1. Definitions
In these Terms, the following words have the meanings given below:
| Term |
Meaning |
| HowToBuySaaS, we, us, our |
HowToBuySaaS.com, operated as a business/trade name of Snetiara, unless updated by the company through official records or notices. |
| Website |
The public website available at HowToBuySaaS.com, including blogs, SaaS listings, reviews, guides, calculators, tools, landing pages, and marketplace pages. |
| Web App |
The private or login-based platform available through app.howtobuysaas.com or any related subdomain used for SaaS listings, acquisition, fundraising, buyer/investor access, founder submissions, chats, and admin review workflows. |
| User |
Any visitor, founder, SaaS owner, buyer, investor, advertiser, vendor, partner, agency, or business representative who accesses or uses the Website, Web App, or services. |
| Founder / Seller |
A person or business that submits, lists, promotes, sells, raises funds for, or claims ownership of a SaaS product or software business on HowToBuySaaS. |
| Buyer / Investor |
A person or business that browses, evaluates, requests access to, contacts, invests in, acquires, or expresses interest in a SaaS business listed on HowToBuySaaS. |
| Content |
Any text, data, SaaS profile, review, article, image, logo, video, file, message, listing, valuation detail, traction metric, comment, or other material submitted, published, or displayed on the platform. |
2. Our Platform Role
HowToBuySaaS is a SaaS discovery, software marketplace, content, listing, and platform facilitation website. We help users discover SaaS tools, compare software products, read educational content, promote SaaS products, and explore private SaaS acquisition or fundraising opportunities.
Unless expressly stated in writing, HowToBuySaaS is not the manufacturer, owner, seller, reseller, broker, investment advisor, financial advisor, legal advisor, due diligence provider, escrow provider, payment trustee, or fiduciary for any third-party SaaS product, software vendor, founder, buyer, or investor.
Information displayed on HowToBuySaaS is for general informational, marketplace, discovery, promotional, and facilitation purposes only. Users must conduct their own legal, financial, technical, commercial, and operational due diligence before making any purchase, investment, partnership, acquisition, or business decision.
3. Eligibility and Acceptance
By using HowToBuySaaS, you confirm that you are legally capable of entering into a binding agreement under applicable laws. If you are using the platform on behalf of a company, organization, fund, agency, or business, you confirm that you are authorized to act on its behalf.
Use of HowToBuySaaS is available only to persons who can form a legally binding contract. If you are under 18 years of age, you may use the platform only with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian.
We may refuse access, suspend accounts, remove content, restrict features, or terminate usage if we believe a user has violated these Terms, applicable laws, platform policies, or the rights of other users.
4. Registration and Account Responsibilities
Some parts of HowToBuySaaS may require registration, including SaaS profile claiming, founder submissions, investor access requests, private listing access, chat features, admin approvals, or web app usage.
- You must provide accurate, current, and complete information during registration.
- Your email ID, login credentials, and account access are personal to you or your authorized organization.
- You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account activity.
- You must not create duplicate accounts to abuse platform functionality, bypass restrictions, or misrepresent your identity.
- You must not impersonate another person, company, SaaS owner, investor, buyer, or representative.
- You must promptly notify us if your account security is compromised.
We will not be liable for losses caused by unauthorized use of your account where such use results from your failure to maintain account confidentiality.
5. SaaS Listings, Product Profiles, and Marketplace Pages
HowToBuySaaS may publish SaaS product listings, software comparison pages, tool directories, reviews, product profiles, founder pages, buyer guides, and related marketplace content.
Public SaaS Listings
Public listings may include product descriptions, categories, features, pricing references, screenshots, logos, ratings, reviews, use cases, website links, and other information related to third-party SaaS products.
We aim to keep information useful and updated, but we do not guarantee that all SaaS details, prices, features, offers, integrations, screenshots, availability, or claims are complete, accurate, current, or error-free at all times.
Claimed Profiles
SaaS founders, owners, authorized employees, or agencies may request to claim or update a SaaS profile. We may ask for proof of authorization before approving profile changes.
Listing Moderation
We reserve the right to approve, reject, modify, categorize, hide, remove, or update any listing, profile, review, claim, or submitted content at our discretion, especially where content appears inaccurate, misleading, promotional in a deceptive way, unlawful, outdated, spam-like, or harmful to users.
6. Private Web App, SaaS Acquisition, and Fundraising Features
HowToBuySaaS may operate a private web app where SaaS founders can list businesses for acquisition, fundraising, partnership, growth support, or strategic introductions, and where buyers or investors can request access to selected information.
For Founders
Submit SaaS business details honestly, including traction, revenue, metrics, asking price, funding requirements, and ownership status.
For Buyers
Use private information only for genuine evaluation, due diligence, acquisition, partnership, or investment discussions.
For Investors
Make independent decisions and do not rely on HowToBuySaaS as financial, legal, tax, or investment advice.
