Terms of service.

These terms are an agreement between you and Push Button Inc (Florida, USA), which operates the BusinessList service at businesslist.ai. By creating an account, using the service or calling the API, you accept them. If you are accepting on behalf of a company, you represent that you have authority to bind it, and you in these terms means that company.

Please read section 4 (acceptable use), section 5 (restrictions on the data) and section 9 (limitation of liability) carefully. They define what you may do with the data and cap what we owe you if something goes wrong.

1. The service

BusinessList provides a searchable database of business contact records, the ability to reveal an email address and phone number on a specific record by spending a credit, export of records you have revealed, and an API over the same functions. We may change, improve or discontinue features. If we discontinue something material to a paid plan, you may cancel and we will refund the unused portion of a prepaid subscription period.

2. Accounts

• You must be at least 18 and able to form a binding contract.
• Account information must be accurate and current. Accounts are for business use; do not create one with a false identity or on behalf of someone who has been suspended.
• You are responsible for everything that happens under your account and for keeping credentials and API keys secure. Tell us at hello@businesslist.ai immediately if you suspect unauthorised use.
• A workspace may have the number of seats its plan allows. Credits and unlocked contacts belong to the workspace, not to an individual user, and remain with the workspace when a user is removed.
• You may not share a single account or seat among people who each need their own, and you may not resell access to your account.

3. Plans, credits and payment

Searching is free and unlimited. Credits are the unit of charge. One credit reveals one contact — the email address and phone number on one record — and that contact then remains available to your workspace permanently at no further cost. Exporting contacts you have already unlocked is free.

• The automatic refund. Each email address is checked against a verification service at the moment it is unlocked. If the result is invalid or disposable, the credit is returned to your balance automatically in that same request. If verification cannot complete — a timeout or a provider outage — the status is recorded as unknown, you keep the contact, and no refund is due. Catch-all and role-based addresses are valid results and are charged normally.
• Credits are otherwise non-refundable. Apart from that automatic refund, credits and fees are non-refundable, including for periods you did not use and for contacts that turn out not to be useful to you. Nothing here limits a right you have under mandatory consumer law.
• Expiry. Credits granted by a recurring plan are for the period in which they are granted and are replaced at renewal; they do not accumulate indefinitely. Credit packs bought outright follow the terms shown at purchase. Credits have no cash value, cannot be exchanged for money, and cannot be transferred or sold to anyone else. Contacts you have already unlocked are not affected by credit expiry.
• Billing. Paid plans renew automatically for the same period until cancelled, at the price then in effect. You authorise us and our payment processor to charge your payment method. Cancel at any time in the app; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period and you keep access until then.
• Price changes. We may change prices with at least 30 days notice before a renewal. If you do not accept the new price, cancel before it takes effect.
• Taxes and failures. Prices exclude taxes, which you are responsible for except taxes on our income. If a payment fails, we may retry it and may suspend the account until it clears.

4. Acceptable use

You agree to use the service lawfully and only for legitimate business-to-business purposes. You will not:

• send unsolicited bulk email, spam or any message that violates the CAN-SPAM Act — every message you send must identify the sender accurately, use a non-deceptive subject line, disclose that it is an advertisement where required, include a valid physical postal address and a working opt-out mechanism, and honour opt-outs promptly;
• place calls or send text messages in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act or state telemarketing law — including calls to numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry where that applies, calls outside permitted hours, and the use of automatic telephone dialling systems, prerecorded messages or artificial voices without the consent those laws require;
• process the personal information of people in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom without complying with the General Data Protection Regulation and applicable e-privacy law, including having a lawful basis, providing the required notice at first contact, and honouring objections and erasure requests;
• contact anyone who has told you to stop, or who has opted out with you or with us, and you will maintain your own suppression list;
• use the data to harass, defraud, impersonate, threaten or discriminate against anyone, or to send content that is unlawful, deceptive or malicious;
• promote illegal products or services, or use the data in any way that violates applicable law in the places you operate;
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to the service, probe or test its security, or interfere with its operation or other users;
• circumvent or attempt to circumvent credit metering, masking, rate limits, seat limits or any other technical restriction, including by creating multiple accounts to obtain additional free credits.

Compliance with marketing and privacy law is your responsibility. We provide data; how you contact the people in it is your decision and your legal exposure. We are not your compliance adviser and nothing here is legal advice.

5. Restrictions on the data

Subject to these terms and your plan, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the contact records you unlock for your own internal business-to-business purposes — outreach, recruiting, sales and marketing to the businesses in question. That licence is subject to the following restrictions, which are material to this agreement.

