Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a legal agreement between you (or the organization you represent) and Slate, Inc., a Delaware C-corporation with principal offices at 115 Broadway, Suite 1602, New York, NY 10006, United States (“Slate,” “we,” “us,” “our”).

By creating an account or using the Slate platform (the “Service”), you agree to these Terms. If you are entering into these Terms on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you represent that you have the authority to bind that entity, and references to “you” include that entity. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. The Service

Slate is an AI hiring screener, a screening copilot that reads every job application against a defined role, runs a structured and job-relevant screen, and produces a clear, evidence-based summary with the reasons for each candidate.

Slate does not make hiring decisions. It does not auto-reject any candidate. Every read it produces is a starting point for your team’s review, not a final verdict. The Service is designed so that a person, not a model, makes the call on every applicant. You and your organization remain fully responsible for all hiring decisions, and for ensuring those decisions comply with applicable law in your jurisdiction.

Slate is model-agnostic. The screening layer is designed to work across underlying AI models, and we may change the models used to produce reads over time in order to improve quality or reliability. We will not make changes that materially reduce the accuracy or usefulness of the reads without notice.

2. Accounts and Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old and capable of forming a legally binding contract to create an account. Slate is a business product and is not intended for personal, household, or consumer use.

You must provide accurate and complete information when registering and keep that information current. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. If you suspect unauthorized access, contact us immediately at hello@slatescreening.com.

You may not create an account on behalf of a competitor for the purpose of evaluating or reverse-engineering the Service. We reserve the right to refuse, suspend, or terminate accounts at our reasonable discretion, including where these Terms have been violated.

3. Acceptable Use

You may use the Service only for lawful hiring and recruiting purposes. The following restrictions apply:

• No unlawful discrimination. You must not use the Service in a way that violates applicable anti-discrimination law, including US federal and state equal employment opportunity laws and the laws of any other jurisdiction where you operate. The Service is designed to screen on job-relevant evidence only. Do not configure it to produce reads that target, favor, or disfavor candidates on the basis of protected characteristics.
• No unauthorized data. You must only submit application data that you are lawfully entitled to process. Do not submit data you obtained without the candidate’s knowledge, or data that is subject to legal restrictions prohibiting its use for employment screening.
• No interference. You must not attempt to reverse-engineer, disable, circumvent, or overload the Service or its underlying infrastructure.
• No resale. You must not resell, sublicense, or make the Service available to third parties outside your organization without our prior written consent.
• No automated abuse. You must not use automated scripts or bots to access the Service in ways that exceed normal human-initiated use or that circumvent rate limits.

4. Free Tier and Paid Plans

Free tier

Slate offers a free tier that includes a limited number of open roles and screening reads per month, as described on our Pricing page. The free tier is intended for evaluation and small teams. We reserve the right to adjust free-tier limits with reasonable notice, or to throttle access if use places disproportionate load on our infrastructure.

Paid plans

Paid plans are billed monthly or annually in advance, depending on the billing cycle you select at checkout. Prices are stated in USD and exclude applicable taxes. Where sales tax, VAT, or similar obligations apply in your jurisdiction, they will be added at the applicable rate.

Payments are processed by Stripe. We do not store full payment card details on Slate systems. By providing a payment method, you authorize us to charge the stated amount at the start of each billing period.

Early access note. During our early access period, billing may be processed in test mode. We will notify you clearly before live billing begins and confirm the billing terms in writing before any charge is made to a real payment method.

Renewals and cancellation

Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period. You may cancel at any time from your account settings. Your access continues until the end of the current billing period, after which your plan will not renew. We do not prorate partial periods unless required by applicable law.

Subscription fees are non-refundable except where required by law or as expressly agreed in writing by us. If an invoice remains unpaid for 14 days after the due date, we may suspend your access until the balance is settled.

5. Customer Responsibilities

Legal compliance

You are solely responsible for ensuring that your use of the Service complies with all applicable laws and regulations in your jurisdiction. This includes, without limitation:

• US federal and state equal employment opportunity laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and any applicable state or local equivalents
• Laws in other jurisdictions where you operate that govern the use of AI in employment decisions, candidate screening, or automated processing of personal data
• Applicable data protection and privacy law, including obtaining any required consent from candidates before submitting their application data to Slate

Slate is designed to support fair screening, but it is a tool. Compliance with hiring law is your responsibility, not ours. If you are unsure whether your use of Slate is lawful in your jurisdiction, consult qualified legal counsel.

