Who this is with
These terms are between you and Fluvius USA Inc, a company incorporated in California with its registered address at 1401 21st St, Ste R, Sacramento, CA 95811, United States. Throughout this page, "we" and "us" mean Fluvius USA Inc; "you" means whoever is reading or using fluvius.co.
Using this site means these terms apply to you. If any part of them does not suit you, the right move is to close the tab rather than to keep reading.
What this site is
fluvius.co describes what we do, who we have done it for, and how to start a conversation. Everything on it is published for information.
Nothing here is an offer capable of acceptance, and nothing here forms a contract. Prices, packages, timelines and team shapes shown on these pages are indicative and remain subject to a written agreement. Case studies describe work as it happened for a particular client under particular conditions; they are honest accounts, and they are not a forecast of what your project will do.
Nothing on this site is legal, financial, tax or regulatory advice. Where a page touches a regulated field, it describes engineering we have done, and your own advisers remain the people to ask about your obligations.
Client work
Engagements run on their own paper, and that paper wins. Where you and we have signed a master services agreement, a statement of work, an NDA or a data processing addendum, those documents govern the engagement, and they take precedence over anything on this page and anything published elsewhere on this site.
Where a service on this site can be paid for online, the checkout page states what is included, and the terms shown at checkout apply to that purchase alongside these.
Using the site
Read it, quote it with attribution, send it to a colleague, print it for a meeting. What we ask you to leave alone:
- copying the site wholesale, or republishing its pages as your own;
- scraping it at a rate that degrades it for anyone else, or bypassing rate limits and the human check;
- probing, scanning or testing the security of the site or the systems behind it without our written permission;
- using the forms to send unsolicited advertising, recruitment approaches, malware, or anything unlawful;
- impersonating another person or company when you write to us;
- using anything here to build or train a competing model or dataset without our written permission.
We may withdraw access to the site or to its forms where any of these happen.
The hiring note on the contact page is part of these terms: this channel is for product conversations, and applications sent through it are not reviewed.
What belongs to whom
The text, design, code, photographs, diagrams and video on this site belong to Fluvius USA Inc or to the people we licensed them from, and are protected by copyright and related rights. The Fluvius name, wordmark and logo are ours. Client names, logos and product names shown on these pages belong to those clients and appear with their permission or as a factual reference to work we did.
Reading the site grants you no licence beyond ordinary personal and internal business use.
Work we build for a client is a different matter entirely, and the arrangement there is the opposite way round: our clients own everything we produce for them, at every stage, worldwide and without limit, and anyone we bring onto a project assigns their intellectual property to the client in writing. That is set out in the agreement, not here.
What you send us
When you send a brief, a message or a question through this site, you keep ownership of it. You give us permission to read it, store it, and use it to answer you and to run the conversation that follows. We treat it as confidential in the ordinary commercial sense, and we handle the personal data inside it as described in our privacy policy.
Please send only what you are free to send: do not put a third party's confidential information, credentials, or special category personal data into a form on a public website. If your material needs an NDA first, say so in the message and we will sign yours before you send anything further.
Where you offer an idea or a suggestion about our own site or services without our asking, we may act on it without obligation or payment. This does not touch anything covered by a signed agreement between us.
Third-party services
Parts of this site rely on services run by other companies — the human check, the booking calendar, the video player, the assistant. Their own terms govern what they do, and we list them in our privacy policy. Links from these pages to other sites are offered as a convenience; what happens on the far side of a link is outside our control and outside these terms.
Availability
We keep this site up and current as a matter of ordinary care, and we may change, move or retire any page at any time. It is a marketing and information site, so we make no uptime commitment for it. Availability commitments for systems we build and run for a client live in that client's agreement.
Warranties
The site and its content are provided as they are and as available. To the fullest extent the law allows, we exclude implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement in relation to this website. We take care that what we publish is accurate on the day we publish it, and we do not warrant that every page stays complete, current or free of error.
This section is about the website. Warranties for work we deliver to a client are in that client's agreement, and nothing here reduces them.
Liability
Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited — including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation. Where you deal with us as a consumer, your statutory rights stand untouched.
Subject to that, and to the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, revenue, business, goodwill or anticipated savings arising from your use of this website, and our total liability in connection with this website is limited to US$100.
This limit applies to the website alone. Liability for a paid engagement is governed by that engagement's agreement and is not capped by this page.
Governing law
These website terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, and the state and federal courts sitting in Sacramento County, California have exclusive jurisdiction over them. If you use this site as a consumer resident elsewhere, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country you live in, and the right to bring proceedings there.
Client engagements take the opposite approach by design, and it is worth saying so here: in our client agreements, disputes go to the competent court at the client's own location. That commitment is in the agreement, and this page does not narrow it.
If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, the rest continues in force.
Changes
We may revise these terms. When we do, the date at the top changes, and the version you read at the time you use the site is the one that applies to that use.
Questions about these terms reach the founder directly through the form on our contact page. By post: Fluvius USA Inc, 1401 21st St, Ste R, Sacramento, CA 95811, United States.
