Last updated 2026-06-23

AGREEMENT TO OUR LEGAL TERMS

These Legal Terms govern your use of ThesisCheck, a service operated by Hiestand Digital ("Company," "we," "us," "our").

We operate the website https://thesischeck.com (the "Site"), as well as any other related products and services that refer or link to these legal terms (the "Legal Terms") (collectively, the "Services").

You can contact us using the contact details in the Contact us section below.

These Legal Terms constitute a legally binding agreement made between you and the Company concerning your access to and use of the Services. You agree that by accessing the Services, you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by all of these Legal Terms. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THESE LEGAL TERMS, THEN YOU ARE EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED FROM USING THE SERVICES AND YOU MUST DISCONTINUE USE IMMEDIATELY.

We will provide you with prior notice of any scheduled material changes to the Services you are using where required by applicable law. Changes to these Legal Terms will become effective when posted or when otherwise stated in the notice. By continuing to use the Services after the effective date of any changes, you agree to be bound by the modified terms. If you disagree with such changes, you may stop using the Services and, where applicable, terminate your account.

The Services are intended for users who are at least 18 years old. Persons under the age of 18 are not permitted to use or register for the Services.

We recommend that you print a copy of these Legal Terms for your records.

1. OUR SERVICES

ThesisCheck provides source-checked, descriptive company-research briefs. You submit a stock ticker and your own investment thesis; we retrieve public company filings and other public sources and produce a structured brief that checks your thesis across defined diligence areas, including a forced bear case and a coverage audit of what is and isn't supported, with a dated, clickable source on each fact. The Services are informational and descriptive only and are not investment advice. The information on the Services is not intended for distribution to, or use by, any person in any jurisdiction where such use would be contrary to law or would subject us to any registration requirement. Those who access the Services from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local law.

2. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Our intellectual property

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Services, including all source code, databases, functionality, software, website designs, audio, video, text, photographs, and graphics in the Services (collectively, the "Content"), as well as the trademarks, service marks, and logos contained therein (the "Marks").

Our Content and Marks are protected by copyright and trademark laws, intellectual property rights, unfair competition laws, and treaties in Switzerland, the United States, and around the world.

The Content and Marks are provided in or through the Services "AS IS" for your personal or internal business purposes in connection with the Services.

Your use of our Services

Subject to your compliance with these Legal Terms, including the "PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES" section below, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Services and to download or print Content to which you have properly gained access, in each case for your personal or internal business purposes in connection with the Services.

Except as expressly permitted by the Services, and except as set out in this section or elsewhere in our Legal Terms, no part of the Services and no Content or Marks may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever without our express prior written permission.

If you wish to make any use of the Services, Content, or Marks other than as set out in this section or elsewhere in our Legal Terms, please address your request using the contact details below. If we ever grant you permission to post, reproduce, or publicly display any part of our Services or Content, you must identify us as the owners or licensors of the Services, Content, or Marks and ensure that any copyright or proprietary notice appears or is visible on posting, reproducing, or displaying our Content.

We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you in and to the Services, Content, and Marks.

Any breach of these Intellectual Property Rights will constitute a material breach of our Legal Terms and your right to use our Services will terminate immediately.

Customer content and feedback

Customer Content: "Customer Content" means investment thesis text, prompts, stock tickers, generated briefs, comments, feedback, account information, and other materials that you submit to, generate in, store in, or transmit through the Services. You retain ownership of Customer Content.

You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, process, copy, transmit, display, format, and otherwise use Customer Content only as necessary to provide, secure, maintain, support, and improve the Services for you, to comply with law, to enforce these Legal Terms, and to prevent fraud, abuse, or security incidents. We may make Customer Content available to our service providers only as described in the Privacy Policy.

We do not sell Customer Content. We do not use Customer Content for advertising. We do not use Customer Content to train or improve our own or any third party's AI models.

Feedback: If you send us comments, suggestions, ideas, or other feedback about the Services, you grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use that feedback to improve and promote the Services without restriction or compensation to you. Feedback does not include Customer Content.

