Terms of service

No professional advice

Housecarl Arbiter provides analysis only. The output is just one factor among many that you should consider when making your decisions. We do not provide financial, investment, or other professional advice.

“As is” disclaimer

The service is provided to you on an “as-is” basis for analysis only. We do not claim to be perfect due to the inherent ambiguity in assessing source reliability.

No guarantees

We do not warrant that our analysis is commercially reliable, nor that our implementation is completely bug-free. We only promise that the service will be generally fit for use, as per the conventional commercial standards of software.

Limit on damages

We are not liable for any financial losses or consequential damages (such as lost profits or business interruption) you incur due to your reliance on the analysis from Housecarl Arbiter.

Maximum liability

If we are found liable for any reason, our total liability to you will be strictly limited to the amount of service fees you paid us in the six months immediately preceding your claim.

Your responsibility for data

You warrant that you have all necessary rights and permissions to submit all content (Actors, Claims, and Evidence) derived from third-party sources like financial filings, news reports, and social media for processing. Your submission must not violate any third-party IP rights.

Data retention

One-off investigation submissions are processed ephemerally and not retained. Investigation sessions you create are stored until you delete them. We do not expire stored sessions on a timer — work you keep here stays until you remove it.

We reserve the right to enforce reasonable per-account storage limits, and to remove data held in free accounts that have been inactive for an extended period. Deleted data may persist in database backups for up to 30 days. See our Privacy Policy for full details. You are responsible for capturing and retaining any results you need for future reference.

Diagnostic data access

The Housecarl Arbiter team will only access the content of data submitted for analysis if you explicitly grant permission for diagnostic and debugging purposes related to a specific support request or service issue. Access, when granted, will be temporary and solely for the purpose of resolving the stated issue.

You are the publisher

You decide what to publish, when, and about whom. We host the page. We do not write it, review it before publication, or endorse its conclusions. Share pages are marked for exclusion from search engines, but they are reachable by anyone holding the link, and publishing one is a public act.

Your responsibility for what you publish

You are responsible for the content of anything you publish through the service, including statements about identifiable people and organizations. You must have a good-faith basis for what you publish, and you must comply with applicable law — including defamation, privacy, and data-protection law both in your own jurisdiction and in the jurisdictions of the people and organizations you name.

An Arbiter verdict is a measurement of the sources you supplied. It is not an independent finding of fact about the world, and it is not a defence to a claim arising from what you publish.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Upside Down Research and its officers, employees, and agents against any claim, demand, loss, liability, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of content you submit or publish through the service, or out of your breach of these terms. We will notify you promptly of any such claim, and you may participate in its defence.

Our right to unpublish

We may unpublish a share page at any time, with or without a complaint, and without adjudicating any dispute about it. Unpublishing is not a finding that the content was wrong. When we take a page down, the published snapshot is deleted and that investigation cannot afterwards be re-shared — you remain free to publish the material elsewhere.

No abuse or overuse

You agree not to disrupt the service. You must not exploit known or unknown limitations, such as sending requests that could harm the stability of our service.

No unauthorized access

You must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any user session or data.

Housecarl Arbiter is intended for open-source, journalistic, and scientific material. Users must not submit protected health information (PHI), government-issued identification numbers, authentication credentials, or other regulated personal data.