Terms of Service

Introduction

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of (a) the Trove website located at thetrove.io (or any successor website) and any related webpages, including, without limitation, public profile pages (collectively, the “Site”), and (b) the Trove peer-validated professional credibility platform and the products, features, functionality, and services made available through the Site (collectively, the “Services”). The Site and Services are provided by Trove Archive, Inc. (“Trove,” “we,” “our,” or “us”).

Acceptance. By accessing or using the Site or Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms. When you register for an account through the Site (an “Account”) or access or use certain Services, you may also be required to affirmatively accept these Terms by clicking “I agree” or a similar button or control. If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not access or use the Site or Services.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to access or use the Site or Services. By accessing or using the Site or Services, you represent and warrant that you meet this age requirement and have the legal capacity to agree to be bound by these Terms.

2. Account Registration

To access certain Services, you may be required to create an Account. When creating or maintaining your Account, you agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Account credentials and for all activity that occurs through your Account. You agree to notify us immediately at hello@thetrove.io if you suspect unauthorized access or use of your Account.

3. Acceptable Use

You may access and use the Site and Services only in compliance with these Terms and applicable law. You may not, directly or indirectly, engage in or attempt any of the following, or enable, encourage, or assist any other person to do so:

• access or use the Site or Services for any unlawful, fraudulent, deceptive, or unauthorized purpose;
• submit, publish, or otherwise make available any information that is false, misleading, fraudulent, or materially inaccurate, including any fabricated or misrepresented professional credential, qualification, experience, achievement, or affiliation;
• submit or publish any content that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any intellectual property, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, contractual, or other right of any person;
• impersonate any person or entity, falsely state or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person or entity, or access or use another user’s Account without authorization;
• harass, threaten, abuse, defame, or otherwise harm any person, or use the Site or Services to send spam or other unsolicited communications;
• gain or attempt to gain unauthorized access to any nonpublic portion of the Site or Services, any Account, or any system, network, server, database, or other resource connected to the Site or Services;
• probe, scan, or test the vulnerability or security of the Site or Services, or circumvent, disable, impair, or interfere with any authentication, access-control, rate-limiting, security, or other technical measure;
• interfere with, disrupt, damage, or overburden the operation or integrity of the Site or Services, including by transmitting any virus, malware, malicious code, denial-of-service attack, or other harmful component;
• reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, derive the source code of, or otherwise attempt to discover the underlying structure, ideas, algorithms, or technology of any portion of the Site or Services, except to the limited extent such restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
• remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, trademark, attribution, or other proprietary notice appearing on or through the Site or Services;
• create or use multiple Accounts to evade any restriction, suspension, rate limit, validation limit, or other control imposed by Trove; or
• use the Site, Services, profiles, validations, or data for any consumer-reporting or eligibility purpose prohibited under these Terms.

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Site or Services if you violate these Terms.

4. Intellectual Property

4.1 Trove Content

The Site and Services, including all software, technology, features, functionality, interfaces, designs, text, graphics, logos, icons, images, and other materials made available by or on behalf of Trove, but excluding User Content (collectively, “Trove Content”), are owned by Trove or its licensors and are protected by applicable law.

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Trove grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right to access and use the Site, Services, and Trove Content solely as made available by Trove and in accordance with these Terms. No other rights or licenses are granted, whether expressly, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise.

4.2 User Content

“User Content” means any information, materials, or other content that you submit, upload, provide, create, or otherwise make available through the Site or Services, including professional achievements, credentials, profile information, information submitted in connection with validation requests, and any content generated through the AI-Assisted Features based on or in response to information you provide (“AI-Assisted Content”).

As between you and Trove, you retain all right, title, and interest you may have in your User Content. To the extent Trove has any right, title, or interest in AI-Assisted Content, Trove assigns such right, title, and interest to you.

You grant Trove a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license, sublicensable to Trove’s service providers, including through multiple tiers, to host, store, reproduce, adapt, reformat, transmit, display, and otherwise use your User Content as reasonably necessary to provide, operate, maintain, secure, support, develop, and improve the Site and Services and to exercise Trove’s rights and perform its obligations under these Terms.

Trove may create aggregated or de-identified information derived from User Content and use or disclose that information for research, benchmarking, analytical, and service-improvement purposes, provided that the information cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

If you affirmatively choose to publish or otherwise make any User Content publicly available through your profile on the Site, that User Content will constitute “Public Profile Content.” Public Profile Content may include your name, profile fields, and published artifacts, but does not include any private or unpublished User Content or any validator’s name, initials, relationship information, response, or other information provided by or about a validator.