Your responsibility: You are responsible for Customer Content and feedback you submit through the Services. You represent and warrant that you have all rights, consents, and permissions necessary to submit and process Customer Content through the Services. You must not submit Customer Content or feedback that is illegal, harmful, defamatory, infringing, misleading, market-manipulative, or otherwise violates these Legal Terms.

Moderation and access restrictions: We may remove, restrict, or disable access to Customer Content or feedback if we reasonably believe it violates these Legal Terms, infringes third-party rights, creates security or legal risk, or is otherwise required by law. We may also suspend or disable the related account where appropriate.

3. USER REPRESENTATIONS

By using the Services, you represent and warrant that: (1) all registration information you submit will be true, accurate, current, and complete; (2) you will maintain the accuracy of such information and promptly update such registration information as necessary; (3) you have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with these Legal Terms; (4) you are not a minor in the jurisdiction in which you reside; (5) you will not access the Services through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script, or otherwise, except where we expressly permit it; (6) you will not use the Services for any illegal or unauthorized purpose; (7) your use of the Services will not violate any applicable law or regulation; and (8) you have all rights, consents, and permissions necessary for any content you submit.

If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, we have the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Services.

4. USER REGISTRATION

You may be required to register to use the Services. You agree to keep your login credentials confidential and will be responsible for all use of your account. We reserve the right to remove, reclaim, or change a username you select if we determine, in our sole discretion, that such username is inappropriate, obscene, or otherwise objectionable.

5. PURCHASES AND PAYMENT

We offer paid access to the Services, which may be sold as one-time credit purchases and/or recurring subscriptions; prices are shown at checkout. Payments are processed by our third-party payment processor (Stripe), and by purchasing you also agree to the processor's terms. You agree to provide current, complete, and accurate purchase and account information. All amounts are in the currency shown at checkout and you are responsible for applicable taxes. Credits and paid features are licensed, not sold, and are governed by these Terms and the plan description at checkout. Refunds, where offered, are governed by the refund policy in effect at the time of purchase and by applicable mandatory consumer law.

6. SUBSCRIPTIONS

Billing and renewal

If you buy a recurring subscription, your subscription will continue and automatically renew unless canceled. You consent to our charging your payment method on a recurring basis without requiring your prior approval for each recurring charge until you cancel the applicable order. The length of your billing cycle will depend on the subscription plan shown at checkout.

Cancellation

You can cancel your subscription through the account or billing settings made available in the Services, or by contacting us using the contact details below. Unless otherwise stated at checkout or required by mandatory law, cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid term and you keep access until then.

Consumer withdrawal rights

If you are a consumer habitually resident in the EU/EEA or another jurisdiction with mandatory digital-service withdrawal rights, you may have statutory rights to withdraw from a purchase. Because the Services are supplied digitally and may be made available to you immediately, you may be asked at checkout to consent to immediate performance and acknowledge the legal effect of that consent. Nothing in these Legal Terms limits mandatory consumer rights that cannot be waived.

Fee changes

We may, from time to time, make changes to subscription fees or paid plans and will communicate any price changes to you in accordance with applicable law.

7. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES

You may not access or use the Services for any purpose other than that for which we make the Services available. You may not use the Services for any unlawful purpose or in any manner not permitted by these Legal Terms.

As a user of the Services, you agree not to:

Systematically retrieve data or other content from the Services to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us.
Trick, defraud, or mislead us or other users, especially in any attempt to learn sensitive account information such as login credentials.
Circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Services, including features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of Content or enforce limitations on the use of the Services.
Disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us or the Services.
Use any information obtained from the Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person.
Make improper use of our support services or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct.
Use the Services in a manner inconsistent with any applicable laws or regulations.
Use the Services to create, distribute, promote, or support market manipulation, securities fraud, misleading investment promotions, or other unlawful financial activity.
Upload or submit false, fabricated, misleading, or unlawful investment thesis text for the purpose of generating misleading research.
Engage in unauthorized framing of or linking to the Services.
Upload or transmit viruses, Trojan horses, or other material that interferes with any party's uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the Services or modifies, impairs, disrupts, alters, or interferes with the use, features, functions, operation, or maintenance of the Services.
Use scripts, bots, crawlers, scrapers, data-mining tools, or similar automated methods to access the Services except where expressly permitted by us in writing.
Delete copyright or other proprietary rights notices from any Content.
Attempt to impersonate another user or person or use the username of another user.
Interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on the Services or the networks or services connected to the Services.
Attempt to bypass any measures of the Services designed to prevent or restrict access to the Services, or any portion of the Services.
Copy or adapt the Services' software, including code or functionality used to provide the Services.
Except as permitted by applicable law, decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Services.
Use the Services as part of any effort to compete with us or otherwise use the Services or Content for any revenue-generating endeavor or commercial enterprise without our prior written permission.

