Terms of Use

Effective Date: 2026-03-20

SITE TERMS OF USE

This is the current Terms of Use, which includes the Model Creative License below. By using the Site (requesting information from sciencegrok.com), you are agreeing to the Terms of Use. If you do not agree to the Terms of Use, do not use the site. You understand that by clicking accept on the pop-up or continuing to use the Site after being presented with the pop-up or Terms of Use, you are agreeing to the Terms of Use for use of the Site and information obtained from it.

  1. The Site. The Site refers to this website, the operators of the site, the publishers of the site, the web hosting services of the Site, any third-party providers relating to the site, and any Internet Service Providers providing connectivity to the site. This definition is expansive, and where the context is not made narrower, the meaning should be be interpreted in the Site Operator’s favor.
  2. Privacy & Cookies. By using this Site, you agree and deem that you have no privacy rights related to the use of the Site. Your computer may send information to the Site. That information may be logged, aggregated, analyzed, combined, reformed, reacted, fused, exploded, imploded, in any way the Site deems appropriate. The Site may store cookies (a small file that records settings about your visit to this site) on your browser or computing device. To the extent you have any privacy protections arising under laws where you may live, you agree that you waive them completely because this Site has no connection whatsoever to the state, territory, province, country, town, city, county region, voivodeship, municipality, orbital platform, celestial body, or any other kind of territorial subdivision of any kind in the known Universe (other than the Exclusive Jurisdiction).
  3. Waiver of all Claims. Any claims you may have against the the Site for damages you claim caused to you by the Site and its operations, you hereby waive them as an express condition of being able to access the Site.
  4. Waiver of Jury Trial. You waive the right to a jury trial.
  5. Limitations on Damages. You assume all risk of using the Site, and you deem that your damages from use of or materials contained on the Site do not exceed $1.
  6. Reduced Limitations Period. You agree that any claims arising from the use or operation of the Site shall be brought against the Site within one year of the date of publication or within 90 calendar days of the date you first visited the site, which ever is later. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you agree that you shall have no claims arising from the Site or any information contained on it more than 2 years from the date of original publication, and that your voluntary agreement to a period of repose is a necessary condition on which the Site is published and it is essential to a healthy and open Internet.
  7. Location of Service Provisioning. No matter where you are making your HTTP/HTTPS requests from, you agree and deem that all services to you are provided in the Exclusive Jurisdiction, as that is where all documents are stored and served from. You deem that your HTTP/HTTPS requests are voluntarily reaching into the Exclusive Jurisdiction; that third-party intermediaries are fulfilling, routing, and delivering the requested documents wherever you may be located; and that the Site (and its operator and host) cannot reasonably determine the jurisdiction you are in. If content on the Site is unlawful for you to access or use from your local jurisdiction, do not use this Site.
  8. Jurisdiction. You irrevocably consent to personal jurisdiction in the State of New Hampshire (the Exclusive Jurisdiction).
  9. Savings. If any part of this Terms of Use is held enforceable, then the remaining terms shall remain in full force. The Model Creative License supersedes the Terms of Use above as applied to the people covered by the Model Creative License and when the terms are inconsistent.

MODEL CREATIVE LICENSE

Effective Date: 2026-09-18

Current Terms URL: www.sciencegrok.com/tos.html

Title of Work: sciencegrok.com
Author B.D. Ross

This Model Creative License (“License”) applies to legal entities which collect or scrape web content and may incorporate that content into Large Language Models (LLMs), AI systems, Machine Learning models, or similar systems (generally, “Model Systems”).

1. Agreement to These Terms

This License applies to the creative works identified above (the “Work”), in whole or in part, including text, books, images, video, audiovisual works, source code, and other creative works created, in whole or in part, by the author indicated above (“Licensor”).

Any person (“User”) who accesses, downloads, retrieves, copies, processes, stores, transfers, or otherwise uses the Work in a Model System after receiving actual notice of this License agrees to its terms. If the person is an employee or contractor acting on behalf of the person’s respective employer or client, the User is the employer or the client.

Each access or retrieval of the Work constitutes continuing agreement to the License, including downloading, crawling, scraping, copying, or transferring the Work into a database, dataset, corpus, training set, model, or other system. The User agrees and deems that each new access to the Work is an explicit acknowledgement that the User owes any sums that may be presently owing to the Licensor on the date of access.

2. No Model Training or Operation Without a License

The Author does not grant use of the Work in a Model System without a license. Agreement to the terms of this License grants the User a limited, revocable right to:

  • ingest or copy the Work for purposes of operating a Model System;
  • tokenize, encode, embed, vectorize, or index the Work;
  • use it for AI or machine-learning training or fine-tuning;
  • distill a model using it; or
  • otherwise incorporate it into an AI, LLM, generative-AI, retrieval, embedding, data-model, or similar system (a “Model System”).

The User agrees that tokenizing or training a Model System on the Work creates a derivative work subject to this License.

If the User does not agree to these terms, the User must immediately stop using the Work or any Model System that incorporates data from any use of the Work. If the the User does cease using the Work, or information obtained from or in any way derived from the Work, the User is agreeing to the Work.

If the User employs an automated scraping program (commonly called a spider or robot), but ignores any robots.txt file (or similar access control file) that instructs the program to limit access to the Work, and the User’s program fails to comply with the instructions of the robots.txt file, the User agrees and acknowledges that there is a factual presumption that the User has received actual notice of the License.