Masked Listings and Access Requests
Certain private listings may display limited or masked information before approval. Company names, founder identities, URLs, customer names, financial documents, or sensitive business details may be hidden until access is approved.
Requesting access does not guarantee approval, introduction, investment opportunity, acquisition rights, founder response, data room access, or transaction completion. We may approve, reject, or revoke access at our discretion.
No Guarantee of Deal Completion
HowToBuySaaS may facilitate discovery, communication, access requests, admin review, meetings, or introductions. However, we do not guarantee that any SaaS business will be sold, funded, acquired, valued at a particular price, or accepted by any investor or buyer.
Founder Representations
If you submit a business, SaaS listing, fundraising opportunity, or acquisition opportunity, you represent that:
- You are authorized to submit and discuss the business.
- The information provided is accurate to the best of your knowledge.
- You have rights to share the submitted content, logos, metrics, documents, and materials.
- You will not submit fraudulent, inflated, misleading, copied, confidential, or unauthorized information.
- You understand that buyers and investors may independently verify your claims.
Buyer and Investor Responsibilities
Buyers and investors are solely responsible for evaluating each opportunity, verifying all claims, conducting due diligence, reviewing contracts, assessing legal and financial risks, and using qualified advisors before entering into any transaction.
7. Payments, Fees, Promotions, and Paid Services
HowToBuySaaS may offer free or paid services, including listing upgrades, profile promotions, advertising packages, sponsored placements, lead generation, access-related services, SaaS marketing services, reports, subscriptions, or other business services.
- Prices, offers, packages, and service descriptions may change from time to time.
- All fees must be paid according to the invoice, checkout page, order form, contract, or written agreement provided.
- Taxes, transaction charges, currency conversion, bank fees, or gateway fees may apply where relevant.
- We may refuse, cancel, pause, or discontinue any paid service if payment fails or if platform policies are violated.
- Refunds, if any, will be handled according to the specific order form, invoice, written agreement, or refund policy applicable to the service purchased.
Payment gateways, banks, card networks, wallet providers, or third-party processors may apply their own terms. We are not responsible for transaction declines, bank-side failures, unauthorized payment methods, or third-party payment processing issues beyond our control.
8. User Content, Reviews, Comments, and Submissions
Users may be allowed to submit reviews, comments, questions, SaaS descriptions, founder information, investor details, screenshots, logos, documents, messages, or other content.
You must not submit content that is illegal, false, misleading, abusive, defamatory, obscene, threatening, discriminatory, spam-like, privacy-invasive, infringing, harmful, or intended to manipulate rankings, reviews, trust signals, or marketplace visibility.
By submitting content to HowToBuySaaS, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, display, reproduce, publish, edit, translate, distribute, and modify such content for operating, promoting, improving, moderating, and displaying the platform and related services.
We may remove, edit, refuse, or restrict content at our discretion. We do not endorse every user-submitted statement, review, rating, claim, or comment displayed on the platform.
9. Advertising, Sponsored Content, Affiliate Links, and Interest-Based Ads
HowToBuySaaS may display sponsored listings, advertisements, affiliate links, partner promotions, comparison tables, product recommendations, retargeting campaigns, or interest-based ads.
Sponsored or affiliate relationships may influence visibility, placement, calls-to-action, or promotional presence. However, we aim to maintain useful, transparent, and user-friendly content.
Third-party advertisers, affiliate platforms, analytics tools, social media platforms, search engines, or ad networks may use cookies, pixels, tracking links, or similar technologies to measure performance and show relevant ads.
You can learn more about cookie control and ad-related choices in our Cookie Policy.
10. Prohibited Use
You agree not to use HowToBuySaaS, the Website, the Web App, or any related service:
- For fraudulent, unlawful, misleading, abusive, or criminal purposes.
- To upload false SaaS data, fake revenue, fake traffic, fake founder identity, fake investor identity, or fabricated business claims.
- To scrape, copy, harvest, mine, extract, or commercially reuse platform data without written permission.
- To interfere with website security, availability, performance, infrastructure, or user experience.
- To upload malware, viruses, spyware, tracking scripts, harmful code, or unauthorized automation.
- To send spam, unsolicited promotions, chain messages, or mass outreach through the platform.
- To violate intellectual property, privacy, confidentiality, contractual, or data protection rights.
- To threaten the unity, integrity, defence, security, sovereignty, public order, or lawful interests of India or any applicable jurisdiction.
- To bypass access controls, admin approvals, masked listing restrictions, or private listing permissions.
We reserve the right to investigate suspected violations and cooperate with law enforcement, regulators, courts, payment processors, hosting providers, or affected parties where required by law or platform protection needs.
11. Intellectual Property, Trademarks, and Copyright
The HowToBuySaaS name, website design, layout, content structure, marketplace pages, guides, reviews, graphics, logos, brand assets, software elements, and original content are owned by HowToBuySaaS, its operators, licensors, or content partners, unless otherwise stated.