The foregoing license additionally includes the right to cache, publicly display, distribute, index, and otherwise make Public Profile Content available, including by licensing or sublicensing it to third-party providers of search, artificial-intelligence, large-language-model, and answer-engine products and services (collectively, “Data Partners”) for indexing, retrieval, grounding, training, fine-tuning, and surfacing or citing Public Profile Content in their products and outputs, in each case as described in and subject to your choices under our Privacy Policy. Trove may enter into and receive compensation under agreements relating to Public Profile Content.

To the extent Public Profile Content includes your name, image, likeness, biography, professional identity, or other identifying elements, the foregoing license includes the right to use those elements as part of and in connection with the permitted use of your Public Profile Content.

The license granted with respect to User Content continues for as long as the applicable User Content remains available through the Site or Services. If you delete User Content or terminate your Account, the applicable license will terminate, except that Trove may retain and use residual copies as reasonably necessary to complete pending operations, maintain backups, prevent fraud or abuse, resolve disputes, enforce these Terms, or comply with applicable law.

The additional rights granted with respect to Public Profile Content continue for as long as the applicable Public Profile Content remains publicly available through the Site. If you make your profile private or unpublish Public Profile Content, Trove will cease future disclosures of that content to Data Partners within a reasonable period and will instruct contracted Data Partners to delete or de-identify previously disclosed content as required under their agreements with Trove. Public Profile Content that has already been indexed, cached, or used to train or fine-tune a model may not be technically retrievable or deletable, and Trove cannot guarantee deletion by third parties that obtained the content independently.

4.3 AI-Assisted Features

Trove may offer features that use artificial intelligence to help structure, organize, summarize, format, or otherwise process your User Content (“AI-Assisted Features”).

You acknowledge that AI-Assisted Content may be inaccurate, incomplete, or similar to content generated for other users. You are responsible for reviewing and confirming the accuracy, completeness, and appropriateness of any AI-Assisted Content before publishing or otherwise using it.

4.4 Your Responsibilities for User Content

With respect to User Content that you submit, publish, or otherwise use through the Site or Services, you represent and warrant that:

• you own or otherwise have all rights, licenses, consents, and permissions necessary to submit your User Content and grant the rights described in these Terms;
• your User Content is truthful and accurate to the best of your knowledge;
• your User Content does not contain any confidential, proprietary, or trade-secret information of any third party, including any current or former employer, and does not breach any nondisclosure, confidentiality, non-disparagement, or other contractual obligation applicable to you;
• your User Content is not defamatory, libelous, fraudulent, or otherwise unlawful;
• your User Content does not misattribute to you any work performed by another person; and
• your User Content does not infringe, misappropriate, or otherwise violate any intellectual property, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other right of any person.

4.5 Copyright Infringement (DMCA)

Trove respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users to do the same. We will respond to valid notices of alleged copyright infringement in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), 17 U.S.C. § 512. If you believe any content on the Site or Services infringes a copyright you own or are authorized to act on behalf of, you may submit a takedown notice to our designated agent.

Submitting a Notice. A valid DMCA notice must include:

• your physical or electronic signature;
• identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed;
• identification of the material you claim is infringing and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate it (including the URL on Trove);
• your contact information (name, address, telephone number, and email address);
• a statement that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
• a statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.

Designated Agent. Send notices to our designated DMCA agent:

DMCA Agent, Trove Archive, Inc., 56 Broad St STE 79538, Boston, MA 02109
Email: dmca@thetrove.io

Incomplete or improperly addressed notices may not receive a response. Knowingly submitting a materially false notice may result in liability for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

Counter-Notification. If you believe your User Content was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notification to our designated agent containing:

• Your physical or electronic signature;
• Identification of the User Content that was removed and the location where it appeared before removal;
• A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the User Content was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification;
• Your name, address, and telephone number; and
• A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if your address is outside the United States, for any judicial district in which Trove may be found) and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notice or an agent of that person.

Upon receipt of a valid counter-notification, we may restore the removed User Content after 10 to 14 business days unless the original complainant notifies us that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the alleged infringement.

Repeat Infringers. We may, in appropriate circumstances, disable or terminate the Accounts of users who are repeat infringers.

