Last Updated: 01.07.2026
These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between 16signlas ("Company," "we," "us," or "our") and the person or entity accessing or using the EBTA platform, including its website, dashboard, and related applications (collectively, the "Platform"). By accessing or using the Platform, you agree to be bound by these Terms.
The Platform serves two categories of users:
- Employers — companies, recruiters, or hiring personnel who use the Platform to obtain supplementary, evidence-based context about a candidate they are already considering (see Section 2).
- Candidates — individuals invited by an Employer to connect a code repository account and have selected work evaluated (see Section 3).
1. Acceptance of Terms
1.1 Agreement to These Terms
By creating an account, clicking "I Agree," or otherwise accessing or using the Platform, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, incorporated by reference.
1.2 Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of legal majority in your jurisdiction, to use the Platform. If you act on behalf of a company, you represent you have authority to bind that entity.
1.3 Definitions
- "Brief" means the output the Platform generates for an Employer summarizing verified, evidence-based signals about a Candidate in relation to a specific role.
- "Designated Repository" means a specific code repository a Candidate identifies for evaluation in connection with a particular Brief request.
- "Evidence" means the abstracted, derived output produced by the Platform's analysis of a Designated Repository — such as measurements of complexity, structure, and domain proficiency — and does not include, reproduce, or permit reconstruction of the underlying source code.
- "Job Description" or "JD" means the role description an Employer submits for a hiring request.
- "Vault" means the Candidate's persistent store of previously generated Evidence, reusable across future Brief requests without re-evaluating the underlying repository.
1.4 Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be reflected in the "Last Updated" date and, where required by law, communicated by additional notice. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.
1.5 Accounts Generally
You are responsible for your account credentials and all activity under your account.
1.6 Nature of the Platform
The Platform is a decision-support and verification tool, not an automated hiring system. It does not rank, score, compare, sort, or shortlist Candidates against one another, and it does not make, automate, or substitute for any hiring decision. Each Brief relates to a single Candidate an Employer has already identified for consideration, and is intended solely to provide the Employer with additional, verified context to inform its own human-led evaluation and interview process. Final hiring decisions rest entirely with the Employer.
2. Employer Terms
This Section 2 applies to Employers.
2.1 Account Creation and Eligibility
Employer accounts are for business use by companies and their authorized recruiting personnel evaluating candidates for genuine, currently open roles. You are responsible for the accuracy of your registration information and for activity under your account.
2.2 Subscription, Fees, and Billing
(a) Fees. You agree to pay the fees specified at signup or in an applicable order form ("Order Form"). Fees are non-refundable except as expressly stated. (b) Renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically for successive terms unless either party gives notice of non-renewal as specified in the Order Form. (c) Payment. Payment is processed by our third-party payment processor. You authorize us to charge your designated payment method for fees due. (d) Price Changes. We may change fees for future terms with at least [30] days' notice. (e) Overages. Usage beyond your plan's limits may be billed at the applicable overage rate.
2.3 Authorized Users
You may permit personnel acting on your behalf ("Authorized Users") to access your account, subject to plan limits. You are responsible for their compliance with these Terms.
2.4 Acceptable Use
You agree that you will: (a) use any Candidate-related information the Platform provides solely to evaluate the specific Candidate for the specific role(s) for which they applied or were invited, and for closely related internal recruiting purposes; (b) not attempt to re-identify, aggregate, or repurpose information obtained through the Platform to build, train, or improve any product, model, or database outside the Platform; (c) not sell, rent, sublicense, or disclose information obtained through the Platform to any third party outside your organization, except to personnel with a legitimate need to know, bound by confidentiality at least as protective as these Terms; (d) not attempt to access, scrape, or otherwise obtain a Candidate's underlying source code or repository beyond what the Platform provides; (e) retain such information only as long as reasonably necessary, and delete or de-identify it thereafter consistent with applicable law; and (f) promptly honor any Candidate data-subject request forwarded to you regarding data you hold outside the Platform.