Candidate notice and consent

Some jurisdictions require employers to disclose to candidates when AI tools are used in the recruitment or screening process, or to obtain candidate consent before doing so. You are responsible for determining whether such requirements apply to you and for meeting them. Slate does not provide legal advice.

Data accuracy

You are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the role criteria, job descriptions, and application data you submit to the Service. The quality of a screening read depends on the quality and relevance of the inputs you provide.

6. Intellectual Property

Slate platform

Slate and its licensors retain all intellectual property rights in the Service, including the platform, software, screening methodology, rubric design, trademarks, and visual design. These Terms do not transfer any ownership of those rights to you.

Your content

You retain ownership of the job descriptions, role criteria, and application data you submit to the Service. You grant Slate a limited, non-exclusive license to process that content solely as necessary to provide the Service to you.

Screening reads

Screening reads and candidate summaries generated for your account are yours to use for lawful internal hiring purposes. You may export them, share them within your team, and retain them as records of your hiring process.

7. Disclaimers

Please read this section carefully. It affects your legal rights.

• Informational only. Screening reads produced by the Service are intended to help your team review candidates more thoroughly. They are not legal advice, professional assessments, or guarantees of candidate quality or fit. You should apply your own judgment to every applicant.
• AI limitations. Language models can misinterpret context, produce summaries that imperfectly represent source material, or assign significance to evidence incorrectly. Reads should be verified against the candidate’s actual application before a hiring decision is made.
• No guaranteed outcomes. Slate does not guarantee that use of the Service will improve your hiring quality, reduce time-to-hire, or produce any particular business outcome.
• As-is service. The Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent permitted by law, Slate excludes all implied warranties, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement.

8. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law:

• Slate’s aggregate liability to you in any 12-month period shall not exceed the greater of (a) the total fees paid by you to Slate in that same 12-month period, or (b) five hundred US dollars ($500).
• Slate shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or anticipated savings, regardless of whether such losses were foreseeable or whether Slate was advised of their possibility.
• Slate is not liable for hiring decisions you make or do not make based on a screening read, for claims brought by candidates in connection with your use of the Service, or for your failure to comply with applicable employment or data protection law.

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

9. Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Slate, Inc. and its officers, directors, employees, and contractors from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to:

• Your use of the Service in violation of these Terms
• Application data or other content you submit to the Service, including any claim that it infringes a third party’s rights
• Your failure to comply with applicable employment, data protection, or anti-discrimination law
• Any hiring decision you make or do not make

10. Termination

Either party may terminate the agreement at any time. You may cancel your account from within the product or by writing to hello@slatescreening.com. We may suspend or terminate your account immediately if you violate these Terms, and with 30 days’ notice for any other reason.

On termination, your access to the Service ends at the close of your current billing period (or immediately, in cases of violation). We will retain your data for 30 days after termination to allow you to export it, after which it will be deleted in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Sections 6 through 14 of these Terms survive termination.

11. Governing Law

These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them, including non-contractual disputes, are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules.

The federal and state courts located in the State of Delaware shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any such dispute or claim, and each party consents to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. Nothing in this section prevents either party from seeking urgent injunctive or other interim relief in any appropriate jurisdiction.

12. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. For non-material changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. For material changes, including changes to pricing, data practices, or the scope of service, we will give you at least 30 days’ advance notice by email and by a prominent notice in the product before the revised Terms take effect.

If you do not accept the revised Terms, you may cancel your account before the change takes effect. Continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

13. General

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, and any written Order Form or Data Processing Agreement between us, constitute the entire agreement between you and Slate relating to the Service and supersede all prior representations and understandings. If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force. Our failure to enforce any right or provision is not a waiver of that right. You may not assign these Terms or any rights under them without our prior written consent.

14. Contact

Questions about these Terms or your account should be directed to:

hello@slatescreening.com
Slate, Inc.
115 Broadway, Suite 1602
New York, NY 10006
United States