Terms of Use

1. Website operator

2. Scope of these Terms

B2B Only: Our website, tools, and services are directed exclusively at entrepreneurs, freelancers, companies, and businesses acting in their professional or commercial capacity (B2B). They are not intended for consumers as defined under applicable consumer protection laws (such as the Austrian Consumer Protection Act - KSchG). By creating an account or using our services, you explicitly warrant and represent that you are acting as an entrepreneur or on behalf of a business, and not as a consumer. We reserve the right to terminate accounts immediately if we discover they belong to a consumer.

These Terms govern the use of this website and all services provided through it, including information pages, GEO tools, AEO tools, structured data checks, JSON-LD checks, Technical Trust checks, reports, recommendations and other analysis features.

By using this website, you agree to use it only in accordance with these Terms and all applicable laws and regulations.

3. Informational purpose only

The information, checks, reports and recommendations provided through Source of Trust are intended to support technical review, structured data analysis, GEO, AEO and AI search readiness work. They are provided as guidance and decision-support only. Source of Trust does not provide legal, financial or compliance advice, and the outputs do not guarantee rankings, visibility, AI citations, traffic, conversions or any other business outcome. All outputs, including AI-generated recommendations, must be independently reviewed before they are implemented, published, forwarded or otherwise relied upon. You are responsible for verifying whether any output is accurate, plausible, lawful, suitable for your market and compliant with applicable third-party rights, platform rules and regional regulations.

You are solely responsible for deciding whether and how to use any information, output, recommendation or suggestion provided through this website.

4. AI-generated outputs

Some outputs, recommendations, explanations, summaries, classifications, reports or suggested text generated by Source of Trust may be created fully or partially with the help of artificial intelligence systems.

AI-generated outputs can be incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, misleading, unsuitable for your specific situation or based on incorrect assumptions. They may also contain errors, omissions, hallucinations or wording that requires human review.

You must treat all AI-generated outputs with particular caution. Before relying on, publishing, implementing or forwarding any output, you must independently review and verify it.

5. User responsibility for review and verification

You are responsible for checking whether any recommendation, generated text, technical suggestion, structured data proposal, schema markup, audit result or other output is correct, plausible, appropriate and lawful before using it.

In particular, you must verify that any output:

• is factually accurate and technically plausible;
• does not contain misleading, false or unsubstantiated claims;
• does not mention competitors, third parties or brands in an unlawful, misleading or unwanted way;
• does not infringe copyrights, trademarks, personality rights, privacy rights or other third-party rights;
• does not contain confidential, restricted or unauthorized information;
• does not contain content that is unlawful, prohibited or restricted in your country, region or industry;
• is suitable for your website, business model, market, jurisdiction and intended use;
• complies with applicable advertising, consumer protection, platform, search engine and AI system policies.

You should obtain legal, technical or professional advice where appropriate before implementing or publishing recommendations or generated content.

6. Search engine, AI system and platform risks

The use of AI-generated, AI-assisted or automatically generated content may involve risks. Search engines, AI systems, answer engines, social platforms, advertising platforms and other third-party services may apply their own rules, quality standards, spam policies, ranking systems, review processes or enforcement measures.

These third-party systems may reduce visibility, remove content, reject pages, limit distribution, suspend accounts, issue manual or automated actions, exclude content from search results or otherwise penalize websites or users if content is considered low-quality, misleading, manipulative, spam-like, unlawful, policy-violating or unsuitable.

Source of Trust does not control search engines, AI systems, answer engines or third-party platforms. We do not guarantee that using AI-generated outputs, recommendations, structured data, schema markup, GEO suggestions, AEO suggestions or other materials from this website will comply with the rules or expectations of any third party.

You are solely responsible for checking whether any AI-generated or AI-assisted output is appropriate for your website, market, industry, jurisdiction and platform environment before publishing, implementing or relying on it.

We are not responsible for any loss of rankings, indexing, visibility, citations, traffic, distribution, account access, platform eligibility, revenue or reputation that may result from your use of AI-generated content, automated content, structured data, recommendations or other outputs provided through Source of Trust.

AI-generated content should not be published at scale, used for search manipulation or implemented without human review. Unchecked or low-quality AI-generated content may violate third-party platform rules or search engine quality policies.

7. No guarantee of rankings, indexing or platform acceptance

Source of Trust does not guarantee that using this website, its tools or its recommendations will improve rankings, indexing, visibility, citations, AI search performance, answer engine inclusion, traffic, conversions, revenue or any other business outcome.

