Terms of service

By signing into Hireposture you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not sign in. If you sign in on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to these terms.

Subject to these terms and your subscription tier, Startvest LLC (the operator of Hireposture) grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use Hireposture for your organization's internal compliance review of job descriptions during the subscription term.

The rule library, the review pipeline, the audit-trail data model, the methodology documentation, and all related software are owned by Startvest LLC. You receive no rights in the rule library beyond running reviews through it.

You retain all rights to the job descriptions you submit ("Customer Content"). You grant Startvest a limited license to process Customer Content solely to provide the service: run the review pipeline, produce findings, generate the memo, and write the audit trail. Findings, the memo, and the audit trail derived from your Customer Content are also yours.

We will not use Customer Content to train any model, will not share Customer Content with any third party except the subprocessors listed in the privacy notice for the limited purposes named there, and will not aggregate Customer Content across customers in any customer-facing surface.

You agree not to:

• Submit content that is not a job description or job-description fragment.
• Submit personally identifiable information (PII) about specific applicants or candidates. Job descriptions describe the role, not specific individuals.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the rule library or pipeline implementation.
• Resell, sublicense, or expose Hireposture to third parties as a managed service.
• Circumvent quota limits, rate-limiting, or audit-trail integrity controls.
• Use Hireposture to discriminate against any class protected under federal, state, or local law. Hireposture is a tool to reduce discrimination risk; using it to obscure intentional discrimination is a fundamental misuse and grounds for immediate termination.

Hireposture is an automated review tool. It is not legal advice and does not establish an attorney-client relationship. Findings produced by the system are descriptions of patterns matched against a rule library written from public EEOC enforcement guidance, public consent decrees, and Job Accommodation Network qualification-standards material. Findings are not legal conclusions. Consult qualified employment counsel before relying on Hireposture findings for any hiring decision.

Hireposture is provided as is and as available. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Startvest disclaims all express and implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, that all defects will be corrected, or that the rule library will surface every relevant compliance pattern.

The rule library at v0.1-bootstrap is pre-counsel-review. Claims of completeness should not be inferred from this status.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Startvest's total cumulative liability arising out of or relating to these terms or the service will not exceed the subscription fees you paid in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. In no event will Startvest be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including lost profits, lost data, or business interruption.

These limits do not apply to liabilities that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

For paid subscriptions, in the event Startvest produces a documented error in scan output or report bundle attributable to our system, you may request a pro-rated refund of the affected month. The exact mechanics will be specified in the MSA; the refund-on-failure principle is a standing operational guardrail. Free-tier and trial use is excluded.

Either party may terminate the subscription on 30 days' written notice. On termination:

• Your access to the live product ends.
• Audit trail rows and signed memos are retained per the 7-year retention floor described in the privacy notice and the service standards page. Retained data remains available for export during the wind-down window described there.
• Account identity records are deleted 90 days after termination unless legal hold applies.
• Any prepaid period after the termination date is refunded pro-rata.

Startvest may terminate immediately for material breach of these terms (including misuse described in section 4) without refund.

Startvest may modify these terms by posting an updated version with a new last-updated date. Material changes will be communicated to registered workspace admins by email at least 30 days before they take effect. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The exclusive venue for any dispute arising under these terms is the state and federal courts located in Delaware. Each party consents to personal jurisdiction in Delaware.

Where applicable consumer-protection law gives you the right to a different venue or governing law, that law controls.

Questions, MSA requests, or notices required under these terms: integrity@startvest.ai.