Terms of Service
- Effective
- May 27, 2026
- Last updated
- May 27, 2026
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a binding agreement between you (“you,” “your,” or “User”) and Chain Networking, LLC, a limited liability company (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), governing your access to and use of the Truss document review platform located at trussreview.com and any related services, websites, applications, and features (collectively, the “Service”).
By creating an account, accessing the Service, submitting any document, or clicking any link in an email inviting you to participate in a review, you agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
1Eligibility and Accounts
1.1 Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old and have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract to use the Service. By using the Service, you represent and warrant that you meet these requirements. If you are using the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you are authorized to bind that organization to these Terms.
1.2 Accounts
To submit documents for review, you must create an account. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information and to keep it updated. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us immediately of any unauthorized use.
1.3 Reviewers
Reviewers do not need to register for an account. By clicking a review-invitation link and using the Service to review a document, a Reviewer agrees to be bound by these Terms and the Privacy Policy.
2The Service
Truss enables engineering firms and similar users to submit documents (including PDFs, drawings, RFIs, shop drawings, DOCX files, and similar materials), route them to Reviewers via email, capture stamps and annotations from Reviewers, generate transmittals, and maintain an audit trail. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.
3Fees and Payment
3.1 Subscription
Paid plans are billed at the rate and on the cadence agreed at signup or as otherwise quoted. Unless otherwise stated, fees are non-refundable and exclusive of taxes. You authorize us (and our payment processor) to charge your payment method for all applicable fees.
3.2 Reviewers Free
Reviewers may use the review functionality without charge. We reserve the right to change pricing at any time on prospective notice.
3.3 Non-payment
If amounts owed are not paid when due, we may suspend or terminate access to the Service, in addition to other remedies available at law.
4User Content and License
4.1 Your Content
“User Content” means all documents, drawings, annotations, stamps, comments, transmittals, metadata, and other content uploaded, submitted, or generated by you (or by Reviewers acting on your invitation) through the Service. As between you and the Company, you and your organization retain all rights, title, and interest in and to your User Content.
4.2 License to Company
You grant the Company a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, transmit, copy, display, process, and otherwise use User Content solely to provide, secure, maintain, and improve the Service; to generate transmittals and audit trails; to enforce these Terms; and as otherwise permitted by the Privacy Policy or required by law.
4.3 Your Responsibility for User Content
You are solely responsible for your User Content and for ensuring that you have all rights, licenses, and authorizations necessary to upload it, share it with Reviewers, and have it processed through the Service. You represent and warrant that your User Content does not infringe, misappropriate, or violate any third party’s intellectual property, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other rights, and does not violate any law.
5Acceptable Use
You agree not to, and not to permit any Reviewer or other person acting through your account to:
- Upload, share, transmit, request review of, or otherwise process any document, drawing, or other material in violation of any federal, state, local, or other applicable law, regulation, ordinance, license requirement, or court order.
- Upload or share content that infringes any patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, contract right (including non-disclosure or confidentiality obligations), privacy right, or publicity right of any third party.
- Upload, store, or transmit through the Service any classified, export-controlled, or otherwise restricted information in violation of applicable law (including U.S. export control laws and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations).
- Use the Service to store or transmit “protected health information” subject to HIPAA, government-classified information, payment card data subject to PCI-DSS, or other categories of sensitive data requiring specialized safeguards beyond those of the Service, unless we have agreed in a separate written agreement to support such data.
- Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, scrape, or attempt to derive the source code of the Service except as permitted by law.
- Interfere with or disrupt the Service, probe its security, bypass access controls, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to any account, system, or data.
- Use the Service to send spam, malware, or other harmful code, or to harass, threaten, or defraud any person.
- Misrepresent your identity or your authority to act on behalf of any person or organization.
- Resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the Service except as expressly permitted by us in writing.
No condonation of unlawful use. The Company does not condone, authorize, endorse, or otherwise support the use of the Service to share, route, store, review, stamp, transmit, or otherwise process any document or content that violates any federal, state, local, or other applicable law or regulation, or that violates any third party’s contractual, confidentiality, intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, or other legal rights. Any such use is a material breach of these Terms and is undertaken solely at the User’s risk and responsibility.
We may, but are not obligated to, monitor, review, refuse, remove, or restrict access to any User Content or account that we believe, in our sole discretion, may violate these Terms or any applicable law.
