Terms of Use

AGREEMENT TO OUR WEBSITE TERMS

These Terms of Use govern access to and use of https://www.fabianweinberger.com and https://www.independencenation.com, including their apex versions and relevant public pages (collectively, the “Websites”). Both are operated by Vinea Ventures Ltd. (“Vinea”, “we”, “us” or “our”), a Maltese private limited liability company registered under C 117259 with its registered office at 230, 230 Works Business Centre, Second Floor, Triq il-Kungress Ewkaristiku, Mosta MST 9039, Malta. Legal contact: legal@fabianweinberger.com.

Please read these Terms when using the Websites. Your use is subject to applicable law and any lawfully enforceable restrictions below. Merely browsing a website does not create a paid consulting contract, authorize optional cookies or marketing, or waive mandatory legal rights. Where express contractual acceptance is legally required, it must be obtained separately.

The Websites and any consulting offered through them are intended for adults. Specific paid engagements require additional, independently agreed contractual terms and pre-contract information. We may update these website terms prospectively with notice or fresh acceptance when required by law. Keep a copy for reference.

1. OUR SERVICES

The Fabian Weinberger website presents commercial sales, business development, commercial representation, real estate-related professional experience and opportunities to enquire about consulting or collaboration. Its present enquiry forms do not conclude a contract or directly take payment. References to real estate reflect professional experience, not necessarily a current offer of a particular property.

Independence Nation presents business consulting for independent professionals and entrepreneurs. Its free 30-minute introductory call is arranged through a Calendly external booking link. Booking that conversation does not buy the separate Private Commercial Intensive, nor does it create any other paid engagement. A paid service requires separately agreed terms specifying the seller, scope, deliverables, price, charges, payment schedule, cancellation, liability and any legally required consumer information. Courses, group coaching, memberships and a checkout are not currently provided through the Websites and will be governed by further terms if introduced.

You are responsible for the legality of your own conduct wherever you access our Websites, but that does not displace legal responsibilities owed by us or mandatory protections available to you. These Websites are not designed for the secure submission of medical records, full card details, government identification documents or other sensitive information.

2. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Our materials and marks

The design, original text, code, photographs, visual materials, brand identity, trade names, logos, videos and other content (“Content”) are owned or licensed by Vinea or their respective rights holders. They may be protected under copyright, trade-mark, database and unfair competition laws. No ownership transfers to you merely by accessing the Websites.

We grant a limited, revocable, non-exclusive permission to view publicly accessible Content and retain reasonable extracts for personal information or internal business evaluation, provided relevant notices remain. You may not resell the Content, distribute paid materials, commercially reproduce substantial portions, copy our branding or misrepresent an affiliation without an appropriate licence. Lawful exceptions such as permitted quotation or criticism remain unaffected.

Contact legal@fabianweinberger.com for commercial reuse permissions. We reserve rights not expressly granted or permitted by law.

Your submissions

You retain ownership of questions, commercial proposals, documents, suggestions and other information submitted through enquiry or booking channels (“Submissions”). You grant Vinea only the rights reasonably necessary to receive, assess, store, transmit to permitted service providers, reply to and, if separately agreed, perform the relevant work, subject to our Privacy Policy and applicable duties.

We do not automatically own your business ideas, acquire an unrestricted commercial-publication licence, or receive authority to publish identifiable testimonials merely because you sent an enquiry. Do not transmit third-party content you lack authority to share or materials needing a specific confidentiality agreement through general contact forms.

3. USER REPRESENTATIONS

When using the Websites, you must act lawfully and supply information that is accurate to the best of your knowledge. If you claim to act for an organization, you must have an appropriate authority to do so. A visitor seeking paid consulting should have legal capacity to contract and be at least 18 years old, or have any legally required parental or guardian involvement.

The Websites currently provide no member account or social-login function. You are therefore not required to create an account or grant social-platform permissions. A visitor's status as a professional or business owner does not necessarily determine whether the visitor acts as a consumer in any specific contract.

4. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES

You must not use the Websites to commit fraud or other unlawful acts, impersonate others, submit deceptive enquiries, distribute malware, access non-public systems without authority, bypass security controls, send abusive or discriminatory material, infringe third-party rights, or interfere with availability.

You may not harvest identifiable personal data from our systems, repeatedly submit spam or fictitious appointments, overwhelm our infrastructure, or misuse our trade marks to imply approval or sponsorship. Attempts to defeat rate limits, obtain another visitor's information or exploit a vulnerability without authority are prohibited.

Ordinary lawful search indexing, accessibility tools, legitimate competition, fair criticism, valid consumer complaints and lawful security disclosures are not prohibited merely because they involve automation, competition or a negative opinion. These restrictions must be read in accordance with applicable law.

