Terms of Service

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These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of Nabu Science (“Nabu”, “we”, “us”), our research assessment service, which produces independent reviews of research papers. Each such review is a “Review”. By creating an account or using the service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the service.

These Terms incorporate our Privacy Policy, Acceptable Use Policy, and Review Policy, which form part of your agreement with us.

1. Your account

You need an account to use most of Nabu. You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for all activity that happens under your account. You agree to provide accurate information and to be old enough to enter into a binding contract where you live. We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach these Terms or our Acceptable Use Policy.

2. Uploading papers and the rights you warrant

You keep ownership of the papers you upload. When you upload a paper, you warrant that you hold the rights necessary to upload it, to have Nabu process it, and to have the resulting Review published — because you are the rightsholder, the paper is open access under a licence permitting this use, or you hold text-and-data-mining rights that cover this processing. Standard reading access to subscription content does not by itself include these rights. You must not upload content you do not have the rights to use in this way, and you are responsible for the papers you upload. We record this rights affirmation each time you upload (see the audit-events log described in our Privacy Policy).

3. The licence you grant us

To run the service, you grant Nabu a limited, non-exclusive, revocable licence to store and process the papers you upload and the text we extract from them, for the sole purpose of producing an independent Review of the work — including generating, storing, and publishing Review outputs (scores and dimension rationale) as described in Section 4 — for example, to parse a file, send it to our AI subprocessors for evaluation, and generate and store the outputs. This licence is limited to operating the service, is not used for any other purpose, and ends when the content is deleted under our retention schedule.

4. Reviews and outputs

Reviews are automated assessments generated by AI models applying a structured rubric. We retain the Review outputs (scores and dimension rationale) associated with your account so your history stays available to you. We do not retain the uploaded paper or its extracted text beyond the retention window set out in our Privacy Policy. You may use the outputs for your own research and work; you must not present them as if they came from the source paper or its authors (see our Acceptable Use Policy).

Public Reviews. Reviews of published research form part of Nabu’s public review record. By requesting a Review, you consent to the Review output — the scores, rationale, and short evidence excerpts, never the paper text or your uploaded file — being published on the service, attributed to the paper. Public Reviews are governed by our Review Policy.

Reviews quote from the underlying work only briefly, with attribution, and solely for the purpose of criticism and review, consistent with Article 5(3)(d) of Directive 2001/29/EC and Article 15a of the Dutch Copyright Act (Auteurswet).

5. Acceptable use

When using Nabu, you agree not to:

The full rules, and how we enforce them, are in our Acceptable Use Policy. Breaching them may lead to suspension or termination of your account.

6. Our commitments to you

We treat the papers you upload as yours. Specifically:

These commitments are also reflected in our Privacy Policy.

7. Disclaimer of warranties

The service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. Reviews are automated and may contain errors or omissions; they are a second opinion, not a substitute for your own professional judgement, formal peer review, or expert advice. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Nothing in these Terms removes any statutory rights that cannot be excluded by law.

8. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Nabu will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, or goodwill, arising out of or relating to your use of the service. Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the service will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the service in the twelve months before the claim, or (b) €100. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law (for example, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud).

9. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will take reasonable steps to let you know (for example, by email or an in-app notice) and update the “Last updated” date above. By continuing to use the service after changes take effect, you accept the updated Terms.

10. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Netherlands, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). The competent court in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the service. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of the country where you are habitually resident, and you may bring proceedings in, and may be sued only in, the courts of your country of residence as required by applicable law.

11. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Get in touch.