You must not copy, reproduce, republish, sell, license, scrape, distribute, modify, mirror, frame, or commercially exploit any part of the Website, Web App, content, listings, databases, or platform materials without prior written permission.
Third-party SaaS names, logos, screenshots, trademarks, and product references belong to their respective owners. Their appearance on HowToBuySaaS does not imply ownership, endorsement, partnership, or sponsorship unless explicitly stated.
If you believe your intellectual property rights have been infringed, please contact us at contact@howtobuysaas.com with relevant details.
12. Third-Party Websites, SaaS Vendors, and External Links
HowToBuySaaS may link to third-party websites, SaaS tools, vendor websites, demo pages, pricing pages, documentation, affiliate pages, payment pages, investor tools, scheduling tools, or external resources.
We do not control third-party websites and are not responsible for their accuracy, availability, pricing, security, privacy practices, service quality, claims, policies, or content.
You are responsible for reviewing and accepting the terms, privacy policies, refund policies, data processing terms, and commercial conditions of any third-party service before using or purchasing it.
13. Privacy, Cookies, Data Protection, and Security
Your use of HowToBuySaaS is also governed by our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. These policies explain how we may collect, use, store, process, and protect personal data, business information, cookies, analytics data, and communication information.
We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards to protect information submitted through the platform. However, no website, app, hosting system, email system, or internet transmission is completely secure.
Users are responsible for ensuring they have the right permissions and consents to submit personal data, company data, customer data, investor data, SaaS metrics, documents, or confidential information to the platform.
Where third-party SaaS vendors, payment processors, analytics tools, CRM tools, email tools, hosting providers, or communication platforms process data independently, their own terms and privacy policies will apply.
14. Availability, Errors, and Platform Changes
We work to keep HowToBuySaaS available, useful, and updated. However, we do not guarantee uninterrupted access, error-free operation, permanent availability of any feature, or continuous availability of any listing, page, tool, or web app function.
Content on the platform may occasionally be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, delayed, duplicated, or affected by technical issues. We may update, remove, merge, redirect, restructure, or discontinue any content, tool, service, listing, or feature at any time.
We are not liable for temporary unavailability caused by maintenance, upgrades, hosting issues, security incidents, third-party outages, force majeure events, internet failures, or circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
15. Disclaimers, Limitation of Liability, and Indemnity
The information on HowToBuySaaS is provided for general informational and platform facilitation purposes. We make no warranties, express or implied, regarding the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability, availability, performance, valuation, profitability, legality, or business outcome of any listing, tool, review, SaaS product, vendor, founder, buyer, investor, or opportunity.
You use the platform at your own risk. To the maximum extent permitted by law, HowToBuySaaS shall not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, business, financial, data, reputation, goodwill, revenue, profit, investment, acquisition, or opportunity losses arising from your use of the platform.
You agree to indemnify and hold HowToBuySaaS, its operators, team members, contractors, partners, licensors, and affiliates harmless from claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses arising from your misuse of the platform, violation of these Terms, unlawful activity, submitted content, misrepresentation, infringement, breach of confidentiality, or dispute with another user or third party.
Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law, including liability for fraud, wilful misconduct, or death or personal injury caused by negligence where such exclusions are not legally permitted.
16. Compliance With Laws
Users are responsible for complying with all applicable laws, including laws relating to contracts, taxation, data protection, confidentiality, intellectual property, consumer protection, anti-money laundering, foreign exchange, export controls, sanctions, anti-bribery, anti-corruption, securities, investment, and technology usage.
If you access HowToBuySaaS from outside India, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws. We make no representation that platform materials are appropriate or available for use in every country.
17. Suspension and Termination
We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the Website, Web App, account, listings, communication tools, or platform services if:
- You violate these Terms or applicable laws.
- You submit false, misleading, abusive, infringing, or harmful content.
- You misuse private SaaS listing information.
- You attempt to bypass access controls or admin approvals.
- Your activity creates legal, security, operational, reputational, or financial risk for the platform or other users.
Termination or suspension does not affect rights and obligations that should reasonably survive, including confidentiality, intellectual property, payment obligations, disclaimers, liability limitations, indemnity, and dispute resolution.
18. Updates to These Terms
We may update, revise, add, or remove parts of these Terms at any time. When we update this page, we will revise the “Last Updated” date.
Your continued use of HowToBuySaaS after changes are posted means that you accept the updated Terms. If you do not agree with the updated Terms, you should stop using the platform.
19. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India.
In the event of any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms, the parties shall first attempt in good faith to resolve the matter through written communication and negotiation.
If the dispute is not resolved through good faith discussions, the matter may be referred to mediation and/or arbitration in accordance with the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. The venue of arbitration shall be Delhi, India, and the proceedings shall be conducted in English.
Subject to applicable law, the courts at Delhi, India shall have jurisdiction over disputes arising from or relating to these Terms.
