Legal · Version 1.0
By accessing or using InOutBio, you agree to these terms and the Privacy and Cookie Notice. If you use InOutBio for an employer, university, laboratory, institution, or other organization, you confirm that you are authorized to act for it and that both you and the organization will comply. If you do not agree, do not use the service.
You must be at least 18 years old, legally able to form a binding agreement, and permitted to use the service under applicable employment, institutional, sanctions, export-control, and professional rules. The platform is designed for legitimate scientific, academic, technology-transfer, facility, and licensing activity. It is not a consumer medical service.
Provide accurate, current information; use only accounts you are authorized to control; protect authentication credentials and devices; and promptly report suspected compromise. Google sign-in and other identity services remain subject to their providers' terms. You are responsible for activity performed through your account unless caused by InOutBio's breach of duty. We may require identity, role, organization, or authority verification before enabling protected functions.
An asset-owner account may submit assets without a submission fee and may receive limited discovery access. An opportunity-seeker account may apply for broader search, expressions of interest, and owner-contact access, which may require administrator approval and a paid plan. Permissions, quotas, pricing, and feature availability shown in the service or an order form form part of these terms. You must not use one account type to evade the controls of another.
Submission does not guarantee publication. InOutBio may review, request clarification, approve, reject, hold, unpublish, or remove any asset, facility, profile, or access application to protect quality, safety, privacy, intellectual property, and policy compliance. Administrative review is a platform-governance check only; it is not scientific validation, due diligence, regulatory assessment, title verification, valuation, or endorsement.
You are responsible for the accuracy, legality, permissions, and appropriate disclosure level of everything you submit. You confirm that you own the content or have sufficient rights and institutional authority to submit it; that publication does not breach confidentiality, employment, sponsorship, grant, material-transfer, clinical-trial, publication, intellectual-property, export-control, or other obligations; and that statements are not misleading. Keep records current and promptly correct or withdraw material inaccuracies.
Public asset and profile fields are intended for non-confidential information. Do not place personal contact details, trade secrets, unpublished enabling know-how, patient data, security credentials, controlled technical information, or third-party confidential material in a public field. InOutBio is not responsible for confidentiality lost because you intentionally or negligently published information in a public or shareable area. A confidentiality obligation arises only under a separate written agreement or an expressly designated controlled workflow.
You retain ownership of your pre-existing intellectual property and submitted content. You grant InOutBio a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence, for as long as reasonably needed to provide the service, to host, copy, format, index, display, transmit, moderate, back up, and create technical previews of that content in accordance with your visibility choices. This licence does not transfer ownership or grant InOutBio a right to commercialize the underlying asset. Feedback and suggestions may be used to improve the platform without restriction or payment, provided we do not identify you publicly without permission.
InOutBio reference numbers, certificates of appreciation, verification pages, and branded pipeline images identify a platform record and acknowledge participation or collaborative intent. They do not establish inventorship, ownership, patent validity, freedom to operate, scientific reproducibility, regulatory status, institutional authorization, investment quality, commercial value, or endorsement. You may share authentic, unaltered materials generated for your own records, but must not misrepresent their meaning or use them to imply approval that InOutBio has not given.
Search results depend on owner-provided and reviewed metadata and may be incomplete, outdated, or unavailable. An expression of interest is non-binding and does not create exclusivity, confidentiality, agency, partnership, fiduciary duty, licence, option, or obligation to negotiate. Owners decide whether to respond and what to disclose. Users must respect contact controls and may not scrape, harvest, re-identify, publish, sell, or use contact information for spam or unrelated solicitation.
Facility listings, prices, availability, calendars, analytical workflows, software, and service descriptions are supplied by their providers. Unless expressly stated otherwise, InOutBio is not the provider, laboratory, contracting party, custodian, or payment guarantor. Users and providers are responsible for suitability, safety, training, sample handling, biosafety, permits, insurance, scheduling, payment, results, and their own written service terms.
Asset submission may be offered free of charge while advanced search or other services may require payment. Applicable prices, billing periods, renewal, cancellation, refund rules, and taxes will be shown before purchase or stated in an order form. Except where mandatory law or the applicable order form provides otherwise, fees already incurred are non-refundable. We may change future pricing with advance notice but will not retroactively change an agreed paid period.
You must not misuse InOutBio, interfere with security or availability, bypass access controls or paywalls, impersonate others, create deceptive records, upload malware, probe vulnerabilities without written authorization, automate scraping, derive bulk contact lists, send spam, infringe rights, violate sanctions or export controls, submit unlawful or harmful content, manipulate references or certificates, or use platform data to train or enrich a competing database without written permission.
InOutBio organizes information and introductions. It does not provide medical, clinical, scientific, legal, patent, regulatory, safety, investment, valuation, tax, or licensing advice and does not replace independent due diligence. Probability-of-success outputs, stages, labels, search rankings, summaries, and other analytical features are contextual decision-support tools, not guarantees or recommendations. Qualified professionals remain responsible for every research, development, transaction, and patient-related decision.
The service may link to publications, databases, LinkedIn, identity providers, cloud services, and other third-party sites. InOutBio does not control their content, availability, security, or privacy practices. Your use of a third-party service is governed by its own terms. A share action may send the destination service the page URL and information you choose to publish.
We may limit, hold, suspend, or terminate access; hide or remove content; preserve evidence; or notify an affected organization or authority when reasonably necessary to investigate a violation, secure the service, protect users or rights, comply with law, address non-payment, or manage material risk. Where appropriate, we will provide notice and an opportunity to respond. You may stop using the service and request account deletion, subject to outstanding obligations and lawful retention.
We aim to operate a reliable and secure platform, but access may be interrupted for maintenance, security, provider outages, capacity limits, or events beyond reasonable control. Features may evolve, and beta or newly introduced functions may change or be withdrawn. We will use reasonable care and provide material notices where practicable, but we do not promise uninterrupted availability or that every error will be corrected immediately.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the service and user-provided content are supplied on an 'as available' basis, without implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, scientific outcome, transaction completion, or commercial success. InOutBio is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, punitive, or consequential loss, lost opportunity, lost profit, lost data, research delay, or decisions based on user content. Any monetary cap and exclusions must be interpreted subject to mandatory law and any signed order form; nothing excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded.
To the extent permitted by law, an organizational or professional user will defend and indemnify InOutBio against third-party claims and reasonable costs arising from that user's unlawful content, infringement, breach of confidentiality, misuse of personal data, violation of these terms, or lack of authority to submit or publish material. This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim results from InOutBio's own breach, negligence, or willful misconduct.
Contact us first so we can try to resolve a concern promptly. A signed organization agreement or order form may identify governing law, forum, service levels, data-processing terms, or liability provisions and will control where it conflicts with these online terms. Otherwise, applicable governing law and jurisdiction are determined under mandatory conflict-of-law and forum rules. Nothing in these terms removes non-waivable statutory rights or prevents either party from seeking urgent protective relief.
We may update these terms to reflect service, security, commercial, or legal changes. The revised version and effective date will be posted, and material changes will receive additional notice where appropriate. Continued use after the effective date means acceptance where permitted by law. If one provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue. No waiver is continuing, and you may not transfer your account or agreement without permission. Use Contact Us for legal notices or questions. Qualified counsel should confirm the final operating entity, address, governing law, liability cap, tax position, and launch-jurisdiction requirements before commercial launch.