Terms of Service

Welcome to ShiporDrop ("ShiporDrop", "we", "us", or "our"). These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you and ShiporDrop and govern your access to and use of the website at shipordrop.com, including the quiz, scorecard, embeddable widget, blog, and any related services (collectively, the "Service").

By accessing or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

You must be at least 13 years old (or the minimum digital-consent age in your jurisdiction) to use the Service. By using the Service, you represent that you meet this requirement and that you have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms.

ShiporDrop is a free, lightweight tool that asks 16 questions and returns a score across 8 dimensions to help you think more clearly about an app or startup idea. It is an opinionated heuristic, not professional advice.

The Service does not provide legal, financial, investment, tax, accounting, or business advice.

Scores, recommendations, blog posts, and any content surfaced by the Service are for informational and educational purposes only. You are solely responsible for any decision you make about whether to build, launch, invest in, or abandon any idea.

Some features (such as creating an embeddable widget or a project dashboard) require you to create an account. You agree to provide accurate information, keep your credentials secure, and accept responsibility for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us immediately at team@shipordrop.com if you suspect unauthorized use.

You agree not to:

• Use the Service to violate any law or the rights of others.
• Submit content that is unlawful, defamatory, hateful, harassing, sexually explicit, infringing, or otherwise objectionable.
• Attempt to probe, scan, reverse engineer, or interfere with the Service, its security, or its underlying infrastructure.
• Scrape, harvest, or mass-extract data, or use bots, crawlers, or automated tools except for well-behaved search-engine crawlers.
• Use the Service to train competing AI models or derivative datasets.
• Resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the Service or any part of it without our prior written consent.
• Embed the widget on sites that promote illegal activity, hate, or deceptive practices.

We may suspend or terminate access for any user who, in our reasonable judgment, violates these rules.

"Your Content" means anything you submit to the Service — quiz answers, idea descriptions, project names, widget configurations, votes, and feedback. You retain ownership of Your Content.

By submitting Your Content, you grant ShiporDrop a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, modify (for formatting), display, and use Your Content solely to operate, improve, and secure the Service. We will never sell Your Content.

You represent that you have all rights necessary to grant this license and that Your Content does not infringe anyone else's rights.

If you embed the ShiporDrop widget on your site, you are responsible for your site's compliance with applicable laws (including disclosing any cookies or third-party scripts in your own privacy notice). The widget loads JavaScript from our domain and communicates with our backend to record votes and display results.

We may update the widget at any time to fix bugs, improve performance, or adjust functionality. We will try to avoid breaking changes but cannot guarantee permanent backward compatibility.

The Service, including the ShiporDrop name, logo, mascot ("Bob"), copy, design, scoring methodology, and software, is owned by ShiporDrop and protected by intellectual-property laws. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Service for its intended purpose. All other rights are reserved.

The Service relies on third parties for hosting, authentication, analytics, email delivery, and AI features. Your use of those features is also subject to the relevant third party's terms. We are not responsible for third-party services beyond our reasonable control.

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty arising out of course of dealing or usage of trade.

We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or that any score, recommendation, or content will be accurate or produce a particular outcome.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, ShiporDrop and its operators, contractors, and affiliates will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunities, arising out of or related to your use of the Service.

Our total aggregate liability for any claim related to the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) USD $50.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless ShiporDrop and its operators from any claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from (a) your use of the Service, (b) Your Content, (c) your violation of these Terms, or (d) your violation of any law or third-party right.

You may stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms or pose a risk to the Service or other users. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including ownership, disclaimers, limitation of liability, and indemnification) will survive.

We may modify the Service or these Terms at any time. If we make material changes to these Terms, we will update the "Last updated" date above and, where appropriate, provide additional notice. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which ShiporDrop is operated, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. You and ShiporDrop agree to first attempt to resolve any dispute informally by contacting team@shipordrop.com. Any unresolved dispute will be brought exclusively in the courts of competent jurisdiction in that location, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there.

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and ShiporDrop regarding the Service. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce any right is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

Questions about these Terms? Email team@shipordrop.com.