2.5 Non-Discrimination and Responsible Use
(a) Prohibited Use. You will not use the Platform to discriminate against any Candidate or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. (b) Not a Decision Tool. Consistent with Section 1.6, the Brief is supplementary context, not a determination of a Candidate's qualifications, and must not be treated as dispositive. You will ensure meaningful human review of any hiring decision. (c) Your Compliance Responsibility. You are solely responsible for determining whether laws governing automated or algorithmic tools in hiring apply to your specific use of the Platform in your jurisdiction, and for complying with them (including any required notices, audits, or disclosures). We will provide reasonably available information about the Platform's function to support your own compliance assessment upon written request, but we make no representation that any particular jurisdiction's requirements do or do not apply to your use.
2.6 Job Descriptions and Candidate Materials
You represent that any Job Description or Candidate material you submit is accurate to your knowledge, does not infringe third-party rights, and that you have any consents needed from the Candidate to share it with us.
2.7 Data Security
You will implement reasonable safeguards to protect any information you download or export from the Platform, no less protective than those applied to your own confidential business information.
2.8 Role as Independent Data Controller
With respect to Job Descriptions, Candidate materials you submit, and your own hiring decisions, you act as an independent data controller and are responsible for your own compliance with data protection and employment law.
2.9 Suspension and Termination
We may suspend or terminate your account for breach of these Terms, non-payment, or suspected unlawful use, with notice where practicable. You may cancel your subscription per your Order Form.
3. Candidate Terms
This Section 3 applies to Candidates. Participation is entirely voluntary.
3.1 Voluntary Participation
You are under no obligation to use the Platform. You may decline an invitation or discontinue participation at any time. Whether declining affects your candidacy with a given Employer is a matter between you and that Employer.
3.2 Connecting Your Account
To participate, you connect your code hosting account through an authorization flow that operates entirely within that provider's own interface. This step establishes which repositories are available for you to use with the Platform; it does not, by itself, trigger any evaluation of any repository or transmit any repository content to us.
3.3 Designating a Repository for a Specific Brief
Separately, when an Employer requests a Brief, you choose which of your available repositories (up to a small number per request) you wish to use for that specific Brief. At this stage, only an identifier for the repository you designate is recorded. No code is retrieved, transmitted, or evaluated at this point, and nothing further happens until analysis is actually triggered as described in Section 3.4. If you do not designate a repository, no Brief is generated from that request.
3.4 Consent to Analysis
Only once analysis is actually triggered for a Designated Repository — which occurs in connection with a specific Employer's Brief request — does the Platform retrieve that repository's content, evaluate it using our internal analysis process, and produce Evidence. By designating a repository under Section 3.3, you consent to this evaluation. Specifically:
(a) Code is evaluated, not stored. The content of a Designated Repository is accessed only for the purpose of analysis, is not written to persistent storage, and is discarded immediately once analysis completes. (b) No external AI model evaluates your code. Analysis is performed by our own internal system. Your code is never provided to any third-party AI model, and is never used to train any model, for this or any other purpose. (c) The output is abstracted and one-way. The Evidence produced consists of derived measurements — such as indicators of structure, complexity, and demonstrated proficiency in particular areas — and does not include, and cannot be used to reconstruct, your source code or any underlying business logic. (d) AI is used only after this point, and only on the Evidence. A separate, limited process may be used to render the Evidence into readable narrative form for an Employer. That process operates only on the already-abstracted Evidence — never on your code — and any Brief provided to an Employer includes the underlying Evidence itself, not merely a narrative summary of it.
You may withdraw this consent at any time as described in Section 3.6. Withdrawal does not affect analysis already completed.
3.5 The Vault and Reuse
Once Evidence has been produced for a repository, it is retained in your Vault so it can be reused for future Brief requests without re-evaluating that repository again, until you request deletion under Section 3.7.
3.6 Disconnecting Your Account
You may disconnect the Platform's access to your repositories at any time, either directly through your code hosting provider's own settings or through the Candidate Portal. Disconnecting stops all future access and analysis. It does not, by itself, delete Evidence already produced before disconnection — see Section 3.7 to request deletion of that data.
3.7 Deletion of Vault Data
You may request deletion of your Vault data at any time through the Candidate Portal or by contacting info@16signals.com. We will process verified requests within 30 days. Deletion prevents future use of that Evidence but does not retroactively remove Briefs already delivered to an Employer before your request; those are subject to the Employer's own obligations under Section 2.
