Agreement to These Terms
These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a legally binding agreement between you and ITBrix ("BULCORE," "we," "us," or "our"). By accessing or using the BULCORE website at BULCORE.com (and all subdomains), the BULCORE web application, the BULCORE browser extension, or any other BULCORE service (collectively, the "Services"), you agree to be bound by these Terms.
If you are using the Services on behalf of an institution, organization, or employer, you represent that you have the authority to bind that entity to these Terms, and "you" refers to both you individually and that entity.
If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not access or use the Services.
If your institution has entered into a separate Master Services Agreement or institutional contract with BULCORE, that agreement governs your institution's use of the Services. These Terms apply to all users within that institution who are not otherwise covered by a more specific agreement, and govern any matters not addressed in the institutional contract.
Definitions
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Account | Your registered user account on the BULCORE platform, including all associated credentials, settings, and data. |
| Content | Any text, notes, documents, sources, annotations, uploads, prompts, outputs, or other materials you create, submit, store, or generate using the Services. |
| Institution | A university, college, school, organization, or other entity that has entered into an agreement with BULCORE for access to the Services. |
| Notes | The atomic knowledge units in BULCORE — discrete pieces of information created via any of the six supported Note generation methods, each carrying full provenance metadata. |
| Projects | The shared, collaborative workspaces in BULCORE where curated Notes, sources, documents, and team contributions are assembled and made visible to authorized collaborators. |
| Services | The BULCORE website (BULCORE.com and subdomains), the BULCORE web application, the BULCORE browser extension, all APIs, and any other products or services provided by ITBrix. |
| Topics | The private, user-specific research and ideation spaces in BULCORE. Topics are never shared with teachers, institutions, teammates, or any other party — ever. |
| User | Any individual who accesses or uses the Services, including students, faculty, researchers, and individual subscribers. |
| User Content | All Content you create, upload, or generate within the Services, including Notes, Topics, Projects, uploaded documents, and document outputs. |
Who May Use BULCORE
You must be at least 13 years of age to use the Services. If you are under 18, you represent that you have your parent's or legal guardian's permission to use the Services and that they have read and agreed to these Terms on your behalf. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without verified parental consent in compliance with COPPA.
Institutional deployments serving users under 13 must be governed by a separate institutional agreement that addresses parental consent and COPPA compliance requirements.
By creating an Account, you represent and warrant that: (a) all information you provide is accurate and current; (b) you have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms; (c) you are not barred from using the Services under applicable law; and (d) you will comply with these Terms.
The Services are currently operated from and primarily directed at users in the United States. Users are responsible for compliance with local laws applicable to their use of the Services.
The BULCORE Platform
BULCORE is an AI-enabled research and learning workflow platform that helps students, educators, and knowledge workers collaborate with artificial intelligence while preserving intellectual integrity, traceability, and human agency. The platform is organized around three core constructs:
Topics — your private research and ideation space. Fully personal, fully private. No one else can see this space.
Projects — your shared, collaborative workspace. Work is visible here only because you deliberately moved it from a Topic into a Project.
Notes — the building blocks of knowledge in BULCORE. Every Note carries full provenance: its origin method, author, timestamp, and source are always recorded and traceable.
Subject to your subscription tier and any applicable institutional agreement, the Services may include: research discovery tools (Best Sources multi-engine search, Boost Insight, What Am I Missing? gap analysis) · six Note generation methods: Manual Entry, Ask LLM, Bookmark, Website Text Extraction, Screenshot Processing, and Translation · AI-powered document generation with full Note-to-section traceability · browser extension for in-context research capture · collaboration features including role-based access, project sharing, and real-time commenting · faculty and teacher access tools including project dashboards and engagement timelines (institutional plans) · Google Docs one-way export · audit trail and contribution analytics.
