1. Definitions and Interpretation
In these Terms of Service, the following definitions apply:
Means QuestFeed Pty Ltd (ABN 58 632 013 855), an Australian Private Company registered in Queensland. MineDSS is a product name and brand of QuestFeed Pty Ltd. It is not a separately registered business or trademark. All contractual obligations under these Terms are between the User and QuestFeed Pty Ltd.
Means the MineDSS application at app.minedss.com, the website at www.minedss.com, and all associated APIs, infrastructure, and services.
Means all mineral prospectivity services provided through the Platform or under an Engagement, including prospectivity mapping, ranked target generation, national prospectivity models, evidence and analogue-support analysis, and reports.
Means any individual or entity accessing or using the Platform, Services, or Outputs, whether on the public demo, an invited account, or under an Engagement.
Means any analysis produced by the Services for an area of interest, including a prospectivity map, ranked targets, the evidence and reasoning behind each target, the analogue-support / trust flags, a prioritised target shortlist, and any report compiling them.
Means any work, access or arrangement agreed with us in a separate written agreement, for example with a partner.
Means any data you provide to us or upload to the Platform, for example assay results, drillhole logs, sample data, tenement or area-of-interest boundaries, and your own geoscience datasets.
2. About MineDSS
What We Provide
What We Do NOT Provide
3. Acceptance of Terms
By accessing or using the Platform, or by engaging our Services, you acknowledge that you:
- Have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Service
- Have read and agree to our Privacy Policy
- Are at least 18 years of age or have legal authority to enter these Terms on behalf of an organisation
- Will use the Platform and Outputs only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms
- Have the authority to bind the organisation you represent (if applicable)
Changes to Terms: We may modify these Terms at any time. Material changes will be communicated via email to registered users. Your continued use of the Platform or Services after changes constitutes acceptance of the modified Terms.
4. Authorised Use & Prohibited Conduct
You must NOT:
- Attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Platform, its infrastructure, or other users' data
- Use the Platform to facilitate fraud or unauthorised activities
- Reverse engineer, decompile, or extract our models, scoring algorithms, methodology, or proprietary datasets
- Use automated tools to scrape, crawl, or extract data from the Platform beyond normal API usage
- Resell, sublicense, or redistribute our Services or Outputs without written authorisation
- Misrepresent MineDSS Outputs as a JORC Code or NI 43-101 estimate, as a discovery, or as a statement of fact about what is in the ground
- Use the Platform or Outputs in violation of any applicable local, state, national, or international law
5. Access and Written Agreements
No sale of access
The Platform is not offered for sale, by subscription or per run. Accounts are provided by invitation. Any work, access or deal we agree with you is governed by a separate written agreement, which forms part of these Terms for that matter and prevails over them where the two conflict.
Free Demo
Parts of the Platform may be made available as a free, no-login demo using sample runs. The demo is provided for evaluation only, on an "as is" basis, and may be changed or withdrawn at any time.
Consumer law
Nothing in these Terms limits your rights under the Australian Consumer Law: where you are entitled to a remedy for a failure to meet a consumer guarantee, that remedy applies.
6. Output Accuracy and Limitations
Accuracy Notice
MineDSS ranks prospectivity and shows the evidence behind every target. Outputs are decision-support information to focus exploration. They are not a statement of fact, a discovery claim, a mineral resource or ore reserve estimate (JORC Code / NI 43-101), or drilling, investment, or geological advice. Always apply your own technical judgement and qualified experts before committing capital to a drilling program.
