Terms and Conditions

Last Updated: 03/31/2024

This Agreement is between you ("User") and Socratic Mind.


The Socratic Mind website (the "Site"), with the domain name socraticmind.com, is operated by Socratic Mind and offers various products, services and applications (the "Services") under the terms and conditions outlined herein ("Terms"). By using the Site, you agree to these Terms. It's important to read them carefully and keep a copy for your reference.


Socratic Mind is an AI platform that allows customers of our assessment services ("Assessor") to invite students or job candidates ("Assessee") to engage in educational or evaluative dialogues.

Using Our Services

What You Can Do:

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, you may access and use our Services. In using our Services, you must comply with all applicable laws as well as our guidelines or policies we make available to you.


What You Cannot Do:

You may not use our Services for any illegal, harmful, or abusive activity. For example, you may not:

  • Use our Services in a way that infringes, misappropriates or violates anyone's rights.
  • Modify, copy, lease, sell or distribute any of our Services.
  • Attempt to or assist anyone to reverse engineer, decompile or discover the source code or underlying components of our Services, including our models, algorithms, or systems (except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law).
  • Automatically or programmatically extract data or Output (defined below).
  • Represent that Output was human-generated when it was not.
  • Interfere with or disrupt our Services, including circumvent any rate limits or restrictions or bypass any protective measures or safety mitigations we put on our Services.
  • Use Output to develop models that compete with Socratic Mind.

Content

Your Content
You may provide input to the Services ("Input"), and receive output from the Services based on the Input ("Output"). Input and Output are collectively "Content." You are solely responsible for the selection, content, and submission of all Input and the use, reproduction, distribution, storage, and other processing of the Output, including ensuring that it does not violate any applicable law or these Terms.

Our Use of Content
We may use Content to provide, maintain, develop, and improve our Services, comply with applicable law, enforce our terms and policies, and keep our Services safe.

Accuracy
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are rapidly evolving fields of study. We are constantly working to improve our Services to make them more accurate, reliable, safe, and beneficial. Given the probabilistic nature of machine learning, use of our Services may, in some situations, result in Output that does not accurately reflect real people, places, or facts. You acknowledge and agree that due to the nature of artificial intelligence, Output might be the same as or similar to data, information, content, or output provided to others.

When you use our Services you understand and agree:

  • Output may not always be accurate. You should not rely on Output from our Services as a sole source of truth or factual information.
  • You must evaluate Output for accuracy and appropriateness for your use case, including using human review as appropriate, before using or sharing Output from the Services.
  • Our Services may provide incomplete, incorrect, or offensive Output that does not represent Socratic Mind's views. If Output references any third party products or services, it doesn't mean the third party endorses or is affiliated with Socratic Mind.
  • Both Assessor and Assessee acknowledge that the final decisions made based on the assessments conducted through our services are Assessor's sole responsibility. Assessor must exercise professional judgment and discretion in interpreting and acting upon the results provided by Socratic Mind's services. It is the Assessor's responsibility to ensure that their use of the services complies with all applicable laws, regulations, and ethical standards relevant to their field or context of decision-making.

Prohibited Use and Intellectual Property

You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Site strictly in accordance with these terms of use. As a condition of your use of the Site, you warrant to Socratic Mind that you will not use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. You may not use the Site in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Site.

All content included as part of the Service, such as text, graphics, logos, images, music, as well as the compilation thereof, and any software used on the Site, is the property of Socratic Mind or its suppliers and protected by copyright and other laws that protect intellectual property and proprietary rights. You agree to observe and abide by all copyright and other proprietary notices, legends or other restrictions contained in any such content and will not make any changes thereto. You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found on the Site.

Socratic Mind content is not for resale. Your use of the Site does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and in particular you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You will use protected content solely for your personal use, and will make no other use of the content without the express written permission of Socratic Mind and the copyright owner. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of Socratic Mind or our licensors except as expressly authorized by these Terms.

Content License Policy

In order to display your Input on the Services, and to allow other users to access them (where applicable), you grant Socratic Mind, our affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees certain rights in those Input (see below for more information). Please note that all of the following licenses are subject to our Privacy Policy to the extent they relate to your personally-identifiable information.

License to Socratic Mind:

By submitting Input through the Services, you hereby do and shall grant Socratic Mind a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable license to use, edit, modify, truncate, aggregate, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, perform, and otherwise fully exploit the Content in connection with this site, the Services and our (and our successors' and assigns') businesses, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of this site or the Services (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels (including, without limitation, third party websites and feeds), and including after your termination of your account or the Services. No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Input, as provided herein. Socratic Mind is under no obligation to post or use any Input and may remove any Input at any time in Socratic Mind's sole discretion. In addition, you understand and agree that Socratic Mind, in performing the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users (including you), may need to make changes to your Input to conform and adapt those User Submissions to the technical requirements of connection networks, devices, services, or media, and the foregoing licenses include the rights to do so.

License to Assessors:

Each Assessee hereby does and shall grant the Assessor who invited such Assessee to Socratic Mind, and other Customers of Socratic Mind, as such Assessee's may authorize, a non-exclusive, perpetual license to access such Assessee's Input through this site and/or the Services.

The foregoing license grants to us and our users do not affect your other ownership or license rights in your Input, including the right to grant additional licenses to your Input, unless otherwise agreed in writing. You represent and warrant that you have all rights to grant such licenses to us without infringement or violation of any third party rights, including without limitation, any privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademarks, contract rights, or any other intellectual property or proprietary rights.

