Terms & Conditions

These Terms & Conditions are a binding agreement between you (“you”, “the client”) and Corpation Filings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Corpation”, “we”, “us”). They apply when you use corpation.com, place an order, or use any service we provide.

By ticking the acceptance box at checkout, or by using our services, you confirm that you have read and agree to these terms, our Privacy Policy, our Refund Policy and our Legal Disclaimer, which are incorporated here by reference. If you are agreeing on behalf of a company, you confirm you have authority to bind it.

If you do not agree to these terms, do not place an order.

Corpation is a document filing and business services company. We are not a law firm, we are not a certified public accounting firm, and we are not a tax preparation firm except where you separately engage our tax filing service and we tell you who is signing the return.

We do not provide legal advice, tax advice or financial advice, and no attorney-client or accountant-client relationship is created by using this site or our services. Our staff are trained filing specialists, not attorneys acting for you.

What we do is prepare and submit documents at your direction, explain how filings, deadlines and forms operate as a matter of general information, and tell you plainly when a question is outside what we can answer. Where you need advice on your specific circumstances, consult a licensed attorney or CPA. We are happy to refer you to one.

Communications between you and Corpation are not protected by attorney-client privilege and may be disclosable in legal proceedings.

• You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract.
• You must not be located in, ordinarily resident in, or acting on behalf of any person in a country or territory subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions.
• You must not appear on the U.S. Treasury’s Specially Designated Nationals list or any equivalent restricted-party list.
• You must provide accurate identity information and, where we ask, documentary proof of it.

We may refuse, suspend or terminate service to anyone who does not meet these conditions, and we may do so without prior notice where a legal obligation requires it.

The services you buy are those listed on your order confirmation. Our obligation is to prepare the relevant documents accurately from the information you give us and to submit them to the relevant agency through the appropriate channel.

We do not control any government agency. We cannot guarantee that a Secretary of State will accept a particular company name, that the IRS will issue an EIN or ITIN within any stated period, that FinCEN, the USPTO or any state will approve a filing, or that a bank or payment processor will open an account. Where we describe a turnaround time, it is an estimate published by that agency or drawn from our recent experience, not a promise.

Where a service is described as an “introduction”, “assistance” or “support” — including banking introductions and Stripe or PayPal setup — our obligation is to prepare and present your application properly. The decision belongs to the third party and is theirs alone.

• Give us accurate, complete and current information, and update us promptly when it changes — particularly ownership changes, which can trigger a 30-day reporting deadline.
• Use our services only for lawful business purposes.
• Respond to our requests for information or signatures. Filings frequently stall because a document is outstanding, and we cannot be responsible for delays caused by waiting on you.
• Keep your own copies of documents we deliver, in addition to those we store for you.
• Meet the obligations your company owes to any agency, including taxes, licences, permits and reports that we have not been engaged to handle.

If a filing is rejected, delayed or has to be corrected because information you gave us was inaccurate or incomplete, you are responsible for any additional government fee. We will not charge you a second service fee to fix it.

Prices are in United States dollars and are shown before you pay. Your order is itemised so that our service fee and every government fee appear as separate lines.

• Government fees — state filing fees, franchise taxes, USPTO fees and similar charges — are set by the relevant agency and are passed through at cost. We do not mark them up.
• State fees quoted on this site are indicative and reviewed quarterly. The figure confirmed in your checkout summary is the one we will charge. If a state changes its fee between your order and our submission, we will contact you before charging any difference, and refund you if the fee has fallen.
• You are responsible for any sales, use, VAT, GST or withholding tax that applies to you, and for any bank charges or currency conversion costs applied by your card issuer.
• Payment is taken at the time of order through our payment processor. We do not begin work until payment clears.

Registered agent service, U.S. business address service, the compliance suite and annual report filing are recurring annual services. They renew automatically so that your company does not lapse into bad standing through inaction.

