Terms of Service

1. Acceptance and Eligibility

1.1 Acceptance. You accept these Terms by accessing, browsing, or using the Site in any way, by creating an account, or by clicking any button indicating agreement. If you accept on behalf of a company or other entity, you represent that you have authority to bind it, and "you" includes that entity.

1.2 Eligibility. You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into a contract. You may not use the Site if you have previously been suspended or banned from it.

1.3 Automated access is use. Any access to the Site by a bot, script, crawler, browser extension, or other automated means is use of the Site by the person or entity that operates, directs, or benefits from that tool, and that person or entity is bound by these Terms.

2. Definitions

• "Site Content" means everything on or delivered through the Site, including text, Certificates of Analysis ("COAs"), laboratory results, test values, product names and mappings, ingredient and brand data, scores, rankings, ratings, methodologies, images, graphics, logos, software, layout, and the selection, coordination, and arrangement of any of these.
• "LTF Database" means LTF's compiled and curated collection of Site Content, including all structured data, metadata, and relationships derived from it, whether or not any portion is publicly visible.
• "Record" means any single discrete item of Site Content extracted, copied, or captured, including one COA, one test result, one product listing, one ingredient entry, one score, or one row, field set, or API response object, counted separately.
• "Automated Means" means any robot, spider, crawler, scraper, bot, script, headless or automated browser, data-mining or extraction tool, macro, plug-in, or any other software, device, or process that accesses, queries, or collects content without a human individually viewing each page or item.
• "Unauthorized Extraction" means any access, copying, scraping, harvesting, downloading, capture, or collection of Site Content or the LTF Database, by any means, that is not expressly permitted in Section 3 or authorized in a signed Data License Agreement.

3. Limited License and Permitted Use

3.1 Limited license. Subject to these Terms, LTF grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access the Site and view Site Content using a standard web browser, solely for your own personal, non-commercial use.

3.2 What is permitted. You may (a) view individual pages manually, one at a time, as an ordinary human visitor; (b) share a link to a Site page; and (c) quote a small number of individual data points from the Site for personal commentary or news reporting, with clear attribution to "Lab Tested Foods" and a link to the source page, provided you do not copy a COA, a set of results, or any portion of the LTF Database in bulk.

3.3 Everything else is prohibited. All uses not expressly permitted in this Section 3 require LTF's prior written consent in a signed Data License Agreement. No right is granted by implication, estoppel, or otherwise.

3.4 robots.txt and technical signals. Any robots.txt file, meta tag, rate limit, CAPTCHA, login wall, or other technical signal on the Site is a supplement to, and not a limit on, these Terms. The absence of a technical barrier is not permission. Nothing LTF does or fails to do technically waives any right under these Terms.

4. Ownership and Intellectual Property

4.1 LTF owns the Site and the LTF Database. As between you and LTF, LTF and its licensors own all right, title, and interest in the Site, Site Content, and LTF Database, including all copyrights, database rights, trade secrets, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights. LTF has invested substantial time, money, and effort in obtaining, verifying, organizing, mapping, scoring, and presenting this data.

4.2 Third-party materials. Underlying laboratory reports may originate with third-party laboratories or manufacturers. LTF's compilation, curation, normalization, mapping, scoring, and presentation of that material is LTF's proprietary work, and your access to the Site gives you no right to extract or redistribute it.

4.3 Trademarks. "Lab Tested Foods," the LTF logo, and all related names and marks are LTF's trademarks. You may not use them without our prior written permission.

4.4 Feedback. If you send us suggestions or feedback, you grant LTF a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable license to use it for any purpose without obligation to you.

5. Prohibited Conduct: No Scraping or Data Taking

5.1 Prohibited acts. Without LTF's prior written consent in a signed Data License Agreement, you shall not, and shall not permit, assist, or instruct anyone else to:

• use Automated Means to access, query, crawl, index, or collect any part of the Site, its APIs, or its underlying endpoints;
• scrape, harvest, copy, download, mirror, cache, or otherwise extract Site Content or any portion of the LTF Database, whether by page, by field, or in bulk;
• reproduce, republish, redistribute, sell, license, rent, or otherwise commercialize Site Content, COAs, results, scores, or any derivative of them;
• use Site Content or the LTF Database to build, train, fine-tune, evaluate, benchmark, or improve any machine learning model, large language model, AI system, retrieval or search index, or competing database or product, or to populate any vector store or knowledge base;
• frame, embed, or deep-link to the Site in a way that presents Site Content as your own or substitutes for visiting the Site;
• use data-mining, screen-scraping, OCR, or computer-vision tools on the Site or its documents to extract text or values;
• reverse engineer, decompile, or probe the Site's APIs, database schema, or file storage to discover or enumerate Records, document URLs, or identifiers;
• circumvent, disable, or interfere with any rate limit, CAPTCHA, authentication, access control, IP block, bot-detection, or security feature;
• use proxies, rotating IP addresses, residential networks, spoofed or falsified user-agents, fake accounts, or other methods to disguise automated access or evade detection;
• place unreasonable load on the Site's infrastructure, or access it in a way that degrades performance for others; or
• use any third party, including a scraping service, data broker, research firm, or AI agent, to do anything listed above on your behalf.