3.8 Candidate Self-View
Through the Candidate Portal, you may view a summary of your own Evidence. Certain sections generated for Employers, intended solely for internal Employer use, are not shown to you.
3.9 Requesting Re-Analysis
If you have made significant changes to a previously analyzed repository, you may request re-analysis through the Candidate Portal, which will replace the existing Evidence for that repository.
3.10 No Compensation
Participation is voluntary and uncompensated.
3.11 Accuracy and Good Faith
You agree not to manipulate repository content or activity for the purpose of fraudulently inflating your evaluation. We may disregard analysis we reasonably suspect was obtained through manipulation.
3.12 Termination
You may deactivate your Candidate account at any time. Deactivation alone does not delete Vault data; follow Section 3.7 to request deletion.
4. General Provisions
4.1 Intellectual Property
(a) Our IP. The Platform and all underlying technology, methodology, and outputs (excluding Employer- and Candidate-submitted content and Candidate source code) are owned by us or our licensors. No rights are granted except as expressly stated. (b) Employer Content. You retain ownership of Job Descriptions and materials you submit, and grant us a limited license to process them to provide the Platform to you. (c) Candidate Repository Content. You retain all ownership of your code. You grant us a limited, revocable license to access designated repository content solely to perform the analysis described in Section 3.4. We do not retain your code after analysis, as described there. (d) Feedback. Feedback you provide about the Platform may be used by us without restriction or obligation to you.
4.2 Third-party services
The platform integrates with third-party services, including your code hosting provider, whose own terms and privacy practices govern your relationship with them. We are not responsible for third-party services we do not control.
4.3 Disclaimer of warranties
The platform and all outputs are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express, implied, or statutory, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that any brief accurately or completely reflects a candidate's skills or suitability for any role. Employers are solely responsible for all hiring decisions.
4.4 Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law: (a) neither party will be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or loss of profits, revenue, data, or goodwill; and (b) our aggregate liability will not exceed the greater of (i) fees paid in the twelve (12) months preceding the claim, or (ii) one hundred u.s. dollars ($100). These limits do not apply to indemnification obligations, breaches of confidentiality, gross negligence or willful misconduct, or liability that cannot be limited by law.
4.5 Indemnification
(a) By Employer, for breach of Section 2 or hiring decisions you make. (b) By Candidate, for breach of Section 3, including misrepresentations about your right to designate a repository. (c) By Company, against third-party claims that the Platform, used as intended, infringes a third party's intellectual property rights, subject to customary exclusions.
4.6 Confidentiality
Each party will protect the other's non-public business information with reasonable care and use it solely to perform under these Terms.
4.7 Dispute Resolution; Arbitration
*[Jurisdiction-dependent; confirm enforceability against Candidates before finalizing.]* (a) Informal Resolution. Contact info@16signals.com and attempt good-faith resolution for at least 30 days before filing a claim. (b) Binding Arbitration. Except for small-claims or injunctive-relief claims regarding IP misuse, disputes will be resolved by binding arbitration administered by [JAMS/AAA] in [City, State]. (c) Class Action Waiver. Disputes will be resolved individually, not as part of a class or representative action, to the extent permitted by law. (d) Opt-Out. You may opt out by written notice to info@16signals.com within 30 days of first agreeing to these Terms.
4.8 Governing Law and Venue
Governed by the laws of [Governing Law State/Country]. Non-arbitrable disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of courts in [City, State].
4.9 Modifications to the Service
We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Platform at any time, with reasonable notice of material changes affecting core functionality.
4.10 Severability
If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect, and the unenforceable provision is modified to the minimum extent necessary.
4.11 Assignment
You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign in connection with a merger, acquisition, or asset sale.
4.12 Force Majeure
Neither party is liable for delay caused by events outside its reasonable control.
4.13 Entire Agreement
These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and any Order Form constitute the entire agreement between the parties.
4.14 Notices
Legal notices to us: info@16signals.com. We may notify you via your account email or in-app notification.
4.15 Survival
Sections 2.4, 2.5, 3.7, 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, and 4.8 survive termination.
4.16 Contact Us
info@16signals.com
*End of Terms of Service.*