Thank you for using Lighthouse CI Services ("Services") by Eris Ventures LLC ("Company")! Please read this Terms of Service agreement carefully before accessing or using Services. Because it is such an important contract between us and our users, we have tried to make it as clear as possible. For your convenience, we have presented these terms in a short non-binding summary followed by the full legal terms.

A. Definitions

Short version: We use these basic terms throughout the agreement, and they have specific meanings. You should know what we mean when we use each of the terms.

1. The “Agreement” refers, collectively, to all the terms, conditions, notices contained or referenced in this document (the “Terms of Service” or the "Terms") and all other operating rules, policies (including the Company Privacy Statement) and procedures that we may publish from time to time on the Website.
2. The “Service” refers to the applications, software, products, and services provided by Company related to Lighthouse CI.
3. “The User,” “You,” and “Your” refer to the individual person, company, or organization that has visited or is using the Website or Service; that accesses or uses any part of the account; or that directs the use of the account in the performance of its functions. A User must be at least 18 years of age.
4. “Company,” “We,” and “Us” refer to Eris Ventures LLC, as well as our affiliates, directors, subsidiaries, contractors, licensors, officers, agents, and employees.
5. “Content” refers to content featured or displayed through the Service, including without limitation text, data, articles, images, photographs, graphics, software, applications, designs, features, and other materials that are available on the Website or otherwise available through the Service. "Content" also includes Services. “User-Generated Content” is Content, written or otherwise, created or uploaded by our Users. "Your Content" is Content that you create or own.

B. Account Terms

Short version: You must be 18 or over; You alone are responsible for your content and anything that happens while you are signed in to or using your access tokens. You are responsible for keeping your access tokens secure.

1. Account Requirements
We have a few simple rules for users on Company's Service.

  ▶ You must be age 18 or older. Company does not target our Service to children under 18, and we do not permit any Users under 18 on our Service. If we learn of any User under the age of 18, we will terminate that User’s access immediately. If you are a resident of a country outside the United States, your country’s minimum age may be older; in such a case, you are responsible for complying with your country’s laws.

2. User Account Security
You are responsible for keeping your account secure while you use our Service.

  ▶ You are responsible for all content posted and activity that occurs under your account.
  ▶ You are responsible for maintaining the security of your access tokens. Company cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage from your failure to comply with this security obligation.
  ▶ You will promptly notify Company if you become aware of any unauthorized use of, or access to, our Service through your account, including any unauthorized use of your credentials.

C. Acceptable Use

Short version: While using the service, you must follow this Acceptable Use Policy, which includes some restrictions on content you can post, conduct on the service, and other limitations.

1. Compliance with Laws and Regulations
Your use of the Website and Service must not violate any applicable laws, including copyright or trademark laws, export control laws, or other laws in your jurisdiction. You are responsible for making sure that your use of the Service is in compliance with laws and any applicable regulations.

2. Content Restrictions
You agree that you will not under any circumstances upload, post, host, or transmit any content that:

  ▶ is unlawful or promotes unlawful activities;
  ▶ is or contains sexually obscene content;
  ▶ is libelous, defamatory, or fraudulent;
  ▶ is discriminatory or abusive toward any individual or group;
  ▶ contains personally identifiable or sensitive information (names, birthdates, social security numbers, etc) about yourself or others that was not already public knowledge;
  ▶ contains or installs any active malware or exploits, or uses our platform for exploit delivery (such as part of a command and control system); or
  ▶ infringes on any proprietary right of any party, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other rights.


3. Conduct Restrictions
While using Services, you agree that you will not under any circumstances:

  ▶ harass, abuse, threaten, or incite violence towards any individual or group, including Company employees, officers, and agents, or other Service Users;
  ▶ use our servers for any form of excessive automated bulk activity (for example, spamming), or relay any other form of unsolicited advertising or solicitation through our servers, such as get-rich-quick schemes;
  ▶ attempt to disrupt or tamper with Company's servers in ways that could harm our Website or Service, to place undue burden on Company's servers through automated means, or to access Company's Service in ways that exceed your authorization (other than those authorized by the Company Bug Bounty program);
  ▶ impersonate any person or entity, including any of our employees or representatives, including through false association with Company, or by fraudulently misrepresenting your identity or site's purpose; or
  ▶ violate the privacy of any third party, such as by posting another person's personal information without consent.