5. Validators

Trove allows you to invite professional contacts with direct knowledge of your achievements (each, a “Validator”) to validate those achievements through the Services. If you use the validation features, you agree that:

• you will invite only individuals with whom you have a genuine professional relationship, who have direct knowledge of the achievement being validated, and whom you reasonably believe would expect to receive a validation request;
• all information you provide about a Validator, including the Validator’s name, email address, and professional relationship to you, will be accurate and complete;
• you will not pressure, coerce, or otherwise improperly influence any person to provide a validation or to provide a false or misleading validation;
• Validators are not required to respond to a validation request or create an Account;
• Trove may use the Validator’s name and email address to send the validation request and related reminders on your behalf, as described in our Privacy Policy, including the “Information for Validators” section; and
• Trove may limit validation requests, investigate suspected misuse of the validation features, and remove or decline to display any validation that Trove reasonably believes is fraudulent, coerced, inaccurate, or otherwise in violation of these Terms.

If a Validator responds to a validation request, the Validator’s first name, last initial, and confirmed professional relationship to you, together with an indication that the applicable achievement was validated, may be displayed with that achievement on your public profile. This information will be publicly available to anyone who views your profile but will not constitute Public Profile Content or be deliberately licensed or disclosed by Trove to Data Partners under Section 4.2.

A validation reflects the statements of the applicable Validator and does not constitute an independent verification, certification, or endorsement by Trove. Trove will provide Validators with notice describing how their information is collected, used, disclosed, and retained, and the rights and choices available to them, as further described in our Privacy Policy.

6. Profile Enrichment

Trove may offer an optional feature that uses a third party data enrichment provider to supplement your profile with publicly available professional information, such as your employment history, job titles, and education (“Profile Enrichment”).

Profile Enrichment will not be enabled unless you affirmatively opt in. You may review, correct, or remove enriched information from your profile and disable Profile Enrichment at any time.

Information removed from your Trove profile may remain available from the applicable enrichment provider or other third party sources that maintain such information independently of Trove. Our collection, use, and disclosure of information in connection with Profile Enrichment are described in our Privacy Policy.

7. Not a Consumer Reporting Agency

Trove is not a “consumer reporting agency” and does not provide “consumer reports,” as those terms are defined under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq. (“FCRA”). Trove is also not an investigative consumer reporting agency under the California Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act or any similar state law.

The Site, Services, profiles, artifacts, validations, and other information made available through the Site or Services are not intended to be used, in whole or in part, as a factor in determining any person’s eligibility for: (a) employment, promotion, reassignment, or retention; (b) credit or insurance; (c) housing or tenancy; or (d) any other purpose for which a consumer report may be used under the FCRA or any similar state law.

You may not use, or permit any other person to use, the Site, Services, profiles, artifacts, validations, or other information obtained through the Site or Services for any such purpose, including as part of any background check, screening process, or eligibility determination. Any such use constitutes a material breach of these Terms.

8. Waitlist and Pre-Release Features

If you join our waitlist, Trove may send you communications regarding the development, availability, and launch of the Services. You may unsubscribe from promotional communications at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in those communications.

Joining the waitlist does not guarantee access to the Services or any beta, early-access, or other pre-release feature. Any beta, early-access, or pre-release feature that Trove makes available may be modified, suspended, or discontinued at any time.

9. Disclaimer of Warranties

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SITE AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

We do not warrant that the Site or Services will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free of viruses or other harmful components. We do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information on the Site or Services.

Without limiting the foregoing, Trove does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or currency of any information obtained through Profile Enrichment, which may be derived from publicly available sources and third party providers and may be inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated. Trove also does not control, and is not responsible for, how third parties acting independently of Trove, including search engines and artificial-intelligence systems, index, cache, display, summarize, cite, or otherwise use Public Profile Content.

10. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, TROVE AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AND LICENSORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, USE, OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR ACCESS OR USE OF THE SITE OR SERVICES.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF TROVE AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AND LICENSORS FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS, THE SITE, OR THE SERVICES WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO TROVE, IF ANY, DURING THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM OR (B) ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100).

11. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Trove and its officers, directors, employees, agents, and affiliates from and against any third party claims, liabilities, damages, losses, judgments, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of or relating to: (a) your User Content, including Trove’s use of your User Content as permitted under these Terms; (b) your violation of these Terms or applicable law; (c) your infringement, misappropriation, or other violation of any third party right; or (d) your misuse of the Site or Services. Trove reserves the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which case you agree to cooperate with Trove in the defense of that matter.

12. Dispute Resolution Agreement – Arbitration and Class Action Waiver

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING YOUR RIGHT TO FILE A LAWSUIT IN COURT AND HAVE A JURY HEAR YOUR CLAIMS.

