Terms of Service

NanoKnow Website and App Terms of Service

Last updated: May 3, 2026

These Terms of Service govern your use of the NanoKnow website, application, submission tools, knowledge platform, and related services operated by NanoKnow, Inc. (“NanoKnow,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

By using NanoKnow, creating an account, submitting information, or uploading content, you agree to these Terms.

1. Purpose of NanoKnow

NanoKnow is an open educational and scientific platform intended to support the sharing, organization, discovery, and reuse of nanofabrication knowledge, including technical documents, educational materials, process information, operational knowledge, and community-contributed resources.

NanoKnow is not a consulting, engineering, safety-certification, legal, regulatory, or professional advisory service.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old to use NanoKnow. If you use NanoKnow on behalf of an institution, company, laboratory, university, or other organization, you represent that you have authority to do so.

3. Accounts and Member Information

Some features may require you to create an account or sign up as a member of the NanoKnow community.

You may be asked to provide information such as your name, email address, affiliation, role, interests, or other profile information.

You agree to provide accurate information and to keep your account credentials secure. You are responsible for activity under your account.

4. User Submissions

NanoKnow may allow users to submit, upload, post, or share documents, papers, datasets, process notes, protocols, images, metadata, comments, links, or other materials (“User Content”).

You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights you hold in your User Content.

By submitting User Content to NanoKnow, you grant NanoKnow a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, display, publish, distribute, analyze, transform, excerpt, index, tag, classify, embed, summarize, and otherwise process your User Content for the purpose of operating, improving, and making available the NanoKnow platform and related educational, scientific, and community resources.

This license includes permission for NanoKnow to process User Content using automated tools, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, metadata extraction, vector embeddings, search indexing, and ontology-based classification.

5. Public Sharing and Community Reuse

Unless a submission workflow clearly states otherwise, User Content submitted to NanoKnow may be made available to other users or to the public.

Do not upload confidential, proprietary, export-controlled, restricted, private, unpublished, sensitive, or third-party materials unless you have the right to share them and understand that they may become accessible to others.

6. Your Responsibility for Uploaded Content

You are solely responsible for the User Content you submit.

You represent and warrant that:

• You own or have permission to submit the User Content;
• Your submission does not violate copyright, trademark, privacy, confidentiality, contractual, institutional, export-control, or other legal obligations;
• Your submission does not contain personal information about others unless you have the right to share it;
• Your submission does not contain malicious code, malware, or harmful files;
• Your submission does not knowingly contain false, misleading, or incomplete information that could reasonably be expected to create unsafe laboratory, fabrication, chemical, biological, radiological, electrical, or equipment-use conditions if relied upon without appropriate training, supervision, and safety controls.

NanoKnow may remove, restrict, edit, reclassify, or decline to publish User Content at any time.

7. Scientific and Technical Information Disclaimer

Content on NanoKnow may include technical, scientific, operational, educational, or user-submitted information. Such content is provided for general knowledge-sharing purposes only.

NanoKnow does not warrant that any process, protocol, recipe, safety procedure, equipment instruction, material compatibility statement, or technical recommendation is accurate, complete, current, safe, or suitable for your specific use.

You are responsible for verifying all information with qualified personnel, institutional policies, equipment manuals, safety data sheets, applicable regulations, and local laboratory procedures before relying on it.

8. Acceptable Use

You may not use NanoKnow to:

• Violate any law or regulation;
• Infringe intellectual property rights;
• Upload content you do not have permission to share;
• Disclose confidential, proprietary, controlled, or private information;
• Impersonate another person or organization;
• Misrepresent affiliation with NanoKnow;
• Interfere with platform security or operation;
• Scrape, crawl, or bulk-download content except as permitted by NanoKnow or by applicable license;
• Upload malware or harmful code;
• Harass, threaten, abuse, or target others;
• Submit misleading, dangerous, or intentionally false technical information;
• Use NanoKnow to develop unsafe, unlawful, or harmful processes.

9. DMCA Notice & Takedown Policy

NanoKnow respects intellectual property rights.

If you believe content on NanoKnow infringes your copyright, contact us at:

admin@nanoknow.org

Please include sufficient information to identify the copyrighted work, the allegedly infringing material, your contact information, and a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized.

NanoKnow may remove or restrict access to allegedly infringing content and may terminate accounts of repeat infringers.

10. Privacy and Data Protection

NanoKnow collects and processes personal information as described in our Privacy Policy.

Depending on your location, you may have privacy rights under laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the UK GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA/CPRA”), and other applicable privacy laws.

These rights may include the right to request access to, correction of, deletion of, or restriction of certain personal information, and the right to object to or opt out of certain processing.

