Legal

Terms of Service

Effective September 28, 2026

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and NicheLocate (“NicheLocate,” “we,” “us”) governing your use of our website, app, and related services (the “Service”). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. The Service

NicheLocate is an AI research tool. It suggests business ideas, scores them across ten factors, and writes business plans based on what you tell it. There are two ways to use it:

  • Free. Anyone can score ideas and see the results. Each account gets a limited number of free searches.
  • Subscription ($49/month). A paid monthly subscription includes up to 3 written business plans (each a “Business Plan Assessment”) per billing month, plus scoring without the free-search limit while the subscription is active.

2. Not professional advice

The Service provides AI-generated informational content only. It is not business, financial, investment, legal, tax, or other professional advice, and no output constitutes a guarantee of business success or income. Scores, recommendations, market descriptions, and validation plans are automated estimates that may be incomplete, outdated, or wrong. You are solely responsible for independently verifying any information before acting on it and for all decisions you make, including decisions to start, fund, or operate a business. Consult qualified professionals where appropriate.

3. Accounts

  • You must provide a valid email address and keep your account access secure. You are responsible for all activity under your account.
  • You must be at least 16 years old (or the age of digital consent where you live) to use the Service.
  • We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, abuse the Service (including attempts to circumvent usage limits, rate limits, or security controls), or create risk for us or other users.

4. Subscriptions, billing, and cancellation

  • The subscription costs $49/month (or the price shown at checkout), plus applicable taxes. It is billed monthly in advance through Stripe and renews automatically each month until you cancel.
  • Each billing month includes up to 3 Business Plan Assessments. Plans you don't use in a month don't carry over to the next one.
  • Plans you've already had written are yours to keep. You can still open and download them after your subscription ends.
  • You can cancel any time from “Manage billing” in your dashboard. Cancelling stops the next renewal; you keep your subscription benefits until the end of the month you've paid for. We don't give prorated refunds for part of a month, except where the law requires it.
  • We may change the price with at least 14 days' notice. A new price applies from your next billing month. If you don't want to pay it, cancel before it takes effect.
  • We may change the number of free searches from time to time.

5. Your content

You retain ownership of the information you submit (your search inputs, notes, and saved projects). You grant us a limited license to host, process, and display that content as needed to operate the Service, including sending your search inputs to our AI provider to generate your results. You are responsible for ensuring you have the right to submit what you submit.

6. AI-generated output

Subject to these Terms and applicable law, you may use the reports and recommendations generated for you in your own business. AI output may be similar to output generated for other users; exclusivity is not guaranteed. You may not represent AI-generated output as independent human research when reselling it.

7. Acceptable use

  • No unlawful, infringing, or fraudulent use of the Service.
  • No attempts to probe, scrape, reverse-engineer, or bypass security, rate limits, plan gates, or usage quotas.
  • No reselling or white-labeling the Service itself without our written agreement.
  • No submitting content you don't have the right to submit, or using the Service to generate content that violates others' rights.

8. Intellectual property

The Service (including our software, scoring methodology, design, branding, and blog content) is owned by NicheLocate and protected by intellectual-property laws. Except for the limited rights expressly granted in these Terms, no rights are transferred to you.

9. Third-party services

The Service depends on third-party providers (including Supabase, Stripe, Anthropic, and Vercel). We are not responsible for outages or changes in those services, but we will make reasonable efforts to keep the Service available and to remedy disruptions.

10. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, 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, ERROR-FREE, OR THAT OUTPUTS WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE.

11. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NICHELOCATE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE, INCLUDING DECISIONS MADE IN RELIANCE ON AI-GENERATED OUTPUT. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS IN ANY 12-MONTH PERIOD WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US IN THAT PERIOD OR (B) USD $50. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

12. Indemnification

You will indemnify and hold us harmless from claims arising out of your content, your use of the Service in violation of these Terms, or your violation of law or third-party rights.

13. Termination

You may stop using the Service and cancel your subscription at any time. We may suspend or terminate the Service or your account for breach of these Terms, with notice where practicable. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 2, 5, 6, 8, and 10–13) survive.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. For material changes we will update the effective date above and, where appropriate, notify you by email or in the app. Continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.

15. Contact

Questions about these Terms: use our contact form.

See also our Privacy Policy.