Terms of Service

Plain-language summary first, full terms below. By creating a reviewer account or submitting any content, you agree to these terms.

1. Eligibility

To create a reviewer account you must:

• Be at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, if higher).
• Have a GitHub account that meets the verification thresholds documented in the Methodology.
• Not be banned from a prior GitShowcase account.
• Not be located in a jurisdiction where access to GitShowcase is prohibited by law.

2. Reviewer obligations

• Truthfulness: Reviews must reflect your honest experience using the tool, in the use-case context you describe.
• Conflict disclosure: Mandatory and complete. Vendor employees, contractors, paid advisors, anyone with equity, and competing-product employees must disclose. Undisclosed conflicts are grounds for removal and a 12-month review ban.
• No reviews-for-payment: You may not accept money, gifts, credits, free services, or any other consideration in exchange for a review. Review-trading agreements with other reviewers are also prohibited.
• No content you don't own: Review prose must be your own. Don't paste from internal docs, customer success calls, or other people's writing.
• No PII: Don't disclose private information about your employer, teammates, or customers without explicit consent.
• No defamation, harassment, or hate speech.

3. Vendor conduct

Tool vendors and their employees are welcome on GitShowcase under these conditions:

• Vendor-employee reviews must disclose employment. They will be visibly marked and weighted at 0.5×.
• Vendors may inform their developer community that GitShowcase exists. Vendors may NOT offer compensation, gifts, discounts, free credits, or any consideration in exchange for reviews.
• Vendors may NOT coordinate review submission timing or content.
• Documented violations result in a 90-day score freeze on the vendor's tool page and a permanent methodology footnote.

4. Content licensing

You retain copyright in your review prose. By submitting a review, you grant GitShowcase a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to:

• Display the review on GitShowcase, in editorial summaries, and in syndicated feeds (RSS, sitemaps, structured data).
• Quote excerpts in editorial articles with attribution to your GitHub handle.
• Translate reviews into other languages with attribution preserved.

You can revoke this license at any time by deleting your review or your account. Editorial articles that previously quoted you will be updated within 30 days to remove the quote (the article itself remains).

5. Moderation and removal

We may remove content that:

• Violates these terms or the Methodology
• Is part of a documented manipulation cluster (sock-puppets, vote brigades, undisclosed coordination)
• Is defamatory or contains undisclosed PII
• Is the subject of a valid legal takedown notice

Every removal goes in the public dispute log keyed by anonymized review-id with the removal reason and decision date. Reviewers are notified and may appeal.

6. Disputes

Methodology, score, and removal disputes go through the public process documented in the Methodology. Email methodology@gitshowcase.com. We log every dispute and respond within 5 business days.

7. Disclaimers

GitShowcase is provided "as is." Reviews represent the opinions of individual reviewers, not GitShowcase. Tool aggregate scores are derived from those opinions per the public methodology and do not constitute professional advice, an endorsement, or a guarantee. Use of any tool listed on GitShowcase is between you and the tool vendor.

8. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, GitShowcase is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from use of the platform.

9. Changes

These terms are versioned. Material changes are announced 30 days in advance. Continuing to use GitShowcase after the effective date of new terms constitutes acceptance. Current version is v1.0 effective 2026-04-30.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws applicable in the jurisdiction in which GitShowcase is operated. Disputes that cannot be resolved through the public dispute process will be settled in the courts of that jurisdiction.