Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") constitute a legally binding agreement between you ("User," "you," or "your") and Vectego ("Company," "we," "our," or "us") governing your access to and use of theVectego platform, website, and all related products, features, content, and services (collectively, the "Service"). By creating an account, accessing, or using the Service in any way, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated herein by reference. If you do not agree, you must not use the Service.

If you are using the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have the authority to bind that organization to these Terms.

You must be at least 13 years of age to use the Service. Users between the ages of 13 and 18 must have consent from a parent or legal guardian. By using the Service, you represent that you meet these eligibility requirements. We reserve the right to terminate accounts of users who misrepresent their age or eligibility.

To access certain features, you must register for an account. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information during registration and to keep your account information updated. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. You agree to notify us immediately at legal@vectego.com if you suspect unauthorized access to your account. We are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to maintain account security.

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that we determine, in our sole discretion, violate these Terms or pose a risk to the Service or other users.

Vectego provides a platform for students to discover extracurricular opportunities, find and contact academic researchers, manage application tracking, and send AI-assisted email campaigns. The Service includes features such as:

• An opportunity database for discovering research programs, competitions, and academic initiatives.
• AI-powered opportunity recommendations based on your academic profile and interests.
• Researcher discovery and AI-generated summaries powered by publicly available academic data.
• Email campaign tools that integrate with your Gmail account to send outreach at scale.
• Application tracking and kanban-style organization tools.
• Researcher collections, templates, and other productivity features.

We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue any aspect of the Service at any time, with or without notice, and without liability to you.

You agree to use the Service only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You agree NOT to:

• Use the Service to send spam, unsolicited bulk messages, or communications that violate the CAN-SPAM Act, GDPR, or other applicable anti-spam laws.
• Use the email campaign features to harass, threaten, impersonate, or deceive recipients.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of the Service, other user accounts, or our infrastructure.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, scrape, or otherwise attempt to extract source code, data, or AI model weights from the Service.
• Use automated means (bots, scrapers, crawlers) to access the Service without our prior written consent.
• Upload, transmit, or distribute malware, viruses, or any malicious code.
• Use the Service to violate the intellectual property rights of any third party.
• Misrepresent your identity or affiliation when sending emails through the platform.
• Use the Service in any way that violates the terms of any third-party service integrated with Vectego, including Google's Terms of Service and API policies.
• Circumvent, disable, or interfere with security features of the Service.

We reserve the right to investigate and take appropriate action, including suspending or terminating your account, reporting to law enforcement, or seeking legal remedies, for any violation of this section.

When you connect your Gmail account, you grant Vectego permission to access your Gmail account to read certain email metadata (for reply detection) and to send emails on your behalf as part of campaigns you create. You acknowledge and agree that:

• You are solely and exclusively responsible for all content you draft, generate, store, or send through the Service, whether written by you or generated by our AI tools at your direction.
• All emails sent through the Service must comply with Google's Gmail Program Policies, CAN-SPAM, GDPR, CASL, and all other applicable laws.
• Vectego is a neutral technology platform and conduit. We do not review, screen, moderate, filter, or approve the content of any email campaigns, messages, or other communications created or transmitted through the Service, and we have no obligation to do so.
• Vectego is not liable for any consequences arising from emails you send or receive through the Service, including but not limited to: deliverability failures, spam or phishing classification, damage to your sender reputation, responses or non-responses from recipients, legal claims by recipients, or any harm caused to third parties by your communications.
• Any interactions, responses, agreements, disputes, or relationships that arise between you and email recipients as a result of campaigns conducted through the Service are solely between you and those recipients. Vectego is not a party to any such interactions and bears no responsibility for their outcome.
• You agree to indemnify and hold Vectego harmless from any claims, complaints, regulatory actions, or damages arising from emails you send or content you generate using the Service.
• You may disconnect your Gmail account at any time from your account settings.

"User Content" means any data, text, templates, notes, or other material you submit, create, or store in the Service. You retain ownership of your User Content. By submitting User Content, you grant Vectego a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, process, and display your User Content solely to: (a) provide and improve the Service; (b) develop and train our AI models on a de-identified or aggregated basis; and (c) comply with legal obligations. This license terminates when you delete your User Content or account, subject to any period required for backup or legal retention.

You represent and warrant that your User Content does not violate any third-party rights or applicable law, and that you have all necessary rights to grant the above license.

The Service, including all software, designs, AI models, algorithms, text, graphics, and other content created by Vectego, is owned by Vectego and protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, and other intellectual property laws. You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for its intended purposes. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or sublicense any part of the Service without our prior written consent.

