Terms of Service

These Terms of Service govern your access to and use of SE-Cluster, including our website, market maps, company pages, reports, comparison tools, target-discovery workflows, watchlists, APIs, documentation, and beta Filing Extractor features. By accessing or using SE-Cluster, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

If you use SE-Cluster on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to these terms, and “you” includes that organization.

SE-Cluster provides filing-native business intelligence from public SEC EDGAR filings and related public or cited sources. The product currently includes market-level acquirer maps, company strategy pages, public-buyer rankings, reports, compare workflows, target-discovery screens, watchlists, public-data documentation, and a beta Filing Extractor for finding and structuring SEC filing facts.

Some features are experimental, in beta, or subject to quotas, rate limits, eligibility limits, or change without notice. We may add, change, suspend, or remove features as the product evolves.

• Some features work through anonymous sessions, cookies, or local browser storage so watchlists and workflows can persist.
• Filing Extractor beta access may require an email address and may be limited to a set number of live runs per email per month.
• You are responsible for the information you provide, the devices you use, and any activity under your session, account, API key, or access credential.
• You must provide accurate contact information and keep access credentials confidential.

SE-Cluster uses automated extraction, classification, scoring, and AI-assisted workflows to convert filing text into structured views. Outputs may include deal counts, disclosed spend, strategy labels, concentration metrics, rankings, evidence excerpts, summaries, and suggested next steps.

You understand that generated or extracted outputs may be incomplete, stale, inaccurate, misclassified, or based on filings that were amended, superseded, or later corrected. You are responsible for verifying material facts against the original source documents before relying on them.

SE-Cluster is an informational research tool. It does not provide investment, legal, accounting, tax, valuation, fairness, regulatory, compliance, underwriting, or other professional advice. Nothing on SE-Cluster is a recommendation, offer, solicitation, or opinion to buy, sell, hold, finance, acquire, divest, or value any security, company, or asset.

You should use your own judgment and consult qualified professionals before making business, investment, legal, tax, or compliance decisions.

You retain any rights you have in content, instructions, schemas, documents, prompts, target lists, watchlists, or other materials you submit to SE-Cluster. You grant SE-Cluster a limited license to host, copy, process, transmit, display, and create outputs from that content as needed to provide, secure, debug, and improve the service.

You represent that you have the rights and permissions needed to submit any content you provide. Do not submit confidential, proprietary, personal, regulated, or sensitive information unless you have the right to do so and understand that it may be processed by SE-Cluster and its service providers.

You agree not to:

• Use SE-Cluster for unlawful, harmful, deceptive, abusive, or fraudulent activity.
• Interfere with, disrupt, overload, scan, or probe the security or availability of the service.
• Bypass access controls, quotas, rate limits, authentication, bot controls, or usage restrictions.
• Scrape, crawl, bulk-download, mirror, or harvest data beyond documented interfaces and reasonable interactive use.
• Resell, redistribute, or repackage SE-Cluster data or outputs as a competing data product or service.
• Remove source attribution, evidence links, disclaimers, or provenance notices from SE-Cluster outputs where they are material to interpretation.
• Reverse engineer, copy, or attempt to extract our models, prompts, scoring logic, extraction pipeline, interface, or non-public system design.
• Submit malware, exploit code, harmful instructions, or content that violates rights of others.
• Use SE-Cluster to make or automate decisions that legally require human review or professional judgment without appropriate independent review.

Any API, dataset, export, embed, or programmatic access is subject to the documentation, rate limits, access controls, and usage policies we provide. We may throttle, suspend, revoke, or modify access to protect the service or enforce these terms.

Unless a separate written agreement says otherwise, API and data access is for your internal research and workflow use. You may quote limited outputs with appropriate context and attribution, but you may not use API access to build a substitute for SE-Cluster or to redistribute the dataset at scale.

SE-Cluster may link to or rely on third-party services, including SEC EDGAR, hosting providers, analytics providers, database providers, AI processing providers, and other infrastructure. We are not responsible for third-party services, their availability, their terms, or their content.

SEC filings and public-source documents can contain errors, omissions, restatements, amendments, delayed disclosures, formatting issues, and issuer-specific language. SE-Cluster does not control those sources.

SE-Cluster and its software, interface, design, compilation, taxonomy, derived datasets, extraction workflow, scoring logic, and proprietary materials are owned by SE-Cluster or its licensors and are protected by intellectual property laws. The SE-Cluster name, logo, and branding may not be used without permission.

Public SEC filings remain public-source materials. Subject to these terms, you may use SE-Cluster outputs for internal business research, diligence, monitoring, and decision support, provided that you preserve relevant source context and do not misrepresent the output as independently verified by SE-Cluster.

If you send suggestions, ideas, corrections, or feedback, you grant SE-Cluster permission to use them without restriction or compensation. We appreciate corrections, but we do not guarantee that suggested changes will be accepted or implemented.

Some features may eventually be offered under paid plans, pilots, order forms, enterprise agreements, or other written terms. If a separate written agreement applies to your use of SE-Cluster, that agreement controls to the extent it conflicts with these public terms.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and share information. By using SE-Cluster, you acknowledge that information will be handled as described there.

We may suspend, limit, or terminate access to SE-Cluster at any time if we believe you violated these terms, created risk for the service or other users, exceeded reasonable usage, or used the product in a way that could harm SE-Cluster, our providers, or public-source services.

You may stop using SE-Cluster at any time. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including ownership, acceptable use, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnity, and dispute-related provisions.

SE-Cluster is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, availability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and uninterrupted or error-free operation.

We do not warrant that outputs will be correct, that all relevant filings or transactions will be captured, that extracted values will match source documents, or that the service will meet your regulatory, diligence, investment, or business requirements.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, SE-Cluster and its affiliates, owners, employees, contractors, providers, and licensors will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, business interruption, investment losses, missed opportunities, or reliance losses, even if advised of the possibility of those damages.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim related to SE-Cluster will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid to SE-Cluster for the service in the three months before the event giving rise to the claim or one hundred U.S. dollars.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless SE-Cluster and its affiliates, owners, employees, contractors, providers, and licensors from claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses arising from your use of the service, your content, your violation of these terms, or your violation of law or third-party rights.

Please contact us first so we can try to resolve any concern informally. Any separate written agreement between you and SE-Cluster controls dispute procedure, governing law, and venue if it applies. Otherwise, disputes will be handled under applicable law by a court or tribunal with proper jurisdiction.

We may update these terms as SE-Cluster evolves. If changes are material, we will provide notice through the site, by email, or by another reasonable method. Continued use after updated terms are posted means you accept the updated terms.

Questions about these terms can be sent to support@secluster.com.