5.2 Applies to public and private content. These restrictions apply whether the Site Content is publicly visible, behind a login, or accessible by link or direct URL. That content is publicly visible does not mean it is free to take.

5.3 AI agents and assistants. Use of an AI tool, agent, or browser assistant that visits the Site on your behalf, or that collects, summarizes, or stores Site Content beyond a single page you are personally viewing, is use of Automated Means.

5.4 Notice and revocation of access. Your authorization to access the Site is limited to the terms of Section 3. Any access exceeding that authorization, or any access after LTF has revoked it by notice, technical block, or termination under these Terms, is unauthorized. LTF may revoke access at any time for any reason, with or without notice.

6. Data Access Fees and Liquidated Damages

6.1 Fee for any Unauthorized Extraction. The Site Content and LTF Database are valuable commercial assets. If you engage in Unauthorized Extraction, you agree to pay LTF the fees in the schedule below (the "Data Access Fees"). These fees are the price of the data you took and are not a penalty or a license. Payment does not authorize any further extraction and does not cure the breach.

6.2 How Records are counted. The number of Records is determined from LTF's server logs, access logs, API logs, and forensic analysis, which are presumptive evidence of the number of Records taken, absent clear and convincing evidence to the contrary. If logs are incomplete, LTF may reasonably estimate the Records taken from the rate and duration of the activity. Where you have obtained and retained a copy of the data, the number of Records in that copy controls.

6.3 Liquidated damages. You acknowledge that LTF's actual damages from Unauthorized Extraction, including lost licensing revenue, loss of exclusivity, harm to data integrity and competitive position, infrastructure cost, and investigation cost, would be difficult or impossible to calculate. You agree that the Data Access Fees are a reasonable estimate of those damages at the time of agreement and not a penalty.

6.4 Fees are in addition to other remedies. The Data Access Fees are in addition to, and not in place of, LTF's right to injunctive relief, to recover enforcement costs under Section 7, to terminate your access, and to pursue any other remedy available at law or in equity.

6.5 Invoicing and payment. LTF may invoice you for Data Access Fees at any time after discovering Unauthorized Extraction. Invoices are due within 15 days of the invoice date. Late amounts accrue interest at the lesser of 1.5% per month or the maximum rate permitted by law, and unpaid amounts may be referred to collections. By using the Site you authorize LTF to charge any payment method on file for amounts owed.

6.6 Entities and individuals are jointly liable. If Unauthorized Extraction is carried out by an agent, contractor, affiliate, or service provider acting for you, or with your tools or credentials, you and that party are jointly and severally liable for all Data Access Fees.

6.7 Return and destruction. Separately from payment, upon demand you must immediately stop all use of any extracted data, permanently delete all copies, including copies in derived datasets, models, indexes, and backups to the extent technically feasible, and certify compliance in writing, signed by an officer, within 10 days.

7. Commercial Data Licensing and Enforcement

7.1 Licensed access. If you want to use Site Content or the LTF Database commercially, or in any way not permitted by Section 3, contact LTF at info@labtestedfoods.com. Any such use requires a signed Data License Agreement, which may include license fees, usage limits, attribution requirements, and audit rights. These Terms continue to apply to everything the agreement does not expressly grant.

7.2 Monitoring. LTF monitors the Site and may log IP addresses, device and browser identifiers, request patterns, timestamps, and other technical information to detect and investigate violations. You consent to this monitoring.

7.3 Technical measures. LTF may, at any time and without notice, block IP addresses or ranges, throttle or suspend access, require authentication, change or remove content, use bot-detection, fingerprinting, honeypot or canary data, and take any other technical steps to prevent or detect Unauthorized Extraction. You acknowledge that LTF may seed the LTF Database with unique identifiers or traps to trace copying.

7.4 Audit and cooperation. If LTF reasonably suspects a violation, you agree, on written request, to give LTF within 10 business days a written description of the data you obtained, how and when you obtained it, where it is stored, and every person or system that received it, and to allow LTF or an independent auditor to verify your certification of deletion.

7.5 Injunctive relief. You agree that a breach of Sections 3 through 5 would cause LTF irreparable harm for which money damages would be inadequate. LTF is entitled to temporary, preliminary, and permanent injunctive relief, and specific performance, without posting a bond and without proof of actual damages, in addition to any other remedy.

