Terms of Service
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1. About the Xenopus Care Project
The Xenopus Care Project at xenopuscareproject.org is an AI-supported Xenopus colony-care question window and practical husbandry-support resource. It is designed to help Xenopus users, colony managers, technicians, animal care teams, and research facilities organize and review husbandry situations.
2. Educational and Practical Husbandry-Support Purpose
This site provides educational and practical husbandry-support information only. The Xenopus Care Project does not provide veterinary diagnosis, veterinary treatment, emergency animal care, facility-specific compliance advice, regulatory approval, or IACUC determinations.
Users are responsible for consulting appropriate facility, veterinary, institutional, or regulatory personnel when needed.
3. AI-Supported Output
AI-supported output may be incomplete or wrong and must be reviewed critically. The Xenopus Care Project does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or applicability of any output. No outcomes are guaranteed.
4. Information You Submit
The site may collect colony questions, healthy colony descriptions, follow-up outcomes, email addresses, and later uploads such as feeding videos, tank photos, water records, pH calibration records, RO buffering notes, SOP excerpts, and noise/flow videos.
Users should not submit confidential, restricted, proprietary, personal, or institutionally sensitive information unless authorized to do so.
5. How Submitted Information May Be Used
Submitted information may be stored, organized, summarized, analyzed, and used to improve the Xenopus Care Project. Healthy colony descriptions and follow-up outcomes may be used to identify husbandry patterns. Cases may later be shared with Frog Social only in anonymized or permission-based form. Uploads may be reviewed or summarized for husbandry-support purposes.
6. Acceptable Use
You agree to use the Xenopus Care Project only for lawful purposes related to Xenopus colony care and husbandry. You may not use the site to submit false or misleading information, to interfere with the operation of the service, or to attempt to access systems or data beyond what is made available through normal use of the site.
7. Third-Party Links
The site may contain links to third-party websites or resources. The Xenopus Care Project is not responsible for the content, accuracy, or practices of any third-party sites and does not endorse them. You access third-party sites at your own risk.
8. Intellectual Property
Content, design, and materials on the Xenopus Care Project site are the property of the Xenopus Care Project or its contributors unless otherwise noted. You may not reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from site content without permission, except as permitted by applicable law or as expressly allowed.
9. Disclaimer of Warranties
The Xenopus Care Project is provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. The project does not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components.
10. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Xenopus Care Project and its contributors shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of data, use, or outcomes arising from your use of the site or reliance on any information provided through it.
11. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Xenopus Care Project and its contributors from any claims, damages, losses, or expenses arising from your use of the site, your submissions, or your violation of these Terms of Service.
12. Changes to These Terms
The Xenopus Care Project may update these Terms of Service at any time. Changes will be reflected on this page with an updated date. Continued use of the site after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.
13. Governing Law
[Governing law and jurisdiction to be determined.]
14. Contact
For questions about these Terms of Service, please contact the Xenopus Care Project at [contact information to be provided].