Terms of Service

Effective Date: July 8, 2025

Welcome to FirmFlare! These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the FirmFlare website, located at www.firmflare.com, and all related applications, features, content, and services (collectively, the "Services") provided by FirmFlare LLC ("FirmFlare," "we," "us," or "our").

By accessing or using our Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not access or use the Services.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years of age to use the Services. By agreeing to these Terms, you represent and warrant that you are of legal age to form a binding contract and meet all of the foregoing eligibility requirements.

2. Data Disclaimer

The data and information provided through the Services are made available on an "as-is" and "as-available" basis. FirmFlare makes no representations or warranties, express or implied, regarding the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or validity of the data. You acknowledge that you are solely responsible for conducting your own due diligence and for evaluating any business or information before entering into any transaction or making any decision.

3. User Accounts and Responsibilities

To access certain features, you may be required to create an account. You are responsible for safeguarding your account password and for all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account. You represent and warrant that all information you provide to us is your own, is accurate, and that your provision and our use of such information does not violate any laws, regulations, or third-party agreements.

4. User Content and Platform Data

You retain ownership of the raw data you submit to the Services. However, you agree that FirmFlare owns all data generated by the platform, including any aggregated, anonymized, or derivative data or products created from the data you provide ("Platform Data"). You grant FirmFlare the unrestricted right to use, modify, and commercialize this Platform Data for any business purpose.

5. Intellectual Property Rights

The Services and their entire contents, features, and functionality (including but not limited to all information, software, text, displays, images, video, and audio, and the design, selection, and arrangement thereof) are owned by FirmFlare, its licensors, or other providers of such material and are protected by international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws.

6. Limited License to Use the Services

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Services for your internal business purposes in accordance with these Terms. You agree not to copy, scrape, download, resell, or distribute the data for any commercial purpose without the express prior written consent of FirmFlare.

7. Prohibited Activities

You agree not to engage in any of the following prohibited activities:

  1. Copying, distributing, or disclosing any part of the Services in any medium.
  2. Using any automated system, including "robots," "spiders," or "scrapers," to access the Services in a manner that sends more request messages to our servers than a human can reasonably produce in the same period.
  3. Attempting to interfere with, compromise the system integrity or security of, or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Services.
  4. Using data obtained from the Services to create or power a commercial product or service that competes with FirmFlare.
  5. Reverse-engineering, decompiling, or otherwise attempting to discover the source code of the platform.
  6. Uploading invalid data, viruses, worms, or other software agents through the Services.

8. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless FirmFlare and its officers, directors, employees, agents, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your access to or use of the Services; (b) your violation of these Terms; (c) your user-provided content, including any claim of intellectual property infringement or violation of privacy rights; or (d) your violation of any applicable laws or regulations.

9. Termination

We may, in our sole discretion, suspend or terminate your access to the Services at any time, for any reason or no reason, without notice or liability to you. Upon termination, all rights and licenses granted to you under these Terms will immediately cease.

10. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL FIRMFLARE, ITS AFFILIATES, AGENTS, DIRECTORS, OR EMPLOYEES BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SERVICES.

11. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms shall be governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict of law principles. Any dispute arising from these Terms or your use of the Services shall be resolved exclusively through final and binding arbitration in Austin, Texas, administered by the American Arbitration Association in accordance with its Commercial Arbitration Rules.

12. Changes to Terms

We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. We will post the revised Terms on this page and update the "Effective Date" at the top. Your continued use of the Services after any such change constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms.

13. General Provisions

  1. Entire Agreement: These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and FirmFlare concerning the Services.
  2. Severability: If any provision of these Terms is deemed invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions, which shall remain in full force and effect.
  3. Waiver: No waiver of any term of these Terms shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term, and our failure to assert any right or provision under these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

14. Contact Information

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at: [email protected]