3. Safe Harbor for Refreshed System

A User can avoid the obligations of this License if, within 30 days after receiving actual notice of this License, the User begins a fresh retraining of each affected Model System that does not include the Work. User understands and agrees the cost of such retraining is not relevant to the provisions or validity of this License. Actual notice includes but is not limited to any communication by mail, courier, email, or other electronic message.

The new training set must contain neither the Work nor material incorporating the Work. The resulting Model System must not incorporate the Work or such material. The User may not continue ingesting or using the Work during the retraining period. Any continued use of the Work or a derivative of the Work is actual agreement to the terms of this License.

4. Fees for Model System Use

If the User uses any part of the Work in a Model System without a separate written license, the User must pay the Licensor or its designee:

One-time license fee: $30,000 per Work.

Prompt royalty: $0.0000017 for each prompt served by the User each calendar day for each Model System that is trained upon the Work that is operating or remains in operation during the reporting period.

Advertising royalty: $0.005 for each advertising impression generated by responses from a Model System using display advertising.

5. Payments, Records, and Audits

Quarterly Invoices and Statements.

  1. User shall pay license fees and royalties quarterly.
  2. Licensor may send a statement showing the Works used, applicable prompts and rates, amounts due, credits, and the total balance on a quarterly basis.
  3. Payment is due 30 days after the statement is delivered. The Licensor may issue additional statements for previously omitted or underreported usage.

Records & Auditing

User shall keep accurate books, logs, usage statistics, and other records reasonably needed to calculate amounts owed for at least five years.

Licensor or its auditor may audit these records once per calendar year. The User shall reasonably cooperate and provide access to relevant records, personnel, systems, and data.

Failure to cooperate

The User’s refusal to participate shall give Licensor cause to declare the User in material breach of this License.

If an audit finds an underpayment, the User must promptly pay the unpaid amount, applicable interest, and the Licensor’s reasonable audit costs. If there has been an overpayment, future statements shall be credited

If the User’s lack of cooperation or a material underpayment causes additional audit costs, the User shall pay those reasonable costs as well.

Estimated usage

If the User does not provide reasonably requested information needed to determine prompt usage, the Licensor may make a commercially reasonable estimate.

The estimate may use publicly available information such as usage statistics, traffic measurements, technical documentation, financial disclosures, regulatory filings, and other reasonably reliable sources.

The Licensor’s invoice shall identify the main sources of the estimate and summarize the estimation method.

Disputing an invoice or statement

The User has 30 days after the date of a quarterly invoice to submit a good-faith written dispute identifying the specific figures disputed and the reason for the dispute.

If the User does not timely dispute the invoice, it is treated as accepted and, to the maximum extent permitted by law, becomes a conclusively accurate account stated, except for legally required corrections or obvious mathematical errors.

After that period, the User waives all defenses that the stated amount, usage figures, or calculation method is not accurate and oned..

6. Late Payments; Interest; Collection Costs

All unpaid fees, royalties, damages, and other amounts owed under this License accrue interest from the due date at the Prime Rate plus 18%, compounded daily, or the highest lawful rate, whichever is higher and legally permitted. Example: if the Prime Rate is 4%, the annual interest rate is 22%. As a daily rate, this is 0.22 ÷ 365 = 0.000603.

The interest rate in this section applies to prejudgment, post-judgment, and other interest to the maximum extent permitted by law. It shall be compounded at the daily rate where allowed by law, and otherwise shall be applied at the simple interest rate.

If the Licensor (or Licensee’s designee, including a CMO) takes legal action, including pre-litigation, mediation, and arbitration proceedings, to collect amounts owed, the User shall pay the Author’s reasonable collection costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, legal support, investigators, accountants, expert witnesses, and other professional expenses, to the extent permitted by law.

7. Changes to the License

The Licensor may update the fees, interest rates, and other terms through the Designated Terms URL or, if unavailable, a Fallback Terms URL.

An amendment becomes effective 30 days after the Licensor gives the User actual notice. User acknowledges that every invoice or statement may contain actual notice of changing terms.

To the extent permitted by law, continuing to use the Work or Model System after the effective date means the User accepts the amended terms. Any request for (e.g. an HTTP request), use or process the content, which contains or references the updated license terms is deemed an agreement to the updated terms.

8. Automated Access and Assent

If server logs or similar records show that the User’s automated web spider requested or retrieved the Work from a publicly available source, that activity is deemed evidence that the User agreed to this License.

The User may object in writing within calendar 30 days after the request or retrieval. However, the User must also immediately cease use of the Work, in accordance with the Safe Harbor clause.

If the User does not object within one year, agreement to the License is conclusively established to the maximum extent permitted by law.

The continued availability of the Work on any accessible information source does not create any legal or equitable defense to the License. User agrees and acknowledges that public availability of the Work is not the Author’s consent or waiver that the Work be used in a Model System.

The Work, or each version of it, may contain digital fingerprint information, such as statistically improbable words or phrases, tracking codes, hash codes, or other watermarks. If a Model System contains the digital fingerprint information found in the Work, User agrees and acknowledges that User has used the Work under the terms of this License. User agrees that if User’s Model System is represented to the public as a intelligent chat system, that responses made by the Model System are deemed to be statements by User.

9. Venue and Removal

The Licensor may bring a contract or tort claim relating to this License in any jurisdiction where the User regularly conducts business.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the User waives any right to remove a case from a state court to federal court.

10. Reservation of Rights

Any rights not expressly granted under this License are reserved.

If a provision is found unenforceable, it will be modified only as much as necessary to make it enforceable, and the remaining provisions will continue in effect.