Terms of Use

1. Overview of the Service

SkipOrShip is a software tool that helps users evaluate app, startup, and business ideas using automated analysis, AI-assisted systems, scoring models, validation signals, public data sources, and third-party service providers.

The Service may include:

• Free idea scoring, verdicts, and summaries
• Paid reports with deeper analysis and real-world validation signals
• Optional accounts, saved reports, and report credits
• Payment-based report unlocks and credit packs
• Sharing of generated reports through app links
• Email notifications and account communications

The Service is provided for informational, exploratory, and decision-support purposes only. Outputs are generated automatically and are not reviewed by a professional before being shown to you.

We may add, change, suspend, deprecate, or remove features at any time, with or without notice, and we may impose reasonable usage limits, throttling, or fair-use restrictions.

2. No Professional Advice

SkipOrShip provides general information and automated analysis. Nothing in the Service constitutes:

• legal advice
• financial, investment, or securities advice
• tax or accounting advice
• medical, psychological, or healthcare advice
• regulated business, professional, or fiduciary advice

Reports, scores, summaries, and outputs may be:

• incomplete
• inaccurate
• outdated
• based on limited, estimated, or modelled data
• different from results another tool, expert, or person would produce

You are solely responsible for evaluating the suitability of the Service for your needs and for any decisions you make based on it. Before relying on the Service for material business, legal, financial, medical, or regulatory decisions, you should obtain advice from a qualified professional in the relevant jurisdiction.

3. Eligibility

To use the Service you must:

• be at least 18 years old, or the legal age of majority in your jurisdiction (whichever is greater)
• have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract
• not be barred from using the Service under any applicable law
• not be located in, ordinarily resident in, or accessing the Service from a country, region, or territory subject to comprehensive sanctions imposed by the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, or other applicable authorities
• not be a person with whom transactions are restricted under applicable sanctions, export-control, or anti-terrorism laws
• use the Service in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations

We may verify eligibility, country, identity, or compliance information, and refuse, suspend, or terminate access where these requirements are not met.

4. Accounts

You may use parts of the Service without creating an account. If you create an account, you agree:

• to provide accurate, complete, and current information
• to keep your sign-in credentials confidential and secure
• not to share access, sell account access, or allow others to use your account
• to be responsible for all activity that occurs under your account
• to notify us promptly at support@skiporship.com if you suspect any unauthorised access or security incident

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate any account at our reasonable discretion, including for breach of these Terms, security risk, abuse, fraud, payment failure, or where required by law.

5. Use of the Service

You agree not to, and not to permit any third party to:

• use the Service for any unlawful, fraudulent, harmful, deceptive, harassing, or abusive purpose
• submit content you are not authorised to share or that infringes the rights of others
• reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, models, or underlying ideas of the Service, except to the extent applicable law expressly prohibits such restrictions
• scrape, crawl, harvest, replicate, mirror, or extract data, content, scores, prompts, signals, or model outputs from the Service at scale, or use any automated means beyond reasonable individual interactive use
• use the Service or its outputs to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or benchmark any AI model, machine-learning system, or competing service, or to develop a product that competes with the Service
• interfere with, disrupt, overload, probe, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service, related systems, networks, or third-party providers
• circumvent, disable, or attempt to bypass any rate limits, abuse-prevention measures, payment systems, authentication, or access controls
• use the Service to develop, generate, distribute, or facilitate spam, malware, phishing, or other malicious content
• remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary, copyright, trademark, or other notice contained in the Service or its outputs

We may investigate suspected violations and may restrict, suspend, or terminate access without prior notice. We may cooperate with legal authorities, third-party providers, or affected parties in connection with any investigation.

6. Idea Submissions and Content

You retain ownership of the ideas, prompts, descriptions, brand names, feedback, and other content that you submit to the Service (“Customer Content”).

By submitting Customer Content, you grant SkipOrShip a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to host, store, copy, transmit, process, analyse, modify, display, and otherwise use the Customer Content as reasonably necessary to:

• operate, secure, support, and improve the Service
• generate, store, display, share, claim, reopen, and upgrade reports
• use necessary third-party providers (such as AI, hosting, data, or payments providers)
• create de-identified, aggregated, or statistical information that does not identify you or your Customer Content (which we may retain and use indefinitely)
• comply with applicable law, legal process, or enforce these Terms

You represent and warrant that you:

• own or have all rights necessary to grant the licence above
• have all consents required to share any personal information included in your Customer Content
• will not submit Customer Content that infringes intellectual property, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other rights of any third party

SkipOrShip is not a confidential disclosure system, NDA service, patent filing service, or secure vault. Do not submit:

• trade secrets or patentable inventions you wish to keep confidential
• confidential employer or client information
• NDA-protected or other contractually restricted material
• highly sensitive or regulated data such as health records, government identifiers, financial account numbers, payment card numbers, biometric data, or information about children
• passwords, private keys, or other authentication credentials

If you provide feedback, suggestions, or feature requests (“Feedback”), you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use that Feedback for any purpose without obligation or restriction.

