Terms of use.

1. Accepting these terms

You accept these Terms by using the Services, including by clicking to accept these Terms when you create an account or join the waitlist. If you do not agree, please do not use the Services.

If you use the Services on behalf of a farm, company or other organization, you confirm that you have authority to accept these Terms for it, and "you" includes that organization.

Signed agreements come first

If you or your organization has signed a master services agreement, order form, data processing agreement or other written agreement with SAGE, that agreement controls wherever it conflicts with these Terms.

2. Who may use SAGE

The Services are intended for business and professional use by people who work in or with agriculture, such as growers, agronomists, insurers, lenders and their advisors. They are not intended for personal, family or household use.

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live if that is higher, to join the waitlist, contact us through the form or create an account. The Services are not directed to children. You may not use the Services if the law prohibits you from doing so.

The Services are designed for agriculture in the United States. If you use them from somewhere else, you are responsible for following your local laws.

3. What the Services are, and are not

SAGE gives you information about agricultural risk, on our website and in our apps, to support your own decisions. In these Terms, "Outputs" means the risk readings, scores, maps, estimates, recommendations, reports and other results the Services produce, whether they are examples on our website or generated in our apps from your own field data.

Not professional advice

Nothing on the Services, including any Output, is agronomic, financial, legal, tax or insurance advice, or other professional advice. Please consult qualified advisors before making decisions about planting, inputs, financing, coverage or any other part of your operation. Those decisions, and the responsibility for them, remain yours.

Outputs are estimates

Outputs come from models that combine many sources of data, and weather, crops and markets are uncertain. Outputs may be incomplete, inaccurate or out of date, even when they are based on your actual field data, and they are not a guarantee or forecast of any yield, loss, price, premium or coverage. Examples and maps on our website may use sample data and are not a statement about any particular field, and aerial photographs may not reflect current conditions on the ground. Please check Outputs against your own knowledge of your fields before you rely on them.

Not insurance, and not an insurance decision

SAGE is not an insurer, insurance agent, producer or broker, and nothing on the Services is an offer, solicitation or sale of insurance. Insurance is offered only through licensed insurers and agents, subject to their own terms, underwriting, availability and state law, and it may not be available in every state or to every grower. If an insurer, agent, lender or anyone else uses Outputs, they make their own decisions. SAGE does not decide whether coverage is offered, how it is priced or underwritten, or whether a claim is paid.

Plans can change

Descriptions of future products, programs, partners and timing reflect our current plans and may change.

4. Accounts

If you have a SAGE account, you agree to:

• give accurate information and keep it up to date;
• keep your sign-in details private and not share your account;
• tell us right away at info@sage.ag if you think someone has used your account without permission; and
• take responsibility for all activity under your account.

Organization accounts

If an account belongs to an organization, its administrators may invite authorized users, decide what they can see and do, and remove them. The organization is responsible for its administrators and authorized users, for making sure they follow these Terms, and for all activity under its account.

5. Your data

"Your data" means the farm data and other information you or your authorized users put into the Services, such as field boundaries, yield, planting records, soil tests and farming practices.

It remains yours

You keep ownership of your data. You give SAGE a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free permission to host, copy, process, analyze and display your data in order to:

• provide, maintain and support the Services for you and your authorized users;
• share your data, or Outputs based on it, with insurers, agents, lenders, advisors and other parties you direct or permit, for example when you apply for or manage coverage;
• keep the Services secure, prevent fraud and abuse, comply with the law, respond to lawful requests, enforce these Terms and keep the records we need; and
• develop and improve our models and Services, using your data only in de-identified and aggregated form.

You confirm that you have the right to share your data, for example because you farm those fields or have permission from the owner or operator.

Outputs and derived data

SAGE owns the Services, our models, the Outputs and other data we derive, including scores and de-identified, aggregated data. While you have access to the Services, you may use the Outputs you receive for your internal business purposes, and share them with your advisors, insurers and lenders for those purposes. SAGE's ownership of Outputs gives us no rights in your data beyond those in this section.

