Terms of Service

Effective date: September 8, 2026

These Terms of Service govern your use of NoiseGate ("the Service"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years of age to use NoiseGate. By creating an account, you confirm that you are 18 or older.

2. Accounts

✦You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and password

✦You may not share your account with others or create accounts on behalf of others without their consent

✦You must provide accurate information when creating an account

✦You may not create an account if you have previously been banned from the Service

3. Acceptable use

You agree not to use NoiseGate to:

✦Post content that is illegal, defamatory, harassing, hateful, or otherwise harmful

✦Submit fake, automated, or manipulated responses to posts

✦Attempt to circumvent the attention check or quality filtration systems

✦Scrape, crawl, or extract data from the platform without permission

✦Use the platform in any way that could damage, disable, or impair the Service

✦Attempt to access data that is not yours or that you are not authorized to see

✦Impersonate any person or entity

✦Post content that infringes or violates another person’s intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other legal rights

✦Upload or transmit malicious code or attempt to interfere with the security or integrity of the Service

4. User Content and NoiseGate Intellectual Property

You retain ownership of content you submit to NoiseGate, including post questions, answer options, responses, text, and uploaded images ("User Content").

By submitting User Content, you grant NoiseGate a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, copy, format, modify solely as reasonably necessary for technical formatting and display, cache, display, distribute, transmit, and otherwise use and process your User Content as reasonably necessary to provide, operate, improve, secure, and maintain the Service, including to aggregate responses and operate the quality-control and Signal Score functionality described in these Terms. NoiseGate may sublicense these rights to service providers solely as reasonably necessary for them to provide services to NoiseGate.

This license continues for as long as the applicable User Content remains on the Service and for any additional period reasonably necessary for backups, legal compliance, security, or enforcement purposes. Account and content deletion will otherwise be handled as described in our Privacy Policy.

You represent that you own or have the necessary rights to submit your User Content and to grant the license described above.

NoiseGate does not claim ownership of your User Content and does not sell your User Content to advertisers.

NoiseGate and its licensors retain all rights in the Service itself, including the NoiseGate software, code, design, branding, trademarks, business methods, quality-control systems, Signal Score methodology, and related technology and content, excluding User Content. These Terms do not grant you ownership of or any license to NoiseGate intellectual property except the limited right to use the Service in accordance with these Terms.

5. Quality controls & silent filtration

NoiseGate uses automated behavioral quality controls to assess response quality. These controls may include randomized attention checks, response-time analysis based on the content presented to the respondent, and other indicators designed to identify potentially low-quality or manipulated responses. These controls operate silently and are not disclosed to respondents at the time a particular quality check occurs. Responses that do not meet applicable quality thresholds may be flagged and excluded from filtered results.

If a respondent fails an attention check, the Service may notify the respondent that the response may not count toward their overall score and provide additional information about NoiseGate's methodology. Post owners may access or export response data indicating whether a response was flagged. By default, respondents are identified to post owners only by anonymized user identifiers rather than by their names or other directly identifying account information — unless a respondent has chosen to make their handle publicly visible through their account settings, in which case that handle may be shown to the post owner and to other users viewing the post.

By using NoiseGate as a respondent, you acknowledge and consent to this automated quality assessment process.

6. Signal Score

Your Signal Score is a reputation metric calculated from your response history and quality. It is used to weight your responses in filtered results. NoiseGate reserves the right to adjust, reset, or remove Signal Scores in cases of abuse or manipulation.

Your Signal Score is not a guarantee of any particular standing, benefit, or access. We may modify the Signal Score system at any time with reasonable notice.

7. Statistical disclaimer

NoiseGate's signal clarity tiers, confidence tiers, and result summaries are statistical interpretations based on established methods. They are provided for informational purposes to help you understand crowd input — they are not professional research findings and should not be relied upon as the sole basis for significant business, financial, legal, or medical decisions.

NoiseGate makes no warranties regarding the accuracy, completeness, or fitness for a particular purpose of any results generated on the platform.

8. Termination

You may delete your account at any time. Account deletion will be handled as described in our Privacy Policy.

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, engage in abuse, or attempt to manipulate the integrity of the platform. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you before termination except in cases of serious abuse.

