Terms of Use

1. GENERAL

These QuantCode Automata Terms of Use (the "Terms") govern access to and use of the QuantCode Automata platform, including the QCA websites, research library, workspace, analysis tools, application programming interfaces, Model Context Protocol integrations, generated repositories, reports, and related services (collectively, "QCA" or the "Service").

The Service is provided by Lime FinTech, LLC, having its principal place of business at 1 Penn Plaza, 16th Floor, New York, New York, United States ("LimeX," "Company," "we," "us," or "our").

These Terms are a legally binding agreement between the Company and the individual or entity accessing or using the Service ("User," "you," or "your"). If you use the Service on behalf of a company or other organization, "you" and "your" include that organization, and you represent that you have authority to bind it to these Terms.

BY CREATING AN ACCOUNT, CLICKING TO ACCEPT THESE TERMS, UPLOADING OR SUBMITTING ANY MATERIAL TO QCA, STARTING AN ANALYSIS, OR OTHERWISE ACCESSING OR USING THE SERVICE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD, AND AGREED TO THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICE.

2. ELIGIBILITY AND AUTHORITY

You must be at least eighteen (18) years old and legally capable of entering into a binding agreement to use the Service.

If you use the Service for an organization, you represent and warrant that: (a) the organization is validly existing; (b) you are authorized to accept these Terms for it; and (c) the organization is responsible for your use and the use of all persons it authorizes to access the Service.

You may not use the Service if you are prohibited from doing so under applicable law, sanctions, export-control restrictions, or binding terms applicable to any AI Model or Third-Party Service used through QCA.

3. DEFINITIONS

For purposes of these Terms:

"Account" means an account used to access QCA.

"Analysis" means an automated or assisted process performed through QCA in relation to a Paper or other Input, including parsing, methodology extraction, experiment identification, code generation, execution, testing, comparison, and preparation of a Reproduction Report.

"Authorized User" means an individual whom an organization has authorized to use its Account or workspace.

"Company Materials" means the Service, its software, workflows, prompts, orchestration logic, interfaces, report structures, documentation, branding, templates, models owned or licensed by the Company, and other technology or content supplied by the Company, excluding User Input and User-specific Output.

"Confidential Information" means information subject to a duty of confidentiality or restricted use, including trade secrets, unpublished research, proprietary datasets, source code, business plans, customer information, information protected by a non-disclosure agreement, and information obtained through employment, fiduciary, professional, or contractual relationships.

"Generated Code" means source code, scripts, configuration files, documentation, tests, notebooks, dependencies, or other software-related materials generated or assembled through QCA.

"Input" means any Paper, PDF, URL, dataset, prompt, instruction, file, text, code, credential, parameter, selection, or other information submitted, uploaded, linked, made available, or caused to be retrieved by or on behalf of a User through the Service.

"Model" means an artificial intelligence, machine learning, large language, code generation, embedding, classification, or other computational model used by or through QCA.

"Model Provider" means a third party that develops, operates, hosts, licenses, or otherwise provides a Model or related model service.

"Model Terms" means the then-current terms, acceptable-use policies, licenses, privacy notices, data-use terms, and other binding conditions imposed by a Model Provider in relation to a Model.

"Output" means any result generated or supplied through QCA in response to Input, including summaries, extracted methodologies, identified experiments, Generated Code, repositories, reports, analyses, classifications, confidence indicators, assumptions, synthetic data, tables, visualizations, and reproduction or validation results.

"Paper" means a research paper, article, preprint, working paper, manuscript, internal research document, report, specification, or similar material processed through QCA.

"Reproduction Report" means an Output describing an attempted implementation or reproduction, which may include an executive summary, status, confidence indicator, methodology, assumptions, discrepancies, implementation notes, and test or validation results.

"Restricted Data" means: (a) passwords, private keys, API keys, authentication tokens, or account credentials; (b) payment-card or bank-account data; (c) government-issued identification numbers or identity documents; (d) health, genetic, biometric, precise geolocation, or other sensitive personal data; (e) information concerning children; (f) material non-public information relating to securities or issuers; (g) export-controlled technical data; or (h) any information subject to legal or contractual processing requirements that the Service is not expressly configured and agreed in writing to satisfy.

"Third-Party Service" means any third-party website, platform, model, data source, repository, integration, API, software, or service accessible through, connected to, or used in connection with QCA, including Model Providers, market-data providers, cloud providers, GitHub, and MCP clients.

"User Input" means Input submitted or made available by or on behalf of a User.

4. SCOPE, RELATED TERMS AND ORDER OF PRECEDENCE

These Terms apply specifically to QCA. The Company's Privacy Policy, available at __________________, and any order form, subscription plan, enterprise agreement, data processing agreement, acceptable-use rules, or product-specific terms presented to you are incorporated into the agreement where applicable.

Your use of a Model is also subject to the applicable Model Terms identified in QCA, in the model-selection interface, or in the QCA documentation. Your use of a Third-Party Service may be subject to that third party's own terms and privacy policy.

