1. Acceptance of Terms
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the website theprimary.com and the services provided by Objection Pte. Ltd., Company Number 202551418M, trading as The Primary ("we", "us", "our"). By creating an account or using our Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not use our Services.
The contributor provisions in Section 4 apply when you submit a contribution and accept these Terms. Accepting these Terms does not constitute consent to AI training, which requires the separate, explicit opt-in described below.
2. Description of Service
Objection Pte. Ltd. trading as The Primary provides a platform for individuals and organizations to file objections to claims made about them in public media. We facilitate the gathering of evidence and provide judgments on these objections, which are made public.
Our Services also include publishing journalism, collecting interviews and other contributions, maintaining contributor and professional records, and preparing or licensing knowledge products and datasets, subject to the permissions and safeguards described in these Terms and our Privacy Policy.
3. User Accounts
To use features of our Services that require an account, you must create an account. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account. You must be at least 18 years old to create an account.
Contributors are assigned a Primary ID to which their contributions are linked. A Primary ID is a record identifier; its existence alone does not mean that a contributor’s identity, credentials, or statements have been independently verified. Where a contribution is presented as verified, we distinguish that verification from the assignment of an ID.
4. User-Generated Content and Contributor Terms
4.1 Your content and ownership
You are solely responsible for any content you submit to our platform, including objections, evidence, interviews, recordings, transcripts, statements, claims, and other materials ("User Content" or "contributions"). You retain ownership of the rights you hold in your User Content.
You agree that your User Content will not contain material that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret, or otherwise subject to third-party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you own those rights or have permission from their rightful owner to submit the material and grant the applicable licence.
4.2 Licence to operate and publish
Subject to your selected permissions, attribution choices, and applicable law, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform your User Content in connection with the Services and our business, including promoting the Services.
This licence does not override a restriction you select for a particular contribution or category. Private or restricted material may not be used publicly merely because you accepted these Terms.
4.3 Sale and onward licensing
By submitting a contribution and accepting these Terms, you authorise us, within your selected permissions, to license or sell access to that contribution and related knowledge products to third parties. These may include transcripts, statements, claims, extracts, annotations, and derived datasets.
Recipients may include publishers, research organizations, commercial data customers, AI developers and laboratories, and data brokers. Permitted uses may include research, analysis, product development, and AI evaluation. AI training is subject to the additional requirement in Section 4.4.
This permission does not transfer ownership of rights you retain in your original contribution. It does not authorise the sale of anonymous contributors’ identifying information or override applicable data-protection rights.
Your contractual permission to license content is distinct from the lawful basis required to process personal data. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal data.
4.4 Separate permission for AI training
We will not use or authorise third parties to use your contributions to train or fine-tune AI models without your separate, explicit opt-in for that purpose.
Accepting these Terms, submitting content, permitting publication, or allowing sale or onward licensing does not itself provide that opt-in. A training opt-in must identify the contribution or category to which it applies.
Where AI evaluation is permitted but training is not, evaluation must not include using your contribution to train or fine-tune a model. Our onward permissions must preserve this distinction.
4.5 Granular permissions and withdrawal
You may specify which contributions or categories may be published, sold or licensed, or used for AI training. A permission for one contribution or category does not automatically apply to another.
You may change your permissions or withdraw consent by using the available contribution controls or contacting data@theprimary.com. Changes apply going forward, including to new uses and new onward licences after the change takes effect.
Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. The consequences for existing copies, licences, and recipient processing depend on applicable law and the basis for that processing. We will honour applicable cessation, deletion, and recipient-notification obligations; these Terms do not waive those obligations.
4.6 Attribution and anonymity
Contributions may be provided under the following attribution arrangements:
- On the record: your contribution may be published or supplied with your agreed name and attribution.
- Anonymous but verified: we verify your identity, but do not publish or sell your identifying information with the contribution.
- Fully anonymous: your contribution is not publicly attributed to you and is not represented as identity-verified.
For anonymous contributions, identifying information collected by us is separated from contribution content at ingest and is not sold. Internal contribution records may remain linked through a Primary ID, with access to identifying information restricted.
Anonymity does not mean that every contribution is free of identifying clues. Please avoid including unnecessary information that identifies you or another person. The Privacy Policy explains the distinction between anonymous and pseudonymous data.
4.7 Multi-party recordings
Every participant must consent before a multi-party recording is made or submitted to the Services.
You must have the necessary permissions from all participants for the recording and its intended submission and uses. One participant’s acceptance of these Terms or AI-training opt-in does not supply consent on behalf of another participant.
4.8 Compensation
Contributions are unpaid unless we separately agree otherwise in writing. The consideration offered for a contribution is its inclusion in a record associated with the contributor’s Primary ID and, where the contributor chooses on-the-record attribution, their name. This does not override an anonymity choice.
We do not promise payment, royalties, equity, securities, ownership in any company, or a share of revenue from publication, licensing, sale, or other permitted uses of contributions.
5. Prohibited Conduct
You agree not to use the Services to:
- Submit false or misleading information.
- Harass, abuse, or harm another person.
- Violate any applicable laws or regulations.
- Infringe on the intellectual property rights of others.
- Interfere with or disrupt the Services.
6. Intellectual Property Rights
All intellectual property rights in the Services, including the website, software, and our brand, are owned by or licensed to Objection Pte. Ltd. trading as The Primary. You may not use our intellectual property without our prior written consent.
This section does not transfer ownership of the rights you retain in your User Content.
7. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability
THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE.
IN NO EVENT SHALL OBJECTION PTE. LTD. TRADING AS THE PRIMARY, ITS DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, USE, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, RESULTING FROM (I) YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF OR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES; (II) ANY CONDUCT OR CONTENT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICES; (III) ANY CONTENT OBTAINED FROM THE SERVICES; AND (IV) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, USE, OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR CONTENT, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE, AND EVEN IF A REMEDY SET FORTH HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability or rights that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
8. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Objection Pte. Ltd. trading as The Primary and its licensee and licensors, and their employees, contractors, agents, officers, and directors, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees), resulting from or arising out of a) your use and access of the Service, by you or any person using your account and password; b) a breach of these Terms, or c) Content posted on the Service.
9. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Singapore, without regard to its conflict of law provisions, subject to any mandatory rights or protections that apply in your jurisdiction.
Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of those rights. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in effect. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between us regarding our Service, and supersede and replace any prior agreements we might have had between us regarding the Service.
10. Termination
We may terminate or suspend your account and bar access to the Service immediately, without prior notice or liability, under our sole discretion, for any reason whatsoever and without limitation, including but not limited to a breach of the Terms, subject to applicable law.
If you wish to terminate your account, you may simply discontinue using the Service.
All provisions of the Terms which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability. Any continued use of contributions remains subject to your applicable permissions and data-protection rights.
11. Changes to These Terms
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material we will provide at least 30 days' notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion, subject to applicable law.
By continuing to access or use our Service after any revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. If you do not agree to the new terms, you are no longer authorized to use the Service.
An update to these Terms does not itself provide an AI-training opt-in, override previously selected restrictions, or retroactively expand permissions for an earlier contribution where fresh agreement or consent is required.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at data@theprimary.com.
13. Assignment to Group Entities
We may assign or transfer these Terms and the rights and obligations under them to an affiliate or another entity within our corporate group, including an entity operating our data business, subject to applicable law.
A transfer does not expand the permissions granted for your contributions, remove anonymity protections, or waive your data-protection rights. Where a transfer changes the controller of your personal data, we will provide any notice and obtain any consent required by applicable law.