Abstractus Terms of Service

1. Definitions

• "Services" means the Abstractus platform, APIs, proprietary modeling pipelines and services, applications, documentation, and all related products.
• "Credits" means the proprietary units of usage managed by Abstractus to regulate access to computing power and pipeline features.
• "Customer Data" means any titles, abstracts, PDFs, text, protocols, metadata, systematic review inputs, or other materials submitted to the Services by the Customer.
• "Output" means any screening decision, ranking, classification, summary, or result generated by our proprietary modeling pipelines and services.

2. Proprietary Rights, Data Licensing, & Copyright Compliance

2.1 Copyright & Lawful Right to Process: You explicitly represent and warrant that you possess all necessary rights, institutional licenses, or valid legal exemptions (such as fair use) required to upload, transmit, or process any titles, abstracts, PDFs, articles, manuscripts, or proprietary documents through the Services. You are solely and exclusively responsible for ensuring that your data processing activities do not run afoul of the intellectual property rights of academic publishers, authors, or other third parties.

2.2 Ephemeral Processing & Right to Purge: Abstractus operates as a technological conduit for your data processing. We expressly disclaim any obligation to host, archive, or maintain your Customer Data. To protect against third-party claims, Abstractus reserves the absolute right to automatically purge, delete, or refuse to store any uploaded titles, abstracts, PDFs, or documents immediately following processing, without prior notice to you.

2.3 License for System Improvement: By submitting Customer Data, you grant Abstractus a worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, process, and analyze the data for the purpose of providing the Services and for the internal evaluation, training, and enhancement of our proprietary modeling pipelines and services.

2.4 Protection of Your Research IP: While we require the ability to learn from the data flowing through our systems to improve our technology, Abstractus explicitly disclaims any ownership interest in your original scientific discoveries, research hypotheses, or specific systematic review conclusions. Your underlying research insights remain your exclusive intellectual property. Our license is strictly limited to the technical optimization of our proprietary modeling pipelines and services.

3. Copyright Infringement & Safe Harbor

Abstractus respects the intellectual property rights of publishers and authors and expects users to do the same. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and applicable international copyright laws, Abstractus assumes no liability for the infringing actions of its users. If we receive a valid takedown notice from a publisher or rights holder regarding titles, abstracts, PDFs, or materials you have uploaded, we reserve the right to immediately remove the disputed content, suspend your Account, and permanently revoke your processing privileges without liability or refund.

4. Disclaimers: Information Failures & Output Accountability

4.1 No Warranty for Information Failures: The Services employ proprietary modeling pipelines and services that process data probabilistically. ABSTRACTUS EXPLICITLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL LIABILITY FOR INFORMATION FAILURES, INACCURACIES, OMISSIONS, FALSE POSITIVES, FALSE NEGATIVES, OR INCOMPLETE DATA. We make no warranty that the Services will identify all relevant literature, achieve any specific recall or precision metric during the screening of titles, abstracts, or PDFs, or operate completely free of error.

4.2 Absolute User Accountability: Outputs are provided strictly for informational augmentation. You are solely, completely, and exclusively accountable for any decisions, actions, research conclusions, or systematic review outcomes made in reliance on the Services. Abstractus shall bear zero responsibility for any damages, academic retractions, clinical errors, or business losses resulting from your reliance on any modeling Output.

5. Credit Management & Allocation

5.1 Nature of Credits: Credits are a limited, revocable license to access specific features. They possess no cash value, are entirely non-refundable, and do not constitute personal or corporate property.

5.2 Absolute Discretion: Abstractus retains the absolute, unreviewable right to manage, issue, adjust, reduce, expire, or revoke credit balances at any time, for any reason, without notice. We further reserve the right to dynamically alter credit consumption rates based on document volume or processing complexity at our sole discretion.

6. Billing, Pricing, & Unilateral Modification

Abstractus reserves the right to modify pricing structures, subscription tiers, fee arrangements, and billing methods at any time. Any changes will take effect immediately upon posting or application to your next billing cycle. Continued use of the Services constitutes irrevocable acceptance of these modified terms. All payments made to Abstractus are strictly non-refundable under all circumstances, including service downtime, capability changes, or account termination.

7. Suspension & Unfettered Right of Termination

Abstractus reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to suspend, restrict, or entirely terminate your access to the Services, your Account, or any Member within your Organization at any time, for any reason or no reason, without prior notice or liability. Upon termination, Abstractus has no obligation to retain, export, or return any Customer Data or unused Credits, which may be permanently destroyed or retained exclusively by Abstractus.

8. Dispute Resolution: Arbitration, Venue, & Class Action Waiver

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT SEVERELY LIMITS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS.

8.1 Mandatory Arbitration: ANY DISPUTE, CLAIM, OR CONTROVERSY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICES SHALL BE RESOLVED EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH FINAL AND BINDING ARBITRATION. You expressly waive any right to litigate disputes in a court of law or before a jury.

8.2 Unilateral Choice of Venue and Forum: To ensure the protection of our operational interests, Abstractus retains the absolute and unilateral right to select the seat, venue, jurisdiction, and administering arbitral body for any arbitration proceedings at the exact time a dispute arises. You expressly concede that Abstractus may designate any location globally that it deems appropriate for the arbitration. You waive any objections to such venue based on forum non conveniens or similar doctrines.

8.3 Class Action Waiver: All claims must be brought strictly in your individual capacity. You expressly waive any right to participate in a class action, collective action, consolidated, or representative proceeding.

9. Limitation of Liability & Indemnification

9.1 Liability Cap: TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE ABSTRACTUS SOFTWARE CORPORATION, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AND EMPLOYEES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, RESEARCH RESULTS, OR GOODWILL. IN NO EVENT SHALL ABSTRACTUS'S AGGREGATE LIABILITY EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL FEES PAID BY YOU IN THE THREE (3) MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100.00).

9.2 Indemnification: You agree to fully indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Abstractus from any claims, liabilities, damages, settlements, or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of:

• (a) your use of the Services;
• (b) your reliance upon any modeling Outputs; or
• (c) any claim brought by academic publishers, institutions, or copyright holders alleging that your uploaded Customer Data infringes upon their copyrights, licensing terms, or intellectual property rights.

10. General Provisions

10.1 Severability & Preservation of Intent: If any provision of these Terms (including any specific mechanism within the arbitration clause) is found to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable by a court or arbitrator of competent jurisdiction, that specific provision shall be deemed severable. Crucially, the severance of any single term shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions, which shall be construed to maximize the protection of Abstractus's operational and legal interests.

10.2 Unilateral Amendment: Abstractus may update or modify these Terms at any time without direct notification. Continued use of the Services confirms your binding acceptance of the current, publicly posted Terms.