If documents conflict, the following order applies unless an order form or enterprise agreement expressly states otherwise: (a) an executed order form or enterprise agreement; (b) a DPA, but only for its subject matter; (c) these Terms; (d) QCA product documentation and acceptable-use rules; and (e) the general LimeX website terms. Model Terms govern model-specific access, restrictions, and rights to the extent required by the applicable Model Provider. As between you and the Company, these Terms govern your relationship with the Company.

5. THE QCA SERVICE

QCA is an AI-assisted research engineering and computational reproduction platform. The features and functionality of QCA are described on the website, within the Service, and/or in an Order Form. Such features and functionality may vary depending on the User, Account, subscription plan, jurisdiction, selected Model, and availability, and may be modified, added, restricted, suspended, or discontinued from time to time in accordance with these Terms. Any description of QCA’s features or functionality is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute a warranty, service-level commitment, or other binding obligation, except as expressly stated in an applicable Order Form.

QCA may use separate Models for analysis, coding, execution support, evaluation, summarization, or other stages. An Analysis may be performed using one Model, multiple Models, an automated routing process, or a combination of Models and deterministic tools.

QCA is not a peer-review service, certification body, audit firm, broker-dealer, investment adviser, financial adviser, law firm, accounting firm, or independent scientific authority. An Analysis is an automated attempt to implement or evaluate selected aspects of a Paper; it is not proof that the Paper, its assumptions, data, conclusions, or claims are correct.

6. ACCOUNTS AND AUTHORIZED USERS

You must provide accurate, current, and complete registration information and keep it updated. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of Account credentials.

You are responsible for all activity occurring through your Account, whether authorized by you or not, except to the extent caused solely by the Company's breach of an express obligation under these Terms. You must promptly notify us at feedback@limex.com if you suspect unauthorized access or use.

An organizational Account administrator may manage Authorized Users, permissions, workspaces, Inputs, Outputs, and integrations. The organization is responsible for all acts and omissions of its Authorized Users and for ensuring that their use complies with these Terms, Model Terms, and applicable law.

You may not share credentials outside your organization, allow access by unauthorized persons, or circumvent Account, usage, geographic, Model, or subscription restrictions.

7. LIMITED LICENSE TO USE QCA

Subject to these Terms and payment of applicable fees, the Company grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license during the applicable subscription or access period to access and use QCA for your internal personal or business research purposes.

Except where expressly permitted in writing, you may not: (a) sell, resell, sublicense, rent, lease, distribute, or make the Service available to third parties; (b) copy, scrape, crawl, systematically download, or create a competing database from QCA; (c) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, discover, extract, or attempt to derive the source code, prompts, model weights, orchestration logic, security mechanisms, or non-public components of QCA; (d) bypass access, rate, payment, safety, geographic, or usage controls; (e) use QCA to benchmark or develop a competing service except with our written consent; or (f) remove proprietary notices.

Nothing in these Terms grants you ownership of the Service or Company Materials.

8. THIRD-PARTY AI MODELS AND MODEL TERMS

Changing Models. QCA provides access to or uses Models that may be supplied by different Model Providers. Models, Model Providers, versions, routing methods, context limits, features, prices, data practices, and availability may change at any time. We may add, replace, upgrade, downgrade, reroute, suspend, or discontinue any Model or Model Provider with or without notice. We do not guarantee continued access to a particular Model, version, provider, feature, or performance level.

Selection and Routing. Where QCA allows you to select a Model, you are responsible for that selection. Where QCA selects or routes to a Model automatically, you authorize the Company to select and, where reasonably necessary, substitute Models to perform the requested Analysis. A substitute Model may produce materially different Output.

Applicable Model Terms. By using a Model through QCA, you agree to comply with the applicable Model Terms and to ensure that your Authorized Users do the same. You are responsible for reviewing the Model Terms before using the Model and determining whether they permit your intended use of the Model, Input, and Output. Model Terms may change at any time. Continued use of the affected Model after an update constitutes acceptance of the updated Model Terms to the extent permitted by law.

Provider Restrictions. Model Terms may restrict, among other things, prohibited content, regulated uses, geographic access, output use, commercial use, code generation, model training, fine-tuning, distillation, automated decision-making, and the type of data that may be submitted. You must not use QCA to circumvent any Model Provider safeguard or restriction.

Transmission to Providers. You authorize us to transmit relevant User Input, instructions, context, and related information to the Model Provider or providers used for an Analysis. Model Providers may process, retain, log, review, or use Input and Output in accordance with their Model Terms, privacy notices, configurations, and data practices, which may include using data to train or improve their models.

Provider Data Statements. QCA may display provider-reported information concerning retention, training, security, or privacy options. Such information is provided for convenience and may become outdated or inaccurate. Unless the Company expressly agrees otherwise in writing, we do not warrant a Model Provider's statements, conduct, data retention, deletion, training practices, security, or compliance.

