ARIS End User License Agreement (EULA)

Version 1.1 — Effective September 16, 2026

IMPORTANT — READ CAREFULLY. This End User License Agreement ("Agreement") is a legal agreement between you (an individual or a single legal entity, "you") and Cody Shofner, doing business as ARIS ("ARIS", "we", "us"), covering the ARIS desktop application, the ARIS Field mobile application, related updates, documentation, file formats, and any software or services we provide with them (together, the "Software").

BY INSTALLING, ACTIVATING, ACCESSING, OR USING THE SOFTWARE, OR BY CLICKING "I AGREE", YOU ACCEPT THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING THE ARBITRATION AGREEMENT AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER IN SECTION 19. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE SOFTWARE. IF YOU ARE ACCEPTING ON BEHALF OF AN ORGANIZATION, YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU HAVE AUTHORITY TO BIND IT.

1. License grant

Subject to this Agreement and your payment of any applicable fees, ARIS grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to install and use the Software, in object-code form only, for your internal research and business purposes, for the number of seats and the plan (Trial, Academic, Professional, or Enterprise) associated with your account or license key. A "seat" is one named individual; seats may not be shared or pooled.

2. Trial licenses

A trial license permits use of the Software for evaluation purposes only for the trial period stated at activation (normally 30 days). Trial periods are enforced by ARIS's license servers and may not be reset, extended, or circumvented except by ARIS, including by creating additional accounts, altering system clocks, or reinstalling. ARIS may modify or terminate trial access at any time.

3. Restrictions

Except as expressly permitted by this Agreement or by applicable law that cannot be waived, you shall not, and shall not permit or assist any third party to:

(a) copy, modify, adapt, translate, or create derivative works of the Software or any part of it;
(b) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decrypt, unpack, extract, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, algorithms, statistical methods, data structures, database schemas, protocols, or trade secrets of the Software;
(c) reverse engineer, document, or re-implement the Software's file formats (including .arisfield, .aristrial, sync bundles, and the encrypted local store) or its communication with ARIS's servers;
(d) circumvent, disable, remove, or interfere with any license key, account check, trial timer, encryption, integrity check, watermark, or other technical protection measure in the Software (including as prohibited by 17 U.S.C. § 1201);
(e) rent, lease, lend, sell, sublicense, distribute, host, time-share, or otherwise make the Software available to any third party, or share license keys, access codes, or account credentials;
(f) remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, trademark, watermark, licensee identification, or other proprietary notice in the Software or in reports, exports, or other output it generates;
(g) use the Software, or any knowledge of its design, operation, user interface, or workflows, to design, build, train, market, or improve a product or service that competes with the Software;
(h) use the Software, its documentation, or its output to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or improve any machine-learning or artificial-intelligence model, or submit any part of the Software to such a model for analysis;
(i) publish or disclose benchmarks, performance comparisons, screenshots, or screen recordings of the Software to third parties without ARIS's prior written consent, other than in your own ordinary research reports that contain your data;
(j) access the Software by automated means, or scrape, harvest, crawl, or mirror any part of it or of ARIS's servers;
(k) use the Software in violation of any law, export control, or sanction, or to process data you have no right to process.

4. Competitor exclusion

The Software may not be installed, accessed, or evaluated by or on behalf of any person or entity that develops, markets, or sells software for agricultural or scientific trial management, data collection, or statistical analysis, or by their employees, contractors, or agents, without ARIS's prior written consent. Any such access is unauthorized and a material breach.

5. Ownership and trade secrets

The Software is licensed, not sold. ARIS and its licensors own and retain all right, title, and interest in and to the Software, including all copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents, trade dress, and other intellectual property rights, and all copies, modifications, and derivative works. The Software's design, statistical implementations, user interface, workflows, file formats, protocols, and documentation constitute confidential information and trade secrets of ARIS under the Defend Trade Secrets Act and the California Uniform Trade Secrets Act. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

"ARIS", "ARIS Field", "Agriculture Research Intelligence System", and the ARIS logo are trademarks of Cody Shofner. You may not use them, or any confusingly similar mark, without prior written permission.

6. Confidentiality

You will hold the Software, its non-public features, documentation, pricing, and any pre-release or pilot functionality in confidence, protect them with at least the care you use for your own confidential information (and no less than reasonable care), and not disclose them to any third party except employees or contractors who need access to use the Software on your behalf and who are bound by written obligations at least as protective as this Agreement. This section does not restrict disclosure of your own research results generated with the Software.

7. Your data

You retain all rights to the trial designs, observations, photographs, notes, and reports you create with the Software ("Your Data"). You grant ARIS a limited license to store, transmit, encrypt, and process Your Data solely as needed to provide the Software's features you use (for example, account synchronization between the mobile and desktop applications). Your Data stored locally on your devices is your responsibility to back up. ARIS does not claim ownership of Your Data and does not sell it.

