Terms of use

What this tool is

Groundtruth checks recruiter outreach against verifiable, independent facts: whether the sender's domain matches the company it claims, whether the company has a public footprint, what the message asks you to do, and whether an attached document shows signs of manipulation. It reports evidence. It does not, and cannot, prove that a job or a person is real.

This is not legal, immigration, or financial advice

Nothing on this page is a substitute for advice from a licensed attorney, your school's international student office, or a financial professional. Where a finding recommends speaking to one of these before acting, that is not a formality — do it. Decisions about signing, paying, or sending documents are yours, made with information this tool contributes to, not information it substitutes for.

No guarantee of completeness

Every check here distinguishes three outcomes: it passed, it failed, or it did not run — and the tool says which, rather than treating a check that never ran as a clean result. Still, a "nothing alarming found" verdict reflects what was checkable at the time, not a certification that an opportunity is legitimate. Absence of a red flag is not proof of safety.

Acceptable use

• Use this tool to evaluate outreach addressed to you or someone you are directly helping (a student, a family member).
• Do not use automated tools to send high-volume traffic to this service. Requests are rate-limited per client; deliberately working around that limit is a violation of these terms.
• Do not upload documents you do not have the right to submit for analysis, or that contain another person's sensitive information without their knowledge.
• Do not use this service to test, probe, or build a competing evasion technique against its detectors. Its false-positive controls exist to protect honest people, not to be reverse-engineered.

Availability

Some checks depend on third-party services (employer search, careers- page rendering) and are unavailable when those services are unreachable or unconfigured. The tool reports this honestly rather than silently returning a clean result — see /api/health. Availability is provided as-is, without an uptime guarantee, for the free public deployment.

Institutional use

A university, career center, or immigration-services office deploying this for its students operates under a separate written agreement that may set usage volume, support terms, and branding — contact the project directly. These general terms still govern the underlying tool absent something more specific in that agreement.

Changes

These terms may be updated as the product changes. Continued use after an update means you accept the current version.