No Assumption of Confidential Treatment. Model Providers may use your Input and Output to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or otherwise improve their Models, depending on the applicable Model Terms, privacy notices, account type, and technical configuration. You must carefully review all terms and notices, including any available procedures for opting out of model training, applicable retention and deletion periods, and the scope and limitations of labels such as “private,” “no training,” or “zero retention.” Such labels apply only to the extent and subject to the conditions expressly stated for the relevant Model and configuration. You remain responsible for selecting appropriate settings and verifying that the relevant Model Terms and technical configuration are suitable for your Input. Do not submit Confidential Information, personal data, or Restricted Data unless the Service expressly supports that category, you have implemented the appropriate controls, and the applicable Model Terms permit the intended processing.

Suspension or Removal. We may restrict or terminate access to a Model if required or requested by a Model Provider, if Model Terms change, if we reasonably suspect a violation, or if the Model presents legal, security, performance, or commercial risk. If a paid Analysis cannot be completed solely because a Model becomes unavailable, we may, at our option, substitute a Model, provide a service credit, or refund the affected unused fee where required by law.

Third-Party Nature. Model Providers are responsible for the Models and model services they provide. The Company does not control and is not responsible for a Model Provider's systems, acts, omissions, outages, changes, errors, Output, or compliance with its own terms.

9. USER INPUT; LICENSE; REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

As between you and the Company, you retain your ownership rights in User Input.

You grant the Company and its affiliates, contractors, subprocessors, Model Providers, and other service providers a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license during the period reasonably necessary to provide the Service to host, store, copy, retrieve, access, parse, extract, index, vectorize, format, transmit, display, analyze, transform, execute, test, and otherwise process User Input; create Output; provide support; prevent abuse; secure, maintain, and improve QCA; and comply with law. This license includes the right to create temporary, cached, transformed, and technical copies and to transmit User Input to the Model Providers and Third-Party Services used for the requested functionality.

The license in this Section does not authorize us to publicly disclose private User Input except: (a) as you direct; (b) as necessary to provide a sharing or public-library feature you select; (c) to service providers subject to applicable contractual or legal obligations; or (d) as required by law or necessary to protect rights, safety, and security.

For every Input, you represent and warrant that:

• you own the Input or have all licenses, permissions, consents, notices, and other rights necessary to submit it and authorize the processing contemplated by these Terms;
• submission and processing of the Input will not infringe or misappropriate any copyright, database right, patent, trademark, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, publicity right, contractual right, fiduciary duty, employment obligation, or other right;
• you are not prohibited by a publisher license, subscription agreement, paywall condition, non-disclosure agreement, employment policy, client duty, research agreement, data license, or other restriction from uploading, linking, retrieving, processing, or generating code from the Input;
• the Input and your instructions are lawful, accurate in all material respects, and do not contain malicious code or content intended to manipulate, compromise, or disrupt QCA or a Model;
• you have a valid legal basis and have provided all required notices and obtained all required consents for any personal data contained in the Input;
• you have minimized personal data and Confidential Information to what is strictly necessary for the requested Analysis; and
• you will not submit Restricted Data unless the Company has expressly agreed in writing that the relevant QCA configuration may process it.

If you direct QCA to retrieve a Paper or other material from a URL, repository, database, or Third-Party Service, you represent that you are authorized to access and cause QCA to retrieve and process it. You must not use QCA to bypass a paywall, access control, robots restriction, technical protection measure, or contractual limitation.

The Company has no obligation to pre-screen or legally review User Input and does not assume responsibility for its ownership, legality, accuracy, confidentiality, or contents. We may block, quarantine, remove, or refuse to process Input that we reasonably believe violates these Terms or creates legal, security, or operational risk.

10. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

QCA is not a substitute for a secure data room, source-code escrow service, privileged communications channel, or records-management system.

You must not submit Confidential Information unless: (a) you are authorized to disclose it for the contemplated processing; (b) the applicable QCA plan, order form, or written enterprise agreement expressly supports confidential processing; (c) you have reviewed the applicable Model Terms and Third-Party Service terms; and (d) you have enabled any required privacy, retention, regional, or no-training controls.

Uploading or submitting information does not, by itself, create a duty of confidentiality beyond the express obligations in these Terms, the Privacy Policy, or a separate written agreement signed by the Company. If you require specific confidentiality, data-location, deletion, access-control, audit, or model-training commitments, you must obtain them in a written enterprise agreement or order form before submitting the relevant information.

You are solely responsible for determining whether disclosure to the Company, a Model Provider, or another Third-Party Service is permitted under any non-disclosure agreement, professional duty, employment obligation, fiduciary duty, publisher restriction, or other confidentiality requirement.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company is not responsible for a claim that your use of QCA breached a duty of confidentiality or restricted-use obligation where the claim results from your submission, selection of a Model or integration, publication choice, instructions, or failure to use an available control.

11. PERSONAL DATA AND PRIVACY

The Company processes Account, device, usage, and related personal information as described in the Company's Privacy Policy. You acknowledge that use of QCA may involve transfers of information to the United States and to service providers or Model Providers in other countries, as described in the applicable privacy documentation.

Papers and datasets may contain names, contact details, identifiers, employment information, transaction information, authorship information, or other personal data. QCA is not designed to identify and remove all personal data from Input, and any automated detection or redaction feature may be incomplete or inaccurate.

