# Valency: full public site guide > Generated from Valency's public HTML pages. Legal and policy pages remain authoritative at their canonical URLs. Built for researchers # Current research, inside the tools you already use. Valency Bond™ connects AI assistants and research workflows to the scientific literature, so researchers can find, verify, and cite trusted work without changing how they work. [Get free access](https://app.valency.io/start) Indexing live ## Built for researchers first Bond serves three audiences, in this order: the researchers doing the work, the institutions that support them, and the builders wiring AI into science. Everyone draws on the same grounded corpus. For researchers ### [The entire corpus, in one search.](/bond/researchers/) Including papers published hours ago. Stay current, build reading lists, verify claims, and map collaborators, all in the assistant you already use. See it work on real questions → For institutions and R&D teams ### Internal research, connected globally. Your private research, connected to global scientific knowledge, without any of it leaving your secure environment. Give every team one grounded view of the literature, and give your agents a source of truth they can cite. [Talk to us](mailto:sales@valency.io) For AI tool builders ### Bond Valency to any LLM. Pull live scientific knowledge into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible agent. Responses are token-efficient and blazingly fast, so grounding your model spends context, not your whole budget. ## Discover. Understand. Analyze. Deliver. The same 38+ tools that ground a single chat answer also power a full research workflow, from first search to final export. ### Discover Find work by meaning or metadata across the full corpus. Semantic search reaches past keyword matching to the ideas underneath, so the right paper surfaces even when it uses different words than you did. ### Understand Profile researchers, map co-authors, pull full paper histories. Follow the citation graph in both directions to see what a result built on and what has built on it since. ### Analyze Track publication and keyword momentum in any field. See what is heating up, what is fading, and who is driving it, before it shows up in a review article. ### Deliver Filter precisely, then export clean JSON or CSV, ready to cite. Hand your model a tidy, structured result set, or drop it straight into your reference manager. ## What the artery delivers Three things a reasoning model cannot get on its own: work that is fresh, sources that are real, and a connection that fits whatever tool you already run. ### Fresh within hours Updated every few hours with the latest published research. Search work published hours ago, not months. ### Grounded in real research Connected to trusted data sources, including arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, PubMed, PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, EarthArXiv, and more. Grounded in reality, not hallucinations. ### Any LLM, any workflow Whether you're using Gemini, ChatGPT, or Claude, our connector plugs into your scientific and research workflows. ~/research ✳ Claude > what changed in perovskite stability this week? Calling Valency Bond™ Searching the corpus Tracing the citation graph, both directions └ latest result: indexed 2h ago Drafting a grounded answer, citations attached… This week: ~40 new papers. Headline: a certified 27.28% cell held 87% of its efficiency after 4,092 h of continuous operation (Science Advances). Three groups pinned degradation to specific failure pathways: deep-level defects, LiTFSI breakdown, and reverse-bias iodine radicals. Citations attached. ## Papers in, grounded answers out Bond is the middle box. Trusted papers and preprints flow in, get structured and indexed, and flow back out as grounded, citable context for your models and agents. Papers & preprints Fresh from trusted sources → Valency Bond™ Structured, indexed, grounded → LLMs & agents Answers with citations ## Connect in three steps No SDK to learn and no pipeline to build. If your assistant speaks MCP, you are minutes away. - 01 ### Sign up Create a Valency account. Bond is free for individuals. - 02 ### Connect your LLM Point Claude, ChatGPT, Kimi Code, or any MCP-friendly LLM at Bond. Auth is OAuth 2.0 with PKCE, and setup takes under three minutes. - 03 ### Ask, grounded Ask your questions the way you always have. Now the answers come back with real, current sources attached, ready to cite. ## Built to plug in Bond is an open, standards-based connector, not a walled garden. If your tools speak MCP, they already speak Bond. ### One connector, 38+ tools A single endpoint exposes search, researcher profiles, citation graphs, trends, and export, so you add one integration instead of ten. ### Connect in minutes Connected in under 3 minutes. Authenticate once, point your assistant at Bond, and start asking grounded questions. ### Standards-based Speaks MCP. OAuth 2.0 with PKCE for auth, and clean JSON-LD responses your tools and models can parse without glue code. ## Bond, in brief The questions researchers and teams ask us most. ### Is Bond a new AI model? No. Bond is the grounded data layer behind the models you already use. It does not try to out-reason your LLM. It makes sure your LLM is reasoning from the real, current literature. ### Which assistants and agents does it work with? Anything that speaks the model context protocol, including Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, plus custom agents in your own harness. One connector, any LLM. ### What does it cost? Bond is free for individuals, with 100 calls a day while unverified and 1,000 calls a week after verification with a work email or ORCID. Teams get 10,000 calls a month with unlimited seats, and regulated organizations can talk to us about Enterprise. [See the full pricing breakdown](/bond/pricing/). ### Where does the data come from, and how fresh is it? Trusted sources including arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, PubMed, PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, EarthArXiv, and more. The corpus is updated every few hours, so new work is reachable within hours of publication. ### Will it fit in my token budget? Yes. Responses are token-efficient and structured, so grounding a model adds signal without flooding its context window. ### Is my private research exposed? No. Institutions can connect internal research to global knowledge without any of it leaving their secure environment. [Get free access](https://app.valency.io/start) Bond pricing # What it costs Free for individuals. Teams get higher rate limits, and regulated organizations get their guarantees in writing. ### Individual Free 100 calls a day while unverified Verify with a work email or ORCID for 1,000 calls a week. The full corpus and every tool. [Get free access](https://app.valency.io/start) No card needed ### Teams Teams billing period Annual Monthly $499/month Billed annually 10,000 calls a month For companies, startups, and tool-builders putting Bond to work. Unlimited seats, institutional SSO, and support on Slack in business hours. [Talk to us](mailto:sales@valency.io) Pay by card ### Enterprise Custom priced by contract For regulated organizations. Private cloud, on-prem, or air-gapped, with SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP, and an uptime SLA. [Talk to us](mailto:sales@valency.io) Access to Trust Center - All 38 tools in every tier - Any MCP client - Queries never train a model ### Side by side Feature Individual Teams Enterprise Usage Who it’s for Academics researching their next paper; Graduate students staying on top of a field of study Teams and companies building products and services on top of Bond Large institutions Price Free $499/month, 12-month commitment $599/month, month-to-month Custom Seats One Unlimited Custom MCP calls 100 calls a day while unverified. Verify with a work email or ORCID for 1,000 calls a week. 10,000 calls a month Unlimited Trust & security Queries used for training Never Never Never Zero data retention No No Yes Deployment Valency cloud Valency cloud Private cloud, on-prem, or air-gapped Institutional SSO No Included Included Compliance None None SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP, and Trust Center access Uptime SLA No No Included Product & support Support In-app feedback and email Slack and email, business hours Custom support packages Tools All 38 All 38 All 38, plus custom endpoints Corpus Full corpus and citation graph Full corpus and citation graph Full corpus, plus custom corpora ## Money buys scale, not science. Ask one question and it runs against tens of millions of papers. Everything that comes back links to its source. Every plan gets all of it: the full corpus, the whole citation graph, all 38 tools. Valency charges for throughput, unlimited seats, a deployment inside your own walls, and the compliance guarantees your legal team wants in writing. The corpus never moves behind a tier. Nothing you ask trains a model. Free for researchers # Four questions researchers ask in a normal week. Staying current, building a reading list, verifying a claim, mapping people. Each one below ran through Valency Bond™ for real; the answers, numbers, and citations are what came back. [Get free access](https://app.valency.io/start) Job one ## Stay current without reading 116 abstracts It’s Monday. Ask in plain words what happened while you were away; Bond searches the week’s new work, including preprints indexed within hours of submission. ### What you asked One question, typed into the assistant you already use. No query syntax, no database picking. ### What you walk away with This week’s papers — 116 matched “diffusion model” by title in the last seven days — with the two standout theory results on top, each with a resolvable arXiv link. One was submitted the day before this query ran, and it was already indexed. ~/research ✳ Claude > what's new in diffusion model theory this week? Calling Valency Bond™ Searching Jul 28 – Aug 4, 2026 └ 116 papers match “diffusion model” this week Two theory results stand out: an end-to-end generalization analysis of diffusion models (arXiv 2607.23226) and a unified KL-divergence analysis via entropy production rate (arXiv 2608.02406). The second was submitted yesterday. It's already indexed. Job two ## Start the reading list you don’t have yet A new project starts with the literature. Semantic search reaches past keywords to the ideas underneath, ranks by citations, and hands back BibTeX your reference manager takes as-is. ### What you asked A topic in your own words, plus “give me BibTeX”. ### What you walk away with A citation-ranked starting list — the seminal paper (1,003 citations), a modern treatment, and lecture notes — exported as ready-to-use BibTeX entries. ~/research ✳ Claude > build me a reading list on learning dynamics in deep linear networks, with bibtex Semantic search, ranked by citations Start with Saxe, McClelland & Ganguli, “Exact solutions to the nonlinear dynamics of learning in deep linear neural networks” (arXiv 1312.6120, 1,003 citations). Then Ziyin, Li & Meng (arXiv 2202.04777) and Cohen & Razin’s lecture notes (arXiv 2408.13767). @misc{saxe2013exact, title={Exact solutions to the nonlinear dynamics of learning in deep linear neural networks}, author={Andrew M. Saxe and James L. McClelland and Surya Ganguli}, year={2013}, eprint={1312.6120}} Job three ## Check whether a result is still standing Before you cite it, build on it, or review it: follow the citation graph forward from the original paper and see what a decade of later work did with it. ### What you asked Name the result the way you remember it. Bond finds the paper, then walks its forward citations. ### What you walk away with The original 2015 paper, its 1,415 citing papers, and the most influential descendants ranked by their own citation counts. ~/research ✳ Claude > did sohl-dickstein's 2015 nonequilibrium thermodynamics paper hold up? what built on it? Matching title, tracing citations forward └ 1,415 citing papers in the graph “Deep Unsupervised Learning using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics” — Sohl-Dickstein, Weiss, Maheswaranathan & Ganguli, March 2015 (arXiv 1503.03585). Most-cited descendant: “High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models” (Rombach et al., 2022; 12,374 citations). Also downstream: “Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis” (2,167 citations). Job four ## Know who you’re talking to on Thursday Profile a researcher before you meet them — from the record, not their own bio — and see who they actually work with. ### What you asked A name. Bond resolves it through ORCID, so you get the right person, not a same-name collision. ### What you walk away with Career numbers from the live record and a ranked collaborator map — who they publish with, and how often. The full version of this is a Valency Story: a complete dossier generated from the published record. ~/research ✳ Claude > profile Alex Lupsasca and map his collaborators Resolving ORCID 0000-0002-1559-6965 Alexandru Lupsasca, Vanderbilt University and OpenAI. 67 works, 1,822 citations, h-index 21. Most frequent coauthors: Samuel E. Gralla (14 shared papers), Andrew Strominger (12), Shahar Hadar (7), Michael D. Johnson (7), Eliot Quataert (6), Andrew Chael (6), George N. Wong (6), and Kevin Weil (5). ## The same record, as a full dossier Point the same tools at one researcher and you get a Valency Story — a complete research dossier. The excerpt below is quoted verbatim from a live one. stories.valency.io · August 2026 ### Alexandru Lupsasca “67 works, 1,822 citations, h-index 21, and a proposed space mission built around the ring you predicted.” “Your work takes the Kerr metric apart and hands the pieces back as things an instrument can measure.” [Read the full dossier](https://stories.valency.io/0000-0002-1559-6965) ### Generated entirely from the published record Every claim in a Story traces to a tool result over the corpus: papers, citations, coauthors, field trends. What the record can’t support, the dossier doesn’t say. ## It works the same in your field The examples stay in one field so you can follow the thread. Papers indexed across the corpus in the last 30 days, by title keyword: ### 1,063 microplastics ### 586 CRISPR ### 567 perovskite ### 77 coral reef ### 53 sleep memory ### 49 quantum error correction ## Before you ask ### What does it cost? Nothing. Bond is free for researchers, academics, and non-profits. ### Where do the answers come from? Trusted sources including arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, PubMed, PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, EarthArXiv, and more, updated every few hours. Every answer arrives with resolvable citations. ### Do I have to change how I work? No. Bond plugs into the assistant you already use — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or any MCP-compatible tool — in under three minutes. [Get free access](https://app.valency.io/start) Careers # Help build the future of research We're building grounded infrastructure for scientists and the AI systems they rely on. If that work matters to you, we'd like to meet you. ## Open roles Here is what we are hiring for right now. - Loading open roles… Open application ### Choose your own adventure. Do not see your role? Tell us what you would build at Valency, and why you are the person to do it. [Shape your role →](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency/cb376539-f9f7-49c1-a310-cd7ad93cdd13) All roles are also listed on [our Ashby job board](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency). ## Why work at Valency We are building the layer that keeps AI-accelerated science honest: the connection between the world's research and the tools that reason over it. The work compounds for every researcher who uses it. ### Work that matters The tools we ship change how real scientists find, trust, and build on the