This is a plain language contract that shall be interpreted according to the laws of the State of California.
We retain all rights to the Software. You may access the Software for personal, non-commercial use. You may not use the Software for economic benefit without separate permission from us. For example, you may not incorporate any component of the Software into your own products, services, or processes.
You retain all rights to any personal information you provide us through the Software. For us to treat information as personal, you must indicate that it was based on real founders and a real startup when you submit it. We may use personal information submitted to us to test the Software, but we must keep your personal information confidential. However, you allow us to publicly disclose summary statistics about the data submitted to us through the Software, where your personal information may contribute to the summary calculation.
We’re providing access to the Software as-is. It may not work at all or have bugs. The results it generates may be invalid, so you may not rely on them for any purpose. We may revoke access to the Software at any time. You indemnify us for all liability that arises out of your using the Software.
You won’t try to intentionally harm us or our economic interests by using the Software. So you won’t try to hack, reverse-engineer, or crash the Software. You won’t organize other people or computers to make submissions for the specific reason of consuming computer resources. You won’t overuse the Software by making more than 20 submissions per day
If you use the Software in violation of this Terms of Use, we can get a court order to stop you. All other disputes, including questions of damages, shall be settled with binding arbitration in the County of San Francisco in the State of California according to the then current JAMS rules, using an arbitrator knowledgeable about software licensing.