8. CUSTOMER CONTENT RESPONSIBILITIES

You are responsible for the investment thesis text and other Customer Content you submit, generate, send, or store through the Services. You represent and warrant that:

you have the necessary rights, consents, permissions, and legal basis to submit and process Customer Content through the Services;
Customer Content does not infringe any intellectual property, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, trade secret, or other third-party right;
Customer Content is not illegal, false, misleading, defamatory, abusive, harassing, discriminatory, sexually explicit, exploitative, market-manipulative, or otherwise harmful;
Customer Content does not contain malware, unauthorized tracking, or material intended to compromise the Services or any third-party system; and
you will not use the Services to process or disclose personal data unless you have obtained all consents and notices required by applicable law.

Any use of the Services in violation of the foregoing violates these Legal Terms and may result in termination or suspension of your rights to use the Services.

9. CUSTOMER CONTENT LICENSE

You retain ownership of Customer Content. You grant ThesisCheck a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, process, copy, transmit, display, format, modify for technical or formatting purposes, and otherwise use Customer Content only as reasonably necessary to provide, secure, maintain, support, and improve the Services for you, comply with law, enforce these Legal Terms, and prevent fraud, abuse, or security incidents.

This license includes allowing our service providers to process Customer Content where necessary to provide the Services, subject to the Privacy Policy. It also includes the technical steps needed to retrieve public sources, run AI generation workflows you request, create brief previews and exports, preserve source and audit evidence, and provide support.

We do not sell Customer Content, use it for advertising, or use it to train or improve our own or any third party's AI models.

10. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND CONTENT

The Services may contain links to other websites ("Third-Party Websites") as well as articles, text, graphics, information, applications, software, and other content or items belonging to or originating from third parties ("Third-Party Content"). Such Third-Party Websites and Third-Party Content are not investigated, monitored, or checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness by us, and we are not responsible for any Third-Party Websites accessed through the Services or any Third-Party Content available through the Services, including the content, accuracy, opinions, reliability, privacy practices, or other policies of or contained in them. Inclusion of, linking to, or permitting the use of Third-Party Websites or Third-Party Content does not imply approval or endorsement by us. If you decide to leave the Services and access Third-Party Websites or Third-Party Content, you do so at your own risk. You should review the applicable terms and policies of any website to which you navigate.

11. SERVICES MANAGEMENT

We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to: (1) monitor the Services for violations of these Legal Terms; (2) take appropriate legal action against anyone who violates the law or these Legal Terms, including reporting such user to law enforcement authorities; (3) refuse, restrict access to, limit the availability of, or disable Customer Content, feedback, files, or account features where reasonably necessary to protect the Services, comply with law, address security or abuse risk, or enforce these Legal Terms; and (4) otherwise manage the Services in a manner designed to protect our rights and property and to facilitate the proper functioning of the Services.

12. PRIVACY POLICY

We care about data privacy and security. Please review our Privacy Policy. By using the Services, you agree to be bound by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Legal Terms.

13. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENTS

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that any material available on or through the Services infringes upon any copyright you own or control, please notify us using the contact information provided below. Please be advised that pursuant to applicable law you may be held liable for damages if you make material misrepresentations in a notification. Thus, if you are not sure that material located on or linked to by the Services infringes your copyright, you should consider first contacting an attorney.

