Terms of Use

These terms govern your use of carvelab.ai. They are deliberately short. If you engage Carve Lab LLC for work, that engagement has its own written agreement, and it governs the work.

1. Agreement

By accessing or using this website, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.

2. Eligibility

This site is intended for business audiences. You must be at least 18 and able to form a binding contract to use it. If you are using it on behalf of an organization, you confirm you are authorized to accept these terms for that organization.

3. What this site is

An informational website describing Carve Lab LLC's services and how we think about AI strategy, product design, and engineering. We may change, suspend, or remove any part of it at any time without notice.

4. No professional advice, and no client relationship

The content on this site is general information written without knowledge of your business. It is not professional, legal, financial, or technical advice for your situation, and you should not act on it without advice specific to your circumstances.

Reading this site, emailing us, or submitting the contact form does not create a client, consulting, advisory, or fiduciary relationship. No engagement exists until it is agreed in a signed writing. Until then, please do not send us confidential information: we cannot promise to treat unsolicited material as confidential, and doing so could create a conflict with existing clients.

5. Intellectual property

The text, images, diagrams, data, code, and design on this site belong to Carve Lab LLC or our licensors and are protected by copyright and other laws. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to access and view the site for your own business or personal purposes.

You may quote and share excerpts with attribution and a link to the source page. You may not republish substantial portions, sell or sublicense the content, or use it to train machine learning models, without our written permission. If you want to do something these terms do not clearly allow, ask us. We are generally willing.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use the site unlawfully, or for any unlawful or fraudulent purpose
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the site, its servers, or any connected system
• Interfere with the site's operation or availability, or attempt to
• Use automated means to scrape or harvest content at a scale that burdens the site, or in a way that ignores robots.txt
• Reverse engineer or attempt to derive source code except where the law permits
• Misrepresent your identity or affiliation, or impersonate anyone
• Use the contact form to send unsolicited commercial messages

7. Your submissions

If you send us a message, you confirm you have the right to send its contents and that doing so does not breach an obligation you owe someone else. You keep ownership of what you send. You give us permission to read it, store it, and use it to respond to you and to evaluate whether we can help, which is the entire purpose of receiving it.

If you send us an idea or suggestion unprompted, we may use it without obligation or compensation. This is standard, and it exists so that a passing suggestion cannot create a claim over work we were already doing.

8. Names and marks

Carve Lab and SnowPlanGo, along with associated logos, are marks of Carve Lab LLC. Nothing in these terms grants you a right to use them. Other names and marks on this site belong to their respective owners, and their appearance does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement of Carve Lab LLC.

9. Third-party sites

We link to sites we do not control, including our own products and external sources we cite. We are not responsible for their content, practices, or availability, and a link is not an endorsement.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

The site is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory. To the fullest extent permitted by law we disclaim the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, or that every statement on it is accurate or current. We write about a field that changes quickly. When we get something wrong we would rather correct it than defend it, and corrections are noted on the affected page.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Carve Lab LLC and its members, officers, employees, and contractors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, or business opportunity, arising from or relating to your use of this site, whether based in contract, tort, or any other theory, even if we were advised such damages were possible.

Our total aggregate liability arising from or relating to this site and these terms will not exceed one hundred United States dollars (US$100). Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so parts of this section may not apply to you, and nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Carve Lab LLC and its members, officers, employees, and contractors from any claim, loss, liability, or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your breach of these terms or your misuse of the site.

13. Governing law and venue

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict of law rules. Any dispute arising from them or from this site will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Sacramento County, California, and you consent to the jurisdiction of those courts.

14. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. When we do, we will change the date at the top of this page. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated terms. If a change is material, we will say so rather than making it quietly.

15. Relationship to engagement agreements

If you engage Carve Lab LLC for services, the written agreement covering that engagement governs the work, including confidentiality, intellectual property, warranties, and liability. Where that agreement conflicts with this page, that agreement controls. Nothing on this page limits or varies it.

16. General

If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, the rest remain in effect and the unenforceable provision is enforced to the greatest extent permitted. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these terms; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. Together with our Privacy Policy, these terms are the entire agreement between you and us regarding this website, and they supersede any earlier understanding about it.

17. Contact

Questions about these terms go to hello@carvelab.ai.