Terms of Service

1. The Service

The Ad Bench provides AI-assisted feedback on advertising creative ("Ad Reports"). Free tiers include limited Quick checks and Deep-dive reports per day; we also offer a paid "Human CD Review" performed by a human reviewer for a flat fee. The Service is provided as a beta; features, limits, and availability may change without notice.

2. Eligibility & Email

You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter a binding contract in your jurisdiction. To run an analysis, you provide an email address. By providing your email you consent to transactional communications about your reports and product updates. You can unsubscribe at any time.

3. Your Content

"Your Content" means any ad creative, image, brief, or other material you upload or submit. You represent and warrant that:

• You own Your Content or have all rights necessary to upload it for analysis.
• Your Content does not infringe any third-party intellectual property, privacy, or publicity right.
• Your Content does not violate any law (including export-control, obscenity, or defamation law).

You retain all ownership rights in Your Content. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, transmit, and process Your Content solely to provide the Service to you (e.g., upload to private cloud storage, send to our AI provider for analysis, share with the human reviewer if you request a Human CD Review). We do not use Your Content to train AI models, and our AI provider's commercial terms prohibit them from doing so as well.

4. Storage & Deletion

Uploaded creative is stored at an unguessable URL on private cloud infrastructure (Vercel Blob). We do not list, browse, or index stored content. You may request deletion of any stored creative by emailing legal@theadbench.ai and we will delete it within a commercially reasonable time.

5. Reports & AI Output

Ad Reports are AI-generated opinions, not professional advice. They are produced by an AI model (currently Anthropic's Claude) responding to a rubric we wrote. AI output may be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, outdated, or inconsistent with current advertising platform policies. You are solely responsible for any decisions you make based on a Report, including media-spend decisions and platform-compliance choices. Do not rely on a Report as a substitute for legal review, platform policy review, or qualified professional advice.

We grant you a limited, non-transferable license to use Reports we provide for your internal business purposes, including sharing them with your team, clients, or via the share-link feature. You may not resell Reports as a standalone product or claim them as your own creative judgment without disclosure.

6. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Upload content that is illegal, defamatory, harassing, sexually explicit, or that depicts minors in a sexualized way.
• Attempt to circumvent rate limits, scrape the Service, or use the Service to train competing AI models.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or otherwise attempt to extract our prompts, rubrics, or model configuration.
• Use the Service to generate output you intend to pass off as solely human-authored work product without disclosure.
• Submit content on behalf of a third party without their authorization.

We may suspend or terminate access for any violation, with or without notice.

7. Paid Services — Human CD Review

• Price: $89 USD per ad reviewed at time of writing. We may change pricing prospectively; we will not change pricing after you submit and receive an order confirmation.
• Delivery: We aim to deliver written reviewer notes within 24-48 hours of payment. Turnaround is a target, not a guarantee.
• Refunds: If we cannot deliver a review within 7 days of your order, you may request a full refund. Once notes have been delivered, the order is final and non-refundable except where required by law.
• Reviewer Independence: The Human CD Review is provided by a senior creative director acting as an independent reviewer. The Service, the Operator, and the reviewer are not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any advertising platform (Meta, Google, TikTok, X, etc.) or with Anthropic.

8. Beta Service; Changes; Discontinuation

The Service is offered in beta. We may add, modify, suspend, or discontinue features, change usage limits, change pricing for future purchases, or shut down the Service at any time. We will provide reasonable advance notice for material changes when practical, but we are not obligated to.

9. Intellectual Property

All Service content other than Your Content (including the rubric, prompts, code, design, the "Ad Bench" mark, and Reports as compiled works) is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. We grant you a personal, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service in accordance with these Terms.

10. Third Parties

The Service relies on third-party providers including Anthropic (AI model), Vercel (hosting and storage), Mailchimp (email), and Resend (transactional email). Use of those providers is subject to their respective terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for their acts or omissions.

11. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE AND REPORTS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, OR THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT REPORTS ARE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR SUITABLE FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Some jurisdictions do not allow exclusion of certain warranties; those exclusions may not apply to you in full.

12. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NEITHER WE NOR OUR LICENSORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR LOSSES ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE OR ANY REPORT, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY, OR (B) USD $100.

13. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from any third-party claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from (a) Your Content, (b) your violation of these Terms, or (c) your violation of any law or third-party right.

14. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time for any reason, with or without notice. You may stop using the Service at any time. Sections 3 (Your Content license), 5 (AI output disclaimer), 9 (Intellectual Property), 11 (Disclaimers), 12 (Limitation of Liability), 13 (Indemnification), and 16 (Governing Law / Disputes) survive termination.

15. Privacy

Our handling of personal information is described in the Privacy Notice on the home page. By using the Service, you consent to that handling.

16. Governing Law; Dispute Resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Alameda County, California, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there. You waive any right to a jury trial and to participate in a class action to the extent permitted by law.

17. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The "Effective date" above will reflect the latest version. If a change is material, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify users (e.g., via email or an in-product banner) before it takes effect. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.

18. Miscellaneous

These Terms are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a right is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

19. Contact

Questions: legal@theadbench.ai