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Terms of Service

Effective 2026-04-22. Revised draft posted 2026-06-01; pending outside-counsel review. The prior Terms remain operative until the effective date above is advanced.

DRAFT This revision recenters the Terms around GeoClear operational evidence services, verification layer, operational evidence records, evidence bundles, and local verification. Sections marked COUNSEL-REVIEW-PENDING contain draft language that has not been reviewed by outside counsel. The prior effective Terms remain operative until the effective date above is advanced. For enterprise, federal, customer-controlled, or integrator-managed deployments, a separate written agreement controls.

1. Acceptance

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a legal agreement between you and GeoClear, Inc., a Virginia C Corp ("GeoClear," "we," "us"). By accessing or using the GeoClear websites, demos, portal, developer previews, APIs, operational evidence services, verification services, evidence-bundle services, or related materials (collectively, the "Services"), you agree to these Terms. If you are using the Services on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization.

2. Services

GeoClear, Inc. provides operational evidence infrastructure for AI actions, agent tool calls, workflow handoffs, and audit-heavy systems. The Services may include, depending on your subscription, agreement, or developer preview: verification layer; issuance of operational evidence records; evidence bundles for customer-held retention; local verification tools and reference verifier materials; portal access for approved teams; APIs and developer previews; MCP / tool-call interlock; and customer-controlled or integrator-managed deployment support.

Some Services may include informational outputs, decision-support signals, or evidence artifacts for specific workflows. These outputs are not legal, regulatory, operational, aviation, insurance, lending, emergency-response, or safety certifications. Customers are solely responsible for reviewing outputs, applying their own policies, obtaining required approvals, and complying with applicable laws and regulations. Service-specific addenda may apply to particular workflows (for example, location-and-risk outputs, autonomous-logistics outputs, and developer-preview programs).

3. Separate agreements and order forms

Enterprise, federal, customer-controlled, integrator-managed, and high-assurance deployments may be governed by a separate written agreement, order form, statement of work, master services agreement, government contract, or other written instrument signed by GeoClear and the customer. If there is a conflict between these Terms and a separate written agreement, the separate written agreement controls for the Services covered by it.

4. Accounts, credentials, and security

You are responsible for safeguarding accounts, API keys, portal credentials, signing material designated as customer-controlled, and any other credentials issued to you. You agree to maintain accurate registration information; to use credentials only within the scope authorized; and to notify GeoClear promptly of any suspected unauthorized access. Each organization requires its own credentials; sharing credentials across distinct organizations is not permitted absent a written agreement.

5. Customer data and privacy

Customer Data may include action metadata, policy-result metadata, evidence commitments, verification state, customer-provided context, identifiers, and other content submitted through or generated by the Services. GeoClear's handling of personal data is described in the Privacy Policy and, where applicable, a Data Processing Addendum (see Section 14).

6. Evidence Boundary COUNSEL-REVIEW-PENDING

GeoClear provides evidence infrastructure. GeoClear does not verify that an AI system, agent, model, or upstream data source was correct. GeoClear does not provide legal, regulatory, operational, aviation, insurance, lending, emergency-response, mission, or safety certification. GeoClear helps customers retain and verify evidence that an action followed an approved evidence path before a receiving system accepted, held, rejected, blocked, or escalated the action.

GeoClear helps customers verify whether an action followed an approved evidence path before acceptance. GeoClear does not verify upstream real-world truth, and does not replace the customer's policy, approval, enforcement, or compliance responsibilities.

7. Customer responsibility for policy and enforcement COUNSEL-REVIEW-PENDING

Customers are responsible for defining their policies, approval requirements, evidence requirements, enforcement points, and downstream actions. GeoClear may help create, bind, verify, or retain operational evidence, but customer-designated systems remain responsible for deciding whether to accept, hold, reject, block, escalate, or execute an action. The receiving system enforces; GeoClear preserves the evidence.

8. Acceptable use COUNSEL-REVIEW-PENDING

You agree not to use the Services to:

9. Demos, samples, previews, and documentation

Demos, sample evidence bundles, reference verifier examples, public verification material, documentation, and developer-preview environments are provided for evaluation and illustration only. They are not production Services unless expressly designated in a written agreement. Local verification tools and reference verifier material are provided to help customers and evaluators check evidence artifacts; customer production environments, retained evidence, and deployment-specific trust material remain the customer's responsibility unless otherwise agreed.

