Terms of Use

01 / CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT

Agreement, Eligibility, and Acceptance of Terms

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) constitute a legally binding contract between you (whether an individual advocate, legal aid professional, security researcher, shelter administrator, or organizational representative) and Prosocial Coding, LLC (“Prosocial Coding,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), governing your access to and use of the Survivor Tech Review web application (located at this domain and associated subdomains, including the tool known as DVAppCheck) and all accompanying documentation, analysis engines, and report generation utilities (collectively, the “Service”).

BY ACCESSING, BROWSING, EVALUATING SOFTWARE WITH, OR EXPORTING REPORTS FROM THE SERVICE, YOU AFFIRMATIVELY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS IN THEIR ENTIRETY, YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY CEASE USING THE SERVICE.

Age and Capacity Eligibility

The Service is intended for professional advocates, attorneys, case managers, and adults seeking technology safety assessments. You represent and warrant that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age (or the age of legal majority in your jurisdiction) and possess the legal capacity to enter into these Terms. If you are under 18, you may only access the Service under the direct supervision of an adult victim advocate, legal guardian, or parent who agrees to be bound by these Terms.

02 / PROFESSIONAL INTEGRITY

Advocate Role and Mandatory Human-in-the-Loop Duty

Survivor Tech Review is intentionally architected as a decision-support copilot for human professionals. The Service assists victim advocates, attorneys, shelter case managers, and security researchers by rapidly parsing public software documentation, app store permissions, and privacy notices against a standardized survivor-safety framework.

As an essential condition of accessing the Service, you covenant and agree to uphold the following professional responsibilities:

• Mandatory Human Review: You agree that you will not present, deliver, or distribute any finding, report, or survivor handout to a client, court, or shelter resident without first manually reviewing, triaging, and verifying the findings using your own professional judgment.
• Verification of Citations: You agree to inspect the underlying source citations provided for each finding to ensure the context applies accurately to your survivor’s specific technological setup (e.g. distinguishing iOS vs. Android permissions, or personal accounts vs. workplace enterprise profiles).
• Sole Discretion Over Safety Recommendations: You acknowledge that you retain sole, non-delegable ethical and professional responsibility for any safety recommendations, technology modifications, court declarations, or shelter policies developed using outputs from the Service.

03 / CONFIDENTIALITY & STATUTORY BAN

Absolute Prohibition of Survivor Personally Identifiable Information

To maintain strict compliance with federal statutory standards and prevent any risk of data exposure through technical misuse:

1. Product Evaluation Only: Survivor Tech Review is designed exclusively to evaluate public commercial software, mobile apps, websites, and technical ecosystems by entering public URLs or company names. It is not an evidence locker, intake portal, case management database, or forensic cloud.
2. Strict Contractual Prohibition: You are strictly and contractually prohibited from entering, typing, pasting, uploading, or transmitting into the Service any personally identifiable information (“PII”) or protected victim data, including but not limited to:
   • Real legal names, aliases, or nicknames of victims, survivors, children, or abusers.
   • Physical addresses, shelter locations, safehouse coordinates, or workplace addresses.
   • Personal telephone numbers, personal email addresses, or social media handles.
   • Court case numbers, docket IDs, protective order filings, or police incident reports.
   • Device serial numbers, IMEI/MEID identifiers, MAC addresses, or personal Apple ID/Google Account logins.
   • Personal photographs, text message screenshots, audio recordings, or evidentiary files.
3. Review Chat Protocol: When utilizing the interactive Review Chat assistant, you covenant to query only software specifications, feature risks, and threat mitigations in the abstract. You must never describe specific case facts, names, or real-world identifying incidents.

04 / ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

Acceptable Use, Security Boundaries, and Anti-Surveillance Covenants

You agree to use Survivor Tech Review only for lawful, ethical, survivor-centered purposes. You agree not to engage in, attempt to engage in, or encourage any of the following prohibited activities:

• Prohibition on Coercive Surveillance & Stalking Facilitation: You affirmatively represent and warrant that you will not use the Service, its risk findings, or vulnerability summaries to audit or test stalkerware evasion techniques, identify surveillance vulnerabilities to exploit against an intimate partner or family member, or facilitate tech-facilitated abuse, harassment, or doxxing.
• Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) and Intranet Scanning: You shall not submit URLs targeting localhost, loopback addresses (127.0.0.1/8), private RFC 1918 subnets (10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16), link-local cloud metadata endpoints (including 169.254.169.254), or non-public internal network infrastructure. (Our backend enforces automated DNS resolution rebinding checks and private-subnet rejection via safeFetch; any attempt to bypass these controls is a material breach of these Terms).
• Open Proxy and Malicious Relaying: You shall not utilize the Service as an open proxy, anonymizing relay, or stepping stone to interact with third-party web servers or conceal illegal activity.
• Denial of Service & Automated Scraping: You shall not subject the Service to automated stress testing, vulnerability scanning, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, or excessive scripted queries intended to deplete infrastructure resources or bypass rate limits.
• Malicious Code Injection: You shall not submit payloads containing cross-site scripting (XSS), prompt injection attacks, malware, or destructive code.