6Reviewers
When you (as a Subscriber) invite a Reviewer to participate in a review, you represent and warrant that you have the right to share the relevant User Content with that Reviewer and that the disclosure does not violate any confidentiality obligation, contract, or law. You are responsible for selecting appropriate Reviewers and for the actions of Reviewers you invite. You acknowledge that once content is shared with a Reviewer, the Company cannot prevent the Reviewer from copying, exporting, screenshotting, or otherwise retaining the content outside the Service.
7Intellectual Property; Feedback
7.1 Service IP
The Service, including all software, designs, logos, trademarks, documentation, and other materials, is owned by the Company or its licensors and protected by intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service in accordance with these Terms.
7.2 Feedback
If you submit suggestions, ideas, or feedback about the Service, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use them for any purpose without obligation to you.
8Confidentiality
We will treat your User Content as confidential and will use commercially reasonable efforts to protect it as described in the Privacy Policy and these Terms. The Company’s confidentiality obligations do not apply to information that (a) is or becomes publicly available without breach of these Terms; (b) was lawfully known to us before disclosure; (c) is lawfully obtained from a third party without restriction; or (d) is required to be disclosed by law or legal process.
9Third-Party Services
The Service may interoperate with third-party services (e.g., email delivery, payment processors, cloud hosting). We are not responsible for the acts, omissions, terms, policies, or content of any third-party service, and your use of any third-party service is governed by that third party’s terms.
10Disclaimers
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE COMPANY AND ITS OFFICERS, MEMBERS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, AND SUPPLIERS (COLLECTIVELY, THE “COMPANY PARTIES”) DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.
Without limiting the foregoing, the Company Parties do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, free of viruses or other harmful components, or that defects will be corrected. The Company Parties make no warranty regarding the accuracy, completeness, legality, or usefulness of any User Content, transmittal, audit-trail entry, or other output of the Service. You assume all risk arising out of your use of the Service and your reliance on any User Content.
The Service is a workflow tool. It is not a substitute for professional engineering judgment, legal advice, or any required signature, seal, certification, or regulatory submission. You are responsible for ensuring that any document processed through the Service complies with all applicable professional, regulatory, and legal requirements.
11Data Security and Security Incidents
11.1 Reasonable Safeguards
We will use commercially reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect User Content and personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
11.2 No Guarantee of Security
You acknowledge and agree that no system, network, software, or method of data transmission or storage is, or can be made, completely secure. Despite our reasonable efforts, the Service may be subject to vulnerabilities, attacks, unauthorized access, failures, errors, bugs, or other security events that are outside our control. The Company does not guarantee and cannot guarantee the security, confidentiality, or integrity of any User Content, personal information, personally identifiable information (“PII”), or other data submitted to or processed through the Service.
11.3 Allocation of Risk for Data Breaches and PII Exposure
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you expressly assume the risk of, and the Company Parties shall not be responsible or liable for, any data breach, security incident, intrusion, unauthorized access, unauthorized disclosure, accidental disclosure, loss, alteration, destruction, exfiltration, ransomware event, phishing event, social-engineering event, account compromise, exposure of PII, exposure of User Content, or other security event affecting the Service or any data processed through it (each, a “Security Event”), regardless of whether the Security Event arises from the acts or omissions of the Company Parties, third parties (including service providers, attackers, Reviewers, other Users, or governmental actors), or any other cause. The Company Parties expressly disclaim any responsibility, liability, or obligation arising from or relating to any Security Event, including any obligation to compensate, indemnify, or hold harmless any User or third party for damages of any kind resulting from a Security Event, except to the limited extent that applicable law imposes a non-waivable duty that cannot be disclaimed by contract.
11.4 No Waiver of Required Notice
Nothing in Section 11.3 is intended to waive or limit any data-breach notification obligation that the Company is required by applicable law to perform; the Company will provide such notifications to the extent and in the manner required by law.
11.5 Your Security Obligations
You are responsible for (a) safeguarding your credentials and the credentials of any personnel acting through your account; (b) the configuration choices you make in the Service (including who you invite as a Reviewer); (c) the sensitivity of the User Content you choose to upload; and (d) any compromise of your account, devices, networks, or email accounts that you, your personnel, or your Reviewers use to access the Service.
