TATTA BIO TERMS OF SERVICE
Updated: November 14, 2025
Definitions
The following terms are used throughout the Agreement, with the following definitions:
- “Account” represents your legal relationship with Tatta Bio and your authorization to log in to and use the Services in accordance with this Agreement. The Account serves as your identity on the Services.
- “Agreement” means, collectively, all the terms, conditions included or referenced in these Tatta Terms of Service (“Terms”) and all other applicable order forms, operating rules, policies (including the Tatta Privacy Notice, available at seqhub.org/privacy) and procedures that we may publish from time to time on the Site.
- “Beta Services” mean software, services, or features identified as alpha, beta, preview, early access, or evaluation, or words or phrases with similar meanings.
- “Content” means content featured or displayed through the Site, including without limitation code, text, data, articles, images, photographs, graphics, software, applications, packages, designs, features, and other materials that are available on the Site or otherwise available through the Services. “Content” also includes Services.
- “Freemium Account” means a free Account.
- “Paid Account” means an Account with monthly or annual billing.
- “Services” refers to the applications, software, products, and services provided by Tatta through the Site or other means, including any Beta Services.
- “Site” refers to Tatta's website located at tatta.bio, and any subdomains owned by Tatta, including but not limited to seqhub.org and gaia.tatta.bio, and all content, services, and products provided by Tatta on or through the Site. If those additional terms conflict with this Agreement, the more specific terms apply to the relevant website or service.
- “Tatta,” “We,” and “Us” refer to Tatta, as well as, where applicable, our affiliates, directors, subsidiaries, contractors, licensors, officers, agents, and employees.
- “User,” “You,” and “Your” refer to the individual person, company, or organization that has visited or is using the Site or Services; that accesses or uses any part of the Account; or that directs the use of the Account in the performance of its functions. A User must be at least 18 years of age.
- “User Submission” means text, biological sequence data, experiment metadata, other data, articles, images, graphics, AI feature input, and other materials that you create or own, and upload to the Services, such as protein sequences.
Account Terms
Account Creation.
You must provide your first name, last name, valid email address and professional or academic affiliation in order to complete the signup process. Subject to these Terms, you retain ultimate administrative control over your Account, User Submissions, and the use of Content within the Account.
Account Requirements.
The following is required for all Accounts:
- You must be a human to create an Account. Accounts registered by bots or other automated methods are not permitted.
- You may only create one Account per person, and your login may only be used by one person, meaning a single login may not be shared by multiple people.
- You must be at least 18 years of age (or the age of majority in the jurisdiction in which you reside) to use the Services. The Services are not intended for anyone under 18. If we learn of any User under the age of 18, we will terminate that User's Account immediately.
- You may not use the Services in violation of export control or sanctions laws of the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction. You may not use the Services if you are or are working on behalf of a Specially Designated National (SDN) or a person subject to similar blocking or denied party prohibitions administered by a U.S. government agency. Tatta may allow persons in certain sanctioned countries or territories to access certain Services pursuant to U.S. government authorizations.
Account Security.
You are responsible for:
- keeping your Account secure while you use our Services. We offer tools such as two-factor authentication to help you maintain your Account's security, but the content of your Account and its security are up to you.
- all content posted and activity that occurs under your Account (even when content is posted by others who have Accounts under your Account).
- maintaining the security of your Account and password. Tatta cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage from your failure to comply with this security obligation. You will promptly notify Tatta by contacting us at legal@tatta.bio if you become aware of any unauthorized use of, or access to, our Services through your Account, including any unauthorized use of your password or Account.
Acceptable Use
We want to ensure Users from all over the world are able to work together in our Services. Your use of the Site and Services must not violate any applicable laws, including copyright or trademark laws, export control or sanctions laws, or other applicable laws in your jurisdiction, and any guidelines, rules, standards, and other requirements set forth by us.
