Terms of Service

ValidDs is a product research, analysis, and validation platform designed primarily for ecommerce sellers and dropshippers.

The Service may include:

• •Product discovery
• •Opportunity scores
• •Product-validation verdicts
• •Entry-difficulty ratings
• •Confidence indicators
• •Market and sales-related signals
• •Product comparisons
• •Review and product summaries
• •Creative-angle and marketing analysis
• •Advertising-creative research
• •Saved research and watchlists
• •Competitor-store information
• •Supplier-search links
• •Third-party integrations
• •Other ecommerce research and decision-support tools

ValidDs is designed to help users analyze available information and make more informed product-testing decisions. It does not make business decisions for you.

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

The Service is intended for business and commercial use.

If you use ValidDs on behalf of a company or other entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity.

The Service is offered from the United States and is intended for users located in the United States.

You agree to:

• •Provide accurate account information
• •Keep account information reasonably current
• •Maintain the confidentiality of login credentials
• •Be responsible for activity conducted through your account
• •Promptly notify us of suspected unauthorized account access

You may not share, sell, transfer, or commercially exploit an account except as expressly authorized by ValidDs.

We may suspend or terminate an account where we reasonably believe the account violates these Terms, creates security or legal risk, is being abused, or has unpaid subscription obligations.

The Service displays marketplace, ecommerce, product, advertising, and competitor information obtained from third-party data providers and publicly accessible sources.

The Service may also generate analyses, estimates, ratings, scores, verdicts, summaries, recommendations, and other outputs from that information.

You acknowledge and agree that:

• •Marketplace information may be incomplete, delayed, inaccurate, unavailable, or later revised.
• •Metrics described as estimates, including estimated revenue and certain sales-related indicators, are analytical approximations and are not verified financial figures reported by a marketplace, seller, advertiser, or brand.
• •Opportunity Scores, Entry Difficulty, confidence indicators, verdicts, rankings, and other validation outputs reflect the Company's proprietary methodology and interpretation of available data.
• •A score or verdict is not a statement of fact that a product will or will not succeed.
• •Different products may have different amounts or quality of underlying evidence.
• •Scores and methodology may change over time as the Company obtains new information, improves the Service, or changes its methodology.
• •Scores calculated at different times may therefore not be directly comparable.
• •Certain outputs, including summaries, audience observations, creative angles, and marketing analyses, may be generated in whole or in part using automated or artificial-intelligence systems.
• •Automated outputs may contain errors, omissions, or inaccurate interpretations and should be independently reviewed before being used in a material business decision.

ValidDs signal names and categories are labels used within our proprietary methodology. They do not represent standardized, independently audited, or universally accepted ecommerce metrics unless the Service expressly states otherwise.

The protections in this Section apply to materials published by the Company through:

• •The Service
• •validds.com
• •Email
• •Social media
• •Marketing materials
• •Product demonstrations
• •Reports
• •Educational materials
• •Other Company communications

ValidDs provides ecommerce research, analysis, and decision-support information.

Nothing published by the Company constitutes professional financial, investment, legal, tax, accounting, or other regulated professional advice.

ValidDs does not act as your adviser, fiduciary, business manager, advertising agency, supplier, broker, or marketplace representative.

You remain solely responsible for evaluating information and deciding whether and how to act on it.

The Service may provide links or search shortcuts to third-party marketplaces or supplier services, including services such as Alibaba, AliExpress, Amazon, Teemdrop, or similar providers.

These links are provided for convenience. ValidDs:

• •Does not act as a supplier
• •Does not sell the products displayed
• •Does not verify supplier inventory
• •Does not guarantee supplier pricing
• •Does not guarantee product quality
• •Does not guarantee shipping times
• •Does not guarantee supplier reliability
• •Is not a party to your transaction with a supplier

Your relationship with a supplier or marketplace is governed by that provider's own terms and policies.

The Service may provide an optional link to EcomBos, an independent third-party service that allows users to create or remix advertising creatives.

EcomBos is not operated or controlled by Hampton Empire LLC.

If you choose to follow an EcomBos link:

• •You will leave ValidDs and interact directly with EcomBos.
• •The link may contain referral or attribution parameters identifying ValidDs as the referring source.
• •Your EcomBos account, subscription, payments, outputs, and use of EcomBos are governed by EcomBos' own terms and privacy policy.

Unless the Service expressly tells you otherwise before you initiate a transfer, ValidDs does not transmit your ValidDs research inputs, creative briefs, account credentials, or payment information to EcomBos through this referral link.

The Company does not warrant and is not responsible for EcomBos' services, outputs, availability, pricing, security, terms, privacy practices, business practices, actions, or omissions.