Except as expressly provided below, you and Trove agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Site, the Services, or any related communications or offerings, including the formation, interpretation, applicability, enforceability, breach, or termination of these Terms (each, a “Dispute”), will be resolved through individual, final, and binding arbitration administered by JAMS. Notwithstanding the foregoing, either party may bring an individual action in small claims court if the Dispute qualifies for that court’s jurisdiction and remains in that court on an individual basis. Nothing in this Section requires arbitration of any claim that applicable law prohibits from being subject to a pre-dispute arbitration agreement.

12.1 Informal Dispute Resolution

Before initiating arbitration, the party asserting a Dispute must provide the other party with written notice describing the nature and factual basis of the Dispute, the relief sought, and any relevant supporting documentation (a “Notice of Dispute”). A Notice of Dispute to Trove must be sent by first-class or registered mail to Trove Archive, Inc., 56 Broad St., STE 79538, Boston, MA 02109, or by email to hello@thetrove.io. Trove may send a Notice of Dispute to you at the email address or mailing address associated with your Account.

The Notice of Dispute must be personally signed by you or, if Trove is asserting the Dispute, by an authorized representative of Trove, using a handwritten or valid electronic signature. The parties will attempt in good faith to resolve the Dispute during the sixty (60)-day period following receipt of the Notice of Dispute.

Compliance with this Section 12.1 is a condition precedent to initiating arbitration. Any applicable statute of limitations will be tolled during the sixty (60)-day informal dispute-resolution period.

12.2 Arbitration Procedures

If the parties do not resolve the Dispute during the sixty (60)-day informal dispute-resolution period, either party may initiate arbitration. The arbitration will be administered by JAMS pursuant to the JAMS Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures and, where applicable, the JAMS Consumer Arbitration Minimum Standards, in each case as modified by this Section 12 (collectively, the “JAMS Rules”). The JAMS Rules are available on JAMS’s website.

The arbitration will be conducted by video conference unless the parties agree otherwise or the arbitrator determines that another format is appropriate under the JAMS Rules and applicable law. If JAMS is unavailable or unwilling to administer the arbitration, the parties will attempt in good faith to agree upon another arbitration provider. If the parties cannot agree, a court of competent jurisdiction will select the arbitration provider.

A party initiating arbitration must include with its arbitration demand the Notice of Dispute required under Section 12.1 and confirmation that the applicable informal dispute-resolution period has expired.

Except as expressly provided below, the arbitrator will have exclusive authority to resolve all issues relating to the Dispute, including the interpretation, applicability, enforceability, and scope of this Section 12 and whether a Dispute is subject to arbitration. Subject to applicable law, the state and federal courts located in the State of Delaware will have exclusive authority to determine:

• whether a party complied with the requirements of Section 12.1 and to enjoin an arbitration initiated without such compliance; and
• the enforceability of the waiver of class, collective, and representative actions and the treatment of any claim for public injunctive relief.

An arbitration award will have no preclusive effect in any other arbitration unless you and Trove were both parties to the arbitration resulting in that award.

12.3 Waiver of Jury Trial and Class, Collective, and Representative Actions

YOU AND TROVE EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO HAVE A DISPUTE RESOLVED IN COURT BEFORE A JUDGE OR JURY, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION 12.

Any arbitration will be conducted solely on an individual basis and not as a class, collective, consolidated, or representative action. The arbitrator may award relief only on an individual basis and only to the extent necessary to resolve the individual party’s Dispute.

Any claim for public injunctive relief that applicable law does not permit to be arbitrated on an individual basis will be severed from the arbitration and may be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction. All other arbitrable claims will remain subject to arbitration.

Except with respect to a claim for public injunctive relief as described above, if any portion of the waiver of class, collective, consolidated, or representative actions is found unenforceable with respect to a particular claim or request for relief, that claim or request for relief will be severed and resolved by a court of competent jurisdiction, and all remaining claims will be resolved through individual arbitration.

12.4 Mass Arbitration

If twenty-five (25) or more substantially similar arbitration demands are asserted against the same or related parties by claimants represented by the same counsel or by counsel acting in coordination, the demands will constitute a “Mass Arbitration.”

A Mass Arbitration will be administered pursuant to the JAMS Mass Arbitration Procedures and Guidelines, as modified by this Section 12.4. The demands will be grouped into batches of twenty-five (25), except that any remaining demands numbering fewer than twenty-five (25) will constitute a final batch. JAMS will appoint one arbitrator for each batch and assess one set of filing and administrative fees for each batch, regardless of the number of demands included in the batch.