11.6 Sensitive Data Restriction
You agree not to upload, transmit, or process through the Service any data classified as “sensitive” under applicable law (including, without limitation, government-classified information, payment card data subject to PCI-DSS, protected health information subject to HIPAA, biometric identifiers, Social Security numbers, financial account credentials, or similar regulated data) unless you have entered into a separate written agreement with the Company expressly authorizing such use. The Company is not responsible or liable for any loss or exposure of sensitive data uploaded in violation of this Section.
12Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL THE COMPANY PARTIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUES, BUSINESS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS, THE SERVICE, OR ANY SECURITY EVENT, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT THE COMPANY PARTIES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
IN NO EVENT WILL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE COMPANY PARTIES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL FEES YOU PAID TO THE COMPANY FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100). THESE LIMITATIONS APPLY EVEN IF ANY LIMITED REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. In such jurisdictions, the foregoing limitations apply to the maximum extent permitted by law.
13Indemnification
You will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Company Parties from and against any and all claims, demands, suits, proceedings, losses, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and litigation costs) arising out of or relating to: (a) your User Content; (b) your access to or use of the Service; (c) your violation of these Terms, the Privacy Policy, or applicable law; (d) your infringement or violation of any third party’s rights; (e) any document, drawing, or other material you uploaded, shared, or routed for review that violated any federal, state, local, or other applicable law or any third party’s rights; and (f) any Security Event to the extent caused or contributed to by your acts or omissions or those of your personnel, Reviewers, or other persons acting through your account. The Company may assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification, in which case you will cooperate with our defense.
14Term and Termination
14.1 Term
These Terms apply from the time you first use the Service and continue until terminated.
14.2 Termination by You
You may terminate your account at any time by following the in-product process or contacting us. Termination does not entitle you to a refund of prepaid fees except as required by law.
14.3 Termination by Us
We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without notice, if we believe in good faith that (a) you have breached these Terms; (b) your use poses a security, legal, or reputational risk; (c) we are required to do so by law; or (d) we discontinue the Service.
14.4 Effect of Termination
Upon termination, your right to access the Service ends. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including Sections 4 (License to Company), 7 (IP), 8 (Confidentiality), 10 (Disclaimers), 11 (Data Security), 12 (Limitation of Liability), 13 (Indemnification), 15 (Governing Law and Disputes), and 16 (General) — will survive.
15Governing Law; Dispute Resolution
15.1 Governing Law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
15.2 Informal Resolution
Before filing any claim, you agree to attempt to resolve the dispute informally by contacting us at the address in Section 17. We will attempt to resolve the dispute informally for at least sixty (60) days before initiation of formal proceedings.
15.3 Binding Arbitration; Class-Action Waiver
To the maximum extent permitted by law, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service that is not resolved informally will be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration Rules, on an individual basis. The seat of arbitration will be Richmond, Virginia, or such other location as the parties agree. You and the Company each waive any right to a jury trial and any right to participate in a class action, class arbitration, or other representative proceeding. If the class-action waiver is found unenforceable in a particular case, the arbitration agreement will be unenforceable as to that case only, and disputes will instead be resolved in the courts identified in Section 15.4.
15.4 Forum
To the extent any dispute is not subject to arbitration, the parties consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Richmond, Virginia.
15.5 Time Limit
Any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service must be brought within one (1) year after the claim accrues, or be permanently barred, except to the extent applicable law prohibits such a limitation.
16General
16.1 Entire Agreement
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any order form or written agreement between you and the Company, constitute the entire agreement between you and the Company regarding the Service and supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications.
16.2 Changes
We may modify these Terms at any time by posting a revised version on the Service and updating the “Last Updated” date. Material changes will be communicated through the Service or by email. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance.
16.3 Assignment
You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets.
16.4 No Waiver
Failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.
16.5 Severability
If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force, and the unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable while preserving its intent.
16.6 Force Majeure
The Company is not liable for any delay or failure to perform caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labor disputes, internet or utility failures, governmental actions, cyberattacks, or pandemics.
16.7 Notices
Notices to you may be sent to the email address on your account or by posting in the Service. Notices to us must be sent to the address in Section 17.
16.8 No Agency
Nothing in these Terms creates any agency, partnership, joint venture, employment, or fiduciary relationship between you and the Company.
16.9 Export
You agree to comply with all applicable export-control and trade-sanctions laws in your use of the Service.