A. Definitions

1. The “Contract” refers, collectively, to all the terms, conditions, notices contained or referenced in this document (the “Terms of Service” or the “Terms”) and all other operating rules, policies (including the Specific Privacy Statement, available at specific.app/legal/privacy) and procedures that we may publish from time to time on the Website.

2. The “Service” refers to the productivity tools, applications, software, products, Website, and services provided by Specific.

3. The “Website” refers to Specific’s website located at specific.app, and all content, services, and products provided by Specific at or through the Website. It also refers to Specific-owned subdomains of specific.app. Occasionally, websites owned by Specific may provide different or additional terms of service. If those additional terms conflict with this Contract, the more specific terms apply to the relevant page or service.

4. “Workspace” refers to the Workspace Owner’s instance of the Services.

5. The “User,” “You,” “Your,” refers to the individual person, company, or organization that has visited or is using the Website or Service; that accesses or uses any part of the account; or that directs the use of the account in the performance of its functions.

   • “Workspace Owner” refers to the User that is the primary owner and administrator of the Workspace. The User who controls any Content associated to the Workspace and is responsible for payments on the payment plan.

   • “Authorized User” refer to the User who has been granted access to a Workspace by Workspace Owner, administrators or other users.

   • “Administrator” refers to the Authorized User who has been granted additional administrative permissions.

6. “Specific,” “We,” and “Us” refer to Specific Technologies Inc., as well as our affiliates, directors, subsidiaries, contractors, licensors, officers, agents, and employees.

7. “Content” refers to content featured or displayed through our productivity tools, workspaces, pages and the content inside them, the Website, including without limitation text, data, articles, images, photographs, graphics, software, applications, designs, features, and other materials that are available on the Website, tools or otherwise available through the Service. “Content” also includes Services. “User-Generated Content” is Content, written or otherwise, created or uploaded by our Users such as pages, attachments or folders. “Paid Content” is Content only available to Users who are participating in a payment plan.

B. Account Terms

Short version: A human must create your account; and you must provide a valid email address. You alone are responsible for your account and anything that happens while you are signed in to or using your account. You are responsible for keeping your account secure.

1. These “Terms of Service” Form a Part of a Binding “Contract”

These Terms of Service (or, if applicable, your written agreement with us) and Privacy Policy together form a legally binding “Contract” between the You and Us.

2. Required Information

You must provide a valid email address in order to complete the signup process. Any other information requested, such as your real name, is optional, unless you are accepting this Contract on behalf of a legal entity or if you opt for a paid account, in which case additional information will be necessary for billing purposes.

3. Account Requirements

We have a few simple rules for accounts on Specific’s Service.

• You must be a human to create an account. Accounts registered by “bots” or other automated methods are not permitted.

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• If you are a resident of the United States, you must be age 13 or older. If you are a resident of a country outside the United States, your country’s minimum age may be older; in such a case, you are responsible for complying with your country’s laws.

• Your login may only be used by one person — i.e., a single login may not be shared by multiple people.

• Overall, the number of Users must not exceed the number of accounts you’ve ordered from us.

4. User Account Security

You are responsible for keeping your account secure while you use our Service. The content of your account and its security are up to you.

• You are responsible for all content posted and activity that occurs under your account.

• You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and password. Specific cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage from your failure to comply with this security obligation.

• You will promptly notify Specific if you become aware of any unauthorized use of, or access to, our Service through your account, including any unauthorized use of your password or account.

• If you are a Workspace Owner, you are responsible for Authorized Users in your workspace, including for any breaches of this Contract caused by the Authorized Users. We may terminate the Contract immediately on notice to you if we reasonably believe that the Services are being used by you or the Authorized Users in violation of applicable law or this Contract.

5. Additional Terms

In some situations, third parties’ terms may apply to your use of Specific. For example, you may be a member of a Workspace on Specific with its own terms or license agreements; you may download an application that integrates with Specific; or you may use Specific to authenticate to another service. Please be aware that while this Contract is our full agreement with you, other parties’ terms govern their relationships with you.

