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    Last updated November 9, 2026

    These terms are an agreement between you and Zuse Live Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Zuse", "we", "us"), for your use of Zuse: the website, console, API, MCP server and recruiting workspace (the "Service"). By creating an account, creating an API key, or using the Service, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

    If you use the Service for a company or other organization, "you" means that organization as well, and you confirm that you are allowed to accept these terms for it.

    1. The Service

    Zuse is a maintained index of license records published by licensing boards, offered as three metered operations:

    • Nearby lists licensed professionals or practices near a location.
    • License check looks up a name or license number in the index.
    • Background researches the public web for professional information about one person, and Intro notes suggest what to say when you first contact them.

    In the API these are called source, verify and enrich. "Background" here means a person's professional background as found on public web pages. It is not a background check.

    The documentation describes how each one works, and is part of these terms. The Service is for business use.

    2. Accounts, teams and API keys

    • Give us accurate account information and keep it current.
    • You are responsible for everything done under your account and with your API keys. Keep keys secret, keep them out of browser and mobile code, and revoke a key at once if it may have been exposed.
    • If you own a team, you are responsible for what its members and its keys do.
    • One person may not open several accounts to get more free credit or to get around a limit.
    • Tell us promptly at support@zuse.live if you believe your account or a key has been used without your permission.

    3. Credit and prices

    • A practice account (Zuse Hire) needs the practice plan to run anything metered: a monthly subscription that adds plan credit each month, as described on the Pricing page. Plan credit is for that month only and does not carry over. A developer account receives a one-time signup credit instead. Any account may buy more credit and earn more through referrals, as described in Pricing and metering. Credit belongs to a team, has no cash value, and cannot be transferred; other than plan credit, it does not expire. Referral credit is earned only for new accounts made by different people; accounts made to collect it may be closed and the credit removed.
    • Each metered request is charged against that credit at the published price, plan credit first. When the credit is used up, metered requests are refused until credit is added or the next month's plan credit arrives.
    • We may change prices and the amount of free credit. A change applies to everyone and is announced in the changelog before it takes effect.
    • Payments are taken by Stripe. The plan renews each month and is charged to the card on file until you cancel; a cancelled plan runs to the end of the month already paid for. A promotional free month still needs a card and renews at the plan's price unless cancelled before it ends. Automatic top-ups, when you turn them on, charge the card on file when your balance falls under the amount you chose. The price and payment terms shown when you buy apply as well as these terms. Refunds follow the refund policy.

    4. What you may do

    Subject to these terms, you may use the Service and its results for your own internal business purposes, including:

    • finding licensed professionals near a location;
    • seeing whether the people you plan to contact hold a current license;
    • contacting them about work in their profession;
    • showing results to your own users inside your own product or agent.

    Zuse is a sourcing tool. It is not a background check, a credentialing service, or an employment screening service, and it is not offered for deciding whether to hire a particular person.

    5. What you may not do

    You may not, and may not allow anyone else to:

    1. Copy the index in bulk. Do not download, scrape, or systematically collect results to build, fill or update a database, directory or dataset, whether for yourself or for anyone else.
    2. Resell the data. Do not sell, license, rent or redistribute results as data. Showing individual results to your own users inside your product is allowed; giving them the dataset is not.
    3. Build a competing service from the Service or its results.
    4. Get around the limits. Do not use several accounts, rotate keys or addresses, or use any other means to avoid a rate limit, a daily ceiling, a restriction, or the credit.
    5. Scrape the website, console or public demo, or access the Service by any automated means other than the API and MCP server.
    6. Use the Service unlawfully, or to harass, stalk, threaten, or discriminate against anyone.
    7. Use results for anything unrelated to a person's profession. Do not use them for consumer marketing, or to contact a person about anything other than their professional role.
    8. Use any result as a background check, or for any other purpose covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, such as deciding a person's eligibility for employment, credit, insurance or housing.
    9. Interfere with the Service: probe it for weaknesses without our written permission, overload it, reverse engineer it, or bypass any security or access control.
    10. Misrepresent the source. Do not present results as coming from a licensing board directly, or remove the labels that separate board records from web-derived information.

    6. Your responsibilities when you use results

    • The board is the primary source. A License check or Nearby result is a copy of a public board record as of the last refresh. Each result links to the board's own lookup. A license check that a hiring or credentialing decision depends on has to be made with the board itself, not with Zuse.
    • Zuse is not a consumer reporting agency, and results are not consumer reports. If the law requires a consumer report for a decision you are making, obtain one from a consumer reporting agency.
    • Contacting people. You are the sender of every message you send to a person you found through Zuse, including messages you send with a draft from the recruiting workspace. You must follow the laws that apply to those messages, including CAN-SPAM and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, identify yourself honestly, and honor every request to stop.
    • Requests from individuals. If a person asks you what you hold about them or asks you to delete it, that request is yours to answer.
    • Protect what you receive. Keep results secure and limit access to people who need them for the purposes in section 4.

