Terms of Use

1. Acceptance of these terms

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your use of the Aperta website and related features (the “Services”), operated by Aperta (“we,” “us” or “our”). By using the Services, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

2. The Services

The Services explain what companies do in plain English. Each company card is generated by artificial intelligence from public sources, such as company websites, SEC filings and Wikipedia, and labeled to show how much each statement can be trusted. We may change, suspend or stop any part of the Services at any time.

3. AI-generated content and accuracy

Company cards are produced by AI and may be incomplete, out of date or wrong. Labels such as “Verified” describe the kind of source a statement came from, not a guarantee that it is correct. You are responsible for checking the underlying sources before relying on anything in the Services.

4. No financial, legal or professional advice

Nothing in the Services is financial, investment, legal, tax, accounting or career advice, or a recommendation or offer to buy, sell or hold any security. Financial figures are shown for general understanding only. Consult a qualified professional before making any decision.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Scrape, crawl or make automated or bulk requests to the Services, or try to get around rate limits or other protections.
• Interfere with, overload, probe or attack the Services or the systems they run on.
• Submit false or misleading corrections, impersonate anyone, or use an email address you do not control.
• Submit personal information about others, or content that is unlawful, harassing, defamatory or spam.
• Use the Services to build a competing product or dataset, or in violation of any law.

6. Your submissions

If you send us a correction, message or other feedback (“Submissions”), you confirm that it is accurate to the best of your knowledge and that you have the right to share it. You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual license to use, reproduce and adapt your Submissions to operate and improve the Services, including by updating company cards. We handle personal information in Submissions as described in our Privacy Policy.

7. Intellectual property and third-party marks

The Services, including their design, text and software, belong to us or our licensors. You may share links to company cards and quote short excerpts with attribution. Any other copying or reuse requires our permission.

Company names, logos, trademarks, screenshots and quotations belong to their respective owners and are shown to identify, describe and comment on those companies. Their appearance does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by those companies.

8. Corrections and removal requests

To report an error, use “Something wrong?” on the company's card. If you represent a company, or believe content on the Services infringes your rights, contact us at privacy@askaperta.com with enough detail for us to find and review it. We review every request and may update or remove content at our discretion.

9. Third-party sites and services

The Services link to and rely on third-party websites and services, including company websites and SEC systems. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content, availability or practices.

10. Disclaimers

The Services are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Services will be accurate, complete, uninterrupted or error-free.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data or goodwill, arising from your use of or reliance on the Services. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Services will not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars ($100).

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from claims, losses and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your misuse of the Services, your Submissions or your violation of these Terms.

13. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or block access to the Services, without notice, for anyone we believe has violated these Terms or put the Services at risk.

14. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. Any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in New York County, New York, and you consent to their jurisdiction.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will change the date at the top, and continued use of the Services after an update means you accept the revised Terms.

16. Contact us

Questions about these Terms can be sent to Aperta at privacy@askaperta.com.