Auctor raises $20M led by Sequoia Capital
Last updated: April 14, 2026
Introduction
These terms of use are entered into by and between you and Auctor AI, Inc. (“Auctor” or “we” or “us” or “our”) and govern your access to and use of https://getauctor.com (our “Website”), including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through our website.
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU START TO USE THE WEBSITE. BY USING THE WEBSITE, OR ANY COMPONENT THEREOF, YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND AND ABIDE BY THESE TERMS OF USE AND OUR PRIVACY POLICY, FOUND AT PRIVACY POLICY, INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE OR THE PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MUST NOT ACCESS OR USE THE WEBSITE.
THESE TERMS OF USE CONTAIN A CLASS ACTION WAIVER AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION TERMS BELOW. PLEASE REVIEW CAREFULLY.
Our website is offered and available to users who are 13 years of age or older. By using the website, you represent and warrant that you meet all of the foregoing eligibility requirements. If you do not meet all of these requirements, you must not access or use the website.
Changes to the Terms of Use
We may revise and update these terms of use from time to time in our sole discretion. All changes are effective immediately when we post them, and apply to all access to and use of the website thereafter. However, any changes to the dispute resolution provisions set out below will not apply to any disputes for which the parties have actual notice on or before the date the change is posted on the website.
Your continued use of the website following the posting of revised terms of use means that you accept and agree to the changes. You are expected to check this page from time to time so you are aware of any changes, as they are binding on you.
Accessing the Website and Account Security
We reserve the right to withdraw or amend the website, and any service or material we provide on the website, in our sole discretion without notice. We will not be liable if, for any reason, all or any part of the website is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict user access, including registered user access, to some parts of the website or the entire website.
You are responsible for both:
• Making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the website.
• Ensuring that all persons who access the website through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and comply with them.
To access the website or some of the resources it offers, you may be asked to provide certain registration details or other information. It is a condition of your use of the website that all the information you provide on the website is correct, current, and complete. You agree that all information you provide to register with the website or otherwise, including, but not limited to, through the use of any interactive features on the website, is governed by our privacy policy, and you consent to all actions we take with respect to your information consistent with our privacy policy.
If you choose, or are provided with, a username, password, or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any other person or entity. You also acknowledge that your account is personal to you and agree not to provide any other person with access to the website or portions thereof using your username, password, or other security information. You agree to notify us of any unauthorized access to or use of your username or password or any other breach of security.
We have the right to disable any username, password, or other identifier, whether chosen by you or provided by us, at any time in our sole discretion for any or no reason, including if, in our opinion, you have violated any provision of these terms of use.
Intellectual Property Rights
The website and its entire contents, features, and functionality (including but not limited to all information, software, text, displays, images, video, and audio, and the design, selection, and arrangement thereof) are owned by Auctor, its licensors, or other providers of such material and are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws.
These terms of use permit you to use the website for your personal, non-commercial use only. You must not reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, store, or transmit any of the material on our website, except as follows:
• Your computer may temporarily store copies of such materials in RAM incidental to your accessing and viewing those materials.
• You may store files that are automatically cached by your web browser for display enhancement purposes.
• You may print or download one copy of a reasonable number of pages of the website for your own personal, non-commercial use and not for further reproduction, publication, or distribution.
• If we provide desktop, mobile, or other applications for download, you may download a single copy to your computer or mobile device solely for your own personal, non-commercial use, provided you agree to be bound by our end user license agreement for such applications.
You must not:
• Modify copies of any materials from the website.
• Use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences, or any graphics separately from the accompanying text.
• Delete or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices from copies of materials from the website.
You must not access or use for any commercial purposes any part of the website or any materials available through the website.
If you print, copy, modify, download, or otherwise use or provide any other person with access to any part of the website in breach of the terms of use, your right to use the website will stop immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made. No right, title, or interest in or to the website or any content on the website is transferred to you, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved by Auctor. Any use of the website not expressly permitted by these terms of use is a breach of these terms and may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws.
Trademarks
The Auctor name, Auctor logo, and all related names, logos, product and service names, designs, and slogans are trademarks of Auctor or its affiliates or licensors. You must not use such marks without the prior written permission of Auctor. All other names, logos, product and service names, designs, and slogans on the website are the trademarks of their respective owners.
