Legal · Terms of Service
Accsalerate Terms of Service
Platform: accsalerate.com · In force as of [EFFECTIVE DATE — to be set at launch]
These Terms of Service (the "Terms") form the agreement between you and [REGISTERED LEGAL ENTITY] ("Accsalerate", "we", or the "Operator"), the company that runs the Accsalerate platform at accsalerate.com (the "Platform"). Creating an account, signing in, or otherwise using the Platform means you accept these Terms. Commercial fees, payment terms, success commissions, and similar money matters are not part of these Terms; they live in a separate Engagement Agreement that you sign at the start of any paid relationship with us.
Article 1 —Glossary
The following capitalised terms have the meanings set out below when used in these Terms. Terms are listed alphabetically.
Accsalerate Personnel — the employees, directors, contractors, and consultants of the Operator with authorised access to all or part of the Platform's data in the course of their duties.
Buyer — a User who expresses interest in acquiring a business listed on the Platform — including search funds, private equity firms, family offices, strategic acquirers, and qualified individuals.
Confidential Information — any financial, operational, strategic, or personal information relating to a Listing or a business, shared via the Platform under a duty of confidentiality.
Engagement Agreement — the separate written agreement signed between a User (Seller or Buyer) and the Operator that sets out all commercial matters of the relationship, including fees, success commissions, payment schedules, exclusivity (if any), and term. The Engagement Agreement is independent of these Terms; nothing in these Terms is intended to define commercial terms.
Listing — an opportunity for the sale or acquisition of a business published on the Platform.
Memo — the investment memorandum, no-name teaser, and presentation deck produced by the Operator from a Seller's file, made available to vetted Buyers under a Non-Disclosure Agreement.
Operator — [REGISTERED LEGAL ENTITY], a company incorporated under [JURISDICTION] law, registered under company number [COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER], with its registered office at [REGISTERED ADDRESS].
Outreach Representative — a member of the Operator's internal outreach team who contacts business owners on the Operator's behalf to source Listings.
Platform — the online service made available at accsalerate.com, including its user interface, APIs, generated documents, and supporting tools.
Seller — a User who lists all or part of the share capital or business activity of a company for sale via the Platform.
User — any natural or legal person holding an account on the Platform, whether Seller, Buyer, Outreach Representative, or Platform Operator.
Article 2 —Eligibility and accounts
A.Who can use the Platform
The Platform is restricted to natural persons of legal age acting in a professional capacity or on behalf of a duly constituted legal entity. We may refuse access to anyone at our discretion and are under no obligation to provide reasons.
B.Information you provide
When you register, the information you provide must be accurate, complete, and current. You are responsible for keeping it up to date. Accounts opened with false or misleading information will be terminated without notice.
C.Credentials and account security
You are solely responsible for keeping your login credentials confidential. Any action taken on the Platform with your credentials is treated as your own. If you suspect your account has been compromised, contact us immediately at security@accsalerate.com.
Article 3 —Acceptable use and conduct
You must use the Platform in good faith and only for the purposes it is built for. The following are expressly prohibited:
- Publishing inaccurate, misleading, or deceptive content that could mislead other Users
- Bypassing the Platform's introduction and messaging tools to avoid any obligation owed under an applicable Engagement Agreement or non-disclosure agreement
- Using the Platform for unfair competitive intelligence
- Scraping, harvesting, or otherwise extracting data on other Users without authorisation
- Attempting to bypass security measures or to access data, accounts, or systems you are not entitled to
- Using the Platform for any activity contrary to Belgian or European law, including (without limitation) money- laundering, sanctions evasion, or counter-terrorism-financing rules
- Uploading viruses, worms, malicious code, or anything else designed to disrupt the operation of the Platform or other Users' systems
Any breach of this Article may result in the immediate suspension or termination of your account. We reserve all remedies available to us under applicable law.
Article 4 —Description of the service
The Platform offers the following functional capabilities to its Users, subject to eligibility and to the terms of any applicable Engagement Agreement:
- Structured intake for Sellers, including a document checklist and an invite link for the Seller's accountant
- Automated reading of uploaded financials, with normalisation and surfacing of add-back items for confirmation
- A split qualitative interview (AI voice agent or typed self-serve form) capturing both the Seller's narrative and the Seller's numbers
- Generation of transaction documents per Seller — investment memorandum, no-name teaser, and an interactive valuation model, with a presentation deck where applicable — in English, Dutch, and French
- Internal quality review of every generated document before it appears on the Platform
- Anonymised listing of vetted Sellers to qualified Buyers
- NDA-gated access to full Memos and structured data rooms
- Direct, mediated messaging between Buyers and Sellers
- Direct support from Accsalerate Personnel during business hours, on a commercially reasonable basis
We may add, change, or discontinue any of the above at any time. None of these capabilities is sold to you under these Terms; any commercial terms attached to the use of one or more of these capabilities live in the Engagement Agreement.
