Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the WageProof Reasonable Compensation Tool located at www.wageproof.com (the “Service”), operated by RightStart LLC, doing business as WageProof (“we,” “us,” or “our”).

By accessing or using the Service, creating an account, or generating a report, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

If you are using the Service on behalf of a business or other entity, you represent that you have the authority to bind that entity to these Terms, and “you” refers to both you individually and that entity.

You must be at least 18 years of age to use this Service. By using the Service, you represent that you are at least 18.

By using the Service, you consent to receive transactional and service-related communications from us electronically — for example, account, security, billing, and report notices by email or in-app. You agree that electronic communications satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. Marketing emails are sent only with your separate opt-in consent, which you can withdraw at any time in your account settings.

The Service is a web-based compensation analysis tool that generates reasonable compensation reports for S-Corporation owner-employees. It uses publicly available wage data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to produce compensation estimates using methodology described in IRS guidance.

The Service allows users to decompose their work into component tasks, map those tasks to BLS occupation classifications, and generate PDF reports showing compensation estimates. Reports may present up to three valuation approaches: a Cost Approach (Many Hats Method) and a Market Approach (Industry Comparison), available to all users, and — for qualified tax professional (“CPA”) accounts — an Income Approach (Independent Investor Test).

Accounts registered as tax professionals (“CPA accounts”) include additional functionality, which may include a client dashboard, intake questionnaires for collecting client information, the CPA-only Income Approach, and white-labeled (branded) reports on higher-tier plans.

The Service is designed for use by S-Corp owner-employees and qualified tax professionals (CPAs, enrolled agents, tax attorneys). If you are not a tax professional, you are strongly advised to use this Service in consultation with one.

All wage data used by the Service comes from publicly available U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics sources. While we make reasonable efforts to accurately import and process this data, we do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of any data or calculations.

BLS data has inherent limitations. Some occupation and geographic area combinations have suppressed or unavailable data. When this occurs, the Service uses a documented fallback methodology (substituting broader geographic or occupational data), which is noted in the report. These substitutions may affect the accuracy of the compensation estimate.

BLS OEWS estimates carry a May reference date (pooling six semiannual panels over a three-year cycle) and are published roughly a year later. There is an inherent lag between the data collection period and when it is available in the Service.

We do not independently verify BLS data and are not responsible for errors, omissions, or inaccuracies in the underlying government data.

To use certain features of the Service, you must create an account through our authentication provider (Clerk). You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account credentials and for all activity under your account.

You agree to:

• Provide accurate, current, and complete information when creating your account and generating reports
• Keep your account credentials secure and not share them
• Notify us promptly of any unauthorized use of your account
• Use the Service only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms

You are solely responsible for the accuracy of the information you provide. The Service relies on your inputs to generate reports. Inaccurate inputs produce inaccurate results.

You agree not to:

• Use the Service to support a tax position you know to be false or fraudulent
• Access, scrape, or extract data from the Service through automated means
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service or its underlying software
• Resell, sublicense, or redistribute reports or access to the Service without our written permission
• Interfere with or disrupt the Service or its infrastructure

Use on behalf of others. If you use the Service as a tax professional or otherwise on behalf of a third party (a “Client”), you represent that you are authorized to do so; you are solely responsible for the professional relationship with, and any advice to, that Client; and you — not WageProof — are responsible for the Client’s reliance on any report. WageProof has no professional, contractual, or fiduciary relationship with your Client, and your Client is not a party to or third-party beneficiary of these Terms.

Our property. The Service, including its software, design, layout, report templates, methodology implementation, task catalog, user interface, and documentation, is owned by WageProof and protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. You may not copy, modify, distribute, or create derivative works from any part of the Service without our written permission.

Public data. The underlying BLS wage data is public domain. Our intellectual property rights apply to the way we organize, present, and analyze that data — not to the raw data itself.

Your reports. Reports you generate are yours to use. You may share them with your CPA, tax advisor, attorney, or the IRS. You may not resell reports, redistribute them commercially, or use them to create a competing service.

Your data. You retain ownership of the information you provide to the Service. We use your data solely to provide the Service, as described in our Privacy Policy.