Prohibited Uses
You may use the website only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these terms of use. You agree not to use the website:
• In any way that violates any applicable federal, state, local, or international law or regulation (including, without limitation, any laws regarding the export of data or software to and from the US or other countries).
• For the purpose of exploiting, harming, or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable information, or otherwise.
• To transmit, or procure the sending of, any advertising or promotional material, including any "junk mail," "chain letter," "spam," or any other similar solicitation.
• To impersonate or attempt to impersonate Auctor, an Auctor employee, another user, or any other person or entity (including, without limitation, by using email addresses associated with any of the foregoing).
• To engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone's use or enjoyment of the website, or which, as determined by us, may harm Auctor or users of the website, or expose them to liability.
• To stalk or harass any person or entity.
• To forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through the website.
• To engage in activity that may interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of the website or of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
• To disrupt the normal flow of dialogue or act in a manner that negatively affects other users’ ability to engage in real-time exchanges.
• To use the website to advertise or perform any commercial solicitation.
• To systematically retrieve data or other content from the website to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us.
• To use a buying agent or purchasing agent to make purchases on the website.
• To circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the website, including features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of any content or enforce limitations on the use of the website.
• To engage in any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to send comments or messages, or using any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.
• To use the website as part of any effort to compete with us or otherwise use the website for any revenue-generating endeavor or commercial enterprise.
• To decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the website.
• To attempt to bypass any measures of the website designed to prevent or restrict access to the website, or any portion of the website.
• To copy or adapt the website’s software, including but not limited to Flash, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, or other code.
• To upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) viruses, Trojan horses, or other material, including excessive use of capital letters and spamming (continuous posting of repetitive text) that interferes with any party’s uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the website or modifies, impairs, disrupts, alters, or interferes with the use, features, functions, operation, or maintenance of the website.
• To upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) any material that acts as a passive or active information collection or transmission mechanism, including without limitation, clear graphics interchange formats (“gifs”), 1×1 pixels, web bugs, cookies, or other similar devices (sometimes referred to as “spyware” or “passive collection mechanisms” or “pcms”).
Additionally, you agree not to:
• Use the website in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage, or impair the site or interfere with any other party's use of the website, including their ability to engage in real-time activities through the website.
• Use any robot, spider, or other automatic device, process, or means to access the website for any purpose, including monitoring or copying any of the material on the website.
• Use any manual process to monitor or copy any of the material on the website, or for any other purpose not expressly authorized in these terms of use, without our prior written consent.
• Use any device, software, or routine that interferes with the proper working of the website.
• Introduce any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage, or disrupt any parts of the website, the server on which the website is stored, or any server, computer, or database connected to the website.
• Attack the website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.
• Otherwise attempt to interfere with the proper working of the website.
Automated queries may never be sent by you to our website, or any component thereof, unless Auctor has provided you with express written permission. “Sending automated queries” includes, among other things:
1. Using any software which sends queries to our website to determine how a Website or webpage “ranks” for various queries;
2. “Metasearching”; and
3. Performing “offline” searches on the website.
You agree to (i) only access and use the website through interfaces provided by Auctor; and (ii) comply with the instructions in any robots.txt file present on the website.
Monitoring and Enforcement; Termination
We have the right to:
• Take appropriate legal action, including without limitation, referral to law enforcement, for any illegal or unauthorized use of the website.
• Terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the website for any or no reason, including without limitation, any violation of these terms of use.
Without limiting the foregoing, we have the right to cooperate fully with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or other information of anyone posting any materials on or through the website. YOU WAIVE AND HOLD HARMLESS AUCTOR AND ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSEES, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS FROM ANY CLAIMS RESULTING FROM ANY ACTION TAKEN BY ANY OF THE FOREGOING PARTIES DURING, OR TAKEN AS A CONSEQUENCE OF, INVESTIGATIONS BY EITHER SUCH PARTIES OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.
