The contract,
plainly stated.

By creating a humanovo account, or by using the service without one (e.g. the public landing pages, the atlas of plates), you agree to these terms. If you don’t agree, don’t use the service. If you’re entering into this agreement on behalf of an organisation, you represent that you have the authority to do so and the organisation agrees too.

humanovo is a research-grade hypothesis-discovery system. We run adversarial pipelines over the biomedical literature, surface candidate hypotheses with full citation provenance, and let you maintain a private corpus of notebooks and papers alongside. The pipelines are non-deterministic; outputs vary across runs. We make best efforts to keep the service available, but we do not promise specific uptime numbers outside of an Institution- tier SLA.

You are responsible for the security of your account credentials. Use a unique password and a hardware-key 2FA method; we strongly recommend it and will require it on paid tiers by Q4 2026. You must be at least 16 years old, or the age of digital consent in your jurisdiction, whichever is higher.

You may not share your account with anyone else. Each user needs their own account; the Lab and Institution tiers exist precisely so a group can share work without sharing credentials.

humanovo is built for legitimate research. The following uses are explicitly out of bounds:

Generation of misinformation

You will not use humanovo to fabricate citations, manufacture appearance of consensus, or produce content designed to deceive a reader into believing a scientific claim is supported when it is not.

Bioweapons / dual-use harm

You will not use humanovo to design, synthesise, or improve a biological agent intended to cause harm to humans, animals, or ecosystems. Our pipelines are constrained against this; circumventing the constraints is a contract breach.

Mass scraping / cloning the corpus

You will not use humanovo to scrape our underlying corpus, mirror our service, or train competing models on our outputs. Reasonable export of your own hypotheses for your own work is welcome and explicitly allowed.

Spam / abuse

You will not use humanovo to send unsolicited bulk communications, deploy malware, or attack other systems.

Illegal activity

You will not use humanovo to violate laws applicable to you. We will cooperate with valid legal process; we will resist invalid process to the extent the law permits us to.

Violations may result in suspension or termination, and severe violations will be reported to the relevant authorities. We reserve some discretion here because the edge cases require judgment; we exercise that discretion sparingly and document it.

The corpus you upload, the hypotheses you generate, and the audit logs they produce remain yours. We claim no ownership. We grant ourselves only the narrow licence required to operate the service: storing your content, processing it through our pipelines, displaying it back to you, and backing it up. That licence ends when your content is deleted.

We do not train models on your content. See our privacy policy for the operational detail.

The humanovo software, designs, prose, and the curated atlas of public-domain plates are ours (or our licensors’). The plates themselves are public-domain — their underlying works are out of copyright — but our editorial selection, arrangement, and accompanying commentary on the atlas page is original work covered by copyright. You may quote it with attribution and a link back; you may not republish substantial portions or use it commercially without permission.

Every citation rendered by humanovo passes a roundtrip verification we describe in detail on the provenance page. That said, the underlying literature itself is imperfect: papers get retracted, indexes lag, journals disappear. We commit to the best-available verification at the time of generation and to surfacing post-hoc retractions when we learn of them, but we do not guarantee that every cited work is currently considered correct by its field. The audit trail is the receipt; the literature is the world.

humanovo’s outputs are research aids, not medical advice, legal advice, or replacements for professional judgment. If you act on a humanovo hypothesis — running an experiment, citing it in a paper, making a clinical decision — the responsibility for that action is yours, just as it would be if you acted on a colleague’s suggestion.

Paid tiers are billed in advance per the cadence on the pricing page. You authorise us to charge your payment method for the tier you select and any opt-in overages. Failed payments are retried for 14 days; after that the workspace is paused (read-only) for a further 30 days, then deleted.

Refunds: within 14 days of first payment, no questions asked, refunded to source. After 14 days, prorated against unused time. Annual contracts cancelled mid-year are prorated to the month. Taxes are added at checkout per your jurisdiction.

You can terminate at any time from account settings. We can terminate for material breach (notably, the acceptable- use clauses above) with notice and a cure period where curing is possible. On termination — by either side — you have 90 days of read-only export access before workspace deletion. Backup encryption keys are destroyed within 30 days of deletion; after that the data is cryptographically irrecoverable.

We provide the service as is and as available, without express warranty other than the security and privacy commitments stated explicitly here and in the privacy policy. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, that every feature will work in every environment, or that the underlying literature will agree with itself.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, humanovo’s aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the service is capped at the greater of (a) the fees you paid us in the twelve months preceding the claim or (b) US$100. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or lost goodwill, even if we’ve been advised of the possibility.

Some jurisdictions don’t allow these limits; in those jurisdictions our liability is limited to the maximum extent allowed.

You agree to defend and indemnify humanovo against claims arising from (a) your use of the service in breach of these terms, (b) your content, or (c) your violation of applicable law. We’ll do the same for you, on a mutual basis, for claims that humanovo’s software infringes a third party’s IP rights, subject to standard procedural requirements (prompt notice, sole control of the defence, reasonable cooperation).

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts sitting in Delaware, and you and humanovo each consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

Before filing anything, email legal@humanovo.net with the dispute. We will attempt to resolve it informally within 30 days.

Nothing in these terms prevents either side from seeking urgent injunctive relief in court, nor does it prevent consumers from exercising mandatory rights under their local law.

We’ll email every active account at least 30 days before material changes take effect. Non-material changes (typos, clarifications, link updates) take effect on posting; we log them in the changelog below. If you don’t accept a material change, you can terminate and we’ll prorate any unused fees.

Entire agreement

These terms, plus the privacy policy and any executed order form, are the entire agreement between us on this subject.

Severability

If a court invalidates any clause, the rest of the terms keep effect.

No waiver

Failing to enforce a clause once doesn’t waive our right to enforce it later.

Assignment

You can’t assign these terms without our consent. We can assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of substantially all our assets, with notice.

Force majeure

Neither side is in breach for delays caused by events beyond reasonable control (wars, internet outages, pandemics, acts of regulators).

No third-party beneficiaries

These terms are between you and humanovo, with no one else getting enforceable rights.

Notices

To us: legal@humanovo.net. To you: the email on your account.

7 May 2026

Initial version.