5. USER-GENERATED CONTRIBUTIONS

The Websites do not presently provide public comments, forums, user profiles or facilities to publish visitor materials to other users. An enquiry or private booking note is not a public contribution. Future community or membership features, if introduced, will have their own appropriate publication, moderation and rights terms before activation.

6. CONTRIBUTION LICENSE

The limited licence for Submissions described in section 2 governs existing enquiries and correspondence. It does not assign ownership or waive moral rights more broadly than law permits. Further rights relating to paid consulting deliverables must be expressly addressed in the separately agreed engagement contract.

Feedback sent directly to us may inform internal service improvements, subject to confidentiality and data-protection obligations. We require an appropriate basis before using identifiable personal material in advertising or testimonials.

7. SOCIAL MEDIA

The Websites may link to profiles or content on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and other external platforms. Following those links takes you to services controlled by their operators. A social link does not mean that we access your social-login credentials, contacts, private messages or social-account content.

We do not currently enable account linking between your social-media account and the Websites. Any external social platform may use its own cookies and process data under its own privacy notice. Active first-party website pixels, if ever introduced, will be separately disclosed and controlled as required by law.

8. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND CONTENT

The Websites may refer to third-party products, booking platforms, publications, applications, properties or professional services. Those operators have their own terms, privacy notices, pricing and service responsibilities. A link does not by itself constitute a guarantee, independent due-diligence report or endorsement of every third-party representation.

Independence Nation's external Calendly booking journey is run by Calendly. Before entering personal booking information, review its participant terms and privacy notices. Opening a standard external link differs from loading an embedded scheduler and does not itself establish agreement to unrelated analytics on our Website.

Where Vinea acts for or introduces a third party and receives compensation, the relevant commercial relationship should be identified in the transaction context where material. The relevant sale or representation documents identify the actual seller and any authority to bind it. We are responsible for our own representations and legally non-excludable obligations, despite the third party's independent role.

9. SERVICES MANAGEMENT

We may monitor the technical security and lawful functioning of the Websites, apply proportionate rate limits, investigate abuse, fix faults, or temporarily restrict access when reasonably necessary. We may take lawful steps against fraud, malicious activity or serious violations of these Terms.

These permissions do not authorize indefinite collection of unnecessary visitor information, arbitrary denial of statutory rights, termination of an existing paid engagement outside its contractual terms or disclosure of confidential enquiries for unrelated purposes.

10. PRIVACY POLICY

Our Privacy Policy is at /privacy-policy on each Website and explains collection, purposes, legal bases, recipients, international processing, retention and privacy rights. The Cookie Policy at /cookie-policy describes the necessary website consent-choice storage, optional and affirmatively consent-gated Vercel Web Analytics without analytics cookies, independent settings on the two domains and the external Calendly booking context. Optional analytics is off unless accepted and can be rejected or withdrawn through the relevant Website's Consent Preferences control.

Reading a privacy notice or accepting these Website Terms does not authorize optional Vercel Analytics, newsletters, unrelated promotional messages or international transfers. Enquiries and booked conversations are handled for the purpose requested under their actual lawful basis. Where optional analytics relies on consent, its refusal or withdrawal does not remove essential access to the Websites or our ability to respond to an enquiry. Rights may be exercised through Vinea's available privacy contact, without a third-party policy-service account.

11. TERM AND TERMINATION

These website-use terms apply while you access the Websites and can be amended prospectively in accordance with law. We may suspend or restrict abusive or unlawful use where reasonably justified. These Terms do not create accounts that can be terminated or automatically cancel any separate paid-service agreement.

An actual consulting or commercial agreement contains its own term, suspension, termination, refund and notice conditions, subject to mandatory legal rights. No perpetual non-compete, restriction on lawful criticism or arbitrary loss of consumer remedies arises from merely browsing.

12. MODIFICATIONS AND INTERRUPTIONS

We may update design, information or website functionality and may experience downtime, errors or interrupted service. We take reasonable measures to maintain functionality but cannot guarantee uninterrupted availability.

Changes to publicly displayed prices, scarcity claims or descriptions must not mislead customers, and a general website update cannot retroactively vary a binding purchase or deprive a consumer of mandatory protections. Material modifications to an agreed paid service follow the separate contract and applicable law.

13. GOVERNING LAW

The general website-use terms are governed by Maltese law subject to applicable conflict-of-laws rules. Consumers retain mandatory protections that cannot be displaced by a choice of law, including rights that may apply under the law of their habitual residence.

The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods is not intended to govern these terms for informational Websites. A separate sale of goods, if any, would be assessed under its own transaction and applicable law.

14. DISPUTE RESOLUTION

For website questions or complaints, contact legal@fabianweinberger.com. We will consider them according to applicable law and the circumstances. You do not have to notify us before making a complaint to a regulator or exercising a statutory remedy where no such prerequisite lawfully applies.

