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, Acceptable Use Policy, and Evaluation 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 evaluation 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, solely to provide the evaluation service — including generating, storing, and publishing evaluation outputs 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. 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).

Public evaluations. Evaluations of published research form part of Nabu’s public evaluation record. By requesting an evaluation, you consent to the evaluation 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 evaluations are governed by our Evaluation 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 use uploaded papers solely for evaluation and quality assurance (reviewing and improving the quality of evaluations).
• 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, other than short attributed excerpts within evaluations, as permitted by law.

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) €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.