BULCORE targets 99.9% platform uptime. We do not guarantee uninterrupted access. Scheduled maintenance will be communicated in advance where practicable. Features designated as "beta," "preview," or "experimental" are provided as-is, may be modified or discontinued at any time without notice, and are excluded from any uptime or performance commitments.
Your Account
To access most features of the Services, you must create an Account. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information during registration and to keep your Account information updated. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and for all activity that occurs under your Account.
You must notify us immediately at support@bulcore.com if you become aware of any unauthorized access to or use of your Account. Each Account is for a single named individual. You may not share your Account credentials with another person.
If your Account is provisioned through an institutional agreement, your institution may have administrative rights over your Account, including the ability to modify access, add or remove you from Projects, and view Project-level activity. Your institution's rights do not extend to your Topics or any content not deliberately added to a Project.
Privacy, Data & the Two-Space Model
Your Topics are always private. No teacher, professor, institution, teammate, collaborator, or BULCORE employee can view the content of your Topics. This is an absolute technical and philosophical boundary.
Your data is never used to train AI models. Zero student or user data is used to train any AI model — ours or third-party providers'.
You control what becomes visible. Only work you deliberately promote from a Topic into a Project becomes accessible to collaborators or teachers.
- Topics — in any form, ever, under any circumstances
- Questions asked inside Topics or Topic-level LLM usage
- Any Note or document not intentionally added to a Project
- The student's private reasoning process or exploratory thinking
- Early drafts or unpromoted Topic content
- Notes intentionally added to a Project by a student
- Documents generated inside the Project
- Uploaded documents intentionally added to the Project
- LLM usage inside the Project
- Project-level dashboards, engagement timelines, contribution analytics, and alignment scoring
We collect and use data as described in our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. We do not sell your personal data. We do not use your Content to train AI models. The audit trail records user actions within Projects (not Topics) as a core platform feature.
Institutional & Faculty Accounts
Faculty access is strictly scoped to Project-level data. The separation between Topics and Projects is enforced at the architecture level and cannot be overridden by any account type, including institutional administrator accounts.
Faculty and teacher accounts may only use student Project data for legitimate educational purposes including evaluation, feedback, academic integrity review, and pedagogical alignment analysis. Faculty members may not share, export, or use student Project data for purposes unrelated to the course or institution for which access was granted.
Institutional administrators may manage user accounts, configure institutional settings, and access institution-level analytics. Administrator access does not override the Topic privacy boundary. No account type, including institutional administrator accounts, can access the content of student Topics.
Acceptable Use
You may use the Services for lawful educational, research, and knowledge work purposes consistent with these Terms, BULCORE's design philosophy, and any applicable institutional policies.
You may not use the Services to:
- Violate any applicable law, regulation, or institutional policy
- Engage in academic dishonesty in violation of your institution's honor code
- Submit, share, or generate unlawful, harmful, defamatory, or harassing content
- Infringe the intellectual property rights of any person or entity
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system, account, or data
- Reverse engineer or decompile the Services
- Use the Services to develop a competing product or service
- Circumvent or interfere with security features of the Services
- Use automated scripts, bots, or scrapers outside our official APIs
- Upload malicious code, viruses, or disruptive content
- Misrepresent your identity, affiliation, or credentials
- Share your Account credentials with any other person
BULCORE is designed to make AI use visible and accountable. You agree not to misrepresent the provenance of content within the platform — including falsely attributing AI-generated content as entirely human-authored in contexts where accurate attribution is required. BULCORE's audit trail is designed to support, not circumvent, honest disclosure.
Intellectual Property
The Services, including all software, algorithms, designs, text, graphics, interfaces, and the BULCORE AI Foundry architecture, are the proprietary property of ITBrix and are protected by copyright, trade secret, and other intellectual property laws. You receive a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Services in accordance with these Terms. No other rights are granted.
You retain full ownership of all User Content you create within the Services, including your Notes, Topics, Projects, uploaded documents, and generated outputs. BULCORE does not claim ownership of your Content.