Subject to mandatory jurisdiction rules and the terms of any paid engagement, the competent courts in Malta may hear disputes relating to these Terms. A consumer retains access to courts made available by mandatory domestic or international jurisdiction rules. There is no obligatory arbitration clause or forced exclusive foreign forum.

15. CORRECTIONS

The Websites may contain inadvertent typographical errors, inaccurate descriptions, outdated prices or other omissions. We may correct them and notify affected persons where legally necessary. We do not reserve an unlimited right to cancel a valid consumer agreement or disregard a binding representation merely by labelling it a correction.

Report material errors to legal@fabianweinberger.com.

16. DISCLAIMER

The Websites contain general commercial information, not legal, tax, investment, financial, medical, property-title or other regulated professional advice. No particular earnings, client-acquisition rate, return or commercial result is guaranteed by accessing general content. Examples and personal experience are not promises of typical outcomes.

Subject to law, Content is presented without a representation that every statement remains perfectly current, complete or suited to a visitor's circumstances. Our separate Disclaimer at /disclaimer gives more detail. Neither document overrides express promises in a valid paid contract or any legally non-excludable duty.

17. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, intentional misconduct, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any liability or consumer remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded. Data-protection rights and remedies remain unaffected.

For business users only, and to the extent lawful, we exclude liability for indirect or consequential loss and loss of profit, goodwill, opportunity or anticipated savings resulting solely from use of free, general website information rather than an agreed service. Ordinary rules of causation, foreseeability and mitigation apply. We do not impose a blanket USD 1,000 cap or purport to exclude every form of direct loss.

Any limitation relating to a specific paid engagement must be negotiated in its separate agreement, properly disclosed and assessed under applicable contract and consumer law.

18. INDEMNIFICATION

A business visitor knowingly supplying unlawful materials or intentionally misusing a Website may be responsible, to the extent allowed by law, for directly resulting and reasonably evidenced third-party claims, losses or costs, subject to causation, mitigation and our own responsibility.

We do not require consumers to provide unlimited indemnification merely for reading content or submitting an enquiry. This section does not shift liability for our negligence, misconduct or other non-excludable duties to visitors.

19. USER DATA

The Fabian Weinberger enquiry system submits details through Vercel server processing for an internal Google email handoff. Source pages are restricted to known public routes and referring URL metadata is minimized to its origin. Its rate-limiting uses a per-process keyed HMAC of an IP address and bounded, expiring in-memory counters; this is pseudonymous security processing rather than a browser cookie. The publicly reviewed form flow does not add submissions to a separate on-site lead database. Independence Nation instead links to Calendly for appointment scheduling; information you supply on that external site is handled through the actual provider and organizer arrangements.

We use and protect this information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable law. Website data may be subject to hosting, email, booking, security and legal recordkeeping practices. Neither the visitor nor Vinea waives a statutory remedy merely because a data error or loss occurs.

20. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS, TRANSACTIONS, AND SIGNATURES

Enquiries, appointments and emails involve electronic communications. Where permitted by law, we may respond about the matter through the contact method you provided, and an expressly agreed consulting contract may permit electronic signatures or delivery of notices.

A website visit alone does not amount to accepting an electronic-signature mandate, authorizing a payment or waiving required original documents. Any actual electronic transaction must comply with applicable identification, pre-contractual information, consent and durable-medium requirements.

21. CALIFORNIA USERS AND RESIDENTS

California residents and other US residents may have rights depending on which state law applies to our processing, the individual's status and statutory thresholds. The Privacy Policy explains requests, verification, applicable opt-outs, authorized agents and appeals. Merely visiting a website does not mean that every state privacy law applies to Vinea.

The California Department of Consumer Affairs maintains consumer complaint information at https://www.dca.ca.gov/consumers/complaints/. This provision does not replace any mandatory redress scheme that applies to a particular purchase.

22. MISCELLANEOUS

These Terms, the linked legal notices, and any expressly agreed service-specific contract govern their distinct subject matters. An information notice does not itself waive legal rights. If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions survive only insofar as lawful and without depriving consumers of mandatory protections.

Failure to enforce a clause once is not a permanent waiver. Website use does not itself create an agency, partnership, employment, joint venture or fiduciary relationship between the user and Vinea. A lawful assignment or reorganization remains subject to notice, contractual and consumer requirements. Events outside reasonable control are assessed under applicable law and any actual contract, not as an automatic licence to disregard duties.

Headings are for convenience. No rule of interpretation deprives you of the ability to challenge an unfair term. Nothing here bars lawful criticism, privacy requests or complaints to authorities.

23. CONTACT US

Vinea Ventures Ltd., company number C 117259.

Registered office: 230, 230 Works Business Centre, Second Floor, Triq il-Kungress Ewkaristiku, Mosta MST 9039, Malta.

General and legal contact: legal@fabianweinberger.com.

Privacy contact: privacy@fabianweinberger.com.

Other documents: /privacy-policy, /cookie-policy, /disclaimer and /legal on both Websites.