Buried Treasure EULA
END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT
Version 1.0 Date: 23 June 2025
PLEASE READ THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SOFTWARE. YOUR RIGHT TO USE THIS SOFTWARE IS GOVERNED BY THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT.
USING THIS SOFTWARE INDICATES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS, DO NOT USE OR ENTER ANY DATA INTO THIS SOFTWARE.
This is a legal agreement (“Agreement”) between you (“you”, the “Licensee”) and Land Quality Management Ltd. (the “Licensor”, “us”, “we” or “our”).
This Agreement applies to Buried Treasure available via bt.lqm.co.uk (“Software”) and associated documentation (“Documentation”).
You agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement and any other terms which we may publish from time to time. The terms of this licence may be modified by us at any time and your continued use of the Software and Documentation after publication of any modification shall be an acceptance of such modification.
The Software and Documentation are proprietary products of the Land Quality Management Ltd. and are protected by copyright and other laws governing intellectual property.
Title to the copyright and intellectual property in the Software and Documentation, and any copy, modification or merged portion of them or either of them shall at all times be and remain ours, and you shall have no right, title or interest in them, except as expressly set out in this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall restrict our rights.
1. Licence
1.1 Permissions: Subject to this Agreement, we hereby grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, terminable licence to use the Software and Documentation for your own business purposes subject to the following conditions (“Licence”):
1.2 Licence Restrictions
Limitations on use: You must not, nor permit others to:
1.2.1 Sell, rent, lease, lend, transmit, sub-licence, or otherwise transfer or distribute any copies of the Software or Documentation to others, or make the Software and Documentation available on the internet;
1.2.2 reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify, merge, adapt or otherwise attempt to discover the source code, or create derivative works based on the Software except as permitted by law;
1.2.3 make copies of the Software and Documentation in whole or in part;
1.2.4 distribute the Software and Documentation;
1.2.5 adapt, modify, delete or translate the Software and Documentation in any way for any purpose whatsoever;
1.2.6 alter, destroy or otherwise remove any proprietary notices or labels on the Software or Documentation;
1.2.7 avoid, circumvent or disable any security mechanism, procedure or protocol, or any copyright protection, provided or included in connection with the Software;
1.2.8 use the Software other than for its permitted uses and intended purpose, the intended purpose being to extract data from borehole logs or certificates of analysis; or
1.2.9 use the Software for any criminal or corrupt purpose or in a manner that violates any applicable law.
1.3 If you do any of the foregoing, your Licence is automatically terminated; such termination shall be in addition to and not instead of any criminal, civil or other remedies available to us.
1.4 Use of the Software and Documentation for any purposes other than those set out above is prohibited without our express prior written agreement. Any permission granted may be subject to a fee. To apply for permission, please contact: Land Quality Management, The Sir Colin Campbell Building, University of Nottingham Innovation Park, Triumph Road, Nottingham, NG7 2TU
2. Term and termination
2.1 This Agreement shall commence as soon as you use or enter any data into the Software. You may terminate this Agreement at any time by deleting your account, if that functionality is available or by writing to us to request that we delete your account. All sections of this Agreement, with the exception of the permissions provided under Section 1 (Licence) shall survive termination of this Agreement.
3. No warranty
3.1 The Software is provided on an “as-is” basis and with no warranties, express or implied, of any kind and we disclaim any implied warranties to the fullest extent permitted by law. We do not make any representations nor give any warranties as to the content, accuracy, completeness, quality, merchantability, noninfringement, as well those arising from any course of dealing, usage or trade practice, fitness for purpose, performance or freedom from errors of the Software and Documentation.
3.2 We do not make any representations nor give any warranties that the Software will meet your requirements or that its operation will be uninterrupted or error-free, that it is free of viruses, trojan horses, software locks, spyware or any other similar defects or effects of using the Software, or as to any conflict or damage to any of your hardware or software, or that the Software will be compatible with your hardware or software.
4. No other obligations
4.1 This Agreement creates no obligations on the part of the Licensor other than as specifically set out in this Agreement. Specifically, and without limitation, this Agreement creates no training, maintenance or service obligations.
5. Limitation of liability
5.1 Any liability of the Licensor in respect of the Software and Documentation will be limited to refund of purchase price (if any).