Restrictions. You may not reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source code, algorithms, or calculation logic of the Service. You may not use information obtained from the Service to build, assist, or contribute to a competing product or service.

Feedback. If you send us suggestions, ideas, or other feedback about the Service, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use it for any purpose, with no obligation to compensate you or to keep it confidential.

Copyright complaints. If you believe material on the Service infringes your copyright, email help@wageproof.com with the information described in 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) — identification of the copyrighted work and the allegedly infringing material, your contact information, and a good-faith statement. We will respond to valid notices.

Pricing. Report generation requires a paid plan:

• Single Report: $199 for one report
• Starter: $499/year for up to 10 reports
• Professional: $999/year for up to 30 reports
• Firm: $1,499/year for up to 60 reports

One-time add-on report credits and multi-report packs may also be offered, priced as shown at checkout at the time of purchase. Unused reports and report credits do not roll over to subsequent terms, except that when you upgrade an active subscription mid-term, your remaining plan reports carry into the new term that begins at upgrade, up to the new plan’s report allowance. Prices are subject to change with notice.

Payment processing. Payments are processed by Stripe. By purchasing a plan, you agree to Stripe’s terms of service. We do not store your credit card information.

Auto-renewal.Annual plans renew automatically for successive one-year terms at the then-current price unless you cancel before the renewal date, and we will charge the payment method on file on each renewal date. If you upgrade your plan, a new one-year term begins on the upgrade date at the new plan’s then-current price, replacing your previous renewal date. You can cancel at any time from the Billing page in your account; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you keep access until then.

Chargebacks and payment disputes. If you believe you were charged in error, contact us at help@wageproof.com before disputing the charge with your bank or card issuer so we can resolve it. If you initiate a chargeback or payment dispute, we may re-lock or revoke access to any report unlocked by the disputed payment and revoke or claw back any report credits that payment granted, both while the dispute is pending and after it resolves against us. If a chargeback is decided against us, the associated access and credits remain revoked.

Single reports. If a report is materially defective due to a verifiable software error (e.g., a calculation producing a figure inconsistent with the underlying BLS data), you may request a refund within 30 days of purchase. Refunds are not available because you disagree with the figure, provided inaccurate inputs, or the report did not produce the outcome you expected.

Annual subscriptions. You may cancel at any time. We do not provide prorated refunds for unused subscription time. You retain access through the end of the current billing period.

Report credits and report packs. Add-on report credits and report packs are sold as one-time purchases, not subscriptions. Once a credit has been used to finalize a report, that credit is non-refundable. Unused credits or packs may be refunded within 30 days of purchase, at our discretion, only where a verifiable billing or software error occurred. Canceling a subscription does not refund separately purchased report credits or packs.

Upgrade charges. If WageProof fully refunds an upgrade charge, the upgrade is reversed: your prior plan and its remaining reports are restored for the remainder of the term you originally paid for; your subscription will not renew after that date unless you re-subscribe. Separately purchased add-on credits and report packs are unaffected.

To request a refund, contact us at the email in Section 19.

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

We do not warrant that:

• The Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components
• Reports will be accurate, complete, or suitable for any purpose including IRS compliance
• Compensation figures will be accepted by the IRS, any court, or any other authority
• The underlying BLS data is current, accurate, or complete
• Defects or errors will be corrected

You use the Service at your own risk. The entire risk as to results and performance is assumed by you.

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless WageProof and its officers, directors, employees, agents, and affiliates from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising from:

• Your use of the Service
• Reports generated based on information you provided
• Compensation decisions made based on reports from the Service
• Tax positions taken, returns filed, or representations made to the IRS or any other authority using reports from the Service
• Your violation of these Terms
• Your violation of any applicable law or third-party rights
• Any third-party claim arising from your distribution of, reliance on, or representations about a report, including by your Clients

By you. You may stop using the Service at any time. You can cancel a paid subscription yourself at any time from the Billing page in your account (which opens the Stripe customer portal), or by contacting us — cancellation is at least as easy as signing up.

By us. We may suspend or terminate your access at any time if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms, are using the Service fraudulently, or if required by law. We may also discontinue the Service entirely.