literature. ### Hard, worthwhile problems Indexing the scientific record at machine speed, grounding LLMs in real sources, and keeping it all fresh and correct is hard. If you like problems with no template, you will not be bored. ### Close to the science We work shoulder to shoulder with researchers at universities worldwide and national laboratories. You will build with the people who use what you ship, not for an abstraction of them. ## What we offer The conditions that let good people do their best work. ### A spacious office in downtown Berkeley We work hybrid out of downtown Berkeley. BART and AC Transit stop steps from the door, so the commute is easy from across the Bay Area. ### Meaningful ownership Early-stage equity and a real say in what we build. ### Conference and learning budget Go where the research is. We fund conference travel and talks, plus a learning budget for books, courses, and tools. ### Publish and share openly We come from open science and open source, and we act like it. Publish what you learn, contribute upstream, and share your work with the world. Some of what we build stays ours, so sharing starts with a quick check, but the default answer is yes. ### Tools that get out of the way The hardware you need and the AI tools we build ourselves, so your time goes to the problem, not the plumbing. ## Who thrives here We hire for judgment and curiosity over any particular pedigree. A few things the people who do well here tend to share. ### Human, specific, and curious You care about the actual person on the other end of the product, you sweat the details, and you always ask the next question. You would rather understand a problem than posture about it. ### Allergic to hand-waving You want claims backed by evidence, in the product and in the room. If grounded scientific work matters to you, you will fit right in. ### Owner, not passenger You see the gap and close it without waiting to be asked. Small team, wide surface area, high trust. ## How hiring works A short, respectful process. We aim to be clear about where you stand at every step. - 01 ### Apply Send your application through our job board. A real person reads every one. - 02 ### Talk A first conversation about your work, what you are looking for, and what we are building. - 03 ### Show your work A practical exercise or working session grounded in the real problems you would tackle here. - 04 ### Meet the team Meet the people you would work with, ask us anything, and make the decision together. ## Working here, in brief ### Do I need a PhD? No. Deep research experience helps for some roles, but curiosity and craft matter more. ### Is the team remote? We're hybrid. Home base is our office in downtown Berkeley, a short walk from BART, and we split time between there and home. ### What is the interview process like? Short and built around real work: a conversation, a practical exercise, and time with the team. ### You do not have my role listed. Should I still reach out? Yes. If you would be great at Valency, tell us how you would help through the [open application](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency/cb376539-f9f7-49c1-a310-cd7ad93cdd13). [See open roles](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency) Contact # Start with the right conversation. Whether you are doing the research, supporting a team, or bringing grounded scientific knowledge into your organization, there is a direct way to reach us. ## What can we help with? Choose the route closest to what you need. Each one goes directly to the people doing the work. 01 / Product support ### Product questions and help Questions about Bond, account access, or something not working? Email us and your message will reach the product team. [support@valency.io](mailto:support@valency.io) 02 / Organizations ### Enterprise and institutions Talk with us about team features, private deployments, research partnerships, or connecting public and internal scientific knowledge. [sales@valency.io](mailto:sales@valency.io) 03 / Press ### Media inquiries For interviews, company background, product information, and conversations about AI-accelerated science. [media@valency.io](mailto:media@valency.io) 04 / Careers ### Build with us See the roles open now, how we work, and what the hiring process looks like. [See open roles](/careers/) ## Built in Berkeley. Working with researchers everywhere. Our team works together in downtown Berkeley, alongside researchers and institutions advancing science around the world. # Data Processing Addendum Effective date: 11 August 2026 This Data Processing Addendum (“DPA”) forms part of, and applies only in connection with, a written master services agreement, subscription agreement, order form, or other written commercial agreement between Valency Systems Inc. (“Company”) and the customer identified therein (“Customer” and, together with Company, the “Parties”), under which Company Processes Personal Data on behalf of Customer (the “Agreement”). This DPA does not apply to any individual or entity that accesses or uses the Services solely under Company’s publicly available terms of service, including free, trial, evaluation, and self-service accounts. Company’s processing of personal data in connection with such use is governed by those [terms of service](/terms/) and by Company’s [privacy policy](/privacy/). Upon this DPA becoming effective in accordance with Section 14 herein, each Party enters into this DPA on behalf of itself and, to the extent required under Privacy Laws (defined below), its affiliates. This DPA incorporates the terms of the Agreement, and any capitalized terms that are used but not defined in this DPA shall have the meanings set forth in the Agreement. You may print or download the [Data Processing Addendum PDF](/dpa/dpa.pdf). - [1. Definitions](#definitions) - [2. Role of the Parties; Description of Processing](#role-of-the-parties) - [3. Customer’s Obligations](#customer-obligations) - [4. Use of Personal Data](#use-of-personal-data) - [5. Audit](#audit) - [6. Authorized Subprocessors](#authorized-subprocessors) - [7. Confidentiality; Security of Personal Data](#confidentiality-security) - [8. Personal Data Breach](#personal-data-breach) - [9. Transfers of Personal Data](#transfers) - [10. Data Protection Assessments](#data-protection-assessments) - [11. Data Subject Request](#data-subject-request) - [12. Return or Destruction of Personal Data](#return-or-destruction) - [13. Company’s Role as a Controller](#company-as-controller) - [14. Miscellaneous](#miscellaneous) - [15. Execution of this DPA](#execution) - [Exhibit A — Details of Processing](#exhibit-a) - [Exhibit B — List of Parties and Description of the Transfer](#exhibit-b) - [Exhibit C — Technical and Organisational Security Measures](#exhibit-c) - [Exhibit D — UK Addendum](#exhibit-d) ## 1. Definitions 1.1 “Authorized Subprocessor” means a third-party entity engaged by Company to process Personal Data in order to provide the Services and that has been approved by Customer in accordance with Section 6. 1.2 “Company Account Data” means personal data that relates to Company’s relationship with Customer, including the names or contact information of individuals authorized by Customer to access Customer’s account and billing information of individuals that Customer has associated with its account. 1.3 “Company Usage Data” means Service usage data collected and processed by Company in connection with the provision of the Services, including without limitation data used to identify the source and destination of a communication, activity logs, and similar data. 1.4 “Data Privacy Framework” means, as applicable, EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and/or the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. 1.5 “Data Subject” means a natural person whose Personal Data is protected by Privacy Laws. For the avoidance of doubt, “Data Subject” includes the term “Consumer” under Privacy Laws. 1.6 “Data Subject Request” means a request from a Data Subject to exercise their rights over Personal Data afforded pursuant to Privacy Laws. 1.7 “EU SCCs” means standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission in Commission Decision 2021/914 dated 4 June 2021, for transfers of personal data to countries not otherwise recognized as offering an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission (as amended and updated from time to time), as modified by Section 9 of this DPA. 1.8 “ex-EEA Transfer” means the transfer of Personal Data subject to the GDPR from the European Economic Area (the “EEA”), to a country where the transfer is not governed by an adequacy decision made by the European Commission in accordance with the relevant provisions of the GDPR. 1.9 “ex-UK Transfer” means the transfer of Personal Data subject to Chapter V of the UK GDPR from outside the United Kingdom (the “UK”) where such transfer is not governed by an adequacy decision made by the Secretary of State in accordance with the relevant provisions of the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. 1.10 “Personal Data” means any information provided to Company by or on behalf of Customer in connection with the Services that relates to an identified or identifiable Data Subject and constitutes “personal data,” “personal information,” or equivalent term under Privacy Laws. 1.11 “Privacy Laws” means any applicable laws and regulations in any relevant jurisdiction relating to the processing of Personal Data including, each to the extent applicable: (i) the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (“EU GDPR”) and the EU GDPR as it forms part of the law of England and Wales by virtue of section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (the “UK GDPR”) (together, collectively, the “GDPR”), (ii) the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection, (iii) the UK Data Protection Act 2018, (iv) the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, and (v) U.S. state comprehensive privacy laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (the “CCPA”); in each case, as updated, amended or replaced from time to time. The terms “affiliates,” “business purpose,” “Controller,” “Personal Data Breach,” “Processor,” “process” or “processing,” “sell,” “share,” or “supervisory authority,” shall have the meanings set forth for those or equivalent terms under Privacy Laws. For the avoidance of doubt, the terms “Controller” and “Processor” include “Business” and “Service Provider,” respectively, as defined in the CCPA. 1.12 “Standard Contractual Clauses” means, as applicable, the EU SCCs and the UK SCCs. 1.13 “UK Addendum” means the template International Data Transfer Addendum issued by the Information Commissioner and laid before Parliament in accordance with s119A of the Data Protection Act 2018 on 2 February 2022 (as may be amended from time to time), as completed by Exhibit D. 1.14 “UK SCCs” means the EU SCCs, as amended by the UK Addendum. ## 2. Role of the Parties; Description of Processing 2.1 Except as expressly set forth in this DPA or the Agreement, with respect to Personal Data, Customer is the Controller and Company is a Processor, or to the extent Customer is a Processor to a third-party Controller, Company is a subprocessor. 2.2 Company shall process Personal Data only (i) for purposes set forth in the Agreement, (ii) in a manner consistent with the documented instructions provided by Customer, which shall include the Agreement and this DPA, and (iii) as required by Privacy Laws or a supervisory authority; in such case, Company shall inform Customer of that legal requirement before processing to the extent legally permitted. The subject matter, nature, purpose, and duration of this processing, as well as the types of Personal Data collected and categories of Data Subjects involved, are described in Exhibit A to this DPA. ## 3. Customer’s Obligations Customer shall, in its use of the Services, at all times process Personal Data, and provide instructions for the processing of Personal Data, in compliance with Privacy Laws. Customer shall ensure that the processing of Personal Data in accordance with Customer’s instructions will not cause Company to be in breach of the Privacy Laws. Customer is solely responsible for the accuracy, quality, and legality of (i) the Personal Data provided to Company by or on behalf of Customer, (ii) the means by which Customer acquired any such Personal Data, and (iii) the instructions it provides to Company regarding the processing of such Personal Data. Customer shall not provide or make available to Company any Personal Data in violation of the Agreement or otherwise inappropriate for the nature of the Services, and shall indemnify Company from all claims and losses in connection therewith. Company shall immediately notify Customer if an instruction, in Company’s opinion, infringes Privacy Laws or an instruction of a supervisory authority. ## 4. Use of Personal Data Company shall not: (i) sell or share Personal Data; (ii) retain, use, or disclose Personal Data outside of Company’s direct business relationship with Customer or for any purpose other than for a business purpose under the CCPA on behalf of Customer or than as necessary to perform the Services for Customer pursuant to the Agreement, except as otherwise permitted in the Agreement or by Privacy Laws; and (iii) combine Personal Data received from, or on behalf of, Customer with Personal Data that it receives from, or on behalf of, another party or person, except as necessary to provide the Services or as otherwise instructed by Customer. ## 5. Audit 5.1 Company shall maintain records sufficient to demonstrate its compliance with its obligations under this DPA. Upon Customer’s written request at reasonable intervals, and subject to reasonable confidentiality controls, Company shall, either (i) make available for Customer’s review copies of certifications or reports demonstrating Company’s compliance with prevailing data security standards applicable to the processing of Personal Data, or (ii) if the provision of reports or certifications pursuant to (i) is not reasonably sufficient under Privacy Laws, allow Customer’s independent third party representative to conduct an audit or inspection of Company’s data security infrastructure and procedures that is sufficient to demonstrate Company’s compliance with its obligations under Privacy Laws, provided that (a) Customer provides reasonable prior written notice of any such request for an audit and such inspection shall not be unreasonably disruptive to Company’s business; (b) such audit shall only be performed during business hours and occur no more than once per calendar year; and (c) such audit shall be restricted to data relevant to Customer. Customer shall be responsible for the costs of any such audits or inspections, including without limitation a reimbursement to Company for any time expended for on-site audits. If Customer and Company have entered into Standard Contractual Clauses as described in Section 9 (Transfers of Personal Data), the parties agree that the audits described in Clause 8.9 of the EU SCCs shall be carried out in accordance with this Section 5.1. 5.2 To the extent permitted under Privacy Laws, if Customer determines that Company is processing Personal Data in an unauthorized manner, Customer may, taking into account nature of Company’s processing and the nature of the Personal Data processed by Company on behalf of Customer, and upon providing prior written notice, take commercially reasonable and appropriate steps to stop and remediate such unauthorized processing as set forth in this DPA. ## 6. Authorized Subprocessors 6.1 Customer acknowledges and agrees that Company may (1) engage its affiliates as well as the Authorized Subprocessors listed in Exhibit B to this DPA to access and process Personal Data in connection with the Services and (2) from time to time engage additional third parties for the purpose of providing the Services, including without limitation the processing of Personal Data pursuant to Section 6.2. By way of this DPA, Customer provides general written authorization to Company to engage subprocessors as necessary to perform the Services. 