7.6 Enforcement costs. If LTF prevails in any dispute, claim, or action arising from your breach of these Terms, you agree to pay LTF's reasonable attorneys' fees, expert fees, forensic and investigation costs, collection costs, and court costs.

7.7 Legal claims reserved. LTF reserves all rights and may pursue claims including breach of contract, trespass to chattels, misappropriation, unfair competition, copyright and trademark infringement, and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, and any other applicable law. LTF may report violations to law enforcement and cooperate with their investigations.

7.8 No waiver. Delay or failure by LTF to enforce any provision is not a waiver. Acceptance of a Data Access Fee payment does not waive any right or remedy and does not authorize future extraction.

8. Accounts and User Submissions

8.1 Accounts. If you create an account, you must give accurate information, keep your credentials confidential, and notify us promptly of any unauthorized use. You are responsible for all activity under your account. Accounts are personal and may not be shared, sold, or transferred, and may not be used to enable access by Automated Means.

8.2 Submissions. If you submit content to the Site, including messages, product requests, or reports, you grant LTF a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, and display it in connection with operating and improving the Site. You represent that you have the right to submit it and that it is lawful and does not infringe anyone's rights.

8.3 Conduct. You may not use the Site to violate any law, submit false or misleading information, impersonate any person, upload malware, attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system, or interfere with the Site's operation or security.

9. Disclaimers

9.1 Informational only; not medical advice. The Site is provided for general informational purposes. Site Content, including test results, scores, and rankings, is not medical, nutritional, dietary, or health advice and is not a substitute for advice from a qualified professional. Consult a qualified professional before making health, dietary, or supplement decisions.

9.2 Accuracy. Laboratory results reflect the specific samples and batches tested, on the dates and under the methods stated in the applicable report. Products can vary by batch, and results may not represent any other batch or the product as currently sold. LTF does not guarantee that Site Content is complete, current, or error-free.

9.3 No endorsement. Mention of a brand or product is not an endorsement, and LTF does not guarantee any product's safety, quality, purity, or fitness for any purpose.

9.4 "As is." TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SITE AND ALL SITE CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. LTF DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE.

9.5 Third-party links. The Site may link to third-party websites or materials. LTF does not control and is not responsible for them, and you use them at your own risk.

10. Limitation of Liability

10.1 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LTF, ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SITE OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

10.2 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LTF'S TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SITE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100).

10.3 The limitations in this Section 10 protect LTF only. They do not limit your liability to LTF for Data Access Fees, breach of Sections 3 through 5, infringement or misappropriation of LTF's intellectual property, or your indemnification obligations.

11. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless LTF and its members, managers, officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from (a) your breach of these Terms, (b) your use of the Site, (c) any Unauthorized Extraction by you or anyone acting for you, or (d) any claim by a third party relating to data you obtained from the Site or used or distributed.

12. Termination

12.1 LTF may suspend or terminate your access to the Site at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice.

12.2 On termination, your license under Section 3 ends immediately. Sections 2, 4 through 7, and 9 through 14, and any accrued payment obligations, survive termination.

13. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

13.1 Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

13.2 Arbitration. Except for the claims in Section 13.3, any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Site will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its rules in effect when the claim is filed, seated in Wyoming. The arbitrator may award any remedy a court could, including the Data Access Fees. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

13.3 Court carve-out. LTF may bring an action in any court of competent jurisdiction for injunctive or other equitable relief, and to enforce its intellectual property rights, without first arbitrating. You consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Wyoming for any such action and for any matter not subject to arbitration.

13.4 Class action waiver. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you may bring claims only in your individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, or representative proceeding.

13.5 Limitation period. Any claim by you must be filed within one (1) year after it arises, or it is permanently barred.

14. General Terms

14.1 Changes. LTF may modify these Terms at any time by posting the revised Terms on the Site with a new Last Updated date. Continued use after posting is your acceptance. It is your responsibility to review the Terms periodically.

14.2 Entire agreement. These Terms, together with any signed Data License Agreement, are the entire agreement between you and LTF regarding the Site. If they conflict, the Data License Agreement controls for the data it covers.

14.3 Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and the remaining provisions stay in effect. If any fee or remedy in Section 6 is held unenforceable as written, it will be reformed to the maximum extent enforceable.

14.4 Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. LTF may assign them freely, including in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

14.5 No third-party beneficiaries; no agency. These Terms create no third-party rights and no partnership, agency, or employment relationship.

14.6 Notices. LTF may give notice by posting on the Site or by email to any address you provide. Notices to LTF must be sent to info@labtestedfoods.com and Lab Tested Foods LLC, 449 E Nelson St, Unit #502, Lexington, VA 24450.

15. Contact

Lab Tested Foods LLC

449 E Nelson St, Unit #502, Lexington, VA 24450

info@labtestedfoods.com

Data licensing inquiries: info@labtestedfoods.com