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The terms that govern access to and use of our website, research, accounts and subscriptions.

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These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and Section Seven LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Section Seven”, “we”, “us” or “our”). They govern your access to and use of sectionseven.net and its subdomains, and of the research, data, newsletters, accounts, subscriptions and other content and services we make available through them (together, the “Services”).

Please read these Terms carefully. They contain disclaimers of warranties, limitations of liability, a time limit for bringing claims, and waivers of jury trial and class proceedings. By accessing or using the Services, creating an account or purchasing a subscription, you accept these Terms in their entirety. Each time you access or use the Services, you agree to be bound by the Terms then in effect. If you do not agree, do not access or use the Services.

Acceptance and scope

By accessing or using the Services, you represent that you have read and understood these Terms and agree to them. If you use the Services on behalf of a company or other organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms, and “you” refers to both you and that organization.

Additional terms may apply to particular Services. Enterprise plans, pilots, custom research, data licensing and API access are provided only under a separate order form or written agreement with us. If additional terms or such an agreement conflict with these Terms, they control for the Services they cover. Nothing in these Terms obliges us to enter into any agreement or to provide any particular Service.

Our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy describe how we collect and use information in connection with the Services. By using the Services, you acknowledge that you have read them.

Eligibility and accounts

The Services are offered for business and professional use only. By using them, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years old, that you are able to enter into a binding contract, and that you are using the Services for business or professional purposes and not for personal, family or household purposes.

Some Services require an account. You agree to provide accurate and complete information, to keep it current and to keep your sign-in credentials confidential. An account is for one individual and may not be shared. You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account, and you agree to notify us promptly through the contact form if you suspect unauthorized use.

We may decline a registration, and we may suspend or close an account, at any time in our discretion.

No advice or recommendations

The Services, and all research, data, analysis, estimates, ratings, commentary and other materials made available through them (the “Content”), are provided for general informational purposes only. The Content is not investment, financial, legal, tax, accounting, engineering, real estate, brokerage or other professional advice, and should not be relied on as such. It is not a recommendation, an offer or a solicitation to buy, sell, lease, develop, finance or otherwise transact in any security, property, capacity, equipment or other asset.

Section Seven does not act as a broker, dealer, investment adviser, real estate broker, engineer, attorney or other professional adviser, or as your agent or fiduciary. Your use of the Services does not create a brokerage, agency, advisory, fiduciary or other special relationship between you and us.

The Content is compiled from public records and other third-party sources that we do not control and that may be incomplete, inaccurate, out of date or changed without notice. Stage classifications, capacity figures, schedules, confidence ratings, verification dates and similar assessments reflect our judgment at the time they are made. They are not guarantees, and we may revise or withdraw them at any time without notice.

The Content may include estimates, projections and other forward-looking statements, including statements about whether and when capacity will be permitted, built, energized or made available. These statements are inherently uncertain, and actual outcomes may differ materially from them. We have no obligation to update or correct any Content.

Descriptions of our methodology, sources and review practices are general descriptions of our approach. They are not representations or warranties about any particular record, figure or project.

You are solely responsible for your use of the Content and for any decision you make or action you take on the basis of it. You should independently verify any information on which you intend to rely and obtain advice from qualified professionals where appropriate.

No offer of employment

Nothing on the Services is an offer or promise of employment. Descriptions of positions, compensation, benefits, programs and hiring processes are provided for general information, are not binding, and may be changed or withdrawn at any time without notice. Any offer of employment will be made only in writing and will be governed solely by the terms of that offer, not by anything on the Services.

Subscriptions, fees and billing

Paid subscriptions are described on our pricing page. We may change the features, content and limits of any plan from time to time. Unless we agree otherwise in writing, a subscription covers one named individual, who may use it only for the internal business purposes of the organization that individual works for.

Subscription fees are stated in U.S. dollars and are billed in advance, at the price and interval presented at checkout. Fees do not include taxes, which you are responsible for paying where they apply. Payments are handled by a third-party payment processor, whose own terms may apply to your use of its services. You authorize us and our payment processor to charge your payment method for all fees when they are due, and you agree to keep your payment information current.

Subscriptions renew automatically. Unless you cancel before the end of the current billing period, your subscription renews for a further period of the same length and your payment method is charged the fee then in effect. This continues until you cancel.

You may cancel at any time through your account. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the billing period then in progress, and you keep access until that time. Except where the law requires otherwise, fees are non-refundable, and we do not provide refunds or credits for partial billing periods or for Services you have not used.

If a payment cannot be processed, we may attempt the charge again, and we may suspend or terminate your subscription or your access to the Services.

We may change our fees at any time. A change to the fee for an existing subscription takes effect no earlier than the first renewal after we notify you, which we may do by email or through the Services. If you do not agree to a change, you may cancel before it takes effect.