7. AI and Automated Processing

The Service uses automated systems, machine-learning models, and large language models, some of which are operated by third-party providers. By using the Service, you acknowledge and agree that:

• outputs are generated probabilistically and may vary between runs
• outputs may contain errors, omissions, hallucinations, or biased content
• outputs may resemble or coincide with outputs generated for other users
• outputs are not professional advice and should not be relied on as definitive or guaranteed
• you are responsible for reviewing outputs and applying your own judgement before relying on, sharing, or acting on them

The Service may transmit relevant portions of your Customer Content to AI model providers, search and enrichment providers, hosting providers, and other processors necessary to generate your report. These providers handle data under their own terms and privacy practices, as described in our Privacy Policy.

We do not use the Service or its outputs to make decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects about you (such as decisions about employment, credit, insurance, housing, education, or access to essential services).

8. Free and Paid Features

The Service includes both free and paid features.

Free features may include:

• initial idea scoring and verdicts
• limited summaries and high-level analysis

Paid features may include:

• full report access and unlocked sections
• deeper analysis and brutal-analysis breakdowns
• real-world signals and premium validation checks
• brand, naming, and competitor signal extensions
• report credits or credit packs that apply to future paid reports

We may add, modify, restrict, or remove features at any time. Free features are provided as-is and may be changed, throttled, or discontinued without notice. Paid features may be subject to fair-use limits, eligibility checks, or anti-abuse controls.

9. Payments

Payments are processed by our third-party payment providers. By providing payment information or purchasing through the Service, you:

• agree to pay the price stated at the time of purchase, including applicable taxes and fees
• authorise us and our payment provider to charge your payment method
• represent that you are authorised to use the payment method provided
• agree to the terms of our payment provider, which apply to your payment in addition to these Terms

Prices are shown in the currency stated at checkout and may include or exclude taxes (such as VAT, GST, or sales tax) depending on your location and applicable law. We may collect and remit taxes where required.

Pricing, currencies, payment methods, and credit values may change at any time. Changes do not affect purchases already completed. You are responsible for any bank fees, currency conversion costs, or other charges your payment provider may apply.

We do not store full payment card numbers. We may store payment-related records such as customer IDs, payment IDs, credit balances, purchase metadata, invoice references, refund records, and dispute records as described in our Privacy Policy.

If a payment fails, is reversed, charged back, or disputed, we may suspend related access, recover the amount owed (including reasonable costs), and reverse any associated credits or unlocks.

10. No Refund Policy

Except where required by mandatory consumer-protection law in your jurisdiction, all purchases are final and non-refundable.

This is because reports and credits trigger immediate processing costs, including:

• AI model and inference costs
• third-party data, search, registry, and enrichment costs
• compute, hosting, and infrastructure costs
• payment processing and operational costs

Refunds may be considered, at our reasonable discretion, only where:

• a verified technical malfunction prevented delivery of the purchased report or credit
• a duplicate charge occurred due to a payment-system error
• the issue is reproducible and confirmed by us
• or where a refund is required by applicable law

We are not obliged to provide a refund based on:

• disagreement with the verdict, score, or content of a report
• expectations of business outcomes, returns, or follow-on results
• subjective interpretation of report findings
• change of mind after a report has been generated or a credit has been used

Where local consumer-protection law gives you a statutory right to cancel digital services, you may lose that right once you accept that the service has begun and acknowledge the loss of cancellation rights at checkout.

11. Third-Party Services and Data

The Service relies on third-party providers, which may include:

• AI model and inference providers
• cloud hosting, database, and storage providers
• authentication and identity providers
• payment, billing, and fraud-prevention providers
• search, registry, brand, and public-data providers
• email delivery, analytics, logging, and security providers

Your use of any third-party service may be subject to that provider's own terms and privacy practices, which are not under our control. We are not responsible for:

• availability, accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or reliability of third-party services or data
• changes, deprecations, suspensions, or outages of third-party services
• actions or omissions of third-party providers
• any loss arising from your reliance on third-party content or services

12. Availability and Changes

We may, at any time and without notice:

• modify, deprecate, or discontinue features or the entire Service
• perform scheduled or emergency maintenance
• restrict, throttle, or rate-limit access
• change pricing, payment methods, or available currencies
• apply security, abuse-prevention, sanctions, or compliance restrictions to all or part of the Service

We do not provide a service-level agreement and do not guarantee uninterrupted, error-free, or secure access to the Service. The Service may be unavailable due to maintenance, third-party outages, or events outside our reasonable control.