Reliance on Information Posted
The information presented on or through the website is made available solely for general information purposes. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of this information. Any reliance you place on such information is strictly at your own risk. We disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by you or any other visitor to the Website, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
The website may include content provided by third parties, including materials provided by other users, bloggers, and third-party licensors, syndicators, aggregators, and/or reporting websites. All statements and/or opinions expressed in these materials, and all articles and responses to questions and other content, other than the content provided by Auctor, are solely the opinions and the responsibility of the person or entity providing those materials. These materials do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Auctor. We are not responsible, or liable to you or any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials provided by any third parties.
Changes to the Website
We may update the content on the website from time to time, but its content is not necessarily complete or up-to-date. Any of the material on the website may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material. We may modify any feature or functionality of the website or any part thereof with or without notice.
Information About You and Your Visits to the Website
All information we collect on the website is subject to our Privacy Policy. By using the website, you consent to all actions taken by us with respect to your information in compliance with the Privacy Policy.
Linking to the Website and Social Media Features
You may link to our homepage, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval, or endorsement on our part without our express written consent.
This Website may provide certain social media features that enable you to:
• Link from your own or certain third-party websites to certain content on the website.
• Send emails or other communications with certain content, or links to certain content, on the website.
• Cause limited portions of content on the website to be displayed or appear to be displayed on your own or certain third-party websites.
You may use these features solely as they are provided by us and otherwise in accordance with any additional terms and conditions we provide with respect to such features. Subject to the foregoing, you must not:
• Establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
• Cause the website or portions thereof to be displayed on, or appear to be displayed by, any other site, for example, framing, deep linking, or in-line linking.
• Link to any part of the website other than the homepage.
• Otherwise take any action with respect to the materials on the website that is inconsistent with any other provision of these terms of use.
You agree to cooperate with us in causing any unauthorized framing or linking immediately to stop. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
We may disable all or any social media features and any links at any time without notice in our discretion.
Links from the Website
If the website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your convenience only. This includes links contained in advertisements, including banner advertisements and sponsored links. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. If you decide to access any of the third-party websites linked to this Website, you do so entirely at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of use for such websites.
Geographic Restrictions
Auctor is based in the United States. We make no claims that the Website or any of its content is accessible or appropriate outside of the United States. Access to the website may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access the website from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.
Disclaimer of Warranties
You understand that we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading from the internet or the website will be free of viruses or other destructive code. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for anti-virus protection and accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to our site for any reconstruction of any lost data. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY A DISTRIBUTED DENIAL-OF-SERVICE ATTACK, VIRUSES, OR OTHER TECHNOLOGICALLY HARMFUL MATERIAL THAT MAY INFECT YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, DATA, OR OTHER PROPRIETARY MATERIAL DUE TO YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE OR YOUR DOWNLOADING OF ANY MATERIAL POSTED ON IT, OR ON ANY WEBSITE LINKED TO IT.
YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT, AND ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT, AND ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. NEITHER AUCTOR NOR ANY PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH AUCTOR MAKES ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION WITH RESPECT TO THE COMPLETENESS, SECURITY, RELIABILITY, QUALITY, ACCURACY, OR AVAILABILITY OF THE WEBSITE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, NEITHER AUCTOR NOR ANYONE ASSOCIATED WITH AUCTOR REPRESENTS OR WARRANTS THAT THE WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT, OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE WILL BE ACCURATE, RELIABLE, ERROR-FREE, OR UNINTERRUPTED, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, THAT OUR WEBSITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT THE WEBSITE OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE WILL OTHERWISE MEET YOUR NEEDS OR EXPECTATIONS.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, AUCTOR HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
THE FOREGOING DOES NOT AFFECT ANY WARRANTIES THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
Indemnification
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL AUCTOR AI, INC., ITS AFFILIATES, OR THEIR LICENSORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OFFICERS, OR DIRECTORS BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, UNDER ANY LEGAL THEORY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE WEBSITE, ANY WEBSITES LINKED TO IT, ANY CONTENT ON THE WEBSITE OR SUCH OTHER WEBSITES, INCLUDING ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PERSONAL INJURY, PAIN AND SUFFERING, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF GOODWILL, LOSS OF DATA, AND WHETHER CAUSED BY TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), BREACH OF CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF FORESEEABLE.