You must not submit personal data unless it is necessary for the Analysis and you have complied with all applicable data protection and privacy laws. Without limiting the foregoing, you are responsible for:

• establishing a valid legal basis;
• providing required privacy notices;
• obtaining any required consent or authorization;
• respecting purpose limitation, data minimization, retention, and security requirements;
• responding to data-subject or consumer-rights requests;
• completing any required data protection impact assessment, transfer assessment, or consultation; and
• ensuring that the selected Model Providers, locations, retention settings, and other subprocessors are legally permitted.

Unless expressly permitted in a written enterprise agreement or order form, you must not submit Restricted Data or personal data subject to heightened regulatory requirements, including protected health information, biometric identifiers, government identifiers, children's data, authentication secrets, or payment-card data.

With respect to personal data contained in User Input and processed by the Company on behalf of the User, the User acts as the Controller and the Company acts as the Processor. Where the User processes such personal data on behalf of another Controller, the Company acts as a Subprocessor. Such processing is governed by the data processing addendum set out in or incorporated into the Company’s Privacy Policy (the “DPA”), which forms an integral part of these Terms and are deemed accepted upon acceptance of these Terms.

The User instructs the Company to process such personal data as necessary to provide, secure, maintain, and support QCA, including by engaging Model Providers and other Third-Party Services as Subprocessors in accordance with the DPA. The User remains responsible for ensuring that it has a valid legal basis and all necessary rights and authorizations for such processing and that its instructions comply with applicable law. For the avoidance of doubt, the Company acts as an independent Controller with respect to Account, billing, security, usage, and other personal data processed for its own purposes as described in the Privacy Policy.

You authorize the processing and disclosure of personal data contained in User Input to the Model Providers and Third-Party Services necessary to perform the requested Analysis, subject to the applicable agreements and privacy notices. The Company is not responsible for your failure to obtain a legal basis or authorization for that disclosure.

12. OUTPUTS, REPRODUCTION STATUSES, AND CONFIDENCE INDICATORS

Output is generated through automated systems and may be probabilistic, incomplete, inconsistent, outdated, misleading, or incorrect. Different Models, versions, prompts, data, parameters, or runs may produce materially different Output from the same Paper.

Reproduction statuses such as "Fully Reproduced," "Partially Reproduced," "Not Reproduced," or "Inconclusive," and any confidence indicator, are QCA-generated assessments within the conditions of a particular run. They are not statements that a Paper is true or false and do not constitute independent verification, peer review, audit, assurance, certification, or a statistically calibrated probability.

A status may reflect only selected experiments or claims. It may be affected by unavailable or proprietary data, substitutions, synthetic data, omitted details, ambiguous methodology, computational constraints, Model limitations, implementation choices, dependencies, parameter selection, random variation, or errors.

"Fully Reproduced" does not mean that all claims, data, methods, assumptions, or conclusions in a Paper have been validated. "Not Reproduced" does not establish that a Paper is incorrect. "Partially Reproduced" may indicate that the method was implemented but exact numerical results differed, including because synthetic or substitute data was used.

You must independently review the relevant Paper, Input, generated methodology, assumptions, data, code, dependencies, tests, and results before relying on or publishing any Output.

13. GENERATED CODE AND REPOSITORIES

Generated Code may contain errors, hallucinated functions, insecure patterns, malicious or vulnerable dependencies, incompatible licenses, incorrect calculations, unhandled edge cases, or instructions that cause loss of data, financial loss, or system compromise.

You must conduct appropriate human review, code review, license review, security testing, dependency scanning, reproducibility testing, and validation in an isolated environment before executing Generated Code against production systems, live credentials, confidential data, brokerage accounts, or real capital.

You are solely responsible for deciding whether and how to execute, modify, distribute, deploy, or rely on Generated Code and for all consequences of doing so. The Company does not warrant that Generated Code is production-ready, secure, non-infringing, maintainable, profitable, or suitable for any purpose.

QCA may create or connect to a repository on GitHub or another Third-Party Service. You are responsible for repository visibility, access permissions, credentials, collaborators, branches, releases, and compliance with the repository provider's terms. Deleting an Analysis or Account may not delete copies stored with a Third-Party Service, other users, forks, clones, caches, or public archives.

Generated Code may include open-source or third-party components. Those components remain subject to their applicable licenses. You are responsible for identifying and complying with all attribution, notice, source-availability, copyleft, patent, commercial-use, and redistribution conditions.

14. OWNERSHIP OF OUTPUT AND COMPANY MATERIALS

Your rights in Output depend on the QCA plan or access type under which the Output is generated. A QCA plan, subscription terms, Order Form, promotional terms, or other written agreement may provide different rights or restrictions and will control in the event of a conflict with this Section.

If Output is generated under a free subscription, promotional offer, demo, trial, beta or test period, or other access provided without payment (“Free Access”), no rights in that Output are assigned to you. Subject to applicable law, Model Terms, third-party rights, and these Terms, the Company grants you a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, revocable, non-transferable, and non-sublicensable license to use such Output solely for personal, non-commercial purposes or internal testing and evaluation. You may not use such Output for any business or commercial purpose, including in production, for client work, marketing, revenue-generating activities, or the provision of any product or service.