You further agree that you will not post or submit any User Submissions or use Services in a manner that: (1) is obscene, inappropriate, threatening, harassing, abusive, false, inaccurate, deceptive, libelous, defamatory, vulgar, pornographic, invasive of privacy or is otherwise injurious to third parties; (2) constitutes a criminal offense, gives rise to civil liability, or otherwise violates any local, state, national, or international law; (3) contains computer viruses, malware, (e.g., so-called time bomb, data mining, denial of service, distributed denial of service, software lock, drop dead device, malicious logic, worm, trap, back door, or software routine), bots, worms, Trojan horses or other harmful, disruptive, or destructive materials that interfere with or provide unauthorized access to, or limit the functionality of any computer software, hardware, or telecommunications equipment; (4) includes unsolicited advertisements, promotional materials, spam, junk mail, pyramid schemes or other forms of solicitation; (5) impersonates another person or entity or falsely states or misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity; (6) attempts to or disguises the origin of any User Submissions; (7) states or implies our endorsement of your content; (8) restricts or interferes with any other User's ability to use or enjoy the Services, as determined by us in our sole and absolute discretion; (9) tampers with postings, registration information, submissions or content of other people; (10) uses any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means or interface not provided by us to access the Services; (11) extracts data or gathers or uses information available through the Services through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Services; (12) infringes or alleges to be infringing upon a third-party's intellectual property rights, including any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other proprietary rights of any party, including, without limitation, any content that is the subject of any third-party claim of infringement; or (13) violates contractual or fiduciary relationships.
We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Services and seek other legal or equitable remedies, upon becoming aware of any violation of these Terms by you.
User Submissions
Responsibility for User Submissions.
You may create or upload User Submissions while using the Services. You are solely responsible for the content of, and for any harm resulting from, any User Submissions that you post, upload, link to or otherwise make available via the Services, regardless of the form of that User Submission. We are not responsible for any public display or misuse of your User Submissions. You may not upload any human clinical data or other data related to humans to the Services.
Right to remove User Submissions.
We have the right to refuse or remove any User Submissions that, in our sole discretion, violates any laws, these Terms or other Tatta terms or policies. You have the right at any time to delete your User Submissions; noting that the User Submissions made public by you may be used to train our AI (defined below) tools.
Ownership of User Submissions and License Grants.
You retain ownership of and responsibility for User Submissions. If you're posting anything you did not create yourself or do not own the rights to, you agree that you are responsible for any User Submissions you upload; that you will only submit User Submissions that you have the right to upload; and that you will fully comply with any third-party licenses relating to User Submissions you post. Because you retain ownership of and responsibility for User Submission, you agree to grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to provide you the Services and, if you make the User Submission public, you grant other Users certain licenses, as detailed in sections 4.3.1 and 4.3.2. You understand that you will not receive any payment for any of the rights granted in sections 4.3.1 and 4.3.2.
- License grant to Tatta. You grant Tatta and our legal successors the right to store, archive, parse, and display User Submissions to the extent such User Submissions are designated as public by you, and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Services, including improving the Services over time. This license includes, but is not limited to, the right to copy User Submissions to our database and make backups; make them visible to you and other Users; share them with other Users, perform inference in connection with AI features, and parse them into a search index or otherwise analyze them on our Services. This license does not grant Tatta the right to sell User Submissions, or otherwise distribute or use User Submission outside of our provision of the Services, except that as part of the right to archive User Submission, Tatta may permit our partners to store and archive User Submission in public repositories.
- License grant to other Users. Any User Submission you post publicly, including issues, comments, and contributions to other Users' repositories, may be viewed by others. By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and “fork” your repositories (this means that others may make their own copies of Content from your repositories in repositories they control). If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you grant each User a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform User Submission through the Services and to reproduce User Submission solely on the Services as permitted by the functionality of the Services. If you are uploading User Submissions you did not create or own, you are responsible for ensuring that the Content you upload is licensed under terms that grant these permissions to other Users.
Contributions Under Repository License.
Whenever you add User Submissions to a repository containing notice of a license, you license that User Submission under the same terms, and you agree that you have the right to license that User Submission under those terms. If you have a separate agreement to license that User Submission under different terms, such as a contributor license agreement, that agreement will supersede.
Moral Rights.
You retain all moral rights to User Submissions that you upload, publish, or submit to any part of the Services, including the rights of integrity and attribution. However, where allowed by law, you waive these rights and agree not to assert them against us, to enable us to reasonably exercise the rights granted in section 4.3.1, but not otherwise. To the extent these Terms are not enforceable by applicable law, you grant Tatta the rights we need to use User Submissions without attribution and to make reasonable adaptations of User Submissions as necessary to render the Site and provide the Services.
