Footnote Terms of Service

Terms of Service of Use

Please read these terms (the “Terms of Service of Use”) carefully before using our website, mobile app, or any of our other services (the “Services”). By accessing or using the Services or any of its functionality on any computer, mobile phone, tablet, console or other device (together “Devices” and each a “Device”), you confirm that you have read, understood and agreed to be bound by these Terms of Service of Use and any other applicable law.

If you do not agree to these Terms of Service of Use, please do not access or use the Services or any of its functionality. We amend these Terms of Service of Use from time to time, so every time you wish to use the Services, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. These terms were most recently updated on 01.29.2025.

Owner and Operator Information

1.1 The Services are owned and operated by MUSE INNOVATION LAB LLC (“Footnote”, “we”, “us”, “our”). Our website is www.tryfootnote.com.

User Restrictions and Access

2.1 In order to use certain current or future functionalities of the Services, you may be required to register or sign in as a FOOTNOTE user or to create an account. You agree you will not create more than one FOOTNOTE account, create a FOOTNOTE account on behalf of another individual, group or entity, or transfer your profile or account to anyone else. You also agree that you will not use or try to use another person's account, username or password.

2.2 Be aware that the use of some of the functionalities of the Services require access to the Internet. The use of the Services are for free but be aware that your carrier’s normal rates apply. The Services contain services and features that are only available to certain mobile Devices.

Acceptable use

3.1 You may:

(a) access any part of the Services (except that only FOOTNOTE registered users will be able to access some parts of the Services); and

(b) print off one copy of any or all of the pages for your own personal, non-commercial use.

3.2 You may not:

(a) copy (whether by printing off onto paper, storing on disk, downloading or in any other way), distribute (including distributing copies), broadcast, alter or tamper with in any way or otherwise use any material contained in the Services (including User Generated Content, unless it is your own User Generated Content that you legally post to the Services or an associated forum) except as set out under Clause 3.1 above. These restrictions apply in relation to all or part of the Content;

(b) remove any copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property notices contained in the original material from any material copied or printed off from the Services;

(c) link to the Services (subject to Clause 3.3 below);

(d) use the Services (or any part of them) in any unlawful manner, for any unlawful purpose, or in any manner inconsistent with these Terms of Service of Use, or act fraudulently or maliciously;

(e) misuse the Services by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services, the servers on which the Services are stored or any server, computer or database connected to the Services. You must not attack the Services via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offense under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We may report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use the Services will cease immediately;

(f) use the Services in a way which could damage, disable, overburden, impair or compromise FOOTNOTE’s systems or security or interfere with other users;

(g) collect or harvest any information or data from the Services or our systems or attempt to decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running any part of the Services;

(h) circumvent or modify any Services security technology or software;

(i) use the Services or any of its functionality for any commercial purpose;

(j) use automated scripts to collect information from the Services; or

(k) provide any false personal information about yourself.

3.3 If you wish to link to the Services, please contact support@tryfootnote.com with details of:

(a) the URL(s) of the web page(s) from which you are proposing to link to the Services; and

(b) the URL(s) of the web page(s) on the Services to which you are proposing to link to.

3.4 FOOTNOTE may, at its sole discretion, agree to or reject any request made in accordance with Clause 3.3 above. FOOTNOTE has no obligation to agree to any such request or to provide any reason for accepting to rejecting any such request.

3.5 Should any part of the Services offer you the opportunity to join in or read from a forum, please be aware that any communications posted on the forum represent the views of the individual who posted such communication and are not to be taken as the views of FOOTNOTE.

3.6 FOOTNOTE reserves the right to monitor any information transmitted or received through any forum provided, and, at its sole discretion and without prior notice, to review, remove or otherwise block any material posted.

User Generated Content

4.1 “User Generated Content” is any content such as communications, information, messages, photographs, music, videos, designs, graphics, website links, data, profiles that you and/or other Service users post or otherwise make available on or through the Services, except to the extent that such content is owned by or licensed to FOOTNOTE.

4.2 You are solely responsible for your User Generated Content, your interactions with other users of the Services and your activity on the Services. You agree not to post any content or make any communications which may expose FOOTNOTE or any of the Services’ users to harm or liability of any type. You agree not to post or submit User Generated Content, or a link to a website, which, is illegal, fraudulent, deceptive, misleading, libelous, infringing, harassing, hateful, threatening, abusive, pornographic, offensive in a sexual, racial, cultural or ethnic context or is otherwise objectionable, or that includes “junk mail”, “chain letters”, “pyramid schemes” or other forms of solicitation. You confirm that your User Generated Content complies with these requirements, and you will be liable to us for any loss or damage we suffer if your User Generated Content does not comply with these requirements.

4.3 FOOTNOTE has the right to remove any User Generated Content you post on the Services if, in our opinion, it does not comply with the above acceptable content standards.

4.4 You confirm that you own or control all rights in any User Generated Content that you post or submit on or through the Services. You agree not to submit User Generated Content unless you are the owner or have permission of the owner to post such User Generated Content. You confirm not to post photos or videos of another person or showing another person without that person’s permission.

