Terms of service

These terms are an agreement between you and ALPHAKHOJ LLP (Hyderabad, Telangana, India), which operates VibeMyExpt. By creating an account you accept them.

You must be 18 or over to hold an account, give accurate details, and keep your credentials to yourself. You are responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us promptly if you think it has been compromised.

If you run studies here, you are responsible for them. That means:

• Obtaining ethics or IRB approval where your institution requires it, before you collect data.
• Writing a consent form that accurately describes what you collect, why, how long you keep it, and who to contact. If your consent form promises participants they can withdraw, honour it.
• Following our acceptable use policy, in particular the rule against collecting direct identifiers.
• Acting as data controller for what your study collects. We are your processor — see the data processing agreement, which forms part of these terms where data protection law applies to you.
• Treating participants fairly: paying promised rewards, not deceiving them beyond what your ethics approval permits, and debriefing where required.

Participation is voluntary and you can stop at any time by closing the tab. Give honest answers and do not use automated tools to complete studies — a researcher may withhold payment for submissions that are clearly not genuine, and repeated abuse can cost you your account.

Where a study offers payment, the reward is funded by the researcher and released according to that study's approval window. We hold the funds and pass them on; we are not the paying party.

You keep ownership of the experiments, stimuli and data you bring or create. You grant us only the licence we need to host and process them so the service works. We do not use your experiment code or your participants' responses to train AI models.

If you publish an experiment to the public template gallery, you are choosing to let others copy and adapt it.

AI-generated experiment code and analysis are suggestions, not verified work. You are responsible for reviewing them before they reach participants or a paper. Check that a generated experiment does what you intend, and that a generated analysis is statistically sound. What the AI features send to our providers is set out in the privacy policy.

AI transparency (EU AI Act Article 50). The experiment builder and the analysis assistant are AI systems, and are labelled as such wherever they appear — you are always told when you are interacting with a model rather than a person. Any code, text or analysis they produce is machine-generated output and should be treated as a draft you review, not a finished result. We build on general-purpose models supplied by the providers named in the privacy policy; we do not train our own models on your work or on your participants' responses.

Participants never interact with an AI system while taking a study. What they see is the experiment the researcher published.

AI usage and participant rewards are paid from a prepaid balance. Prices are shown before you buy and are exclusive of GST, which is added at the applicable rate. Top-ups are generally non-refundable once spent; unspent balances can be discussed with us. Invoices are issued for Indian tax purposes and retained as long as the law requires.

We work to keep the service running but do not promise uninterrupted availability, and we may occasionally need to take it down for maintenance. If you are running a time-sensitive study, plan for that. Keep your own copy of data you cannot afford to lose — you can export at any time.

You can delete your account at any time from account settings. We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms or the acceptable use policy, or where continuing would put participants at risk. Where we reasonably can, we will tell you first and give you a chance to export your data.

The service is provided as-is. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost data where you had the ability to export it, or the research conclusions you draw. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded. Where liability is capped, it is capped at what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

We may update these terms; material changes will be notified by email or in the product, and the date above will change. These terms are governed by the laws of India, with the courts of Hyderabad, Telangana having jurisdiction — without affecting any mandatory consumer or data protection rights you have where you live.

Questions: [email protected].