6. Non-Specific product

Our Services include a platform that third parties may use to develop applications and software that complement your use of the Services (each, a “Non-Specific Product”). We also maintain a directory called the Specific Extensions or Plug-ins where some Non-Specific Products are available for installation. THESE ARE NOT OUR SERVICES, SO WE DO NOT WARRANT OR SUPPORT NON-SPECIFIC PRODUCTS, AND, ULTIMATELY, YOU (AND NOT US) WILL DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT TO ENABLE THEM. ANY USE OF A NON-SPECIFIC PRODUCT IS SOLELY BETWEEN YOU AND THE APPLICABLE THIRD PARTY PROVIDER.

If a Non-Specific Product is enabled for your workspace, please be mindful of any Content that will be shared with the third party provider and the purposes for which the provider requires access. We will not be responsible for any use, disclosure, modification or deletion of your Content that is transmitted to, or accessed by, a Non-Specific Product.

7. Beta Services

Occasionally, we look for beta testers to help us test our new features. These features will be identified as “beta” or “pre-release,” or words or phrases with similar meanings (each, a “Beta Services”). Beta Services may not be ready for prime time so they are made available “as is,” and any warranties or contractual commitments we make for other Services do not apply. Should you encounter any faults with our Beta Services, we would love to hear about them; our primary reason for running any beta programs is to fix issues before making a new feature widely available.

SPECIFIC WILL HAVE NO LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH ALPHA AND BETA SERVICES - PLEASE USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

C. Acceptable Use

Short version: Specific hosts a wide variety of collaborative projects from all over the world, and that collaboration only works when our users are able to work together in good faith. While using the service, you must follow this Acceptable Use Policy, which includes some restrictions on content you can post, conduct on the service, and other limitations. In short, be excellent to each other.

1. Compliance with Laws and Regulations

Your use of the Website and Service must not violate any applicable laws, including copyright or trademark laws, export control laws, or other laws in your jurisdiction. You are responsible for making sure that your use of the Service is in compliance with laws and any applicable regulations.

2. Content Restrictions

You agree that you will not under any circumstances upload, post, host, or transmit any content that:

• is unlawful or promotes unlawful activities;

• is or contains sexually obscene content;

• is libelous, defamatory, or fraudulent;

• is discriminatory or abusive toward any individual or group;

• contains or installs any active malware or exploits, or uses our platform for exploit delivery (such as part of a command and control system); or

• infringes on any proprietary right of any party, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other rights.

3. Conduct Restrictions

While using Specific, you agree that you will not under any circumstances:

• harass, abuse, threaten, or incite violence towards any individual or group, including Specific employees, officers, and agents, or other Specific Users;

• use our servers for any form of excessive automated bulk activity (for example, spamming), or relay any other form of unsolicited advertising or solicitation through our servers, such as get-rich-quick schemes;

• attempt to disrupt or tamper with Specific’s servers in ways that could harm our Website or Service, to place undue burden on Specific’s servers through automated means, or to access Specific’s Service in ways that exceed your authorization;

• impersonate any person or entity, including any of our employees or representatives, including through false association with Specific, or by fraudulently misrepresenting your identity or site’s purpose; or

• violate the privacy of any third party, such as by posting another person’s personal information without consent.

4. Services Usage Limits

You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service without Specific’s express written permission.

5. Privacy

Misuse of Specific Users’ Personal Information is prohibited.

Any person, entity, or service collecting data from Specific must comply with the Specific Privacy Statement, particularly in regards to the collection of our Users’ Personal Information (as defined in the Specific Privacy Statement). If you collect any Specific User’s Personal Information from Specific, you agree that you will only use the Personal Information you gather for the purpose for which our User has authorized it. You agree that you will reasonably secure any Personal Information you have gathered from Specific, and you will respond promptly to complaints, removal requests, and “do not contact” requests from Specific or Specific Users.

