DatMap Platform — Submission & Contribution Terms

Version 1.0 — Effective: June 1, 2026

Operator: DatMap, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the "Operator", "we", "us").

These Submission & Contribution Terms (the "Terms") are a binding agreement between you ("you", the "Contributor") and the Operator, and govern any content you submit to the DatMap Platform (each, a "Submission"). By checking the acceptance box and clicking submit, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not submit. We record the version of these Terms you accepted and a timestamp of your acceptance, and that record is admissible evidence of your agreement.

1. Definitions

"Platform" means the DatMap Platform websites, applications, maps, datasets, exports, APIs, and related services. "Submission" means everything you provide through a submission or revision form, including text fields, free-form write-ups, uploaded documents and files, URLs, images, and associated metadata. "Published Content" means any Submission, or portion or adaptation of a Submission, that the Operator displays on or includes in the Platform. "Operator Parties" means the Operator and its affiliates and their respective owners, officers, directors, employees, contractors, and agents.

2. Eligibility, Acceptance & Authority

2.1 You must be at least 18 years old (or the age of majority where you live, if higher) and able to form a binding contract. Contribution features are not directed to minors, and you may not submit if you are a minor.

2.2 You represent and warrant that: (a) your Submission is accurate to the best of your knowledge and not misleading; (b) you have all rights, consents, and authority necessary to make the Submission and grant the licenses in Sections 3 and 4; (c) if you submit a revision for, or claim affiliation with, an organization or entity, you are authorized to act on that entity's behalf; and (d) your acceptance of these Terms by electronic means has the same force as a handwritten signature.

3. License Grant

3.1 Grant. You grant the Operator a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid-up, transferable, and sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, create derivative works from, combine with other data, publicly display, publicly perform, distribute, and publish your Submission and Published Content, in any media or format now known or later developed, for purposes of operating, maintaining, improving, analyzing, securing, and promoting the Platform and successor or related services.

3.2 Promotion. Promotional use under Section 3.1 is limited to displaying Published Content, excerpts, and aggregate or derived statistics; the Operator will not use your name or likeness in advertising endorsements without your separate consent.

3.3 Survival. This license survives removal of the Submission, termination or deletion of your account, and termination of these Terms, except as limited by Section 7 (personal data) or applicable law.

3.4 Moral rights. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you waive (or agree not to assert) moral rights and any right to inspect, approve, or receive attribution for any use of your Submission. Where such rights cannot be waived, you consent to uses of the kind described in Section 3.1.

4. Machine Learning & Derived Data

4.1 You acknowledge and agree that the Operator may use, process, analyze, and aggregate your Submission, including to train, fine-tune, evaluate, test, and improve machine-learning and artificial-intelligence models, embeddings, classifiers, and other algorithms, and to generate derived, aggregated, or synthetic data.

4.2 As between you and the Operator, all models, outputs, embeddings, and derived or synthetic data created under Section 4.1 are owned by the Operator, and the Operator owes you no attribution, accounting, or payment in connection with them.

4.3 Where a Submission contains personal data, use under this Section 4 is subject to Section 7 and the Operator's Privacy Policy.

4.4 Training opt-out. You may opt out of the use of your future Submissions for model training under Section 4.1 by emailing contact@datmap.ai from the email address associated with your account with the subject line "ML Training Opt-Out". An opt-out takes effect prospectively within thirty (30) days of receipt and does not affect models, outputs, or derived data created before it takes effect, and does not limit the licenses in Section 3.

5. Feedback

If you send the Operator suggestions, ideas, or feedback about the Platform ("Feedback"), the Operator may use it without restriction or compensation, and you grant the Operator all rights necessary to do so.

6. No Confidentiality

The Platform is not a confidential channel. Do not submit information you consider confidential, trade-secret, embargoed, or that you are not free to disclose. Except for personal data handled under Section 7, all Submissions are treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary; the Operator has no obligation of secrecy with respect to them and may make any Submission public at its discretion.

7. Privacy & Personal Data

7.1 The Operator's collection and processing of personal data is described in its Privacy Policy at https://datmap.ai/legal/privacy, which is incorporated by reference. If these Terms conflict with the Privacy Policy regarding personal data, the Privacy Policy controls.

7.2 The Operator will comply with privacy and data-protection laws applicable to it (including, where applicable, the GDPR, UK GDPR, and CCPA/CPRA) with respect to personal data in Submissions. This obligation applies to personal data only and does not limit the licenses in Sections 3–4 for non-personal business, organizational, or public information.

7.3 You must not submit third parties' personal data unless you have a lawful basis and any required consent or notice. Do not submit sensitive or special-category data (for example, health, biometric, or precise geolocation data of private individuals) at all.

8. Review, Moderation & Publication

8.1 Submissions are reviewed and published at the Operator's discretion. The Operator may accept, reject, edit for format or clarity, truncate, re-categorize, delay, remove, or decline to publish any Submission, in whole or in part, at any time.

8.2 The Operator has no obligation to publish any Submission, and publication is not an endorsement of accuracy.

8.3 Where required by applicable law (including, for users in the European Union, the Digital Services Act), the Operator will provide a statement of reasons for content-moderation decisions and access to a complaint or appeal mechanism, as described at https://datmap.ai/legal/moderation.

9. Prohibited Content & Contributor Responsibility

You agree not to submit material that: infringes or misappropriates any intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, or other right; is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, fraudulent, deceptive, or malicious; contains malware or harmful code; violates any law, court order, or binding third-party obligation; or that you are not authorized to disclose. You are solely responsible for your Submissions and for the consequences of submitting them.

