BLACKGROVE WEBSITE TERMS OF USE

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1. Acceptance of these Terms

These Terms of Use govern access to and use of the public website located at https://www.blackgrove.ai, including its pages, content, features, contact form, and any interactive demonstration made publicly available without separate terms (the Site). The Site is operated by BlackGrove LLC (BlackGrove, we, us, or our).

By accessing or using the Site, you agree to these Terms and acknowledge our Privacy Statement. If you do not agree, do not use the Site.

If you use the Site for an organization, you represent that you have authority to act for that organization, and you includes both you and that organization.

2. Scope of the Site

The Site provides general information about BlackGrove, its mission, methods, anticipated capabilities, and potential applications. It also allows visitors to contact us, request information, and, when available, interact with a public demonstration.

The Site is not a customer platform, intelligence product, subscription service, or professional engagement. A public demonstration offered without separate terms is part of the Site and is governed by these Terms. Access to any controlled or authenticated demonstration, dataset, software, analysis, report, application programming interface, customer environment, or other BlackGrove product or service may require eligibility review and a separate written agreement. If a separate agreement conflicts with these Terms, the separate agreement controls for the product or service it covers.

Descriptions of planned or anticipated capabilities are provided for general informational purposes. They do not create a commitment to deliver a feature, product, result, schedule, or level of performance.

3. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of legal majority where you live, to use the Site. You may not use the Site if applicable law prohibits you from receiving or using it.

4. Permitted use

Subject to these Terms, BlackGrove grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and use the Site for lawful informational and business-evaluation purposes.

You may link to public Site pages in a way that is accurate, lawful, and does not imply BlackGrove's endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation. Search engines may index the Site through ordinary, rules-compliant crawling.

5. Prohibited conduct

You may not use the Site to:

• violate any law, regulation, sanctions program, export-control requirement, court order, or third-party right;
• gain or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Site, its infrastructure, accounts, systems, networks, data, or connected services;
• probe, scan, test, defeat, or circumvent a security, authentication, rate-limit, access-control, or technical measure, except through a program expressly authorized by BlackGrove in writing;
• introduce malware, malicious code, corrupted data, or any material intended to disrupt, damage, monitor, or obtain unauthorized access;
• interfere with the Site's operation or impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on it;
• use bots, scrapers, crawlers, or other automated means to extract, reproduce, or compile Site content, except for ordinary search indexing or with our written permission;
• copy, modify, translate, distribute, sell, sublicense, publicly display, reverse engineer, or create derivative works from the Site or its content except as applicable law expressly permits;
• remove or obscure a copyright, trademark, attribution, provenance, or other proprietary notice;
• impersonate another person or organization, misrepresent your identity or affiliation, or submit false or misleading information;
• use Site content to train, test, fine-tune, benchmark, or ground a machine-learning or artificial-intelligence system without our written permission; or
• use the Site or its content to develop or improve a competing commercial product or dataset without our written permission.

6. Contact submissions and public demo inputs

If you submit information through the Site, interact with a public demo, or email us, you represent that the information is accurate, lawful to provide, and does not infringe another person's rights.

You retain ownership of material you submit. You grant BlackGrove and its service providers a non-exclusive right to host, transmit, reproduce, and use that material only as reasonably necessary to receive the submission, operate and evaluate the public demo, protect the Site, communicate with you, evaluate a potential relationship, and comply with law. Our handling of personal information is described in the Privacy Statement.

We are not required to respond to a submission, accept a request, provide access, or enter into a business relationship.

7. Intellectual property

The Site and its content, including text, graphics, visualizations, interfaces, designs, methods descriptions, logos, trade names, and software, are owned by BlackGrove or its licensors and are protected by intellectual-property and other laws.

Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of the Site or its content. Rights not expressly granted are reserved.

7.1 Permission for designated public downloads

When BlackGrove expressly makes a report, brief, white paper, or other document available through a public download link, you may download and reproduce a reasonable number of copies solely for internal, non-commercial informational and evaluation purposes. You must preserve all copyright, attribution, provenance, and proprietary notices.

