Terms of Use

Effective Date: August 18, 2026 | Last Updated: August 18, 2026 | Version 2.0

These Terms of Use (these “Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and Izymu Inc., a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business at 120 East Parish Street, Suite 310, Durham, North Carolina 27701 (“Ryan Vet Studies,” “we,” “us,” or “the operator”). They govern your access to and use of studies.ryanvet.com and all related studies, quizzes, games, features, and communications (collectively, the “Site”).

These Terms contain an arbitration agreement and a class action waiver in Section 9. That section affects how disputes are resolved and requires most disputes to be resolved through individual arbitration rather than in court. Please read it carefully. You may opt out (Section 9.6).

By using the Site, or by clicking “I agree” or a similar control presented with these Terms, you accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy (https://studies.ryanvet.com/privacy), which is incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, do not use the Site.

1. Acceptance

1.1 Assent. You accept these Terms and the Privacy Policy together by using the Site or by taking an affirmative action (such as clicking “I agree”) presented with a link to both documents. You cannot accept one without the other.

1.2 Arbitration notice. By accepting, you acknowledge that Section 9 requires most disputes to be resolved by binding individual arbitration and waives your right to a jury trial and to participate in a class action, except as described in Section 9 and to the extent you timely opt out.

1.3 Capacity. You represent that you have the legal capacity to enter into this agreement, or, if you are a minor permitted under Section 2, that your use is consistent with that section.

1.4 Changes. We may revise these Terms. For a material change, we will post a conspicuous notice on the Site and, where we have your email, notify you, and the change takes effect no sooner than 30 days after notice for existing users. Non-material changes take effect when posted. Continued use after a change takes effect is acceptance of it.

2. Who may use the Site

2.1 Minimum age. You must be at least 13 years old to use the Site. If our age question indicates you are under 13, you may not use the Site and we will not knowingly collect your information. If you are 13–17, you may take studies, but we do not store an email or other identity-linked record for you (see the Privacy Policy) — so features that require saving a result or an email are available only to users 18 and older.

2.2 Location. The Site is intended for residents of the United States and Canada, excluding Quebec. Residents of Quebec, and of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, are not the intended audience (Section 10).

2.3 Honest use. You agree to use the Site as a single real person and not to create multiple identities or submissions to manipulate results or comparisons (Section 5).

3. How the Site works

3.1 No account required. You can take studies anonymously; we assign your browser a random identifier so we can score and remember your answers. There is no registration, password, or social login.

3.2 Saving a result (optional). If you choose to save a result, you provide an email and we send a one-time sign-in link. Subscribing to Collide, our newsletter, is a separate optional tick-box on that form and is off by default — we do not subscribe you unless you tick it, and you may unsubscribe at any time (Privacy Policy Section 5). Saving is available to users 18 and older.

3.3 Your responsibility. Keep your own email accurate if you save results. Do not share access to a saved account with others.

4. Your contributions and the license you grant us

4.1 License. By submitting answers, profile facts, or other content through the Site (your “Contributions”), you grant Izymu Inc. a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, analyze, aggregate, and de-identify your Contributions and related usage data, and to publish results in aggregate and de-identified form — including in reports, presentations, press, and newsletter content.

4.2 We never publish anything that identifies you. We publish aggregate findings only. This license does not permit us to attribute a specific answer to your name or email.

4.3 Survives deletion. Because published aggregate findings and de-identified records do not identify you, this license survives account deletion. Deleting your data does not retroactively alter aggregate findings already published (Section 6; Privacy Policy Section 10).

4.4 No compensation. Except for a benefit we expressly promise at a specific moment, you are not entitled to payment for your Contributions or anything derived from them.

5. Acceptable use

You must not:

use bots, scripts, or automation to take studies, submit results, or generate traffic;
create or control multiple identities, or submit repeatedly, to skew a study’s results or a “how you compare” figure, or to stuff a personal comparison/leaderboard;
interfere with, disrupt, probe, or circumvent our security, bot-defense, rate-limiting, scoring, or anti-fraud systems;
submit false, gibberish, or bad-faith responses, or straightline/speed through in a way that corrupts research data;
scrape, harvest, or bulk-download Site content or data except as expressly permitted;
use the Site for any unlawful purpose or to violate anyone’s rights.

Consequences. If we reasonably believe you have violated this Section, we may, without notice, invalidate or exclude affected responses, block your access, and take any other lawful step to protect the Site and our data. We are not obligated to explain the specific detection method used.

6. Termination and deletion

6.1 Your controls. From your account page (https://studies.ryanvet.com/account) you can sign out, unsubscribe from Collide, and delete your data. Deletion de-identifies and excludes: we remove your saved profile (the record holding your email and identity) and remove your responses from our comparisons, while retaining the now-anonymous answers for research (Privacy Policy Section 10).

6.2 What survives. Aggregate findings already published cannot be withdrawn, and de-identified records that no longer identify you may be retained indefinitely and cannot afterward be individually retrieved, corrected, or deleted.

6.3 Our right to terminate. We may suspend or terminate access at any time, with or without cause, including under Section 5, subject to applicable law.

6.4 Survival. Sections 4, 6.2, 7, 8, 9, and 10 survive termination.

7. Intellectual property

7.1 Our IP. We own or license all right, title, and interest in the Site, including its design, software, studies, questions, scoring and quality-control logic, and the reports and datasets we derive from responses (“Our IP”). Nothing here transfers Our IP to you.

