Terms of Service for ScreeningPolicy.com

1Acceptance of these terms

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and Langley Porter AG LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”), the operator of screeningpolicy.com (the “Site”).

By visiting the Site, purchasing access, or generating a report with the policy builder (the “Service”), you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy.

If you use the Service on behalf of a company, you confirm that you have authority to bind that company, and “you” means the company.

If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

2Who we are

Langley Porter AG LLC is a compliance research and publishing company.

We are not a law firm, we do not employ attorneys to advise you, and we are not a consumer reporting agency or a background screening provider.

Contact us at support@screeningpolicy.com.

3What the service is

The policy builder takes the facts you enter about a job position, such as duties, pay range, employer size, work locations, and planned screening checks.

It then compiles the federal, state, county, and city laws, statutes, ordinances, and agency guidance that apply to background screening for that position.

The output is a written policy recommendation (a “Report”) that cites its sources and ranks each item as required, recommended, best practice, or reminder.

Reports are delivered by email as a PDF and can be printed from the screen.

4Not legal advice

We are not attorneys, and nothing on the Site or in a Report is legal advice.

Reports are general compliance information compiled from public laws and statutes in effect on the date shown on the Report.

Use of the Service does not create an attorney-client relationship with us or with anyone who contributed to our content.

Laws differ by jurisdiction, change frequently, and depend on facts we cannot see. Only a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction can tell you how the law applies to your company.

You agree to obtain final approval from your own legal counsel before adopting, publishing, or acting on any policy, form, or recommendation drawn from a Report.

5Your responsibilities

You are solely responsible for:

• The accuracy and completeness of the facts you enter into the builder. A Report is only as good as its inputs.
• Having your legal counsel review and approve any policy before you use it.
• Complying with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Title VII, state fair-chance laws, and every other law that applies to your hiring decisions.
• Your own background screening program, including disclosures, authorizations, adverse action notices, and the vendors you choose.
• Keeping applicant and employee information out of the builder. It asks about a job, never about a person.

6Accounts, passwords, and tokens

Access to the builder may be protected by a page password, a purchased access token, or a user account.

Keep your credentials confidential. You are responsible for all activity that occurs under them, and you must tell us promptly if they are compromised.

Credentials are issued to one company for its internal use. Sharing them with another company, or with the public, is a breach of these Terms.

We may suspend credentials that appear to be shared, automated, or used in breach of Section 8.

7Fees, payment, and refunds

Fees for the Service are shown on the Site at the time of purchase and are stated in U.S. dollars.

Payment is due in full before a Report is generated. We use a third-party payment processor, and you agree to its terms when you pay.

Each purchased token or access period entitles you to the number of Reports stated at checkout. Unused tokens expire twelve months after purchase unless the checkout page says otherwise.

Because a Report is a digital product delivered immediately, fees are non-refundable once a Report has been generated.

If a Report fails to generate or arrive because of a fault on our side, we will regenerate it or refund the fee for that Report, at your choice.

We may change our prices at any time. Changes do not affect tokens you have already purchased.

8Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Copy, scrape, crawl, decompile, reverse engineer, or otherwise attempt to extract the rules engine, law dataset, or recommendation logic behind the Service.
• Resell, sublicense, or redistribute Reports or Site content, or use them to build a competing product or dataset.
• Enter any person’s name, Social Security number, date of birth, or other personal information into the builder.
• Use bots, scripts, or automated tools to generate Reports or access the Site.
• Bypass passwords, tokens, rate limits, or other access controls.
• Upload malicious code or interfere with the Site’s operation or security.
• Present a Report as a legal opinion, or as having been prepared or approved by an attorney, unless your counsel has in fact approved it.
• Use the Service for any unlawful purpose or in violation of anyone’s rights.

9Intellectual property and license

Our content

The Site, the builder, the rules engine, the law dataset, the Report format, and all text, graphics, and code are owned by Langley Porter AG LLC or its licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark, and trade secret law.

Statutes, ordinances, and agency publications quoted in Reports are public records. Our selection, arrangement, summaries, and recommendations are our original work.

Your license to Reports

When you purchase a Report, we grant you a perpetual, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use, copy, and adapt that Report for your company’s internal hiring policies and to share it with your advisers, including your legal counsel.

You may not publish a Report, sell it, or provide it to other companies.

Your inputs

You keep ownership of the facts you enter. You grant us a license to use them to generate your Report and, in aggregated form that does not identify you, to improve the Service.

Feedback

If you send us suggestions, we may use them without obligation to you.

10Currency and accuracy of legal content

We maintain our law dataset with care and update it as laws change, but we cannot guarantee that every statute, ordinance, threshold, or effective date is current or complete at the moment you generate a Report.

Each Report states the date its legal content was current. Laws enacted or amended after that date are not reflected.

Court decisions, agency guidance, and local ordinances can change how a law is applied without changing its text.

If you find an error, please tell us at support@screeningpolicy.com. We will review it and correct the dataset where appropriate.

11Third-party services and links

Reports link to government websites, statutes, and to background screening resources such as usabackground.com.

Those sites and services are governed by their own terms and privacy policies. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content, availability, or practices.

A link is provided for convenience and is not an endorsement or a guarantee of any product or service offered there.

12Disclaimer of warranties

THE SITE, THE SERVICE, AND EVERY REPORT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AND COMPLETENESS.

WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT A REPORT WILL SATISFY ANY LAW, REGULATOR, COURT, OR AUDITOR, THAT IT IS FREE OF ERRORS, OR THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR SECURE.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you.

13Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LANGLEY PORTER AG LLC AND ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND LICENSORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, REGULATORY FINES, OR THE COST OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR ANY REPORT, EVEN IF WE WERE ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE FEES YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100).

These limits do not apply to liability for our gross negligence, willful misconduct, or fraud, or to any liability that cannot be limited by law.

Any claim against us must be brought within one year after it arises, or it is permanently barred.

You acknowledge that the fees for the Service reflect this allocation of risk, and that the Service would not be offered at those fees without it.

14Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Langley Porter AG LLC and its members, managers, employees, and contractors from any claim, loss, liability, and expense, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising from:

• Your hiring decisions, screening program, or employment policies, whether or not based on a Report.
• Inaccurate or incomplete facts you entered into the builder.
• Your breach of these Terms or of any law.
• Any personal information you entered into the Service in breach of Section 8.

15Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time.

We may suspend or terminate your access, with or without notice, if you breach these Terms, if we reasonably suspect fraud or abuse, or if we discontinue the Service.

If we discontinue the Service, we will refund the unused portion of any prepaid tokens.

Sections 4, 5, 9, 12, 13, 14, 16, and 18 survive termination.

16Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules.

Before filing any claim, you agree to email us a written description of the dispute and to give us 30 days to resolve it informally.

Any claim that is not resolved informally will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, and you consent to their jurisdiction.

In any action to enforce these Terms, the prevailing party may recover its reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs.

Nothing in this section prevents either party from seeking an injunction to protect intellectual property or confidential information.

17Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms as the Service and the law evolve. The effective date at the top of the page shows the current version.

For material changes, we will post a notice on the Site or email customers who purchased a Report in the previous twelve months.

Continued use of the Service after the effective date means you accept the updated Terms. Purchases already made are governed by the Terms in effect when you paid.

18General terms

• Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service.
• Severability. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect and the provision is enforced to the maximum extent permitted.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them to a successor of our business.
• Force majeure. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
• Notices. We may send notices to the email address on your order. You may send notices to support@screeningpolicy.com.
• Headings. Section headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.

19Contact

Langley Porter AG LLC, operator of screeningpolicy.com

Email: support@screeningpolicy.com

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