6. Excessive Bandwidth Use

If we determine your bandwidth usage to be significantly excessive in relation to other Specific users, we reserve the right to suspend your account or throttle your file hosting until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption.

7. User Protection

You agree not to engage in activity that significantly harms our Users. We will resolve disputes in favor of protecting our Users as a whole.

8. Software

Some of our Services allow you to download client software (“Software”) which may update automatically. So long as you comply with this Contract, we give you a limited, nonexclusive, nontransferable, revocable license to use the Software, solely to access the Services. To the extent any component of the Software may be offered under an open source license, we’ll make that license available to you and the provisions of that license may expressly override some of these Terms. Unless the following restrictions are prohibited by law, you agree not to reverse engineer or decompile the Services, attempt to do so, or assist anyone in doing so.

D. User-Generated Content

Short version: Workspace Owner owns the content created by Authorised Users, but allows us certain rights to it, so that we can display and share the content. You and the Workspace Owner still have control over your content, and responsibility for it, and the rights you grant us are limited to those we need to provide the service. We have the right to remove content or close accounts if we need to.

1. Responsibility for User-Generated Content

You may create User-Generated Content while using the Service. You are solely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, any Content that you post, upload, link to or otherwise make available via the Service, regardless of the form of that Content. We are not responsible for any public display or misuse of your Content.

2. Ownership of Content, Right to Post and Sharing

The Content you create belongs to the Workspace Owner. Workspace Owner owns all Content in the workspace created and owned by Authorized Users belonging to that workspace.

You retain responsibility for Content you create. If you’re posting anything you did not create yourself, you agree that you will only submit Content that you have the right to post, and you will fully comply with any third party licenses relating to Content you post.

Our Services let you share your Content with others, so please think carefully about what you share.

3. Specific May Remove Content

We do not pre-screen User-Generated Content, but we have the right (though not the obligation) to refuse or remove any User-Generated Content that, in our sole discretion, violates any Specific Terms or policies.

4. License Grant to Us

We need the legal right to do things like host your Content, publish it, and share it. You grant us and our legal successors the right to store and display your Content and make incidental copies as necessary to render the Website and provide the Service.

That means you’re giving us the right to do things like reproducing your content (so we can do things like copy it to our database and make backups); display it (so we can do things like show it to you and other users); modify it (so our server can do things like parse it into a search index); distribute it (so we can do things like share it with other users); and perform it (in case your content is something like music or video).

This license does not grant Specific the right to sell your Content or otherwise distribute it outside of our Service.

5. License Grant to Other Users

Any Content you post publicly, including comments, and contributions to other Users’ Content, may be viewed by others. By setting your Content to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view your Content.

If you set your Content to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of Specific a nonexclusive, worldwide license to access your Content through the Specific Service, and to use, display and perform your Content, and to reproduce your Content solely on Specific as permitted through Specific’s functionality.

6. Contributions Under Page License

Whenever you make a contribution to a page containing notice of a license, you license your contribution under the same terms, and you agree that you have the right to license your contribution under those terms. If you have a separate agreement to license your contributions under different terms, such as a contributor license agreement, that agreement will supersede.

Isn’t this just how it works already? Yep. This is widely accepted as the norm in the open-source community; it’s commonly referred to by the shorthand “inbound=outbound”. We’re just making it explicit.

7. Moral Rights

You retain all moral rights to Content you upload, publish, or submit to any part of the Service, including the rights of integrity and attribution. However, you waive these rights and agree not to assert them against us, to enable us to reasonably exercise the rights granted in Section D.4, but not otherwise. You understand that you will not receive any payment for any of the rights granted in this Section.

To the extent such an agreement is not enforceable by applicable law, you grant Specific a nonexclusive, revocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to (1) use the Content without attribution strictly as necessary to render the Website and provide the Service; and (2) make reasonable adaptations of the Content as provided in this Section. We need these rights to allow basic functions like search to work.

