Terms of Service

SteepleTool produces a sourced first pass, not professional advice. You keep the judgment — and the responsibility for what you do with it. Pay for what you use, don't abuse the service, cancel whenever you like.

These terms are a contract between you and Northpoint Integrity Services Pty Ltd ABN 49 688 665 723 trading as SteepleTool ("we", "us"), covering your use of steepletool.com and the SteepleTool service. Creating an account means you accept them. If you're using SteepleTool for a firm, you confirm you can bind that firm.

SteepleTool generates automated, sourced, severity-scored STEEPLE analyses of publicly available information. It is reconnaissance: a first draft for a professional to verify and build on.

It is not professional, financial, legal, or investment advice, and it is not a substitute for your own analysis. Findings are drawn from third-party sources we don't control; we don't warrant that any finding is complete, current, or correct. Reports are generated by AI, which — even as it keeps improving — can still get things wrong, miss context, or misjudge severity. You are responsible for verifying the output before relying on it or putting it in front of a client.

• Keep your credentials to yourself; you're responsible for activity under your account.
• One seat means one person. Firm plans cover the seats you've paid for.
• Tell us promptly if you suspect unauthorised access.

Running a scan may involve processing personal information about people named in public sources — not just your own account details. This is generally limited to the name and position title of key people. We collect and use this information only to generate and store your reports, and we handle it in line with our Privacy Policy. We don't sell personal information, and we don't use your inputs or reports to train models for other customers.

You're responsible for having a proper basis to run a scan that touches someone's personal information, and for how you use the report afterwards.

When you place a report order, you opt in to receive email communications from us about that order — including delivery, support, and related product updates. We may also send you occasional marketing emails about SteepleTool features, content, and offers. You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time using the link in any marketing email, or by emailing hello@steepletool.com. Unsubscribing from marketing emails does not affect transactional emails about orders or your account.

Don't use SteepleTool to:

• break the law, infringe others' rights, or harass any person;
• probe, overload, or disrupt the service or its infrastructure;
• resell, scrape, or systematically extract the service or its output as a competing product;
• misrepresent automated output as independently authored professional analysis without review.

We may suspend accounts that do.

• Prices are in AUD and include GST, and are shown on the pricing page. Subscriptions renew automatically — monthly or yearly, as chosen.
• Cancel anytime from your account; access runs to the end of the paid period. Fees already paid are non-refundable except where the Australian Consumer Law says otherwise.
• We may change prices with at least 30 days' notice before your next renewal.

You own the reports generated from your scans and may use them in your work. We own the service, its software, models, and design. You give us the limited licence needed to operate the service — run your scans, store your reports, show them back to you.

Nothing in these terms excludes rights that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. Beyond that, the service is provided as-is; to the extent the law allows, our total liability for any claim is capped at the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or $100 AUD, and we aren't liable for indirect or consequential loss — including decisions made in reliance on unverified output. This cap doesn't apply to our indemnity obligations below, or to loss caused by our fraud or wilful misconduct. It's a first pass. That's the point.

You'll cover us for losses, claims, or costs we reasonably incur because you breached these terms or misused the service — for example, publishing a report as verified professional advice without review, or a claim brought against us by someone named in a report you published without appropriate checks. We'll cover you, in turn, for claims that our software (excluding the content of any report, which draws on third-party sources) infringes someone else's intellectual property rights.

You can close your account at any time. We can suspend or terminate accounts that breach these terms; where the breach isn't urgent or serious, we'll first give you notice and a reasonable chance to fix it. If we materially change the service or these terms, we'll give notice by email or in the product; continued use after the change takes effect is acceptance.

You can export your reports before you close your account. After your account closes, we'll delete your account data and stored reports within 12 months, unless you ask us to delete them sooner or we're required to keep them for legal reasons.

If something goes wrong, tell us first and we'll try to sort it out directly. If that doesn't work, either of us can ask for mediation in Victoria before starting court proceedings.

• These terms are the whole agreement between us and replace anything discussed before you signed up.
• We can transfer these terms to another company as part of a sale or restructure of our business; your rights under them won't change.
• If part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still stands.
• Clauses that are meant to outlive your account — like liability, indemnity, and IP — still apply after it closes.
• We'll send formal notices to the email on your account; you can reach us at hello@steepletool.com.

These terms are governed by the laws of Australia. Disputes go to the courts with jurisdiction there. Questions first, though: hello@steepletool.com.