Terms of Service

Agreement to terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Fair Data Company ("Fair Data," "we" or "us"). They apply to our website at fairdataco.com, our dataset Catalog for AI labs (the "Catalog"), and our related online services (together, the "Service").

These Terms apply when you use our website. To use the Catalog, you must accept them through the acceptance step we show you, such as selecting "Agree and enter Catalog." If you don't agree, please don't use the Service. You must be at least 18 and using the Service for business. If you accept for a company, you confirm you have authority to bind it, and "you" means that company. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information.

Signed agreements come first. If you or your company has signed an agreement with us, such as a mutual NDA, data license agreement or partner agreement (a "Signed Agreement"), it governs everything it covers, and it controls if it conflicts with these Terms.

Use of services

The Catalog is open only to people at organizations we approve, and we decide who has access. You sign in with a link sent to your work email. Keep your sign-in links to yourself and tell us right away at hello@fairdataco.com if you think someone else has used your access.

You agree to use the Service only lawfully and as these Terms allow. In particular, you will not, and will not help anyone else to:

• share your access, or share non-public Catalog content outside your company or with anyone who doesn't need it to evaluate data from us;
• try to identify any company offering data through us (a "Data Owner"), or any person described in a listing or sample, other than through us;
• use what you learn through the Service, such as a Data Owner's identity, to get a listed dataset without us;
• use listings, samples or other Service content to train, fine-tune, benchmark or otherwise develop an AI model, unless a Signed Agreement allows it;
• scrape the Service or access it with bots or other automated tools without our written permission (search engines may index public pages as our robots.txt allows);
• copy, resell, sublicense or create derivative works from the Service, or use it to build a competing data catalog or marketplace (reviewing us for your company's procurement, security or compliance checks is fine);
• reverse engineer the Service, get around access controls, test or break its security, overload it, or send malicious code; or
• use the Service to break the law or anyone's rights, mislead anyone, send spam, collect other people's personal information, or suggest that we endorse you.

Listings and samples

Dataset descriptions, counts, price ranges and other details in the Catalog ("listings") are estimates based on information from Data Owners and our own review. They may change, and they are not offers. Viewing a listing gives you no rights to the dataset.

If we give you a sample to evaluate and no Signed Agreement covers it, you may copy and inspect it only to decide whether to license the dataset. You may not use it to train, fine-tune, benchmark or otherwise develop an AI model, share it outside your company, or upload it to an outside AI service without our written approval. Delete it, with all copies, when your evaluation ends or when we ask. Using a dataset beyond evaluation requires a Signed Agreement.

Confidentiality

Each of us will keep the other's non-public information confidential, including listings, samples, prices, Data Owner identities and deal details, and use it only to evaluate or carry out our business together. Either of us may share it with employees and advisors who need it and are bound to keep it confidential, or when the law requires. Information that is already public, already known, independently developed or received from someone else without restriction is not covered. Neither of us will name the other in publicity without written permission.

Intellectual property

We and our licensors, including Data Owners, own the Service and everything we provide through it, such as listings, samples, text, logos and software. While you follow these Terms, you may use the Service as its features allow. That permission is limited and we can withdraw it.

Anything you send us, such as a form entry, message or description of your company's data, stays yours. You let us use it to respond to you, evaluate a possible deal and run the Service. We will describe your company's data to prospective buyers only with your permission or under a Signed Agreement, and we won't name your company unless you agree. If you give us product feedback, we may use it freely.

Please don't send datasets, samples or sensitive personal information through our website. We receive data only under a Signed Agreement and through a channel we agree with you.

Payment terms

The website and Catalog are free. Prices, payments and data licenses are set out in Signed Agreements, not in these Terms.

Limitation of liability

The Service is provided "as is." Information on the website and in the Catalog, including price ranges, is not legal, tax or other professional advice and is not a binding offer. To the extent the law allows, we make no warranties about the Service, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement, and we don't promise it will always be available or that listings will stay accurate.

To the extent the law allows, Fair Data is not liable for indirect or consequential losses, such as lost profits or business opportunities, and our total liability to you for all claims about the website or Catalog is limited to the greater of US$100 and what you paid us under these Terms in the previous 12 months. These limits do not apply to fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, or anything the law does not allow us to limit. Liability under a Signed Agreement is governed by that agreement.

If someone makes a claim against us because of your unlawful use of the Service, your serious breach of these Terms, or material you sent without the rights to do so, you will cover our costs, except to the extent the claim results from our own breach or fault.

Termination

You can stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend or end your access if needed to deal with misuse, a security risk, a legal requirement or a breach of these Terms, and we may discontinue the Catalog with reasonable notice where practical. Ending access does not affect Signed Agreements. The sections on confidentiality, samples, liability and governing law continue to apply afterward.

Changes to terms

We may update these Terms for the future. We will change the date at the top and give reasonable notice of significant changes. A change does not alter any Signed Agreement.

Governing law

These Terms are governed by California law. Disputes about them, the website or the Catalog will be heard only in the state or federal courts in San Francisco, California, unless a mandatory law says otherwise or a Signed Agreement provides a different forum. Before going to court, either of us may email hello@fairdataco.com to try to resolve the issue informally.

Other terms

You must follow the export control and sanctions laws that apply to you, and you may not use the Service where those laws prohibit it. Do not send classified information or export-controlled technical data through the Service. You may not transfer these Terms without our written consent; we may transfer them. If part of these Terms is unenforceable, the rest still applies, and not enforcing a provision does not waive it. California residents may report complaints to the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs, 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, CA 95834, (800) 952-5210.

Contact

Questions about these Terms, and legal notices: hello@fairdataco.com.