Terms & Conditions

The agreement that governs how you use Clever Initiative — written in plain English, with no hidden surprises.

Plain-English terms

A fair, transparent contract for a serious B2B platform

Last updated: 30 April 2026

These terms govern your use of cleverinit.com and the Clever Initiative platform — whether you visit the site, request a demo, license the source code, run the managed platform, or resell it under your own brand. By using the service you agree to them; if you sign a separate Master Services Agreement, that document takes precedence over anything written below.

We have written these terms to be readable. If anything is unclear, write to info@cleverinit.com and we will explain it in even plainer language.

What the words mean

Clever Initiative / we / us
Clever Initiative B.V., a Netherlands BV with its principal place of business at Titaan Saturnusstraat 95, 2516 AG The Hague.
Platform
The Clever Initiative multi-tenant SaaS platform, including the .NET 10 backend, the Angular 21 admin panel, the module marketplace, and any first-party modules we ship.
Customer / Tenant
The legal entity that signs an order form or accepts these terms to use the platform.
End User
An individual the customer authorises to use the platform inside the customer's tenant.
Module
A signed, versioned extension package that adds functionality to the platform — for example Invoicing, Payment Gateways, CRM, or Subscription Manager.
Customer Data
Any data the customer or its end users submit to or generate within the platform.

What you are buying

Clever Initiative is offered through three distinct engagement models. Your order form names the model you have chosen and any optional add-ons.

MANAGED PLATFORM

We host and operate the platform for you

We provide a fully hosted, fully managed Clever Initiative tenant. We operate the infrastructure, ship updates, monitor uptime, and apply security patches. You focus on your customers.

SOURCE CODE LICENCE

Take the source and run it yourself

We deliver the full platform source code and grant you a non-exclusive, perpetual licence to run it on your own infrastructure for your own internal business. Optional ongoing maintenance and update releases are available as a separate package.

WHITE-LABEL

Resell the platform under your own brand

We grant you the right to brand the platform as your own product and offer it to your clients under your domain, logo, and identity. Your white-label addendum sets out the revenue share or volume tier that applies to your engagement.

Accounts, eligibility, and acceptable use

  • Clever Initiative is a B2B service. You must be a legal entity (or an individual acting on behalf of one) acting in a professional capacity and at least 18 years old.
  • You are responsible for keeping your authentication credentials confidential and for every action taken under your account. If you suspect compromise, change credentials immediately and notify hello@cleverinit.com.
  • You will not attempt to bypass authentication, the permission system, the multi-tenancy boundary, the module signing pipeline, or any rate-limit or abuse-prevention control.
  • You will not use the platform to host, store, or transmit content that is illegal, infringes intellectual property, contains malware, or violates anyone's privacy.
  • You will not reverse-engineer the platform except where applicable Dutch law expressly permits it; where it does, you will give us reasonable notice and a chance to provide the information you need.

Customer Data and the controller / processor relationship

Customer Data is and remains your property. We do not sell it, mine it for advertising, or use it for purposes outside the contract. Where we host the platform on your behalf, we act as a data processor under Article 28 of the GDPR; the Data Processing Addendum forms part of these terms when a managed engagement is in place.

Each customer's data lives in its own dedicated database. There are no shared tables or row-level filters between customers. We backup, restore, and recover data on a per-tenant basis — your business is never coupled to another customer's recovery.

On termination you can export your data through documented endpoints in standard formats. After the export window closes we destroy the data and certify destruction on request — except where retention is required by Dutch law or to defend a live claim.

How modules work

The module marketplace is the strategic centre of the platform. Two events sit at the heart of how it operates, and they are not the same:

Publish — a host-scope, ops-driven event

Module developers (us, you, or a third party with our review) build a module, run the marketplace publish pipeline, and produce a signed .tar.gz artifact. The artifact is dropped into the host's module storage; the host verifies its RSA-4096 signature, extracts it, loads its assemblies into a private AssemblyLoadContext, and registers its manifest. The module then becomes available for customers to install. Publishing does not by itself enable any customer to use the module.

Install — a tenant-scope, admin-driven event

A customer admin clicks Install on the marketplace page. The platform writes a TenantModule row, runs the module's migrations against the customer's dedicated database, registers its permissions, and the feature becomes live for the customer's end users on their next request. Installation does not load any new code — that already happened at publish time.