7.2 Limited license to you. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to view our published results and share them unaltered with attribution retained. This does not permit commercial redistribution or incorporation into a competing product without our written consent.

7.3 Trademarks. “Ryan Vet Studies,” associated logos, and “Collide” are our marks or our affiliate’s. No right to use them is granted without our written consent.

7.4 Feedback. If you send us feedback or suggestions, you grant us an unrestricted, royalty-free, perpetual license to use them for any purpose.

8. Disclaimers, limitation of liability, and indemnification

8.1 “As is.” THE SITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. We do not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, and study results are for general interest and entertainment, not professional advice.

8.2 Limitation. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IZYMU INC. AND ITS AFFILIATES (INCLUDING COLLIDE) AND THEIR OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE, UNDER ANY LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

8.3 Cap. OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SITE WILL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100).

8.4 Exceptions. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, including for gross negligence, willful misconduct, or fraud.

8.5 Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Izymu Inc. and its affiliates from claims, liabilities, damages, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of your violation of these Terms or of any law or third-party right.

9. Dispute resolution — arbitration and class action waiver

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY. THIS SECTION AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS.

9.1 Informal resolution first. Before starting arbitration or a permitted lawsuit, the party raising a dispute will send the other written notice (to us at privacy@ryanvet.com; to you at your account email) and both will negotiate in good faith for 60 days.

9.2 Binding individual arbitration. If unresolved after 60 days, you and Izymu Inc. agree to resolve the dispute by binding individual arbitration, not in court, except for Section 9.5 (small claims) and Section 9.6 (opt-out). This covers any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Privacy Policy, or your use of the Site.

9.3 Rules and forum. Arbitration is administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, seated in Durham County, North Carolina, or by videoconference at your election, before a single arbitrator. Enforceability of the class-action waiver (Section 9.4) is decided by a court, not the arbitrator.

9.4 Class action and jury waiver. YOU AND IZYMU INC. WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND AGREE THAT DISPUTES WILL BE BROUGHT ONLY INDIVIDUALLY, NOT AS A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. If this waiver is unenforceable as to a claim, that claim proceeds in court and the rest of this Section still applies.

9.5 Small claims. Either party may bring a qualifying individual claim in small claims court instead of arbitration.

9.6 Opt out. You may opt out of Sections 9.2–9.4 by writing to privacy@ryanvet.com (or the postal address above) within 30 days of first using the Site, stating your account email and that you opt out of arbitration.

9.7 Canadian carve-out. If you reside in Canada and mandatory consumer law of your province or territory prohibits a pre-dispute arbitration or forum-selection clause as applied to your claim, then to that extent Sections 9.2, 9.3, and 9.8 do not apply and you may bring your claim in your local courts.

9.8 Governing law and venue. These Terms are governed by North Carolina law (without regard to conflict-of-laws), except where the Federal Arbitration Act applies. For disputes not subject to arbitration, the parties consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts in Durham County, North Carolina.

10. United States and Canada (excluding Quebec) only

10.1 The Site is directed to, and offered to, residents of the United States and Canada other than Quebec. It is operated from, and your data is processed in, the United States.

10.2 We do not market or offer the Site in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, or Quebec, and have not appointed an EU/UK GDPR representative. If you are located there, the Site is not intended for you.

10.3 Published content on the Site may be read by anyone; making it public is publication, not an offer to use the Site. If you access the Site from outside the intended territories, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for your local law.

11. General provisions

11.1 Severability. If any provision is unenforceable, it is limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest remains in effect.

11.2 Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them, including in a merger or sale of assets.

11.3 Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement regarding the Site and supersede prior understandings.

11.4 No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.

11.5 Notices. Notices to you go to your account email or a conspicuous Site posting; notices to us go to privacy@ryanvet.com.

11.6 Electronic communications. You consent to receive communications from us electronically.

11.7 Relationship. Nothing here creates a partnership, employment, or agency relationship.

11.8 Headings. Headings are for convenience only.

12. Reserved future features and changes

The following are options we reserve for the future. None is currently offered, and this section does not describe present functionality. If we introduce any of them, the specific terms in effect at that time will govern, and we will update these Terms and the Privacy Policy accordingly.

12.1 Additional sign-in methods. We may offer other ways to sign in — for example, a third-party sign-in such as Google — in addition to the email link.

12.2 Occasional incentives or drawings. We may run occasional incentives or prize drawings, each governed by its own separately published official rules. No purchase or payment will ever be necessary to enter or win, and a free method of entry will be offered. A winner may be required to provide information needed for tax reporting. Using the Site does not by itself entitle you to any incentive.

12.3 Sponsored or commissioned research. A third party may fund or commission a study. Any sponsor would receive aggregate, de-identified results only — never data that identifies you — and would be barred from attempting re-identification. Your rights and the license in Section 4 are unchanged by sponsorship.

12.4 Future data licensing. We may in the future license or make available de-identified, record-level research datasets, only under the advance-notice and opt-out conditions described in Section 7 of our Privacy Policy.

Contact

Questions about these Terms: privacy@ryanvet.com. Postal: 120 East Parish Street, Suite 310, Durham, North Carolina 27701.