• The renewal price is displayed on the plan before you buy and on your receipt after you buy.
• We email you at least 30 days before each renewal charge.
• You may cancel at any time from your dashboard or by emailing us. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid term.
• If you cancel registered agent service, you are responsible for appointing a replacement agent. A company without a registered agent can be administratively dissolved by its state.

We may change recurring prices with at least 30 days’ written notice before the renewal to which the new price applies. If you do not accept the change, cancel before that date.

You may not use Corpation to form or maintain an entity for any unlawful purpose, and we may decline or terminate service in relation to businesses we judge to carry unacceptable legal or reputational risk. These include, without limitation:

• Money laundering, sanctions evasion, terrorist financing or tax evasion.
• Unlicensed financial services, unregistered securities offerings, Ponzi or pyramid schemes.
• Fraudulent, deceptive or misleading trading practices of any kind.
• Trade in illegal goods, controlled substances, weapons or protected wildlife.
• Any activity involving the exploitation of minors or non-consensual material.
• Concealing beneficial ownership from an authority entitled to know it.

Where we terminate for a breach of this section, service fees are not refundable and we may report the matter to the relevant authority as the law requires. We may be prohibited by law from telling you that a report has been made.

The site, its design, text, graphics and software are owned by Corpation or its licensors and are protected by copyright and trade mark law. You may view and print pages for your own business use and may not copy, scrape, resell or create derivative works from them without written permission.

Documents we prepare specifically for you — your formation documents, operating agreement, resolutions and filed reports — belong to you once paid for. Our underlying templates, checklists and internal systems remain ours.

You keep all rights in the information and materials you give us, and grant us the licence necessary to use them to perform the services.

Our services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted or error-free, that information on it is complete or current, or that forming a company will achieve any particular commercial, tax or immigration outcome. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by negligence.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Corpation, its members, officers, employees and agents will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, nor for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, lost business opportunity or loss of goodwill, whether or not we were advised such losses were possible.

Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to these terms or our services is limited to the greater of (a) the total service fees you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred United States dollars. Government fees paid to agencies are excluded from this calculation because we never received them.

This allocation of risk reflects the fees charged. If you require a different allocation, contact us before ordering to discuss a bespoke engagement.

You agree to indemnify and hold Corpation harmless from any claim, liability, loss, damage, cost or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your breach of these terms, your misuse of the services, inaccurate information you supplied to us, or the activities of any company we formed at your direction.

You may stop using our services at any time; recurring services end as described in the renewals section. We may suspend or terminate your access where you breach these terms, where a legal or regulatory obligation requires it, where payment fails, or where continuing would expose us to unacceptable risk.

On termination, we will where lawful give you 30 days to download your documents. Sections that by their nature should survive — fees owed, intellectual property, disclaimers, liability, indemnity and dispute resolution — survive termination.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Before starting formal proceedings, both parties agree to try to resolve the dispute informally by writing to legal@corpation.com and allowing 30 days for a response. Most problems are solved at this stage.

If that fails, disputes will be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration Rules, seated in Wilmington, Delaware, before a single arbitrator, in English. Either party may instead bring an individual claim in small claims court where it qualifies. Claims must be brought individually and not as a class, collective or representative action.

Nothing in this section prevents either party from seeking injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property or confidential information. Where mandatory consumer protection law in your country of residence gives you rights to a different forum, that law prevails over this section to the extent of the conflict.

• Entire agreement. These terms, together with the policies referenced in them and your order confirmation, form the whole agreement between us.
• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest continues in force and the unenforceable provision is narrowed to the minimum extent necessary.
• No waiver. Not enforcing a provision on one occasion does not waive it.
• Assignment. You may not assign this agreement without our consent. We may assign it to an affiliate or acquirer.
• Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delay caused by events beyond reasonable control, including government agency closures, systems outages at an agency, natural disaster or armed conflict.
• Notices. We give notice by email to the address on your account. You give notice to legal@corpation.com.
• Changes. We may update these terms; the effective date at the top shows the current version and material changes are emailed to account holders at least 14 days ahead. Changes do not apply retroactively to a dispute already raised.