4. Services Usage Limits
You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service without Company's express written permission.

5. Display and Transfers
You acknowledge that this is a personal use. You may not display to third parties and agree not to transfer or sell Services data to third parties. No Resale or Sublicensing. Except as allowed above, you may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, sublicense, transfer, assign, rent, sell or otherwise convey any information, software, products or services obtained from Company without prior written consent from Company.

6. Scraping
Scraping refers to extracting data from our Website via an automated process, such as a bot or webcrawler. You may scrape the website for the following reasons:

  ▶ Researchers may scrape public, non-personal information from Services for research purposes, only if any publications resulting from that research are open access.
  ▶ Archivists may scrape Services for public data for archival purposes.
  ▶ You may not scrape Services for spamming purposes, including for the purposes of selling Services users' personal information, such as to recruiters, headhunters, and job boards.

If you scrape our site too aggressively we will block your IP. To prevent this from happening we have created a scraping API.

7. Privacy
Misuse of Company Users' Personal Information is prohibited.

Any person, entity, or service collecting data from Company must comply with the Eris Ventures Privacy Statement, particularly in regards to the collection of our Users' Personal Information (as defined in the Company Privacy Statement). If you collect any User's Personal Information from Company, you agree that you will only use the Personal Information you gather for the purpose for which our User has authorized it. You agree that you will reasonably secure any Personal Information you have gathered from Company, and you will respond promptly to complaints, removal requests, and "do not contact" requests from Company or Company Users.

8. Excessive Bandwidth Use
If we determine your bandwidth usage to be significantly excessive in relation to other Company customers, we reserve the right to suspend your account or throttle your file hosting until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption.

9. User Protection
You agree not to engage in activity that significantly harms our Users. We will resolve disputes in favor of protecting our Users as a whole.

D. User-Generated Content

Short version: You own content you create, but you allow us certain rights to it, so that we can display and share the content you upload. You still have control over your content, and responsibility for it, and the rights you grant us are limited to those we need to provide the service. We have the right to remove content or revoke credentials if we need to.

1. Responsibility for User-Generated Content
You may create or upload User-Generated Content while using the Service. You are solely responsible for the content of, and for any harm resulting from, any User-Generated Content that you post, upload, link to or otherwise make available via the Service, regardless of the form of that Content. We are not responsible for any public display or misuse of your User-Generated Content.

2. Company May Remove Content
We do not pre-screen User-Generated Content, but we have the right (though not the obligation) to refuse or remove any User-Generated Content that, in our sole discretion, violates any Company terms or policies.

3. Ownership of Content, Right to Post, and License Grants
You retain ownership of and responsibility for Content you create or own ("Your Content"). If you're posting anything you did not create yourself or do not own the rights to, you agree that you are responsible for any Content you post; that you will only submit Content that you have the right to post; and that you will fully comply with any third party licenses relating to Content you post.

4. License Grant to Us
We need the legal right to do things like host Your Content, publish it, and share it. You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, parse, and display Your Content, and make incidental copies as necessary to render the Website and provide the Service. This includes the right to do things like copy it to our database and make backups; show it to you and other users; parse it into a search index or otherwise analyze it on our servers; share it with other users; and perform it, in case Your Content is something like music or video.

5. License Grant to Other Users
Any User-Generated Content you upload may be viewed by others. You agree to allow others to view your content.
You grant each User of Company a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform Your Content through the Company Service and to reproduce Your Content solely as permitted through Company's functionality (for example, through cloning).

6. Moral Rights
You retain all moral rights to Your Content that you upload, publish, or submit to any part of the Service, including the rights of integrity and attribution. However, you waive these rights and agree not to assert them against us, to enable us to reasonably exercise the rights granted in Section D.4, but not otherwise.
To the extent this agreement is not enforceable by applicable law, you grant Company the rights we need to use Your Content without attribution and to make reasonable adaptations of Your Content as necessary to render the Website and provide the Service.

E. Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy

If you believe that content on our website violates your copyright, please contact us in accordance with our Digital Millennium Copyright Act Policy. If you are a copyright owner and you believe that content on Company violates your rights, please contact us via our convenient DMCA form or by emailing admin@erisventures.com.
There may be legal consequences for sending a false or frivolous takedown notice. Before sending a takedown request, you must consider legal uses such as fair use and licensed uses.
We will terminate the accounts of repeat infringers of this policy.

F. API Terms

Abuse or excessively frequent requests to Company via the API may result in the temporary or permanent suspension of your account's access to the API. Company, in our sole discretion, will determine abuse or excessive usage of the API.

You may not share API tokens to exceed Company's rate limitations.

You may not use the API to download data or Content from Company for spamming purposes, including for the purposes of selling Company users' personal information, such as to recruiters, headhunters, and job boards.

All use of the Company API is subject to these Terms of Service and the Eris Ventures Privacy Statement.

G. Cancellation and Termination

Short version: We can delete the data stored by the service at any time.

1. You May Terminate
You have the right to request removal of accidentally uploaded data at any time. Company has the right to verify your basic information as the owner of the data before removing public access to it. To request removal of the data you may contact lhcidataremoval@erisventures.com.

2. Company May Terminate
Company has the right to suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website or data stored in connection with Services at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. Company reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.

3. Survival
All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination will survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity, and limitations of liability.

H. Disclaimer of Warranties

Short version: We provide our service as is, and we make no promises or guarantees about this service. Please read this section carefully; you should understand what to expect.

Company provides the Website and the Service “as is” and “as available,” without warranty of any kind. Without limiting this, we expressly disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied or statutory, regarding the Website and the Service including without limitation any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, security, accuracy and non-infringement.
Company does not warrant that the Service will meet your requirements; that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; that the information provided through the Service is accurate, reliable or correct; that any defects or errors will be corrected; that the Service will be available at any particular time or location; or that the Service is free of viruses or other harmful components. You assume full responsibility and risk of loss resulting from your downloading and/or use of files, information, content or other material obtained from the Service.

I. Limitation of Liability

Short version: We will not be liable for damages or losses arising from your use or inability to use the service or otherwise arising under this agreement. Please read this section carefully; it limits our obligations to you.

You understand and agree that we will not be liable to you or any third party for any loss of profits, use, goodwill, or data, or for any incidental, indirect, special, consequential or exemplary damages, however arising, that result from

  ▶ the use, disclosure, or display of your User-Generated Content;
  ▶ your use or inability to use the Service;
  ▶ any modification, price change, suspension or discontinuance of the Service;
  ▶ the Service generally or the software or systems that make the Service available;
  ▶ unauthorized access to or alterations of your transmissions or data;
  ▶ statements or conduct of any third party on the Service;
  ▶ any other user interactions that you input or receive through your use of the Service; or
  ▶ any other matter relating to the Service.

Our liability is limited whether or not we have been informed of the possibility of such damages, and even if a remedy set forth in this Agreement is found to have failed of its essential purpose. We will have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond our reasonable control.

J. Release and Indemnification

Short version: You are responsible for your use of the service. If you harm someone else or get into a dispute with someone else, we will not be involved.

If you have a dispute with one or more Users, you agree to release Company from any and all claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.
You agree to indemnify us, defend us, and hold us harmless from and against any and all claims, liabilities, and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your use of the Website and the Service, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement, provided that Company (1) promptly gives you written notice of the claim, demand, suit or proceeding; (2) gives you sole control of the defense and settlement of the claim, demand, suit or proceeding (provided that you may not settle any claim, demand, suit or proceeding unless the settlement unconditionally releases Company of all liability); and (3) provides to you all reasonable assistance, at your expense.

K. Changes to These Terms

Short version: We want our users to be informed of important changes to our terms, but some changes aren't that important — we don't want to bother you every time we fix a typo. So while we may modify this agreement at any time, we will notify users of any changes that affect your rights and give you time to adjust to them.

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to amend these Terms of Service at any time and will update these Terms of Service in the event of any such amendments. We will notify our Users of material changes to this Agreement, such as price changes, at least 30 days prior to the change taking effect by posting a notice on our Website. For non-material modifications, your continued use of the Service constitutes agreement to our revisions of these Terms of Service.

We reserve the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Website or Service with or without notice.