Terms of Service

These Terms are a contract between you and Interplay (“Dawn”, “we”, “us”) covering your use of the Dawn website, the introductions Dawn sends by email, and everything else we offer under the Dawn name (the “Service”). By signing in, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect and how we use it, and is part of this agreement.

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into a contract. You must not have been previously removed from the Service, and you must not be barred from using it under applicable law or sanctions. Dawn is a service for individual professionals: one account per person, registered under your real name, and not shared with anyone else.

You sign in with Google. You are responsible for keeping access to that Google account secure and for everything that happens under your Dawn account. Tell us promptly at pk@interplay.vc if you believe someone else has gained access.

You agree to give accurate information about yourself and to keep it accurate. Dawn works by taking your profile and your asks at face value; a profile that is not true wastes other members’ time, and is grounds for us to close your account.

Dawn builds a picture of your professional network and what you are looking for, then proposes introductions to people whose goals appear to line up with yours. Dawn screens matches for fit and legitimacy, but we do not perform background checks, verify credentials, or vouch for anyone.

• We do not guarantee that you will receive any introductions, that any particular person will be introduced to you, or that an introduction will lead to a job, an investment, a hire, a customer, or anything else.
• Dawn is not an employment agency, a recruiter, a broker-dealer, an investment adviser, or a placement agent, and nothing it sends you is legal, financial, investment, tax, or employment advice.
• Your dealings with anyone Dawn introduces you to are between you and them. We are not a party to those conversations or to anything that results from them, and we are not responsible for the conduct of other members.

Introductions are double opt-in. When Dawn identifies a match, it contacts each side separately with context about the other and asks. Dawn puts you in touch only if you both agree. If you decline or ignore a proposal, the other side is not told who you were.

By using the Service you agree to receive introduction proposals, introduction emails, follow-ups on an open introduction, and service messages about your account — at the email address on your Google account. Every introduction email has an unsubscribe link, and you can tell Dawn to pause or stop at any time.

When you accept an introduction, the other person receives your name, professional profile, ask, and email address. Accepting is your consent to that. If you would rather they did not have it, decline.

You agree not to:

• Misrepresent yourself, your role, your company, your credentials, or your reason for wanting an introduction — including impersonating anyone or implying an affiliation you do not have.
• Use introductions as a bulk sales channel. Approaching someone Dawn introduced you to about the thing you were introduced for is the point. Adding them to a marketing list, a CRM sequence, a newsletter, or an automated outreach campaign without their consent is not, and is a breach of these Terms and possibly of anti-spam law.
• Pass on what you learn about the other side. Information about a person Dawn proposes to you — including that they are looking for something, or that they exist in Dawn at all — is for deciding whether to accept, not for resale, publication, recruiting databases, or forwarding to third parties.
• Harass, threaten, defraud, discriminate against, or otherwise abuse anyone you meet through the Service.
• Scrape, crawl, harvest, copy, or bulk-export data from the Service; access it by any automated means; or attempt to reconstruct another member’s network, contacts, or profile data.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, interfere with, overload, or probe the Service or its security, or bypass any access control or rate limit.
• Resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the Service or the introductions it produces, or charge anyone for access to them.
• Upload malware, post unlawful content, infringe anyone’s intellectual property or privacy rights, or use the Service to violate any applicable law.

We may investigate suspected breaches and may suspend or close accounts, remove content, and report conduct to the authorities where appropriate.

Your profile, your asks, and anything else you give Dawn remain yours. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, process, adapt, and display that content for the purpose of operating the Service — which includes summarising it, matching on it, and showing it to a person you have agreed to be introduced to. That licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies already sent in email and for backups pending deletion.

You confirm you have the right to give us the content you provide, including any information about your employer or third parties, and that sharing it with us does not breach a confidentiality obligation you owe someone else.

Dawn depends on services we do not control — Google for sign-in and for the mail and calendar signals you authorise, and email infrastructure for delivery. Your use of those services is governed by their own terms, and we are not responsible for their availability or their acts. Revoking Dawn’s access to your Google account will stop parts of the Service from working.

The Service, including its software, design, and the Dawn name and marks, belongs to us and our licensors. These Terms grant you a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service as intended, and nothing more.

If you send us suggestions about the Service, we may use them without restriction or obligation to you. Please do not send us anything you consider confidential.

Dawn is an early product. We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue features — or the whole Service — at any time, and we may impose limits on use. We will give reasonable notice of a material change where we can.

The Service is currently free. If we introduce fees, we will tell you before they apply to you, and you can stop using the Service instead of paying them.

You can stop using Dawn and delete your account at any time by emailing pk@interplay.vc. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if we are required to by law, or if we discontinue the Service. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — content licence for what was already shared, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, and governing law — do.

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, that matches will be accurate or relevant, or that information provided by other members is true. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, in which case they apply to the extent permitted.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost business, lost opportunities, lost data, or damage to reputation, arising out of or relating to the Service — even if we were advised such damages were possible. Our total liability for all claims relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or US$100.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, including liability for fraud, death, or personal injury caused by negligence.

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from claims, damages, losses, and reasonable legal fees arising out of your use of the Service, your content, your conduct toward other members, or your breach of these Terms or of any law.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. You and we agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Delaware for any dispute that is not resolved informally. If you are a consumer resident in the EEA or the UK, nothing here deprives you of the protection of the mandatory laws of your country of residence, or of the right to bring proceedings there.

Before filing anything, please write to pk@interplay.vc — most disputes are faster to resolve that way.

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between us about the Service. If a provision is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

We may update these Terms. If a change is material, we will notify you by email or in the app before it takes effect, and continuing to use the Service after that means you accept the updated Terms. The effective date at the top of this page always reflects the current version.

Interplay — pk@interplay.vc.