Terms and Conditions

Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using this site.

Company and contact details

The website apventures.com (the “Website”) is operated by AP Ventures LLP (“we”, “us” or “AP Ventures”). We are registered in England and Wales under company number OC414076 and are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) (Firm reference number 844802). For further information on the FCA, follow http://www.fca.org.uk. Our VAT Registration Number is 303138056.

Our registered office is at 45 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7BG.

To contact us, please write to the address above.

Use of the Website

These terms and conditions together with our Privacy Notice or any other policy referred to in these terms and conditions ("Terms") apply to your use of and access to the Website. Your use of our Website is governed by these Terms.

You should save or print a copy of these Terms for future reference.

If you do not agree to these Terms, you must cease using and accessing this Website.

We only use your personal information for the purposes detailed in our Privacy Notice. You will notify us of any changes to that information.

We may deny you access to the Website at any time in our sole discretion when we believe that your use of the Website is in violation of any of these Terms, any law or the rights of any third party or was not respectful to others.

Changes to the terms of use

We may make changes to these terms and conditions of use from time to time without prior warning. Please refer to these terms before each use of the Website.

Your responsibility concerning viruses

We do not guarantee that the Website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to
access the Website. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse the Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Website, the server on which the Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to the Website. You must not attack the Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use the Website will cease immediately.

Complaints procedure

You should contact us immediately if you are dissatisfied with any aspect of the AIF management services provided to you by AP Ventures LLP. Please write to the Compliance Officer, Pamela Darchiville, at pdarchiville@apventures.com or call +442039639222. We take every complaint seriously and your complaint will be handled in accordance with the relevant FCA rules, which may differ depending upon your status although note that it is AP Ventures LLP policy to aim to resolve every complaint fairly and in a timely manner. AP Ventures LLP has a written internal complaints handling policy, as required by the FCA Rules. You can obtain a copy of this on request, and in the event you should have cause for complaint about the AIF management services which AP Ventures LLP provides to you, a copy of the policy will be sent to you.

In the event we fail to resolve a complaint to your satisfaction, or if we fail to do so within eight weeks of receiving your complaint, you may also be entitled to refer your complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service at Exchange Tower, Harbour Exchange Square, London, E14 9SR. Telephone: 0800 023 4 567 or at www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk.

Disclaimer and limitation of liability

AP Ventures does not seek to exclude or limit liability for death or personal injury arising from its negligence or that of its members, agents, directors or employees or for any fraudulent misrepresentation. To the fullest extent permitted by law and save as provided above, neither AP Ventures nor any associated company shall be liable to you by reason of any representation, or any implied warranty, condition or other term, or any duty at common law, or under the express terms of the contract, or in negligence (whether on the part of AP Ventures or any of its members, agents, directors, employees or otherwise) for any indirect special or consequential loss or damage (including but not limited to loss of profit or loss of saving), costs, expenses or other claims for compensation whatsoever which arise out of or in connection with the use of this website, the supply of the products or their use or resale by you.

The limitations of liability in these conditions shall apply equally for the benefit of AP Ventures and any other associated company of AP Ventures as if references to AP Ventures included references to each such associated company.

Accuracy of information

While AP Ventures uses reasonable endeavours to ensure that the information on this Website is accurate and up to date, it does not give any warranty as to its accuracy or completeness and AP Ventures will not be responsible for any errors or omissions or for the results arising from the use of such information. While AP Ventures takes all reasonable steps to ensure a fast and reliable service, it does not guarantee that your use of this Website will be interruption or error free and will not be responsible for any disruption, loss of or corruption of any material in transit, or loss of or corruption of material or data when downloaded onto any computer system.

External links

Further, AP Ventures will not be responsible nor liable for your use of any other websites which you may access via links within this Website. AP Ventures does not control these websites and is not responsible for their content. Any such links are provided merely as a service to users of this Website and their inclusion in this Website does not constitute an endorsement by or affiliation with AP Ventures.

Delay or failure outside our reasonable control

AP Ventures will not be liable to you or be deemed to be in breach of these Terms or any other contract with you by reason of any delay in performing, or any failure to perform, any of its obligations to you if the delay or failure was due to any cause beyond its reasonable control.

Third parties

No person who is not a party to these Terms shall have any right to enforce any term under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999. Nothing in these conditions is intended nor shall affect any of your statutory rights that may not be legally excluded.

Copyright and trademarks

The contents of these Website pages (including pictures, designs, logos, photographs, text written and other materials) are the copyright, trademark or registered trademark of AP Ventures or its content and technology providers or their respective owners. All rights reserved. The copying, modification, distribution, reproduction, or incorporation into any other work of part or all of the material available on this Website in any form is prohibited save that you may:

  • copy, print (one copy only) or download extracts of the material on this Website for the sole purpose of using this Website in good faith for domestic purposes or contracting with AP Ventures; and
  • copy, print (one copy only) or download the material on this Website for the purpose of sending to individual third parties for their personal information provided that you seek no commercial advantage or benefit from so doing and you acknowledge us as the source of the material and that you inform the third party that these conditions apply to them and that they must comply with them.

Linking to the Website

You may link to our home page, provided:

  • you do not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists;
  • you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it; and
  • you only establish the link on a website that is owned by you;

The Website must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of the Website other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on the Website other than that set out above, please contact pdarchiville@ap.ventures.

Law and territory

To the extent it is possible to exclude the application of other laws and regulations, these Terms and your use of our Website are governed by English law and you agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English court. This does not affect your non-excludable statutory rights. This Website and our Terms have been designed for use within the United Kingdom and under UK law.

If you are a business, these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Regulatory

The purpose of the Website is to inform visitors as to the business and activities of AP Ventures and the experience of AP Ventures' partners and staff. AP Ventures is authorised and regulated by the FCA (FRN 844802).

The information on the Website, including all opinions or other content, is not intended to and does not constitute financial, accounting, tax, legal, investment, consulting or other professional advice or services but is for information purposes only. Nothing in this Website should be construed as an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity. Specifically, nothing in this Website is intended to constitute a financial promotion for the purposes of Section 238 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 ("FSMA").

Nothing in this Website should be regarded as constituting the provision of investment advice by AP Ventures or of any other regulated activity. The Website is not a substitute for independent professional advice and users of this Website should obtain appropriate professional advice relevant to their particular circumstances prior to making any investment decisions. The Website must not be relied upon in connection with any investment decision.

The Website may include forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are typically identified by terminology such as “may”, “should”, “will”, “expects”, “anticipates”, “plans”, “intends”, “believes”, “estimates”, “projects”, “predicts”, “seeks”, “potential”, “continue” or other similar terminology or by discussion of strategy, plans, objectives, goals, future events or intentions. Any such forward-looking statement is based on AP Ventures’ expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about future events at the date of publication. Actual outcomes are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause them to differ materially from those expressed in a forward-looking statement. Given these inherent risks and uncertainties, you should not rely on forward-looking statements. AP Ventures has no obligation to update or otherwise revise any forward-looking statements to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events or for any other reason.

If and to the extent that the Website contains information regarding the past performance of any investments, you should be aware that this information has not been audited or verified by an independent party. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The value of any investment may fall as well as rise and there is no assurance that investors will get back any amount invested.

Please note that AP Ventures will not regard any user of this Website as its client for any purpose associated with FSMA and will not owe any duties to any such user in accordance with the provisions of the FCA Rules that regulate the relationship between an authorised investment firm and its clients.

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