THE FOREGOING DOES NOT AFFECT ANY LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
Informal Dispute Resolution
By using the website and agreeing to these terms of use, you agree that prior to filing any claim, lawsuit, arbitration, or initiating any other legal proceeding relating in any way to the website, our privacy policy, or these terms of use, you will first notify us via email at founders@getauctor.com to inform us of the basis for your complaint and to provide us an opportunity to resolve the dispute informally. Any such notice should include a description of the nature of your complaint, the alleged facts giving rise to it, and the relief you are seeking. You agree that you will not file any claim or complaint in any court or initiate any other legal proceedings, including arbitration, unless at least thirty (30) days have passed from the date we receive your written notice and unless the dispute remains unresolved after such time. Nothing in this section is intended to limit any rights or remedies you may have under applicable law that cannot be waived by contract.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
All matters relating to the website and these terms of use, and any dispute or claim arising therefrom or related thereto (in each case, including non-contractual disputes or claims), shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdiction).
Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of, or related to, these terms of use or the website shall be instituted exclusively in the federal courts of the United States or the courts of the State of New York in each case located in the City of New York and County of New York, although we retain the right to bring any suit, action, or proceeding against you for breach of these terms of use in your country of residence or any other relevant country. You waive any and all objections to the exercise of jurisdiction over you by such courts and to venue in such courts.
Arbitration Clause
Any dispute relating in any way to your visit to the website, these terms of use, or our privacy policy that has not been resolved through the informal dispute resolution mechanism described above shall be submitted to confidential arbitration in the State of New York, except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate Auctor’s intellectual property rights, Auctor may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court in the State of New York, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts.
Arbitration under these terms of use shall not be initiated or proceed until the informal dispute resolution mechanism above has been exhausted. Arbitration under these terms of use shall be conducted under the rules then prevailing in the laws of the State of New York. The arbitrator's award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under these terms of use shall be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to these terms of use, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise.
Class Action Waiver
By agreeing to these terms of use, you agree that you are required to resolve any claim that you may have against Auctor or any of its affiliates on an individual basis, and not as a class, collective, coordinated, consolidated, mass and/or representative action. This class action waiver will preclude you from bringing any class, collective, coordinated, consolidated, mass, and/or representative action against Auctor or any of its affiliates, and also preclude you from participating in or recovering relief in any current or future class, collective, coordinated, consolidated, mass and/or representative action brought against Auctor or any of its affiliates by someone else. Any and all disputes, claims, or controversies between the parties shall be resolved only in individual proceedings. The parties expressly waive the right to have any dispute, claim, or controversy brought, heard, administered, resolved, or arbitrated as a class, collective, coordinated, consolidated, and/or representative action, and neither a court, judge, arbitrator nor an arbitration provider shall have any authority to hear, litigate, arbitrate, or administer any class, collective, coordinated, consolidated, and/or representative action, or to award relief to anyone but the individual in individual proceedings. The parties also expressly waive the right to seek, recover, or obtain any non-individual relief.
A court, tribunal or arbitrator may not preside over any action joining, coordinating, or consolidating the claims of multiple individuals against Auctor in a single proceeding. If there is a final judicial determination that any portion of this class action waiver is unenforceable or unlawful for any reason, (i) any class, collective, coordinated, consolidated, and/or representative claims subject to the unenforceable or unlawful portion(s) shall proceed in a court of competent jurisdiction; (ii) the portion of the class action waiver that is enforceable shall be enforced in a court of competent jurisdiction; (iii) the unenforceable or unlawful portion(s) shall be severed from this class action waiver; and (iv) severance of the unenforceable or unlawful portion(s) shall have no impact whatsoever on the enforceability, applicability, or validity of the class action waiver.
Waiver and Severability
No waiver by Auctor of any term or condition set out in these terms of use shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or a waiver of any other term or condition, and any failure of Auctor to assert a right or provision under these terms of use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
If any provision of these terms of use is held by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent such that the remaining provisions of the terms of use will continue in full force and effect.
Entire Agreement
The terms of use and our privacy policy constitute the sole and entire agreement between you and Auctor regarding the website and supersede all prior and contemporaneous understandings, agreements, representations, and warranties, both written and oral, regarding the website.
Contact Us
To ask questions or comment about these terms of use, contact us at:
Email: ops@getauctor.com
