The terms for the site and the waitlist.

These terms are an agreement between you and Civic Pulse LLC (“we”, “us”) for the CivicStack website and its early-access waitlist. By using the site or joining the waitlist you accept them, together with the Privacy Policy, which is part of them. If you do not agree, do not use the site.

Who may use it

You must be at least 18 years old. If you join on behalf of a company or agency, you confirm that you may bind it to these terms, and “you” includes it.

What the site is today

CivicStack is a search and intelligence layer over New York public-procurement records. Right now it is a waitlist. Joining the waitlist reserves nothing and costs nothing: it records your interest and lets us invite you when early access opens. We decide who is invited, in what order, and when, and we may change or withdraw the waitlist at any time.

Pricing shown on the site

Tier names, features, and prices describe what we plan to offer. They are not an offer to sell and may change before launch. You will not be charged anything unless you later agree to a separate subscription agreement.

The numbers on the site

Figures shown with a source and an as-of date come from public records (Checkbook NYC, PASSPort, the New York State Contract Reporter, and other government sources named on the page) as we last read them. Public records contain errors, arrive late, and are revised; we show the source and the date so you can check them, and we correct what we are shown to be wrong (see Corrections). Panels marked “illustration” show how the product works and carry no real figures. Nothing on the site is legal, financial, tax, or procurement advice, and you should not rely on it as the sole basis for a bid, a contract, or a legal position.

Acceptable use

• Give us a real email address that you control, and only your own.
• Do not submit someone else’s address, use the form to send mail to third parties, or try to get around the limits that keep it honest.
• Do not scrape, crawl, or copy the site by automated means, other than a public search engine indexing it in the ordinary way.
• Do not probe, overload, reverse engineer, or interfere with the site or its infrastructure, or try to read data that is not shown to you.
• Do not use anything on the site to harass, defame, or mislead, or to pass off our figures as your own analysis without saying where they came from.

If you break these rules we may remove your entry and block your access, with or without notice.

Your data and our emails

How we handle what you give us is in the Privacy Policy. By joining you agree to receive, by email, a confirmation of your entry and, later, a note when your invite is ready. Every email we send carries a one-click unsubscribe and our postal address. We do not send marketing to the waitlist beyond those messages.

The profile questions

After you give us an email address, we ask a few questions: your company, your role, whether you sell to government, how many public contracts you hold, and an optional note about a contract term. Answering is voluntary. Skipping any of them keeps your place on the list. By answering, you agree that we store your answers with your entry and use them for two things only: deciding who gets early access first, and deciding what to build. We do not sell them, share them with other companies, or use them to send you anything other than the messages above. You can change your answers from the link in your confirmation email, and you can ask us to delete your entry at any time at hello@civicstack.co.

Ownership

The site’s text, design, code, and the CivicStack and Civic Pulse names belong to Civic Pulse LLC or its licensors. Public records remain public: we claim no rights in the government data we display, and you may use the figures we show for any lawful purpose, with attribution to the source and the date. Names of agencies, vendors, and other companies belong to their owners and appear only to identify them.

Other sites

We link to government data portals and to other Civic Pulse sites. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content or their handling of your data.

No warranty

The site and the waitlist are provided as-is and as-available, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of public-record data. We do not promise that the site will be uninterrupted or error-free.

Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, Civic Pulse LLC is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of business, revenue, profits, or data, arising from the site, the waitlist, or your reliance on anything shown on them, even if we were told it might happen. Our total liability for all claims together is limited to one hundred US dollars. Some places do not allow some of these limits; where that is so, they apply only as far as the law permits.

Your responsibility

If someone brings a claim against us because you broke these terms or the law while using the site, you will cover the costs and damages that result, including reasonable legal fees.

Disputes

If you have a problem with us, write to hello@civicstack.co first; most things are fixed that way, and we ask for 30 days to try. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute that is not resolved informally is heard exclusively in the state or federal courts located in the State of New York, and you consent to their jurisdiction. Each of us waives any right to a jury trial, to the extent the law allows.

Assignment

We may assign these terms, and the waitlist entries they govern, to a successor entity (for example a corporation formed to continue this business) without your further consent. We will tell you when that happens. You may not assign them.

Housekeeping

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we do not enforce a term once, we may still enforce it later. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the site and the waitlist. Notices to you go to the email address on your entry; notices to us go to hello@civicstack.co.

Changes

We may update these terms. The effective date above changes when we do, and material changes are emailed to the waitlist before they take effect. Continuing to use the site after that is acceptance of the new terms.

Contact

Civic Pulse LLC, hello@civicstack.co. See also the Accessibility statement and Legal notices.