Terms of Service

1. Acceptance and eligibility

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) form a binding agreement between you and the person or entity operating this Djoomba deployment (the “Operator”). “Djoomba,” the “Service,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the service and its Operator. You represent that you have legal capacity to enter this agreement. If you use the Service for an organization, you represent that you may bind that organization, and “you” includes it.

The Service is not directed to children under 13. A minor may use it only when permitted by applicable law and with any consent required from a parent or legal guardian.

2. The Service

Djoomba provides research discovery, citation and source-guide tools, automated writing and analysis features, messaging, notes, publishing workflows, analytics, and other workspace functions. Features, limits, account roles, and availability may change. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service and do not guarantee that any feature or item of content will remain available.

3. Accounts, roles, and security

You must provide accurate information, keep your credentials confidential, and promptly report suspected unauthorized access. You are responsible for activity conducted through your account to the extent permitted by law. Account roles control access to administrative and paid features; attempting to evade those controls is prohibited. We may require you to reauthenticate or take reasonable security measures to protect the Service and its users.

4. Acceptable use

You may not use, or help another person use, the Service to:

• violate law, regulation, court order, contract, or another person's rights;
• harass, threaten, exploit, defraud, impersonate, or unlawfully surveil anyone;
• upload malware or content that is unlawful, infringing, deceptive, or harmful;
• gain unauthorized access, probe security, bypass rate limits or roles, or disrupt the Service;
• send spam, automate abusive traffic, scrape restricted areas, or overload infrastructure;
• use research or generated material to misrepresent authorship, evidence, or credentials; or
• reverse engineer or copy the Service except where applicable law expressly permits it.

We may investigate suspected misuse and preserve or disclose information when reasonably necessary to protect users, enforce these Terms, or comply with lawful process.

5. Your Content

“Your Content” means material you submit, store, send, or publish through the Service, including messages, attachments, notes, prompts, and drafts. As between you and Djoomba, you retain your rights in Your Content. You grant the Operator a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, copy, transmit, process, display, and otherwise use Your Content only as reasonably necessary to operate, secure, improve, and provide the Service, comply with law, and enforce these Terms. This license ends when the content is deleted from active systems, subject to reasonable backup, security, and legal retention.

You represent that you have all rights and permissions needed for Your Content and its use through the Service. You control what you share with other users; recipients may retain material you send even after you delete your copy. Do not submit highly sensitive data unless the feature is expressly designed for it.

6. Research, citations, and automated content

Djoomba is an educational discovery service, not the original scholarly record. Verify every claim, quotation, citation, author, and publication against the linked source before relying on it. Citation formatting may require adjustment for a particular instructor, publisher, court, or style guide.

Outputs may be generated or evaluated by automated systems and can be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, outdated, or misleading despite validation. Source guides are not peer reviewed, and cited authors do not write, review, sponsor, or endorse them unless expressly stated and independently verifiable. You are responsible for evaluating output and for any decision, publication, submission, or other use you make of it.

7. Third-party services and content

The Service may retrieve information from, send requests to, or link to third-party databases, infrastructure, model providers, websites, and services. Their terms and privacy practices govern their systems. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party content, availability, accuracy, security, or conduct. A link or citation does not imply endorsement. Your use of a third-party service may be subject to separate terms.

8. Djoomba ownership and feedback

Except for Your Content and third-party material, the Service—including its software, design, branding, compilation, and documentation—is owned by or licensed to the Operator and protected by intellectual-property law. Subject to these Terms, you receive a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service for its intended purpose. If you provide feedback, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to use it without restriction or compensation.

9. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service at any time. We may restrict, suspend, or terminate access if we reasonably believe you violated these Terms, created risk or legal exposure, failed to pay an applicable charge, or if required to protect the Service or comply with law. Where reasonably practicable, we will provide notice. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination—including ownership, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, and dispute provisions—will survive.

10. Disclaimers

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE AND ALL OUTPUTS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, OR UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION.

Djoomba does not provide legal, medical, financial, academic, or other professional advice. No output creates a professional-client, fiduciary, or advisory relationship. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so some exclusions may not apply.

11. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE OPERATOR AND ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND PERSONNEL WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE, EVEN IF ADVISED THAT SUCH DAMAGES WERE POSSIBLE.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, their aggregate liability for all claims relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid to use the Service during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim or US$100. These limits do not apply where liability cannot lawfully be limited, including liability for fraud or willful misconduct where applicable.

12. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Operator and its affiliates, service providers, and personnel from third-party claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and reasonable costs arising from Your Content, your misuse of the Service, or your violation of these Terms or another person's rights. This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim results from the indemnified party's own unlawful conduct.

13. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws that apply where the Operator is established, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, and disputes are subject to the competent courts of that place, except where mandatory consumer law gives you the right to use another law or forum. Before filing a formal claim, each party should provide written notice and allow 30 days for a good-faith attempt to resolve it. This clause does not prevent either party from seeking urgent injunctive relief or using a court or process available under mandatory law.

14. General terms

These Terms and the Privacy Notice are the entire agreement concerning the Service unless additional written terms apply to a feature. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be enforced to the greatest lawful extent and the remainder stays in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a reorganization, merger, sale, or transfer of the Service. Headings are for convenience only.

We may update these Terms. Material changes will be identified by a revised date and, when required, additional notice. Continued use after changes take effect constitutes acceptance where permitted by law. Questions and legal notices may be submitted through the contact page.