Terms & Conditions: Academic & Educational User Agreement
Effective Date: October 12, 2026. Last Revised: October 12, 2026.
Welcome to SeedLibraryAI (accessible at https://seedlibraryai.xyz). By accessing, browsing, reading, or utilizing any portion of this website, you enter into a legally binding agreement to comply with and be bound by the following comprehensive Terms & Conditions. These Terms govern your relationship with SeedLibraryAI, our authors, researchers, and technical staff. If you disagree with any portion of these Terms, you must discontinue your use of our platform immediately.
1. Intellectual Property Rights and Permitted Usage
All materials published on SeedLibraryAI—including but not limited to written articles, custom comparison tables, infographic layouts, sensory terminology matrices, site branding, logos, and custom code styling—are the exclusive intellectual property of SeedLibraryAI and its contributing authors, protected under international copyright, trademark, and intellectual property conventions.
- Permitted Scholarly Excerpts: Readers, journalists, university educators, and non-commercial researchers are granted a limited license to quote brief excerpts (under 150 words) from our articles, provided that clear, unambiguous attribution is given to SeedLibraryAI along with a direct, followable hyperlink to the original article URL.
- Classroom & Academic Instruction: University educators, agricultural academy instructors, and non-profit seed guilds may freely reference our articles and display our publicly published charts in classroom lectures without paying licensing fees.
- Strict Prohibitions: You may not scrape, harvest, reproduce, republish, mirror, distribute, or create derivative commercial works from full-length articles published on SeedLibraryAI without prior express written authorization from our editorial board. Automated content scrapers, AI training ingestion without licensing, and content theft will be pursued under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and international copyright treaties.
| Permitted Action | Authorization Required? | Attribution Mandate | Commercial Use Allowed? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quoting brief excerpts (< 150 words) | No formal authorization needed | Mandatory direct hyperlink to article URL | Editorial / Scholarly review only |
| Classroom academic lecture reference | No formal authorization needed | Oral or visual credit to SeedLibraryAI | Non-profit educational only |
| Full-text article republication | Express written license required | Complete author & publisher credit | Negotiated contract only |
| Commercial curriculum reselling | Strictly prohibited | N/A | Prohibited under all circumstances |
| Automated scraping / bulk harvesting | Strictly prohibited | N/A | Prohibited under all circumstances |
2. User Conduct and Acceptable Use Policy
When interacting with SeedLibraryAI, transmitting inquiries to our staff, or utilizing our educational resources, you agree to adhere to standard principles of lawful, ethical conduct. You explicitly agree not to:
- Use our website or published materials for any unlawful purpose or in violation of any municipal, state, national, or international statute.
- Attempt to breach, probe, test, or circumvent the security, authentication, or firewall infrastructure of our web servers or hosting networks.
- Deploy automated crawlers, scrapers, spiders, or robots that generate excessive, disruptive request volumes that degrade platform performance for human readers.
- Transmit defamatory, abusive, harassing, obscene, fraudulent, or threatening communications to our research fellows or editorial staff.
- Impersonate any individual, organization, agricultural cooperative, or seed master, or misrepresent your affiliation with SeedLibraryAI.
3. Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability
The materials published on SeedLibraryAI are provided on an ‘AS IS’ and ‘AS AVAILABLE’ basis, without warranties of any kind, whether express, statutory, or implied. While our scientific directors and agricultural researchers exercise meticulous diligence to ensure accuracy, SeedLibraryAI makes no warranties regarding the absolute completeness, reliability, or timeliness of any agronomic, chemical, or historical content.
In no event shall SeedLibraryAI, its directors, researchers, contributors, or technical operators be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, use of, or inability to use this platform. This limitation applies to damages resulting from reliance on brewing temperatures, equipment maintenance protocols, agricultural applications, or third-party links.
4. Outbound Hyperlinks and Third-Party Resources
Throughout our research guides, SeedLibraryAI provides contextual hyperlinks to external scholarly research papers, international agricultural databases (such as FAO and ISO), university libraries, and historical archives. These links are provided solely for scholarly reference and reader convenience. SeedLibraryAI exercises no operational or editorial control over external domains, and the inclusion of a hyperlink does not constitute an endorsement of external third-party content, policies, or commercial products.
5. Dispute Resolution, Mandatory Arbitration, and Governing Law
These Terms & Conditions and any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or related to your use of SeedLibraryAI shall be governed by, construed, and enforced in accordance with the substantive laws of the State of Washington, United States, without regard to its conflict of law principles. In the event of any legal controversy, you agree to first attempt informal resolution by submitting a written notice of dispute to legal@seedlibraryai.xyz.
If informal dispute resolution does not achieve agreement within sixty (60) days, the controversy shall be settled by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) in accordance with its Commercial Arbitration Rules. Any arbitration hearings shall take place exclusively in King County, Seattle, Washington. You waive any right to participate in class actions or representative arbitrations against SeedLibraryAI, its directors, or researchers.
6. Indemnification and Hold Harmless Covenant
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless SeedLibraryAI, its principal researchers, academic fellows, editorial directors, and technical infrastructure providers from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or in any way connected with your access to, use of, or misuse of our published research materials, your violation of these Terms & Conditions, or your infringement of any intellectual property rights of third parties.
7. Severability, Entire Agreement, and Modifications
If any provision of these Terms & Conditions is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. These Terms constitute the entire binding agreement between you and SeedLibraryAI regarding your use of our publication, superseding all prior verbal or written understandings.
SeedLibraryAI reserves the exclusive right to update, amend, or modify these Terms & Conditions at any time without prior individual notice. Revisions become effective immediately upon posting to this URL, as indicated by the ‘Last Revised’ date. Your continued use of the website following the publication of revised Terms constitutes your unconditional acceptance of the modified Terms.