    7. Limits, monitoring and suspension

    The Service has published rate limits and daily ceilings. We measure the volume and pattern of each account's use in order to enforce them and to detect bulk copying. An account that repeatedly reaches them is restricted automatically, for longer each time.

    We may suspend or close an account, or revoke a key, if we reasonably believe these terms have been broken, if the account puts the Service or other people at risk, or if the law requires it. Where we can, we tell you why. If you believe a restriction is a mistake, write to contact@zuse.live and we will review it.

    8. About the data

    • Board records are published by licensing boards. We copy them carefully and refresh them, but a record can be out of date between refreshes, and a board can publish an error. We do not guarantee that any record is accurate, complete or current.
    • Coverage is limited to the jurisdictions and professions listed in the documentation. A person missing from the index is not evidence that they are unlicensed.
    • Enrichment is a best-effort reading of the public web. It can be wrong, incomplete, or about a different person with the same name. It is always labeled as derived.
    • Nothing in the Service is legal, employment or professional advice.

    9. Your content and our service

    • Yours. What you put into the Service, such as workspaces, notes and saved candidates, stays yours. You give us permission to store and process it to provide the Service to you.
    • Ours. We own the Service, including its software, design, documentation, and the selection and arrangement of the index. We claim no ownership of the public records themselves. These terms give you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service as they describe, and nothing more.
    • Feedback. If you send us suggestions, we may use them without owing you anything.
    • Names and logos. Do not use the Zuse name or logo to suggest we endorse you without our written permission.

    10. Privacy

    Our Privacy policy explains what we collect and how we use it. Where you send us personal information about other people, you confirm that you are allowed to.

    11. Other companies' services

    Parts of the Service rely on other companies, such as Google and Microsoft for sign-in, and a research provider for enrichment. Your use of their services through Zuse is also subject to their terms. We are not responsible for their services, and a feature that depends on one may change or stop if that service does.

    12. Early access and changes to the Service

    Zuse is in early access. Features, coverage, limits and prices may change, and a feature may be withdrawn. The recruiting workspace is an optional beta feature: it may change or be withdrawn at any time, and you should keep your own copy of anything in it that you rely on. API versions follow the rules on the Versioning page.

    13. Disclaimers

    THE SERVICE AND ALL RESULTS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE". TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, ZUSE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE OR FREE OF ERRORS, OR THAT ANY RESULT IS CORRECT.

    14. Limit of liability

    TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, ZUSE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF TOLD THEY WERE POSSIBLE. ZUSE'S TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE AND (B) ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS.

    Some laws do not allow some of these limits, so parts of sections 13 and 14 may not apply to you.

    15. Your promise to cover our losses

    You will defend Zuse and its officers, employees and agents against any claim by someone else that arises from your use of the Service or its results, from messages you send to people you found through it, or from your breach of these terms, and you will pay the resulting damages, costs and reasonable legal fees. We will tell you promptly about any such claim and let you handle its defense, and we may take part at our own cost.

    16. Ending the agreement

    You may stop using the Service at any time, and may ask us to delete your account. We may end or suspend your access as described in section 7, or stop offering the Service with reasonable notice. Sections 5, 6, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15 and 17 continue to apply after the agreement ends.

    17. Governing law and disputes

    These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its rules on conflicts of law. Before filing a claim, each side will first write to the other and try in good faith for 30 days to resolve it. Any claim that is not resolved will be brought only in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and both sides accept the jurisdiction of those courts.

    18. Changes to these terms

    We may update these terms. When we do, we change the date at the top, and if the change is significant we also say so on the site or in the console before it takes effect. If you keep using the Service after a change takes effect, you accept the updated terms.

    19. General

    • These terms, with the documentation and the Privacy policy, are the whole agreement between us about the Service.
    • If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest stays in effect.
    • If we do not enforce a term, that is not a waiver of it.
    • You may not transfer this agreement without our written consent. We may transfer it as part of a merger or a sale of the business.
    • You may not use or export the Service in breach of United States export or sanctions law.
    • Legal notices to us go to Zuse Live Inc., 8 The Green STE A, Dover, DE 19901, with a copy by email to contact@zuse.live. Notices to you go to the email address on your account.

    20. Contact

    Zuse Live Inc.
    8 The Green STE A, Dover, DE 19901
    Email: contact@zuse.live