Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) form a binding agreement between you and Vertexium Environmental Solutions, a Texas-based environmental consulting practice (“VES,” “we,” “us”), the operator of WhatsMyESG (“WME,” the “Service”) at whatsmyesg.com.

By visiting the Service, creating an account, joining the waitlist, or paying for a subscription, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Eligibility & Account

• You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract under U.S. law.
• One human user per account. Sharing credentials, reselling access, or operating the Service on behalf of multiple parties under a single account is prohibited unless you hold a written enterprise license from us.
• You are responsible for keeping your sign-in email and any subsequent credentials confidential, and for all activity under your account.
• You will provide accurate and complete information and keep it current.

2. Subscriptions, Pricing & Cancellation

WME is a paid SaaS product. Pricing is presented at point of sale. At launch, we offer two tiers:

Subscriptions auto-renew monthly until cancelled. Payment is taken in advance for the upcoming period.

One-click cancellation. You may cancel at any time from your account dashboard with one click; no phone call, chat, or email is required. The mechanism by which you signed up is the same mechanism by which you may cancel. After cancellation, your subscription remains active for the remainder of the period you have already paid for, and then ends.

No refunds for partial periods. We do not pro-rate or refund the unused portion of any period. We do not offer money-back guarantees, refund-on-request, or success-fee pricing. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period; you retain access until then. Cancellation forfeits the Founding-15 locked rate. Resubscription, if available, will be charged at the then-current public price.

Price changes. Your $99/mo Founding 15 rate is locked for life as long as your subscription remains uninterrupted. If we change the price for other tiers, we will notify you by email at least 30 days before the change takes effect.

Taxes. Prices are exclusive of sales, use, VAT, GST, or similar taxes. You are responsible for any applicable taxes other than taxes on our net income.

3. Acceptable Use

Fair-use thresholds for Founding-15: unlimited within 50 reports per day, 500 reports per billing period, 5 requests per minute, and 3 concurrent generations. Above thresholds, contact info@whatsmyesg.com for enterprise terms. Caps protect both you and other Founding-15 members against abuse.

You agree that you will not, and will not enable any third party to:

• Reverse engineer, decompile, scrape, or systematically copy the Service, our outputs, or our underlying methodology.
• Use the Service to violate any applicable law, including U.S. export controls, sanctions, anti-discrimination, or consumer-protection statutes.
• Use the Service to publish defamatory, harassing, or knowingly false statements about any person or entity, including any entity we score.
• Reproduce, redistribute, or resell our reports, scores, or methodology to third parties for commercial purposes, except as permitted under Section 5 (Intellectual Property).
• Probe, scan, or test the security of the Service without prior written consent (see Security for our coordinated-disclosure address).
• Attempt to circumvent the fair-use thresholds stated above, rate limits, or authentication.
• Train any artificial-intelligence model on our outputs without written consent.
• Use the Service to harass, intimidate, or discriminate against any individual or group, or to make automated adverse decisions (e.g., underwriting, employment, insurance) without independent human review.

4. The Service: What It Is and Isn’t

WME generates ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) intelligence reports for entities you query, drawing on public data sources (e.g., U.S. EPA, U.S. SEC), public regulatory feeds, voluntary corporate disclosures, and recognized frameworks (GRI, SASB, TCFD, ISSB IFRS S1/S2, CDP). See Methodology for the data sources and limitations.

Reports are informational only. They are not investment, legal, tax, accounting, financial, or regulatory-compliance advice. They are not a substitute for professional services from a licensed advisor. See the Disclaimer for the full statement.

5. Intellectual Property

WME owns the Service, the methodology, the brand, and all reports generated by the Service, except for content you submit. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to view, download, share with your immediate counterparties, and cite reports we generate for you, for your own internal business use, while your subscription is active.

You may not (i) redistribute reports for resale, (ii) publish them in a public dataset or marketing program, (iii) strip our brand marks or methodology citations, or (iv) make them available to a third party who is not a contractual counterparty of yours, without our prior written consent.

Trademarks. “WhatsMyESG,” the WME wordmark, and the emerald-green letterform are trademarks of Vertexium Environmental Solutions. All third-party marks referenced (EPA, SEC, GRI, SASB, TCFD, ISSB, CDP, etc.) are the property of their respective owners.