5.2 In the event we offer you a refund this will be at our sole discretion as a goodwill gesture and does not imply acceptance of any liability. This does not affect any statutory rights you may have.
5.3 We exclude all liability whatsoever, to the fullest extent permitted by law, in respect of any and all loss or damage of any kind arising from or out of the use or inability to use or the unavailability of the Software and Documentation and the information and material contained in them or your use of the Software and Documentation for any purposes other than the intended uses set out in Section 1. In no event shall we or any of our officers, employees, agents or contractors be liable to you or any other person for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss or damage (in each case including but not limited to damages for computer failure or malfunction, loss of data or data being rendered inaccurate, or failure of the Software to operate with other computer programs or any loss of profits, loss of contracts, business opportunity, revenue, goodwill, or anticipated savings, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages or loss) of any kind arising out of the use or inability to use or unavailability of the Software or Documentation, whether resulting from tort (including negligence) breach of contract, product liability or other form of action, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
5.4 Artificial intelligence is used to automatically extract text, data, and structured information from uploaded PDF documents. You acknowledge that AI can make mistakes and it is your responsibility to review the extracted data.
5.5 You accept all responsibility for your use of the Software and Documentation and agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any liability or claim of any person or organisation arising from your use of the Software and Documentation. In no event do we authorise you to use the Software in applications or systems where it or your failure to perform can reasonably be expected to result in physical injury, or in loss of life. Any use by you is entirely at your own risk, and you agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claims or losses relating to such unauthorised use.
5.6 You use the Software entirely at your own risk, and where you rely on any information or other material contained in the Software and Documentation, or output from the Software, you do so entirely at your own risk.
6. Confidentiality
6.1. Software and Documentation
6.1.1 You acknowledge that the Software and Documentation and other materials supplied by us to you are owned by us and shall be treated as confidential information. You agree that (i) you will not use this confidential information in any way not expressly permitted by this Agreement, (ii) you will not disclose this confidential information to anyone other than to your own employees who require access, (iii) you shall maintain and protect the confidentiality of this information and shall keep the Software and Documentation, and any other materials supplied under this Agreement in whatever format (including but not limited to machine-readable form) under restrictions for access and use that are no less restrictive than those applied to your most valuable and sensitive information, and (iv) that you will take all additional necessary and proper precautions to prevent any unauthorised use or disclosure of this confidential information. You agree to notify us in writing immediately of any unauthorised possession or use of the Software, Documentation or other materials or information supplied or made available to you under this Agreement by any third party.
6.1.2 You acknowledge that any breach of your obligations concerning confidentiality will subject us to immediate and irreparable harm for which money damages would not adequately compensate and, accordingly, you hereby consent to the granting of injunctive relief (whether preliminary, temporary or permanent) against it without the posting of bond or other security or proof of damages.
6.2 Your Document Data
6.2.1 Your Document Data comprises:
· Documents you upload for processing
· Extracted data viewable on the Site
· Downloadable data
6.2.2 Your Document Data is yours and we claim no rights over it.
6.2.3 You understand that we will process Your Document Data in order to provide you with the service from Buried Treasure. You understand Your Document Data will be sent to our Third Party Providers as further set out in our privacy policy.
6.2.4 Subject to 6.2.3 we will treat Your Document Data as confidential. We will not, without your consent, disclose Your Document Data to any third party other than our officers, directors, employees, contractors, services providers or affiliated entities who need to access Your Document Data in order to provide the service from Buried Treasure. We will not, without your consent, use Your Document Data to train our own AI models.
7. Third Party Software
7.1 You understand and acknowledge that to the extent that proper operation of the Software requires the use of any software developed, owned or marketed by third parties ("Third-Party Software"), you must obtain your own separate licence for such Third-Party Software at your own expense.
8. Severability
8.1 If any provision of this Agreement is held to be void, unlawful or unenforceable, then that part shall be deemed to have been severed from this Agreement and the remaining provisions shall remain valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permissible by law.
9. Modification and amendment
9.1 We may make changes to or update the Software and Documentation from time to time without notice and without obligation to do so.
9.2 We may update this EULA from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices, or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
10. Governing law and jurisdiction
10.1 This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.