The Service uses artificial intelligence to generate email drafts, summaries, recommendations, and other content. You acknowledge and agree that:

• All AI-generated content is produced at your direction and constitutes your User Content. You bear full responsibility for any content generated, stored, sent, or published through the Service, including AI-generated content.
• You are solely responsible for reviewing, editing, and approving all AI-generated content before use. Vectego does not verify the accuracy, legality, appropriateness, or completeness of any AI output.
• Vectego does not monitor, review, screen, filter, or moderate any User Content or AI-generated content for safety, legality, accuracy, appropriateness, or any other standard. We are under no obligation to do so. Our AI tools are provided as productivity aids, not editorial or safety services.
• Vectego is not responsible for any harm, offense, misrepresentation, legal liability, or other consequence arising from content generated by our AI tools or stored and transmitted through the Service, regardless of how that content was created.
• AI outputs do not constitute professional, legal, academic, medical, financial, or other regulated advice. You should not rely on AI-generated content for any purpose that requires professional expertise.
• Vectego makes no representation that AI-generated content is free of bias, error, hallucination, or harmful material. AI systems can produce inaccurate or unexpected outputs, and we expressly disclaim all liability for such outputs.
• If AI-generated content causes harm to you or any third party, your sole recourse is to stop using the feature. Vectego shall not be liable for any such harm under any theory of liability.

By using the Service, you acknowledge and agree that Vectego may collect, process, and use your usage data, behavioral data, and profile information for the purposes described in our Privacy Policy, including product analytics, AI model improvement, and sharing with third-party business partners in accordance with applicable law. Please review our Privacy Policy for full details on how your data is handled, your rights, and how to opt out of certain data practices.

The Service integrates with third-party services including Google (Gmail, OAuth), OpenAlex, Supabase, and others. Your use of these integrations is also subject to the respective third party's terms and privacy policies. Vectego is not responsible for the practices or content of third-party services. We do not endorse any third party linked to or integrated with the Service.

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR UNINTERRUPTED ACCESS. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE ERROR-FREE, SECURE, OR THAT ANY DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.

Vectego IS A TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM ONLY. WE DO NOT CONTROL, ENDORSE, OR ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY USER CONTENT, AI-GENERATED CONTENT, EMAILS, OR OTHER COMMUNICATIONS CREATED, STORED, OR TRANSMITTED BY USERS THROUGH THE SERVICE. WE HAVE NO OBLIGATION TO REVIEW OR MODERATE ANY SUCH CONTENT AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL LIABILITY RELATED TO IT.

Vectego IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INTERACTIONS, DISPUTES, AGREEMENTS, OR CONSEQUENCES ARISING BETWEEN YOU AND ANY THIRD PARTY (INCLUDING EMAIL RECIPIENTS, RESEARCHERS, PROGRAM ADMINISTRATORS, OR OTHER USERS) AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE OR CONTENT YOU GENERATE OR TRANSMIT THROUGH IT.

Vectego does not guarantee that any emails sent through the platform will be delivered, opened, or responded to, and does not guarantee admission to any program, institution, or opportunity discovered through the Service.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, VECTEGO AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AFFILIATES, AGENTS, AND LICENSORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OR YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO US IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100).

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY, SO THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU IN FULL.

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Vectego and its officers, directors, employees, affiliates, and agents from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your use of the Service; (b) your User Content; (c) your violation of these Terms; (d) emails you send through the Service; or (e) your violation of any third-party rights or applicable law.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any dispute arising from or relating to these Terms or the Service shall be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, except that either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction. You waive any right to participate in a class action lawsuit or class-wide arbitration.

Notwithstanding the foregoing: (a) if you are a resident of the European Economic Area, UK, or Switzerland, nothing in these Terms limits your rights under the GDPR or UK GDPR, and you may bring claims before your local courts or data protection authority; (b) if you are a Canadian resident, mandatory arbitration may not apply to the extent prohibited by Canadian law; (c) if you are an Australian resident, nothing in these Terms excludes rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot be lawfully excluded; and (d) if you are a resident of any U.S. state or other jurisdiction that prohibits mandatory arbitration or class action waivers, the local law of your jurisdiction will apply to the extent required.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without cause or notice, including for violations of these Terms. Upon termination, your right to use the Service ceases immediately. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 18) will survive.

You may terminate your account at any time by contacting us at legal@vectego.com. Termination does not entitle you to a refund of any prepaid fees.

We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. We will provide notice of material changes by updating the effective date above and, where appropriate, by notifying you via email or an in-app notification. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of any changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms. If you do not agree to the revised Terms, you must stop using the Service.

• Entire Agreement: these Terms and our Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement between you and Vectego regarding the Service and supersede all prior agreements.
• Severability: if any provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.
• Waiver: our failure to enforce any provision does not constitute a waiver of our right to enforce it later.
• Assignment: you may not assign your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign our rights freely.
• Force Majeure: we are not liable for delays or failures caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
• No Partnership: nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, agency, joint venture, or employment relationship between you and Vectego.

For questions about these Terms, please contact us: