Terms of Use

1. Acceptance of these terms and eligibility

1.1 Acceptance

These Terms of Use ("Terms") are an agreement between you and QORUS INC ("Qorus", "we", "us"). You accept these Terms when you check the box agreeing to them and create an account. If you do not accept them, you must not use the Service.

If you create an account for a company, you confirm that you have authority to bind that company, and "you" means both you and that company.

Our Privacy Policy forms part of these Terms.

1.2 Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to create a Qorus account. You must also be old enough to enter a binding contract where you live.

You must not be located in a country subject to a United States Government embargo, and you must not appear on any United States Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

1.3 Notices to you

You agree that we may send you notices, including changes to these Terms and legal notices, by email or in the application rather than on paper. Section 24.2 (Notices) sets out how notices work in both directions.

2. Definitions

These terms are capitalized wherever they appear in this document, and each carries the meaning given here.

3. The Service and your license to use it

3.1 What the Service is

Qorus gives you a public profile at your own link, QR codes for sharing your details and collecting other people's details, a catalog of the people you meet, booking tools, and tools that help you organize and use that catalog.

Qorus is a tool. We are not a party to any agreement you make with the people who use your Qorus Profile, and we do not vouch for you to them or for them to you.

3.2 Your license

We give you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service while your account is in good standing and you are keeping to these Terms. This license does not transfer ownership of the software or Service to you.

You must not copy, resell, sublicense, rent out, or white-label the Service. You must not reverse engineer it, scrape it, run an automated agent against it at a rate that burdens it, or use it to build a competing product.

3.3 Changes to the Service

We may add, change, or withdraw features as the Service develops. Where reasonably possible, we will provide notice before a material change that substantially affects how you use the Service.

4. Accounts, registration, and account security

You must keep your password to yourself. You are responsible for what happens under your account, including anything done by people you invite into it. You must tell us at legal@qorus.io as soon as you believe somebody else has obtained access.

You must give us accurate details and keep them current. We may suspend an account whose details we cannot verify.

5. Acceptable use and prohibited conduct

Qorus has no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users.

5.1 Content you must not publish, send, or store

You must not use Qorus for anything that is:

• sexually explicit, or that sexualizes a minor in any way;
• hateful, harassing, or threatening, or that attacks people over race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age;
• violent, or that promotes or glorifies violence, self-harm, or terrorism;
• defamatory, or an invasion of somebody's privacy;
• an impersonation of another person or business, or a profile built to pass yourself off as somebody you are not;
• fraudulent or deceptive, or that promotes an illegal product, service, or scheme;
• malware or phishing, or a link to either;
• spam, or bulk unsolicited messaging of any kind;
• an infringement of somebody else's intellectual property.

5.2 Conduct you must not engage in

You must not break the law. You must not interfere with the Service or the networks it runs on. You must not circumvent any limit, filter, or security measure. You must not access anybody else's account. You must not test or probe our systems without our written permission.

5.3 Reporting something

If you find something on Qorus that breaks these rules, tell us at legal@qorus.io. Say where it is and what is wrong with it. We will review it and act.

5.4 What we will do

We may remove content, unpublish a Qorus Profile, and suspend or terminate an account. We may act without notice where the content is severe or the risk is immediate. We will report unlawful material to the authorities where we are required to or where we consider it right. If we act against you, you may ask us to review the decision by writing to legal@qorus.io.

6. Your Content and the license you grant us

You keep everything you own. Your photos, your logo, your bio, your profile design, and your notes remain yours.

To publish your Qorus Profile and run the Service, we need your permission to use that material. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, adapt for display, and publish Your Content for the sole purpose of operating the Service for you. That license ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies sitting in backups on their normal cycle and anything we are required to keep by law.

We will not use Your Content, Your Data, your notes, or your voice recordings to train artificial intelligence models, ours or anybody else's. The providers that process them for us are barred by contract from doing so, and we have given none of them permission.

You confirm that you own Your Content or have the right to use it, that publishing it infringes nobody's copyright, trademark, or other rights, and that where it shows a person, you have that person's permission.

7. Your Qorus Profile is public

When you publish a Qorus Profile, anybody with the link or the QR code can open it. There is no login in front of it, search engines can find it, and once somebody has seen or saved it, we cannot retrieve that copy.

Put only things on it that you are content for the world to see. You may unpublish or delete it at any time, which stops the link resolving, but that does not reach copies other people already have.

8. The contacts you save

The people you scan, dictate, tag, and store are your Contacts, and so is the image of any business card you capture. We hold them for you and process them on your instructions. We do not sell them, market to them ourselves, or combine them with any other Member's catalog.

Because they are yours, the legal responsibility for them is yours. You confirm that:

• you have a lawful basis for collecting and holding each person's details;
• you collected them fairly, and not by scraping, buying, renting, or harvesting a list;
• you will handle them in line with the privacy laws that apply where you and they are;
• you will answer requests from those people to see, correct, or delete their details, and you will answer promptly if we pass one to you.

If one of those people asks us directly, we will pass the request to you and act on it ourselves where we are permitted or required to.

In the language the laws use, for this information you are the controller and we are your processor.

9. Voice notes

You can record a voice note and we will transcribe it. The audio is transmitted to our servers and on to Groq for speech recognition, and the transcript then goes to Anthropic's Claude, running inside Amazon Web Services, which reads the contact details out of it. We do not retain the audio. We do not identify speakers and we do not create voiceprints. Section 7 of our Privacy Policy (Voice notes and transcription) explains the whole path.

Speech recognition is imperfect. You must check anything that matters before you rely on it.

If you record anybody other than yourself, obtaining their permission is your responsibility. In many places, recording a private conversation without everyone's consent is a criminal offense and gives the person recorded the right to sue for a fixed sum without proving any harm. You must obtain every consent the law requires before you record anyone, and section 20 (Indemnification) applies to any claim that you did not.

10. Messages you send through Qorus

If you use Qorus to send campaigns, automated flows, or any other message to your Contacts, this section governs. You are the sender of those messages and we are not.

10.1 What you promise us

• You have permission to message every recipient, of the kind the law where they live requires. For Canada, that means CASL consent, which is stricter than the United States standard.
• No recipient came from a purchased, rented, scraped, or harvested list.
• Your sender name, reply address, and subject line are truthful.
• Every message identifies you and carries a valid postal address for you.
• You will keep proof of consent and give it to us within five business days if we ask.

10.2 What we do

We include an unsubscribe mechanism in marketing messages sent through Qorus. You must not send to anyone who has unsubscribed. Identifying yourself the way the law requires is your responsibility, including the identification Canadian law requires where a message goes to Canada.

10.3 What we may do if it goes wrong

We may throttle your sending, hold a campaign, require you to verify your sending domain, or suspend the feature or the account, if your complaint or bounce rate goes above what we consider acceptable, or if we believe you are breaking this section. We are not required to warn you first.

10.4 Referrals

If you invite somebody to Qorus, you are the sender of that invitation, and this section applies to it.

10.5 You cover us

If we are investigated, fined, or sued over a message you sent, section 20 (Indemnification) applies, and the cap in section 19 (Limitation of liability) does not limit what you owe us.

11. Bookings

Qorus may allow a Visitor to request or schedule a booking with you. Any appointment, service, or other arrangement connected with that booking is between you and the Visitor. Qorus provides scheduling technology and is not a party to that arrangement.

You are responsible for keeping your availability and booking information accurate, communicating directly with the Visitor, providing any service you agree to provide, and explaining your own cancellation or rescheduling policy.

Qorus does not accept or process payments through the Service. No payment information is required to request or manage a booking through Qorus.

12. Third-party services and links

Qorus connects to services we do not control, including our speech recognition provider and services you choose to connect yourself. What those services do is between you and them, under their terms. We are not responsible for them.

13. Free access

The Qorus mobile applications and the Service covered by these Terms are free to download, access, and use. No payment, purchase, subscription, in-app purchase, paid membership, or paid upgrade is required to create an account or use the features currently available through the Service.

Qorus does not offer paid plans, paid features, or upgrades for purchase through the Service. There is no trial period that converts into a paid subscription, and the Service does not automatically charge Members.

14. Intellectual property

The Service, the Qorus name, the Qorus wordmark, and everything we made are ours. These Terms give you no rights in any of it.

Feedback. If you tell us how to improve Qorus, we may use that freely and permanently without owing you anything.

Aggregate data. We compile statistics about how the Service is used, from our own server records, and we use them to run and improve the Service. Those statistics never identify you, your Contacts, or your clients.