8. Privacy of User-Generated Content

Specific allows Users to control access to their Content. Specific employees only access User-Generated Content when access is required for security or maintenance or for support reasons, and then only with the consent of the Content owner. Because we respect your privacy in your private Content, you must respect these Terms of Service in everything you post as a private Content. If we have reason to believe the contents of a private Content are in violation of the law or of these Terms, we have the right to remove them.

9. Specific Workspaces

Email address. If you sign up for a Specific account with an email address provisioned by your organization, your organization may be able to block your use of Specific until you transition to an account on a Specific Workspace or you associate your Specific account with a personal email address.

Using Specific Workspaces. If you join a Specific workspace, you must use it in compliance with your workspace owner’s (organization’s) terms and policies. Please note that Specific workspace accounts are subject to your organization’s control. Your administrators may be able to access, disclose, restrict, or remove information in or from your Specific workspace account. They may also be able to restrict or terminate your access to a Specific workspace account. If you convert an existing Specific account into part of your organization’s Specific workspace, your administrators may prevent you from later disassociating your account from the Specific workspace.

E. Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy

If you believe that content on our website violates your copyright, please contact us in accordance with our Digital Millennium Copyright Act Policy. If you are a copyright owner and you believe that content on Specific violates your rights, please contact us by emailing support@specific.app. There may be legal consequences for sending a false or frivolous takedown notice. Before sending a takedown request, you must consider legal uses such as fair use and licensed uses.

We will terminate the accounts of repeat infringers of this policy.

F. Intellectual Property Notice

Short version: We own the service and all of our content. In order for you to use our content, we give you certain rights to it, but you may only use our content in the way we have allowed.

1. Specific's Rights to Content

Specific and our licensors, vendors, agents, and/or our content providers retain ownership of all intellectual property rights of any kind related to the Website and Service. We reserve all rights that are not expressly granted to you by this Contract or by law. The look and feel of the Website and Service is copyright © Specific Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. You may not duplicate, copy, or reuse any portion of the HTML/CSS, Javascript, or visual design elements or concepts without express written permission from Specific.

G. API Terms

Short version: You agree to these Terms of Service, plus this Section G, when using any of Specific’s APIs (Application Provider Interface), including use of the API through a third-party product that accesses Specific.

1. Limitation of Liability for API Use

You understand and agree that Specific is not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including but not limited to damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses (even if Specific has been advised of the possibility of such damages), resulting from your use of the API or third-party products that access data via the API.

2. No Abuse or Overuse of the API

Abuse or excessively frequent requests to Specific via the API may result in the temporary or permanent suspension of your account’s access to the API. Specific, in our sole discretion, will determine abuse or excessive usage of the API. We will make a reasonable attempt to warn you via email prior to suspension.

You may not share API tokens to exceed Specific’s rate limitations.

You may not use the API to download data or Content from Specific for spamming purposes, including for the purposes of selling Specific users’ personal information, such as to recruiters, headhunters, and job boards.

All use of the Specific API is subject to these Terms of Service and the Specific Privacy Statement.

Specific may offer subscription-based access to our API for those Users who require high-throughput access or access that would result in resale of Specific’s Service.

3. Specific May Terminate Your Use of the API

We reserve the right at any time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, your access to the API or any part of it with or without notice.

J. Payment

Short version: You are responsible for any fees associated with your use of Specific. We are responsible for communicating those fees to you clearly and accurately, and letting you know well in advance if those prices change.

1. Pricing

Our pricing and payment terms will be. If you agree to a subscription price, that will remain your price for the duration of the payment term; however, prices are subject to change at the end of a payment term.

2. Payment Terms

If you purchase our Services, fees are specified at the Services interface “check-out” and in the Order Form(s) — and must be paid in advance. Payment obligations are non-cancelable and, except as expressly stated in the Contract, fees paid are non-refundable. For clarity, in the event you downgrade any subscriptions from a paid plan to a free plan, you will remain responsible for any unpaid fees under the paid plan, and Services under the paid plan will be deemed fully performed and delivered upon expiration of the initial paid plan subscription term.