If Output is generated specifically and privately for you during a valid paid subscription, and all applicable fees have been paid, then, as between you and the Company and subject to applicable law, Model Terms, third-party rights, and these Terms, the Company assigns to you any right, title, and interest it may have in that Output, including the right to use it for business and commercial purposes.

No assignment is made of Company Materials, third-party materials, public-library materials, underlying Models, market data, or open-source components.

If Company Materials are embedded in Output, the Company grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use those Company Materials solely as part of the Output and for the purposes permitted by your applicable QCA plan. Company Materials may be transferred or distributed only as an inseparable part of Output that you are otherwise permitted to use or distribute. This license does not permit you to extract or separately use Company Materials or use them to create, train, develop, or operate a competing product or service.

AI-generated material may not qualify for copyright, patent, or other intellectual property protection. Given the generative and probabilistic nature of Models, Output may reproduce, resemble, or incorporate material subject to third-party rights. The Company does not represent or warrant that Output is unique, that you will own exclusive rights in it, or that its use will not infringe or otherwise violate any third-party rights. You are responsible for reviewing Output and obtaining any necessary permissions before using, publishing, or commercializing it.

Your rights in Output may be limited by Model Terms, publisher terms, data licenses, open-source licenses, or third-party intellectual property rights. You are responsible for determining whether your intended use, publication, commercialization, model training, distillation, or distribution of Output is permitted.

The Company and its licensors retain all rights in QCA and Company Materials, including all improvements, modifications, derivative works, and aggregated or de-identified operational metrics that do not identify you or permit reconstruction of User Input.

15. PUBLIC LIBRARY AND SHARING

QCA may provide a public library of Papers, reports, Generated Code, or other research materials. Materials in the public library may originate from public sources, the Company, or Users. Public availability does not mean that the Company owns, endorses, verifies, or guarantees the material.

Private User Input will not be added to the public library solely because it was uploaded to a private workflow. If you select a public, community, marketplace, publishing, or sharing option, or submit material through a flow clearly identified as public, you direct the Company to make the relevant Input and Output available as described by that feature.

For material you publish or submit to the public library, you grant the Company, its affiliates, and users of the Service a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to host, reproduce, analyze, adapt, format, translate, display, perform, distribute, link to, create derivative works from, and otherwise use that material in connection with operating, improving, promoting, and providing QCA. You represent that you have the rights necessary to grant this license.

You must not make personal data, Confidential Information, Restricted Data, or third-party material public through QCA unless you are legally authorized to do so. Once information is made public, it may be copied, indexed, forked, downloaded, or redistributed by others, and deletion from QCA may not remove external copies.

We may remove, restrict, annotate, correct, or decline to publish any library or shared material at any time. We are not obligated to preserve, host, or continue displaying any public material.

16. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES, DATA, GITHUB, AND MCP

QCA may use or connect to Third-Party Services. Your access to and use of them is governed by their terms and privacy practices. We do not control and are not responsible for their availability, security, functionality, accuracy, legality, content, changes, or acts and omissions.

Market, reference, or other data may be supplied by third parties. Such data may be delayed, incomplete, adjusted, estimated, or subject to redistribution and use restrictions. You must comply with all applicable data-provider terms and may not extract, redistribute, resell, or create a substitute data service from third-party data unless authorized.

QCA may use synthetic, simulated, sampled, substituted, or transformed data where original data is unavailable, inaccessible, restricted, incomplete, or unsuitable. Synthetic or substitute data is not equivalent to original data and may materially change results. QCA may identify such use in Output, but automated disclosures may be incomplete; you must review the implementation and data sources.

If you connect QCA to GitHub, an MCP client, an AI agent, an API, or another integration, you authorize QCA to exchange the information and instructions required for that connection. You are responsible for configuring permissions, protecting tokens and credentials, reviewing the recipient's terms, and supervising any downstream action.

An external MCP client or agent may request, copy, combine, modify, disclose, or act on QCA data outside the Company's control. We are not responsible for downstream processing or actions by a connected client, agent, repository, Model, or Third-Party Service after data is transmitted at your direction.

17. ACCEPTABLE USE

You must use QCA lawfully, responsibly, and in accordance with these Terms, Model Terms, documentation, and applicable professional and industry standards.

You must not use QCA to:

• infringe intellectual property, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, contractual, employment, fiduciary, or other rights;
• upload or disclose information that you are not authorized to provide;
• process Restricted Data without the Company's express written approval and appropriate contractual and technical controls;
• engage in market manipulation, insider trading, deceptive trading, wash trading, spoofing, dissemination of false or misleading market information, or another unlawful securities or commodities activity;
• make or facilitate an investment, credit, employment, insurance, housing, healthcare, legal, or other high-impact decision without legally required human review and safeguards;
• deploy Generated Code for autonomous or live trading without independent testing, risk limits, monitoring, authorization controls, and compliance review;
• generate, transmit, or execute malware, destructive code, credential theft, unauthorized access, denial-of-service activity, or instructions intended to compromise systems;
• probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of QCA or a Third-Party Service without written authorization;
• interfere with or overload the Service, evade rate limits, or access another User's Account, Input, Output, or workspace;
• misrepresent Output as human-authored, independently verified, regulator-approved, or guaranteed where that representation would be false or misleading;
• remove or conceal disclosures that synthetic data, AI-generated code, or automated analysis was used where disclosure is legally or professionally required;
• use Output to train, fine-tune, distill, evaluate, or compete with a Model where prohibited by Model Terms;
• access Models or the Service from prohibited locations or circumvent provider safeguards; or
• use the Service in any manner that exposes the Company, a Model Provider, or another person to legal, regulatory, security, or reputational risk.

