Tool Owner Agreement

1. About this agreement

This Tool Owner Agreement applies when you claim, manage or submit content for a tool listing on Try.Tools. This agreement is between you and Try.Tools.

It adds to the Terms of Service, which also apply. If the two conflict on a matter about managing a listing, this agreement applies.

You accept this agreement when you accept the Ownership and Data Accuracy Declaration while filing a claim. If you act for a company or another organization, you accept it on its behalf and confirm you have authority to do so.

2. Authority to represent the tool

You confirm that you own the tool, or that you are an authorized representative with permission to manage its listing on Try.Tools. If that authority ends, for example because you leave the company, you must tell us promptly and stop managing the listing.

Staff review every claim. We may ask for evidence of ownership or authorization at any time, including after verification.

Verified ownership confirms the claimant's authority to manage a listing. It does not certify product quality or performance.

3. Accurate information

Information, links, images, descriptions, contact details and other materials you submit must be accurate and not misleading, to the best of your knowledge. You agree to correct information promptly when it becomes inaccurate.

4. Permission to publish your content

Verified owners warrant that they are authorized to submit their content and have appropriate rights to permit its publication.

You keep ownership of the content you submit. You give Try.Tools a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, reproduce, format, adapt for display, translate, display and distribute that content, to run, improve and promote the directory service. This includes showing it on the tool's listing, in search results, comparisons, recommendations, the site assistant's answers and Try.Tools' own promotion of the directory.

The licence continues while the content is on the service. When content is removed, the licence ends, except for copies in backups kept for a limited time, records we must keep by law, and content already shared before removal.

We may edit submitted content for format, length, clarity or accuracy, without changing its meaning in a misleading way.

5. Intellectual property

You keep all rights in your tool, your trademarks and the content you submit. You allow Try.Tools to use your tool's name, logo and trademarks to identify the tool in its listing and across the service. This does not give Try.Tools any other right to your trademarks.

Try.Tools keeps all rights in its platform, scores, scoring methodology, widget, logos and design. Using the TTS widget is allowed only as the Terms of Service describe.

6. Third-party content and trademarks

Do not submit content that belongs to someone else, such as screenshots, logos, testimonials, reviews, quotes or comparisons that name other products, unless you have the right to use it. Do not use another company's trademarks in a way that suggests a connection that does not exist.

Tool listings do not imply product-owner endorsement, partnership or sponsorship.

7. Responsibility for your submissions

You are responsible for the accuracy, legality and authorization of the content you submit. If content you submit is inaccurate, misleading or unlawful, or infringes someone else's rights, you agree to correct or remove it promptly when you learn of the problem or when we ask.

Try.Tools is responsible for its own content, its scores and its own decisions about listings.

8. Review, moderation and removal

Try.Tools may review, reject, modify, suspend or remove submitted information, and may ask for more evidence before publishing it. Some changes, such as the website address or links to external signals, may be reviewed by staff before they are published.

We aim to make these decisions fairly and consistently. Where practical, we will tell you what we changed or removed and why, and you can reply to [email protected] to ask us to look again.

9. Ownership disputes

If someone else claims the same tool, or tells us that a verified owner is not authorized, Try.Tools staff decide who may manage the listing. There is no separate dispute process: an administrator reviews the evidence and can approve, change or clear the owner of a listing.

We may ask each party for evidence, such as control of the tool's domain or official accounts. We will tell the people involved about the decision.

If you think a decision is wrong, contact [email protected] with any new evidence and staff will review it again. This does not limit any rights you have under applicable law.

10. Revoking verification

An administrator can revoke a verification or override a claim, for example if:

• the evidence of authority turns out to be wrong or no longer holds;
• another party shows a better right to manage the listing;
• the owner breaks this agreement or the Terms of Service, such as by submitting false or infringing content or manipulating signals;
• the account is compromised; or
• the law requires it.

Where practical and lawful, we will tell you the reason. Revoking verification removes your ability to manage the listing; the listing itself stays in the directory unless it is removed for another reason under the Terms of Service.

11. TTS independence

Try.Tools calculates the Try Tools Score (TTS) independently. Owners cannot set or edit a score. Adding verifiable information may change the signals the score uses, and the score can go up or down. Verified ownership is one of the signals. The TTS Methodology and Score Disclaimer explains how scores work.

Verification or a paid plan does not guarantee a particular score, recommendation or ranking.

Subscription purchases do not directly affect TTS scores, guarantee higher rankings, or purchase a favourable evaluation.

Your plan, payments and subscription status are not inputs to the score calculation, and verified owners on every plan are scored in the same way.

12. Subscription independence

Paid plans add owner features, such as editing the SEO title and description, change history, score suggestions and the TTS widget. A paid plan does not buy verification, approval of a claim or editorial treatment. Staff review claims in the order they are filed, and the plan is not a review criterion.

If a paid plan ends, the account becomes Free. The listing and valid ownership verification stay. See the Refund and Cancellation Policy.

You can claim and manage a listing on the Free plan without paying.

13. Corrections and complaints

Anyone, including you, can report information on Try.Tools that they think is inaccurate, and you can raise a complaint about a listing or a decision. The Listing Correction and Complaint Policy explains how. If someone reports a problem with your listing, we may ask you to respond or provide evidence.

14. Account security and unauthorized access

• Keep your sign-in details secure, and do not share your account. Each person who manages a listing should use their own account.
• Use the email address you verified the claim with, or another address you control.
• Tell us promptly at [email protected] if you think someone has accessed your account or changed your listing without permission. While we investigate, we may correct the listing or remove the account's access to it.
• Do not try to access another owner's account or listing, or any part of the service you are not authorized to use.

15. Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by applicable law, Try.Tools is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill, arising from your listing, its score, staff decisions about it, or your use of the owner features.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, Try.Tools' total liability to you under this agreement is limited as set out in the Terms of Service.

Nothing in this agreement limits liability for fraud, intentional misconduct or gross negligence, or any liability or right that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law.

16. Indemnification

Subject to applicable law, you agree to compensate Try.Tools for reasonable losses and costs, including reasonable legal fees, arising from a third-party claim that content you submitted infringes that party's rights or is unlawful, or that you were not authorized to manage the listing.

This does not apply to the extent the loss was caused by Try.Tools, including by changes Try.Tools made to your content. We will tell you promptly about a claim, let you take part in responding to it, and not settle it in a way that admits fault on your behalf without your consent.

17. Ending this agreement

You can stop managing a listing at any time by contacting [email protected]. Try.Tools can end this agreement for a listing by revoking verification under section 10. Sections 4 (for content already published), 5, 7, 15, 16 and 19 continue after it ends.

18. Changes to this agreement

We may update this agreement. Each version shows its version number and effective date. For a material change, we will notify verified owners before it takes effect and ask them to accept the new version on their next visit to the owner portal. You do not need to claim your tool again.

19. Governing law

This agreement is governed by the laws of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, without limiting mandatory protections that apply to you under applicable consumer protection laws, including those of your province or territory, such as Quebec.

20. Contact

Try.Tools
Email: [email protected]