Terms and Conditions
These terms describe the expected use of SymbioTech and the responsibilities of users when creating accounts, sharing company information, and using marketplace features.
Last updated: November 2026
Platform purpose
SymbioTech is designed to support Industrial Symbiosis by helping users share resources, explore marketplace opportunities, and connect with other companies. The platform supports discovery and communication, but it does not guarantee successful collaborations or business outcomes.
Acceptable use
Users should use the platform in a respectful, lawful, and trustworthy way. Accounts, company profiles, marketplace listings, and contact details should not be used for spam, misleading content, harmful activity, or unauthorized access.
User responsibility
Users are responsible for keeping account details, company profile details, and marketplace listings accurate and reliable. This includes company name, industry type, company size, location, listing details, contact information, and descriptions.
If users provide an external profile link, such as a LinkedIn profile URL, they must ensure that they are allowed to share it and that it accurately represents them.
Users are also responsible for how they communicate with other platform users and for any decisions, agreements, or collaborations that happen outside the platform.
Marketplace listings
Marketplace listings may include offers or requests for materials, by-products, or services. Users should only publish information they are allowed to share and should avoid oversharing personal details or sensitive company information.
SymbioTech provides the space for visibility and connection, but users must verify the accuracy, safety, and suitability of any listing or collaboration themselves.
Verification and access
Email confirmation may be required to activate an account. A separate user-company verification process may also be used to help increase trust on the platform.
Some features may be available only to registered or verified users. Administrators may review, approve, reject, restrict, or remove accounts and content when needed to protect the platform and its users.
Verification decisions are based on the information reasonably available to platform administrators and may be revised if a user provides additional or corrected information. Users who believe that an account was rejected incorrectly should contact the platform administrators.
Rejected accounts may remain temporarily stored in a restricted state while the decision is reviewed or disputed. Accounts and associated information may later be removed in accordance with the platform's retention practices.
Platform limitations
SymbioTech is still under development, and some features may change, be refined, or be extended over time. Current and future features, including AI-assisted tools, should be understood as support mechanisms, not final decision-making systems.
AI post assistance
Logged-in users may also ask the normal chatbot about aggregated marketplace supply, demand, and recent posting activity. These insights describe listings rather than completed transactions or verified inventory, and they do not establish a market price or guarantee a suitable match. Guests cannot access market insights.
AI assistance is optional. When you select a post and confirm sharing its data, its text, structured fields, document metadata, and limited marketplace matching evidence are sent to Ollama Cloud to generate suggestions. Chat messages and information you place in free-text fields may contain personal or confidential data. Only share information you are authorized to provide to this service. See the Privacy Policy for the data categories and processing details.
The assistant may explain missing information and matching evidence and propose title, description, or availability-date changes. Suggested dates are tentative examples or reflect a potential partner's period; they do not establish that your resource is available. You may replace proposed dates before confirming your actual timing. Suggestions may be inaccurate. Review every proposed change, including all factual statements, before selecting Apply changes. A chat message alone does not authorize saving. You remain responsible for the resulting post. The assistant cannot validate resource classification, safety, document contents, environmental compliance, or partner suitability, and it does not override the rule-based matching engine.
Usage limits apply to guests and registered users. Do not attempt to bypass access controls or usage limits, inject instructions into marketplace content, or use the assistant to access or edit another user's information without authorization.
No guarantee of outcomes
The platform aims to support discovery, communication, and collaboration. However, SymbioTech does not guarantee that users will find matches, create partnerships, complete transactions, or achieve specific environmental, financial, or business results.
Contact and questions
Users may contact the platform administrators if they have questions about platform use, account access, verification, marketplace content, or these terms.