for the assistant you authorize and for the requests it makes on your behalf. Access is subject to the same permissions that apply to your account, and we may revoke a connection at any time.

8. Submissions and communications

When you send us an inquiry or other non-confidential material through this site, you grant us permission to read, store, and use it for the purpose of responding to you and operating our consulting business, as described in our Privacy Policy. Do not send material you are not permitted to share.

9. Intellectual property

The content, text, graphics, layout, and design of this site are owned by Venus AI Consulting or used with permission, and are protected by copyright and other laws. You may view, download, and print pages for your own internal reference.

Reproducing, republishing, distributing, framing, or creating derivative works from site content for any other purpose requires our prior written permission. Trademarks, logos, and service marks shown on the site belong to Venus AI Consulting or their respective owners, and nothing here grants a license to use them.

As between you and Venus AI Consulting, you keep whatever rights you hold in the inputs you enter into our tools, and you may use the resulting output subject to these terms.

10. Third-party links and embedded content

Some pages link to or embed third-party websites, tools, and demonstrations. We do not control that content, we do not endorse it by linking to it, and we are not responsible for it. Your use of a third-party service is governed by that provider's own terms and privacy policy.

11. Availability and disclaimers

The site and its tools are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, and uninterrupted availability.

We do not warrant that the site will be error-free or continuously available, that defects will be corrected, or that content or tool output will be accurate, current, or complete. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the site without notice.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Venus AI Consulting and its consultants, staff, and service providers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or business interruption, arising out of or relating to your use of this site or its tools — even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Nothing in these terms limits any liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.

13. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Venus AI Consulting from claims, losses, and reasonable expenses arising out of your misuse of the site, your violation of these terms, or your infringement of a third party's rights through material you submit.

14. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect through this site, how we use it, and the choices available to you. It forms part of these terms and is linked in the footer of every page.

15. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. You agree that the state and federal courts located in California have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of these terms or your use of the site, and you consent to venue there.

16. Severability and entire agreement

If any provision of these terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Venus AI Consulting regarding this website. Where you have signed a statement of work or engagement agreement with us, that agreement controls the consulting services described in it.

17. Changes to these terms

We may revise these terms at any time. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page shows when they were last changed, and continued use of the site after a revision means you accept the updated terms.

18. Contact us

Questions about these terms can be sent to Venus AI Consulting at mthorner@venusaiconsulting.com or +1 (224) 830-3120, Silicon Valley, CA.