05 / CRAWLER POLICY

Passive Fetching, Robots.txt, and Reviewer Attestations

In circumstances where public documentation or help pages for dual-use software are restricted by blanket robots.txt directives, the Service permits authorized reviewers to supply a signed cryptographic authorization token (siteToken HMAC-SHA256) to perform a direct, passive read of a specific public technical page:

Reviewer Attestation: If you utilize an override token or conduct research on restricted pages, you affirmatively warrant, represent, and certify that:

• You are an accredited victim advocate, academic scholar, legal counsel, or security researcher conducting bona fide digital safety evaluation.
• You are accessing only publicly served text without circumventing passwords, paywalls, or encryption mechanisms.
• Your review constitutes protected research and fair commentary under applicable United States law, including the fair use doctrine (17 U.S.C. § 107) and First Amendment public interest research protections.

06 / INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & LICENSING

Intellectual Property Rights and Permitted Report Licensing

1. Service Ownership

The Service, including its proprietary evaluation algorithms, Rubric scoring logic, software codebase, visual designs, brand emblems, and documentation, is the exclusive intellectual property of Prosocial Coding, LLC and is protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, and trade secret laws.

2. Royalty-Free License to Generated Reports

Prosocial Coding, LLC firmly believes in open civic technology and empowering survivor advocacy. We grant you a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, print, distribute, and display any technical reports, Markdown files, and Survivor Handouts generated through your use of the Service, subject to the following conditions:

• The materials are used for non-commercial victim advocacy, client safety planning, civil legal aid representation, academic scholarship, or public policy education.
• You retain the attribution notice indicating that the initial assessment was generated using the Survivor Tech Review framework (Rubric 0.3.0).
• You do not sell the generated reports as a standalone commercial product or represent that Prosocial Coding, LLC has individually certified your specific client safety plan.

07 / COPYRIGHT COMPLIANCE

DMCA Notice and Takedown Procedure (17 U.S.C. § 512)

Prosocial Coding, LLC respects the intellectual property rights of others and complies with the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512). Quotations, policy extracts, and app descriptions included in reviews are gathered from publicly indexed sources strictly for purposes of non-commercial commentary, criticism, and safety education under 17 U.S.C. § 107 (Fair Use).

If you are a copyright owner or an authorized agent who believes in good faith that any content or quotation accessible on Survivor Tech Review infringes your copyright, you may submit a formal notification pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) to our designated DMCA agent:

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your written notification must include substantially the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple works are covered by a single notice, a representative list of such works.
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity, including the exact URL or specific finding on Survivor Tech Review.
4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as your legal name, physical address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Statutory Misrepresentation Warning: Please note that under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing may be subject to liability for damages, including court costs and attorneys’ fees. Furthermore, copyright owners have a statutory duty under federal law (Lenz v. Universal Music Corp.) to consider fair use before issuing a takedown notice.

08 / RISK ALLOCATION

Limitation of Liability and Indemnification

BECAUSE SURVIVOR TECH REVIEW IS PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE AS A PUBLIC BENEFIT RESEARCH UTILITY, PROSOCIAL CODING, LLC’S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($100.00 USD) OR THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO PROSOCIAL CODING, LLC FOR ACCESS TO THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM ($0.00 USD).

Indemnification: You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Prosocial Coding, LLC, its officers, managers, members, employees, and open-source contributors from and against any third-party claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, or expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to:

• Your breach or alleged breach of any provision of these Terms.
• Your intentional or negligent submission of confidential survivor personally identifiable information in violation of Section 3.
• Your use or dissemination of generated reports in court proceedings, client safety planning, or regulatory complaints.

09 / JURISDICTION & DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Governing Law, Informal Dispute Resolution, and Class Action Waiver

These Terms and any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or related to them or the Service shall be governed by, construed, and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas, United States, without regard to its conflict of law principles.

1. Mandatory 30-Day Informal Dispute Conference

Before initiating any formal legal proceeding, you and Prosocial Coding, LLC agree to attempt in good faith to resolve any claim, controversy, or dispute arising under these Terms informally. The initiating party must send written notice to the other party describing the facts, nature of the dispute, and the specific relief requested. For notices to Prosocial Coding, LLC, send an email to hello@prosocialcoding.com with the subject line Notice of Dispute. Both parties agree to confer in good faith via video conference or telephone for at least thirty (30) calendar days following receipt of the notice before filing any lawsuit.

2. Exclusive Jurisdiction and Venue

If an informal resolution is not reached within 30 days, any legal action, suit, or proceeding arising under or relating to these Terms shall be instituted exclusively in the federal or state courts situated in the State of Texas, and each party irrevocably submits to the personal jurisdiction and exclusive venue of such courts.

3. Class Action and Representative Proceeding Waiver

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ALL CLAIMS AND DISPUTES MUST BE LITIGATED ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT ON A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, REPRESENTATIVE, OR PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL BASIS. YOU AND PROSOCIAL CODING, LLC MUTUALLY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO COMMENCE OR PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE OTHER.

Entire Agreement & Severability: These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and Prosocial Coding, LLC regarding the Service. If any provision of these Terms is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, such provision shall be severed or limited to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.