Terms of service

1. The service

BreakPoint is a platform for the second-chance economy. We help people drop abandoned projects, find them new maintainers, and route them to the people who care. The free tier includes the public feed, the /audit tool, the newsletter, and the adoption board. The one paid product is the Dependency Risk Assessment, a one-time engagement, described in section 5.

2. Your account

• You must be at least 13 years old to use BreakPoint.
• You're responsible for your account and any activity under it.
• Don't impersonate real people (use a real email you control).
• One account per person. No multi-account abuse, no bots.

3. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Submit GitHub orgs you don't own or aren't authorized to audit
• Use the call-request form for spam, sales pitches, or anything unrelated to a project audit
• Scrape, mirror, or systematically copy BreakPoint content without permission
• Attempt to bypass rate limits, access controls, or any security feature
• Submit projects that aren't yours (i.e. don't pretend to be the original creator of someone else's project)
• Use the platform to harass, scam, or harm other users

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these rules, with or without notice.

4. Your content

You keep ownership of what you submit (project stories, comments, etc.). You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free license to display it on BreakPoint, in emails we send you, and in aggregated statistics (anonymized, no personal info).

If you drop a project, you confirm you have the right to do so. If you adopt a project, the original creator's license terms govern what you can do with it.

5. Paid engagements

• The only paid product today is the Dependency Risk Assessment, a one-time engagement priced at $2,500.
• It is not a subscription. There is nothing to renew and nothing to cancel.
• Scope is agreed in writing before work starts: one repository, its direct dependencies scored for bus factor and dormancy, and a remediation plan ranked by critical path.
• We do not offer recurring monitoring, alerting, or a paid tier, and these terms do not create one.
• Payment is arranged directly between you and us. We do not hold funds in escrow and we do not operate a marketplace payment flow.

6. Refunds

If we do not deliver the assessment, you do not pay. Once it is delivered we will work with you on anything materially missing from the agreed scope. For anything else, email [email protected] and we will deal with it individually — there is no automated policy here because there is no subscription to refund.

7. No warranty

BreakPoint is provided "as is." We do our best to keep it accurate and running, but we don't guarantee uninterrupted service, perfect audit accuracy, or any specific business outcome from using the platform. Use it at your own risk.

8. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for any claims arising from your use of BreakPoint is limited to the amount you've paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or $100, whichever is greater.

9. Changes to these terms

We'll update the "Last updated" date when we change these terms. For significant changes (anything that broadens what we restrict or what we can do with your content), we'll email active users at least 14 days before the change takes effect.

10. Contact

Email [email protected] with any question or concern. We respond within 24 hours.