Our Outputs are subject to the following limitations:
- Outputs are based on the public and supplied datasets currently loaded in our system; source data may have been amended, superseded, or extended after our last update
- Prospectivity scores and rankings are probabilistic and should be interpreted as guidance, not certainty that mineralisation is present, economic, or absent
- Validation figures, where provided, describe held-out predictive skill: how well a model ranks anomalous samples on ground withheld from its training. They must not be read as a discovery claim or as the measured performance of any specific area of interest
- What works for one rock type and region will not always transfer to another; where the model is extrapolating beyond ground it has seen, the analogue-support flag says so rather than implying confidence it does not have
- Coverage, resolution, and the commodities proven vary by region; an unproven region is flagged rather than scored with false precision
- Outputs do not replace field validation, sampling, or a qualified geologist's assessment
7. Intellectual Property & Your Data
The Platform and its original content, features, and functionality are owned by QuestFeed Pty Ltd and protected by international intellectual property laws. This includes:
- The MineDSS name, logo, and branding
- Platform design, layout, and user interface
- Our prospectivity methodology, data structures, scoring algorithms, and modelling engines
- Our trained models, feature engineering, and validation framework
- Report formats, analogue-support frameworks, and analysis methodology
Output Licence
Outputs generated by MineDSS are licensed to you for your internal business purposes. You may share Outputs with your team, geologists, board, advisors, and JV partners. You may not resell, publicly redistribute, or use our Outputs or methodology to create competing services without prior written consent.
Your Data & Custom Models
You retain ownership of your Client Data. We use it only to deliver the Services for your job. It is never folded into, or used to train, models we provide to anyone else. Where a Custom ML model is built on your ground as part of an Engagement, its ownership and use are set out in your quote or statement of work. Our pre-existing methodology, national datasets, and tooling remain ours.
8. Disclaimers and Limitations
Disclaimer of Warranties
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Platform, Services, and Outputs are provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to:
- Implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose
- Warranties that the Platform will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components
- Warranties regarding the accuracy, completeness, or currency of geoscience data or prospectivity analysis
- Warranties that our Outputs will identify all prospective ground or predict the presence, economics, or absence of mineralisation
Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by Australian law:
- We shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including but not limited to loss of profits, data, business or exploration opportunities, or goodwill
- Our total aggregate liability for all claims arising from or relating to the Services shall not exceed the total amount you paid to us in the twelve (12) months preceding the claim
- We are not liable for exploration, drilling, investment, or commercial decisions made on the basis of our Outputs, or for any dry holes, costs, or losses arising from them
- We are not liable for losses arising from changes to source datasets that occur after our data was last updated
Consumer Guarantees
Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any consumer guarantee, right, or remedy conferred by the Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010) that cannot be excluded, restricted, or modified by agreement.
9. Additional Terms
a. Confidentiality
We treat your Client Data, Outputs, area-of-interest queries, and account data as confidential. We will not disclose them to third parties except: (i) with your explicit consent, (ii) to our service providers under confidentiality obligations and only as needed to operate the Services, (iii) when required by law or valid legal process, or (iv) in anonymised, aggregated form that cannot be attributed to you.
b. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless QuestFeed Pty Ltd, its officers, directors, and employees from and against any claims, damages, losses, or expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from: (i) your violation of these Terms, (ii) your misrepresentation of MineDSS Outputs as a resource or reserve estimate or as a discovery, or (iii) your use of the Services or Outputs in violation of applicable law.
c. Termination
We may suspend or terminate your access immediately and without prior notice if you: breach these Terms, engage in fraudulent or unlawful activity, or abuse the Platform. Upon termination, your right to use the Platform and Outputs ceases (except where an Engagement licence expressly survives). We may retain your data as required by law or our data retention policy.
d. Force Majeure
We shall not be liable for any failure or delay in performing our obligations where such failure or delay results from events beyond our reasonable control, including but not limited to natural disasters, pandemics, war, government actions, internet outages, or third-party service failures.
e. Governing Law
These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Queensland, Australia. You submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Queensland and the Federal Court of Australia for any disputes arising from these Terms.
f. General Provisions
- Entire Agreement: These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any applicable written agreement, constitute the entire agreement between you and QuestFeed regarding the Services.
- Severability: If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
- Waiver: Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
- Assignment: You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign our rights and obligations without restriction.
Contact Us
For questions about these Terms of Service, please contact:
QuestFeed Pty Ltd
Document Version: 1.2 | Effective: September 2026