We also do not guarantee that content, recommendations, structured data, schema markup or AI-generated outputs will be accepted, indexed, ranked, cited, displayed or distributed by Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, social platforms, advertising platforms or any other third-party system.

Search engines, AI systems, answer engines and generative platforms use their own systems, policies, data sources and ranking, crawling, indexing, retrieval or moderation mechanisms. These may change at any time and are outside our control.

8. Fair use and system protection

You may only use this website and its tools in a fair, reasonable and non-abusive manner.

You must not overload, disrupt, damage, impair or attempt to circumvent the technical systems, security measures, rate limits or availability of this website.

In particular, you must not:

• send excessive, automated, repeated or high-frequency requests;
• run a large number of checks in rapid succession;
• use bots, scripts, crawlers or automated tools without prior written permission;
• attempt to bypass rate limits, access restrictions, security checks or usage limits;
• use the tools in a way that may degrade performance for other users;
• probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the website or its infrastructure;
• use the service for load testing, benchmarking or stress testing without prior written permission.

We may block, throttle, suspend or restrict access at any time if we believe that usage is excessive, automated, abusive, harmful, unlawful or likely to affect the stability or security of the service.

9. Prohibited use

You must not use this website or its outputs for unlawful, harmful, misleading, abusive or rights-infringing purposes.

In particular, you must not use the website to create, analyze, improve, publish or distribute content that:

• violates applicable laws or regulations;
• infringes intellectual property rights, trademarks, copyrights or database rights;
• violates privacy, confidentiality, data protection or personality rights;
• contains defamatory, deceptive, discriminatory, hateful or harmful material;
• contains illegal, restricted or regionally prohibited products, services, claims or content;
• impersonates another person, company, organization or brand;
• misrepresents affiliations, endorsements, certifications, reviews or authority;
• is designed to manipulate, spam, deceive or abuse search engines, AI systems, users or platforms;
• contains malware, malicious code, phishing attempts or other harmful technical elements.

10. User-submitted URLs and content

If you submit a URL, website, text, structured data, code or other material to a Source of Trust tool, you confirm that you are entitled to submit and analyze that material.

You must not submit URLs, content or data that you are not allowed to use, that contains unlawful material, that infringes third-party rights or that contains confidential or sensitive information you are not authorized to process.

11. Availability and changes

We aim to keep this website available and functional, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted, error-free or permanent availability.

We may change, suspend, limit or discontinue any part of the website, tools, checks, reports, features or pricing at any time. We may also update or modify the way outputs are generated, interpreted or displayed.

12. Intellectual property

The website, design, structure, texts, graphics, software, analysis logic and other materials made available by Source of Trust are protected by copyright and other applicable rights unless stated otherwise.

You may use the website and its outputs for your own internal evaluation and implementation purposes, subject to these Terms. You may not copy, reproduce, resell, scrape, redistribute or commercially exploit the website, tools, systems or substantial parts of the service without prior written permission.

13. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we are not liable for damages, losses, claims, costs or consequences arising from your use of this website, its tools, recommendations, AI-generated outputs or analysis results.

In particular, we are not responsible for decisions you make based on outputs from the website, for errors in generated recommendations, for incorrect implementation, for legal or compliance issues, for third-party claims, for lost profits, lost data, lost rankings, lost visibility, business interruption or reputational harm.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability where such limitation is not permitted by mandatory law.

13 b. Financial Cap on Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law (including the Austrian General Civil Code - ABGB), our total aggregate liability for any and all claims, damages, losses, or causes of action arising out of or in connection with these Terms, the website, or the services—whether in contract, tort (including negligence), or otherwise—shall be strictly limited to the total amount of fees actually paid by you to us for the specific service or subscription during the six (6) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the liability. If you have used the website or services free of charge, our total liability shall be capped at a maximum amount of EUR 100.00.Nothing in these Terms shall limit or exclude our liability for intent (Vorsatz) or gross negligence (grobe Fahrlässigkeit) resulting in personal injury or death, as mandated by applicable Austrian law.

14. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from and against claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses arising from your unlawful or improper use of this website, your violation of these Terms, your submitted content or URLs, your implementation of outputs, or your infringement of third-party rights.

15. Privacy

Information about how personal data is processed when using this website is available in our Privacy Policy.

16. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of Austria, excluding conflict-of-law rules, unless mandatory consumer protection laws provide otherwise.

Where legally permissible, the competent courts in Austria shall have jurisdiction.

17. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time to reflect changes in our services, legal requirements, technical setup or business model. The current version is always available on this page.