Terms of Use

These Terms of Use govern your use of grantship.com and the services offered on it (the “Service”), operated by [OPERATING ENTITY, ADDRESS] (“GrantShip”, “we”, “us”). By using the Service, or by creating an account, you accept these terms. If you use the Service for a company, you confirm that you may bind it, and “you” includes that company.

The Service is designed for start-ups, SMEs, research spin-offs and the professionals who work for them. If you are a consumer, mandatory consumer-protection law of your place of residence is not affected by these terms.

• Grant Matcher and programme pages — a searchable overview of funding calls and programmes, guides and articles, and a feed of publicly announced funding results.
• Free account — a company profile, ranked calls, saved calls, a workspace for your applications and documents, and grant-alert emails.
• Coaching and other paid services — ordered separately (section 6).

Call and programme information is collected from funders’ public websites, public databases (such as the EU Funding & Tenders portal) and third-party feeds, and is partly extracted and summarised with the help of AI. We take reasonable care, but this information may be incomplete, out of date, simplified or wrong, and our coverage of calls is not exhaustive. The funder’s official call documents and decisions always prevail.

You are responsible for checking every deadline, eligibility rule, amount and requirement with the funder before relying on it.

Rankings, match reasons and alerts are produced automatically from the profile you give us and the call information we hold. They are a sorting aid, not an assessment of eligibility or chances. Alerts may be late, incomplete or not sent at all; do not rely on them as your only source for deadlines.

Funding decisions are made solely by the funders. We do not guarantee, and nothing on the Service is a promise of, eligibility, a positive evaluation, a score, a ranking, funding, any amount, any timing or any other outcome. References to past results, case studies or experience describe the past and do not predict yours.

Coaching plans and other paid services are provided only under a separate order or contract with you. That contract, including its prices, success fees, term, scope and cancellation terms, prevails over these terms where they differ. Submitting the order form on our website is an enquiry, not a binding order. Prices and plan descriptions shown on the website are indicative and may change; what applies is what your contract says.

Unless your contract expressly says otherwise, coaching, reviews, drafting and other advisory work are provided as a best-efforts service (an obligation of means, in Swiss law a mandate): we commit to doing the work with due care, not to achieving a particular result.

You remain the applicant. You decide what to submit, you are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of your applications and the information you give us, and for meeting the funder’s deadlines and rules.

The Service, including content on tax incentives such as the German research allowance (Forschungszulage), state-aid rules, company structures and financing, is general information. It is not legal, tax, accounting, investment or financial advice. Consult a qualified professional before acting on it.

You sign in with a one-time link sent to your email address. Keep access to that mailbox secure: anyone who can read it can sign in as you, and you are responsible for activity under your account. Give us accurate information and keep it up to date. You decide whom you invite to your workspace, and invited colleagues and your assigned coach can see its contents.

You can stop using the Service and ask us to close your account at any time by writing to cynthia@grantship.com. We may suspend or close accounts, or refuse service, if these terms are breached, to protect the Service or others, or if we discontinue the free Service.

You keep all rights in the documents, messages and other material you upload or send us. You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, copy and process that material only as needed to provide the Service to you, as described in our Privacy Policy. We treat it as confidential and do not publish it.

You confirm that you may share what you upload, including any third-party or confidential information it contains. Decide carefully what you upload. The Service is not a backup or archive: keep your own copies.

You may not:

• scrape, crawl, download in bulk or systematically extract content or data from the Service, or use it to build a competing database or service;
• access the Service with bots or automated tools, or circumvent bot protection, rate limits or access controls;
• probe, disrupt, overload or reverse-engineer the Service, or introduce malware;
• sign up others without their permission, impersonate anyone, or give false information;
• upload unlawful, infringing or harmful content, or use the Service for any unlawful purpose.

The Service links to websites we do not control, including funders, event pages (for example on Luma), and Google Calendar for booking calls. It also shows labelled partner ads for Rockstar Recruiting (rockstar.jobs), techxecutive (techx.jobs) and hackevents (hackevents.net). These partners are affiliated with GrantShip’s team. We are not responsible for third-party websites, their content, availability, services or data processing; their own terms apply.

The Service, its design, texts, software and our compilation of grant data belong to us or our licensors. You may use the Service for your own business purposes. Any other use, copying or redistribution needs our written permission. Funders’ documents and trademarks belong to their owners.

We provide the free Service “as is” and “as available”. We do not guarantee that it is uninterrupted, error-free or available at any particular time, and we may change, limit or discontinue any part of it at any time. To the extent permitted by law, we give no warranties, express or implied, about the Service or its content, including about accuracy, completeness or fitness for a particular purpose.

To the extent permitted by law:

• we are not liable for slight negligence;
• we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, including lost funding or grants, lost profits or revenue, missed deadlines or opportunities, or loss of data;
• we are not liable for loss caused by our auxiliaries (Art. 101(2) Swiss Code of Obligations), or by third-party sources, providers or websites;
• for the free Service, we are otherwise not liable at all; for paid services, our total liability is limited to the fees you paid us for the service concerned in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for intent or gross negligence (Art. 100(1) Swiss Code of Obligations), for personal injury, or any other liability that cannot be limited under mandatory law.

You will indemnify us against third-party claims, and the reasonable costs of defending them, arising from your content, your breach of these terms or your unlawful use of the Service, to the extent you are responsible for them.

We may update these terms. The version published here applies from its date. If a change is material, we will tell account holders by email in advance where reasonable. If you keep using the Service after a change takes effect, you accept the new terms; if you do not agree, stop using the Service and close your account. Changes do not alter a signed contract for paid services unless it says so.

If any provision is invalid, the rest remains in force and the invalid provision is replaced by a valid one that comes closest to its purpose. Not enforcing a right is not a waiver of it. We may transfer our rights and obligations to an affiliated company or a successor of the business. These terms, together with any contract for paid services and our Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement on their subject.

These terms are governed by Swiss law, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The exclusive place of jurisdiction is Zurich, Switzerland. We may also bring proceedings at your registered office or domicile. Mandatory places of jurisdiction, including those protecting consumers, remain reserved.

[OPERATING ENTITY, ADDRESS]. Questions about these terms: cynthia@grantship.com.