15. Copyright and repeat infringement

15.1 Reporting an infringement

If you believe something on Qorus infringes your copyright, send a notice to the address in section 15.3 (Where to send a copyright notice), containing: your signature; identification of the work infringed; identification of the infringing material and where it is; your contact details; a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner.

15.2 What we do, and repeat infringers

We remove material properly notified to us, tell the Member, and give the Member an opportunity to respond with a counter-notice. We terminate the accounts of Members who repeatedly infringe.

15.3 Where to send a copyright notice

Send copyright notices to legal@qorus.io.

15.4 What this section does not cover

This section and the safe harbor it relies on cover claims of copyright infringement. They do not cover claims of trademark infringement, defamation, or misappropriation of trade secrets. Report those to legal@qorus.io and we will handle them under section 5 (Acceptable use and prohibited conduct).

16. Privacy and security incidents

Our Privacy Policy explains what we do with personal information and forms part of these Terms.

If we become aware of a security incident affecting personal information you hold in Qorus, including the Contacts in your catalog, we will tell you without undue delay, with what we know, what we are doing about it, and what you may need to do. Where the law requires you, as the controller of that information, to notify the people affected, that obligation remains yours, and we will give you what you need in order to meet it.

17. Term, termination, suspension, and survival

17.1 You can stop

You may stop using the Service at any time. You may delete your account at any time by selecting Account Settings → Delete Account in the Qorus application. You may also contact support@qorus.io for assistance.

17.2 We can suspend or terminate

We may suspend or terminate an account if you break these Terms, if we are required to, if the account creates a risk to us or to anybody else, or if we stop offering the Service. Where we reasonably can, we will tell you first. Where the risk is immediate, we will act first and tell you after.

17.3 What happens when it ends

Your Qorus Profile stops resolving and anything scheduled stops. You may ask us at legal@qorus.io for a copy of Your Data before we delete it. We delete what section 18 of our Privacy Policy (Deleting your account and your information) says we delete.

17.4 What survives

The following sections continue to apply after these Terms end, in full:

• Section 6 (Your Content and the license you grant us), to the extent of the license we need in order to host content you already published, until that content is deleted
• Section 8 (The contacts you save)
• Section 9 (Voice notes)
• Section 10 (Messages you send through Qorus)
• Section 11 (Bookings)
• Section 14 (Intellectual property)
• Section 15 (Copyright and repeat infringement)
• Section 17 (Term, termination, suspension, and survival)
• Section 18 (Disclaimer of warranties)
• Section 19 (Limitation of liability)
• Section 20 (Indemnification)
• Section 21 (Dispute resolution)
• Section 22 (Governing law and venue)
• Section 24 (General provisions)
• Section 25 (Apple App Store additional terms)
• Section 26 (Google Play additional terms)
• Section 27 (How to reach us)

18. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", "WITH ALL FAULTS", AND "AS AVAILABLE". TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, QORUS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. QORUS DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, THAT TRANSCRIPTS WILL BE ACCURATE, OR THAT DATA WILL BE PRESERVED WITHOUT LOSS.

Some places do not allow parts of this disclaimer to be excluded, in which case those parts do not apply to you.

19. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION. IT LIMITS WHAT QORUS OWES YOU. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, QORUS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, HOWEVER CAUSED. QORUS'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING IN ANY TWELVE-MONTH PERIOD WILL NOT EXCEED ONE THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS (US$1,000).

19.1 What this cap does not limit

The cap in section 19 does not apply to, and does not limit, any of the following:

• our fraud, gross negligence, or willful misconduct;
• death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
• anything that cannot be limited or excluded by law.

Some places do not allow these limits, in which case they do not apply to you.

20. Indemnification

You will defend us against, and indemnify us for, any claim, loss, damage, fine, or cost, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of Your Content, your Qorus Profile, the Contacts you save, any recording you make, any message you send through Qorus, any appointment or service you arrange with a Visitor, your breach of these Terms, or your breach of any law. "Defend" means you provide the legal defense. "Indemnify" means you compensate us for the loss.

This obligation covers QORUS INC and its officers, directors, employees, and agents.

We will tell you promptly about any claim covered by this section, let you control the defense of it, and cooperate with you at your expense. You must not settle a claim in a way that imposes an obligation on us or admits fault on our behalf without our written consent.

The cap in section 19 (Limitation of liability) limits what we owe you. It does not limit what you owe us under this section.