If more than five hundred (500) demands are included in a Mass Arbitration, the demands will be grouped into batches of at least one hundred (100). If more than two thousand five hundred (2,500) demands are included in a Mass Arbitration, the demands will be grouped into batches of at least five hundred (500).

To the extent of any conflict between this Section 12.4 and the JAMS Mass Arbitration Procedures and Guidelines, this Section 12.4 will control, subject to applicable law and any applicable JAMS minimum standards.

12.5 Right to Opt Out

You may opt out of this Section 12 by sending Trove written notice within thirty (30) days after you first accept these Terms. Your opt-out notice must include your full name, the email address associated with your Account, your mailing address, your handwritten or valid electronic signature, and the words “Reject Arbitration.”

You may send the opt-out notice by email to hello@thetrove.io or by mail to: Trove Archive, Inc., 56 Broad St., STE 79538, Boston, MA 02109

If you timely opt out, neither you nor Trove will be bound by this Section 12, but all other provisions of these Terms will continue to apply.

If Trove makes a material change to this Section 12, you may reject that change by providing written notice through the same methods within thirty (30) days after Trove notifies you of the change. If you timely reject the change, the version of this Section 12 in effect immediately before the change will continue to govern any Dispute between you and Trove.

12.6 Governing Law

The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this Section 12 and all arbitration proceedings conducted under it. Except to the extent preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act or otherwise required by applicable law, these Terms and any Dispute will be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles.

Judgment on any arbitration award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

13. Termination

You may terminate your Account at any time through your Account settings or by contacting us at hello@thetrove.io. Termination of your Account will take effect immediately. If you have purchased access to any paid Services, the effect of termination on that access and any related fees will be governed by the terms disclosed to you at the time of purchase. Except as otherwise required by applicable law or expressly stated at the time of purchase, fees are nonrefundable.

We may suspend or terminate your Account or access to the Site or Services immediately if we reasonably believe that you have violated these Terms, your use of the Site or Services presents a security or legal risk, or suspension or termination is necessary to protect Trove, our users, or any third party. We may terminate your Account for any other reason by providing at least thirty (30) days’ prior notice to the email address associated with your Account.

Upon termination of your Account, your right to access and use your Account and any Services requiring an Account will cease. Termination will not relieve you of any obligation to pay fees, if any, accrued before the effective date of termination.

Any provision of these Terms that by its nature should survive termination will survive, including provisions concerning ownership, license grants to the extent expressly provided in Section 4.2, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnification, dispute resolution, and general legal terms.

Following termination or deletion of your Account, Trove will handle your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Previously published Public Profile Content may continue to be retained or used by Trove, Data Partners, or other third parties to the extent described in Section 4.2 and our Privacy Policy.

14. Feedback

If you provide Trove with any feedback, suggestions, ideas, or other information regarding the Site or Services (“Feedback”), you grant Trove a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, commercialize, and otherwise exploit that Feedback for any purpose without restriction, attribution, or compensation to you. Trove is not obligated to use any Feedback or to treat Feedback as confidential.

15. Changes to These Terms

We may modify or update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will post the updated version with the effective date on this page and, where required by applicable law, provide additional notice. We may also provide a hyperlink to the previous version of the Terms for reference.

Unless otherwise stated, updated Terms will become effective when posted. Your continued use of the Site or Services after the updated Terms become effective constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must stop using the Site and Services.

Any material change to Section 12 will also be subject to the notice and rejection provisions set forth in Section 12.5.

16. Force Majeure

We will not be liable for any delay or failure to perform any obligation under these Terms, or for any delay, interruption, or unavailability of the Site or Services, to the extent caused by events beyond our reasonable control. These events may include acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labor disputes, government actions, changes in law, power or telecommunications failures, internet or network disruptions, cyberattacks, failures of third party service providers, or other events beyond our reasonable control. We will use reasonable efforts to mitigate the effects of any such event.

17. Severability; Waiver

If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect. Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of that right or provision. Any waiver must be in writing and signed by an authorized representative of Trove.

18. Relationship of the Parties

Nothing in these Terms creates any partnership, joint venture, agency, employment, or fiduciary relationship between you and Trove. You and Trove are independent parties, and neither party has authority to bind the other.

19. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Trove regarding your use of the Site and Services, and supersede all prior agreements, understandings, and communications, whether written or oral.

20. Assignment

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

21. Contact Us

If you have questions about these Terms, please contact us at:

Trove Archive, Inc.
56 Broad St, STE 79538, Boston, MA 02109
Email: hello@thetrove.io