By using the Services, you grant BULCORE a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to access, store, process, and transmit your Content solely as necessary to provide the Services to you. This license does not include the right to use your Content to train AI models, sell your Content, or share your Content with third parties except as described in our Privacy Policy.
Content you create using BULCORE's AI features is owned by you subject to any applicable terms of the underlying AI model provider. BULCORE's provenance tracking records which portions of your Content were generated with AI assistance. You are responsible for reviewing AI-generated Content for accuracy before relying on or submitting it.
If you provide BULCORE with feedback, suggestions, or ideas about the Services, you grant BULCORE a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use that feedback for any purpose without obligation to you.
AI Features — Use, Limitations & Responsibility
BULCORE integrates AI language models to assist your research and learning workflow. AI in BULCORE is designed to be a transparent, accountable partner whose contributions are visible, attributable, and subordinate to your judgment. BULCORE does not position AI as a substitute for human thinking.
AI language models can produce inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, or misleading outputs — including hallucinated citations and sources. BULCORE's Source Review Protocol requires you to review all sources before finalizing documents. Do not submit AI-assisted work without reviewing it for accuracy. BULCORE is not liable for errors in AI-generated content.
BULCORE uses third-party AI model providers (currently OpenAI, Azure-hosted; Anthropic Claude integration in development). Your prompts and queries submitted through BULCORE's AI features are processed by these providers subject to their applicable terms. BULCORE's agreements with AI providers prohibit the use of your data to train their models.
You are responsible for all Content you submit, share, or publish, regardless of whether it was generated with AI assistance. BULCORE's audit trail and provenance tracking are tools to support honest disclosure — they do not relieve you of academic or professional responsibility for the accuracy and integrity of your work.
BULCORE's Ethics Mode applies additional constraints to keep AI output subordinate to your own thinking and synthesis. Enabling or disabling Ethics Mode does not affect your underlying obligations under these Terms or your institution's academic integrity policies.
Third-Party Services & Integrations
BULCORE provides a one-way export of generated documents to Google Docs. Once a document is exported, BULCORE does not track edits made in Google Docs. The exported document becomes subject to Google's terms of service. Edits made in Google Docs after export are not reflected in the BULCORE audit trail.
Where your institution has enabled LMS integration (e.g., via LTI 1.3), BULCORE may receive course roster data from your LMS and may write contribution or alignment scores back to your institution's gradebook. This data exchange is governed by your institution's agreement with BULCORE and the applicable LMS provider's terms.
The BULCORE browser extension operates within your browser to capture research content from web pages. The extension only transmits data to BULCORE's own servers and does not share your browsing activity with third parties. You may uninstall the extension at any time without affecting your BULCORE account.
Fees, Subscriptions & Payment
Individual subscribers may access a 60-day free trial. No credit card is required to start a trial. At the end of the trial period, access to paid features will be suspended unless you subscribe. Your Content is retained for 30 days after trial expiry.
Subscription fees are billed in advance on a monthly or annual cycle as selected at signup. All fees are in US Dollars. We use third-party payment processors; your payment information is subject to the processor's privacy and security practices. BULCORE reserves the right to change pricing with 30 days' advance notice for existing subscribers.
We do not offer refunds for subscription fees except where required by applicable law or where we have materially failed to provide the Services. Refund requests should be directed to support@bulcore.com.
Warranties & Disclaimers
We warrant that we will provide the Services with reasonable skill and care and in accordance with these Terms.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY STATED ABOVE, THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.
WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE ERROR-FREE, UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR THAT AI-GENERATED CONTENT WILL BE ACCURATE OR COMPLETE. YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.
Nothing in this Section limits any statutory rights you may have under applicable law that cannot be excluded by contract.
Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW:
(a) BULCORE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS, OR LOSS OF GOODWILL, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES.
