Terms of Use

1. Acceptance of these terms

By visiting this website or using our valuation tools, portals, marketplace or data rooms, you agree to the terms that apply to what you are using.

Where a feature matters — creating an account, joining the buyer network, signing a confidentiality agreement, authorising a disclosure — we ask you to tick a box confirming you have read and agree. We keep a record of who accepted which version, when, and how.

2. Who may use the platform

By using the platform you confirm that:

• You are legally able to enter into agreements.
• The information you give us is truthful as far as you know.
• If you are acting for a company or other entity, you have authority to act for it.
• You are using the platform for genuine business acquisition purposes.

3. Our role

Northland Retail Acquisitions primarily evaluates businesses and real estate for potential acquisition by us or by an affiliated acquisition entity.

Using this website does not create:

• Any obligation for us to buy a business
• Any obligation for an owner to sell
• An agency relationship
• A partnership
• A fiduciary relationship
• An employment relationship
• A financing commitment
• An appraisal
• A binding offer
• A letter of intent
• A purchase agreement
• An attorney–client relationship
• An accountant–client relationship

None of these exist unless they are set out in a separate signed agreement.

4. No guarantee of a transaction

After a submission we may review it, ask for more information, keep talking, make an offer, refer it for professional review, or decide not to go further.

Nothing you submit guarantees an offer, a valuation, financing, inclusion in the marketplace, buyer interest, a sale, a closing or any particular price.

5. Information on this platform

What we publish is general information. It is not legal, tax, accounting, investment, environmental, engineering, financing or brokerage advice, and it is not an appraisal.

Please take proper professional advice before making any decision that matters.

6. Your account

If you hold an account you are responsible for:

• Keeping your login details secure
• Giving us accurate information and keeping it up to date
• Not sharing your password
• Controlling who can reach your account
• Telling us straight away if you suspect someone else has access

We may suspend, restrict, disable or close an account for security, legal or platform-integrity reasons.

7. Authorised team members

Sellers and buyers can invite an accountant, attorney, employee or other representative into their account.

The account owner decides who gets access. Each person should have their own login, and passwords must not be shared. We may apply additional restrictions where the information is sensitive.

8. Information you submit

You keep ownership of everything you submit.

You give us a limited right to store, process, analyse, organise and display it inside the authorised parts of the platform, to summarise it, run calculations on it, evaluate a possible transaction and provide the features you asked for.

That permission is limited to those purposes. We do not claim ownership of your financial records.

9. Accuracy of what you submit

You confirm the information you give us is accurate as far as you know, and we may rely on it for preliminary analysis. We do not independently verify every submission.

Inside the platform we keep these apart and labelled:

• Figures reported by the owner
• Figures extracted from documents
• Figures adjusted by us
• Figures verified by an accountant
• Public records
• Appraisals and other third-party information

10. Documents

Uploaded documents often contain confidential information, so you must have the authority to upload them.

You must not upload malware, unlawfully obtained material, documents you are not allowed to share, or content that infringes someone else's rights. We may remove or quarantine a file where necessary.

11. Automated processing and AI

We use software, automation and AI-assisted systems to extract information from documents, organise files, flag discrepancies, prepare summaries, calculate figures, draft communications, match acquisition criteria and produce preliminary valuation outputs.

These systems make mistakes. An output is not verified simply because the platform produced it, and decisions that matter stay subject to human review.

12. Public records

We may look up information from municipal, county and state records, public assessment systems and other lawful public sources.

Public-record information can be out of date or wrong, and assessment methodology is not the same as market value. An assessment is not an appraisal, and we do not guarantee the accuracy of third-party public data.

13. Acceptable use

You must not:

• Access anything you have not been given access to
• Share credentials
• Scrape or automatically harvest information
• Reverse engineer the platform to compromise its security
• Work around permissions
• Try to uncover the identity of an anonymous business by improper means
• Download information you have not been permitted to download
• Upload malware
• Impersonate anyone, or act fraudulently or misleadingly
• Interfere with the service
• Use confidential information for anything other than the purpose it was shared for

14. Intellectual property

We own or license the website design, brand, logo, software, original written content, valuation interfaces, reports we produce, database structure, original analytics and our own methodologies.

The underlying information you upload stays yours, or belongs to its lawful owner.

15. Service providers

We use providers for hosting, authentication, cloud storage, email, analytics, identity verification, proof-of-funds review, property data, text messaging, AI and document processing, and security. Their own terms may also apply to that part of the service.

16. Availability

We do not promise uninterrupted service, and we may modify, improve, suspend, replace or discontinue parts of the platform.

17. Disclaimers

The services are provided on the basis of the information available to us. Estimates may be inaccurate, no transaction result is guaranteed, and proper diligence is still necessary before anyone commits to anything.

18. Limitation of liability

Our liability in connection with the platform is limited to the extent permitted by law. We are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, for decisions taken in reliance on a preliminary estimate, or for the accuracy of information supplied by another party.

19. Indemnification

If you misuse the platform, upload something unlawfully, or materially breach these terms, you agree to cover the losses and reasonable costs that follow from it.

20. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the law of Wisconsin.

Disputes are handled in a Wisconsin court of competent jurisdiction.

21. Changes to these terms

When we make a material change we will update the version and effective date here, and where appropriate we will ask signed-in users to accept the new version before continuing. Previous versions are kept on record.

22. Suspension and closing an account

We may suspend access for security reasons, misuse, legal requirements, confidentiality breaches, false verification information or marketplace abuse.

You may ask us to close your account. Some information is kept afterwards where we are legally required to keep it or need it for records of a transaction, security or fraud prevention.

23. Contact

Questions about these terms can be sent to our contact page.

This document is a draft prepared for review by qualified Wisconsin counsel.