Private Repositories
Control of Private Repositories.
Some Accounts may have private repositories, which allow the User to control access to Content.
Confidentiality of Private Repositories.
Tatta considers the contents of private repositories to be confidential to you. Tatta will protect the contents of private repositories from unauthorized use, access, or disclosure in the same manner that we would use to protect our own confidential information of a similar nature and in no event with less than a reasonable degree of care.
Access.
Tatta personnel may only access the content of your private repositories in the situations described in our Privacy Statement.
- You may choose to enable additional access to your private repositories. For example you may enable various Tatta services or features that require additional rights to User Submission in private repositories. These rights may vary depending on the service or feature, but Tatta will continue to treat your private repository Content as confidential. If those services or features require rights in addition to those we need to provide the Services, we will provide an explanation of those rights.
- Additionally, we may be compelled by law to disclose the contents of your private repositories. Tatta will provide notice regarding our access to private repository content, unless for legal disclosure, to comply with our legal obligations, or where otherwise bound by requirements under law, for automated scanning, or if in response to a security threat or other risk to security.
Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy
If you believe that content on our Site violates your copyright, please contact us in accordance with our Digital Millennium Copyright Act Policy. If you are a copyright owner and you believe that content on our Site violates your rights, please contact us by emailing legal@tatta.bio. There may be legal consequences for sending a false or frivolous takedown notice, including but not limited to termination of an Account. Before sending a takedown request, you must consider legal uses such as fair use and licensed uses.
Intellectual Property
Tatta and our licensors, vendors, agents, and/or our content providers retain ownership of all intellectual property rights of any kind related to the Site, Services, and Content. We reserve all rights that are not expressly granted to you under this Agreement or by law. The look and feel of the Site and Services is copyright ©Tatta Bio. All rights reserved. You may not duplicate, copy, or reuse any portion of the HTML/CSS, JavaScript, or visual design elements or concepts without express written permission from Tatta. You may not use our logos or trademarks without our express written approval.
We may offer the ability for you to download Content from the Services (“Exports”), and grant you a limited, perpetual, worldwide, right to use such Exports in your scientific publications and presentations, and sharing them on social media. When using Exports you must include the export date and cite Tatta either using a specific export URL, if available, or citing our full name in your publication. If the Export includes a watermark, you agree to cite Tatta if you remove the watermark from the Export.
Use of AI and Open Source
You acknowledge that Tatta may use Open Source technologies in the Services.
You acknowledge that Content may be generated using artificial intelligence (“AI”) features powered by third party providers or by Tatta internally. Any third-party providers that act as a data processor of your personal data have entered into appropriate agreements with Tatta to protect your personal data. You acknowledge that any AI features provided by Tatta as part of the Services are designed to assist users in generating content, but may not always be error-free. Tatta does not guarantee and is not responsible for the completeness, accuracy, legality or reliability of any generated content.
You agree to review and where required make appropriate changes to any content generated using the AI features before further use. You are responsible for any inputs that you provide for the AI features and any use of generated content (“Output”) including with respect to any potential infringement of third-party rights, violation of applicable laws and unethical uses such as online abuse and dis/misinformation. Tatta disclaims any liability for any loss, damage or harm resulting from the use of generated content. Tatta grants you a perpetual, royalty-free license to use the Output for commercial purposes.
Tatta may restrict, limit or deprecate any AI features in its sole discretion (including, but not limited to, where Tatta determines that your usage interferes with or disrupts the Services).
Beta Services
This section governs your use of Beta Services. Beta Services are offered “as-is” to allow testing and evaluation and are excluded from any indemnification obligations Tatta may have to you.
Tatta makes no representations or warranties for Beta Services, including any warranty that Beta Services will be generally available, uninterrupted, or error-free, or that Content or User Submissions will be secure or not lost or damaged. Except to the extent prohibited by law, Tatta expressly disclaims all warranties for Beta Services, including any implied warranties of merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or quiet enjoyment, and any warranties arising out of any course of dealing or usage of trade.
Beta Services may not be supported and may be changed at any time without notice.
Confidentiality
As a User, you may get access to information that isn't available to the rest of the world. Due to the sensitive nature of this information, it's important for us to make sure that you keep that information secret. You agree that any non-public information we give you, such as information about our services or business, will be considered Tatta's confidential information (collectively, “Confidential Information”), regardless of whether it is marked or identified as such. You should use the same degree of care as you would with your own confidential information, but no less than reasonable precautions to prevent any unauthorized use, disclosure, publication, or dissemination of our Confidential Information. You promise not to disclose, publish, or disseminate any Confidential Information to any third party.
Confidential Information will not include information that is: (a) or becomes publicly available without breach of this Agreement through no act or inaction on your part; (b) known to you before we disclose it to you; (c) independently developed by you without breach of any confidentiality obligation to us or any third party; or (d) disclosed with Tatta's permission. You will not violate the terms of this Agreement if you are required to disclose Confidential Information pursuant to operation of law, provided Tatta has been given reasonable advance written notice to object, unless prohibited by law.
Feedback.
Tatta aims to continuously improve the Services, and your feedback as a User will help us in our efforts. If you choose to provide us any ideas, know-how, algorithms, contributions, suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations or any other feedback for our Services (collectively, “Feedback”), you acknowledge and agree that Tatta will have a royalty-free, fully paid-up, worldwide, transferable, sub-licensable, irrevocable and perpetual license to implement, use, modify, commercially exploit and/or incorporate the Feedback into our products, services, and documentation.
Payment
Pricing.
Our pricing and payment terms are available on our Site. If you sign up to a Paid Account, the price (“Fees”) will remain fixed for the duration of the payment term; however, prices are subject to change at the end of a payment term.
Upgrades.
We will bill you the Fees within 15 days from when you upgrade from a Freemium Account to a Paid Account. If you change your Paid Account from a monthly billing plan to a yearly billing plan, we will bill you the Fees for a full year at the next monthly billing date within 15 days from the change. If you exceed the usage limit on your Account you will automatically be upgraded to a higher tier, and we will bill you for the upgraded plan immediately.
Billing Schedule; No Refunds.
The Fees are billed in advance on a monthly or yearly basis respectively and are non-refundable. There will be no refunds or credits for partial months of service, or refunds for months unused with an open Account; however, the service will remain active for the length of the paid billing period.
Authorization.
By agreeing to these Terms, you are giving us and our payment partners, including Stripe, permission to charge your on-file credit card, or other approved methods of payment for Fees that you authorize.
Responsibility for Payment.
You are responsible for all fees, including taxes, associated with your use of the Services. By using the Services, you agree to pay Tatta any charge incurred in connection with your use of the Services. If you dispute the matter, contact us at legal@tatta.bio. You are responsible for providing us with a valid means of payment for Paid Accounts. Freemium Accounts are not required to provide payment information.
Cancellation and Termination
Account Cancellation.
It is your responsibility to properly cancel or delete your Account. You can cancel your Account at any time by logging into your Account.
Upon Cancellation.
Taking into account our Privacy Notice, we will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements, but barring legal requirements, we will delete your full profile, your User Submissions and the Content of your repositories within 90 days of cancellation or termination (though some information may remain in encrypted backups). This information cannot be recovered once your Account is canceled.
We will not delete Content that you have contributed to other Users' repositories or that other Users have forked. Upon request, we will make a reasonable effort to provide you as the Account owner with a copy of your lawful, non-infringing User Submissions after Account cancellation, termination, or downgrade. You must make this request within 90 days of cancellation, termination, or downgrade.
Termination by Tatta.
Tatta has the right to suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Site or Services at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. Tatta reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.
Survival.
All provisions of this Agreement which, by their nature, should survive termination will survive termination, including without limitation ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity, and limitations of liability.
Disclaimer of Warranties
Tatta provides the Site and the Services “as is” and “as available,” without warranty of any kind. Without limiting the foregoing, we expressly disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied or statutory, regarding the Site and the Services including without limitation any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, security, accuracy and non-infringement.
Tatta does not warrant that the Services will meet your requirements; that the Services will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; that the information provided through the Services is accurate, reliable or correct; that any defects or errors will be corrected; that the Services will be available at any particular time or location; or that the Services are free of viruses or other harmful components. You assume full responsibility and risk of loss resulting from your downloading and/or use of files, information, content or other material obtained from the Services.
