Terms of service

Using the site

GovernBench is a directory of tools, free to browse for people and their agents. You may use our llms.txt, the markdown version of every page and our MCP and JSON endpoints. Don't disrupt, attack or probe the service, get around rate limits, or pass off our index as your own. We may block traffic that abuses the service.

Accounts

Submitting a tool or buying a placement creates an account tied to your email. Keep that inbox secure and your details accurate; we verify account actions such as claims and upgrades through it. We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms.

Submissions and claims

Submit only tools you are authorized to represent, with accurate information. You let us use what you send in our research and publish the result. Submitting does not guarantee a listing, and we check everything you send before it appears on the site.

Paid placements

Billing. Prices are in US dollars, or in euros in the EEA. Featured renews monthly or yearly, as you chose, until you cancel. Cancel from your dashboard to stop future charges. The placement runs to the end of the paid period, then stops, and your listing stays. Listing reviews, contributed articles and lead credits are one-time purchases. Anything bought under an earlier offer keeps the terms it was bought under.

Featured. Your listing is shown at the top of its category page, first in the Featured card on the listing, alternatives and compare pages of its category, and as a card on related articles. Featured listings share those places in no fixed order, and take turns daily when more are Featured than fit. We don't guarantee an exclusive spot, views or clicks. Featured never changes a listing's rank, score or verdict. Every place carries the Featured label, which is always shown and can't be removed or moved.

If you cancel Featured. Its places end with the paid period, and the listing stays published. If a payment is refunded or disputed, or the listing is taken down, it loses its places.

What a placement does not change. Whether a listing is accepted, what it says, or anything about a competitor's listing. See how we check.

We don't guarantee search rankings or traffic.

Listing review. Joining GovernBench is a one-time payment for a review, at the price shown when you choose it. When you submit, we check that your product fits this directory and you prove you own its site, before you pay. Once it is paid we research the tool in full and decide within 48 hours. If it fits, it is listed and kept current. If we don't accept it, we refund the payment in full, automatically. It includes no article.

Your listing after its review. It stays published. If your website address changes, we update the listing after checking the new address.

If your site goes away. If your website stops working or redirects somewhere we haven't checked, we pause the link to it and tell you why.

Contributed articles. You pay first, then send the article, or a sentence and link to add to one of our published articles. Articles are original, 800 to 2,000 words and on the site's topic, with at most 2 links to your own site. A contributed article is edited to our standard and published under our byline. It goes live within 48 hours of payment and the final text. We don't take gambling, betting, forex, CBD, adult, pharma, loans, token promotions or promised returns. Crypto is fine when the product is an AI agent. If we can't publish what you sent, we refund you.

Affiliate links and paid extras

No link on GovernBench earns us a commission. If we join a tool's affiliate program, its listing will say so under its Visit link. A paid listing always links straight to its own site. Vendors can't buy affiliate links or remove a competitor's, and affiliate links don't change what we list or how we rank it.

Paid placement adds the Featured places and expanded analytics where available. Paid listings that are due for a re-check are re-checked first, after listings we have never checked. Lead credits deliver leads as described at checkout. None of these changes the free list's order, what a listing says, or a competitor's listing.

Refunds

Placements start when payment settles. If something goes wrong, email support@governbench.com. If we fail to deliver something you paid for, we refund it. The VIP listing and contributed article refunds above also apply.

We don't refund a change of mind. Recurring services run to the end of the paid period and stop renewing once canceled. Lead credits don't expire. This doesn't limit your mandatory consumer rights.

Accuracy and third-party sites

Listings link to their sources and are re-checked on a schedule, but tools change often. Check pricing and features with the vendor before you rely on them. Sites we link to belong to their owners, and their content, terms and privacy practices are their own.

What we are not liable for

GovernBench is provided as-is, without warranties. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses: lost profits, lost data, decisions made on listed facts, downtime, or what third-party sites do. Our total liability for any claim is capped at what you paid us in the twelve months before it arose (zero if you paid nothing). Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including your mandatory consumer rights.

Ending things

You can stop using the site at any time. Email support@governbench.com to have your account deleted. We may suspend or end accounts and placements that break these terms. If we end a paid placement when you haven't broken them, we refund the unused time.

Law and changes

These terms are governed by Dutch law. GovernBench is run from the Netherlands. Consumers keep any protections their local law makes mandatory. We may update these terms and the date above shows the current version. A change never shortens a placement you have already paid for.