6.2 A list of Company’s current Authorized Subprocessors (the “List”) will be made available to Customer, either attached hereto, at a link provided to Customer, via email to [support@valency.io](mailto:support@valency.io) or through another means made available to Customer. Such List may be updated by Company from time to time. Company may provide a mechanism to subscribe to notifications of new Authorized Subprocessors and Customer agrees to subscribe to such notifications where available. At least ten (10) days before enabling any third party other than existing Authorized Subprocessors to access or participate in the processing of Personal Data, Company will add such third party to the List and notify Customer via email. Customer may object to such an engagement by informing Company within ten (10) days of receipt of the aforementioned notice to Customer, provided such objection is in writing and based on reasonable grounds relating to data protection. If Customer does not object during this period, that third party will be deemed an Authorized Subprocessor. Customer acknowledges that certain subprocessors are essential to providing the Services and that objecting to the use of a subprocessor may prevent Company from offering the Services to Customer. 6.3 If Customer reasonably objects to an engagement in accordance with Section 6.2, and Company cannot provide a commercially reasonable alternative within a reasonable period of time, Customer may discontinue the use of the affected Service by providing written notice to Company. Discontinuation shall not relieve Customer of any fees owed to Company under the Agreement. 6.4 Company will enter into a written agreement with the Authorized Subprocessor imposing on the Authorized Subprocessor data protection obligations comparable to those imposed on Company under this DPA with respect to the protection of Personal Data. In case an Authorized Subprocessor fails to fulfill its data protection obligations under such written agreement with Company, Company will remain liable to Customer for the performance of the Authorized Subprocessor’s obligations under such agreement. 6.5 If Customer and Company have entered into Standard Contractual Clauses as described in Section 9 (Transfers of Personal Data), (i) the above authorizations will constitute Customer’s prior written consent to the subcontracting by Company of the processing of Personal Data if such consent is required under the Standard Contractual Clauses, and (ii) the parties agree that the copies of the agreements with Authorized Subprocessors that must be provided by Company to Customer pursuant to Clause 9(c) of the EU SCCs may have commercial information, or information unrelated to the Standard Contractual Clauses or their equivalent, removed by Company beforehand, and that such copies will be provided by Company only upon request by Customer. ## 7. Confidentiality; Security of Personal Data 7.1 Company shall ensure that any person it authorizes to process Personal Data has agreed to protect Personal Data in accordance with Company’s confidentiality obligations in the Agreement. Customer agrees that Company may disclose Personal Data to its advisers, auditors or other third parties as reasonably required in connection with the performance of its obligations under Privacy Laws and this DPA, the Agreement, or the provision of Services to Customer. 7.2 Taking into account the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons, Company shall maintain appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing Personal Data, as described in Exhibit C. ## 8. Personal Data Breach 8.1 In the event of a Personal Data Breach, Company shall, without undue delay, inform Customer of the Personal Data Breach and take such steps as Company in its sole discretion deems necessary and reasonable to remediate such Personal Data Breach, to the extent that remediation is within Company’s reasonable control. 8.2 In the event of a Personal Data Breach, Company shall, taking into account the nature of the processing and the information available to Company, provide Customer with reasonable cooperation and assistance necessary for Customer to comply with its obligations under Privacy Laws with respect to notifying (i) the relevant supervisory authority or regulatory agency and (ii) Data Subjects affected by such Personal Data Breach without undue delay. 8.3 The obligations described in Sections 8.1 and 8.2 shall not apply in the event that a Personal Data Breach results from the actions or omissions of Customer. Company’s obligation to report or respond to a Personal Data Breach under Sections 8.1 and 8.2 will not be construed as an acknowledgement by Company of any fault or liability with respect to the Personal Data Breach. ## 9. Transfers of Personal Data 9.1 The parties agree that Company may transfer Personal Data processed under this DPA outside the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland as necessary to provide the Services. Customer acknowledges that Company’s primary processing operations take place in the United States, and that the transfer of Personal Data to the United States is necessary for the provision of the Services to Customer. If Company transfers Personal Data protected under this DPA to a jurisdiction for which the European Commission has not issued an adequacy decision, Company will ensure that appropriate safeguards have been implemented for the transfer of Personal Data in accordance with Privacy Laws. 9.2 Ex-EEA Transfers. The Parties agree that ex-EEA Transfers shall either be made pursuant to (i) the Data Privacy Framework to the extent the recipient of the ex-EEA Transfer is certified accordingly, or (ii) the EU SCCs, which are deemed entered into (and incorporated herein by reference) and completed as follows: 9.2.1 Module One (Controller to Controller) of the EU SCCs applies when Company is processing Personal Data as a controller pursuant to Section 13 of this DPA. 9.2.2 Module Two (Controller to Processor) of the EU SCCs applies when Customer is a controller and Company is a processor of Personal Data in accordance with Section 2 of this DPA. 9.2.3 Module Three (Processor to Subprocessor) of the EU SCCs applies when Customer is a processor and Company is a subprocessor of Personal Data in accordance with Section 2 of this DPA. 9.3 For each module, where applicable the following applies: 9.3.1 The optional docking clause in Clause 7 does not apply. 9.3.2 In Clause 9, Option 2 (general written authorization) applies, and the minimum time period for prior notice of subprocessor changes shall be as set forth in Section 6.2 of this DPA. 9.3.3 In Clause 11, the optional language does not apply. 9.3.4 All square brackets in Clause 13 are hereby removed. 9.3.5 In Clause 17 (Option 1), the EU SCCs will be governed by Irish law. 9.3.6 In Clause 18(b), disputes will be resolved before the courts of Ireland. 9.3.7 Exhibit B to this DPA contains the information required in Annex I of the EU SCCs. 9.3.8 Exhibit C to this DPA contains the information required in Annex II of the EU SCCs. 9.3.9 By entering into this DPA, the Parties are deemed to have signed the EU SCCs incorporated herein, including their Annexes. 9.4 Ex-UK Transfers. The Parties agree that ex-UK Transfers shall either be made pursuant to (i) the Data Privacy Framework to the extent that the recipient of the ex-UK Transfer is certified accordingly, or (ii) the UK SCCs, which are deemed entered into and incorporated herein by reference. The UK Addendum (including the EU SCCs incorporated into it) is (1) governed by the laws of England and Wales, and (2) any dispute arising from it is resolved by the courts of England and Wales. 9.5 Transfers from Switzerland. The Parties agree that transfers from Switzerland shall either be made pursuant to (i) the Data Privacy Framework to the extent that the recipient of the transfer from Switzerland is certified accordingly, or (ii) the EU SCCs with the following modifications: 9.5.1 The terms “General Data Protection Regulation” or “Regulation (EU) 2016/679” as utilized in the EU SCCs shall be interpreted to include the Federal Act on Data Protection of 19 June 1992 (the “FADP,” and as revised as of 25 September 2020, the “Revised FADP”) with respect to data transfers subject to the FADP. 9.5.2 Clause 13 of the EU SCCs is modified to provide that the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (“FDPIC”) of Switzerland shall have authority over data transfers governed by the FADP and the appropriate EU supervisory authority shall have authority over data transfers governed by the GDPR. Subject to the foregoing, all other requirements of Clause 13 shall be observed. 9.5.3 The term “EU Member State” as utilized in the EU SCCs shall not be interpreted in such a way as to exclude Data Subjects in Switzerland from exercising their rights in their place of habitual residence in accordance with Clause 18(c) of the EU SCCs. 9.6 Supplementary Measures. In respect of any transfer of Personal data made pursuant to the Standard Contractual Clauses, the following supplementary measures shall apply: 9.6.1 As of the date of this DPA, Company has not received any formal legal requests from any government intelligence or security service/agencies in the country to which the Personal Data is being exported, for access to (or for copies of) such Personal Data (“Government Agency Requests”). 9.6.2 If Company receives a Government Agency Request, Company shall attempt to redirect the government agency to Customer. As part of this effort, Company may provide Customer’s basic contact information to the government agency. If Company is compelled to disclose Personal Data, to the extent legally permitted, Company shall notify Customer of the demand and reasonably cooperate to allow Customer to seek a protective order or other appropriate remedy. Company shall not voluntarily disclose Personal Data to any law enforcement or government agency. The Parties shall determine whether all or any transfers of Personal Data pursuant to this DPA should be suspended in the light of such a Government Agency Request. 9.6.3 The Parties will confer as appropriate to consider whether: (i) the protection afforded by the laws of the country of Company to data subjects whose Personal Data is being transferred is sufficient to provide broadly equivalent protection to that afforded in the EEA or the UK, as applicable; (ii) additional measures are reasonably necessary for the transfer to comply with Privacy Laws; and (iii) it is still appropriate for Personal Data to be transferred to the relevant Company, taking into account all relevant information available, including guidance by supervisory authorities, to the Parties. 9.6.4 If either (i) any of the means of legitimizing a transfer cease to be valid or (ii) any supervisory authority requires transfers of Personal Data pursuant to those means to be suspended, the Parties agree to amend the means of legitimizing transfers in accordance with Privacy Laws. To the extent necessary to ensure the enforceability of the Standard Contractual Clauses, the Parties shall execute the Standard Contractual Clauses as a separate agreement. ## 10. Data Protection Assessments Taking into account the nature of Company’s processing and the information available to Company, Company shall reasonably cooperate with Customer to conduct any data protection or privacy impact assessments as required by Privacy Laws, including by providing Customer with information and documents necessary for such assessments that Customer cannot otherwise obtain without Company’s assistance. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Customer and Company each remain responsible only for the measures respectively allocated to them under Privacy Laws pertaining to any such assessment. ## 11. Data Subject Request 11.1 Company shall, to the extent permitted by Privacy Laws, notify Customer upon receipt of a Data Subject Request. If Company receives a Data Subject Request in relation to Personal Data, Company will advise the Data Subject to submit their request to Customer and Customer will be responsible for responding to such request, including, where necessary, by using the functionality of the Services. Customer is solely responsible for ensuring that Data Subject Requests are communicated to Company, and, if applicable, for ensuring that a record of consent to processing is maintained with respect to each Data Subject. 11.2 Company shall, at the request of Customer, and taking into account the nature of the processing applicable to any Data Subject Request, apply appropriate technical and organizational measures to assist Customer in complying with Customer’s obligation to respond to such Data Subject Request and/or in demonstrating such compliance, where possible, provided that (i) Customer is itself unable to respond without Company’s assistance and (ii) Company is able to do so in accordance with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations. Customer shall be responsible to the extent legally permitted for any costs and expenses arising from any such assistance by Company. ## 12. Return or Destruction of Personal Data Upon the termination or expiration of the Agreement, at Customer’s choice, Company shall return or delete Personal Data, unless further storage of such Personal Data is required or authorized by applicable law. If return or destruction is impracticable or prohibited by law, rule or regulation, Company shall take measures to block such Personal Data from any further processing (except to the extent necessary for its continued hosting or processing required by law, rule or regulation) and shall continue to appropriately protect the Personal Data remaining in its possession, custody, or control. If Customer and Company have entered into Standard Contractual Clauses as described in Section 9 (Transfers of Personal Data), the parties agree that the certification of deletion of Personal Data that is described in Clause 8.1(d) and Clause 8.5 of the EU SCCs (as applicable) shall be provided by Company to Customer only upon Customer’s request. ## 13. Company’s Role as a Controller The parties acknowledge and agree that with respect to Company Account Data and Company Usage Data, Company is an independent controller, not a joint controller with Customer. Company will process Company Account Data and Company Usage Data as a controller (i) to manage the relationship with Customer; (ii) to carry out Company’s core business operations, such as accounting, audits, tax preparation and filing and compliance purposes; (iii) to monitor, investigate, prevent and detect fraud, security incidents and other misuse of the Services, and to prevent harm to Customer; (iv) for identity verification purposes; (v) to comply with legal or regulatory obligations applicable to the processing and retention of Personal Data to which Company is subject; and (vi) as otherwise permitted under Privacy Laws and in accordance with this DPA and the Agreement. Company may also process Company Usage Data as a controller to provide, optimize, and maintain the Services, to the extent permitted by Privacy Laws. Any processing by Company as a controller shall be in accordance with Company’s [privacy policy](/privacy/). ## 14. Miscellaneous In the event of any conflict or inconsistency among the following documents, the order of precedence will be: (1) the applicable terms in the Standard Contractual Clauses; (2) the terms of this DPA; (3) the Agreement, and (4) Company’s privacy policy. Any claims brought in connection with this DPA will be subject to the Agreement, including, but not limited to, the exclusions and limitations set forth in the Agreement. ## 15. Execution of this DPA This DPA is incorporated by reference into, and forms part of, the Agreement. This DPA