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These terms are between you and Robotversus.com, and they cover robotversus.com and its subdomains. Using the site means accepting them. How we handle personal data is a separate document: the privacy notice.

The catalogue is free to read, with or without an account, and it is meant to be quoted. Cite a figure, link to the page it came from, and you are within the rules — an attributed number that sends the reader to the evidence is the point of the exercise.

What is not allowed:

• Bulk extraction. Crawling, scraping or otherwise harvesting the catalogue to rebuild it elsewhere, in whole or in substantial part.
• Passing our work off as your own — republishing scores, comparisons or written analysis without attribution, or presenting the RV Score as an independent verdict of your own.
• Working around technical limits: rate limits, access controls, or anything that keeps the service standing.
• Using the site to break the law, to harass anyone, or to distribute malware.

Programmatic access is by arrangement, not by scraping. There is no public API today; the API page takes applications and approved applicants get documentation and a key.

• An account needs a working email address and a password of at least ten characters. We confirm the address by emailing you a link, and an account whose address has not been confirmed cannot sign in.
• You are responsible for what happens under your account. If you think somebody else is using it, change the password and tell us.
• We may suspend or remove an account used to scrape the catalogue, to file corrections in bad faith, to spam reviews, or to attack the service.
• You can delete your account yourself in settings, at any time, without asking us.

A review stays yours. By posting one you give us a non-exclusive, worldwide right to publish, edit for length and clarity, and translate it on the site, for as long as it is published.

• Write from your own use of the robot. Second-hand impressions and marketing copy are not reviews.
• Do not post confidential material, another party's trade secrets, or anything a contract stops you from saying.
• Reviews are moderated before they appear. If yours is approved, it is published on the robot page together with your display name.
• We may decline or remove a review, and we are not obliged to argue the point. What we will not do is edit a review into a different opinion.
• Corrections are welcome and are checked against a document before anything changes. A correction we cannot source stays unpublished rather than being taken on trust.

• Specifications are transcribed from manufacturer documentation and other named sources, and the source is cited on the page that uses the figure. Where nothing is published, the field stays empty; we do not estimate into a gap.
• Transcription errors happen, and upstream documents are revised without notice. That is what the corrections route is for, and it is why every figure carries its source rather than our word.
• The RV Score is a published calculation over that published evidence, and the method is written down. A dimension without enough evidence is marked N/A rather than guessed, and it is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.
• The score is not advice, not a recommendation, and not a warranty of fitness for any purpose. Procurement decisions, and their consequences, remain entirely yours.
• Prices are observations recorded on a date from a named source. They are not offers, not quotes, and not a promise that anyone will sell at that figure.
• Availability, lead times and specifications change. A page is accurate as of its sources, not as of your reading of it.

Product names, model numbers, logos and product images belong to their manufacturers and appear here to identify what is being described. Their presence is identification, not endorsement, affiliation or sponsorship — in either direction.

Our own writing, the scoring method, the structure of the catalogue and the database compiled from it remain ours. Quoting with attribution and a link is fine; republishing substantial parts is not.

If you hold rights in something published here and believe it should not be, write to [email protected] with the page, the material and the basis of the claim. We will look at it and remove or correct rather than stall.

The site is provided as it stands. We work at it continuously, which also means features change, pages move and the service is occasionally down; there is no uptime commitment attached to reading a free catalogue.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for lost profit or savings, or for decisions taken on the basis of anything published here. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for death, personal injury or fraud, and nothing affects the statutory rights of a consumer.

These terms change as the product does. The version and effective date at the top move with any substantive change, material changes are announced in the newsletter, and continuing to use the site after that date is acceptance of the new version.

We may stop offering the service, or a part of it. You can end this agreement whenever you like by deleting your account and closing the tab.

Until a registered legal entity is named as operator, these terms do not nominate a specific governing law or court. If you are a consumer, the mandatory protections where you live still apply.

Before any of that: write to us. Most disputes about a catalogue are disputes about a number, and a number is something we can check.

Questions about these terms go to [email protected]; a wrong figure goes to [email protected] or through the contact page, where corrections are answered first.