This permission does not allow you to modify, sell, sublicense, republish, publicly distribute, incorporate into a commercial dataset or product, use for artificial-intelligence or machine-learning training, or make the material available outside your organization. It does not apply to content displayed through a demo unless BlackGrove expressly designates that content as downloadable. BlackGrove may state different permissions on a particular document, in which case those stated permissions control.

8. Informational content and no reliance

Site content is general information. It is not intelligence, legal, investment, financial, procurement, engineering, cybersecurity, sanctions, export-control, or other professional advice. It should not be treated as a recommendation or as the sole basis for an operational, commercial, security, policy, or procurement decision.

Defense-industrial and technical information may be incomplete, delayed, contested, or change without notice. Public demo data, outputs, examples, and visualizations may be partial, simulated, synthetic, illustrative, stale, or based on selected sources. A public demo is provided to demonstrate functionality and must not be treated as a production system or authoritative intelligence product. You are responsible for independently verifying information and obtaining appropriate professional advice before acting.

9. Third-party services and links

The Site may contain links to or depend on services operated by third parties. Third-party services are governed by their own terms and privacy practices. BlackGrove does not control and is not responsible for their availability, security, accuracy, content, or conduct. A link does not imply endorsement.

10. Site availability and changes

We may change, suspend, restrict, or discontinue any part of the Site at any time. We do not guarantee that the Site will be available, uninterrupted, secure, current, complete, or free from errors or harmful components.

We may correct errors or remove content without notice. You are responsible for using appropriate safeguards when accessing internet services.

11. Disclaimer of warranties

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SITE AND ALL SITE CONTENT ARE PROVIDED AS IS AND AS AVAILABLE. BLACKGROVE DISCLAIMS ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

BLACKGROVE DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE OR ITS CONTENT WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR PRODUCE A PARTICULAR RESULT.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions. In those jurisdictions, the exclusions apply only to the extent permitted by law.

12. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, BLACKGROVE AND ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES; LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, BUSINESS, OPPORTUNITY, OR GOODWILL; BUSINESS INTERRUPTION; OR COST OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SITE OR THESE TERMS, UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, EVEN IF ADVISED THAT SUCH DAMAGE IS POSSIBLE.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF BLACKGROVE AND THE OTHER BLACKGROVE PARTIES FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SITE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US $100).

These limitations do not apply where liability cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

13. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless BlackGrove and its members, managers, employees, contractors, affiliates, licensors, and service providers from claims, damages, judgments, liabilities, losses, costs, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your unlawful use of the Site, your violation of these Terms, or material you submit. BlackGrove may control the defense of a matter subject to indemnification, and you will reasonably cooperate.

14. Suspension and termination

We may restrict or terminate your access to the Site if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms, created risk or potential legal exposure, threatened the security or operation of the Site, or used the Site unlawfully. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including provisions concerning intellectual property, disclaimers, liability, indemnification, governing law, and interpretation.

15. Governing law and disputes

These Terms and any dispute arising from or related to the Site are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.

Subject to any law that gives you a non-waivable right to bring a claim elsewhere, the state and federal courts located in Arlington County, Virginia, will have exclusive jurisdiction, and you consent to personal jurisdiction and venue in those courts.

Before filing a claim, you and BlackGrove will make a good-faith effort for at least 30 days to resolve the dispute informally. To begin that process, send a written description of the dispute and requested relief to the contact address below. This requirement does not prevent either party from seeking urgent injunctive or equitable relief.

16. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms to reflect changes to the Site, our practices, or applicable requirements. We will post the revised version on the Site and change the Last updated date. Changes take effect when posted unless the revised Terms state otherwise. Your continued use of the Site after the effective date of revised Terms constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

17. General provisions

These Terms, together with the Privacy Statement and any additional terms expressly presented on the Site, are the entire agreement between you and BlackGrove concerning the public Site.

If a provision is found unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum lawful extent and the remaining provisions will remain effective. BlackGrove's failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign your rights or obligations under these Terms without our written consent. BlackGrove may assign these Terms in connection with a reorganization, financing, merger, acquisition, asset transfer, or by operation of law. Headings are for convenience only. These Terms do not create a partnership, joint venture, employment, agency, fiduciary, or franchise relationship, and do not give rights to third-party beneficiaries.

18. Contact

Questions about these Terms may be sent to: