RockGeo Terms of Service

1. Nature of the App — a support tool

RockGeo is a support tool for geological-geotechnical field mapping. It helps collect, organize, preliminarily calculate and visualize data. The App is not an engineering design, report, technical opinion or ART/RRT, nor does it replace the judgment of a legally qualified professional.

Every result generated by the App (including slope stability analyses, Factor of Safety, kinematic screening, 2D sections, stereonets, estimates and reports) is preliminary and indicative, intended for field screening, and must be verified, validated and signed by a qualified professional before any use, decision, design, publication or construction.

2. Technical and professional responsibility

2.1. The User is solely responsible for interpreting the data, checking the calculations and the decisions taken based on the App.

2.2. Stability analyses are preliminary and meant for initial field assessment. They do not certify stability and do not remove the need for detailed analyses by a multidisciplinary team and a qualified professional with formal technical responsibility (ART/RRT). Decisions involving safety of people, structures, slopes, hillsides, excavations or the environment require that detailed analysis.

2.3. Thard Tech is not liable for damages, losses, accidents, or material, environmental, bodily or economic harm resulting from the use, misuse, interpretation of, or reliance on the App's results, to the maximum extent permitted by law.

2.4. The calculation models are engineering simplifications and may contain limitations, approximations and errors. The User acknowledges and accepts them.

3. Artificial intelligence results

3.1. AI features may generate texts, summaries, reports and answers containing errors, omissions or inaccurate information.

3.2. All AI-generated content is a draft and must be reviewed by a qualified professional before any use. Thard Tech does not guarantee its accuracy, completeness or suitability.

4. ChatGPT integration (RockGeo Pro)

4.1. RockGeo offers an app for ChatGPT (OpenAI) that, read-only, queries the User's projects and field points and runs a slope stability calculation from parameters the User provides. Use requires an active RockGeo Pro subscription; without it, access may be refused or ended.

4.2. The integration's results are preliminary technical screening and do not replace the analysis of a licensed engineer or legally qualified professional (Clauses 1 and 2). ChatGPT-generated answers may contain errors and must be checked.

4.3. ChatGPT is an OpenAI service, subject to OpenAI's terms and policies. Data returned by the tools to ChatGPT is also processed by OpenAI, as described in the RockGeo Privacy Policy.

4.4. The User may disconnect the integration at any time in ChatGPT settings. Thard Tech may suspend or change the integration, including as required by the platform.

5. Third-party services, imagery and Google Earth Engine

5.1. The App may integrate third-party services (for example Google Earth Engine, Google Drive, map/tile providers and satellite imagery services). Access to them uses credentials, accounts and/or keys provided by the User.

5.2. The User is solely responsible for: (a) having valid access and authorization to those services; (b) complying with each service's terms and licenses, including any commercial licensing requirements; (c) any costs, charges, quotas and penalties applied by those services.

5.3. Thard Tech does not provide, resell or guarantee access to satellite imagery, base maps, cloud processing or third-party data, and is not liable for unavailability, account suspension, blocks, API changes, costs or terms violations of those services caused by the User's use.

5.4. Map attribution and licenses: when using online base maps, the User must respect the provider's attribution and license (for example “© OpenStreetMap contributors”, Esri, OpenTopoMap, Copernicus/Sentinel, USGS/Landsat).

6. Imported and exported data and coordinates

6.1. The App imports and converts files (Shapefile, KML/KMZ, GeoJSON, CSV, GeoTIFF and others) and may reproject coordinates. Conversions, reprojections and file reading may contain inaccuracies or errors depending on the source data, the reference system and the projection file (.prj).

6.2. The User is responsible for checking positional accuracy and consistency of imported, converted and exported data before any technical use.

7. Account, data and backup

7.1. The User is responsible for keeping credentials confidential and for all activity in their account.

7.2. The local database stays on the device; the User is responsible for keeping backups, and Thard Tech is not liable for data loss, backup failures, corruption, accidental deletion, device replacement/loss or uninstallation, to the maximum extent permitted by law.

7.3. Personal data processing follows the Privacy Policy, which is part of these Terms.

7.4. The User can delete the account and cloud data under Settings > Account & Subscription > Delete account and cloud data, or ask for help at suporte@thardtech.com.br. Backups, exports, shared files, data sent to external services and store subscriptions must be removed or cancelled directly in those services.

8. Subscription, payments and free plan

8.1. Part of the features is free; advanced features (“RockGeo Pro”) are unlocked by a subscription processed by Google Play (and the App Store, where applicable). Billing, renewal, cancellation and refunds follow the store's rules; Thard Tech does not process payments directly.

8.2. Unless required by law or store policy, amounts paid are non-refundable. Cancellation stops future renewals, keeping access until the end of the current period.

8.3. Thard Tech may change features, prices and plan composition, with notice where required by law, without prejudice to periods already purchased.

9. Permitted and prohibited use

9.1. The User agrees not to: (a) use the App for unlawful purposes; (b) violate third-party service terms; (c) reverse engineer, decompile or circumvent license/subscription mechanisms; (d) redistribute, resell or sublicense the App without authorization.

9.2. Breach may result in suspension or termination of access, without prejudice to other applicable measures.

10. Intellectual property

10.1. The App, its brand, code, layout and own content belong to Thard Tech and are protected by law. These Terms do not transfer to the User any intellectual property rights in the App.

10.2. Field data created by the User belongs to the User.

11. Disclaimer of warranties

The App is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, uninterrupted availability or absence of errors, to the maximum extent permitted by law.

12. Limitation of liability

12.1. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Thard Tech is not liable for indirect, incidental or special damages, lost profits, data loss, loss of revenue or consequential damages arising from the use of or inability to use the App.

12.2. If, despite the above, Thard Tech is held liable, total liability is limited to the amount actually paid by the User for the subscription in the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

12.3. The limitations in this clause do not apply where the law prohibits limitation (for example willful misconduct, fraud and non-waivable consumer rights).

13. Indemnification

The User agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Thard Tech from claims, losses and expenses (including fees) arising from: (a) misuse of the App; (b) breach of these Terms; (c) violation of third-party service terms/licenses; (d) technical decisions taken based on results without the professional validation required by Clauses 1, 2 and 4.

14. Changes to the Terms

Thard Tech may update these Terms. The current version shows its update date. Continued use after changes means acceptance of the revised version.

15. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federative Republic of Brazil. The consumer's domicile courts are elected for disputes where the Consumer Protection Code applies; otherwise, the courts of the district of Thard Tech's seat.

16. Contact

Thard Tech — CNPJ 67.141.076/0001-08
Support email: suporte@thardtech.com.br