21. Dispute resolution

21.1 Talk to us first

Before starting anything formal, send a written description of the dispute and what you want to legal@qorus.io. We will do the same for you. Give it 30 days. Most disputes end here.

21.2 Small claims

Either of us may bring a claim in small claims court, if the claim qualifies.

21.3 Courts

Except for a small claims matter under section 21.2, any dispute arising out of these Terms or the Service will be resolved in the courts identified in section 22 (Governing law and venue).

These Terms contain no agreement to arbitrate and no waiver of your right to participate in a class action.

21.4 Time limit

Any claim arising out of these Terms or the Service must be brought within one year of when it arose, or it is waived, to the extent the law allows.

22. Governing law and venue

These Terms, and any dispute arising out of them or out of the Service, are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

You and Qorus agree that the state and federal courts located in the State of Florida have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, except that either of us may bring a small claims matter under section 21.2 (Small claims) where that claim qualifies, and except where the law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim in your local courts.

23. Changes to these terms

We may change these Terms. When we do, we will publish the new version with a new version number and date, and record the change in section 28 (Version history). Prior versions remain available on request from legal@qorus.io.

23.1 Material changes

For a change that materially affects you, including any change that expands how we use your data, adds an agreement to arbitrate, or materially changes your rights or obligations, we will give you at least 30 days' notice by email or in the application, and we will ask you to accept the new version. Those changes take effect for you when you accept them.

23.2 Other changes

For a change that does not materially affect you, we will publish the new version and update the date. Continuing to use the Service after that date means you accept it.

23.3 No retroactive changes

A change to these Terms applies from the date it takes effect. We will not apply a change retroactively to anything that happened before then.

24. General provisions

24.1 Assignment

You must not transfer this agreement without our written consent. We may transfer it to a successor if the business is sold or merged.

24.2 Notices

Notices to you go by email to the address on your account, or in the application. Notices to us go to legal@qorus.io, including anything under section 15 (Copyright and repeat infringement).

24.3 Force majeure

Neither of us is liable for a failure to perform caused by something outside our reasonable control.

24.4 Severability

If any part of these Terms is unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.

24.5 No waiver

If we do not enforce a provision, we have not given it up.

24.6 Entire agreement

These Terms and our Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service.

24.7 Relationship of the parties

You and Qorus are independent contractors. These Terms create no partnership, joint venture, employment, or agency relationship.

24.8 Third parties

Nobody other than you and us has rights under these Terms, except Apple as described in section 25 (Apple App Store additional terms).

24.9 Headings and summaries

Section titles are for navigation. They are not binding, and the text of each section governs.

25. Apple App Store additional terms

This section applies if you obtained the Qorus application from the App Store, and it overrides anything inconsistent with it above.

• 25.1 This agreement is with QORUS INC, not with Apple. Apple is not a party to it, and Qorus alone is responsible for the application and its content.
• 25.2 Your license to use the application is non-transferable, on an Apple-branded device you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.
• 25.3 Support. Support is ours. Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for the application.
• 25.4 Warranty. If the application fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple. Because the application is provided at no charge, there is no application purchase price to refund. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation, and any other claim is ours to handle.
• 25.5 Claims. Qorus, not Apple, is responsible for any claim about the application, including product liability, any failure to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection or privacy law.
• 25.6 Intellectual property. If a third party claims the application infringes its intellectual property, Qorus, not Apple, handles it.
• 25.7 Legal compliance. You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a United States Government embargo or designated as terrorist supporting, and that you are not on any United States Government prohibited or restricted parties list.
• 25.8 Third-party terms. You must comply with any applicable third-party terms when using the application.
• 25.9 Apple's rights. "Apple, and Apple's subsidiaries, are third party beneficiaries of the EULA, and upon acceptance Apple will have the right to enforce the EULA against the End-User."

26. Google Play additional terms

This section applies if you obtained the Qorus application from Google Play, and it overrides anything inconsistent with it above.

This agreement is between you and QORUS INC. Google is not a party to it and has no responsibility for the application or its content. Your use of the application is also subject to the Google Play Terms of Service. Qorus, not Google, is responsible for support, for any warranty, and for any claim relating to the application.

27. How to reach us

QORUS INC

• Legal notices, complaints, and anything in these Terms: legal@qorus.io
• Copyright notices under section 15: legal@qorus.io
• Everything else: support@qorus.io

28. Version history