4.5 The User Generated Content you post is not confidential. You grant, and confirm that you have the right to grant to FOOTNOTE a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual right to use your User Generated Content in any manner of media now or later developed for any purpose, commercial, advertising or otherwise, including the right to translate, display, reproduce, modify, create derivative work, sub-license, distribute, assign and commercialize without any payment due to you.

4.6 FOOTNOTE has no obligation to prescreen, monitor, edit or remove User Generated Content and assumes no responsibility for User Generated Content, even where it chooses to carry out prescreening, monitoring, editing or removal of User Generated Content. If you wish to complain about content uploaded by other users, please contact us on support@tryfootnote.com.

Security

5.1 If you choose or are provided with a username, password or any other piece of information as part of FOOTNOTE’s security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential and you must not disclose it to any third party nor allow any unauthorized person access to the Services under your username and/or password. You are responsible for any actions that take place while using your Services account or while using the Services via your Device and FOOTNOTE is not responsible for any loss that results from the unauthorized use of your username and/or password, with or without your knowledge.

Intellectual Property Rights (“IPR”)

6.1 All intellectual property contained in or on the Services (except for User Generated Content) is owned by FOOTNOTE or its licensors. All content in the Services (except for User Generated Content) including, but not limited to, text, software, scripts, code, designs, graphics, photos, sounds, music, videos, interactive features and all other content (“Content”) is the proprietary property of FOOTNOTE or its licensors. FOOTNOTE reserves all of its rights in respect of the IPR contained in the Services and in respect of the Content.

6.2 In particular, the Services contains trade marks including, but not limited to, the mark "FOOTNOTE" and the FOOTNOTE emblem. All trade marks included on the Services are owned by FOOTNOTE or its licensors. FOOTNOTE reserves all of its rights in respect of the trade marks included on the Services.

6.3 Nothing in these Terms of Service of Use shall be interpreted as granting to you any license of IPR owned by FOOTNOTE, FOOTNOTE or its licensors.

How we may use your personal information

7.1 We will use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy.

Disclaimer and Liability

8.1 You are responsible for the accuracy of the information that you enter or submit into the Services. While FOOTNOTE does its best to ensure that any information provided as part of the Services are correct at the time of inclusion on the Services, FOOTNOTE cannot guarantee the accuracy of such information, and we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on the Services is accurate, complete or up to date. The content on the Services is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely.

8.2 Please note that we only provide the Services for domestic and private use. You agree not to use the Services for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

8.3 If defective digital content that we have supplied, damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation.

8.4 Nothing in these Terms of Service of Use shall limit or exclude FOOTNOTE’s liability for death or personal injury caused by FOOTNOTE’s negligence or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

8.5 Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any products to you, which are set out in our Terms of Service of Sale below.

External websites and applications

9.1 Where the Services contain links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

Changes to/operation of the Services

10.1 FOOTNOTE may change the format and content of all or any part of the Services at any time, including but not limited to removal of features or functionalities in the Services.

10.2 We do not guarantee that the Services, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of the Services for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

10.3 Updates to the Services may be issued from time to time through the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Depending on the update, you may not be able to use all or part of the Services until you have downloaded the latest version of the Services and accepted any new terms.

Transfer of Rights

11.1 We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms of Service of Use to another organization. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under these Terms of Service of Use.

Complaints Procedure

12.1 If you have a question or complaint about the Services, please contact support@tryfootnote.com.

Severance and waiver

13.1 If a court finds a provision of these Terms of Service of Use illegal, the rest will continue in force. Each of the paragraphs of these terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.

13.2 Even if we delay in enforcing these Terms of Service of Use, we can still enforce them later. If we do not insist immediately that you do anything you are required to do under these Terms of Service of Use, or if we delay in taking steps against you in respect of your breaking these Terms of Service of Use, that will not mean that you do not have to do those things and it will not prevent us taking steps against you at a later date.

Termination

14.1 FOOTNOTE reserves the right in its sole discretion to terminate your account and/or access to the Services or any functionalities thereof, delete your profile and any of your User Generated Content and/or restrict your use of all or any part of the Services at any time, for any or no reason, without notice and without liability to you or anyone else. FOOTNOTE also reserves the right to prevent access to the Services or any of its functionalities or features.

14.2 If we take any action against you, pursuant to Clause 14.1 above, you are not allowed to create a new account to circumvent the termination, deletion or restriction.

Changes to these Terms of Service of Use

15.1 FOOTNOTE may change these Terms of Service of Use at any time without notice, effective upon posting the amended Terms of Service of Use to the Services. In the event that the Terms of Service of Use are amended, you will be asked to accept those revised Terms of Service of Use when you next use the Services. If you don’t agree to the updates to our Terms of Service of Use, please do not use the Services going forward.

Jurisdiction

16.1 These Terms of Service of Use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by Texas law. You and we both agree that the courts of Texas will have exclusive jurisdiction.