Terms of use

1. Using the site

Whatever appears on geonice.org gives, in good faith, an honest picture of how the practice's work runs as of the time it was written. It does not amount to legal, regulatory, or commercial advice. Anyone acting on what the site says outside an active engagement does so at their own risk.

Scraping the site's content in bulk is off-limits, as is reconstructing the method out of the public pages, and so is reposting lengthy extracts with no attribution. A link or a quotation that names its source clearly is, generally speaking, no problem.

2. The contact form

Sending the form creates no offer, no contract, and no promise on either side. It is purely an orderly channel for handing over context. The practice writes back once that context makes a useful answer possible. The act of submitting, on its own, confers no entitlement to a specific reply, a turnaround time, or a service.

The practice may turn down a message — perhaps it sits outside the work's focus, perhaps present capacity will not stretch to it, or for some other operational reason. A decline carries no verdict on your business; capacity and how well the work fits are usually what tips the decision.

3. How paid work is framed

Paid work gets underway only once both sides have signed a written agreement beforehand. Within it sit the scope, the deliverables, the timing, the amounts, the payment terms, confidentiality, intellectual property, and the route for settling any dispute. These site terms are no substitute for it.

The work is steered by the principles the practice states openly: observation comes before conclusion; the query and the source path are recorded before any repair is floated; language is tested in both French and English; uncertainty is marked rather than hidden; real cases turn into anonymised composites instead of public finger-pointing; and no engagement pledges control over rankings or citation share. When an instruction runs against these principles, the work is either renegotiated or wound down — the principles are not bartered away for the sake of flexibility.

4. No guaranteed result

Your visibility in answer engines and in search turns on forces nobody holds in full: how the models behave, the policies of third-party platforms, the implementation calls you make yourself, the market, and time. Nothing is therefore promised — not a slot in the results, not a citation from a model, not a recommendation, not any particular AI behaviour. What the work does is observe, compare, and describe answer behavior, and point to page and source changes that are likely to make a business easier to interpret; the outcomes themselves stay beyond its steering. Concrete expectations, their limits, and a clearly bounded scope are set down in the written agreement.

5. Liability

Where the site is used free of charge, liability is held to the narrowest the law will permit. Where the work is paid, liability is spelled out and capped within the agreement itself. None of this sets aside liability for deliberate wrongdoing, fraud, gross negligence, or any situation in which the law refuses to allow an exclusion.

6. Governing law

Use of the site is governed by the law of the place where the operator is established, except where consumer-protection law hands you a jurisdiction that suits you better. For paid work, the governing law and the competent court are laid down in the written agreement.

7. Changes to these terms

As the working model evolves, these terms are revised to match. The version in force is the one the "Updated" date at the top indicates. Where a change bears on work already underway, the clients concerned hear of it directly; where it touches the site alone, it shows up here.

Contact

For any question about these terms, reach the practice at hello@geonice.org.