Privacy Policy

Your use of the Site is also governed by the Socratic Mind's Privacy Policy. Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs the Site and informs users of our data collection practices.

Electronic Communications

Visiting the Site, creating content or sending emails to Socratic Mind constitute electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically, via email and on the Site, satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

Account Responsibility

If you use the Site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You may not assign or otherwise transfer your account to any other person or entity. You acknowledge that Socratic Mind is not responsible for third party access to your account that results from theft or misappropriation of your account. Socratic Mind and its associates reserve the right to refuse or cancel service, terminate accounts, or remove or edit content in our sole discretion.

Users Under Age Eighteen

Socratic Mind requires all logged-in users to indicate whether they are 18 years of age, or under 18 years of age, at the time that they sign-in. We are undertaking all practicable steps to anonymize the activity of users under the age of eighteen. More information can be found in our Privacy Policy.

Cancellation Policy

Accounts can be canceled at any time by contacting ray@socraticmind.com.

Links and Third-Party Services

The Site may contain links to other websites ("Linked Sites"). The Linked Sites are not under the control of Socratic Mind and Socratic Mind is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. Socratic Mind is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Socratic Mind of the site or any association with its operators. Certain services made available via Socratic Mind are delivered by third party sites and organizations. By using any product, service or functionality originating from the socraticmind.com domain, you hereby acknowledge and consent that Socratic Mind may share such information and data with any third party with whom Socratic Mind has a contractual relationship to provide the requested product, service or functionality on behalf of its users and customers.

Disclaimer of Guarantees

The AI-based assessments provided on Socratic Mind are supplied "as is," without any guarantees, representations, or warranties, express or implied, regarding their accuracy, reliability, or correctness. The assessments generated by AI technologies are intended to support human judgment and not to serve as a definitive basis for any decision-making. Users acknowledge that discrepancies may exist between AI-generated outcomes and human assessments and agree that Socratic Mind shall not be held responsible for any reliance placed on these AI-generated assessments.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Socratic Mind, its officers, directors, employees, agents and third parties, for any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorney's fees) relating to or arising out of your use of or inability to use the Site or services, any user submission made by you, assessment outcomes and decision-making based upon Content, your violation of any terms of this Agreement or your violation of any rights of a third party, or your violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations. Socratic Mind reserves the right, at its own cost, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will fully cooperate with Socratic Mind in asserting any available defenses. This indemnification obligation will survive the termination or expiration of this agreement and your use of the Service.

Arbitration

In the event the parties are not able to resolve any dispute between them arising out of or concerning these Terms and Conditions, or any provisions hereof, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise at law or in equity for damages or any other relief, then such dispute shall be resolved only by final and binding arbitration pursuant to the Federal Arbitration Act, conducted by a single neutral arbitrator and administered by the American Arbitration Association, or a similar arbitration service selected by the parties, in a location mutually agreed upon by the parties. The arbitrator's award shall be final, and judgment may be entered upon it in any court having jurisdiction. In the event that any legal or equitable action, proceeding or arbitration arises out of or concerns these Terms and Conditions, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover its costs and reasonable attorney's fees. The parties agree to arbitrate all disputes and claims in regards to these Terms and Conditions or any disputes arising as a result of these Terms and Conditions, whether directly or indirectly, including Tort claims that are a result of these Terms and Conditions. The parties agree that the Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this provision. The entire dispute, including the scope and enforceability of this arbitration provision shall be determined by the Arbitrator. This arbitration provision shall survive the termination of these Terms and Conditions.

Class Action Waiver

Any arbitration under these Terms and Conditions will take place on an individual basis; class arbitrations and class/representative/collective actions are not permitted. THE PARTIES AGREE THAT A PARTY MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN EACH'S INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PUTATIVE CLASS, COLLECTIVE AND/ OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING, SUCH AS IN THE FORM OF A PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTION AGAINST THE OTHER. Further, unless both you and Socratic Mind agree otherwise, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding.

Liability Disclaimer

THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. SOCRATIC MIND AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE SITE AT ANY TIME.

SOCRATIC MIND AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS CONTAINED ON THE SITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ALL SUCH INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND. SOCRATIC MIND AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL SOCRATIC MIND AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE, WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR RELATED SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE SITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF SOCRATIC MIND OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE SITE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE.

Termination and Jurisdiction

Socratic Mind reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the Site and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice. To the maximum extent permitted by law, this agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, and you hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in Georgia in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the Site. Use of the Site is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these Terms, including, without limitation, this section. You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and Socratic Mind as a result of this agreement or use of the Site.

You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and Socratic Mind as a result of this agreement or use of the Site. Socratic Mind's performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of Socratic Mind's right to comply with governmental, court, and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the Site or information provided to or gathered by Socratic Mind with respect to such use.

If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect. Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and Socratic Mind with respect to the Site and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral, or written, between the user and Socratic Mind with respect to the Site.

A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish of the parties that this agreement and all related documents be written in English.

Changes to Terms

Socratic Mind reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change the Terms under which the Site is offered, for example, to reflect changes to the law or changes to our Services. The most current version of the Terms will supersede all previous versions, and we may notify you about material changes by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and by updating this page. By continuing to use our Services after such modifications are posted, you agree to be bound by such modifications.

Contact Information

Socratic Mind welcomes your questions or comments regarding the Terms: ray@socraticmind.com.