Revoking access and deleting your data

You can revoke another party's access in our apps at any time, and you can ask us to delete your data. We will delete it, or de-identify it, within a reasonable period, except for:

• copies in routine backups, until they are overwritten on their normal cycle;
• information we need to keep for legal, regulatory, security, dispute or insurance-program purposes, for as long as that purpose lasts; and
• data already de-identified and aggregated, which can no longer be linked to you.

Revoking access stops further sharing. Data that another party received while it had your permission is governed by that party's own terms and legal obligations.

6. The waitlist

Joining the waitlist tells us you are interested. It does not guarantee access to our apps, a particular place in line, timing, features or pricing. We may invite people in any order we choose, for example by region, crop or role. You can leave the waitlist at any time by asking us.

7. Confidential information

Through the waitlist, early access, pilots or demonstrations, we may share non-public information about SAGE, such as our methods, models, pricing, product plans or features not yet released ("confidential information"). You agree to use confidential information only to evaluate or use the Services, to share it only with people in your organization who need it for that purpose, and to protect it with at least reasonable care.

This does not apply to information that is or becomes public through no fault of yours, that you already knew or developed independently, or that you received from someone else without a duty of confidentiality. If the law requires you to disclose confidential information, you may do so, after telling us first where the law allows so that we can seek protection.

8. Acceptable use

Please use the Services fairly and lawfully. You agree not to:

• scrape, crawl or harvest content, imagery, maps or data from the Services by automated means, except for ordinary search engine indexing of public pages;
• copy, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Services, or try to extract their source code or models, except where the law expressly allows it;
• use content or Outputs from the Services to build a competing product or to train a competing model;
• resell, sublicense, rent or commercially redistribute the Services or Outputs, or provide them to others as a service, without our written permission;
• probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Services, or get around security, spam protection, rate limits or sign-in;
• interfere with or overload the Services, or introduce malware or other harmful code;
• access another person's account or data without their permission;
• submit false information, spam or unsolicited advertising through the form, the waitlist or any other part of the Services;
• misrepresent who you are, claim an affiliation with SAGE or our partners that you do not have, or suggest that SAGE endorses you; or
• use the Services for anything unlawful or in a way that infringes the rights of others.

If you find a security problem, please tell us at info@sage.ag instead of testing it further.

9. Intellectual property

The Services, including the SAGE name, logo, marks and glyphs, our design, text, graphics, software, models and other content, belong to SAGE or its licensors and are protected by law. We give you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable permission to use the Services, including the website and our apps, for your internal business purposes and in line with these Terms. You are welcome to share links to our pages. You may not use our name, logo, marks or glyphs without our written permission.

Third-party imagery and marks

Some imagery on the Services comes from public sources, including the USDA (such as aerial photographs from the National Agriculture Imagery Program) and NASA, and from other public-domain or CC0 sources. Their original terms govern any use of that imagery, and its use on our site does not imply endorsement by any agency. Place search results come from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and are available under the Open Database License. Our partners' names and logos belong to their respective owners, and these Terms give you no right to use them.

10. Feedback

We welcome your ideas and suggestions about SAGE. If you send us feedback, you give us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to use it for any purpose, without any obligation to you. Feedback does not include your data, which section 5 covers.

11. Third-party links and services

The Services link to, or rely on, services we do not control. These include OpenStreetMap's Nominatim geocoding service, which powers place search on our map, Microsoft Planetary Computer, which delivers the aerial photographs, and our partners' websites and services. Those services have their own terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for their content, availability or practices, and parts of the Services may not work when they are unavailable.

12. Disclaimers

We work hard to make SAGE useful and accurate, but weather, crops and markets are uncertain and no model can predict them perfectly. The Services, including the website, our apps and all Outputs, are provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent the law allows, SAGE disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, and any warranties arising from a course of dealing or usage of trade.

We do not promise that the Services will be uninterrupted, secure or free of errors, that any Output or other information (including risk readings, scores, estimates, maps and imagery) will be accurate, complete or current, or that any defect will be corrected. Section 3 applies to everything the Services provide. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranties to be disclaimed, so some of these disclaimers may not apply to you.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, SAGE and its directors, officers, employees, agents, licensors and service providers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, crops, yield, data or goodwill, arising out of or relating to the Services or these Terms, even if we were told such damages were possible.

To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the Services or these Terms is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid SAGE for the Services in the 12 months before the claim arose, or (b) USD 100.

These limits apply to every legal theory, whether contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability or anything else, and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. They do not limit liability that the law does not allow to be limited, such as liability for fraud.

14. Indemnity

To the extent the law allows, you will defend, indemnify and hold harmless SAGE and its directors, officers, employees and agents from any claims, losses, liabilities, damages and costs (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of (a) your misuse of the Services, (b) your breach of these Terms, (c) your violation of any law or of the rights of others, or (d) data or content you submitted that you did not have the right to share. We will tell you about any such claim, and we may take part in the defense with counsel of our choice. You may not settle a claim in a way that imposes any liability, obligation or admission on SAGE without our written consent.

15. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware and applicable US federal law, without regard to conflict of laws rules.

If a dispute comes up, please contact us first at info@sage.ag. We will try in good faith to resolve it informally within 30 days. If we cannot, any lawsuit arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services must be brought only in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and you and SAGE consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. Either of us may ask any competent court for an injunction to protect intellectual property, confidential information or the security of the Services.

No jury trials

To the fullest extent the law allows, you and SAGE each waive any right to a trial by jury in any lawsuit arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services.

No class actions

To the fullest extent the law allows, you and SAGE may bring claims against each other only individually, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective or representative action.

Nothing in these Terms takes away rights you have under laws that cannot be waived by contract.

16. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms as SAGE grows. We will post the revised Terms on this page and change the "Last updated" date. If a change is material, we will give you reasonable notice before it takes effect, and where appropriate we will also email the address associated with your account. Posting the revised Terms, together with that email where we send one, is sufficient notice.

We may ask you to accept updated Terms when you next sign in, and you may need to accept them to keep using the Services. If you keep using the Services after a change takes effect, you accept the updated Terms. Changes do not apply to disputes that arose before they took effect.

17. Suspending or ending access

You may stop using the Services at any time, and you may close your account by contacting us. We may suspend or end your access, in whole or in part, if you breach these Terms, if the law requires it, or if we need to protect the Services, our users or others.

Early access, pilots and free offerings

Many parts of SAGE are new. We may change, suspend or discontinue any beta, pilot, free or early-access feature or offering, or your access to it, at any time and for any reason, with or without notice. If you or your organization has a paid agreement with SAGE, that agreement governs how paid services may be changed or ended.

When access ends, section 5 describes what happens to your data. Sections 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 12 to 18 continue to apply after access ends.

18. General terms

• Entire agreement. These Terms, together with any signed agreement described in section 1, are the entire agreement between you and SAGE about the Services, and they replace any earlier understandings on the same subject. Where a signed agreement conflicts with these Terms, the signed agreement controls.
• Electronic communications. You agree that we may provide notices, agreements, disclosures and other communications to you electronically, and that they satisfy any requirement that they be in writing. We may send them to the email address associated with your account or waitlist entry, show them in the Services or post them on our website, and they are delivered when we send or post them. We may keep records of your acceptance of these Terms, including the version you accepted (shown at the top of this page) and when, and of our communications with you, in electronic form.
• Notices to SAGE. Send legal notices to info@sage.ag and to our mailing address in section 19.
• Severability. If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, that part will be enforced as far as possible and the rest of the Terms will remain in effect.
• No waiver. If we do not enforce a right or provision, that does not waive our right to enforce it later.
• Assignment. You may not transfer these Terms without our written consent. We may transfer them as part of a merger, acquisition, financing or sale of assets.
• Interpretation. Headings are for convenience only, and "including" means "including without limitation."

19. Contact us

Questions about these Terms are welcome. Write to info@sage.ag, use our contact form, or send mail to SAGE Inc., Attn: Legal, 1015 Lemon St., Menlo Park, CA 94025. For privacy questions and requests, see our Privacy policy.