NanoKnow does not sell personal information. If NanoKnow ever engages in activity that applicable law defines as “selling” or “sharing” personal information, NanoKnow will provide required notices and opt-out mechanisms.

To manage your privacy preferences or exercise your rights, visit our Privacy Choices page.

Privacy requests may also be sent to:

admin@nanoknow.org

11. AI Processing and Automated Organization

NanoKnow may use AI or automated systems to process submitted materials, including for summarization, tagging, metadata extraction, semantic search, recommendations, classification, deduplication, and knowledge-base organization.

AI-generated outputs may be incomplete, inaccurate, or require human review. NanoKnow does not guarantee the correctness of AI-generated summaries, classifications, or recommendations.

12. Third-Party Services

NanoKnow may rely on third-party hosting, analytics, authentication, database, storage, AI, email, forum, or infrastructure providers.

Your use of linked third-party services may be governed by their own terms and privacy policies.

13. Third Party Websites

You may be able to link from NanoKnow to third party websites, and third party websites may link to NanoKnow (“Linked Sites”). You acknowledge and agree that NanoKnow has no responsibility for, and disclaims any liability arising from, the information, content, products, services, advertising, code, or other materials that may be provided by or through Linked Sites.

The inclusion of any link does not constitute an endorsement or sponsorship by NanoKnow of such Linked Sites or the information, content, products, services, advertising, or other materials presented on or through such Linked Sites.

NanoKnow does not represent or warrant that the contents of any Linked Sites are accurate, compliant with applicable laws or regulations, or compliant with copyright or other intellectual property laws.

NanoKnow is not responsible for any form of transmission received from any Linked Sites.

Any reliance on the contents of a Linked Site is at your own risk, and you assume all responsibility and consequences resulting from such reliance.

14. Feedback

If you provide NanoKnow any feedback or suggestions regarding the services, including, without limitation, ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques relating to the functionality or design of the services, you hereby assign to NanoKnow all rights in the feedback and agree that NanoKnow shall have the right to use such feedback and related information in any manner it deems appropriate.

NanoKnow will treat any feedback you provide to NanoKnow as non-confidential and non-proprietary. You agree that you will not submit to NanoKnow any feedback that you consider to be confidential or proprietary.

15. Termination

You may stop using NanoKnow at any time.

NanoKnow may suspend or terminate your account, remove content, or restrict access at any time, with or without notice, and for any reason, including but not limited to violations of these Terms or uses that create risk to NanoKnow or others.

16. Disclaimers

NanoKnow is provided “as is” and “as available.”

To the fullest extent permitted by law, NanoKnow disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, reliability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, availability, and security.

17. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NANOKNOW WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, GOODWILL, RESEARCH RESULTS, EQUIPMENT USE, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF NANOKNOW.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO CERTAIN USERS.

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF NANOKNOW, ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, VOLUNTEERS, CONTRIBUTORS, AND AFFILIATES TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES, AND CAUSES OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING FROM THE TERMS OF SERVICE OR YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES EXCEED, IN THE AGGREGATE, THE GREATER OF (A) $25 US OR (B) THE AMOUNT, IF ANY, PAID BY YOU TO NANOKNOW FOR YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES.

18. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless NanoKnow, its directors, officers, employees, volunteers, contributors, and affiliates from claims, damages, liabilities, and expenses arising from your use of NanoKnow, your User Content, your violation of these Terms, your violation of another person’s rights, or your breach or violation of any applicable law or regulations.

19. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Any legal action relating to these Terms or NanoKnow shall be brought in the state or federal courts located in New York, unless applicable law requires otherwise.

20. Dispute Resolution

Before filing a claim, you agree to try to resolve any dispute informally by contacting NanoKnow at admin@nanoknow.org. We will attempt to resolve the dispute informally within a reasonable time.

If a dispute cannot be resolved informally, you and NanoKnow agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of NanoKnow will be resolved by binding arbitration, except as otherwise required by applicable law.

Arbitration will be conducted by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its applicable rules. The arbitration will take place in New York, New York, unless otherwise required by law.

You and NanoKnow agree that disputes will be resolved on an individual basis and not as part of any class, collective, or representative action.

Nothing in this section prevents either party from seeking injunctive or equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction for matters involving intellectual property rights, misuse of the platform, or unauthorized access.

If applicable law does not allow arbitration of a dispute, that dispute will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in New York, consistent with Section 19.

21. Changes to These Terms

NanoKnow may update these Terms from time to time. We will post the updated Terms on the website and update the “Last updated” date.

For material changes, we may provide additional notice, such as by email or platform notice.

Continued use of NanoKnow after changes become effective means you accept the updated Terms.

22. Contact

Questions about these Terms may be sent to:

NanoKnow, Inc.
Email: admin@nanoknow.org
Website: https://nanoknow.org