Terms of Use

Effective Date: September 23, 2026

Welcome to RSearch (“RSearch,” “we,” “our,” or “us”). These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of the RSearch website, installed progressive web app, statistical analysis tools, research-support features, Collaboration workspace, Stats Assist, and related services (collectively, the “Platform”). By using the Platform, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy.

Purpose of RSearch

RSearch is a research analysis and decision-support platform designed to help users prepare data, evaluate method eligibility and assumptions, run qualified statistical procedures, review results, build structural models, create reproducible evidence, prepare research reports, and collaborate on research work.

RSearch supports research judgment; it does not replace theory, research design, methodological training, faculty or supervisory review, institutional requirements, professional advice, or the user’s responsibility to understand and defend analytical decisions.

Eligibility and Lawful Use

• You may use the Platform only for lawful research, educational, professional, or related purposes.
• RSearch is not intended for children under 16.
• You must comply with applicable laws, institutional policies, research ethics requirements, data-use agreements, and permissions governing the information you use.
• You may not interfere with, disrupt, reverse engineer where prohibited by law, abuse, probe, or attempt unauthorized access to the Platform or another user’s account, project, or data.

Research Data and Browser-Local Analysis

Qualified statistical analysis workflows are designed to process raw research rows in the browser on the user’s device. Browser-local processing does not mean that every Platform feature is offline or that the Platform makes no network requests. Account services, Collaboration, support, website delivery, telemetry, and optional external AI assistance use online services as described in the Privacy Policy.

You are responsible for determining whether your dataset may lawfully and ethically be used on your device, for de-identifying or protecting sensitive information where required, and for maintaining your own source files and backups. Browser-local History can retain certified result evidence, but raw dataset rows are not intended to function as a cloud backup and may need to be reopened for new computation.

Statistical Results and Research Responsibility

RSearch provides statistical calculations, eligibility checks, diagnostics, explanations, reporting support, and reproducible evidence to assist research decisions. Statistical output can still be affected by data quality, coding, model specification, research design, assumptions, user selections, software limitations, and other factors.

You remain responsible for reviewing the data, selecting and justifying methods, evaluating assumptions and model fit, interpreting findings, checking exports and reports, complying with institutional or publication standards, and deciding whether a result is appropriate for a dissertation, manuscript, classroom, business, clinical, policy, or other use.

Stats Assist and Optional AI Assistance

RSearch provides built-in support that can be used without external AI assistance. If you choose optional AI-assisted guidance, RSearch presents a disclosure and consent step before approved context is sent to the external AI service. Raw research rows are excluded from that pathway by the current qualified workflow.

AI-generated explanations may be incomplete, inaccurate, or inappropriate for a particular research context. You must review AI-assisted content against the underlying RSearch evidence, your research design, and applicable academic or professional standards before relying on it.

Accounts and Collaboration

An account is not required for the core browser-local research workflow. A verified identity may be required for features that depend on account identity, including Collaboration. You are responsible for protecting access to your identity-provider account and for activity performed through your authenticated RSearch session.

Collaboration can include shared project notes, invitations, reviewer/editor roles, comments, revision history, approvals, changes-requested decisions, and conflict handling. Project owners and collaborators are responsible for inviting appropriate people, assigning suitable permissions, and avoiding confidential or restricted content that they are not authorized to share.

Your Content

You retain ownership of research content, project notes, feedback, comments, and other material that you submit or create through the Platform, subject to any rights held by your institution, employer, research sponsor, or other party. You grant RSearch a limited, non-exclusive license to host, process, transmit, and display content only as reasonably necessary to operate, secure, support, and improve the features you choose to use.

Do not submit content that infringes another party’s rights, violates confidentiality obligations, contains malware, or is otherwise unlawful.

Installed App, Offline Use, and Updates

RSearch may be installed as a progressive web app and may cache application files and qualified statistical runtime assets on your device. Cached availability does not guarantee that every feature will work offline. Features requiring authentication, Collaboration, support services, external AI, or other network services may require an internet connection.

New Platform versions may be downloaded in the background when your device is online and normally take effect after a reload or later app launch. You are responsible for saving or exporting work you need to retain before clearing browser data, uninstalling the app, changing devices, or otherwise removing local storage.

Intellectual Property

The Platform, including its software, interface, branding, documentation, original text, graphics, and other RSearch-provided materials, is owned by RSearch or its licensors and is protected by applicable intellectual property laws. These Terms do not transfer ownership of the Platform to you.

You may use Platform outputs created from your authorized research work for your own research, teaching, reporting, publication, and professional purposes, subject to applicable third-party rights and institutional requirements.

Third-Party Services

The Platform may use or link to third-party services, including identity providers, hosting providers, analytics services, and optional AI services. Those services are governed by their own terms and privacy practices. RSearch is not responsible for third-party services outside our control.

Availability and Changes to the Platform

RSearch is an evolving platform. Features may be added, changed, qualified, limited, suspended, or removed. Some advanced method combinations may be unavailable when they have not completed RSearch qualification. We do not guarantee uninterrupted access, offline availability of every feature, or compatibility with every device, browser, file, dataset, or research design.

Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Platform is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. RSearch does not warrant that every output, interpretation, recommendation, AI-assisted explanation, or collaboration record will be error-free, complete, or suitable for your particular research purpose.

Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, RSearch will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of data, research work, profits, opportunities, or reputation arising from or related to use of the Platform. Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited.

Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms as the Platform changes. The effective date above identifies the current version. When legally required, we will provide additional notice. Continued use of the Platform after updated Terms take effect means you accept the revised Terms.

Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws applicable to RSearch’s operation, without limiting any rights that cannot be waived under applicable law.

Contact

Questions about these Terms may be submitted through the RSearch Contact page.