Effect. Upon termination, your right to use the Service ceases. We may retain or delete your data per our Privacy Policy. Reports already downloaded remain yours per Section 6.

Sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, and 18 survive termination, together with any other provision that by its nature should survive and any obligations accrued before termination.

We reserve the right to modify, update, or discontinue any aspect of the Service at any time. This includes features, methodology, data sources, task catalog, pricing (with notice), and report format. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you of material changes. We do not guarantee that the Service will be available at any particular time; please download and retain your own copies of any reports you may need, as access may be interrupted or discontinued.

We may update these Terms from time to time, and we will update the “Last updated” date when we do.

Non-material changes (such as clarifications, contact details, or new features) take effect when posted; continued use after they are posted constitutes acceptance.

Material changes — including changes to the dispute-resolution and arbitration provisions (Section 15), the limitation of liability (Section 9), indemnification (Section 11), or fees — take effect only after we give you affirmative notice by email or through the Service and you either accept the updated Terms or continue using the Service after a stated notice period of at least 30 days. Material changes apply prospectively only and do not apply to any dispute that arose before their effective date. We will not apply a changed arbitration provision (Section 15) to you based solely on your continued use.

If you disagree with any change, stop using the Service.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict of law principles.

Disputes shall first be attempted through good faith negotiation. If unsuccessful within 30 days, either party may pursue binding arbitration administered by JAMS under its Streamlined Arbitration Rules, conducted in California.

You agree that dispute resolution will be conducted individually, not as a class action, class arbitration, or other representative proceeding. You waive any right to participate in a class action against WageProof.

Either party may seek injunctive or equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property rights.

Your use of the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which describes how we collect, use, and protect your information. The Service uses third-party providers for authentication (Clerk), payments (Stripe), hosting (Vercel), and database (Neon), each with their own privacy policies.

We may offer a referral or affiliate program that lets eligible participants earn rewards for referring new customers to the Service. We are not obligated to offer such a program or to admit any person to it.

Separate agreement. Participation as an affiliate or referral partner is governed by a separate Affiliate Agreement (or Referral Program Terms), which you must accept to participate. If that agreement conflicts with these Terms, the Affiliate Agreement controls with respect to program participation.

Changes to the program. We may change, suspend, or discontinue the referral or affiliate program — including reward amounts, eligibility, attribution windows, and payout terms — and we may remove any participant, as described in the Affiliate Agreement. Material changes to the Affiliate Agreement are made in accordance with that agreement’s modification provisions.

No fraud or self-referral. Affiliates may not refer themselves, create accounts to generate referrals to themselves, use deceptive or misleading advertising, bid on our trademarks, spam, or otherwise manipulate or abuse the program. We may withhold or revoke any reward, and terminate participation, for referrals we determine in good faith to be fraudulent, self-dealing, or in violation of these Terms or the Affiliate Agreement.

No cash value to referred customers. Any referral reward is payable only to the eligible referring affiliate under the Affiliate Agreement. Referral rewards have no cash value to the referred customer, are not a discount on the Service unless we expressly say so, and are not redeemable for cash by the referred customer.

Governing law. Participation in the referral or affiliate program, and the Affiliate Agreement, are governed by the laws of the State of California, consistent with Section 15 of these Terms, including its dispute-resolution and class-action-waiver provisions.

Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement between you and WageProof regarding the Service.

Severability. If any provision is held invalid, the remaining provisions continue in full force.

Waiver. Failure to enforce any provision does not constitute a waiver.

Assignment. You may not assign your rights without our consent. We may assign ours without restriction.

Force majeure. We are not liable for delays due to causes beyond our reasonable control.

No third-party beneficiaries. These Terms are for the benefit of you and WageProof only and do not create any rights in any third party, including any Client on whose behalf you use the Service.

Notices. We may give you notice by email to your account address or through the Service; such notice is effective when sent. You are responsible for keeping your account email current. You may send us notices at help@wageproof.com.

Export and sanctions. The Service is intended for use in the United States. You represent that you are not located in, and will not use the Service from, a country or territory subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions, and that you are not a person with whom U.S. persons are prohibited from dealing (such as a denied or sanctioned party).

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