ValidDs does not guarantee:

• •A winning product
• •Product profitability
• •Product-market fit
• •Sales
• •Revenue
• •Profit
• •Advertising performance
• •Return on ad spend
• •Return on investment
• •Store performance
• •Supplier performance
• •Market demand
• •Account approval by any platform
• •Any particular business outcome

A favorable score, verdict, ranking, recommendation, creative angle, or other Service output does not mean a product will succeed. An unfavorable output does not mean a product will necessarily fail.

Business results depend on factors beyond ValidDs' control, including product selection, offer, price, supplier quality, shipping, website quality, advertising execution, creative quality, customer behavior, competition, platform policies, and market conditions.

Any cost, savings, revenue, loss, performance, or business example presented by ValidDs is illustrative unless expressly stated otherwise. Results vary.

You may not:

• •Use the Service for unlawful, fraudulent, harmful, or abusive purposes
• •Violate any applicable law or regulation
• •Infringe or violate third-party rights
• •Misrepresent your identity or authority
• •Attempt unauthorized access to systems or accounts
• •Interfere with or disrupt the Service
• •Circumvent rate limits, access controls, or security features
• •Scrape, crawl, harvest, or systematically extract the Service except with written authorization
• •Resell, sublicense, or commercially redistribute ValidDs or its data
• •Reverse engineer or attempt to derive the Service's source code or proprietary methodology except where applicable law expressly prohibits such a restriction
• •Upload malware, harmful code, or malicious content
• •Use ValidDs data in a manner that violates applicable law or third-party rights
• •Use the Service or its outputs to train, build, improve, market, or provide a product or service that materially competes with ValidDs
• •Use the Service primarily to benchmark ValidDs against a competing product or disclose non-public ValidDs outputs to a competitor except where required by law
• •Bulk-download or extract third-party data for resale or redistribution
• •Independently remove, alter, obscure, bypass, or circumvent copyright notices, attribution, rights-management information, or watermarks applied by a third-party platform or rights holder

The Service may display, index, link to, or make available content owned or controlled by third parties. This may include:

• •Product images
• •Product descriptions
• •Store information
• •Advertisements
• •Videos
• •Advertising creatives
• •Reviews
• •Marketplace content
• •Other third-party media

Hampton Empire LLC does not claim ownership of third-party content merely because it appears in or is accessible through ValidDs. The Company grants you no intellectual-property or commercial-use rights in third-party content unless expressly stated in writing.

Third-party content remains subject to the rights of its respective owners. You are solely responsible for determining whether you possess the rights or legal basis necessary to reproduce, modify, distribute, publish, display, advertise with, or otherwise exploit downloaded third-party content.

ValidDs provides access to such content for product research, competitive research, market analysis, creative research, and reference purposes. The availability of a download does not constitute a representation that the content has been legally cleared for your commercial use.

You agree that your use of any downloaded third-party material is at your own risk and that you are responsible for obtaining any necessary licenses, permissions, releases, or approvals before commercial use.

The Service and the Company's proprietary materials, including its software, user interface, brand, logos, product design, validation methodology, scoring systems, original written content, proprietary databases and data organization, documentation, and technology, are owned by Hampton Empire LLC or its licensors and are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.

Except for the limited right to use the Service in accordance with these Terms, no rights are granted to you.

You retain ownership of business information, research inputs, notes, and other original content you submit to the Service. You grant the Company a limited right to process that content as reasonably necessary to provide, operate, secure, maintain, and improve the Service.

The Company does not use your private research inputs or business information to train generative artificial-intelligence models made available to other users or third parties.

The Company respects intellectual-property rights.

If you believe material accessible through the Service infringes copyright or another intellectual-property right that you own or control, send a written notice to:

A copyright notice should include sufficient information to identify:

• •The copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed
• •The allegedly infringing material
• •Where the material appears
• •Your contact information
• •A statement of your good-faith belief that the use is unauthorized
• •A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act for the copyright owner
• •Your physical or electronic signature

The Company may remove or restrict material where appropriate.

If you provide ideas, suggestions, feature requests, feedback, or recommendations regarding ValidDs, you grant Hampton Empire LLC a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free right to use that feedback without restriction or compensation.

Paid ValidDs subscriptions are purchased and billed through Shopify's app billing system.

Pricing, plan features, billing frequency, introductory offers, trial terms, renewal terms, and applicable charges are disclosed through the Shopify billing flow before you approve a subscription.

By approving a ValidDs subscription through Shopify, you authorize Shopify to charge the applicable fees according to the subscription terms presented to you.

Subscriptions may renew automatically unless cancelled in accordance with the cancellation methods made available through Shopify or the Service.