Any trial, promotional or complimentary access is provided at our discretion and may be changed or ended at any time.

Use restrictions

You may use the Services only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. Except as these Terms expressly permit or as we agree in writing, you may not, and may not permit anyone else to:

  • Copy, republish, sell, rent, license, sublicense, distribute, transmit, display or otherwise make available any Content to a third party, or use any Content to create, or incorporate any Content into, a product, service, database or dataset.
  • Modify, translate or create derivative works from the Services or the Content, or frame or mirror any part of the Services.
  • Scrape, crawl, spider, harvest or otherwise extract Content by automated means, or systematically download or store Content, except that operators of public search engines may index publicly available pages in accordance with our robots.txt file.
  • Use any Content to develop, train, fine-tune, evaluate or improve a machine learning or artificial intelligence model or system.
  • Share sign-in credentials, or allow more than one individual to use an account or seat.
  • Circumvent, disable or interfere with any access control, usage limit, paywall, security feature or other technical measure, or probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Services.
  • Interfere with or disrupt the Services, or introduce any virus, malware or other harmful code.
  • Remove, obscure or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice.
  • Collect or track personal information about others through the Services, or use any contact details or other personal information in the Content in violation of any privacy, marketing or communications law.
  • Submit false or misleading information, impersonate any person or organization, or transmit spam, phishing messages or unlawful, infringing, defamatory or abusive material.
  • Use the Services in violation of any applicable law or regulation, or in a way that infringes or violates the rights of any person.
  • Use the Services or the Content in any way that these Terms do not expressly permit.

Intellectual property and license

The Services and the Content, including our databases, compilations, selection and arrangement of data, ratings, methodologies, text, graphics, software and trademarks, are owned by Section Seven LLC or its licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret and other laws. “Section Seven” and the Section Seven wordmark are trademarks of Section Seven LLC. Third-party names, marks and materials belong to their respective owners, and nothing in these Terms grants you any right to them.

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and view the publicly available parts of the Services for your internal business purposes.

If you hold a paid subscription, we also grant the individual subscriber, for the term of the subscription and subject to payment of all fees, a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access the Content included in the plan and to use that Content, and any exports we make available, solely for the internal business purposes of the organization that individual works for.

You may quote brief excerpts from publicly available Content, provided that each excerpt is accurate, is clearly attributed to Section Seven, is not presented in a misleading way and does not substitute for the Content itself.

Any other use, including sharing Content outside your organization, access by more than one individual, redistribution, white-label use and API access, requires a separate written agreement with us.

All rights not expressly granted in these Terms are reserved. Nothing in these Terms or on the Services grants you, by implication or otherwise, any title or interest in, or any license or right to use, the Services, the Content or our name, trademarks or logos, except as these Terms expressly state.

Submissions and feedback

Information that you submit through the Services is handled as described in our Privacy Policy. You represent that you have the right to submit it and that it does not infringe or violate the rights of any third party.

Please do not send us confidential or proprietary information unless we have agreed in writing to receive it in confidence. Without such an agreement, and subject to our Privacy Policy, we have no obligation to treat what you send us as confidential.

If you send us feedback, suggestions, corrections or ideas about the Services or the Content, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to use them for any purpose, without restriction, attribution or compensation.

Changes to the Services

We may change, suspend or discontinue all or any part of the Services at any time and without notice, including any Content, feature, plan or newsletter. Access to the Services may also be interrupted from time to time, including by equipment failure, by updating, maintenance or repair, or by other action that we choose to take in our sole discretion. Except as these Terms expressly state, we are not liable to you or anyone else for any change, suspension, interruption or discontinuance.

Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Services at any time, and you may cancel a subscription as described above.

We may suspend, restrict or terminate your account, your subscription or your access to all or any part of the Services at any time, with or without cause and with or without notice, including where we believe you have violated these Terms. We may also monitor use of the Services, investigate suspected violations and cooperate with law enforcement and other authorities. If we suspend or terminate your account, you may not open another without our written permission.

If we terminate a paid subscription for a reason other than your violation of these Terms, your sole and exclusive remedy is a refund of the fees you have prepaid for the unused part of the billing period then in progress. In all other cases, you are not entitled to any refund, credit or other compensation.

When your access ends, the licenses granted to you end with it, and you must stop using the Services and the Content. The provisions of these Terms that by their nature should survive will survive, including those on the absence of advice, intellectual property, use restrictions, submissions, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, governing law, waivers and general terms.

Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Services and the Content are provided “as is” and “as available”, with all faults and without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory. Section Seven and its affiliates, licensors and service providers, and their respective members, managers, officers, directors, principals, employees, contractors and agents (together, the “Section Seven Parties”), disclaim all warranties, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, and any warranty arising from a course of dealing, course of performance or usage of trade.

