Terms & Conditions

GTA is a volunteer-led, professional community network that connects members of the global technology sector for networking, knowledge-sharing, events, and community participation. The Service provides member and company directories, community groups (chapters), events, updates, and messaging.

Profiles, posts, comments, updates, event listings, and messages are created by users, not by DFX. We do not endorse, and are not responsible for, User content, and we do not guarantee the accuracy, quality, or reliability of any User content.

The Service is provided for general informational and community purposes only. Nothing on the Service constitutes legal, financial, investment, tax, or other professional advice. You are responsible for obtaining your own independent professional advice.

This Service is a platform supplied by DFX for use by the GTA community. It is distinct from the separate websites and activities of the global Global Tech Advocates and Tech London Advocates organisation. Chapter and leadership designations reflect information provided to us and may change.

You must be at least 16 years old, or the minimum age required in your country, to use the Service.

You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information when you register and to keep it up to date.

You may hold one account per individual. You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account.

You retain ownership of the Content you submit. You are solely responsible for your Content and for ensuring you have the rights to post it.

You grant DFX a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, display, and distribute your Content solely to operate, provide, and improve the Service, and to make your Content visible to other members as you direct (for example, in a community or the directory). This license ends when you delete your Content or your account, except for copies retained for legal compliance or already shared with others.

If you give us suggestions or feedback, you grant us the right to use it without restriction or obligation to you.

The Service lets members publish listings (including fundraising, partnership, hiring, and business-for-sale listings), indicate that a company is raising capital, share documents through a data room, and express interest in a listing. DFX provides the software that displays this information and connects members to one another. DFX is not a broker, dealer, broker-dealer, investment bank, investment adviser, finder, placement agent, funding portal, or exchange, and is not registered as any of those with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, FINRA, or any other regulator in any jurisdiction.

Nothing on the Service is an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security or investment, nor a recommendation, endorsement, or opinion by DFX regarding any company, listing, offering, or investment. Listings are the statements of the member who posted them. Any offer or sale of securities occurs solely between the parties, outside the Service, under their own documentation, and is their sole responsibility.

DFX does not receive any commission, success fee, carried interest, finder’s fee, or other compensation contingent on, or calculated by reference to, the outcome or size of any transaction, investment, or capital raise arising from the Service.

DFX does not verify, audit, endorse, or perform due diligence on any listing, company, financial figure, projection, document, track record, or member representation, and does not verify any member’s accredited-investor, qualified-purchaser, professional, or sophisticated-investor status. Information may be inaccurate, incomplete, or out of date. You are solely responsible for your own investigation, due diligence, and decisions, and for engaging your own legal, financial, tax, and investment advisers.

If you post a listing, seek or offer capital, or otherwise transact through contacts made on the Service, you are solely responsible for complying with all applicable securities, financial promotion, marketing, anti-money-laundering, and other laws in every relevant jurisdiction, including any registration, exemption, disclosure, accreditation, and general-solicitation requirements. You represent that you are authorised to publish what you post. You must not use the Service to conduct an unlawful offering or to promote an investment to anyone to whom it may not lawfully be promoted.

A data room lets a member share confidential material with people they grant access to. The member who owns the room decides what to upload, who may see it, and whether to require a non-disclosure agreement. Any NDA presented in a data room is an agreement between the room owner and the recipient only; DFX is not a party to it, does not draft, review, negotiate, or enforce it, and makes no representation about its adequacy or enforceability. DFX provides the electronic-signature record as a convenience and is not responsible for a recipient’s breach of confidentiality or misuse of shared material. Do not upload material you cannot afford to have disclosed.

Any dealings, negotiations, investments, or transactions you enter into with another member are solely between you and that member. To the fullest extent permitted by law, DFX has no liability for those dealings or for any loss, dilution, or damage arising from them, and the limitations in Section 15 apply.

The Service, including its software, design, and DFX and GTA branding used under license, is owned by DFX or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. Except as expressly permitted, you may not copy, modify, distribute, or create derivative works from the Service. The Global Tech Advocates name and marks belong to their respective owners and are used with permission.

If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, contact legal@uedfx.com with the details required to identify the work and the allegedly infringing material, and we will respond consistent with applicable law, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

GTA membership is currently offered free of charge. If we introduce paid membership features in the future, we will present the applicable prices and terms before you incur any charge.

Members and organisations may apply to sponsor an event at the tiers presented in the Service. A sponsorship application is an offer, not a binding agreement: it becomes binding only when we or the relevant organiser confirm it in writing, and we may decline or withdraw any application at our discretion, including where a sponsor is unsuitable or a listed event does not proceed. Sponsorship benefits are those described at the time of confirmation. Unless stated otherwise in writing, sponsorship amounts are quoted in US dollars, exclusive of any applicable taxes, and are non-refundable once the sponsored event has taken place. If an event is cancelled and not rescheduled, a confirmed sponsor’s sole remedy is a pro-rata refund of amounts actually paid for that event.

Payments, where taken, are processed by a third-party payment provider under its own terms. We do not store full payment card details.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, DFX and its officers, directors, employees, and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, goodwill, or business, arising out of or relating to your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us for the Service in the twelve months before the claim or USD 100. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of these may not apply to you.

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless DFX and its affiliates, and their officers, directors, employees, and agents, from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to your Content, your use of the Service, your dealings or transactions with other members, any listing, offering, or capital raise you conduct or participate in, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party. This does not apply to the extent a claim is caused by our gross negligence or wilful misconduct. We may assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, at your expense, and you agree to cooperate with that defence and not to settle any matter without our prior written consent.

Before starting a formal proceeding, you agree to contact us at legal@uedfx.com and attempt to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days.

Except where prohibited by law, you and DFX agree to resolve any dispute through binding individual arbitration rather than in court, and you waive the right to a jury trial and to participate in a class action. This does not prevent either party from seeking injunctive relief for intellectual property or unauthorised access, or from bringing an eligible claim in small claims court.

For members outside the United States, the following seats are available as alternatives:

• Asia-Pacific: Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), seat in Singapore.
• Europe and the UK: International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), seat in London, United Kingdom.
• Middle East: Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC), seat in Dubai, UAE.
• Latin America: Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission (IACAC), seat in Miami, Florida, USA.

Arbitration will be conducted in English unless the parties agree otherwise, and proceedings will be kept confidential except as required to enforce an award or by law. Nothing here limits mandatory consumer rights you may have under your local law, including access to the EU Online Dispute Resolution platform.