Signet Protocol Ltd · Registered in Scotland: SC891003 · VAT: 520989470
Registered Office: 3 Hill Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3JP, United Kingdom
These Institutional Terms and Conditions ("Terms," "Agreement") legally govern the access to and use of the private network, infrastructure, and introduction ledger operated by Signet Protocol Ltd ("the Company," "we," "us," or "our"). By applying for onboarding verification, submitting membership dues, or accessing the ledger portal, the contracting corporate entity ("Member Organisation," "Member") explicitly agrees to comply with and be bound by these Terms. This network operates exclusively as a Business-to-Business (B2B) ecosystem. No consumer services are offered, and standard consumer protection regulations are expressly disclaimed to the maximum extent permitted under Scots law.
Signet Protocol Ltd is incorporated under the laws of Scotland. This Agreement, alongside all non-contractual obligations or claims arising out of or in connection with it, shall be exclusively governed by, construed, and enforced in accordance with Scots law. Any legal action, suit, or proceeding arising directly out of these Terms must be brought in the Scottish Courts in Edinburgh, which shall hold exclusive jurisdiction.
Access to the Signet Protocol ledger is strictly restricted to verified corporate entities, family offices, and institutional principals who clear our sovereign introduction vetting tiers: Level 1 (Identity): Mandatory corporate registry and authorised sign-off validation. Level 2 (Entity): Verification of active corporate mandates and executive authority to transact. Level 3 (Capacity): Application-embedded, cryptographic financial capability verification. The Company reserves the absolute, unfettered right to reject any application for network verification without providing cause or explanation.
Membership and utilisation of the platform's matchmaking nodes are subject to a single, fixed commercial framework. Fixed Annual Commitment Fee: £30,000 per annum, exclusive of VAT and local withholding taxes, billed immediately upon onboarding verification. This is the sole fee payable to the Company. No fee, commission, or other charge is levied on, or calculated by reference to, the introduction, negotiation, value, or completion of any commercial agreement between Members. All fees quoted exclude VAT, which is charged in addition at the prevailing rate. Strict Zero-Refund Policy: The fixed commitment fee is entirely non-refundable and non-creditable under any circumstances.
Members may record the successful completion of an introduction by both verified transaction principals explicitly engaging the "Execute Deal" node button on their respective portal interfaces. This synchronised digital trigger generates a permanent cryptographic timestamp on our ledger for audit and record-keeping purposes only. No fee, invoice, or payment obligation of any kind arises from this action.
Active membership is structurally capped at exactly 500 member organisations per primary geographic region. Once this regional threshold is satisfied, the gateway closes automatically, and prospective applicants will be placed on a private queue until a vacancy arises via non-renewal or structural exit.
Members acknowledge and explicitly consent to the following operational parameters. The 7-Day Shred Protocol: All raw documentation, registry PDFs, and compliance tracing paperwork uploaded during verification are permanently erased within 7 days of verified activation. The Member holds sole responsibility for maintaining its own offline legal archives. Double-Blind Mechanics: All allocations inside The Market are algorithmically anonymised behind rotating cryptographic tokens. Identity parameters and communications channels remain fully locked until a bilateral connection is mutually and explicitly executed by both principals via The Handshakes tab. The Scrub Protocol: The instant a communications session inside The Roundtable terminates, all temporary server cache, IP routing paths, and volatile memory allocations are purged cleanly, leaving only the permanent, encrypted contract hashes.
Signet Protocol Ltd operates strictly as an independent technology infrastructure provider offering decentralised ledger matching nodes. The Company does not arrange transactions in investments, manage investments, advise on investments, or operate a collective investment scheme. No services provided by the Company constitute regulated activities under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA) or require authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The Company's sole remuneration is the fixed annual commitment fee described in Clause 4, which is payable irrespective of whether any introduction leads to a transaction and bears no relation whatsoever to the value or outcome of any commercial agreement between Members. Members explicitly acknowledge that this fee does not constitute a corporate finance broker commission, deal placement fee, or regulated investment clearing activity of any kind.
Members must not utilise platform access to: de-anonymise or reverse-engineer the identity of other participating members through algorithmic or data-scraping workflows; engage in "broker chaining" — the deceptive practice of secretly inflating asset values or introducing unverified intermediary layers into connections; or publish false, unverified, or misleading asset parameters within the ledger infrastructure. Any identified breach of system integrity, reverse-engineering attempt, or malicious platform use will result in the immediate revocation of credentials, absolute banishment from the network, and the forfeiture of all paid commitment fees.
Signet Protocol Ltd operates solely as an independent infrastructure layer. We provide the technical framework to safely bridge introductions; we are not brokers, financial advisers, or placement agents. We do not participate in negotiations, structure deals, or guarantee transaction fulfilment. To the maximum extent permitted under Scots law, the Company shall not be liable for any indirect, consequential, special, or punitive damages, including loss of revenue, capital, transaction advantage, or corporate opportunity arising from network access or temporary platform downtime.
The Company maintains a multi-signature Emergency Protocol Freeze kill switch requiring concurrent executive clearance. In the event of a systemic threat, zero-day threat vector, or localised platform attack, the Company reserves the right to instantly sever all active sessions, freeze global document vaults, and suspend access to protect the integrity of the ecosystem. The Company holds no liability for temporary processing delays caused by an emergency freeze sequence. These Terms constitute the entire institutional agreement between Signet Protocol Ltd and the Member Organisation. Any disputes arising under this agreement shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Scottish Courts in Edinburgh.
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