We may investigate suspected violations, preserve relevant information, remove content, restrict functionality, and cooperate with law enforcement, regulators, rights holders, Model Providers, and service providers as permitted or required by law.

18. NO INVESTMENT, FINANCIAL, LEGAL, TAX, OR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE

THE SERVICE AND ALL OUTPUT ARE PROVIDED FOR RESEARCH, INFORMATIONAL, AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THE COMPANY IS NOT A BROKER-DEALER, INVESTMENT ADVISER, FINANCIAL ADVISER, COMMODITY TRADING ADVISER, TAX ADVISER, LAW FIRM, ACCOUNTING FIRM, OR FIDUCIARY.

Nothing in QCA constitutes an offer, solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, suitability determination, trading signal, or advice to buy, sell, hold, or transact in any security, digital asset, commodity, derivative, strategy, or financial product.

Reproduction of historical results, backtests, simulations, or Paper findings does not predict future performance. Results may be affected by selection bias, overfitting, data leakage, survivorship bias, transaction costs, liquidity, slippage, latency, market impact, taxes, fees, regime changes, and other factors.

You are solely responsible for your research, compliance, investment, trading, deployment, and risk-management decisions. You must independently verify Output and consult appropriately qualified professionals. The Company is not liable for trading losses, lost opportunities, investment decisions, regulatory breaches, or other consequences of relying on QCA.

19. FEES, SUBSCRIPTIONS, AND COMPUTE USAGE

Some features may be free, trial-based, subscription-based, usage-based (token based), or subject to an order form. You agree to pay all applicable fees, taxes, and charges disclosed at purchase or in an order form. The specific payment and usage terms, rules, or limitations, may be set out in the relevant subscription terms or order form.

Usage-based charges may become non-refundable once an Analysis or compute-intensive process begins, even if you cancel it, the Output is incomplete, or the result is "Not Reproduced" or "Inconclusive." A reproduction status is not a service-level commitment or refund condition.

Subscriptions renew for the period disclosed at purchase unless cancelled before renewal. You authorize the applicable payment processor to charge the payment method on file. Except where required by law or expressly stated in an order form, fees are non-refundable.

We may change prices prospectively. If we materially increase the price of an automatically renewing subscription, we will provide notice as required by applicable law. We may suspend access for overdue amounts.

Payments may be processed by a Third-Party Service and are also subject to its terms and privacy policy. The Company does not receive or store full payment-card credentials except as expressly described in the Privacy Policy.

20. BETA FEATURES, AVAILABILITY, AND CHANGES

QCA and some Models or features may be designated alpha, beta, preview, early access, experimental, or evaluation functionality. Such functionality may be incomplete, unstable, inaccurate, or changed or discontinued without notice and may be subject to additional terms.

We do not guarantee that the Service, a Model, a Paper, an Analysis, a repository, an integration, or any Output will be available, uninterrupted, secure, error-free, compatible, retained, or completed within a particular time.

Analysis duration and success depend on Paper complexity, selected experiments, data availability, Model and provider performance, compute resources, rate limits, and Third-Party Services. Estimates are not guarantees.

We may modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue all or part of QCA, including a Model, feature, plan, limit, library item, or integration. Where reasonably practicable, we will provide notice of a material discontinuation affecting a paid subscription, but we are not required to maintain legacy Models, versions, or outputs.

21. SECURITY, RETENTION, AND BACKUPS

We use commercially reasonable measures designed to protect the Service. No system is completely secure, and we do not guarantee that unauthorized access, loss, alteration, disclosure, or other security incidents will never occur.

You are responsible for securing your devices, Accounts, credentials, API keys, repositories, integrations, local copies, and execution environments. You must not place secrets directly in Papers, prompts, source code, or repositories.

QCA is not a backup or archival service. You must maintain independent copies of all Input, Output, repositories, and information you need. We may delete or make data unavailable in accordance with your plan, retention settings, our Privacy Policy, legal requirements, or operational needs.

Deletion from QCA may not delete information already transmitted to a Model Provider or Third-Party Service, public material, logs retained for security or legal purposes, backup copies pending rotation, or copies made by other persons.

22. FEEDBACK

If you provide ideas, suggestions, comments, evaluations, or other feedback concerning QCA ("Feedback"), you grant the Company a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable right to use and exploit the Feedback for any purpose without restriction, attribution, or compensation. Feedback does not include User Input or private Output merely because it is processed through the Service.