8. Feedback

If you provide suggestions, bug reports, feature requests, or other feedback about the Software, you assign to ARIS all rights in that feedback, and to the extent assignment is not effective, you grant ARIS a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use it for any purpose without obligation or attribution to you.

9. Accounts, keys, verification, and watermarking

The Software may require an account or license key and may periodically contact ARIS's servers to verify license status, record acceptance of this Agreement, deliver updates, and synchronize data you choose to send. You consent to that communication and to ARIS logging the app version, device type, approximate time, and IP address of such contacts. Reports and exports generated by the Software may carry a visible or invisible identification of the licensed account. You are responsible for keeping credentials and keys confidential and for all activity under your account. ARIS may suspend or revoke access for breach of this Agreement or non-payment.

10. Compliance verification

On ARIS's reasonable written request, no more than once per year, you will certify in writing the number of seats in use and, for Enterprise customers, permit ARIS or its designee to verify compliance with this Agreement in a manner that does not unreasonably interfere with your operations. If verification reveals unlicensed use, you will promptly pay the applicable fees at ARIS's then-current list price plus the reasonable cost of verification.

11. Updates

The Software may download and install updates automatically. Updates are part of the Software and are governed by this Agreement. ARIS may add, change, or remove features at any time.

12. Third-party software

The Software includes open-source and third-party components licensed under their own terms, which are listed in the Software's About or Legal screen. Those terms govern those components to the extent they conflict with this Agreement.

13. No professional advice

The Software provides tools for trial design, data capture, statistical analysis, and reporting. It does not provide agronomic, regulatory, statistical, or legal advice. You are solely responsible for the design of your studies, the interpretation of results, and compliance with any applicable Good Laboratory Practice, regulatory, or sponsor requirements. Audit-trail, validation, and blinding features assist with, but do not guarantee, compliance.

14. Disclaimer of warranties

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ARIS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AND UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION.

15. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ARIS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, REVENUE, CROPS, OR BUSINESS, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SOFTWARE OR THIS AGREEMENT, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY. ARIS'S TOTAL LIABILITY UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL NOT EXCEED THE FEES YOU PAID TO ARIS FOR THE SOFTWARE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE, OR FIFTY U.S. DOLLARS (US$50) IF YOU PAID NOTHING.

16. Indemnity

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless ARIS and its owner from any claim, loss, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from Your Data, your use of the Software, or your breach of this Agreement.

17. Term and termination

This Agreement is effective until terminated. It terminates automatically if you breach it. ARIS may also terminate it on notice if your plan lapses. On termination you must stop using the Software, delete all copies, and on request certify deletion in writing; sections 3 through 8 and 13 through 21 survive. You may export Your Data before termination using the Software's export features.

18. Enforcement and remedies

You acknowledge that a breach of sections 3 through 6 would cause ARIS irreparable harm for which money damages would be inadequate, and that ARIS is entitled to injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction, without posting bond, in addition to any other remedy. In any action to enforce this Agreement the prevailing party is entitled to recover its reasonable attorneys' fees and costs. Unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or circumvention may also result in civil and criminal penalties under the U.S. Copyright Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Defend Trade Secrets Act, and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

19. Dispute resolution, arbitration, and class action waiver

Please read this section carefully. Except for (i) ARIS's right to seek injunctive or equitable relief under section 18, and (ii) claims that qualify for small-claims court, any dispute arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the Software will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by JAMS under its Streamlined Arbitration Rules, seated in San Luis Obispo County, California, before a single arbitrator, with each party bearing its own costs except as the arbitrator awards under section 18. YOU AND ARIS EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing cody@aristrials.com with the subject "Arbitration opt-out" within 30 days after first accepting this Agreement. If this section is found unenforceable as to a dispute, section 20 governs venue for that dispute.

20. Governing law and venue

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, and applicable U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Subject to section 19, the state and federal courts located in San Luis Obispo County, California have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, and you consent to their personal jurisdiction. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

21. Export and government use

You will comply with U.S. export control and sanctions laws and will not export or use the Software in any embargoed country or for any prohibited end use. The Software is "commercial computer software" and, if acquired by or for a U.S. government agency, is licensed only with the rights set out in this Agreement.

22. General

This Agreement, together with the ARIS Terms of Service and Privacy Policy (https://app.aristrials.com/terms and /privacy) and any signed pilot or enterprise agreement, is the entire agreement between you and ARIS regarding the Software and supersedes any prior understanding. A signed agreement controls over this Agreement in case of conflict. If any provision is unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary and the rest remains in effect. No waiver is effective unless in writing. You may not assign this Agreement without ARIS's written consent; ARIS may assign it to a successor. ARIS may update this Agreement by posting a new version with a new effective date; continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance, and the Software may ask you to re-accept. Notices to ARIS: cody@aristrials.com.