Uninstall is non-destructive by design

When a customer uninstalls a module, the navigation entries and permissions for that module are removed from the active interface immediately. The data the module created — CRM contacts, payment records, chat history — is preserved. Reinstalling restores access to that state.

Fees, billing, and taxes

  • Fees, billing cadence, and currency are set out in your order form or white-label addendum.
  • Invoices are issued at the start of each billing period and are payable within 30 days, unless your order form says otherwise.
  • All fees are exclusive of VAT and other taxes, which are added at the rate applicable in the customer's jurisdiction.
  • Late payments accrue statutory interest under the Dutch Civil Code from the due date until paid in full.
  • Fees are non-refundable except where required by law or where we cause a material breach we cannot remedy. We do not pro-rate refunds for partial periods of unused service.

Service levels and support

For managed platform customers, the headline targets below describe how we operate. Enterprise SLAs with credit obligations are agreed separately on the order form.

  • Target uptime
    99.9% per calendar month for managed-platform customers
  • Critical incident response
    Within 4 business hours during business hours (CET)
  • First response on inbound enquiries
    Within 1 business day, in plain English
  • Update cadence
    Continuous, with breaking changes pre-announced and versioned
  • Maintenance windows
    Announced at least 5 business days in advance for non-emergency changes

Intellectual property and licences

We retain all intellectual property rights in the platform, the module marketplace, our first-party modules, our brand assets, and our documentation. Nothing in these terms transfers ownership of any of that to you.

When you license the source code, we grant you a perpetual, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use, modify, and run the platform for your own internal business and (under the white-label option) for your direct customers. You will not redistribute the source code as a competing product.

When you build modules on the platform, you keep ownership of the code your team writes. If you publish a module to our marketplace for distribution to other customers, the marketplace addendum sets out the listing, review, and revenue-share terms that apply.

Warranties and disclaimers

We warrant that the platform will materially conform to the documentation and that we will perform our services in a professional and workmanlike manner consistent with reputable Dutch B2B software vendors.

Beyond that warranty and the rights you have under Dutch consumer-protection law where it applies, the platform is provided "as is". We disclaim every implied warranty — including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement — to the maximum extent permitted by law.

Limitation of liability

Neither party is liable to the other for indirect, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or lost goodwill, even if advised of the possibility.

Each party's total cumulative liability arising out of or related to the agreement is capped at the fees the customer paid us in the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited under Dutch law (including liability for fraud, wilful misconduct, gross negligence, or for death or personal injury).

Mutual indemnification

  • We will defend you against third-party claims that the platform, when used in line with the documentation, infringes a third party's intellectual property rights, and we will pay damages and reasonable costs awarded against you (subject to the liability cap above).
  • You will defend us against third-party claims arising from your customer data, your acceptable-use violations, or your modifications to the source code beyond what we documented and supported.

Termination and data export

  • Either party may terminate the agreement for material breach if the breach is not cured within 30 days of written notice.
  • Either party may terminate immediately if the other becomes insolvent, enters bankruptcy proceedings, or ceases ordinary business operations.
  • On termination, all licences end. We provide a 30-day export window during which you can retrieve your customer data using the documented export endpoints; after the window closes the data is destroyed.
  • Sections that by their nature should survive termination — intellectual property, liability, indemnity, governing law, and confidentiality — survive the end of the agreement.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms when the platform changes meaningfully, the law changes, or our processes mature. Material changes are announced to active customers by email at least 30 days in advance, with a clear summary of what changed. If the changes are unacceptable to you, you may terminate the affected service before they take effect; continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

Governing law, language, and disputes

These terms are governed by Dutch law. The courts of The Hague have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute that the parties cannot resolve in good-faith negotiation. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply to this agreement. The English-language version of these terms is the binding original; any translation we publish is provided for convenience only, and in case of any discrepancy or ambiguity the English text prevails.

Talking to us

Different topics route to different mailboxes so they reach the right person quickly:

Legal and contracts
info@cleverinit.com
Privacy and data protection
info@cleverinit.com
Sales and licensing
hello@cleverinit.com
Customer support
hello@cleverinit.com

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