COPYRIGHT AND OTHER RIGHTS COMPLAINTS

We respect the intellectual property rights of others and prohibit Users from submitting or otherwise making available through QCA any material that infringes another person’s intellectual property rights. If you believe that material available through QCA infringes your copyright, you may submit a written notification to the Company’s copyright agent in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”) containing:

• identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
• identification of the allegedly infringing material and information reasonably sufficient to locate it within QCA;
• your name, address, telephone number, and email address;
• a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or applicable law;
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on its behalf; and
• your physical or electronic signature.

If your complaint concerns an intellectual property right other than copyright, such as a trademark, you must identify the relevant right in your notice. A notification that does not include the required information may be invalid.

Notices should be sent to Lime FinTech, LLC at feedback@limex.com. We will respond expeditiously to valid copyright infringement notices and may remove or restrict access to the relevant material. In appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, we may suspend or terminate Users who repeatedly infringe copyrights or other intellectual property rights.

Further information about the DMCA is available in 17 U.S.C. § 512 and on the U.S. Copyright Office website.

23. SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION

You may stop using QCA at any time. Subscription cancellation takes effect as described in your plan or order form and does not entitle you to a refund except where required by law.

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate access immediately if: (a) you breach these Terms, Model Terms, or law; (b) fees are overdue; (c) a Model Provider or authority requires it; (d) your use creates security, legal, regulatory, reputational, or operational risk; (e) an Account is inactive; or (f) we discontinue the Service.

Upon termination, your license to use QCA ends. We may delete User Input and Output subject to applicable law, our Privacy Policy, retention settings, and any order form. You are responsible for exporting materials before termination.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including provisions concerning ownership, licenses already granted for public materials, fees, disclaimers, liability limitations, indemnification, dispute resolution, and miscellaneous terms.

24. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, QCA, ALL MODELS, ANALYSES, OUTPUT, GENERATED CODE, DATA, REPOSITORIES, INTEGRATIONS, AND COMPANY MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND.

THE COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, MODEL PROVIDERS, DATA PROVIDERS, CONTRACTORS, AND PARTNERS DISCLAIM ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, AND OTHER WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, SECURITY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND RESULTS.

WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT:

• A PAPER, METHOD, CLAIM, RESULT, OR EXPERIMENT CAN OR WILL BE REPRODUCED;
• A REPRODUCTION STATUS OR CONFIDENCE INDICATOR IS CORRECT OR COMPLETE;
• OUTPUT OR GENERATED CODE IS ACCURATE, UNIQUE, SECURE, LAWFUL, NON-INFRINGING, PRODUCTION-READY, OR SUITABLE FOR TRADING OR OTHER USE;
• A MODEL WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE OR PRODUCE CONSISTENT OUTPUT;
• ORIGINAL, MARKET, SYNTHETIC, OR SUBSTITUTE DATA IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, TIMELY, LICENSED FOR YOUR INTENDED USE, OR COMPARABLE;
• THE SERVICE WILL IDENTIFY ALL PERSONAL DATA, CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION, THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS, LICENSE CONDITIONS, ERRORS, BIASES, SECURITY ISSUES, OR REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS;
• A REPOSITORY, INTEGRATION, MCP CONNECTION, OR THIRD-PARTY SERVICE WILL BE SECURE OR AVAILABLE; OR
• USE OF QCA OR OUTPUT WILL PRODUCE PROFITS, PREVENT LOSSES, SATISFY A REGULATOR, OR ACHIEVE ANY PARTICULAR RESULT.

YOU ASSUME ALL RISK ARISING FROM YOUR INPUT, MODEL SELECTION, USE OF OUTPUT, EXECUTION OF GENERATED CODE, PUBLICATION, INTEGRATIONS, AND INVESTMENT OR BUSINESS DECISIONS.

Some jurisdictions do not permit certain warranty exclusions. In those jurisdictions, the exclusions apply only to the maximum extent permitted by law.

25. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE COMPANY, ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, MODEL PROVIDERS, DATA PROVIDERS, MEMBERS, MANAGERS, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, ENHANCED, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES; LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, TRADING OPPORTUNITY, INVESTMENT VALUE, GOODWILL, BUSINESS, DATA, OR USE; COST OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

WITHOUT LIMITING THIS SECTION, THE EXCLUDED LOSSES INCLUDE LOSSES ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO: (a) INACCURATE OR INCOMPLETE OUTPUT; (b) FAILURE TO REPRODUCE A PAPER; (c) GENERATED CODE, DEPENDENCIES, OR SECURITY VULNERABILITIES; (d) TRADING, INVESTMENT, RESEARCH, PUBLICATION, OR DEPLOYMENT DECISIONS; (e) SYNTHETIC OR SUBSTITUTE DATA; (f) A MODEL PROVIDER OR THIRD-PARTY SERVICE; (g) MODEL OR PROVIDER CHANGES; (h) USE, RETENTION, TRAINING, OR DISCLOSURE OF INPUT BY A MODEL PROVIDER IN ACCORDANCE WITH OR CONTRARY TO ITS TERMS; (i) YOUR BREACH OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, PRIVACY, DATA PROTECTION, CONFIDENTIALITY, OR DATA-LICENSE OBLIGATIONS; OR (j) LOSS OR DISCLOSURE OF INPUT, OUTPUT, OR A REPOSITORY.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE COMPANY AND ALL PERSONS FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO QCA OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF: (a) USD 100; OR (b) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO THE COMPANY SPECIFICALLY FOR QCA DURING THE SIX (6) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY.