13. Intellectual Property

The Service, including all software, code, design, user interfaces, models, prompts, scoring logic, structures, copy, branding, logos, names, and content (excluding Customer Content), is owned by SkipOrShip or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property and other laws.

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to access and use the Service and to use the report outputs you generate for your own internal business or personal evaluation purposes.

You may not, without our prior written permission:

• copy, reproduce, distribute, or publicly display the Service or its outputs at scale
• modify, translate, adapt, or create derivative works based on the Service
• resell, rent, lease, sublicense, or otherwise commercially exploit the Service or its outputs
• use our names, logos, or trademarks except as expressly permitted
• frame, mirror, or republish the Service or any substantial portion of it

All rights not expressly granted in these Terms are reserved by SkipOrShip and its licensors. No implied licences are granted.

14. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Service and all outputs are provided on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis, without warranties or conditions of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including without limitation warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, completeness, quiet enjoyment, system integration, or uninterrupted operation.

We do not warrant that the Service will meet your requirements, that outputs will be accurate, reliable, timely, or fit for any particular use, that defects will be corrected, that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, or that any information obtained through the Service will be accurate.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall SkipOrShip, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, suppliers, or licensors be liable for any:

• indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages
• loss of profits, revenue, business, opportunity, anticipated savings, or goodwill
• loss of use, data, content, or files
• cost of substitute goods or services
• loss arising from your reliance on a report, score, signal, or output
• loss arising from third-party services, data, or content

These exclusions apply whether the claim is based on contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, statute, or any other theory, and whether or not we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the total aggregate liability of SkipOrShip and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, suppliers, and licensors arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you paid us for the Service in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred US dollars (USD 100).

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty disclaimers or limitations of liability; in those jurisdictions, the disclaimers and limitations apply to the maximum extent permitted by law and do not affect your statutory rights as a consumer.

15. Indemnification

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless SkipOrShip and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, suppliers, and licensors from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, judgments, fines, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees and costs) arising out of or related to:

• your access to or use of the Service
• your Customer Content or any content you submit, generate, or share through the Service
• your breach of these Terms or any applicable law
• your violation of any rights of a third party (including intellectual property and privacy rights)
• your business decisions or actions taken in reliance on the Service

We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which case you agree to cooperate with our defence. You may not settle any claim that imposes obligations on us without our prior written consent.

16. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time. Where you have an account, you may delete it from account settings, subject to retention requirements described in our Privacy Policy.

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the Service, in whole or in part, at any time:

• for actual or suspected breach of these Terms
• for abuse, fraud, security risk, payment failure, or chargeback
• where required by law, court order, or regulatory authority
• where required to protect the Service, our users, our providers, or third parties
• where the Service or a feature is discontinued

Upon termination, your right to access and use the Service ends immediately. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 2, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20, and 21) will continue to apply.

17. Privacy

Your use of the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, which describe how we collect, use, store, share, and protect information. By using the Service, you acknowledge that you have read those policies.

18. Changes to Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will:

• post the updated Terms with a revised “Last updated” date
• for material changes, take reasonable steps to notify you (for example, through the app, our website, or by email to your account address)

Your continued use of the Service after the updated Terms become effective means you accept the changes. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Service.

19. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms, and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with them, are governed by the laws applicable to the business operating SkipOrShip, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

Any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts in that jurisdiction, except where mandatory consumer-protection law in your country of residence provides otherwise.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you and SkipOrShip each waive any right to participate in a class action, class arbitration, or other representative proceeding.

20. General

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and SkipOrShip regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements on the same subject.

Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

No waiver. Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms is not a waiver of that right or provision.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any rights or obligations under them without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in whole or in part, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganisation, or sale of assets.

Force majeure. We will not be liable for any failure or delay in performance caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labour disputes, internet or telecommunications failures, third-party provider failures, or governmental actions.

Headings. Section headings are for convenience only and have no legal effect.

Notices. We may provide notices to you through the Service, by email to your account address, or by posting on our website. You agree that electronic notices satisfy any legal requirement that notices be in writing.

21. Contact

For questions about these Terms, contact us at:

support@skiporship.com