Terms of Service

Last updated: April 24, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Searcherbase LLC, a New York limited liability company ("Searcherbase," "we," "us," or "our"), that governs your access to and use of the Searcherbase website, applications, APIs, data, and related services (collectively, the "Service"). Please read these Terms carefully. Section 17 contains a binding arbitration agreement and a class-action waiver that affect how disputes between you and us are resolved.

1. Agreement to Terms

By creating an account, purchasing a subscription, or otherwise accessing or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. You represent that you are at least 18 years old, have the legal capacity to enter into a contract, and are not barred from using the Service under the laws of the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction. If you are using the Service on behalf of an entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity to these Terms.

2. Definitions

  • Service means the Searcherbase website, applications, APIs, compiled dataset, exports, and related features.
  • Account means the unique account you create to access the Service.
  • Subscription means the paid plan you purchase to access paid features of the Service.
  • Searcherbase Data means the compiled business-records dataset made available through the Service, including all search results, record detail views, and exports derived from it.
  • User Content means content you create in the Service, including saved searches, watchlists, filters, and notes.

3. Account Registration

When you create an Account, you must provide accurate, complete, and current information and keep it up to date. You are responsible for:

  • Maintaining the confidentiality of your Account credentials
  • All activities that occur under your Account, whether or not authorized by you
  • Notifying us immediately at legal@searcherbase.app of any unauthorized access or use

Accounts are for a single human user. You may not share credentials or allow more than one person to access the Service through a single Account. Each additional human user must obtain their own Subscription.

4. Subscription, Billing, Auto-Renewal, and Cancellation

  • Subscriptions are purchased online through Stripe Checkout using a credit or debit card. We do not offer invoicing, purchase orders, wire transfers, or negotiated enterprise contracts through the Service.
  • Stripe is our payment processor and handles card details directly. We do not receive or store full payment card numbers.
  • Subscriptions are billed in advance for the term you select at checkout (currently annual) and renew automatically at the then-current rate for successive terms of the same length unless you cancel before the renewal date.
  • You may cancel at any time through the Stripe customer billing portal linked from your Account. Cancellation stops the next renewal but does not refund the current term; you will retain access through the end of the paid term.
  • All fees are non-refundable except where required by applicable law.
  • We may change pricing for future renewals with at least thirty (30) days' advance notice by email or in-product notice; any new price applies to your next renewal, and continued use after the renewal date constitutes acceptance of the new price.
  • Failed payments after reasonable retry attempts may result in suspension or termination of access.
  • You are responsible for all taxes, duties, and assessments associated with your Subscription, other than taxes based on our net income.

5. License Grant and Data Use Restrictions

Subject to your compliance with these Terms and payment of applicable fees, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license during your Subscription term to access and use the Service and Searcherbase Data solely for your own internal business purposes. You may incorporate limited, de minimis excerpts of Searcherbase Data into reports, memoranda, or presentations prepared for your own internal use or for your advisors under a duty of confidentiality, provided that Searcherbase is credited as the source of the data.

You agree NOT to, and agree not to permit any third party to:

  • Resell, redistribute, sublicense, lease, rent, publish, or otherwise make the Searcherbase Data available to any third party, including by posting it on a public website or feeding it into a shared database
  • Use the Service or Searcherbase Data to build, train, improve, or benchmark a product, dataset, model, or service that is competitive with the Service
  • Use the Service or Searcherbase Data as training data for machine learning or artificial intelligence models without our prior written consent
  • Scrape, spider, harvest, or bulk-download records beyond the quantities and rate limits documented in the Service, including by circumventing the monthly export row cap or any API rate limit
  • Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, probe for vulnerabilities, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, structure, or algorithms of the Service, except to the extent such restriction is prohibited by law
  • Remove or obscure any proprietary notices, attribution, or watermarks in the Service or Searcherbase Data
  • Use the Service to send unsolicited commercial communications (spam), to harass, stalk, dox, or threaten any individual, or in any manner that violates applicable law, including data-protection, consumer-protection, anti-spam, and telemarketing laws (including the CAN-SPAM Act, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and equivalent laws in other jurisdictions)
  • Use Searcherbase Data to make, in whole or in part, any decision regarding an individual's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing, or any other purpose regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act ("FCRA") or any similar state law. The Service is not a consumer reporting agency, Searcherbase Data is not a consumer report, and Searcherbase Data may not be used for any FCRA permissible purpose.
  • Use the Service in a manner that interferes with, disrupts, or imposes an unreasonable load on the Service or on any third-party systems integrated with it

6. Exports and API

The Service allows you to export records in spreadsheet form, subject to a documented monthly row cap (currently 5,000 rows per month per Account). Exports are for your internal review and use within your organization and are subject to the same restrictions as the Searcherbase Data generally. If we grant you API access, the API is licensed to you on a non-exclusive, non-transferable basis for internal application development; we may monitor API usage, enforce rate limits, and revoke API credentials for suspected abuse. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any export format, API endpoint, or other feature at any time.

7. User Content

You retain all rights in the User Content you create in the Service. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, process, reproduce, and display User Content solely to provide the Service to you, maintain backups, and improve the Service in aggregated or de-identified form. You represent and warrant that your User Content does not infringe the rights of any third party and that you have all rights necessary to grant the license above.