Without limiting the paragraph above, the Section Seven Parties make no representation or warranty about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, suitability, timeliness or availability of the Content or the Services. They do not warrant that the Content is free of errors or omissions, that the Services will meet your requirements or be uninterrupted or secure, that any defect will be corrected, or that the Services are free of viruses or other harmful components. The Content is subject to change without notice. No information or advice obtained from us or through the Services creates a warranty that is not expressly stated in these Terms.

You use the Services and rely on the Content at your own risk. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of these exclusions may not apply to you.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Section Seven Parties will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, business, opportunity, goodwill, use or data, or for the cost of substitute services, arising out of or in any way connected with these Terms, the Services or the Content. This includes any loss arising from (a) the use of, the inability to use or any delay in using the Services, (b) any Content obtained through the Services, and any decision made or action taken or not taken in reliance on it, and (c) any error, omission or interruption, and any unauthorized access to or use of the Services or of your information.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the total liability of the Section Seven Parties for all claims, liabilities, losses, costs and damages of any kind, including direct damages, arising out of or in any way connected with these Terms, the Services or the Content will not exceed the amount you paid us for the Services in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim. If you paid us nothing in that period, the Section Seven Parties have no liability to you or, where the law does not allow liability to be excluded entirely, their total liability will not exceed US$100.

These limitations apply to every claim, whether it is based on contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, statute or any other legal theory, even if a Section Seven Party has been advised that the damages were possible and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. They reflect an allocation of risk that is an essential basis of the bargain between you and us.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so some of these limitations may not apply to you. In that case, our liability is limited to the fullest extent permitted by law. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Section Seven Parties from and against all claims, demands, actions, liabilities, damages, losses, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of or relating to (a) your access to or use of the Services or the Content, (b) your violation of these Terms, (c) your violation of any law or of the rights of any third party, or (d) any information or material you submit through the Services.

We may assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter that is subject to indemnification, in which case you agree to cooperate with us. You may not settle any such matter without our prior written consent.

Governing law and disputes

These Terms, and any claim or dispute arising out of or relating to them or to the Services, are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict of laws rules.

Before bringing any such claim, the party that intends to bring it must give the other written notice describing the dispute and the relief sought. The parties will then try in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for 45 days, and the claim may be filed only after that period ends. Any limitation period is suspended while it runs. This paragraph does not apply to a claim for injunctive or other equitable relief.

Any such claim or dispute must be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in the State of Delaware, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction and venue of those courts. We may nevertheless seek injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect our intellectual property or confidential information.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services must be commenced within one year after it accrues. A claim that is not commenced within that time is permanently barred.

Waiver of jury trial and class actions

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you and Section Seven each waive the right to a trial by jury in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you and Section Seven each agree to bring claims against the other only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated or representative proceeding, and not aggregated in any other way with the claims of any other person.

Changes to these terms

We may change these Terms, and the terms and notices under which the Services are offered, at any time and without prior notice. The revised Terms will be posted on this page with an updated “Last updated” date and will take effect when posted, unless we state otherwise. We may also notify you of changes by email or through the Services.

Your continued access to or use of the Services after revised Terms take effect constitutes your acceptance of them. If you do not agree to the revised Terms, you must stop using the Services and cancel any subscription.

General

These Terms, together with any order form or other written agreement between you and us that covers the Services, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Services and supersede all earlier understandings on that subject. You acknowledge that you have not relied on any statement, description or representation that is not expressly set out in these Terms.

If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, it will be modified, for that jurisdiction only, to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, and the remaining provisions will stay in full force. A failure to enforce a right or provision is not a waiver of it, and a waiver of one breach is not a waiver of any earlier or later breach.

You may not assign or transfer these Terms, or any right or obligation under them, without our prior written consent. We may assign them without restriction, including to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets. These Terms give no rights to any third party, except that the Section Seven Parties may rely on and enforce the provisions that refer to them.

We are not liable for any failure or delay in performance caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including the failure of third-party services, networks or utilities.

You consent to receive communications from us electronically, and you agree that electronic communications satisfy any legal requirement that a communication be in writing. We may give notice to you at the email address associated with your account or the one you gave us, or by posting on the Services. Legal notices to us, including a notice of dispute, must be in writing and sent by registered or certified mail to the postal address below. Other questions may be sent through the contact form.

We operate the Services from the United States. If you access them from another country, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for complying with local laws. You agree to comply with all export control and sanctions laws that apply to your use of the Services, and you represent that those laws do not prohibit you from using them.

In these Terms, “including” means “including without limitation”, and headings are for convenience only.

Contact

Questions about these Terms may be sent through the contact form or to Section Seven LLC, 2 Beeton Path, Westborough, MA 01581.