6. Operator and Reseller Use

WME is sold under a single-seat license: one operator, one account. Within that license, operators (including freelance analysts, sustainability consultants, EHS consulting shops, M&A and due-diligence firms, commercial real-estate brokers, and commercial-property underwriters) may use the Service to support their own paid client engagements, subject to the rules in this Section 6, the Acceptable Use thresholds in Section 3, and the IP license in Section 5.

Permitted operator use.

• Sharing reports we generate for you with your own clients as supporting evidence inside a deliverable you sign and deliver.
• Writing your own analysis, memos, or recommendations citing WhatsMyESG as the data source, with attribution that links to the underlying report or company URL on whatsmyesg.com.
• Running reports under your account on behalf of paying clients, provided you remain the single human user on the account and provided your usage stays within the fair-use thresholds in Section 3.

Forbidden operator use.

• Removing the WhatsMyESG footer, brand marks, methodology citations, or source links from generated PDFs, CSVs, or any other Output. The branded artifact is the operator’s proof of source and is non-severable.
• Reselling the raw report content as if it were your own primary research, or otherwise misrepresenting your role as anything other than an analyst layering judgment on a third-party data layer.
• Misrepresenting affiliation, certification, sponsorship, or endorsement by Vertexium Environmental Solutions, WhatsMyESG, or Dr. M. Elansary.
• Reselling or sublicensing API access, backend access, raw ingestion feeds, or the underlying methodology to any third party.
• Using the Service to power, train, populate, or seed a competing ESG-data product.

Operator-tier fair-use.The published fair-use thresholds in Section 3 (50 reports per day, 500 per billing period, 5 per minute, 3 concurrent generations) apply to operator use. Operators sustaining volumes above 500 reports per billing period across consecutive periods may be contacted by us about upgrade to a future Operator or Agency tier; no further volume cap is enforced at launch beyond the published Section 3 thresholds.

Termination grounds.Verifiable, willful breach of the no-de-brand or no-resale-of-raw-content rules in this Section 6 is grounds for immediate suspension or termination under Section 10, in addition to the general termination grounds in those Sections.

7. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AND UNINTERRUPTED AVAILABILITY. See the full Disclaimer.

8. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE FEES YOU PAID TO US IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (USD $100). WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL, OR DATA, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages; in those jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.

9. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless VES and its principals, employees, and contractors from and against any claim, liability, damage, loss, or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of (i) your use of the Service in violation of these Terms, (ii) your violation of any law or third-party right, or (iii) your distribution or use of any report we generate for you.

10. Termination

You may terminate your subscription at any time via the dashboard. We may suspend or terminate your access immediately for material breach of these Terms, fraud, security risk, non-payment, or where required by law. Upon termination, the license in Section 5 ceases. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (e.g., 5 final paragraph, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13) survive.

11. Changes to the Service or Terms

We may modify the Service, including features, pricing, and availability. If we materially change these Terms, we will update the effective date and notify active subscribers by email at least 30 days before the change. Your continued use after the change takes effect constitutes acceptance.

12. Governing Law & Dispute Resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, U.S.A., without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. The U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Binding individual arbitration.Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service that cannot be resolved through good-faith negotiation within 30 days of written notice will be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect. The arbitration will be seated in Dallas County, Texas, or, at your election, in your county of residence within the United States. The arbitrator’s award is final and may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

No class actions. You and we agree to bring claims only in your or our individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over any class or representative proceeding.

Carve-outs.Either party may bring a claim in small-claims court for matters within that court’s jurisdiction, and either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction in Dallas County, Texas, to protect intellectual-property rights pending arbitration.

30-day opt-out. You may opt out of this Section 12 by emailing info@whatsmyesg.com with the subject line “Arbitration Opt-Out” within 30 days of first accepting these Terms.

13. Miscellaneous

• Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Disclaimer, the Cookie Policy, and any order form you sign with us are the complete agreement on this subject and supersede prior or contemporaneous understandings.
• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remain in force, and the unenforceable provision will be reformed to the minimum extent necessary.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of substantially all of our assets.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision does not waive future enforcement.
• Force majeure. Neither party is liable for failure to perform due to events beyond reasonable control.
• Notices. Notices to you go to the email associated with your account. Notices to us go to info@whatsmyesg.com.

14. Contact

Vertexium Environmental Solutions
Dallas, Texas, United States
info@whatsmyesg.com