Terms of Use

1. Permitted use

You may read, bookmark, share links to, and print pages from rootplot.com for personal, non-commercial purposes. You may quote short excerpts with a clear link back to the original page. These Terms of Use work alongside our Terms and Conditions.

2. Prohibited uses

• Reproducing content without permission. Copying articles, images, tables or comparison data in whole or in substantial part, on any website, app, print product or document, without written consent.
• Commercial use. Selling, licensing, or using our content to promote products or services without permission.
• Scraping and automated access. Using bots, crawlers, scrapers or other automated tools to collect content or data from the Site, except standard search engine indexing that follows our robots rules.
• Training datasets. Using our content to train or fine-tune machine learning models without written permission.
• Interference. Attempting to breach security, overload servers, inject code, or disrupt the Site in any way.
• Misrepresentation. Presenting our content as your own, removing attribution, or altering content to change its meaning.

3. Requesting permission

We are generally happy to allow reuse for educational, non-profit and editorial purposes with credit. Email hello@rootplot.com with what you would like to use and where it will appear.

4. Copyright complaints (DMCA)

We respect the intellectual property of others. If you believe material on the Site infringes your copyright, send a notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to our designated contact:

A valid notice must include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed.
3. The URL of the material on our Site you believe is infringing.
4. Your name, address, telephone number and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good faith belief the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act for the owner.

We will review valid notices promptly and remove or disable access to infringing material where appropriate. Knowingly false claims may carry legal liability under the DMCA.

5. Trademarks

Root Plot and the Root Plot logo are our marks. All other product, brand and company names on the Site belong to their respective owners and are used only to identify the products discussed.

6. Enforcement

We may block access, remove content, or take legal action against anyone who breaches these Terms of Use. Failure to act on a breach is not a waiver of our rights.

7. Contact

General questions: hello@rootplot.com. Legal and copyright: legal@rootplot.com.