Article 5 —Personal data and privacy
A.Legal framework
Personal data collected through the Platform is processed in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the "GDPR") and the Belgian Act of 30 July 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data. The purposes, legal bases, retention periods, and the rights you can exercise as a data subject are described in detail in our Privacy Policy.
B.Where your data is hosted
Your personal data is hosted within the European Economic Area. Any transfer to a third country is covered by appropriate safeguards (Standard Contractual Clauses or an adequacy decision of the European Commission). We will let you know if we change hosting provider in a way that affects where your data sits.
C.Security incidents
If a security incident affects personal data, we will notify the competent supervisory authority in accordance with Article 33 of the GDPR and, where required, affected data subjects in accordance with Article 34 of the GDPR, in each case without undue delay. Our operational security controls are described in Article 7.
Article 6 —Confidentiality and non-disclosure
A.What we treat as confidential
Through its M&A intermediation activity, the Platform aggregates and circulates information of a sensitive nature. Confidential Information includes (but is not limited to):
- Financial information on target companies — annual accounts, projections, valuations, add-back schedules
- Data on shareholders, directors, and ultimate beneficial owners
- Operational and strategic information disclosed by Sellers
- Acquisition intent, offer levels, and the negotiated terms of a deal in progress
- Identities of the parties to an ongoing Listing
B.Your obligations as a User
By using the Platform you agree to:
- not disclose Confidential Information to any unauthorised third party, in any form
- use Confidential Information only for the purposes of the specific Listing it relates to
- apply the same level of care to Confidential Information as you apply to your own most sensitive data
- return or destroy confidential documents if the transaction process is discontinued
- notify us promptly if you become aware of any breach or suspected breach of confidentiality
These obligations remain in force for five (5) years after termination of your account or of these Terms.
C.NDA gate for full Memos
Access to a full Memo or to the underlying data room for any specific Listing requires a separate Non-Disclosure Agreement between the Buyer and the Operator (and, where appropriate, the Seller). No detailed financial or operational data is shared without that NDA being in place. We make NDA templates available that are suited to private-company succession transactions.
Article 7 —Operational controls and platform security
A.Least-privilege access
Access to Platform data by Accsalerate Personnel is governed by the least-privilege principle: each person sees only the data needed for their role. Access rights are assigned individually and reviewed every three (3) months.
B.Roles inside the Operator
- Platform Operator (CEO and CTO): full access to Platform data, User accounts, and Listings for supervision and incident resolution.
- Engagement Lead: access to assigned Listings only, including the financial data of those Listings and the contact details of the parties to them.
- Outreach Representative: access to outreach lead pools and to call-disposition logs for the calls they place. No access to Memos or to Buyer-side data outside their personal call activity.
- Member Support: access to account-level data (without access to Confidential Information) for the purpose of handling User requests.
- Engineering Personnel and technical contractors: access to development and staging environments only, with anonymised or pseudonymised data. Production data access requires explicit Platform Operator sign-off and is logged.
C.Personnel undertakings
- Confidentiality applies during and after the engagement with the Operator
- Platform data may not be used for personal benefit or for the benefit of any third party
- Any suspected unauthorised access or data breach must be reported without delay
- All Personnel comply with the Operator's IT security procedures — two-factor authentication, encryption, and managed password storage
- Copying, exporting, or transferring data outside approved systems requires advance authorisation
D.Technical controls
- Encryption of data in transit (TLS 1.2 or higher) and at rest
- Two-factor authentication available on every account
- Production, staging, and development environments kept separate
- Encrypted backups with periodic restore testing
- Continuous monitoring of security events
- Row-level security and least-privilege access enforced at the database layer
E.Logging and audit
All access to sensitive Platform data is logged. Access logs are retained for at least twelve (12) months and can be referred to in the context of a security audit or judicial or administrative proceeding.
