Dataset License & Terms of Use

1. Definitions

• “Source Postings” means job postings, listings, descriptions, and related content that originate from third parties, including employer career pages and applicant tracking system (ATS) platforms such as Greenhouse, Workday, Ashby, Lever, SmartRecruiters, iCIMS, BambooHR, and others. Seeker does not own Source Postings.
• “Processed Dataset” means Seeker's structured representation of job market information, reflecting Seeker's original selection, organization, normalization, transformation, and classification of publicly available information, including the results of Seeker's deduplication, skill extraction, taxonomy classification, domain tagging, and record-linkage processes.
• “Derived Analyses” means statistical aggregations, labor-market analyses, derived metrics, trend data, and market intelligence produced by Seeker from the Processed Dataset. Derived Analyses include Seeker's published statistics.
• “Research Articles” means written reports, articles, and editorial content published by Seeker.
• “Seeker Methodologies” means the proprietary methods, pipelines, models, classifiers, taxonomies, and processes Seeker uses to produce the Processed Dataset and Derived Analyses. The Seeker Methodologies are not published and are not licensed for access under Section 2.
• “Published Seeker Materials” means the Processed Dataset outputs, Derived Analyses, published statistics, and Research Articles that Seeker makes publicly available.
• “Seeker Materials” means, collectively, the Published Seeker Materials and the Seeker Methodologies — but expressly excludes the underlying Source Postings, which remain governed by their respective owners' rights and terms.
• “You” means the individual or entity accessing the Seeker Materials.

2. Grant of Limited License

Subject to your compliance with these terms, Seeker grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to:

• Access and view the Published Seeker Materials for personal, internal, journalistic, or academic purposes;
• Cite Seeker Research Articles, statistics, and Derived Analyses with proper attribution (see Section 4);
• Quote reasonable, limited excerpts of Seeker Research Articles and published statistics for the purposes of commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research;
• Link to Seeker pages, articles, and analyses.

This Section grants no rights of access to the Seeker Methodologies, which are not published and are reserved under Section 6. This license extends only to the Published Seeker Materials as Seeker makes them publicly available. It grants no rights in the Source Postings.

3. Restrictions

Except as expressly permitted in Section 2, you may not:

• Copy, extract, or reproduce the Processed Dataset or any substantial portion of it;
• Conduct bulk scraping, automated harvesting, or systematic retrieval of Seeker pages or the Processed Dataset;
• Redistribute, sublicense, publish, or otherwise make available Seeker's corpus or any substantial portion of the Processed Dataset;
• Republish substantial portions of Seeker's Derived Analyses or Research Articles;
• Use the Processed Dataset or Derived Analyses to build, train, populate, or derive a competing dataset, database, index, or product. For clarity, this restriction applies only to Seeker's processed and derived materials and does not restrict independent collection of publicly available information from original sources;
• Resell, license, or commercially exploit the Seeker Materials without Seeker's prior written permission (see Section 7);
• Circumvent, disable, or interfere with any access controls, rate limits, or technical protection measures;
• Remove, obscure, or alter any attribution, copyright, or proprietary notice.

Whether a portion is “substantial” or an excerpt is “reasonable” is assessed by both quantity and qualitative importance to the Seeker Materials.

4. Attribution Policy

When you cite or quote permitted Seeker Materials, you must:

• Attribute the content to “Seeker (seekerscore.com)”;
• Include a link to the specific Seeker page or article where practicable;
• Not imply Seeker's endorsement, affiliation, or verification of your work without written permission;
• Preserve the accuracy and context of any quoted statistic or statement.

Suggested citation format: Seeker, “[Article or Report Title],” seekerscore.com, [URL], accessed [date].

5. Third-Party Data Sources

Seeker aggregates information from publicly available sources, including employer career pages and third-party ATS platforms.

• Ownership of the original Source Postings remains with their respective owners (e.g., employers, ATS providers, or other rights holders) where applicable.
• Seeker does not claim ownership of, and does not grant any rights in, the Source Postings.
• The Source Postings may remain subject to the copyrights, database rights, terms of service, and other terms of their original owners. Your use of any Source Posting content is your responsibility and may require permission from the original owner.
• Seeker's rights, and the license granted in Section 2, apply only to Seeker's own processing, selection, organization, normalization, classification, and analysis — not to the underlying facts or third-party expression contained in the Source Postings.
• Individual facts (such as the existence of a job opening, a job title, or a location) may not be protectable by copyright.
• The same applies to Seeker's own derived facts. Individual derived metrics and published statistics (for example, an aggregate count or a median value) are themselves facts, and Seeker does not claim to own them as facts. Seeker's claim in its Derived Analyses is limited to its original selection, arrangement, and expressive presentation of those analyses (a “thin” compilation copyright), and to the Processed Dataset as a compilation — not to the underlying numbers. The restrictions in Section 3 apply independently of copyright.

If you are a rights holder and believe Seeker has processed content in a manner inconsistent with your rights, contact us at support@seekerscore.com.

6. Copyright & Proprietary Rights Notice

© 2026 Danylchuk Studios LLC. All rights reserved in the Seeker Materials, to the extent protection is available.

• Copyright is asserted in Seeker's genuinely expressive and authorial works: the Research Articles, the original selection and arrangement of the Processed Dataset and Derived Analyses (as compilations), and any Seeker software source code. Copyright is not asserted over individual facts, individual derived statistics, or the ideas, methods, or processes themselves.
• Seeker Methodologies (methods, pipelines, models, classifiers, and processes) are protected as trade secret and by contract, not by copyright over the underlying method or process. Any software code expressing a methodology is protected by copyright in that code.
• Nothing in these terms transfers ownership of the Seeker Materials to you.

This notice does not assert copyright over the underlying Source Postings or over unprotectable facts, including Seeker's own derived statistics considered as facts.

7. Commercial Licensing

Commercial use of the Seeker Materials beyond the limited license in Section 2 — including resale, redistribution, dataset licensing, API-scale access, or incorporation into commercial products — requires a separate written agreement with Seeker.

To request a commercial license, contact support@seekerscore.com.

8. Contact

For licensing requests, permissions, attribution questions, or rights-holder inquiries, contact support@seekerscore.com (Danylchuk Studios LLC).

9. Disclaimers & No Warranty

The Seeker Materials are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Seeker does not warrant that the Seeker Materials are error-free or that any statistic or analysis is suitable for any particular decision.

10. Changes to These Terms

Seeker may update these terms. The “Last Updated” date and version above reflect the current version. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance.

11. Governing Law

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

Appendix: Future Legal Structure

As Seeker grows, this single instrument is expected, as a documentation-only roadmap, to be separated into distinct legal documents, each with the assent model appropriate to its purpose. No sections are moved or split by this appendix.

• Website Terms of Use govern browsing and viewing the public site.
• Dataset License (this document) governs copyright permissions in Seeker's processed and derived materials.
• API Terms govern programmatic access under clickwrap (affirmative assent).
• Enterprise / Commercial License governs commercial redistribution, resale, and bulk data feeds under a signed agreement.