becomes effective as of the effective date of the Agreement and applies only to the extent that Company Processes Personal Data on behalf of Customer in Company’s capacity as a Processor or Service Provider under the Agreement. Where the Agreement expressly incorporates this DPA by reference, no separate signature is required for this DPA to become effective; otherwise, this DPA becomes effective upon execution by both Parties. Where the individual executing or accepting the Agreement does so on behalf of an entity, that individual represents and warrants that they have full legal authority to bind that entity to this DPA, and “Customer” means that entity. For the avoidance of doubt, this DPA does not become effective, and neither Party may rely on it, in respect of access to or use of the Services solely under Company’s publicly available terms of service, including free, trial, evaluation, and self-service accounts. ## Exhibit A — Details of Processing ### Nature and Purpose of Processing Company will process Personal Data as necessary to provide the Services under the Agreement, for the purposes specified in the Agreement and this DPA, and in accordance with Customer’s instructions as set forth in this DPA. The nature of processing includes, without limitation: - Receiving data, including collection, accessing, retrieval, recording, and data entry - Holding data, including storage, organization and structuring - Using data, including analysis, consultation, testing, automated decision making and profiling - Updating data, including correcting, adaptation, alteration, alignment and combination - Protecting data, including restricting, encrypting, and security testing - Returning data to the data exporter or data subject - Erasing data, including destruction and deletion ### Duration of Processing Company will process Personal Data as long as required (i) to provide the Services to Customer under the Agreement; or (ii) by applicable law or regulation. Company Account Data and Company Usage Data will be processed and stored as set forth in Company’s [privacy policy](/privacy/). ### Categories of Data Subjects Customer end-users/customers and/or Customer employees. ### Categories of Personal Data Company processes Personal Data contained in Company Account Data, Company Usage Data, and any Personal Data provided by Customer (including any Personal Data Customer collects from its end users and processes through its use of the Services) or collected by Company in order to provide the Services or as otherwise set forth in the Agreement or this DPA. Categories of Personal Data include name, location, email address and ORCID. ### Sensitive Data or Special Categories of Data None ## Exhibit B — List of Parties and Description of the Transfer The following includes the information required by Annex I and Annex III of the EU SCCs, and Table 1, Annex 1A, and Annex 1B of the UK Addendum. ### The Parties Data exporter(s): - Name: The Customer, as identified in the Agreement - Address: The Customer’s address - Contact person’s name, position and contact details: The Customer’s contact details, as set out in the Agreement. - Role (controller/processor): Controller (either as the Controller; or acting in the capacity of a Controller, as a Processor, on behalf of another Controller) - Activities relevant to the data transferred under these Clauses: Processing of Data in connection with Customer’s use of the Services under the Agreement Data importer(s): Valency Systems Inc. - Name: FAO “Privacy Officer” at [support@valency.io](mailto:support@valency.io) - Address: 2168 Shattuck Avenue, Ste 300, Berkeley California, 94704 - Role (controller/processor): Processor - Activities: Processing of Data in connection with Customer’s use of the Services under the Agreement. ### Description of the Transfer Data SubjectsAs described in Exhibit A of the DPA Categories of Personal DataAs described in Exhibit A of the DPA Special Category Personal Data (if applicable)As described in Exhibit A of the DPA Nature of the ProcessingAs described in Exhibit A of the DPA Purposes of ProcessingAs described in Exhibit A of the DPA Duration of Processing and Retention (or the criteria to determine such period)As described in Exhibit A of the DPA Frequency of the transferAs necessary to perform all obligations and rights with respect to Personal Data as provided in the Agreement or DPA Recipients of Personal Data Transferred to the Data ImporterCompany will maintain and provide a list of its Subprocessors upon request. ### Competent Supervisory Authority The supervisory authority shall be the supervisory authority of the Data Exporter, as determined in accordance with Clause 13 of the EU SCCs. The supervisory authority for the purposes of the UK Addendum shall be the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. ### List of Authorized Subprocessors A list of Company’s current Authorized Subprocessors (the “List”) will be made available to Customer via email to [support@valency.io](mailto:support@valency.io) using subject line “Authorized Subprocessors List Request”. ## Exhibit C — Technical and Organisational Security Measures Description of the Technical and Organisational Security Measures implemented by the Data Importer. The following includes the information required by Annex II of the EU SCCs and Appendix II of the UK Addendum. Technical and Organizational Security Measure Details Measures of pseudonymisation and encryption of personal dataPersonal data that is external facing is encrypted in transit and at rest using industry-standard algorithms (TLS 1.2+, AES-256); identifiers are pseudonymised or tokenised where processing does not require direct identification. Measures for ensuring ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of processing systems and servicesServices run on AWS infrastructure across redundant infrastructure with automated health monitoring, alerting, and documented incident response procedures. Measures for ensuring the ability to restore the availability and access to personal data in a timely manner in the event of a physical or technical incidentAutomated encrypted backups are taken regularly with defined RPO/RTO targets and periodic restoration testing. Processes for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organizational measures in order to ensure the security of the processingSOC 2 Type 1 certification efforts underway with continuous control monitoring via Vanta. Measures for user identification and authorizationRole-based access control on least-privilege principles, SSO with mandatory multi-factor authentication, and periodic access reviews with prompt deprovisioning on role change or termination. Measures for the protection of data during transmissionAll external data in transit is encrypted over TLS 1.2 or higher; unencrypted protocols are disabled. Measures for the protection of data during storageData at rest is encrypted in line with best practices. Measures for ensuring physical security of locations at which personal data are processedProduction data is hosted in AWS data centres with 24/7 monitoring, biometric/keycard access control and access logging; corporate offices use keycard entry and a managed, segmented network. Measures for ensuring events loggingApplication, infrastructure and administrative access events are centrally logged, and monitored for anomalous activity. Measures for ensuring system configuration, including default configurationInfrastructure is provisioned from version-controlled, hardened baseline configurations with change management review; managed endpoints are monitored for configuration compliance via Vanta Device Monitor. Measures for internal IT and IT security governance and managementA documented information security program with assigned ownership, written policies reviewed at least annually, and formal risk assessment and vendor review processes. Measures for certification/assurance of processes and productsSOC 2 Type 1 certification efforts underway with continuous control monitoring via Vanta. Measures for ensuring data minimisationOnly personal data necessary to deliver the contracted service is collected and processed; collection is reviewed at design stage and unnecessary fields are not captured. Measures for ensuring data qualityInput validation, schema constraints, and customer-facing controls allowing correction or update of personal data. Measures for ensuring limited data retentionCustomer data is retained only for the term of the agreement plus a defined post-termination window, after which it is deleted or anonymised per the documented retention schedule. Measures for ensuring accountabilityMandatory security and privacy training at onboarding and annually. Measures for allowing data portability and ensuring erasureCustomer data can be exported in structured, machine-readable format on request, and deleted within 30 days of a verified deletion request or contract termination. Technical and organizational measures of subprocessorsCompany enters into data processing agreements with its Authorized Subprocessors with data protection obligations substantially similar to those contained in this DPA. ## Exhibit D — UK Addendum International Data Transfer Addendum to the EU Commission Standard Contractual Clauses. ### Part 1: Tables #### Table 1: Parties Start DateThis UK Addendum shall have the same effective date as the DPA The PartiesExporterImporter Parties’ DetailsCustomerCompany Key ContactSee Exhibit B of this DPASee Exhibit B of this DPA #### Table 2: Selected SCCs, Modules and Selected Clauses EU SCCsThe Version of the Approved EU SCCs which this UK Addendum is appended to as defined in the DPA and completed by Sections 9.2 and 9.3 of the DPA. #### Table 3: Appendix Information Annex 1A: List of PartiesAs per Table 1 above Annex 1B: Description of TransferSee Exhibit B of this DPA Annex II: Technical and organisational measures including technical and organisational measures to ensure the security of the dataSee Exhibit C of this DPA Annex III: List of Sub processors (Modules 2 and 3 only)See Exhibit B of this DPA #### Table 4: Ending this UK Addendum when the Approved UK Addendum Changes Ending this UK Addendum when the Approved UK Addendum changes ☒ Importer ☒ Exporter ☐ Neither Party ### Part 2: Mandatory Clauses The Mandatory Clauses of the UK Addendum are incorporated herein by reference. Always current # The Home for People-Centered, AI-Accelerated Research Valency is the foundation for the new era of exploration and innovation. 450+ million papers and preprints, indexed as new work appears. [Get free access](https://app.valency.io/start) In use by researchers at major research, academic, and R&D organizations ## Modern AI reasoning systems are a powerful new accelerant for science. But LLMs were trained on yesterday's science, not today's. The fix is not a bigger model. It is a live loop between research and the tools that reason over it. Today, Valency Bond™ gives any LLM semantic access to every public preprint, within hours of posting. Science has always been a team sport. The instruments got bigger. Photo: NASA/Chris Gunn 35M Roughly 35 million researchers[*](#footnote-researchers) worldwide who need infrastructure grounded in real, current research, not hallucinations. (*) How many people in the world do research and development? Glob Policy. 2023 Feb 8;14(2):270–287. doi: [10.1111/1758-5899.13182](https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13182) (Table 6) “Valency has transformed how I approach literature discovery, compressing what used to take days of manual searching into a few targeted queries taking minutes. Having cross-corpus semantic search and citation graph tools in a single interface has meaningfully accelerated the pace at which I can move from a research question to a well-grounded reading list to scientific discovery.” Dr. Peter Nugent, Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ## How Valency works No new model to trust and no data to wrangle. Valency sits between the world's research and the tools you already use, and does three things well. - 01 ### Index the record We continuously ingest papers and preprints from trusted sources and structure them for machines: full text, metadata, versions, and the citation graph. New work becomes searchable within hours, not months. - 02 ### Ground the answer Every result ties back to a real source you can open and cite. Semantic search finds work by meaning, and the citation graph lets you trace an idea in both directions. - 03 ### Reason with confidence Connect Bond to your LLM. You and your agents build on the shoulders of giants with receipts, not on a plausible guess. ## Built for the way researchers work ### Every way you already search Ask in plain language, by author, by field, or by similarity. The same grounded corpus answers all of them. 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By using or accessing our Services in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined below, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use and share your information as described in this Privacy Policy. Remember that your use of Valency’s Services is at all times subject to our [Terms of Use](https://valency.io/terms), which incorporates this Privacy Policy. Any terms we use in this Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in the Terms of Use. You may print or download the [Privacy Policy PDF](/privacy/privacy.pdf). As we continually work to improve our Services, we may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Upon such changes, we will alert you to material changes by placing a notice on the Valency website, by sending you an email and/or by some other means. Please note that if you’ve opted not to receive legal notice emails from us (or you haven’t provided us with your email address), those legal notices will still govern your use of the Services, and you are still responsible for reading and understanding them. If you use the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, that means you agree to all of the changes. - [What this Privacy Policy Covers](#privacy-policy-covers) - [Personal Data](#personal-data) - [Categories of Personal Data We Collect](#personal-data-categories) - [Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting or Disclosing Personal Data](#commercial-purposes) - [Other Permitted Purposes for Processing Personal Data](#permitted-purposes) - [Categories of Sources of Personal Data](#personal-data-sources) - [How We Disclose Your Personal Data](#personal-data-disclosure) - [Tracking Tools, Advertising and Opt-Out](#tracking-tools) - [Data Security](#data-security) - [Data Retention](#data-retention) - [Personal Data of Children](#children) - [U.S. State Privacy Rights](#us-state-rights) - [Exercising Your Rights under U.S. State Privacy Laws](#exercise-state-rights) - [European Union, United Kingdom, and Swiss Data Subject Rights](#eu-uk-rights) - [Contact Information](#contact-information) ## What this Privacy Policy Covers This Privacy Policy covers how we treat Personal Data that we gather when you access or use our Services. “Personal Data” means any information that identifies or relates to a particular individual and also includes information referred to as “personally identifiable information” or “personal information” or “sensitive personal information” under applicable data privacy laws, rules or regulations. This Privacy Policy does not cover the practices of companies we don’t own or control or people we don’t manage. ## Personal Data ### Categories of Personal Data We Collect This chart details the categories of Personal Data that we collect and have collected over the past 12 months: Category of Personal Data (and Examples) Business or Commercial Purpose(s) for Collection Categories of Third Parties With Whom We Disclose this Personal Data Profile or Contact Data such as first and last name, email and unique identifiers such as ORCID. - Providing, Customizing and Improving the