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Agreement

Using OpenSoil means accepting these terms and the privacy policy.

If you do not agree, do not create an account or submit information. OpenSoil is evolving; new features may require additional terms, permissions, licenses, or notices.

Educational information, not a prescription

OpenSoil provides educational material, demonstration data, community observations, and tools for organizing evidence. It does not provide legal, financial, medical, engineering, pesticide-label, regulatory, or individualized agronomic advice. Soil and crop decisions can affect safety, yield, finances, contracts, water, animals, and the environment. Verify important decisions with appropriate local evidence, product labels, regulations, laboratories, and qualified professionals.

Accounts

• • Provide an account you are authorized to use and keep access to it secure.
• • Do not impersonate another person, organization, farm, laboratory, or professional.
• • You are responsible for activity performed through your active OpenSoil session.
• • OpenSoil may suspend or close accounts involved in abuse, fraud, security threats, or repeated violations.
• • Contact support promptly if you believe your account or data has been compromised.

Your submissions and ownership

You retain ownership of original material you submit. You represent that you have the right to submit it and that doing so does not violate privacy, confidentiality, intellectual-property, contractual, or legal obligations.

Current private form submissions give OpenSoil permission to store, review, and use the material to respond, operate the service, enforce rules, and develop the requested workflow. They do not automatically grant OpenSoil permission to publish the material. Future public records will require an explicit visibility and licensing choice.

Acceptable use

Do not use OpenSoil to:

• • Harass, threaten, exploit, deceive, or unlawfully discriminate.
• • Publish personal, confidential, location, client, or proprietary information without authorization.
• • Upload malware, probe private systems, evade rate limits, or interfere with service operation.
• • Fabricate evidence, reviews, identities, citations, measurements, or professional credentials.
• • Hide a material commercial interest or coordinate misleading promotion.
• • Violate law, product labels, intellectual-property rights, or another service’s terms.
• • Scrape private areas, harvest personal data, or build unauthorized profiles of users.

Community content and moderation

Community statements belong to their contributors and may be incomplete, incorrect, or disputed. Review labels describe a process, not a guarantee. OpenSoil may label, limit, correct, preserve, or remove content and may restrict accounts to protect people, data, evidence integrity, or service operation.

Service availability and changes

OpenSoil is provided on an evolving, as-available basis. Features may change, fail, be delayed, or be withdrawn. Do not rely on OpenSoil as the sole copy of important reports, records, methods, or business information. Export and backup features are planned but not yet available.

Disclaimers and responsibility

To the extent permitted by applicable law, OpenSoil makes no warranty that community content, demonstration data, interpretations, tools, or external links are complete, accurate, suitable, or continuously available. You remain responsible for evaluating evidence and for decisions you make using the service.

Questions, reports, and account requests

Use the support page for account access, privacy requests, harmful or incorrect content, security concerns, or questions about these terms.