10. Copyright Complaints (DMCA) & Repeat Infringers

10.1 The Operator responds to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with 17 U.S.C. § 512. Notices and counter-notices should be sent to the Operator's designated Copyright Agent: DatMap, LLC, Attn: Copyright Agent, email: contact@datmap.ai (subject line "DMCA Notice").

10.2 The Operator will terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of contributors who are repeat infringers.

10.3 The Operator may remove or disable access to any content it believes in good faith may be infringing or otherwise improper, without liability to you.

11. Ownership

You retain whatever ownership you hold in your Submission, subject to the licenses granted in these Terms. The Platform, its maps, datasets, compilations, software, and all Operator-created content and derived data are owned by the Operator or its licensors. No rights are granted to you except as expressly stated.

12. Disclaimers

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE PLATFORM, ALL MAPS, DATASETS, EXPORTS, AND ALL PUBLISHED CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. YOU RELY ON ANY DATA AT YOUR OWN RISK. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU; IN THAT CASE, ANY NON-EXCLUDABLE WARRANTY IS LIMITED IN DURATION AND REMEDY TO THE MINIMUM PERMITTED.

13. Limitation of Liability

13.1 TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE OPERATOR PARTIES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR SUBMISSION, THE PLATFORM, ANY PUBLISHED CONTENT, ANY RELIANCE ON DATA, OR THESE TERMS, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

13.2 THE OPERATOR PARTIES' TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY UNDER OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID THE OPERATOR IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY AND (B) FIFTY U.S. DOLLARS (US$50).

13.3 Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, willful misconduct, gross negligence where non-excludable, or death or personal injury caused by negligence where non-excludable, nor does anything in these Terms affect statutory consumer rights that cannot be waived.

14. Release & Waiver of Unknown Claims

14.1 To the maximum extent permitted by law, you release and discharge the Operator Parties from all claims, demands, damages, liabilities, and causes of action, known or unknown, arising out of or relating to your Submission, its publication or non-publication, its accuracy, its use (including use under Section 4), its use or misuse by third parties, or your use of the Platform.

14.2 If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code § 1542, which provides: "A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party."

14.3 This Section 14 does not apply to claims that cannot be released under applicable law, and does not release the Operator from its obligations under Section 7 or Section 13.3.

15. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Operator Parties from and against any third-party claims, demands, suits, losses, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to your Submission, your breach of these Terms, your violation of law, or your infringement of any third-party right. The Operator may assume the defense of any matter subject to indemnification, in which case you will cooperate; you may not settle any such claim without the Operator's prior written consent.

16. Term, Termination & Survival

16.1 These Terms apply from your first acceptance and continue with respect to each Submission you make.

16.2 The Operator may suspend or terminate your ability to submit, or remove your Published Content, at any time for violation of these Terms or as described in Sections 8 and 10.

16.3 Sections 3–7, 9, and 11–20 survive any termination.

17. Changes to the Platform

The Operator may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Platform, including any map or dataset, at any time. The Operator has no obligation to store, back up, or return any Submission or uploaded file; keep your own copies.

18. Changes to These Terms

The Operator may update these Terms. The version you accepted at the time of a given Submission (recorded with a timestamp) governs that Submission. For changes affecting continuing obligations, the Operator will post the updated Terms with a new effective date and, for material changes, provide reasonable advance notice (for example, by notice on the Platform or email to registered contributors); your first Submission after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms for that and later Submissions.

19. Governing Law & Dispute Resolution

19.1 Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, and by the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act.

19.2 Arbitration. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Platform will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. The arbitration will be seated in Wilmington, Delaware, or, at your election, conducted remotely by videoconference or, where the AAA rules permit, in your county of residence. The arbitrator's award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

19.3 Class waiver. CLASS ACTIONS AND CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE ARBITRATIONS ARE WAIVED; DISPUTES MAY BE BROUGHT ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim (and only that claim) shall proceed in court.

19.4 Exceptions. Either party may bring qualifying claims in small-claims court, and either party may seek injunctive or equitable relief in court for actual or threatened infringement or misuse of intellectual property.

19.5 Opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by written notice emailed to contact@datmap.ai (subject line "Arbitration Opt-Out") within thirty (30) days of first accepting these Terms, stating your name and account email. If you opt out, disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and both parties consent to personal jurisdiction and venue there.

19.6 Mandatory law. This Section 19 does not apply to the extent prohibited by mandatory law applicable to you, including, for consumers in the EU or UK, mandatory rights to bring claims in the courts of your home country.

20. General

20.1 Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without the Operator's consent; the Operator may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets.

20.2 Notices. The Operator may give notices via the Platform or to the email associated with your account. Legal notices to the Operator must be sent to contact@datmap.ai.

20.3 No waiver. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.

20.4 Force majeure. The Operator is not liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control.

20.5 Export & sanctions. You represent that you are not located in an embargoed jurisdiction or on any restricted-party list, and you will comply with applicable export-control and sanctions laws.

20.6 Relationship. These Terms create no partnership, agency, employment, or fiduciary relationship.

20.7 Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be limited or severed to the minimum extent necessary, and the remainder will remain in force.

20.8 Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any policies expressly incorporated, are the entire agreement between you and the Operator regarding Submissions and supersede prior discussions on that subject.

20.9 Interpretation. Headings are for convenience only; "including" means "including without limitation."

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