Terms of Service

By creating an account, accessing, or using the platform, you agree to these terms, to the Regulatory & Accuracy Disclaimer, and to the Privacy Policy, each incorporated here by reference. If you are agreeing on behalf of a company, you represent that you are authorized to bind it, and "you" means that company. If you do not agree, do not use the platform.

UST Compass is free software for tracking recurring underground storage tank compliance tests, permits, certificates, inspections, and supporting records across facilities. It is an operational tracking aid. It is not a regulatory authority, a compliance certification, or professional advice.

UST Compass is free for every workspace. No payment method, paid plan, or trial is required. Access remains subject to these terms and your workspace permissions.

Your data

You own the compliance data you enter — your customers, facilities, vendors, compliance items, completion history, notes, and uploaded binder documents. You grant us a limited license to host, process, transmit, back up, and display that data solely to provide the service to you and as described in the Privacy Policy.

Our platform

We own the platform and everything underlying it, including the software and source code, the database schema and framework, the user interface and design, our compiled and proprietary state and federal test-interval datasets, the regulatory reference catalog and its structure, our documentation, and our names and logos. Your account grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the platform for your internal business purposes. It transfers no ownership. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

Feedback

If you send us suggestions, we may use them without restriction or obligation to you.

You may not, and may not permit anyone else to:

• Use any robot, spider, scraper, crawler, headless browser, or other automated means to access, extract, copy, index, or monitor the platform or any part of our regulatory datasets.
• Extract, compile, republish, resell, or otherwise exploit our compiled state and federal test-interval data, regulatory catalog, or reference sources, whether manually or programmatically.
• Use the platform, or data taken from it, to build, train, or improve a competing product or dataset.
• Copy, modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code or underlying structure of the platform, except where that restriction is unenforceable by law.
• Resell, sublicense, rent, lease, or provide the platform as a service bureau to third parties, except through the client portal features we provide.
• Share credentials or bypass workspace access permissions.
• Circumvent or probe authentication, tenant isolation, rate limits, or other security or access controls, or access another customer's data.
• Upload malware, or content that is unlawful or that you lack the right to store.
• Interfere with, overload, or disrupt the platform or the infrastructure it runs on.
• Remove or obscure any proprietary notice.

Automated access, extraction of our datasets, and competitive use are material breaches. We may suspend or terminate immediately for them, and we may pursue injunctive relief — money damages alone would not adequately remedy the loss of a dataset we compiled.

We aim to keep the platform available but do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue features, and we perform maintenance that can make the service temporarily unavailable. We will try to give reasonable notice of material adverse changes or planned downtime. Downtime does not extend any regulatory deadline.

You may stop using the platform and cancel at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access for breach of these terms, conduct that risks harm to us or other users, or as required by law.

On termination your right to use the platform ends immediately. For 30 days afterward, you may request an export of your compliance data at privacy@ustex.org. After that we may delete it. Because you may be under a regulatory retention obligation, export what you must keep before you cancel. Sections 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 survive termination.

You will indemnify and hold harmless USTex LLC and its officers, members, employees, and agents from any third-party claim, loss, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your use of the platform, your data, your breach of these terms, your violation of law, or any regulatory action relating to facilities you manage.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The exclusive venue for any dispute is the state or federal courts located in Texas, and both parties consent to their jurisdiction.

Any claim must be brought within one year after it arises, or it is permanently barred. Claims must be brought individually and not as a class or representative action.

Before filing, please contact us at legal@ustex.org so we can try to resolve the matter directly.

These terms, with the documents they incorporate, are the entire agreement between us and supersede prior discussions. If a provision is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force and that provision is limited to the minimum extent necessary. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these terms without our written consent; we may assign them in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. Nothing here creates a partnership, joint venture, or employment relationship. Neither party is liable for delays caused by events beyond its reasonable control.

We may update these terms. Material changes will be posted here with a new date and notified to account owners by email before taking effect. Continuing to use the platform after that means you accept them.

Questions: legal@ustex.org.