9. Moderation and Enforcement

NoiseGate may, in its reasonable discretion and with or without prior notice, review, moderate, remove, or refuse to display User Content; restrict functionality; suspend or terminate accounts; and preserve or disclose content or records where reasonably necessary to enforce these Terms, investigate suspected abuse or manipulation of the Service or its quality-control systems, comply with applicable law or legal process, or protect NoiseGate, its users, or others.

NoiseGate is not obligated to monitor all User Content and does not endorse User Content merely because it appears on the Service.

10. DMCA Notice and Takedown Procedure

NoiseGate respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users of the Service to do the same. NoiseGate has designated an agent to receive notifications of claimed copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"), 17 U.S.C. § 512.

Designated DMCA Agent

Hunter Alexandra Fong
NoiseGate, LLC
2108 N St, Ste N
Sacramento, CA 95816
Phone: (279) 217-7860
Email: hunter@teamhat.org

Notice of Claimed Copyright Infringement

If you believe that material available through the Service infringes your copyright, you may submit a written notice to NoiseGate's designated DMCA agent. To be effective under the DMCA, the notice should include substantially the following:

1.A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.

2.Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple works are covered by a single notice, a representative list of those works.

3.Identification of the material claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity, together with information reasonably sufficient to permit NoiseGate to locate the material.

4.Information reasonably sufficient to permit NoiseGate to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an email address.

5.A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

6.A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right allegedly infringed.

Upon receipt of a notice that substantially complies with the DMCA, NoiseGate may remove or disable access to the identified material and will take reasonable steps to promptly notify the affected user.

Counter-Notification

If you believe material you submitted was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification, you may submit a written counter-notification to NoiseGate's designated DMCA agent. To be effective under the DMCA, the counter-notification should include substantially the following:

1.Your physical or electronic signature.

2.Identification of the material that was removed or disabled and the location at which it appeared before removal or disabling.

3.A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.

4.Your name, address, and telephone number, together with a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or, if your address is outside the United States, for any judicial district in which NoiseGate may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who submitted the original infringement notice or that person’s agent.

If NoiseGate receives a valid counter-notification, it may provide a copy to the original complaining party and inform that party that the removed material may be restored. Unless the designated agent receives notice that the complaining party has filed an action seeking a court order restraining the user from engaging in the allegedly infringing activity, NoiseGate may restore the material or cease disabling access not less than 10 and not more than 14 business days after receiving the counter-notification.

Repeat Infringers

NoiseGate has adopted and will reasonably implement a policy providing for termination, in appropriate circumstances, of users or account holders who are repeat copyright infringers. NoiseGate may also suspend or terminate accounts for other violations of these Terms.

Misrepresentations

Knowingly materially misrepresenting that material is infringing, or that material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, may result in liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

11. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless NoiseGate, LLC and its members, officers, agents, and service providers from and against third-party claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and reasonable attorneys' fees arising out of or relating to (a) User Content you submit, (b) your misuse of the Service, (c) your violation of these Terms or applicable law, or (d) your infringement or violation of another person's rights.

This provision does not require you to indemnify NoiseGate for NoiseGate's own gross negligence, willful misconduct, or other conduct for which indemnification cannot lawfully be required.

12. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NOISEGATE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

NoiseGate does not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free from harmful components, or that any results, Signal Scores, confidence tiers, quality assessments, or other information generated through the Service will be accurate or complete.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NOISEGATE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NOISEGATE'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) $100 OR (B) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID NOISEGATE DURING THE 12 MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability to the extent such liability cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

13. Governing Law and Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.

Except for matters that may properly be brought in small claims court, any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be subject to the jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in California that have proper jurisdiction and venue over the dispute.

14. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide reasonable advance notice by email, through the Service, or by another reasonable method before the changes become effective, except where a shorter period is reasonably necessary for legal, regulatory, security, or operational reasons.

Your continued use of the Service after updated Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you should stop using the Service and may delete your account.

15. General

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect, and the invalid or unenforceable provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law.

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any additional terms expressly presented to you for particular features of the Service, constitute the entire agreement between you and NoiseGate regarding your use of the Service.

NoiseGate's failure to enforce any provision of these Terms does not waive its right to do so later.

You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your rights under them without NoiseGate's prior written consent. NoiseGate may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of all or substantially all of its assets.

16. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Contact us at: hunter@teamhat.org

✓ This document is periodically reviewed by a licensed attorney.

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