10. Fees and billing

Fees, usage limits, billing terms, taxes, and payment terms are described in the applicable order form, pricing page, subscription plan, or written agreement. Some Services may be offered as free previews, private evaluations, open-verifier downloads, or customer-controlled deployments. Refunds, credits, and proration apply only where specified in the applicable order form or written agreement.

11. Availability and support

Availability commitments, service credits, support levels, and uptime targets apply only if expressly stated in an applicable order form, service-level agreement, or written agreement. Public service status may be posted on the status page for operational information.

12. Intellectual property

You retain ownership of Customer Data. GeoClear and its licensors retain ownership of the Services, software, documentation, models, verification tooling, evidence formats, templates, know-how, and related technology. Subject to these Terms, GeoClear grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right to use outputs and evidence artifacts generated through your authorized use of the Services for your internal business, audit, and verification purposes. You may not publish or redistribute GeoClear datasets, models, or verification material as such, except for sample materials GeoClear publishes for that purpose.

13. Third-party services and customer systems

The Services may interoperate with third-party services, customer-operated systems, identity providers, cloud platforms, signing-material custodians, or model providers ("Third-Party Services"). GeoClear is not responsible for Third-Party Services, and your use of them is governed by your agreements with those third parties.

14. Data processing addendum

If you are a business customer processing personal data through the Services and need a Data Processing Addendum (DPA) for GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, UK GDPR, or similar compliance, contact legal@geoclear.io. Our DPA incorporates Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) for any cross-border transfer of personal data.

15. Warranty disclaimer

The Services are provided "as is" and "as available." Except as expressly stated in a separate written agreement, GeoClear makes no warranty, express or implied, that the Services or their outputs are accurate, complete, current, uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for any particular purpose, including without limitation any insurance-underwriting, lending, real-estate, fleet-operations, aviation, emergency-response, life-safety, mission-critical, or regulated-industry decision.

16. Limitation of liability COUNSEL-REVIEW-PENDING

To the maximum extent permitted by law, GeoClear's aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or related to the Services, across all theories of liability (contract, tort, strict liability, statute), is limited to the fees paid by you to GeoClear in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or one hundred U.S. dollars ($100), whichever is greater. In no event will GeoClear be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or business interruption, even if GeoClear has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Service-specific addenda may further define or modify caps for particular workflows.

17. Indemnification COUNSEL-REVIEW-PENDING

You will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless GeoClear, its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any third-party claims, damages, liabilities, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your use of the Services; (b) your violation of these Terms or any applicable law; (c) any Customer Data or content you submit to the Services; (d) your policies, approval requirements, or enforcement decisions; and (e) any decision, determination, or action you take informed by outputs of the Services.

GeoClear will indemnify you against third-party claims that the Services, as provided by GeoClear and used in accordance with these Terms, infringe a valid U.S. intellectual-property right. This indemnity does not cover claims arising from (a) modifications to the Services not made by GeoClear, (b) use of the Services in combination with other products not provided by GeoClear, or (c) use of the Services outside the scope of these Terms.

18. Suspension and termination

You may cancel at any time by closing your account. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms with written notice (email) and a reasonable cure period for non-material breaches. For material breaches (including Acceptable Use violations and security incidents), we may suspend immediately. Sections 5, 6, 7, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 20 survive termination.

19. Changes to Terms

We may update these Terms with 30 days' notice for material changes, posted at geoclear.io/terms and emailed to the contact on record. The effective date in the header is the publication signal; the prior Terms remain operative until that date is advanced. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

20. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA, without regard to conflicts-of-laws principles. Exclusive venue for any dispute is the state or federal courts of competent jurisdiction located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there.

21. Contact

Legal: legal@geoclear.io. Privacy: privacy@geoclear.io. Security: security@geoclear.io.

Service-specific addenda COUNSEL-REVIEW-PENDING

The following service-specific addenda may apply to particular Services and incorporate the prior Sections 8 (Risk scoring & decision-informing outputs) and 9 (Drone airspace & deliverability outputs) of the prior Terms by reference; they are available under written agreement:

Contact legal@geoclear.io for the current text of any addendum.

Last updated: 2026-04-22