Applies to: venkel.dev Effective date: 15 October 2026 Last updated: 15 October 2026 Version: v0.1 (draft, pending legal review)
These Website Terms of Use ("Website Terms") govern your access to and use of venkel.dev (the "site"), operated by Plausible Industries LLC, a California limited liability company ("Plausible Industries," "we," "us," or "our").
The site describes Venkel, a repository assessment service we provide as a consulting engagement. Visiting the site or emailing us does not create a client relationship. Venkel assessments are provided only under a signed engagement letter and, where applicable, a data processing agreement. If you become a client, those documents govern the engagement and control over these Website Terms if they conflict.
1. Acceptance
By using the site, you agree to these Website Terms. Our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy explain how we handle personal information. If you do not agree to these Website Terms, please do not use the site.
2. Permitted use
You may view the site, and print or save reasonable extracts, for your own informational purposes, including evaluating whether to engage us on behalf of your organisation. You may share links to any page. You may not:
- copy, republish, sell or create derivative works from site content, including the demo report, except as these Website Terms allow
- use the site, the demo report or its structure to build, train, benchmark or market a competing product or service
- scrape, crawl or bulk-download the site, except standard search-engine indexing that follows our robots.txt
- reverse engineer the site or the demo report to extract our rule set, scoring logic or report code, except to the extent the law permits despite this restriction
- interfere with, overload or probe the security of the site or its infrastructure, or send malware through it
- use the site in a way that is unlawful or misleading, including suggesting that a report or result came from Venkel when it did not
3. Our intellectual property
The site and its content, design, text, graphics and code are owned by Plausible Industries or our licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark and other laws.
3.1 The demo report
The site hosts an interactive demo report so you can see what a Venkel assessment looks like.
- The data is fictional. The organisations, repositories, people, findings and metrics in the demo were created for illustration. Any resemblance to a real organisation, codebase or person is coincidental.
- The format and rule set are proprietary. The report's structure, layout, scoring and presentation, and the Venkel rules, methods and analyses that produce such reports, are confidential and proprietary to Plausible Industries. Publishing the demo does not grant any licence to them or place them in the public domain.
- Third-party components. The demo includes typefaces licensed under the SIL Open Font License and references open-source tools that are owned and licensed by others. Their licences continue to apply to those components, and nothing in these Website Terms limits your rights under them.
3.2 Trademarks
"Venkel," the Venkel fennel mark, "Plausible Industries" and the Plausible Industries logo are trademarks of Plausible Industries LLC. You may not use them without our prior written permission, except to refer accurately to us and our services in a way that does not suggest sponsorship or endorsement. Names of third-party tools and products that appear on the site belong to their owners and are used only to identify them; their appearance does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by those owners.
4. The demo and site content are not advice
The demo report is illustrative only. It shows the kind of output an assessment produces; it is not an assessment of any real codebase or team and is not a sample of the results any client will receive.
Nothing on the site is security, legal, compliance, employment or other professional advice, or a statement about any real organisation's software or people. Do not rely on site content to make decisions about your own systems or staff. Descriptions of the service, its methods and plans are general and may change; the scope and deliverables of any engagement are set only in the engagement letter.
5. Emailing us
The site's only contact method is an email link. Please do not send source code, credentials, personal data about your staff or other confidential information until an engagement and confidentiality terms are in place. Unless we have agreed otherwise in writing, we are not under any confidentiality obligation for unsolicited material, and if you send us ideas or feedback about Venkel, we may use them without obligation to you. How we handle personal information in emails is described in the Privacy Policy.
6. Third-party links and services
The site may link to, or load resources from, third parties (for example, Google Fonts and, with your consent, Google Analytics). We do not control third-party sites or services and are not responsible for their content or practices. Your use of them is governed by their own terms.
7. Disclaimers
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SITE, THE DEMO REPORT AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND ACCURACY. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
8. Limitation of liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, PLAUSIBLE INDUSTRIES AND ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS AND LICENSORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SITE OR THESE WEBSITE TERMS, ON ANY LEGAL THEORY.
OUR TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SITE OR THESE WEBSITE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100).
These limits do not apply to liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law, and they do not affect any engagement letter, which sets its own liability terms.
9. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Plausible Industries and its members, managers, officers, employees and agents from claims, losses and costs (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your breach of these Website Terms or your violation of any law or third-party right.
10. Governing law and venue
These Website Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising out of or relating to the site or these Website Terms will be brought exclusively in the state and federal courts located in Sacramento County, California, and you consent to their jurisdiction and venue. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of protections under the mandatory laws of the country where you live.
11. Changes
We may update these Website Terms. Changes take effect when posted on the site, and we will update the "Last updated" date. Your continued use of the site after a change means you accept the updated terms.
12. General
If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. These Website Terms, with the Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us about the site.
13. Contact
Plausible Industries LLC Attn: Legal 2108 N St Ste N Sacramento, CA 95816 United States privacy@plausibleindustries.com
End of venkel.dev Website Terms of Use.