Services - Corresponding with You - Service Providers Payment Data such as financial account information, payment card type, last 4 digits of payment card, and billing address, phone number, and email. - Providing, Customizing and Improving the Services - Corresponding with You - Service Providers (specifically our payment processing partner, currently Stripe, Inc.) Web Analytics such as statistics associated with the interaction between device or browser and the Services. - Providing, Customizing and Improving the Services - Corresponding with You - Service Providers Professional or Employment-Related Data such as ORCID. - Providing, Customizing and Improving the Services - Service Providers Geolocation Data such as IP-address-based location information. - Providing, Customizing and Improving the Services - Service Providers ### Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data - Providing, Customizing and Improving the Services - Creating and managing your account or other user profiles. - Processing orders or other transactions; billing. - Providing support and assistance for the Services. - Improving the Services, including testing, research, internal analytics and product development. - Receiving feedback on the Services (including bug reports or satisfaction scores). - Corresponding with You - Responding to correspondence that we receive from you, contacting you when necessary or requested, and sending you information about Valency or the Services. ### Other Permitted Purposes for Processing Personal Data In addition, each of the above referenced categories of Personal Data may be collected, used, and disclosed with the government, including law enforcement, or other parties to meet certain legal requirements and enforcing legal terms including: fulfilling our legal obligations under applicable law, regulation, court order or other legal process, such as preventing, detecting and investigating security incidents and potentially illegal or prohibited activities; protecting the rights, property or safety of you, Valency or another party; enforcing any agreements with you; responding to claims that any posting or other content violates third-party rights; and resolving disputes. We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use the Personal Data we collected for materially different, unrelated or incompatible purposes without providing you notice or obtaining your consent. ### Categories of Sources of Personal Data We collect Personal Data about you from the following categories of sources: - You - When you provide such information directly to us. - When you create an account or use our interactive tools and Services. - When you voluntarily provide information in free-form text boxes through the Services or through responses to surveys or questionnaires. - When you send us an email or otherwise contact us. - When you use the Services and such information is collected automatically. - Through Cookies (defined in the “Tracking Tools, Advertising and Opt-Out” section below). - When you provide information through an AI assistant or other programmatic interface. ## How We Disclose Your Personal Data We disclose your Personal Data to the categories of service providers and other parties listed in this section. Depending on state laws that may be applicable to you, some of these disclosures may constitute a “sale” of your Personal Data. For more information, please refer to the state-specific sections below. - Service Providers. These parties help us provide the Services or perform business functions on our behalf. They include: - Hosting, technology and communication providers. - Analytics providers for web traffic or usage of our Services. - Security and fraud prevention consultants. - Support and customer service vendors. - Product fulfillment and delivery providers. - Payment processors. - Our payment processing partner Stripe, Inc. (“Stripe”) collects your voluntarily-provided payment card information necessary to process your payment. - Please see Stripe’s terms of service and privacy policy for information on its use and storage of your Personal Data. - Parties You Authorize, Access or Authenticate - Third parties you access through the services. ### Legal Obligations We may disclose any Personal Data that we collect with third parties in conjunction with any of the activities set forth under “Other Permitted Purposes for Processing Personal Data” section above. ### Business Transfers All of your Personal Data that we collect may be transferred to a third party if we undergo a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other transaction in which that third party assumes control of our business (in whole or in part). ### Data that is Not Personal Data We may create aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data from the Personal Data we collect, including by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to a particular user. We may use such aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data and disclose it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze, build and improve the Services and promote our business, provided that we will not attempt to reidentify the data and/or disclose such data in a manner that could identify you. ## Tracking Tools, Advertising, and Opt-Out The Services use cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs and JavaScript (collectively, “Cookies”) to enable our servers to recognize your web browser, tell us how and when you visit and use our Services, analyze trends, learn about our user base and operate and improve our Services. Cookies are small pieces of data, usually text files, placed on your computer, tablet, phone or similar device when you use that device to access our Services. We may also supplement the information we collect from you with information received from third parties, including third parties that have placed their own Cookies on your device(s). Please note that because of our use of Cookies, the Services do not support “Do Not Track” requests sent from a browser at this time. We use the following types of Cookies: - Essential Cookies. Essential Cookies are required for providing you with features or services that you have requested. For example, certain Cookies enable you to log into secure areas of our Services. Disabling these Cookies may make certain features and services unavailable. - Performance/Analytical Cookies. Performance/Analytical Cookies allow us to understand how visitors use our Services. They do this by collecting information about the number of visitors to the Services, what pages visitors view on our Services and how long visitors are viewing pages on the Services. Performance/Analytical Cookies also help us measure the performance of our advertising campaigns in order to help us improve our campaigns and the Services’ content for those who engage with our advertising. For example, Google LLC (“Google”) uses cookies in connection with its Google Analytics services. Google’s ability to use and disclose information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the Services is subject to the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You have the option to opt-out of Google’s use of Cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page at www.google.com/privacy_ads.html or the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You can decide whether or not to accept Cookies through your internet browser’s settings. Most browsers have an option for turning off the Cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new Cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allow you to decide on acceptance of each new Cookie in a variety of ways. You can also delete all Cookies that are already on your device. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our website and some of the Services and functionalities may not work. To find out more information about Cookies generally, including information about how to manage and delete Cookies, please visit allaboutcookies.org or ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies if you are located in the European Union. ## Data Security We seek to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use and disclosure using appropriate physical, technical, organizational and administrative security measures based on the type of Personal Data and how we are processing that data. You should also help protect your data by appropriately selecting and protecting your password and/or other sign-on mechanism; limiting access to your computer or device and browser; and signing off after you have finished accessing your account. Although we work to protect the security of your account and other data that we hold in our records, please be aware that no method of transmitting data over the internet or storing data is completely secure. ## Data Retention We retain Personal Data about you for as long as necessary to provide you with our Services or to perform our business or commercial purposes for collecting your Personal Data. When establishing a retention period for specific categories of data, we consider who we collected the data from, our need for the Personal Data, why we collected the Personal Data, and the sensitivity of the Personal Data. In some cases we retain Personal Data for longer, if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or collect fees owed, or is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule or regulation. We may further retain information in an anonymous or aggregated form where that information would not identify you personally. For example: - We retain your profile information and credentials for as long as you have an account with us. - Web and tool usage analytics. ## Personal Data of Children As noted in the Terms of Use, we do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data from children under 16 years of age; if you are a child under the age of 16, please do not attempt to register for or otherwise use the Services or send us any Personal Data. If we learn we have collected Personal Data from a child under 16 years of age, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 16 years of age may have provided Personal Data to us, please contact us at support@valency.io. ## U.S. State Privacy Rights If you reside in certain U.S. states such as California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia you may have certain rights afforded to you (as described below) depending on your state of residence. Please see the ‘Exercising Your Rights under U.S. State Privacy Laws’ section below for instructions regarding how to exercise these rights. Please note that we may process Personal Data of our customers’ end users or employees in connection with our provision of certain services for our customers. If we are processing your Personal Data as a service provider, you should contact the entity that collected your Personal Data in the first instance to address your rights with respect to such data. Please note that your rights may be subject to certain conditions or exceptions in accordance with applicable U.S. State Privacy Laws. If you have any questions about this section or whether any of the following rights apply to you, please contact us at support@valency.io. - Access: You may have the right to request confirmation of or access to the Personal Data that we process about you. You can also request access to a portable copy of your Personal Data. If you are a Minnesota or Oregon resident, you also have the right to request a list of specific third parties, other than natural persons, to whom we have disclosed your Personal Data (subject to exceptions in accordance with applicable law). - Deletion: You may have the right to request that we delete the Personal Data that we have collected about you. - Correction: You may have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate Personal Data we have collected about you. - Portability: You may have the right to request a copy of your Personal Data in a machine-readable format, to the extent technically feasible. ### “Selling,” “Sharing,” or “Targeted Advertising” Depending on your state of residence, you may have the right to opt out from the “sale,” “share,” or disclosure of your Personal Data for the purposes of targeted advertising. These or similar terms may be defined differently depending the applicable U.S. State Privacy Law. You have the right to opt-out of the sale or share of your Personal Data by following the instructions in the “Exercising Your Rights under U.S. State Privacy Laws” section. Once you have submitted an opt-out request, we will not ask you to reauthorize the sale of your Personal Data for at least 12 months. We do not sell, share, or process your Personal Data for the purposes of targeted advertising, and have not done so over the last 12 months. ### Automated Decision Making and Profiling Depending on the state of your residence, you may have the right to opt-out the use of automated decision making technology or from the processing of your Personal Data for the purposes of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects to you, if applicable. However, we do not process your Personal Data in this manner. ### Anti-Discrimination We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under applicable privacy laws. We will not deny you our goods or services, charge you different prices or rates, or provide you a lower quality of goods and services if you exercise your rights under applicable privacy laws. However, we may offer different tiers of our Services as allowed by applicable data privacy laws with varying prices, rates or levels of quality of the goods or services you receive related to the value of Personal Data that we receive from you. ### Other State-Specific Privacy Rights Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to contact us to prevent disclosure of Personal Data to third parties for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes; in order to submit such a request, please contact us at support@valency.io. Your browser may offer you a “Do Not Track” option, which allows you to signal to operators of websites and web applications and services that you do not wish such operators to track certain of your online activities over time and across different websites. Our Services do not support Do Not Track requests at this time. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” you can visit allaboutdnt.com. Please note that we do not currently sell your Personal Data as sales are defined in Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A. ## Exercising Your Rights under U.S. State Privacy Laws To exercise the rights described in this Privacy Policy, you or your Authorized Agent (if applicable and as defined below), must send us a request that (1) provides sufficient information to allow us to verify that you are the person about whom we have collected Personal Data (such as your Contact or Profile Data), and (2) describes your request in sufficient detail to allow us to understand, evaluate and respond to it. Each request that meets both of these criteria will be considered a “Valid Request.” We may not respond to requests that do not meet these criteria. We will only use Personal Data provided in a Valid Request to verify your identity and complete your request. You do not need an account to submit a Valid Request. We will work to respond to your Valid Request within the time period required by applicable privacy laws. We will not charge you a fee for making a Valid Request unless your Valid Request(s) is excessive, repetitive or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that your Valid Request warrants a fee, we will notify you of the fee and explain that decision before completing your request. ### Request to Access, Delete, Correct As applicable, you may submit a Valid Request for your right to access, delete, correct, or obtain a copy of your Personal Data described in this Privacy Policy by using the following methods: - Email us at: support@valency.io - Submit a form at this address: 2168 Shattuck Ave., Suite 300, Berkeley, CA 94704-1373 If you are a California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, or Texas resident, you may also authorize an agent (an “Authorized Agent”) to exercise your rights on your behalf. To do this, you must provide your Authorized Agent with written permission to exercise your rights on your behalf, and we may request a copy of this written permission from your Authorized Agent when they make a request on your behalf. ### Appealing a Denial If you are a Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, or Virginia resident and we refuse to take action on your request within a reasonable period of time after receiving your request in accordance with this section, you may appeal our decision. In such appeal, you must (1) provide sufficient information to allow us to verify that you are the person about whom the original request pertains and to identify the original request, and (2) provide a description of the basis of your appeal. Please note that your appeal will be subject to your rights and obligations afforded to you under the U.S. State Privacy Laws (as applicable). We will respond to your appeal within the time period required under the applicable law. You can submit a Verified Request to appeal by the following methods: - Email us at: support@valency.io (title must include “[STATE OF RESIDENCE] Appeal”) - Mail request to: 2168 Shattuck Ave., Suite 300, Berkeley, CA 94704-1373 If we deny your appeal, you have the right to contact the Attorney General of your State, including by the following links: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. ## European Union and United Kingdom Data Subject Rights ### European Union and United Kingdom Residents If you are a resident of the European Union (“EU”), United Kingdom (“UK”), Liechtenstein, Norway or Iceland, you may have additional rights under the EU or UK General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) with respect to your Personal Data, as outlined below. For this section, we use the terms “Personal Data” and “processing” as they are defined in the GDPR, but “Personal Data” generally means information that can be used to individually identify a person, and “processing” generally covers actions that can be performed in connection with data such as collection, use, storage and disclosure. Valency will be the controller of your Personal Data processed in connection with the Services. If there are any conflicts between this section and any other provision of this Privacy Policy, the policy or portion that is more protective of Personal Data shall control to the extent of such conflict. If you have any questions about this section or whether any of the following applies to you, please contact us at support@valency.io. Note that we may also process Personal Data of our customers’ end users or employees in connection with our provision of certain services to customers, in which case we are the processor of Personal Data. If we are the processor of your Personal Data (i.e., not the controller), please contact the controller party in the first instance to address your rights with respect to such data. ### Personal Data We Collect The “Categories of Personal Data We Collect” section above details the Personal Data that we collect from you. ### Personal Data Use and Processing Grounds The “Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data” section above explains how we use your Personal Data. We will only process your Personal Data if we have a lawful basis for doing so. Lawful bases for processing include consent, contractual necessity and our “legitimate interests” or the legitimate interest of others, as further described below. - Contractual Necessity: We process the following categories of Personal Data as a matter of “contractual necessity”, meaning that we need to process the data to perform under our Terms of Use with you, which enables us to provide you with the Services. When we process data due to contractual necessity, failure to provide such Personal Data will result in your inability to use some or all portions of the Services that require such data. - Profile or Contact Data, such as first and last name, email address, username, and ORCID. - Legitimate Interest: We process the following categories of Personal Data when we believe it furthers the legitimate interest of us or third parties: - Profile or Contact Data, such as first and last name, email address, username, and ORCID. - Web Analytics, such as statistics associated with the interaction between device or browser and the Services. - We may also de-identify or anonymize Personal Data to further our legitimate interests. Examples of these legitimate interests include (as described in more detail above): - Providing, customizing and improving the Services. - Corresponding with you. - Meeting legal requirements and enforcing legal terms. - Completing corporate transactions. - Consent: In some cases, we process Personal Data based on the consent you expressly grant to us at the time we collect such data. When we process Personal Data based on your consent, it will be expressly indicated to you at the point and time of collection. - Other Processing Grounds: From time to time we may also need to process Personal Data to comply with a legal obligation, if it is necessary to protect the vital interests of you or other data subjects, or if it is necessary for a task carried out in the public interest. ### Disclosing Personal Data The “How We Disclose Your Personal Data” section above details how we disclose your Personal Data with third parties. ### EU, UK and Swiss Data Subject Rights You have certain rights with respect to your Personal Data, including those set forth below. For more information about these rights, or to submit a request, please email us at support@valency.io. Please note that in some circumstances, we may not be able to fully comply with your request, such as if it is frivolous or extremely impractical, if it jeopardizes the rights of others, or if it is not required by law, but in those circumstances, we will still respond to notify you of such a decision. In some cases, we may also need you to provide us with additional information, which may include Personal Data, if necessary to verify your identity and the nature of your request. - Access: You can request more information about the Personal Data we hold about you and request a copy of such Personal Data. - Rectification: If you believe that any Personal Data we are holding about you is incorrect or incomplete, you can request that we correct or supplement such data. - Erasure: You can request that we erase some or all of your Personal Data from our systems. - Withdrawal of Consent: If we are processing your Personal Data based on your consent (as indicated at the time of collection of such data), you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note, however, that if you exercise this right, you may have to then provide express consent on a case-by-case basis for the use or disclosure of certain of your Personal Data, if such use or disclosure is necessary to enable you to utilize some or all of our Services. - Portability: You can ask for a copy of your Personal Data in a machine-readable format. You can also request that we transmit the data to another controller where technically feasible. - Objection: You can contact us to let us know that you object to the further use or disclosure of your Personal Data for certain purposes, such as for direct marketing purposes. - Restriction of Processing: You can ask us to restrict further processing of your Personal Data. - Right to File Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint about Valency’s practices with respect to your Personal Data with the supervisory authority of your country or EU Member State. A list of Supervisory Authorities is available here: edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/our-members_en. - Right to object to automated decision-making and profiling: Individuals can object to decisions made solely by automated means without human involvement, including by profiling. As we do not conduct automated decision-making or profiling, we do not offer a way to exercise this right. ### Transfers of Personal Data The Services are hosted and operated in the United States (“U.S.”) through Valency and its service providers, and if you do not reside in the U.S., laws in the U.S. may differ from the laws where you reside. By using the Services, you acknowledge that any Personal Data about you, regardless of whether provided by you or obtained from a third party, is being provided to Valency in the U.S. and will be hosted on U.S. servers, and you authorize Valency to transfer, store and process your information to and in the U.S., and possibly other countries. In some circumstances, your Personal Data may be transferred to a subprocessor in the U.S. pursuant to a data processing agreement incorporating standard data protection clauses. ## Contact Information If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Data or your choices and rights regarding such collection and use, please do not hesitate to contact us at: - support@valency.io - 2168 Shattuck Ave., Suite 300, Berkeley, CA, USA 94704-1373 ## EU and UK Representative Contact Information If you are located in the EU or UK you may use the following information to contact our EU or UK-Based Member Representative: - Send an email to DataRep at datarequest@datarep.com quoting Valency Systems Inc. in the subject line, - Use the online webform at www.datarep.com/data-request/, or - Mail your inquiry, addressed to “DataRep”, at the most convenient of these addresses: - EU: DataRep, The Cube, Monahan Road, Cork, T12 H1XY, Republic of Ireland - UK: DataRep, 107-111 Fleet Street, London, EC4A 2AB, United Kingdom Who we are # Building the foundation for people-centered, AI-accelerated research Valency was founded on a simple conviction: the new era of AI-accelerated science is still, and will be, fundamentally a human-centered endeavor. We are a Berkeley-based team building the connective tissue between the world's research and the tools that reason over it. ## What we believe A few convictions shape everything we build. They are why Valency looks the way it does. ### Right, not right-sounding A confident guess is not good enough for science. Every answer we serve traces back to a real source, with the provenance and citations to prove it, so researchers can check our work the way they check anyone's. ### Science moves in hours. So do we. A paper posted this morning should be findable this afternoon. We index new work as it appears, because a frontier you reach a quarter late is not the frontier. ### The scientist stays in the loop AI accelerates researchers. It does not replace them. Every product decision starts from that order, and we design for the person doing the science, not around them. ## Leadership We're a small team of scientists and builders who have spent their careers close to research, and to the infrastructure it runs on. Valency is led by enterprise founders with multiple exits. ### Josh Bloom CEO and Co-founder. Josh is an academic and serial entrepreneur. As an astronomy professor at UC Berkeley he has worked in the interface between time-domain and compact-object astrophysics. He received the Pierce Prize from the American Astronomical Society and is a former Hertz Foundation Fellow, Sloan Foundation Fellow, and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society. He holds a PhD from Caltech, MPhil from Cambridge, and AB from Harvard. Before founding Valency, his previous AI-for-customer-support company, wise.io, was acquired by GE. ### Ryan Anderson COO and Co-founder. Ryan leads operations and enterprise strategy for Valency. He was an Architect in Residence at IBM, IBM CTO for the Palo Alto Networks ecosystem, and senior director of R&D and Data Science at Connect Solutions. His IBM edge computing team was a founding member of the Linux Foundation's LF Edge, and he served on the LF Edge board. He holds an MBA from Cambridge University. ### Karthik Ram Head of Science. Karthik sets the direction for what the company builds across product, engineering, and marketing. His focus is on making AI actually useful for research: tools that meet scientists where they already work. He has founded and led national initiatives for open science and research software sustainability, and holds a PhD in Ecology and Evolution from UC Davis. He is a senior fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science. ### Matt Work Chief Revenue Officer. Matt is a technology executive and entrepreneur who has built and scaled numerous software, data, and AI businesses. Before joining Valency, he co-founded Mechanical Orchard leading operations, strategy, and financing behind its mission to modernize legacy mainframe systems. Prior to that he was CEO of Discovery Mining, an e-discovery SaaS company acquired by Interwoven; VP of Strategy at Cognizant; and head of research at Alexa Internet. ## How we work Building infrastructure for science means holding ourselves to the standards of the people who use it. ### Build with researchers, not just for them We design alongside working scientists at universities and national labs, and ship against real workflows instead of imagined ones. Their feedback sets our roadmap. ### Ship grounded We would rather say "we don't know yet" than emit something plausible and wrong. Provenance and correctness come before polish, in the product and in how we talk about it. ### Small team, wide ownership We keep the team small and the ownership broad. Everyone talks to users, everyone touches the product, and good ideas win regardless of who has them. ## Get in touch Press and media: [media@valency.io](mailto:media@valency.io). Labs, institutions, and partnerships: [labs@valency.io](mailto:labs@valency.io). Want to build this with us? See our [open roles](/careers/). # Terms of Use Effective date: 5 May 2026 Welcome to Valency. Please read on to learn the rules and restrictions that govern your use of our website(s), products, services, and applications, including the Valency Bond™ platform (collectively, the “Services”). If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding these terms or the Services, please contact us at: Email: [support@valency.io](mailto:support@valency.io) Address: 2168 Shattuck Ave., Suite 300, Berkeley, California 94704-1373 These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) are a binding contract between you and VALENCY SYSTEMS INC. (“Valency,” “we” and “us”). Your use of the Services in any way means that you agree to all of these Terms, and these Terms will remain in effect while you use the Services. These Terms include the provisions in this document as well as those in the [Privacy Policy](/privacy/). Your use of or participation in certain Services may also be subject to additional policies, rules, and/or conditions (“Additional Terms”), which are incorporated herein by reference, and you understand and agree that by using or participating in any such Services, you agree to also comply with these Additional Terms. Please read these Terms carefully. They cover important information about Services provided to you and any charges, taxes, and fees we bill you. These Terms include information about [future changes to these Terms](#will-these-terms-ever-change), [limitations of liability](#LoL), [a class-action waiver, and resolution of disputes by arbitration instead of in court](#Arbitration). PLEASE NOTE THAT YOUR USE OF AND ACCESS TO OUR SERVICES ARE SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS; IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING, YOU MAY NOT USE OR ACCESS THE SERVICES IN ANY MANNER. ARBITRATION NOTICE AND CLASS-ACTION WAIVER: EXCEPT FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF DISPUTES DESCRIBED IN THE [ARBITRATION AGREEMENT SECTION BELOW](#Arbitration), YOU