• No resale or redistribution. You may not sell, licence, sublicense, rent, lease, publish, syndicate or otherwise make the data available to any third party, whether or not for a fee, and whether in whole or in part. You may not use it to build, populate, enrich or improve a competing dataset or contact database, or to train a model on it, or as part of a data product you provide to others.
• Agency use. If you are an agency or service provider, you may use unlocked contacts to perform services for a client provided you remain responsible for compliance and do not hand the raw data over to the client as a deliverable or otherwise transfer it to them.
• No scraping or bulk extraction. You may not scrape, crawl, spider or use any automated means other than the documented API to access the service; systematically extract masked or un-unlocked records; harvest results across many accounts, keys or sessions to assemble a copy of the database; or use headless browsers or scripts against the web interface.
• Not a consumer report. The data is not a consumer report and we are not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. You may not use it, in whole or in part, as a factor in establishing eligibility for credit or insurance, employment or the evaluation of an employee, housing or tenancy, or any other purpose covered by that Act or by any state analogue.
• Suppression. You will honour removal requests you receive, and you will not re-contact a person who has asked you to stop. If we tell you that a record must be deleted because the individual has exercised a privacy right, you will delete it from your systems within 30 days.
• No reverse engineering. You may not reverse engineer, decompile or attempt to derive the source of the service, or copy any part of the site or software except as expressly permitted.

We and our licensors retain all right, title and interest in the service and the underlying database. Nothing here transfers ownership of anything.

6. API

API access is available on the plans that include it. Keys authenticate a workspace and can spend credits, so treat them as secrets and rotate them if they are exposed. Additional terms:

• Requests are limited to 120 per minute per key. Do not attempt to exceed the limit by rotating keys or creating additional accounts. We may change limits with notice, and may throttle or suspend a key that destabilises the service.
• Usage through the API is subject to the same acceptable-use rules and data restrictions as the web application, and consumes the same credit balance.
• You are responsible for all activity performed with your keys, including by your own systems and by anyone you give a key to. If you build a product on the API, your users may not receive the data itself; the no-resale restriction applies in full.
• The API may change. We will avoid breaking changes to documented endpoints where we reasonably can, and will give notice of a breaking change where practical. Undocumented behaviour is not part of the interface and may change at any time.

7. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the service and close your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate access, with or without notice, if you breach these terms, if your use threatens the security, integrity or availability of the service, if a payment fails and is not cured, if we are required to by law, or if we reasonably believe your use exposes us or a third party to legal liability. Where the circumstances allow it, we will tell you what the problem is and give you a chance to fix it before suspending.

On termination your licence to use the data ends. You must stop using unlocked contacts for new outreach and delete our data from your systems on request, except for records you are required to retain by law and for suppression records you maintain to avoid contacting people who have opted out. Unused credits are forfeited on termination for breach. Sections 5, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 survive termination.

8. Disclaimer of warranties

The service and the data are provided as is and as available, without warranty of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express, implied or statutory, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, and any warranty arising out of a course of dealing or usage of trade.

Specifically, and without limiting the above: the dataset is compiled from third-party and public sources and is provided without any warranty of accuracy, completeness or currency. People change jobs, businesses close, and telephone numbers are reassigned. We verify an email address at the moment you unlock it and refund the credit if it is invalid, and that automatic refund is the only assurance we give about any individual record. We do not warrant that outreach using the data will produce any particular result, that the data is suitable for any specific campaign or jurisdiction, or that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost business, lost goodwill, or loss or corruption of data, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability or otherwise, and whether or not the party was advised of the possibility.

Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to these terms or the service, however caused, will not exceed the greater of the amount you actually paid us in the twelve months immediately before the event giving rise to the claim, or one hundred United States dollars.

These limits do not apply to your obligations under section 5 or section 10, to either party’s liability for fraud or wilful misconduct, or to any liability that cannot be limited by law. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages; in those places the exclusions and limits apply only to the extent permitted.

10. Indemnity

You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Push Button Inc, its officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any claim, demand, proceeding, loss, liability, damage, cost or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or related to: your use of the service or the data; your outreach to the people in it, including any claim under the CAN-SPAM Act, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the General Data Protection Regulation or any other marketing or privacy law; your breach of these terms, in particular sections 4 and 5; or your violation of any law or of the rights of a third party. We will notify you of any such claim, give you control of the defence — except that you may not settle in a way that admits fault on our behalf or imposes an obligation on us without our consent — and cooperate reasonably at your expense.

11. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply. You and we submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Florida for any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or the service, and each party waives any objection to venue there. Either party may seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property or confidential information.

Before filing a claim, please contact us at hello@businesslist.ai — most disputes can be resolved directly.

12. Changes and general terms

We may update these terms. When we do, we will change the effective date at the top of this page, and for material changes we will give notice through the service or by email to account holders before they take effect. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the updated terms; if you do not, stop using the service and cancel.

• Entire agreement. These terms, together with the privacy policy and any order or plan terms shown at purchase, are the entire agreement between us on this subject and replace any earlier understanding.
• Severability and waiver. If a provision is held unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent necessary and the rest stays in force. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
• Assignment. You may not assign these terms without our written consent. We may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.
• Force majeure. Neither party is liable for a delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control.
• No agency. Nothing here creates a partnership, joint venture, employment or agency relationship between us.

13. Contact

Questions about these terms: hello@businesslist.ai
Privacy requests, including removal from the dataset: privacy@businesslist.ai or the Do Not Sell or Share page.

Push Button Inc, Florida, USA. We will provide a postal address on request.