Fees are stated exclusive of any taxes, levies, duties, or similar governmental assessments of any nature, including, for example, value-added, sales, use or withholding taxes, assessable by any jurisdiction (collectively, “Taxes”). You will be responsible for paying all Taxes associated with your purchases, except for those taxes based on our net income. Should any payment for the Services be subject to withholding tax by any government, you will reimburse us for such withholding tax.

In order to treat everyone equally, no exceptions will be made.

3. Downgrade

If any fees owed to us by You (excluding amounts disputed reasonably and in good faith) are thirty (30) days or more overdue, we may, without limiting our other rights and remedies, downgrade any fee-based Services to free plans until those amounts are paid in full, so long as we have given you ten (10) or more days’ prior notice that your account is overdue. You acknowledge and agree that a downgrade will result in a decrease in certain features and functionality and potential loss of access to Content, as illustrated by comparing the plans in the Pricing Guide.

4. Authorization

By agreeing to this Contract, you are giving us permission to charge your on-file credit card, PayPal account, or other approved methods of payment for fees that you authorize for Specific.

5. Responsibility for Payment

You are responsible for all fees, including taxes, associated with your use of the Service. By using the Service, you agree to pay us any charge incurred in connection with your use of the Service. If you dispute the matter, contact Specific Support. You are responsible for providing us with a valid means of payment for paid accounts. In a free plan you are not required to provide payment information.

K. Cancellation and Termination

Short version: You may close your account at any time. If you do, we’ll treat your information responsibly.

1. Account Cancellation

It is your responsibility to properly cancel your account with Specific. You can cancel your account at any time by going into your Account Settings. The Account screen provides a simple, no questions asked cancellation link. We are not able to cancel accounts in response to an email or phone request.

If you are the Workspace Owner, you will be asked to designate a new Workspace Owner or to delete the Workspace.

2. Workspace deletion

Deleting a Specific workspace cannot be undone. Everyone will lose access to the workspace and all User-Generated Content and files will be irretrievable. Please use caution and consider exporting your data before deletion.

3. Specific May Terminate

Specific has the right to suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website and Service at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. Specific reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.

4. Survival

All provisions of this Contract which by their nature should survive termination will survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity, and limitations of liability.

L. Communications with Specific

Short version: We use email and other electronic means to stay in touch with our users.

1. Electronic Communication Required

For contractual purposes, you (1) consent to receive communications from us in an electronic form via the email address you have submitted or via the Service; and (2) agree that all Terms of Service, contracts, agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that those communications would satisfy if they were on paper. This section does not affect your non-waivable rights.

2. Legal Notice to Specific Must Be in Writing

Communications made through email or Specific Support’s messaging system will not constitute legal notice to Specific or any of its officers, employees, agents or representatives in any situation where notice to Specific is required by contract or any law or regulation. Legal notice to Specific must be in writing and served on Specific’s registered address: Specific Technologies Inc., 1007 North Orange St., 4th Floor, City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, State of Delaware, 19801. Its registered agent at such address is Capbase Agent & Document Services LLC.

You agree to also send a courtesy copy to support@specific.app.

Please make your requests as specific and narrow as possible, including the following information:

• Full information about authority issuing the request for information

• The name and badge/ID of the responsible agent

• An official email address and contact phone number

• The user, organization, workspace name(s) of interest

• The URLs of any pages or files of interest

• The description of the types of records you need

Please allow a reasonable time period for us to be able to look into your request.

As a US company, Specific is not required to provide data to foreign governments in response to legal process issued by foreign authorities.

3. No Phone Support

Specific only offers support via email. We do not offer telephone support.

M. Disclaimer of Warranties

Short version: We provide our service as is, and we make no promises or guarantees about this service. Please read this section carefully; you should understand what to expect.

Specific provides the Website and the Service “as is” and “as available,” without warranty of any kind. Without limiting this, we expressly disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied or statutory, regarding the Website and the Service including without limitation any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, security, accuracy and non-infringement.