F.Sub-processors
We use technical sub-processors for hosting, infrastructure, CRM, and AI inference. Sub-processors are selected against GDPR compliance criteria and are bound by an Article 28 sub-processing agreement. A list of principal sub-processors is available on request at legal@accsalerate.com. We will give Users reasonable advance notice of any new or replaced sub-processor and a reasonable opportunity to object.
Article 8 —Intellectual property and user content
A.Our intellectual property
The Accsalerate name and logo, the accsalerate.com domain, the graphical interface, the underlying algorithms, the databases, and any content produced by us are the exclusive property of [REGISTERED LEGAL ENTITY] and are protected under Belgian and European intellectual-property law.
B.Licence to use the Platform
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sub-licensable, and revocable licence to use the Platform for the duration of your account, solely for the purposes defined in these Terms. This licence does not transfer any ownership right to you.
C.Your content
You retain ownership of the content you upload or otherwise provide to the Platform (your financials, documents, profile, listing details, messages, and so on). You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, process, display within the Platform, and generate Memos from your content, strictly for the purposes contemplated by these Terms. The deeper terms governing what we may do with your content beyond these strict purposes — including any treatment of content after your account ends — are addressed in the Engagement Agreement (where one exists) and in our Privacy Policy.
Article 9 —Disclaimers, risk allocation, and liability
A.We act as an introducer
We act as an intermediary, introducing parties to each other. We are not a party to any transaction between a Seller and a Buyer, we do not guarantee that any transaction will close, and we do not advise on the merits of any deal. The decision to enter into a transaction is exclusively the parties' decision.
B.Accuracy of User content
We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or current state of information that Users post or upload to the Platform. Each User is responsible for what they communicate through us.
C.Availability of the service
We will use commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Platform accessible, but we do not warrant uninterrupted, bug-free, or error-free operation. We may perform scheduled maintenance with prior notice and unscheduled emergency maintenance without notice if necessary.
D.Limits on our liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages of any kind, including (without limitation) loss of profits, loss of opportunity, loss of data, loss of goodwill, or reputational harm — even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. This limitation does not apply to our liability for wilful misconduct or gross negligence, or to any liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law.
Article 10 —Term, suspension, and termination
These Terms apply for an indefinite period starting when your account is created. You may end your account at any time through the settings of your personal area.
We may suspend or terminate your account with immediate effect if you breach these Terms or if continued operation would expose us to a material legal, regulatory, or reputational risk. We will notify you by email and tell you the reason where doing so will not itself create harm or legal exposure.
Outside the cases described above, we will give you at least thirty (30) days' written notice by email before terminating your account for our own operational reasons.
When an account is terminated, your data is kept for any statutory retention period that applies and then deleted, unless a longer legal retention obligation requires us to keep it.
The provisions of these Terms that, by their nature, are intended to survive termination — in particular Article 6 (Confidentiality), Article 8 (Intellectual Property), Article 9 (Disclaimers and Liability), and Article 11 (Governing Law and Disputes) — will continue in force after termination.
Article 11 —Governing law, disputes, and general provisions
A.Applicable law
These Terms are governed by Belgian law, to the exclusion of any conflict-of-laws rule that would lead to the application of another law.
B.Mediation and online resolution
If a dispute arises, we will both first try to resolve it amicably. To the extent any User qualifies as a consumer, that User may use the Belgian Mediation Service for Businesses at www.mediationdentreprise.be and the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. The Platform is in principle intended for Users acting in a professional capacity, so these consumer routes will apply only in the limited cases where a User nevertheless qualifies as a consumer under Belgian law.
C.Exclusive jurisdiction
Subject to mandatory consumer-protection rules, any dispute that cannot be resolved amicably is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the judicial district of Brussels.
D.Changes to these Terms
We may amend these Terms at any time. We will notify Users of any material change by email or by notice on the Platform. Continued use of the Platform after such notice means you accept the amended Terms.
E.Severability and no waiver
If any clause of these Terms is held to be void or unenforceable by a final judicial or administrative decision, the remaining clauses continue in full force. Our failure at any time to insist on a clause does not mean we waive the right to invoke it later.
F.Entire agreement and contact
These Terms (together with the Privacy Policy and, where applicable, the Engagement Agreement) make up the whole agreement between you and us about your use of the Platform. They supersede any prior understanding on the same subject.
For any question relating to these Terms:
[REGISTERED LEGAL ENTITY]
[REGISTERED ADDRESS]
legal@accsalerate.com