AGREE THAT DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND US WILL BE RESOLVED BY BINDING, INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AND YOU WAIVE YOUR RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT OR CLASS-WIDE ARBITRATION. You may print or download the [Terms of Use PDF](/terms/terms.pdf). If you use the Services under a separate written agreement with Valency, our [Data Processing Addendum](/dpa/) may also apply. - [Will these Terms ever change?](#will-these-terms-ever-change) - [What about my privacy?](#what-about-my-privacy) - [Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act](#children-privacy) - [What are the basics of using Valency?](#what-are-the-basics-of-using-valency) - [What about messaging?](#what-about-messaging) - [Are there restrictions in how I can use the Services?](#are-there-restrictions-in-how-i-can-use-the-services) - [What are my rights in the Services?](#what-are-my-rights-in-the-services) - [Who is responsible for what I see and do on the Services?](#who-is-responsible-for-what-i-see-and-do-on-the-services) - [Will Valency ever change the Services?](#will-valency-ever-change-the-services) - [Do the Services cost anything?](#do-the-services-cost-anything) - [What if I want to stop using the Services?](#what-if-i-want-to-stop-using-the-services) - [What else do I need to know?](#what-else-do-i-need-to-know) - [Warranty Disclaimer](#warranty-disclaimer) - [Limitation of Liability](#LoL) - [Indemnity](#indemnity) - [Assignment](#assignment) - [Choice of Law](#choice-of-law) - [Arbitration Agreement](#Arbitration) - [Miscellaneous](#miscellaneous) ## Will these Terms ever change? We are constantly trying to improve our Services, so these Terms may need to change along with our Services. We reserve the right to change the Terms at any time, but if we do, we will place a notice on our website located at valency.io, send you an email, and/or notify you by some other means. If you don’t agree with the new Terms, you are free to reject them; unfortunately, that means you will no longer be able to use the Services. If you use the Services in any way after a change to the Terms is effective, that means you agree to all of the changes. Except for changes by us as described here, no other amendment or modification of these Terms will be effective unless in writing and signed by both you and us. ## What about my privacy? Valency takes the privacy of its users very seriously. Read the current [Valency Privacy Policy](/privacy/). ### Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) requires that online service providers obtain parental consent before they knowingly collect personally identifiable information online from children who are under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personally identifiable information from children under 16 years of age; if you are a child under 16 years of age, please do not attempt to register for or otherwise use the Services or send us any personal information. If we learn we have collected personal information from a child under 16 years of age, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 16 years of age may have provided us with personal information, please contact us at [support@valency.io](mailto:support@valency.io). ## What are the basics of using Valency? You may be required to sign up for an account, select a password and username (“Valency User ID”), and provide us with certain information or data, such as your contact information. You promise to provide us with accurate, complete, and updated registration information about yourself. You may not select as your Valency User ID a name that you do not have the right to use, or another person’s name with the intent to impersonate that person. You may not transfer your account to anyone else without our prior written permission. Additionally, you may be able to access certain parts or features of the Services by using your account credentials from other services (each, a “Third-Party Account”), such as those offered by Google and GitHub. By using the Services through a Third-Party Account, you permit us to access certain information from such account for use by the Services. You are ultimately in control of how much information is accessible to us and may exercise such control by adjusting your privacy settings on your Third-Party Account. If you access the Services through AI assistants or automated agents via Valency Bond™, you are responsible for ensuring such access complies with these Terms. You represent and warrant that you are an individual of legal age to form a binding contract (or if not, you’ve received your parent’s or guardian’s permission to use the Services and have gotten your parent or guardian to agree to these Terms on your behalf). You will only use the Services for your own internal use, and not on behalf of or for the benefit of any third party, and only in a manner that complies with all laws that apply to you. The Services are intended primarily for researchers, scientists, and knowledge workers. If your use of the Services is prohibited by applicable laws, then you aren’t authorized to use the Services. We can’t and won’t be responsible for your using the Services in a way that breaks the law. You will not share your Valency User ID, account, or password with anyone, and you must protect the security of your Valency User ID, account, password, and any other access tools or credentials. You’re responsible for any activity associated with your Valency User ID and account. ## What about messaging? As part of the Services, you may receive communications through the Services, including messages that Valency sends you (for example, via email). When signing up for the Services, you will receive a welcome message and instructions on how to stop receiving messages. ## Are there restrictions in how I can use the Services? You represent, warrant, and agree that you will not provide or contribute anything, including any Content (as that term is defined below), to the Services, or otherwise use or interact with the Services, in a manner that: - infringes or violates the intellectual property rights or any other rights of anyone else (including Valency); - violates any law or regulation, including, without limitation, any applicable export control laws, privacy laws, or any other purpose not reasonably intended by Valency; - is dangerous, harmful, fraudulent, deceptive, threatening, harassing, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise objectionable; - jeopardizes the security of your Valency User ID, account, or anyone else’s (such as allowing someone else to log in to the Services as you); - attempts, in any manner, to obtain the password, account, or other security information from any other user; - violates the security of any computer network, or cracks any passwords or security encryption codes; - operates a mailing list, listserv, auto-responder, or any form of unsolicited bulk email (“spam”) on the Services, or any processes that run or are activated while you are not logged into the Services, or that otherwise interfere with the proper working of the Services (including by placing an unreasonable load on the Services’ infrastructure); - “crawls,” “scrapes,” or “spiders” any page, data, or portion of or relating to the Services or Content (through use of manual or automated means), except as expressly permitted through the Valency Bond™ API or other authorized programmatic interfaces; - copies or stores any significant portion of the Content; or - decompiles, reverse engineers, or otherwise attempts to obtain the source code or underlying ideas or information of or relating to the Services. A violation of any of the foregoing is grounds for termination of your right to use or access the Services. ## What are my rights in the Services? The materials displayed or performed or available on or through the Services, including, but not limited to, text, graphics, data, articles, photos, images, illustrations, and so forth (all of the foregoing, the “Content”) are protected by copyright and/or other intellectual property laws. You acknowledge that Content accessible through the Services may include third-party materials from publicly available sources such as arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, and similar repositories (“Third-Party Content”). Valency does not claim ownership of any Third-Party Content. You promise to abide by all copyright notices, trademark rules, information, and restrictions contained in any Content you access through the Services, and you won’t use, copy, reproduce, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, upload, display, license, sell, commercialize, or otherwise exploit for any purpose any Content not owned by you, (i) without the prior consent of the owner of that Content or (ii) in a way that violates someone else’s (including Valency's) rights. Subject to these Terms, we grant each user of the Services a worldwide, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, and non-transferable license to use (i.e., to access, retrieve, search, and display locally) Content solely for the purposes of using the Services. The Services provide a read-only retrieval layer over publicly available third-party sources and do not grant you any ownership rights in Third-Party Content. Use, reproduction, modification, distribution, or storage of any Content for any purpose other than using the Services is expressly prohibited without prior written permission from us or the applicable third-party rights holder. You understand that Valency owns the Services, including the proprietary search, analysis, and retrieval technologies underlying them. You won’t modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce (except as expressly provided in this Section), create derivative works based on, or otherwise exploit any of the Services. The Services may allow you to copy or download certain Content, but please remember that even where these functionalities exist, all the restrictions in this section still apply. ## Who is responsible for what I see and do on the Services? Any information or Content publicly posted or privately transmitted through the Services is the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated, and you access all such information and Content at your own risk, and we aren’t liable for any errors or omissions in that information or Content or for any damages or loss you might suffer in connection with it. The Services retrieve and display Content from third-party sources, and we cannot control and have no duty to take any action regarding how you may interpret and use the Content or what actions you may take as a result of having been exposed to the Content, and you hereby release us from all liability for you having acquired or not acquired Content through the Services. We can’t guarantee the identity of any users with whom you interact in using the Services and are not responsible for which users gain access to the Services. You are responsible for all Content you contribute, in any manner, to the Services, and you represent and warrant you have all rights necessary to do so, in the manner in which you contribute it. The Services may contain links or connections to third-party websites or services that are not owned or controlled by Valency. When you access third-party websites or use third-party services, you accept that there are risks in doing so, and that Valency is not responsible for such risks. Valency has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, accuracy, privacy policies, or practices of or opinions expressed in any third-party websites or by any third party that you interact with through the Services. In addition, Valency will not and cannot monitor, verify, censor, or edit the content of any third-party site or service. We encourage you to be aware when you leave the Services and to read the terms and conditions and privacy policy of each third-party website or service that you visit or utilize. By using the Services, you release and hold us harmless from any and all liability arising from your use of any third-party website or service. Your interactions with organizations and/or individuals found on or through the Services, including payment and delivery of goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such organizations and/or individuals. You should make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any online or offline transaction with any of these third parties. You agree that Valency shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings. If there is a dispute between participants on this site or Services, or between users and any third party, you agree that Valency is under no obligation to become involved. In the event that you have a dispute with one or more other users, you release Valency, its directors, officers, employees, agents, and successors from claims, demands, and damages of every kind or nature, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, disclosed or undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes and/or our Services. You shall and hereby do waive California Civil Code Section 1542 or any similar law of any jurisdiction, which says in substance: “A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party.” ## Will Valency ever change the Services? We’re always trying to improve our Services, so they may change over time. We may suspend or discontinue any part of the Services, or we may introduce new features or impose limits on certain features or restrict access to parts or all of the Services. We’ll try to give you notice when we make a material change to the Services that would adversely affect you, but this isn’t always practical. We reserve the right to remove any Content from the Services at any time, for any reason (including, but not limited to, if someone alleges you contributed that Content in violation of these Terms), in our sole discretion, and without notice. ## Do the Services cost anything? The Services are currently offered free of charge, though we may charge a fee for using the Services in the future. If you are using a free version of the Services, we will notify you before any Services you are then using begin carrying a fee, and if you wish to continue using such Services, you must pay all applicable fees for such Services. Note that if you elect to receive text messages through the Services, data and message rates may apply. Any and all such charges, fees, or costs are your sole responsibility. You should consult with your wireless carrier to determine what rates, charges, fees or costs may apply to your use of the Services. - Paid Services. Certain of our Services may be subject to payments now or in the future (the “Paid Services”). Please note that any payment terms presented to you in the process of using or signing up for a Paid Service are deemed part of these Terms. - Billing. We use a third-party payment processor (the “Payment Processor”) to bill you through a payment account linked to your account on the Services (your “Billing Account”) for use of the Paid Services. The processing of payments will be subject to the terms, conditions and privacy policies of the Payment Processor in addition to these Terms. Currently, we use Stripe, Inc. as our Payment Processor. You can access Stripe’s Terms of Service at [https://stripe.com/us/checkout/legal](https://stripe.com/us/checkout/legal) and Privacy Policy at [https://stripe.com/us/privacy](https://stripe.com/us/privacy). We are not responsible for any error by, or other acts or omissions of, the Payment Processor. By choosing to use Paid Services, you agree to pay us, through the Payment Processor, all charges at the prices then in effect for any use of such Paid Services in accordance with the applicable payment terms, and you authorize us, through the Payment Processor, to charge your chosen payment provider (your “Payment Method”). You agree to make payment using that selected Payment Method. We