Terms of Service
Effective October 9, 2026
1. Agreement to these Terms
These Terms govern use of TribalVerify.com and the Tribal Verify service unless a separate written agreement applies. By creating or using an account, submitting a verification, purchasing credits or a subscription, accepting a private share, or otherwise using the service, you agree to these Terms on behalf of yourself and, when applicable, the organization you are authorized to represent.
2. What Tribal Verify provides
Tribal Verify provides controlled infrastructure for authorized organizations to request a Tribal citizenship verification from a participating Tribal Nation. Tribal Verify does not create Tribal citizenship, determine citizenship criteria, or replace a Nation's official records. The participating Nation remains the authority and source of truth.
3. Accounts and authority
You must provide accurate account information, protect authentication methods, and use the service only within the authority granted by your organization. Organization administrators are responsible for authorized users under their account. Nation staff access is separately authorized and may require multi-factor authentication.
4. Authorized verification purposes and citizen authorization
A requester may submit a verification only for a legitimate, disclosed, authorized purpose and must obtain the authorization, consent, notice, or other lawful basis required for that use. Requesters may not use Tribal Verify to create citizen lists, conduct speculative searches, surveil people, harass individuals, or bypass a Nation's rules.
5. Verification results
A verification result reflects the participating Nation's response at a point in time. It is not a Tribal identification card, enrollment record, certificate of citizenship, legal opinion, or guarantee of future status. A Nation may set a validity period after which a new verification is required.
6. Payments, credits, subscriptions, and review fees
Prices are shown before checkout. Prepaid credits and subscriptions are associated with the purchasing organization and may be subject to product-specific expiration or renewal terms disclosed at purchase. A verification credit is consumed when a verification request is submitted. When Nation staff review is required, a separately disclosed review fee may be collected before the case is released to Nation staff. Additional billing terms appear in the Billing & Refund Policy or a controlling enterprise agreement.
7. Tribal Nation agreements control Nation participation
A participating Nation may have a separate agreement covering connector access, data governance, security, matching rules, staff permissions, document branding, audit rights, revenue sharing, payout terms, service levels, dispute terms, and termination. If a Nation agreement conflicts with these general Terms for Nation operations, the Nation agreement controls. Nothing in these Terms waives a Tribal Nation's sovereign immunity.
8. Enterprise agreements
High-volume requester organizations may be subject to a separate enterprise agreement, data processing addendum, security addendum, service-level agreement, order form, or statement of work. Those documents control to the extent they conflict with these general Terms.
9. Acceptable use
You must comply with the Acceptable Use Policy. You may not scrape or enumerate member records, test stolen identifiers, defeat rate limits, bypass access controls, reverse engineer protected workflows except where law expressly permits, upload malicious code, interfere with service operation, impersonate another person or organization, or use results beyond the authorized purpose.
10. Intellectual property and marks
Tribal Verify and its licensors retain rights in the service, software, designs, documentation, trademarks, and related materials. Tribal Nation names, seals, logos, and other Nation marks remain the property of the respective Nation and may be used only as expressly authorized by that Nation. No license to use a Nation's mark is created by these Terms.
11. Confidential and protected materials
Private documents, presentations, security materials, financial information, pricing terms, and other protected content may be shared through browser-bound, expiring access. Recipients must not redistribute, publish, defeat access restrictions, or use protected materials beyond the purpose for which they were shared. Technical deterrents do not change the recipient's legal confidentiality obligations.
12. Suspension and termination
Tribal Verify may suspend or restrict access when reasonably necessary to address fraud, misuse, payment failure, legal requirements, security risk, Nation request, breach of contract, or threats to the service or its users. Where practical, Tribal Verify will seek to provide notice and an opportunity to cure for non-urgent contractual issues.
13. Availability and third-party dependencies
Verification depends on participating Nation systems and third-party infrastructure. Tribal Verify does not promise uninterrupted availability unless a signed service-level agreement says otherwise. If an authoritative Nation source is unavailable or cannot produce a reliable answer, Tribal Verify may delay or decline the verification rather than guess.
14. Disclaimer of unauthorized reliance
Tribal Verify is a verification workflow, not legal, tax, benefits, immigration, employment, procurement, medical, or financial advice. A requester remains responsible for the ultimate decision it makes and for complying with the rules governing that decision.
15. Limitation of liability and allocation of risk
To the extent permitted by applicable law, liability is limited by the controlling agreement for the relevant relationship. Enterprise and Nation agreements may include negotiated liability caps, exclusions, indemnities, insurance requirements, and remedies. These Terms do not limit liability where applicable law does not permit limitation.
16. Disputes and controlling law
Nation and enterprise disputes are governed by their signed agreements. These Terms do not create a waiver of Tribal sovereign immunity, consent to state jurisdiction over a Tribal Nation, or a choice-of-law term that overrides an applicable Nation agreement. For other disputes, applicable law and a forum with lawful jurisdiction govern unless the parties enter a separate written agreement.
17. Changes
Tribal Verify may update these Terms as the service or legal requirements change. Material changes will be posted with a revised effective date. Separate agreements may require additional notice or written amendment.
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