8. Data Accuracy

Searcherbase Data is compiled from publicly available government filings and similar public sources. We strive for completeness and accuracy, but:

  • We do not guarantee the completeness, accuracy, timeliness, or fitness for any particular purpose of any record
  • You are responsible for independently verifying any record before acting on it
  • We are not liable for losses resulting from reliance on data that turns out to be incomplete, inaccurate, or out of date

9. Intellectual Property

The Service, the Searcherbase Data (as a compiled dataset), documentation, trademarks, and all improvements and derivative works of the foregoing, including usage data, clickstream data, search queries, and telemetry, are owned by Searcherbase LLC and are protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, and other intellectual property laws. Except for the limited license in Section 5, no rights are granted to you by implication, estoppel, or otherwise. If you provide feedback, suggestions, or ideas about the Service, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use that feedback without restriction.

10. Third-Party Services

The Service relies on third-party providers (including Stripe, Supabase, Vercel, PostHog, and Cloudflare) and may link to third-party websites, including source government filings. We are not responsible for the availability, content, or practices of any third-party service or site. Your use of third-party services is governed by the terms and privacy policies of those third parties.

11. Termination

You may stop using the Service and cancel your Subscription at any time as described in Section 4. We may suspend or terminate your Account and access to the Service immediately, without prior notice, if we believe you have violated these Terms, if your use poses a security or legal risk to us or to others, or if required by law. Upon termination, your right to access and use the Service and Searcherbase Data ends immediately, and you must cease all use and delete Searcherbase Data in your possession, except for de minimis excerpts embedded in pre-existing internal reports or memoranda. Sections 5 (data-use restrictions), 7 (User Content license), 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 survive termination.

12. Disclaimer of Warranties

THE SERVICE AND SEARCHERBASE DATA ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, SEARCHERBASE AND ITS SUPPLIERS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM A COURSE OF DEALING, COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, OR USAGE OF TRADE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, TIMELY, ERROR-FREE, OR THAT ANY RECORD WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR CURRENT.

13. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL SEARCHERBASE OR ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OR SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM AND (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (USD $100).

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation or exclusion of liability for certain types of damages, so some of the above limitations may not apply to you. In those jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the greatest extent permitted by law.

14. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Searcherbase and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from or related to: (a) your use of the Service; (b) your violation of these Terms; (c) your violation of any law or of the rights of any third party, including FCRA, TCPA, CAN-SPAM, data-protection, or privacy laws; or (d) your User Content.

15. Force Majeure

Neither party will be liable for any failure or delay in performance (other than payment obligations) caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, fire, flood, earthquake, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labor disputes, government action, pandemic, failure of the public internet, failure or degradation of upstream hosting or cloud providers, or failure of third-party data sources.

16. Governing Law and Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Subject to Section 17, the exclusive venue for any action not subject to arbitration will be the state or federal courts located in New York County, New York, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

17. Dispute Resolution; Binding Arbitration; Class Action Waiver

Informal resolution. Before filing a claim, you agree to try to resolve the dispute informally by emailing us at legal@searcherbase.app with a description of the claim and the relief sought. If we cannot resolve the claim within thirty (30) days, either party may proceed as described below.

Binding individual arbitration. Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service, except as carved out below, will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Commercial Arbitration Rules and, if applicable, its Consumer Arbitration Rules. The seat of arbitration will be New York, New York, and the arbitration may be conducted by telephone, video, or written submissions at the election of the party seeking relief. The arbitrator's award is final and binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Class-action waiver. You and Searcherbase each agree that any dispute will be resolved on an individual basis only. You and Searcherbase waive any right to participate in a class action, collective action, consolidated action, or representative action. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims of more than one person or preside over any form of representative proceeding.

30-day opt-out. You may opt out of this Section 17 by emailing legal@searcherbase.app within thirty (30) days of first accepting these Terms with the subject line "Arbitration Opt-Out" and including your full name and the email address on your Account. Opting out will not affect any other provision of these Terms.

Carve-outs. Either party may (a) bring an individual action in small-claims court for a claim within that court's jurisdiction, (b) seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to prevent actual or threatened infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property or violation of Section 5, and (c) pursue claims that cannot lawfully be subject to pre-dispute arbitration.

18. Changes to These Terms

We may modify these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide notice by updating the "Last updated" date at the top of these Terms and, where appropriate, by email or in-product notice. Changes are effective when posted (or on any later date stated in the notice). Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must stop using the Service and may cancel your Subscription as described in Section 4.

19. Miscellaneous

  • Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and Searcherbase regarding the Service and supersede all prior or contemporaneous understandings.
  • Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.
  • No waiver. Our failure to enforce any right or provision is not a waiver of that right or provision.
  • Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any rights under them without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets.
  • Notices. We may provide notice to you by email to the address on your Account or by posting in the Service. You must send notice to us by email to legal@searcherbase.app and to our mailing address below.
  • Independent contractors. The parties are independent contractors; nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, or employment relationship.
  • No third-party beneficiaries. These Terms do not create any third-party beneficiary rights.
  • Headings. Headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.
  • Export and sanctions compliance. You represent that you are not located in, and will not use the Service from, a country subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions, and that you are not listed on any U.S. government denied-party list.

20. Contact Us

If you have questions about these Terms, please contact us at:

Searcherbase LLC
418 Broadway, STE N
Albany, NY 12207, USA
Email: legal@searcherbase.app