Legal
Terms of Service
Last updated and effective: October 21, 2026
These Terms explain what TMHawk is, what it is not, and the rules for using it. Each section ends with a short summary in plain English; the summaries help you read the Terms but do not replace them.
1. Agreement to these Terms
TMHawk (the website at tmhawk.com, the app at app.tmhawk.com and the emails we send) is operated by Creando Pro LLC, a Georgia limited liability company ("Creando Pro", "we", "us"). These Terms of Service are a contract between you and Creando Pro.
By using TMHawk, asking us to watch a trademark, or signing in to an account, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use TMHawk.
You must be at least 18 years old. If you use TMHawk for a company or another person, you confirm that you are allowed to accept these Terms for them, and "you" includes them.
2. What TMHawk does
TMHawk reads public records of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), such as TSDR, TTABVUE and the trademark search system. For the marks you watch, it shows what the record says, works out dates from it, and emails you when the record changes. It may also show filings and domain names that look or sound similar to a mark.
Every alert states a fact from a public source, with its date and a link to that source. We add, change and remove features over time.
3. Not a law firm, not legal advice, not the USPTO
TMHawk is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. Nothing on the website, in the app or in an email is legal advice or an opinion about your rights, about whether two marks are confusingly similar, or about what you should do. Using TMHawk does not create an attorney-client relationship with anyone.
TMHawk is not the USPTO and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or acting for the USPTO or any government agency. We never file, sign, pay or answer anything on your behalf.
For decisions about a trademark, talk to a licensed trademark attorney.
4. Your deadlines stay your responsibility
The official record at the USPTO and the official correspondence the USPTO sends you are what count. Dates shown by TMHawk are our reading of the public record and can be wrong, late or missing, for example because the USPTO record is incomplete, a source was unavailable, a rule changed, or our software has a fault.
When we cannot read a record or work out a date, we try to show it as unknown rather than as clear. A record with no alert does not mean that no deadline is running.
Email can be delayed, filtered as spam or lost. We cannot promise that any alert reaches you, or reaches you in time.
So you remain responsible for:
- checking every date in the USPTO record (TSDR) before you act on it;
- keeping your correspondence address at the USPTO up to date;
- meeting every deadline, whether or not TMHawk showed or sent it.
5. Where the information comes from
Trademark records come from public USPTO systems. Domain name information may come from public sources such as zone files that domain registries make available and public certificate transparency logs. We show these records as the source publishes them; we cannot correct them. Corrections to a USPTO record must be made with the USPTO.
Lists of similar filings or domain names come from automated comparisons of spelling and sound. They are not complete, they may include names that are not similar in any legal sense, and they are not a judgment about any owner or registrant.
6. Accounts
For now we open accounts by invitation. When you have one, you agree to give us a working email address, keep your password secret, and tell us at [email protected] if you think someone else used your account. You are responsible for what happens in your account.
You can also watch a mark without an account by leaving your email address. We confirm that address before we send alerts to it.
7. Emails we send
By watching a mark you ask us to email you about it: a confirmation link, alerts when the record changes, and notices about your account. Each alert email has a link to stop alerts for that mark, and you can pause all alerts in Settings. We may still send messages needed to run your account, such as password links or changes to these Terms.
We do not send advertising unless you have asked for it, and we never sell your address.
8. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- copy, scrape or download TMHawk's pages or data with bots, scripts or other automated means, or send automated requests to our servers;
- resell TMHawk, or offer its data or alerts as part of another product, without our written permission;
- pretend to be the USPTO, a government agency, a law firm or another person, or use TMHawk to send messages that do;
- use TMHawk to harass, threaten or pressure trademark owners, applicants, attorneys or domain registrants;
- try to get around our limits or security, read data that is not yours, or disrupt the service;
- use TMHawk for anything unlawful.
Domain name data. Domain names that TMHawk shows may come from zone files that registries provide under their own terms. You may use them only to look after your own marks. You may not use them for marketing or for unsolicited email, phone calls, messages or mail to registrants or anyone else, you may not use them to send high-volume automated queries to domain registries or registrars, and you may not copy them out of TMHawk in bulk.
