Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of Nabu Science (“Nabu”, “we”, “us”), our research-evaluation service. 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 and Acceptable Use 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 and to have Nabu process it — because it is your own work, it is open access, or you have licensed institutional access to it. 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, solely to provide the evaluation service to you — 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. Evaluations and outputs

Evaluations are automated assessments generated by AI models applying a structured rubric. We retain the evaluation outputs 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).

5. Acceptable use

When using Nabu, you agree not to:

• upload any content you do not have the rights to use;
• scrape, bulk-download, or otherwise automatically harvest papers or evaluations from the service;
• impersonate any person or organisation, or misrepresent your affiliation;
• interfere with, disrupt, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the service or other users’ data.

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:

• We do not use uploaded papers as training data for any model.
• We do not pass paper text to third parties, other than the named subprocessors that carry out the evaluation on our behalf (listed at /legal/subprocessors).
• We do not sell paper content to third parties.
• We do not redistribute the paper text or uploaded PDFs.

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. Evaluations 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) US$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 [TODO: governing jurisdiction], and the courts of [TODO: jurisdiction] have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or relating to them, subject to any mandatory consumer-protection rules of the country where you live.

11. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Get in touch.