(b) BULCORE'S AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING UNDER THESE TERMS SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF: (i) THE FEES YOU PAID TO BULCORE IN THE THREE (3) MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM; OR (ii) ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS ($100).
These limitations apply regardless of the legal theory and even if BULCORE has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages — in such jurisdictions, BULCORE's liability is limited to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Nothing in these Terms limits BULCORE's liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded by law.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless ITBrix and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from:
(a) your use of the Services in violation of these Terms · (b) your User Content · (c) your violation of any applicable law · (d) your infringement of any third-party right.
Termination & Account Suspension
You may close your Account at any time by contacting support@bulcore.com. Upon closure, your Account will be deactivated and your Content scheduled for deletion within 30 days, subject to any retention obligations described in Section 6.5.
We may suspend or terminate your access to the Services at any time, with or without notice, if: (a) you violate these Terms; (b) we are required to do so by law; (c) your institution requests termination of your institutional account; or (d) we discontinue the Services (with reasonable notice).
Upon termination: (a) your license to use the Services ends immediately; (b) you lose access to your Account and Content; (c) we may delete your Content after any applicable retention period; and (d) provisions of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including Sections 9, 13, 14, 15, and 17.
If your Account was provisioned through an institutional agreement and that agreement terminates, your Account may be suspended or terminated. Where practicable, we will provide reasonable notice and allow you to export your personal Content prior to termination.
Dispute Resolution & Governing Law
These Terms and any dispute arising from them are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Colorado, United States, without regard to its conflict of law principles.
Before initiating any formal dispute process, you agree to contact us at support@bulcore.com and attempt to resolve the dispute informally. We will attempt to resolve any dispute within 30 days of receiving written notice.
If informal resolution fails, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising from or relating to these Terms or the Services shall be resolved by binding individual arbitration in Denver, Colorado under the American Arbitration Association's Commercial Arbitration Rules. The arbitrator's decision is final and binding. You and BULCORE each waive the right to a jury trial.
YOU AND BULCORE AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. Class arbitrations, class actions, and representative actions are not permitted.
Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you by: (a) posting a notice in the BULCORE application; (b) sending an email to the address on your Account; or (c) posting revised Terms at BULCORE.com/terms with an updated effective date.
Your continued use of the Services after the effective date of any updated Terms constitutes your acceptance of the changes. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must stop using the Services and may close your Account.
General Provisions
| Provision | Details |
|---|---|
| Entire Agreement | These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any applicable institutional agreement or SOW, constitute the entire agreement between you and BULCORE regarding the Services. |
| Severability | If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, and the remaining provisions will continue in full force. |
| Waiver | BULCORE's failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of its right to do so later. Waivers must be in writing to be effective. |
| Assignment | You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without BULCORE's prior written consent. BULCORE may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or substantially all of its assets, provided your data privacy rights are maintained. |
| Force Majeure | BULCORE is not liable for any failure or delay in performance due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including natural disasters, acts of government, internet or infrastructure outages, or pandemics. |
| Accessibility | BULCORE is working toward WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility compliance across all platform surfaces. If you encounter accessibility barriers, please contact support@bulcore.com. |
| Language | These Terms are written in English. In the event of any inconsistency between an English version and a translated version, the English version controls. |
| Export Controls | You agree to comply with all applicable US and international export control laws and regulations in your use of the Services. |
| Independent Contractor | Nothing in these Terms creates any employment, partnership, joint venture, or agency relationship between you and BULCORE. |
Contact Information
| Topic | Contact |
|---|---|
| General Inquiries | support@bulcore.com |
| Legal & Terms | support@bulcore.com |
| Privacy & Data Requests | support@bulcore.com |
| Security Incidents | support@bulcore.com |
| Billing & Subscriptions | support@bulcore.com |
| Accessibility | support@bulcore.com |
By using BULCORE, you agree to these Terms of Service.
Effective January 2025 · Version 1.0 · BULCORE.com/terms
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