Terms of Use

Agreeing to these terms

These Terms of Use govern your use of this website, operated by Vantor Consulting (“Vantor,” “we,” “us”). By using the site you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the site. These terms cover the website only: consulting engagements are governed by a separate written agreement signed by a parent or guardian, and that agreement controls the engagement.

What this site is

This site describes our consultancy and lets families request a free first consultation. Its content is informational. Browsing the site, submitting an inquiry, or attending a first consultation does not create a client relationship with Vantor; a client relationship begins only when a written engagement agreement is signed and its terms are met.

No guarantees, no professional advice

We do not guarantee any outcome: no award, no publication, no admission. Nothing on this site is legal, medical, financial, or admissions advice. Descriptions of past results belong to the people who earned them and do not promise future results for anyone else.

About the information here

Information on this site about competitions, programs, universities, and admissions processes is general background, not an official statement of any organization's rules. Eligibility requirements, deadlines, and program details belong to the organizations that set them and can change without notice to us, so we cannot promise that every detail here is current. Before acting on a date, rule, or requirement, please confirm it with the official source; if anything here ever differs from the official source, the official source is the one to go by.

Academic integrity

Our role is to coach, not to do the work. Mentors advise, teach, and give feedback; students design their projects, run their experiments, analyze their data, and write their own words. We will not produce a student's research, writing, code, or analysis for them, and that includes not producing it with AI tools.

Science competitions have their own rules about outside help, including rules that may require students to disclose mentorship and any use of AI tools, and approval steps that must happen before certain experiments begin. Those rules differ by competition and change over time. Reading and following them is the student's and family's responsibility, and the competition's organizers, not Vantor, decide questions of eligibility, judging, and the consequences of breaking a rule. We encourage every family to read their competition's rules on outside assistance before working with any consultant, including us.

Safety

This website provides information, not supervision. Nothing on this site tells a student that an experiment is safe to perform, and nothing here is a safety review. Students should perform experimental work only under the supervision of a qualified adult, such as a parent, teacher, or lab supervisor, and only in line with the safety rules of their school, their competition, and applicable law, including any approvals required before experiments involving human participants, animals, or hazardous materials. Responsibility for the physical conduct of an experiment stays with the people carrying it out and supervising it.

Who may use the site

The site is intended for parents, guardians, and other adults. Students are welcome to read it; a student interested in working with us should involve a parent or guardian, because engagements are contracted with a parent or guardian and inquiries should come from one.

Our content

The text, design, graphics, and other content of this site belong to Vantor or are used with permission. You may view, download, and print pages for personal, non-commercial use. You may not republish, scrape, or use site content to build a competing service, use it to train AI or machine-learning models, or use our name or the likenesses of the people on this site to imply endorsement. These permissions are the only rights we grant in the site and its content, all other rights are reserved, and if you use our content in a way these terms do not allow, these permissions end automatically.

The Vantor Consulting name, and the logos and marks we use to identify the consultancy, belong to us. Referring to us by name is always fine; please do not use our name or marks to brand, advertise, or promote anything of your own without our prior written permission.

Student work always belongs to the student. Nothing on this site or in these terms grants Vantor any rights to any student's ideas, data, code, designs, manuscripts, or inventions.

Acceptable use

Do not attempt to disrupt the site, probe or breach its security, misrepresent your identity in an inquiry, or use the site to send unlawful, deceptive, or harassing material. We may restrict access to protect the site and the people who use it.

Third parties

Vantor Consulting is an independent consultancy. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Society for Science, Regeneron, Regeneron ISEF, or any other competition organizer, university, hospital, or company named on this site. All third-party names and marks belong to their respective owners. Links to other websites are provided for convenience, and we are not responsible for their content or practices.

Disclaimers

The site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement with respect to the website itself. We work to keep the site accurate and current, but we do not warrant that it is error-free.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Vantor will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from use of this website. Nothing in these terms limits liability for fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct, or personal injury, and nothing in these terms limits rights that consumer-protection law does not allow to be limited. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you. This section concerns the website; liability in a client engagement is addressed in the engagement agreement.

Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of any mandatory consumer-protection law of the place where you live, and nothing in this section takes away rights that the law of your home jurisdiction does not allow to be waived.

Where we operate

We operate from the United States. We make no promise that this site or its content is appropriate or available where you live. If you visit from outside the United States, that is your choice, and you are responsible for following the laws that apply to you.

Housekeeping

If part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it. These terms will bind and benefit any successor to the business: we may assign them to a company we form to carry on this work, or to a successor in a reorganization or sale of the business, and references to Vantor will then mean that successor. No assignment reduces your rights under these terms or the commitments in our Privacy Policy.

We may update these terms as the site and the company evolve. Changes apply from their posted date forward, never retroactively, and the date at the top of this page always shows the current version. If a change meaningfully reduces your rights, we will post a plain notice on this site when it takes effect and keep it up for at least 30 days. Using the site after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms; if you do not agree, please stop using the site.