Terms of use

Effective date: [ADD EFFECTIVE DATE]
Service operator: [ADD LEGAL ENTITY OR OPERATOR NAME]
Contact: [ADD LEGAL CONTACT EMAIL]
Business address: [ADD BUSINESS MAILING ADDRESS]

1. About these terms

These proposed terms govern access to Cadence, a tool for organizing group assignments. “Cadence,” “we,” and “us” refer to the operator identified above. Before these terms take effect, the operator must finalize them and implement an appropriate notice and acceptance process. If you do not agree to the finalized terms, do not use the service.

2. Eligibility and your responsibilities

You must have legal capacity to enter this agreement, or the authorization of a parent or guardian where required. Minimum permitted age and additional youth protections: [SET AGE REQUIREMENT AND CONSENT PROCESS]. Provide accurate information, protect project invitations and access tokens, and use the service lawfully. Google sign-in verifies the Google account used to access Cadence. Guest sessions are available for local testing or where explicitly enabled by the operator. A displayed name or project nickname alone does not verify someone’s identity.

3. What Cadence provides

Cadence can extract requirements from assignment material, propose tasks, display ownership, and provide basic AI feedback. It is an organizational aid. Your team is responsible for verifying the original brief, deadlines, requirements, sources, calculations, and final submissions. AI output may be inaccurate, incomplete, or unsuitable. A submission marked accepted by Cadence is not a grade, an instructor’s approval, or a guarantee of academic integrity.

Follow your institution’s rules for collaboration, disclosure, and AI use. Cadence does not guarantee grades, fair participation, completed work, or any academic outcome.

4. Your content and permissions

You retain the rights you hold in uploaded documents, plans, comments, and submissions. You grant the operator a limited, nonexclusive permission to process, store, transmit, and display that material as necessary to provide the features you request, including sharing within your project and sending material to service providers described in the privacy policy. This permission does not transfer ownership of your content.

Only upload material you have permission to use and share. Do not upload confidential records, sensitive personal information, protected assessment materials, or another person’s work without appropriate authorization. You are responsible for obtaining any required permissions from teammates, instructors, and rights holders.

5. Acceptable use

Do not use Cadence to infringe rights, harass others, impersonate another person, facilitate academic misconduct, distribute unlawful content, upload malicious code, bypass access restrictions, or disrupt the service. Do not attempt to obtain other projects’ data or access tokens. Reasonable protective measures, suspension, or removal may be used in response to misuse, subject to applicable law.

6. Prototype availability and data

The current app saves project data and files on the host computer, and interface preferences in your browser. Server restarts, browser clearing, deployments, or failures can cause data loss. Keep independent copies of your source documents and important work. Features, capacity, and availability may change. No uptime, permanent storage, backup, or recovery commitment is currently offered.

7. Third-party services

Requested AI features use a locally hosted open-weight model. Google provides sign-in. Hosting and other providers may process data as described in the privacy policy. Third-party services and linked websites have their own terms and practices. Before launch, list the actual providers and any applicable third-party terms: [CONFIRM PROVIDERS AND TERMS].

8. Fees

This draft makes no pricing commitment. Any future paid service must clearly disclose its price, billing frequency, cancellation process, and refund terms before a purchase is made. [ADD BILLING TERMS IF PAID FEATURES ARE INTRODUCED].

9. Intellectual property

The Cadence name, original branding, interface, and code are owned by the operator or its licensors, to the extent protected by law. You may use the service for its intended purpose. These terms do not grant ownership of the service or its branding. Third-party materials remain the property of their respective owners. Rights in AI output may depend on applicable law and provider terms.

To report a rights concern, contact [ADD COPYRIGHT CONTACT EMAIL] with the work claimed, the relevant content or URL, your contact details, and the basis for your request. [ADD ANY JURISDICTION-SPECIFIC NOTICE PROCESS AFTER LEGAL REVIEW].

10. Disclaimers and limits of liability

To the extent permitted by applicable law, the service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without promises of uninterrupted operation, error-free results, fitness for a particular purpose, or a particular academic outcome. To the extent permitted by law, the operator excludes liability for indirect or consequential losses arising from use of the service.

Any aggregate liability cap, exclusions, and applicable exceptions must be completed after legal review: [ADD APPROPRIATE LIABILITY CAP AND EXCEPTIONS]. Nothing here excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, or removes mandatory consumer rights. These terms do not prevent a person from bringing a claim where the law permits it.

11. Suspension and ending use

You may stop using Cadence at any time. Access may be restricted to address misuse, security concerns, legal obligations, or discontinuation of the service. Where required by law, reasonable notice and an opportunity to recover eligible data will be provided. Procedures for data requests are described in the privacy policy.

12. Governing law and disputes

Governing law: [ADD JURISDICTION AFTER LEGAL REVIEW]. Appropriate forum: [ADD COURT OR DISPUTE PROCESS]. Mandatory local protections continue to apply. This draft does not impose a class-action waiver or mandatory arbitration. Contact the operator first if you would like to try to resolve a concern informally; this does not remove your legal remedies.

13. Changes and general provisions

Material changes will be communicated in a manner appropriate to the change and applicable law. [ADD NOTICE METHOD AND PERIOD]. If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to the extent permitted by law. A failure to enforce a provision does not by itself waive the right to enforce it later.