Account - Investor’s account with the Platform reflecting the balance of the Investor’s real amount of funds available for funding.
Agent – FUNDAUS TRUST AGENT OÜ(a limited liability company duly registered in the Republic of Estonia under the registration number 14810464, having its registered legal address: Harju maakond, Tallinn, Tina tn. 9, Estonia), being a legal entity authorized by the Investor to sign the Loan and the Collateral agreements in its own name, but in the interests of the Investor and represent the Investor in case of the Project owner’s default under the Loan Agreement.
Agent agreement - An agreement entered into the Investor and Agent via the Platform, on the basis of which the Investor authorizes Agent to conclude the Loan agreement and Collateral agreements with the Project owners in accordance with the Investor’s instructions in the name of the Agent, but in the interests of the Investor.
Agreement - An agreement on use of the Platform consisting of these Terms, Registration rules, Investor’s registration application and Identification form and the Price List.
AML legal regulation - Estonian, European Union and International legal acts on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing.
AML Policy - Operator’s Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing policy.
Beneficiary - a natural person who, taking advantage of their influence, makes a transaction, act, action, operation or step or otherwise exercises control over a transaction, act, action, operation or step or over another person and in whose interests or favour or on whose account a transaction or act, action, operation or step is made.
In the case of a legal entity: the natural person who ultimately owns or controls legal entity through direct or indirect ownership of a sufficient percentage of the shares - shareholding of 25 per cent plus one share or an ownership interest of more than 25 per cent, or voting rights or ownership interest in that person, including through bearer shareholdings, or through control via other means;
in the case of trust, civil law partnership, community or legal arrangement: the natural person who controls the association via direct or indirect ownership or otherwise and is such associations’: a) settlor or person who has handed over property to the asset pool; b) trustee or manager or possessor of the property; c) person ensuring and controlling the preservation of property, where such person has been appointed; d) the beneficiary, or where the beneficiary or beneficiaries have yet to be determined, the class of persons in whose main interest such association is set up or operates;
where the natural person cannot be identified and there is no doubt that such person exists or where there are doubts as to whether the identified person is a beneficial owner, the natural person who holds the position of a senior managing official or member or members of the management board may be deemed or designated as a beneficial owner.
Project owner - A person applying for and receiving the Loan in accordance with the conditions of the Loan Agreement.
Cashback - Part of Platform marketing program; a bonus that can be optionally applied to certain Projects and may be subject to certain limitations (e.g. minimum amount of Investment and/or limited validity period of the offer), expressed in the form of extra income of the Investor, calculated as a fixed amount or percentage of the Investment made and automatically added to its Investment account upon confirmation of the Investment.
Claim Rights - Rights of claim to the Project owner arising from the Loan Agreement.
Collateral - Any security provided by the Project owner or Collateral provider in order to secure the Project owner’s liabilities arising from the Loan agreement.
Collateral agreement - A collateral agreement entered into between the owner of the pledged property as the Collateral provider and the Agent as the Pledgee on Pledge of property in order to secure the Project owner’s liabilities under the Loan Agreement.
Collateral provider - A person, which provides a Collateral in order to secure the Project owner’s liabilities arising from the Loan Agreement.
Financial Institution - Any legal entity, which provides as a business one or more of the financial services as defined by the Law and is included in the official lists of the respective regulating authority.
FIU - Estonian Financial Intelligence Unit.
Fundroom - Investor’s personal page on the Website.
GDPR - Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).
Identification form - A questionnaire available on the Website in the Investor’s Fundroom, which has to be filled up by the Investor for KYC purposes.
Information sheet - Certain information on the Project and the Project owner, provided by the Operator for registered Investors in electronic form via the Platform.
Instruction - The Investor’s given order to the Agent to enter into the Loan agreement with the Project owner, specifying the amount of Investor’s funds to be lent to the Project owner, the Project owner, the Project and other information, which reflects the Investor’s will.
Interest - Amount payable by the Project owner to the Investor for use of the borrowed funds (the Loan) at the rate agreed by the Parties of the Loan Agreement.
Investment income - Optional income of an Investor, pertaining to and calculated for a certain Investment, usually subject to certain terms and conditions and/or events in future, except of Interest, Loan and any marketing program associated incomes (Cashback etc.).
Investor - An individual or legal entity, who has passed registration on the Platform, has been identified and accepted by the Operator and receives the Services – uses the possibility to lend the funds to the Project owners.
Investor’s bank account - Investor’s account in a banking or payment institution.
Investor’s registered account - Investor’s bank account, which is connected to the Account in accordance with the procedure stated by these Terms.
KYC - Process of identification, due diligence and analysis of the Investor in accordance with the AML Policy and internal procedures of the Operator and requirements of the Law.
Law - Any law applicable to the Services and relationship between the Operator and the third parties.
Lender - The person named as the lender in the Loan agreement, who may be either the Investor or the AGENT acting as the Agent of the Investor.
Loan - The total amount lent to the Project owner within one Project on the basis of the Loan Agreement.
Loan Agreement - A loan agreement entered into the Investor or its Agent and the Project owner, on the basis of which the Loan is issued to the Project owner for the purpose of financing the Project.
Maximum amount of the Pool - Amount of the Loan the Project owner has applied for.
Member State - A European Union or European Economic area state, including the United Kingdom and Norway.
Minimal target - Minimal amount of the Loan determined by the Project owner, which it agrees to borrow on the basis of the Loan agreement.
Offer - Offer of funding the Project placed on the Platform, available for the Investors on the Website and consisting of the project details, description, KIIS, pictures, related documents and other information.
Operator - FUNDAUS OÜ(a limited liability company duly registered in the Republic of Estonia under the registration number 14643807, registered legal address: Harju maakond, Tallinn, Tina 9, 10126, Estonia). More details and contact information is available on the Website.
Participation - The part of the Loan amount paid into the Pool by each Investor.
Platform - An electronic system for Services available for the use on the Website.
Pool - Maximal funding target, amount of funds stated by the Project owner for borrowing in the period of time determined by the Project owner.
Price List - Operator’s Price List for Platform services.
Privacy policy - Operator’s policy on data processing and protection based on the GDPR and Law requirements.
Project - Offer of funding of business activities related to real estate development projects or business development projects, which is placed on the Platform.
Referral system - A remuneration system established by the Operator, which offers the person who promotes the Services to receive an income in a form of percentage of the funds invested by the Investors attracted by this person.
Segregated account - Operator’s account used for settlements between the Investors and the Project owners within the use of the Services via the Platform and totally separated from Operator’s operating account.
Services - Crowdfunding services that are provided by the Operator, which connects via the Platform those who can give, lend or invest money (the Investors) with those who need financing for a specific Project (the Project owners).
Terms - These terms and conditions for Investors.
Website - www.fundaus.com.
Withdrawal - The funds transfer from the Segregated account to the Investor’s bank account on the basis of the Investor’s instruction given via the Platform.
Additional documents (scanned copies) may be requested from the Investor being an individualin the following cases:
- Power of attorney or other right and scope of representation proving document and identity card or passport of the authorized representative - in the case of representation [1];
- Beneficiary identity card or passport - if the third person benefits and controls the Investor’s activity;
- Tax residence document (Tax certificate or similar document) - if it is not possible for the Operator to determine the tax residence country from another available information.
- Registry card, registration certificate or equivalent document of the relevant register;
- Document certifying the Investor’s legal address;
- Memorandum and Articles of Association or similar document;
- Document containing information on director or management board structure [2];
- Document containing information on ownership structure [3]; or Relevant document equivalent with aforementioned documents, which contains necessary identification data (company register statement) and replaces above mentioned documents [4];
- Representative’s identity card or passport;
- Beneficiary’s identity card or passport.
Additional documents (scanned copies) may be requested from the Investor being a legal entity in the following cases:
- Power of attorney or other right and scope of representation proving document and identity card or passport of the authorized representative - in the case of representation on the basis of the power of attorney or similar document [5];
- Legal entity’s and its Beneficiary’s tax residence document (tax - if it is not possible to detect tax residence country from another available information.
- Number, date and Estonian time of the Loan Agreement;
- Project owner’s data;
- Lender’s (Agent’s) data;
- Data of the Representatives of the Parties;
- Purpose of the Loan - a name and / or ID of the Project for funding;
- Loan amount (the entire Loan amount) – may be from the Minimal target amount to the Maximum amount of the Pool;
- Maturity date;
- Loan interest rate and payment dates;
- The Collateral and the Collateral provider’s data.
- The Operator’s General conditions of the Loan (General Terms of the Loan Agreement are available to the accepted Investors on the Website next to each Project);
- Signatures of the Lender and the Project owner.
- send reminders, balance notifications and warnings to the Project owner (including bankruptcy warnings);
- initiate court or arbitral tribunal proceedings, enforcement proceedings, and bankruptcy /insolvency proceedings, using any legal procedures and in accordance with these Terms, including participating in the relevant proceedings as a representative of the Investor and on its behalf, even without prior notification and/or consent of the Investor;
- extraordinarily cancel the Loan Agreement if this is permitted by the according Loan Agreement or by the Law;
- if the relevant obligation is secured, take enforcement action in respect of security by any procedure provided for by Law and the Collateral agreement;
- take any other measures for debt recovery from the Project owner.
The Investor is entitled to receive all extra payments that may or may not be directly arising from the Loan agreements and may include Cashbacks and/or other Bonuses, voluntary granted by increasing the balance of investment account of the Investor on its own considerations according to the terms and conditions of certain marketing campaign, made known to the Investor.
The Investor may be entitled to receive the Referral income – income, automatically calculated by the system and added to the investment account of a registered user (not mandatory – Investor), calculated for the Investments, made by Investors, registered on the Platform by following a unique referral link, generated by the system for the aforementioned user, subject to terms and conditions of the referral system, developed and made known for the registered users by the Platform. The Platform can apply, extend, change or abolish referral income system at any time on its own consideration.
[1] The document that proves authorization should be certified by a notary and legalized or certified withApostille.
[2] Not older than a year.
[3] Not older than a year.
[4] Not older than a month. This document may be requested by the Operator additional to other documents if the other documents containing company data and information on directors, shareholders or beneficiaries are older than one year.
[5] The document that proves authorization should be certified by a notary and legalized or certified with Apostille.