Limitation of Liability
You understand and agree that we will not be liable to you or any third party for any loss of profits, use, goodwill, or data, or for any incidental, indirect, special, consequential or exemplary damages, however arising, that result from:
- the use, disclosure, or display of User Submissions;
- your use or inability to use the Services;
- any modification, price change, suspension or discontinuance of the Services;
- the Services generally or the software or systems that make the Services available;
- unauthorized access to or alterations of your transmissions or data;
- statements or conduct of any third party on the Services;
- any other user interactions that you input or receive through your use of the Services;
- any other matter relating to the Services.
Our liability is limited whether or not we have been informed of the possibility of such damages, and even if a remedy set forth in this Agreement is found to have failed of its essential purpose. Tatta will have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond our reasonable control. For Freemium Accounts Tatta's liability is excluded. For Paid Accounts Tatta's liability is limited to USD 1,000. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU MAY BE WAIVING RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO CLAIMS THAT ARE AT THIS TIME UNKNOWN OR UNSUSPECTED, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH WAIVER, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND, AND HEREBY EXPRESSLY WAIVE, THE BENEFITS OF SECTION 1542 OF THE CIVIL CODE OF CALIFORNIA, AND ANY SIMILAR LAW OF ANY STATE OR TERRITORY. BECAUSE SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW FOR THE EXCLUSION OF DAMAGES, OUR LIABILITY IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE LAWS OF SUCH JURISDICTION.
Indemnification and Release
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold Tatta and our directors, affiliates, agents and assigns harmless from and against any and all claims, liabilities, and expenses, including attorneys' fees, arising out of your use of the Site and the Services, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement, provided that Tatta (1) promptly gives you written notice of the claim, demand, suit or proceeding; (2) gives you sole control of the defense and settlement of the claim, demand, suit or proceeding; and (3) provides to you all reasonable assistance, at your expense. You may not without our approval settle any claim, demand, suit or proceeding unless the settlement unconditionally releases Tatta of all liability.
If you have a dispute with one or more Users, you agree to release Tatta from any and all claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes
Changes to These Terms
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to amend these Terms at any time. We will update these Terms in the event of any such amendments and publish the current version on our Site. In case of material changes to these Terms we will notify our Users at least 30 days prior to the change taking effect by posting a notice on our Site or sending email to the primary email address specified in your Account. Your continued use of the Services after those 30 days constitutes agreement to those revisions of these Terms.
We reserve the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Site (or any part of it) with or without notice.
Miscellaneous
Governing Law.
Except to the extent applicable law provides otherwise, these Terms and this Agreement between you and Tatta and any access to or use of the Site or the Services are governed by the federal laws of the United States of America and the laws of the State of Massachusetts, without regard to conflict of law provisions. You and Tatta agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts located in the City of Boston, Massachusetts.
Electronic Communications.
For contractual purposes, the parties consent to electronic communications via the email. Communications to you will be sent to the email address you have saved on your Account, or via the Services. Communications to Tatta will be sent to legal@tatta.bio. The Parties agree that all Term, agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications provided electronically satisfy any legal requirements that those communications would satisfy if they were on paper. This section does not affect the parties' non-waivable rights.
Assignment.
Tatta may assign or delegate this Agreement, in whole or in part, to any person or entity at any time with or without your consent. You may not assign or delegate any rights or obligations under this Agreement without Tatta's prior written consent, and any unauthorized assignment and delegation by you is void.
Section Headings and Summaries.
Throughout this Agreement, each section includes titles and brief summaries of the following terms and conditions. These section titles and brief summaries are not legally binding.
Severability, No Waiver, and Survival.
If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that portion of the Agreement will be construed to reflect the parties' original intent. The remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. Any failure on the part of Tatta to enforce any provision of this Agreement will not be considered a waiver of our right to enforce such provision. Our rights under this Agreement will survive any termination of this Agreement.
Complete Agreement.
This Agreement represent the complete and exclusive agreement between you and us. This Agreement supersedes any proposal or prior agreement oral or written, and any other communications between you and Tatta relating to the subject matter of these terms including any confidentiality or nondisclosure agreements.
Questions.
If you have any questions about these Terms, please email us at team@tatta.bio.