9. The information you give us
The marks you watch, your settings and anything else you give us remain yours. You give Creando Pro permission to store and use them only to run TMHawk for you, as described in the Privacy Policy. Please do not send us confidential documents; TMHawk does not need them.
10. Our property
The TMHawk software, design, name and logo belong to Creando Pro. These Terms give you a limited, personal, non-transferable right to use TMHawk while you follow them, and no other right. You may not use the TMHawk name or logo in a way that suggests we endorse you. Public records shown by TMHawk stay public; this clause does not claim them.
11. Fees
TMHawk is free today. If we add paid plans, we will show the price, what it includes and how renewal works before you pay, and we will never charge you without your clear agreement at checkout. Payments would be handled by our payment processor (Stripe); we would not store your full card number.
Unless a plan says otherwise, paid plans would renew automatically until you cancel, and cancelling would stop the next renewal while keeping the service until the end of the period already paid. We will give at least 30 days' notice by email before a price change applies to you. We may change or limit the free plan with the same notice.
12. Other websites and services
TMHawk links to USPTO systems and other websites we do not control, and it relies on outside providers to run (for example, our network and email providers). We are not responsible for other websites, and their own terms apply when you use them.
13. Disclaimers
TMHawk is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, Creando Pro makes no promises of any kind, express or implied, including that TMHawk or its information will be accurate, complete, current, uninterrupted or free of errors, that any alert will be produced or delivered, or that TMHawk fits any particular purpose. Implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement are disclaimed.
Some places do not allow some of these disclaimers, so some may not apply to you.
14. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, Creando Pro and its members, managers, employees and suppliers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, goodwill or data, or for the loss, abandonment, cancellation or expiry of any trademark application, registration or domain name, or for any missed deadline, however caused, even if we were told it could happen.
Our total liability for all claims about TMHawk is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for TMHawk in the 12 months before the claim arose or (b) US $50.
These limits do not apply where the law does not allow them, such as liability for fraud.
15. Your responsibility to us
You agree to defend and compensate Creando Pro against claims, losses and costs (including reasonable legal fees) caused by your breach of these Terms, by your misuse of TMHawk or its data, or by your breaking the law or someone else's rights while using TMHawk.
16. Closing an account and ending the service
You can stop using TMHawk at any time and close your account in Settings. You can stop alerts for a mark with the link in its emails.
We may suspend or close an account, or stop watching a mark, if you break these Terms, if we need to protect TMHawk, its users or others, or if the law requires it. We may also change or stop TMHawk; if we stop it entirely, we will try to tell you at least 30 days before. If we stop it while you have a paid period left, we will refund the unused part.
Sections 3, 4, 5, 8 (domain name data), 13, 14, 15, 17 and 19 keep applying after your use ends.
17. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute about these Terms or TMHawk will be decided only by the state or federal courts located in Georgia, and you and Creando Pro accept their jurisdiction.
Before going to court, please write to us at [email protected] so we can try to solve it. If you live in a country whose consumer laws give you rights that these Terms cannot take away, those rights still apply.
18. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. The date at the top shows the latest version. For a change that matters, we will email account holders and people watching a mark at least 30 days before it takes effect. If you keep using TMHawk after a change takes effect, the new Terms apply; if you do not agree, stop using TMHawk and close your account.
19. General
These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and Creando Pro about TMHawk. If a court finds part of them unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we do not enforce a right, we have not given it up. You may not transfer these Terms without our consent; we may transfer them to a company that takes over TMHawk. Neither of us is responsible for delays caused by events outside reasonable control, such as outages of the USPTO or of our providers. These Terms are written in English, and the English version controls over any translation.
20. Contact
Creando Pro LLC, 1276 Industrial Blvd, Suite 2, Gainesville, GA 30501, USA.
Email: [email protected]. Legal notices to us must be sent to that address or by mail to the address above.