Specific does not warrant that the Service will meet your requirements; that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; that the information provided through the Service is accurate, reliable or correct; that any defects or errors will be corrected; that the Service will be available at any particular time or location; or that the Service is free of viruses or other harmful components. You assume full responsibility and risk of loss resulting from your downloading and/or use of files, information, content or other material obtained from the Service.

N. Limitation of Liability

Short version: We will not be liable for damages or losses arising from your use or inability to use the service or otherwise arising under this Contract. Please read this section carefully; it limits our obligations to you.

You understand and agree that we will not be liable to you or any third party for any loss of profits, use, goodwill, or data, or for any incidental, indirect, special, consequential or exemplary damages, however arising, that result from

• the use, disclosure, or display of your Content;

• your use or inability to use the Service;

• any modification, price change, suspension or discontinuance of the Service;

• the Service generally or the software or systems that make the Service available;

• unauthorized access to or alterations of your transmissions or data;

• statements or conduct of any third party on the Service;

• any other user interactions that you input or receive through your use of the Service; or

• any other matter relating to the Service.

Our liability is limited whether or not we have been informed of the possibility of such damages, and even if a remedy set forth in this Contract is found to have failed of its essential purpose. We will have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond our reasonable control.

O. Release and Indemnification

Short version: You are responsible for your use of the service. If you harm someone else or get into a dispute with someone else, we will not be involved.

If you have a dispute with one or more Users, you agree to release Specific from any and all claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.

You agree to indemnify us, defend us, and hold us harmless from and against any and all claims, liabilities, and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your use of the Website and the Service, including but not limited to your violation of this Contract, provided that Specific (1) promptly gives you written notice of the claim, demand, suit or proceeding; (2) gives you sole control of the defense and settlement of the claim, demand, suit or proceeding (provided that you may not settle any claim, demand, suit or proceeding unless the settlement unconditionally releases Specific of all liability); and (3) provides to you all reasonable assistance, at your expense.

P. Changes to These Terms

Short version: We want our users to be informed of important changes to our terms, but some changes aren’t that important — we don’t want to bother you every time we fix a typo. So while we may modify this Contract at any time, we will notify users of any changes that affect your rights and give you time to adjust to them.

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to amend these Terms of Service at any time and will update these Terms of Service in the event of any such amendments. We will notify our Users of material changes to this Contract, such as price changes, at least 30 days prior to the change taking effect by posting a notice on our Website. For non-material modifications, your continued use of the Website constitutes agreement to our revisions of these Terms of Service.

We reserve the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Website (or any part of it) with or without notice.

Q. Miscellaneous

1. Governing Law

Except to the extent applicable law provides otherwise, this Agreement between you and Specific and any access to or use of the Website or the Service are governed by the federal laws of the United States of America and the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict of law provisions. You and Specific agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts located in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, Delaware.

2. Non-Assignability

Specific may assign or delegate these Terms of Service and/or the Specific Privacy Statement, in whole or in part, to any person or entity at any time with or without your consent, including the license grant in Section D.4. You may not assign or delegate any rights or obligations under the Terms of Service or Privacy Statement without our prior written consent, and any unauthorized assignment and delegation by you is void.

3. Section Headings and Summaries

Throughout this Contract, each section includes titles and brief summaries (short versions) of the following terms and conditions. These section titles and brief summaries are not legally binding.

4. Severability, No Waiver, and Survival

If any part of this Contract is held invalid or unenforceable, that portion of the Contract will be construed to reflect the parties’ original intent. The remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. Any failure on the part of Specific to enforce any provision of this Contract will not be considered a waiver of our right to enforce such provision. Our rights under this Contract will survive any termination of this Contract.

5. Complete Agreement

These Terms of Service, together with the Specific Privacy Statement, represent the complete and exclusive statement of the agreement between you and us and are legally binding. This Agreement supersedes any proposal or prior agreement oral or written, and any other communications between you and Specific relating to the subject matter of these Terms.