14. TERM AND TERMINATION

These Legal Terms shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Services. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THESE LEGAL TERMS, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION AND WITHOUT NOTICE OR LIABILITY WHERE PERMITTED BY LAW, TO DENY ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICES TO ANY PERSON FOR ANY REASON OR FOR NO REASON, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION FOR BREACH OF ANY REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, OR COVENANT CONTAINED IN THESE LEGAL TERMS OR OF ANY APPLICABLE LAW OR REGULATION. WE MAY TERMINATE YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES OR DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT AND ANY CONTENT OR INFORMATION THAT YOU POSTED AT ANY TIME, SUBJECT TO APPLICABLE MANDATORY LAW.

If we terminate or suspend your account for any reason, you are prohibited from registering and creating a new account under your name, a fake or borrowed name, or the name of any third party. In addition to terminating or suspending your account, we reserve the right to take appropriate legal action, including civil, criminal, and injunctive redress.

15. MODIFICATIONS AND INTERRUPTIONS

We reserve the right to change, modify, or remove the contents of the Services at any time or for any reason at our sole discretion, subject to applicable law. However, we have no obligation to update any information on our Services.

We cannot guarantee the Services will be available at all times. We may experience hardware, software, or other problems or need to perform maintenance related to the Services, resulting in interruptions, delays, or errors. We reserve the right to change, revise, update, suspend, discontinue, or otherwise modify the Services at any time or for any reason, subject to applicable law. You agree that we have no liability for any loss, damage, or inconvenience caused by your inability to access or use the Services during downtime or discontinuance, except where liability cannot be excluded under applicable mandatory law.

16. GOVERNING LAW

These Legal Terms are governed by the laws of Switzerland. If you are a consumer habitually resident in the EU/EEA, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence.

17. DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Informal negotiations

To expedite resolution and control the cost of any dispute, controversy, or claim related to these Legal Terms (each a "Dispute" and collectively, the "Disputes") brought by either you or us, the parties agree to first attempt to negotiate any Dispute informally for at least thirty (30) days before initiating any formal proceedings. Such informal negotiations commence upon written notice from one party to the other party.

Jurisdiction

Any Dispute that cannot be resolved through informal negotiations shall be submitted to the competent courts of Switzerland.

If you are a consumer habitually resident in the EU/EEA, you may also be entitled under mandatory law to bring proceedings in, and to be sued only in, the courts of your country of residence.

Restrictions

The parties agree that any proceeding shall be limited to the Dispute between the parties individually. To the full extent permitted by law, (a) no proceeding shall be joined with any other proceeding; (b) there is no right or authority for any Dispute to be resolved on a class-action basis or to utilize class action procedures; and (c) there is no right or authority for any Dispute to be brought in a purported representative capacity on behalf of the general public or any other persons.

Exceptions to informal negotiations

The parties agree that the following Disputes are not subject to the above provisions concerning informal negotiations: (a) any Disputes seeking to enforce or protect, or concerning the validity of, intellectual property rights; (b) any Dispute related to, or arising from, allegations of theft, piracy, invasion of privacy, or unauthorized use; and (c) any claim for injunctive relief.

18. CORRECTIONS

There may be information on the Services that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions, including descriptions, pricing, availability, source metadata, and various other information. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions and to change or update information on the Services at any time, without prior notice.

19. DISCLAIMER

The Services are provided with reasonable care and skill. To the extent permitted by applicable mandatory law, and subject to the Limitation of Liability section, we do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that AI-generated output will be accurate, complete, current, or fit for a particular purpose; you are responsible for verifying every fact in a brief against its linked primary source before relying on it. Nothing in this Section excludes or limits any right that cannot be excluded under applicable mandatory law, including your statutory rights as a consumer, which remain unaffected.

20. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes our liability where it cannot be limited or excluded under applicable mandatory law. In particular, we are liable without limitation for damage arising from injury to life, body, or health; for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence; and to the extent of any mandatory statutory liability.