The limitations apply regardless of the form of action and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. They do not limit liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including liability for intentional misconduct where exclusion is prohibited.

26. INDEMNIFICATION

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Company, its affiliates, licensors, Model Providers, data providers, members, managers, directors, officers, employees, contractors, and agents from and against all claims, demands, investigations, proceedings, losses, liabilities, judgments, penalties, damages, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or relating to: (a) your Input or instructions; (b) your access to or use of QCA, a Model, Output, Generated Code, repository, integration, or Third-Party Service; (c) your publication, distribution, deployment, trading, or other use of Output; (d) your violation of these Terms, Model Terms, law, or a third-party agreement; (e) infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property or other rights; (f) breach of privacy, data protection, confidentiality, employment, fiduciary, publisher, or data-license obligations; (g) your Authorized Users; or (h) a dispute between you and another person. We may assume exclusive control of the defense, and you will cooperate. You may not settle a claim imposing liability or obligations on an indemnified party without our written consent.

27. ARBITRATION AGREEMENT; CLASS ACTION AND JURY WAIVERS

Informal Resolution. Before starting formal proceedings, you and the Company will make a good-faith effort for at least thirty (30) days to resolve the dispute. Notices to the Company must be sent to feedback@limex.com and describe the claimant, Account, facts, and requested relief.

Binding Arbitration. Except for small-claims matters and claims seeking injunctive relief for unauthorized access or infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to QCA, these Terms, or communications between you and the Company will be finally resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its applicable rules. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this arbitration provision. There will be one arbitrator, the arbitration will be conducted in English, and judgment on the award may be entered in a court of competent jurisdiction.

If you are an individual using QCA for personal purposes, applicable AAA consumer procedures will apply. Otherwise, the AAA commercial rules will apply. Fees will be allocated under the applicable AAA rules, subject to mandatory law.

Opt-Out. If you are an individual, you may opt out of arbitration by emailing feedback@limex.com within thirty (30) days after first accepting these Terms. Your notice must include your full name, Account email, and an unambiguous statement that you opt out of the arbitration agreement.

Class Action Waiver. DISPUTES MUST BE BROUGHT ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY. NEITHER PARTY MAY PARTICIPATE AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, MASS, PRIVATE-ATTORNEY-GENERAL, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE CLAIMS OR AWARD RELIEF TO A PERSON WHO IS NOT A PARTY. If this waiver is finally held unenforceable for a particular claim, that claim will proceed in court, and the remaining claims will remain subject to arbitration to the extent permitted.

Jury Waiver. TO THE EXTENT A DISPUTE PROCEEDS IN COURT, EACH PARTY WAIVES THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

28. GOVERNING LAW AND VENUE

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Where a dispute is not subject to arbitration or small-claims jurisdiction, the state and federal courts located in New York City, New York will have exclusive jurisdiction, and each party consents to personal jurisdiction and venue there.

Nothing in these Terms limits mandatory rights or remedies that cannot be waived under applicable law.

29. CHANGES TO THESE TERMS AND MODEL TERMS

We may modify these Terms from time to time. We will post the updated version and update the effective date. Where required by law, we will provide additional notice of material changes.

Unless otherwise stated, changes apply prospectively when posted. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree, you must stop using QCA and cancel any renewal.

Model Terms and Third-Party Service terms are controlled by their providers and may change independently. You are responsible for reviewing them. We may require renewed acceptance or discontinue access where terms materially change.

30. MISCELLANEOUS

Entire Agreement. These Terms and incorporated documents are the entire agreement concerning QCA and supersede prior or contemporaneous communications on that subject.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them in connection with an affiliate reorganization, merger, acquisition, financing, sale of assets, or transfer of the Service.

No Agency. These Terms do not create a partnership, joint venture, employment, fiduciary, franchise, or agency relationship between you and the Company.

No Third-Party Beneficiaries. Except for indemnified parties and persons protected by liability limitations, these Terms do not create third-party beneficiary rights.

Severability. If a provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and the remaining provisions will remain effective.

Waiver. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. A waiver must be in writing and applies only to the specific instance.

Notices. We may provide notices through QCA, by email, or by posting to the applicable website. You must keep your Account contact details current.

Force Majeure. The Company is not liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including provider outages, internet or cloud failures, cyberattacks, labor disputes, governmental action, changes in law, natural disasters, or failures of Models or Third-Party Services.

Headings. Headings are for convenience only. "Including" means "including without limitation." Electronic acceptance has the same effect as a handwritten signature.

31. CONTACT

Questions, legal notices, copyright complaints, and arbitration opt-out notices may be sent to:

Lime FinTech, LLC, 1 Penn Plaza 16th Floor, New York, NY, United States.

Email: feedback@limex.com