terms of service

1 — what panel is

panel.goku.codes ("panel") is a captcha-shape feedback layer operated by UltraInstinct0x ("we", "us"). when a visitor ("rater") interacts with the panel widget on an operator's site, they complete one short judgment task. operators get a verification token; we retain the judgment as labeled preference data per the privacy policy.

2 — accounts

• operators register an account, receive publishable + secret keys, and are responsible for keeping secret keys confidential.
• raters do not require an account. a pseudonymous rater_id cookie is issued automatically.
• you must be at least 16 (EU/UK) or the local age of digital consent. panel is not directed to children under 13.

3 — acceptable use (operators)

operators must NOT:

• submit content containing personal data (PII), secrets, credentials, or PHI unless explicitly contracted under a signed DPA/BAA and using scrubber-proxy in the appropriate mode.
• use panel to surveil identified individuals, profile protected classes, or make decisions producing legal effects on rater identity.
• use panel to gate content that would itself be unlawful in the operator's jurisdiction.
• submit unit content that depicts CSAM, terrorism content, or content otherwise prohibited under applicable law.
• attempt to deanonymize raters, scrape rater identifiers, or attempt to correlate rater_id values across operator boundaries.
• resell, sublicense, or redistribute panel access without a written agreement.

operators are solely responsible for: (a) the lawfulness of unit content they submit; (b) obtaining any consents required from their own end users; (c) compliance with their own regulatory regime (HIPAA, PCI, etc.).

4 — acceptable use (raters)

• answer judgments in good faith. do not collude with other raters or coordinate vote manipulation.
• do not attempt to reverse-engineer trust-tier signals, honeypots, or scoring logic.
• do not automate panel interactions or submit machine-generated judgments.

repeated violations result in the affected rater_id being downweighted to zero trust and excluded from honeypot pools.

5 — data ownership

• operator content (unit prompts/artifacts submitted by an operator): owned by the operator. operator grants panel a license to process it for the purpose of running the captcha + producing the labeled dataset.
• judgments: jointly held. the operator receives an exportable dataset of judgments on their own submitted units. panel retains aggregated, cross-org-anonymized signal for model training and quality metrics.
• rater behavioral signals: panel-owned, retained per the privacy policy retention schedule.

6 — fees

fee tiers, included quotas, and overage rates are published at /pricing. operators on paid tiers are billed monthly in arrears for overage via Stripe. annual prepay is non-refundable mid-cycle. unpaid balances over 30 days result in API-key suspension; over 60 days, account termination + dataset hold per section 9.

7 — service levels

uptime + response-time SLAs are tier-specific (see pricing). during v0, no monetary credits attach to SLA misses; remedy is fee waiver for the affected billing period at panel's discretion. paid SLA credits begin at GA.

8 — modifications

panel may modify these terms with 30 days' notice (email to account address). continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance. material changes (pricing, data-use scope) require explicit re-acceptance for paid operators.

9 — termination

either party may terminate for convenience with 30 days' written notice. on termination:

• operator may export their judgments dataset within 30 days via /api/operator/export.
• after 30 days, operator-controlled unit content is deleted within 14 days.
• aggregated, anonymized signal already incorporated into panel datasets persists.
• raters can independently delete their data at any time per the privacy policy.

panel may suspend or terminate immediately for: nonpayment over 60 days; material breach of section 3 or 4; legal compulsion; or risk to platform integrity.

10 — warranties + disclaimers

panel is provided as-is. no warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. panel does not warrant that the bot-detection signal is sufficient for any operator's threat model — operator is responsible for layering additional defenses.

11 — limitation of liability

to the maximum extent permitted by law, panel's aggregate liability for any claim is capped at the greater of (a) USD $100 or (b) fees paid by the operator in the 12 months preceding the claim. no liability for indirect, consequential, lost-profits, or punitive damages. nothing in this section limits liability for gross negligence, willful misconduct, or where excluded by mandatory law.

12 — indemnification

operator will indemnify panel against third-party claims arising from (a) operator's unit content; (b) operator's violation of section 3; (c) operator's failure to obtain consents from its end users.

13 — governing law

v0: Türkiye law and İzmir courts for operators contracting with panel (UltraInstinct0x, TR şahıs şirketi). this section will be replaced post-Atlas C-Corp formation; existing contracts honor whichever forum was in effect at signature.

14 — contact

• contracts + billing: billing@goku.codes
• legal notices: legal@goku.codes
• abuse: abuse@goku.codes