Terms of Use

Last updated July 22, 2026

Plain-language terms for using UnImpact. They are written to be read, not to intimidate. This is not legal advice, and, as the service moves toward a wider public launch, they should be reviewed by counsel. By using the service you agree to them.

1. Who we are

UnImpact (“the service,” “we,” “us”) is an analytical civic tool operated by Elopumbra (“the operator”). It is currently offered as an unlisted preview: reachable by link, not indexed by search engines, and still under active development. We may change, suspend, or reset features, and the service may be unavailable at times, without notice.

2. What UnImpact does, and does not do

The service grades decisions, never persons, on the legitimacy of how they were made, who decided, and from how close, producing a dignity reading of Honored, Strained, or Denied. It does not grade whether a decision is correct, wise, or good policy, and it does not provide legal, financial, or professional advice. A dignity reading is an analytical assessment of process and proximity, not a legal ruling, a finding of wrongdoing, or a statement of fact about any individual. See the Methodology for how dignity readings are computed and what they claim.

3. Eligibility and accounts

You may browse as a guest with no account. Publishing an impact record, or creating or editing a wiki page, requires signing in with your email; you are responsible for activity under your account and for keeping access to your email secure. You must be at least 13 years old and able to form a binding agreement to use the service. We may decline, suspend, or terminate accounts that violate these terms.

4. Acceptable use

When you use the service, and especially when you contribute, you agree not to:

• publish content about private individuals; the service names public bodies, offices, and organizations, not private people;
• harass, threaten, defame, or incite harm against anyone;
• post content you know to be false, or present opinion or inference as established fact;
• upload unlawful content, or content that infringes someone else’s rights;
• impersonate a person or organization, or misrepresent your affiliation;
• attempt to breach, probe, or circumvent the service’s security or access controls, or the row-level rules that govern what you may write;
• scrape, bulk-download, or automate access in a way that burdens the service or the people it names;
• use the service to target, surveil, or build dossiers on individuals.

We may remove, label, or reverse any contribution, and restrict any account, at our discretion.

5. Your contributions

You keep ownership of what you write. By publishing content to the shared record, you grant the operator a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, display, reproduce, and distribute that content within the service, and to remove it. You represent that you have the right to grant this license and that your contribution meets Section 4. Contributions marked as your addition remain attributed to your account and are removable by you; the shared, canonical record is curated with human review.

6. How we name, seats, not persons

The service is designed to name accountable public seats (for example, “House district 42”) and organizations, and to link to the public documents that describe them, rather than to characterize the private conduct of the individuals who hold those seats. Findings about the reuse of legislative text are findings about text and its sources, and attribute no motive, belief, or identity to any person. Do not use the service to do what it is built not to do.

7. Intellectual property

The service’s software, design, and original text are the operator’s or its licensors’ property. The underlying facts, decisions, sources, public records, are not owned by anyone and are cited to their origins. You may quote and link to the service with attribution; you may not copy its design or present it as your own.

8. Corrections, disputes, and right of reply

Named bodies and organizations, and anyone who spots an error, may seek a correction or reply through Disputes & corrections. We review such requests against the public record, publish corrections, and attach replies where a reading is contested.

9. Third-party services

The service runs on infrastructure and tools operated by others, hosting (Vercel), database and sign-in (Supabase), and an optional place-lookup service (zippopotam.us). Your use of the service is also subject to those providers’ terms. The Privacy Policy describes what each one handles.

10. No warranty

The service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including accuracy, reliability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Dignity readings and records are generated from public data and user contributions and may contain errors, gaps, or delays. You use them at your own discretion.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the operator and its contributors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss arising from your use of, or reliance on, any dignity reading, record, or other content. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the greater of the amount you paid to use the service (which, in this preview, is nothing) or USD $100.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the operator from claims, losses, and expenses arising out of content you publish or your breach of these terms, for example, a claim that something you posted about a named party was unlawful.

13. Termination

You may stop using the service at any time and request deletion of your account and published content (see Privacy). We may suspend or terminate access that violates these terms or the law. Sections that by their nature should survive termination, ownership, no-warranty, liability, indemnification, governing law, survive it.

14. Changes

We may update these terms as the service evolves. Material changes will be reflected in the “last updated” date above; continued use after a change means you accept the updated terms.

15. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Before filing any formal claim, you agree to first contact us and attempt to resolve the matter informally for at least 30 days. Any dispute that cannot be resolved that way will be brought in the state or federal courts located in California, and you consent to their jurisdiction.

16. General

If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and the operator about the service.

17. Contact

Questions about these terms: pen.artinian@gmail.com.