For slight (ordinary) negligence, we are liable only for the breach of a material contractual obligation (a "cardinal obligation", an obligation whose fulfilment is essential to the proper performance of the contract and on whose observance you may reasonably rely). In that case our liability is limited to the damage typically foreseeable at the time the contract was concluded, and our aggregate liability for such damage is limited to the greater of (a) the fees paid or payable by you to us in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) CHF 500.

Any further liability for slight negligence is excluded. The above limitations also apply in favour of our legal representatives, employees, and agents. They do not affect any mandatory statutory rights you may have as a consumer.

21. INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless, including our subsidiaries, affiliates, and all of our respective officers, agents, partners, and employees, from and against any loss, damage, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, made by any third party due to or arising out of: (1) Customer Content, feedback, or other materials you submit through the Services; (2) use of the Services; (3) breach of these Legal Terms; (4) any breach of your representations and warranties set forth in these Legal Terms; (5) your violation of the rights of a third party, including intellectual property rights; or (6) any overt harmful act toward any other user of the Services. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us, and you agree to cooperate, at your expense, with our defense of such claims. We will use reasonable efforts to notify you of any such claim, action, or proceeding which is subject to this indemnification upon becoming aware of it.

22. USER DATA

We will maintain certain data that you transmit to the Services for the purpose of managing the performance of the Services, as well as data relating to your use of the Services. Although we perform routine backups of data where appropriate, you are solely responsible for all data that you transmit or that relates to any activity you have undertaken using the Services. Subject to applicable mandatory law, you agree that we shall have no liability to you for any loss or corruption of such data.

23. CALIFORNIA USERS AND RESIDENTS

If any complaint with us is not satisfactorily resolved, you can contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, California 95834 or by telephone at (800) 952-5210 or (916) 445-1254.

24. MISCELLANEOUS

These Legal Terms and any policies or operating rules posted by us on the Services or in respect to the Services constitute the entire agreement and understanding between you and us. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Legal Terms shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. These Legal Terms operate to the fullest extent permissible by law. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Legal Terms to a legal entity that continues the ThesisCheck business, provided that entity agrees to be bound by these Legal Terms. Where required by mandatory consumer law, we will give you notice of the transfer and you may terminate the Services if you do not agree to it. We shall not be responsible or liable for any loss, damage, delay, or failure to act caused by any cause beyond our reasonable control. If any provision or part of a provision of these Legal Terms is determined to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision or part of the provision is deemed severable from these Legal Terms and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. There is no joint venture, partnership, employment, advisory, fiduciary, or agency relationship created between you and us as a result of these Legal Terms or use of the Services. You agree that these Legal Terms will not be construed against us by virtue of having drafted them. You hereby waive any defenses you may have based on the electronic form of these Legal Terms and the lack of signing by the parties hereto to execute these Legal Terms.

25. AI-GENERATED CONTENT AND NO INVESTMENT ADVICE

ThesisCheck uses artificial intelligence to retrieve and organize public information and to produce descriptive company-research briefs based on a stock ticker and an investment thesis that you provide. All AI-generated content is provided on an "as-is" basis and is intended solely as descriptive research and a starting point for your own review. ThesisCheck does not provide, and nothing in the Services constitutes, investment, financial, legal, accounting, or tax advice, or a recommendation, offer, or solicitation to buy, sell, or hold any security or to pursue any strategy. ThesisCheck is not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, or financial planner, and your use of the Services creates no advisory or fiduciary relationship. The Services provide no buy/sell/hold recommendations, ratings, or price targets. Any third-party ratings, estimates, or opinions appearing in a brief are attributed to their source and reproduced for descriptive purposes only; they are not endorsed or adopted by ThesisCheck. AI-generated content may be incomplete, out of date, or wrong; you are solely responsible for verifying every fact against its linked source and for any investment decision you make. Past performance is not indicative of future results. We strongly recommend consulting a licensed financial professional before making any investment decision.

26. CONTACT US

In order to resolve a complaint regarding the Services or to receive further information regarding use of the Services, please contact us at:

ThesisCheck (Hiestand Digital)
c/o F2BII E-Commerce #993
Hintergoldingerstrasse 30
8638 Goldingen
Switzerland

Email: info@thesischeck.io

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