reserve the right to correct any errors or mistakes that the Payment Processor makes even if it has already requested or received payment. - Payment Method. The terms of your payment will be based on your Payment Method and may be determined by agreements between you and the financial institution, credit card issuer, or other provider of your chosen Payment Method. If we, through the Payment Processor, do not receive payment from you, you agree to pay all amounts due on your Billing Account upon demand. - Current Information Required. YOU MUST PROVIDE CURRENT, COMPLETE, AND ACCURATE INFORMATION FOR YOUR BILLING ACCOUNT. YOU MUST PROMPTLY UPDATE ALL INFORMATION TO KEEP YOUR BILLING ACCOUNT CURRENT, COMPLETE, AND ACCURATE (SUCH AS A CHANGE IN BILLING ADDRESS, CREDIT CARD NUMBER, OR CREDIT CARD EXPIRATION DATE), AND YOU MUST PROMPTLY NOTIFY US OR OUR PAYMENT PROCESSOR IF YOUR PAYMENT METHOD IS CANCELED (E.G., FOR LOSS OR THEFT) OR IF YOU BECOME AWARE OF A POTENTIAL BREACH OF SECURITY, SUCH AS THE UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OR USE OF YOUR USER NAME OR PASSWORD. CHANGES TO SUCH INFORMATION CAN BE MADE AT ACCOUNT SETTINGS. IF YOU FAIL TO PROVIDE ANY OF THE FOREGOING INFORMATION, YOU AGREE THAT WE MAY CONTINUE CHARGING YOU FOR ANY USE OF PAID SERVICES UNDER YOUR BILLING ACCOUNT UNLESS YOU HAVE TERMINATED YOUR PAID SERVICES AS SET FORTH ABOVE. - Change in Amount Authorized. If the amount to be charged to your Billing Account varies from the amount you preauthorized (other than due to the imposition or change in the amount of state sales taxes), you have the right to receive, and we shall provide, notice of the amount to be charged and the date of the charge before the scheduled date of the transaction. Any agreement you have with your payment provider will govern your use of your Payment Method. You agree that we may accumulate charges incurred and submit them as one or more aggregate charges during or at the end of each billing cycle. - Free Trials and Other Promotions. Any free trial or other promotion that provides access to a Paid Service must be used within the specified time of the trial. You must stop using a Paid Service before the end of the trial period in order to avoid being charged for that Paid Service. If you cancel prior to the end of the trial period and are inadvertently charged for a Paid Service, please contact us at [support@valency.io](mailto:support@valency.io). ## What if I want to stop using the Services? You’re free to stop using the services any time by contacting us at [support@valency.io](mailto:support@valency.io); please refer to our [Privacy Policy](/privacy/), as well as the licenses above, to understand how we treat information you provide to us after you have stopped using our Services. Valency is also free to terminate (or suspend access to) your use of the Services or your account for any reason in our discretion, including your breach of these Terms. Valency has the sole right to decide whether you are in violation of any of the restrictions set forth in these Terms. Account termination may result in destruction of any Content associated with your account, so keep that in mind before you decide to terminate your account. If you have deleted your account by mistake, contact us immediately at [support@valency.io](mailto:support@valency.io) and we will try to help, but unfortunately, we can’t promise that we can recover or restore anything. Provisions that, by their nature, should survive termination of these Terms shall survive termination. By way of example, all of the following will survive termination: any obligation you have to pay us or indemnify us, any limitations on our liability, any terms regarding ownership or intellectual property rights, and terms regarding disputes between us, including without limitation to the arbitration agreement. ## What else do I need to know? Warranty Disclaimer. Valency and its licensors, suppliers, partners, parent, subsidiaries, or affiliated entities, and each of their respective officers, directors, members, employees, consultants, contract employees, representatives, and agents, and each of their respective successors and assigns (Valency and all such parties together, the “Valency Parties”) make no representations or warranties concerning the Services, including without limitation regarding any Content contained in or accessed through the Services, and the Valency Parties will not be responsible or liable for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality, or decency of material contained in or accessed through the Services or any claims, actions, suits procedures, costs, expenses, damages, or liabilities arising out of use of, or in any way related to your participation in, the Services. The Services provide retrieval and search capabilities over third-party content sources, and the Valency Parties make no representations or warranties regarding the accuracy, completeness, or currency of any Third-Party Content accessed through the Services. The Valency Parties make no representations or warranties regarding suggestions or recommendations of services or products offered or purchased through or in connection with the Services. THE SERVICES AND CONTENT ARE PROVIDED BY VALENCY (AND ITS LICENSORS AND SUPPLIERS) ON AN “AS-IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR THAT USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON HOW LONG AN IMPLIED WARRANTY LASTS, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. Limitation of Liability. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL THEORY (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, TORT, CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE) SHALL ANY OF THE VALENCY PARTIES BE LIABLE TO YOU OR TO ANY OTHER PERSON FOR (A) ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF GOODWILL, WORK STOPPAGE, ACCURACY OF RESULTS, OR COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, (B) ANY SUBSTITUTE GOODS, SERVICES, OR TECHNOLOGY, (C) ANY AMOUNT, IN THE AGGREGATE, IN EXCESS OF THE GREATER OF (I) ONE-HUNDRED ($100) DOLLARS OR (II) THE AMOUNTS PAID AND/OR PAYABLE BY YOU TO VALENCY IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICES IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTH PERIOD PRECEDING THIS APPLICABLE CLAIM OR (D) ANY MATTER BEYOND OUR REASONABLE CONTROL. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL OR CERTAIN OTHER DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION AND EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold the Valency Parties harmless from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages (actual and consequential), losses, and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) arising from or in any way related to any claims relating to (a) your use of the Services (including any actions taken by a third party using your account), and (b) your violation of these Terms. In the event of such a claim, suit, or action (“Claim”), we will attempt to provide notice of the Claim to the contact information we have for your account (provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not eliminate or reduce your indemnification obligations hereunder). Assignment. You may not assign, delegate, or transfer these Terms or your rights or obligations hereunder, or your Services account, in any way (by operation of law or otherwise) without Valency's prior written consent. We may transfer, assign, or delegate these Terms and our rights and obligations without consent. Choice of Law. These Terms are governed by and will be construed under the Federal Arbitration Act, applicable federal law, and the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to the conflicts of laws provisions thereof. Arbitration Agreement. Please read the following ARBITRATION AGREEMENT carefully because it requires you to arbitrate certain disputes and claims with Valency and limits the manner in which you can seek relief from Valency. Both you and Valency acknowledge and agree that for the purposes of any dispute arising out of or relating to the subject matter of these Terms, Valency's officers, directors, employees, and independent contractors (“Personnel”) are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and that upon your acceptance of these Terms, Personnel will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as the third-party beneficiary hereof. (a) Arbitration Rules; Applicability of Arbitration Agreement. The parties shall use their best efforts to settle any dispute, claim, question, or disagreement arising out of or relating to the subject matter of these Terms directly through good-faith negotiations, which shall be a precondition to either party initiating arbitration. If such negotiations do not resolve the dispute, it shall be finally settled by binding arbitration in Kent County, Delaware. The arbitration will proceed in the English language, in accordance with the JAMS Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures (the “Rules”) then in effect, by one commercial arbitrator with substantial experience in resolving intellectual property and commercial contract disputes. The arbitrator shall be selected from the appropriate list of JAMS arbitrators in accordance with such Rules. Judgment upon the award rendered by such arbitrator may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. (b) Costs of Arbitration. The Rules will govern payment of all arbitration fees. Valency will pay all arbitration fees for claims less than seventy-five thousand ($75,000) dollars. Valency will not seek its attorneys’ fees and costs in arbitration unless the arbitrator determines that your claim is frivolous. (c) Small Claims Court; Infringement. Either you or Valency may assert claims, if they qualify, in small claims court in Kent County, Delaware or any United States county where you live or work. Furthermore, notwithstanding the foregoing obligation to arbitrate disputes, each party shall have the right to pursue injunctive or other equitable relief at any time, from any court of competent jurisdiction, to prevent the actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation or violation of a party's copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents, or other intellectual property rights. (d) Waiver of Jury Trial. YOU AND VALENCY WAIVE ANY CONSTITUTIONAL AND STATUTORY RIGHTS TO GO TO COURT AND HAVE A TRIAL IN FRONT OF A JUDGE OR JURY. You and Valency are instead choosing to have claims and disputes resolved by arbitration. Arbitration procedures are typically more limited, more efficient, and less costly than rules applicable in court and are subject to very limited review by a court. In any litigation between you and Valency over whether to vacate or enforce an arbitration award, YOU AND VALENCY WAIVE ALL RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL, and elect instead to have the dispute be resolved by a judge. (e) Waiver of Class or Consolidated Actions. ALL CLAIMS AND DISPUTES WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THIS ARBITRATION AGREEMENT MUST BE ARBITRATED OR LITIGATED ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT ON A CLASS BASIS. CLAIMS OF MORE THAN ONE CUSTOMER OR USER CANNOT BE ARBITRATED OR LITIGATED JOINTLY OR CONSOLIDATED WITH THOSE OF ANY OTHER CUSTOMER OR USER. If, however, this waiver of class or consolidated actions is deemed invalid or unenforceable, neither you nor Valency is entitled to arbitration; instead, all claims and disputes will be resolved in a court as set forth in (g) below. (f) Opt out. You have the right to opt out of the provisions of this Section by sending written notice of your decision to opt out to the following address: 2168 Shattuck Ave., Suite 300, Berkeley, California 94704-1373 postmarked within thirty (30) days of first accepting these Terms. You must include (i) your name and residence address, (ii) the email address and/or telephone number associated with your account, and (iii) a clear statement that you want to opt out of these Terms’ arbitration agreement. (g) Exclusive Venue. If you send the opt-out notice in (f), and/or in any circumstances where the foregoing arbitration agreement permits either you or Valency to litigate any dispute arising out of or relating to the subject matter of these Terms in court, then the foregoing arbitration agreement will not apply to either party, and both you and Valency agree that any judicial proceeding (other than small claims actions) will be brought in the state or federal courts located in, respectively, Kent County, Delaware, or the federal district in which that county falls. (h) Severability. If the prohibition against class actions and other claims brought on behalf of third parties contained above is found to be unenforceable, then all of the preceding language in this Arbitration Agreement section will be null and void. This arbitration agreement will survive the termination of your relationship with Valency. Miscellaneous. You will be responsible for paying, withholding, filing, and reporting all taxes, duties, and other governmental assessments associated with your activity in connection with the Services, provided that Valency may, in its sole discretion, do any of the foregoing on your behalf or for itself as it sees fit. The failure of either you or us to exercise, in any way, any right herein shall not be deemed a waiver of any further rights hereunder. If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision will be limited or eliminated, to the minimum extent necessary, so that these Terms shall otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable. You and Valency agree that these Terms are the complete and exclusive statement of the mutual understanding between you and Valency, and that these Terms supersede and cancel all previous written and oral agreements, communications, and other understandings relating to the subject matter of these Terms. You hereby acknowledge and agree that you are not an employee, agent, partner, or joint venture of Valency, and you do not have any authority of any kind to bind Valency in any respect whatsoever. Except as expressly set forth in the section above regarding the arbitration agreement, you and Valency agree there are no third-party beneficiaries intended under these Terms. # Open jobs at Valency > Current public roles, generated from Valency's Ashby job board on 2026-08-07. The [live job board](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency) is authoritative. - [Head of Research](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency/9aa80e61-177e-42ca-99eb-99ed5beae94e) — Berkeley, CA; hybrid. - [Senior AI-Native DevOps / Operations Engineer (AMER)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency/71e556f3-23a6-4020-a890-c361f550f136) — Berkeley, CA; hybrid. - [Head of Engineering](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency/8b493887-fff0-4aed-b774-cfaed07cdfbf) — Berkeley, CA; hybrid. - [Open Application — Shape Your Role at Valency](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency/cb376539-f9f7-49c1-a310-cd7ad93cdd13) — Berkeley, CA; hybrid. - [Senior Software Engineer - Backend Systems](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency/9bb9ded7-6d0d-4786-9edc-593b6aff5574) — Berkeley, CA; hybrid. - [Social Media & Video Content Intern](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency/e9861e9b-585e-4c53-85dd-92d067748ad1) — Berkeley, CA; onsite. - [Marketing Manager](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency/a7a7dbdc-e785-4211-a2ba-d872905f4c46) — Berkeley, CA; hybrid. - [GTM Engineer](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency/4598aa34-5bbf-437c-bc96-66405cdbcd44) — Berkeley, CA; hybrid. - [Director of Customer Success](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency/4bc78402-f636-4a29-9847-0922a2318f3d) — Berkeley, CA; hybrid. - [Technical Product Manager](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency/93a4fc35-59f9-4ec6-90d9-98935fe395de) — Berkeley, CA; hybrid.