Terms of service

1. Who you are contracting with

investingdirectors.com is a trading name of Sustainable Wealth Group Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 11954426 ("we", "us"). Our registered office is International House, 6 South Molton Street, London, W1K 5QF, and our VAT number is 442775184. Sustainable Wealth Group Limited is the contracting entity for all memberships, introductions and consultancy services. Contact us at members@investingdirectors.com.

2. What we do, and what we do not do

We are a governance search and advisory business. We introduce non-executive directors, advisers and C-suite operators to companies, and we advise companies on board composition. Introductions only. We do not provide investment advice.

• We are not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. We do not arrange, advise on or deal in investments, and we do not hold client money.
• We do not promote, market or place any investment. If you invest in a company you meet through us, that is a decision between you and that company, taken on your own judgement or with advice from a person authorised to give it.
• We are not a nominee, custodian, fund, syndicate or co-investment vehicle. We do not pool money and we do not take carry.
• Nothing on this site or in any introduction is an offer of securities, a recommendation, or an inducement to invest.

3. Investor certification and financial promotions

Where an introduction includes information about a company's fundraising, that information may amount to a financial promotion. We communicate it only to people who have certified, in writing and in the form set out in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, that they are a certified high net worth individual, a self-certified sophisticated investor or a professional investor.

• Your certification is valid for twelve months and must be renewed. We will stop sending you investment-related detail if it lapses.
• You confirm the statements you sign are true. We rely on them, and we keep a dated, immutable record of each declaration for six years.
• Investing in unlisted companies puts your capital at risk. Shares are illiquid, dividends are unlikely, you may lose the whole amount, and past performance tells you nothing about the future.
• You should not invest more than you can afford to lose, and you should take independent advice if you are unsure.

4. Membership for directors, advisers and operators

• Membership is personal to you. You may not share your account, and we may refuse or end a membership where a profile is inaccurate or where conduct puts other members or clients at risk.
• Registration is free. Paid tiers are sold monthly or annually and renew automatically at the end of each term until you cancel.
• Prices are shown on the pricing page and exclude VAT, which we add where it applies. Founding rates are held for as long as the membership runs without a break.
• You can cancel a monthly membership at any time, effective at the end of the paid month. You can cancel an annual membership at any time, effective at the end of the paid year. We do not pro-rate part-used terms except where the law or a guarantee below requires it.
• Membership fees buy access to introductions, the community and the programme. They are never a fee for an investment, a percentage of any investment you make, or a payment for the introduction of capital.

5. Your 14-day cancellation right

If you are a consumer, the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 give you 14 days from the day you subscribe to change your mind and receive a full refund. Write to members@investingdirectors.com — no form and no reason needed.

If you ask us to start straight away and then cancel within the 14 days, we may charge for the part of the service already supplied. In practice we refund in full unless you have already accepted an introduction. This right is in addition to the guarantees below, and nothing here removes your rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 to a service carried out with reasonable care and skill.

6. Guarantees

Our published guarantees form part of this contract. They apply where your profile is complete and you have accepted at least six introductions for review within the twelve-month period. A refund under a guarantee is paid to the original payment method within 14 days of us agreeing it, and ends the membership.

The confidentiality guarantee has no conditions: if we release your name to a company without your written instruction, we refund your membership in full and close it the same day.

7. Fees for corporate clients

• We charge companies fixed search fees per mandate, or a retainer for ongoing governance work. Fees are for recruitment, search and advisory services supplied to the company.
• We do not charge a percentage of any funds raised, we do not take a success fee linked to an investment amount, and we take no commission from any investment a director makes.
• Fixed-fee mandates are billed 50 per cent on agreement of the brief and 50 per cent on appointment, unless your engagement letter says otherwise. Invoices are payable within 14 days. Bespoke mandates are scoped and priced in an engagement letter.
• All fees exclude VAT. Late payment may carry interest and reasonable recovery costs under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998.
• The board gap diagnostic is free and carries no obligation. You keep it either way.
• Where a shortlist or replacement guarantee applies, the remedy stated on the pricing page — a full return of the fee, or the search run again at no charge — is our entire liability for that guarantee.

We do not charge candidates a fee for being introduced to a role. Where our work is regulated by the Employment Agencies Act 1973 and the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, we comply with them, and we will confirm in writing whether we act as an employment agency for a particular assignment.

8. Introductions, confidentiality and circumvention

• Information shared in an introduction — board packs, metrics, cap tables, references — is confidential. Use it only to evaluate the role and any related investment, and do not pass it on.
• Candidate identities are blind until released on the candidate's written instruction. Companies must not attempt to identify a candidate from an anonymised profile.
• If a company appoints a candidate we introduced within twelve months of the introduction, the mandate fee is payable even if the appointment is agreed outside the platform.
• Directors must disclose conflicts, including competing portfolio holdings and any restriction in a current employment contract, before accepting an introduction.
• You are responsible for your own tax position, including any SEIS or EIS relief, and for your own directors' duties and D&O cover once appointed.

9. Your content and our content

You keep ownership of what you upload and grant us a licence to use it to operate the service and to present you to clients on the blind-first basis. You confirm you have the right to share it and that it is accurate. Everything else on the site — text, templates, research and the programme material — belongs to us and is for your own use, not for redistribution or resale.

10. Liability

We provide the service with reasonable care and skill. We do not verify every statement a company or a candidate makes, and we do not guarantee the performance, solvency or conduct of anyone you meet through us. You carry out your own diligence.

We do not exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded, including your statutory rights as a consumer. Subject to that, and except under the guarantees above, our total liability to you in any twelve-month period is limited to the fees you paid us in that period, and we are not liable for investment losses, lost profits or lost opportunity.

11. Complaints

Write to members@investingdirectors.com. We acknowledge within two working days and aim to resolve within 14 days. Because we are not FCA authorised, the Financial Ombudsman Service and the Financial Services Compensation Scheme do not cover our services.

12. Changes, suspension and governing law

We may change these terms or our prices. Members on a paid term keep the price and terms they signed up to until that term ends, and we give at least 30 days' notice by email before a change takes effect. We may suspend or end access where these terms are breached, and you may cancel at any time.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction. If you live elsewhere in the UK you may bring proceedings in your local courts. See our privacy policy for how we handle personal data.