Cancellation prevents future renewal charges but does not ordinarily create a refund for a billing period that has already been paid, except:

• •Where required by applicable law
• •Where Shopify requires otherwise
• •Where ValidDs expressly states otherwise at the time of purchase

Shopify processes ValidDs subscription payments. Hampton Empire LLC does not receive or store your full payment card number.

If ValidDs offers an introductory trial or promotional period, the trial price, duration, conversion date, subscription price after the trial, and applicable renewal information will be presented before you approve the subscription. If the applicable offer automatically converts to a paid subscription, that conversion will occur according to the terms displayed through Shopify unless you cancel in accordance with the applicable cancellation process. Promotional offers may be subject to additional terms.

Fees for EcomBos or other independent third-party services are not ValidDs subscription fees and are governed by those providers.

Your use of the Service is also governed by the ValidDs Privacy Policy available through the Service and at the Privacy Policy link on validds.com.

The Service is provided on an evolving basis. We may:

• •Add or remove features
• •Modify product functionality
• •Change data sources
• •Change methodology
• •Update scoring or analysis systems
• •Modify limits
• •Change plan features
• •Suspend features
• •Discontinue features

We do not guarantee uninterrupted, continuous, or error-free availability.

Features labeled beta, preview, test, experimental, early access, or similar may be changed or withdrawn at any time.

You may stop using ValidDs at any time.

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your account if:

• •You violate these Terms
• •You fail to pay applicable fees
• •Your conduct creates legal, security, reputational, or operational risk
• •Your use threatens the Service or other users
• •We are required to do so by law
• •We discontinue the applicable Service

Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including provisions concerning intellectual property, fees owed, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, and dispute resolution.

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HAMPTON EMPIRE LLC DISCLAIMS ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, AND OTHER WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF:

• •MERCHANTABILITY
• •FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
• •TITLE
• •NON-INFRINGEMENT
• •ACCURACY
• •COMPLETENESS
• •RELIABILITY
• •AVAILABILITY
• •DATA QUALITY

THE COMPANY DOES NOT WARRANT THAT:

• •THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE
• •DATA WILL ALWAYS BE AVAILABLE
• •DATA WILL BE ACCURATE OR COMPLETE
• •ANY SCORE OR VERDICT WILL PREDICT AN ACTUAL BUSINESS RESULT
• •ANY CREATIVE OR OTHER THIRD-PARTY CONTENT IS CLEARED FOR COMMERCIAL USE
• •ANY PRODUCT WILL PRODUCE SALES OR PROFIT
• •ANY SUPPLIER OR THIRD-PARTY SERVICE WILL PERFORM AS EXPECTED

YOU ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR DETERMINING WHETHER THE SERVICE AND ITS OUTPUTS ARE APPROPRIATE FOR YOUR BUSINESS PURPOSES.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HAMPTON EMPIRE LLC AND ITS OWNERS, AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, LICENSORS, DATA PROVIDERS, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR:

• •INDIRECT DAMAGES
• •INCIDENTAL DAMAGES
• •SPECIAL DAMAGES
• •CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
• •EXEMPLARY DAMAGES
• •PUNITIVE DAMAGES
• •LOST PROFITS
• •LOST REVENUE
• •LOST SALES
• •LOST DATA
• •LOST BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
• •BUSINESS INTERRUPTION
• •LOSS OF GOODWILL
• •ADVERTISING LOSSES
• •PRODUCT-TESTING LOSSES
• •THIRD-PARTY CLAIMS ARISING FROM YOUR BUSINESS ACTIVITIES

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that applicable law does not permit the Company to exclude.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Hampton Empire LLC and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, affiliates, licensors, and service providers from claims, demands, liabilities, damages, losses, judgments, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from or related to:

• •Your use of the Service
• •Your violation of these Terms
• •Your violation of applicable law
• •Your violation of third-party rights
• •Products you sell or attempt to sell
• •Your store
• •Your supplier relationships
• •Your advertising or marketing
• •Your use or modification of third-party creatives or other downloaded content
• •Intellectual-property, copyright, trademark, publicity, music, endorsement, or related claims resulting from your use of third-party material
• •Your use of EcomBos
• •Your use of suppliers, marketplaces, or other third-party services linked from ValidDs

We may update these Terms from time to time.

The revised Terms will be posted with an updated Effective Date.

Where a change materially affects your rights or obligations, we will provide additional notice where required by applicable law.

If you continue using the Service after revised Terms become effective, you accept the revised Terms. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Service and may cancel your subscription.

For questions regarding these Terms:

Copyright notices under Section 12 and arbitration opt-out notices under Section 22 must be sent to the applicable address stated above.