Terms of Service

1. Terms

By accessing this web site (the “Site”), you are agreeing to be bound by these Site Terms and Conditions of Use, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this Site. The materials contained in this Site are protected by applicable copyright and trademark law.

The term “Services,” means, collectively, various websites, applications, widgets, email notifications and other mediums, or portions of such mediums, through which you have accessed this Agreement.

The term “Content” means, collectively all text, photographs, images, illustrations, designs, audio clips, video clips, “look and feel,” metadata, data, articles, graphics, images, scripts, research papers, patent documents, software code or the like associated with any and all Services provided.

2. Use of and Access to Materials

By using and accessing materials through our Services, you are not granted a transfer of title to these materials.

Use of and access to materials is provided subject to U.S. Copyright law. By continuing to use and access materials, you are confirming that the use, access, and sharing of materials is compliant with the fair use doctrine under U.S. copyright law. A link to the U.S. Copyright Office Fair Use Index is provided here: https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/

Any allowance of the use of or access to materials shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by the owner of the Site (the “Site Owner”) at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of these materials or upon the termination of your access to materials, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format.

3. Disclaimer

The materials on the Site are provided “as is”. The Site Owner makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties, including without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights. Further, the Site Owner does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on the Site or otherwise relating to such materials or on any sites linked to the Site.

4. Limitations

In no event shall the Site Owner or its suppliers be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption,) arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on the Site, even if the Site Owner or a Site authorized representative has been notified orally or in writing of the possibility of such damage. Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties, or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, these limitations may not apply to you.

5. Revisions and Errata

The materials appearing on the Site could include technical, typographical, or photographic errors. The Site Owner does not warrant that any of the materials on the Site are accurate, complete, or current. The Site Owner may make changes to the materials contained on the Site at any time without notice. The Site Owner does not, however, make any commitment to update the materials.

6. Links

The Site Owner has not reviewed all of the sites linked to the Site and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by the Site Owner or the Site of the site. Use of any such linked web site is at the user's own risk.

7. Site Terms of Use Modifications

The Site Owner may revise these terms of use for the Site at any time without notice. By using the Site, you are agreeing to be bound by the then current version of these Terms and Conditions of Use.

8. Governing Law

Any claim or dispute relating to or arising out of or in connection with the Site shall be instituted in the courts of the State of California and shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

9. Prohibited Use of the Service

You may not access or use the Services in violation of applicable laws, including export controls and sanctions, or in violation of our or any third party’s intellectual property or other proprietary or legal rights. As between you and us, we are the sole and exclusive owner of the Services and Content. Any use or access, as further detailed below, is strictly prohibited without written consent by us.

You may not access or use, or attempt to access or use the Services to take any action that could harm us or a third party. You further agree that you will not attempt (or encourage or support others) to circumvent, reverse engineer, decrypt, or otherwise alter or interfere with the Services or any Content or make any unauthorized use of the Services.

Additionally, you agree that you will not:

1. use any robot, spider, scraper, deep link, or other similar automated data gathering or extraction tools, program, algorithm, or methodology to “scrape”, access, acquire, copy, or monitor our Services or any portion of our Services or for any other purpose, without our prior written permission;

2. take any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole discretion, an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;

3. copy, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, compile, disassemble, distribute, or publicly display any Content (except for your personal information) from our Services without our prior written permission and the appropriate third party, as applicable;

4. interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of our Services or any activities conducted on our Services;

5. bypass any robot exclusion headers or other measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to our Services; nor

6. use the Services for the development of any software algorithm, program, machine learning model, neural network, artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool, including, but not limited to, training or using the Services in connection with the development or operation of a machine learning or AI system. This includes any use of the Content for training, adjustments, or grounding any machine learning or AI system, including as part of retrieval-augmented generation.

For the avoidance of doubt, you are specifically prohibited hereunder from performing any “text and data mining” (TDM) activities as those activities are described under Art. 4 of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, we allow public search engine operators to use web crawlers to copy materials from our Services. This permission is granted solely for creating publicly available search indices of our Services' content and does not extend to creating caches or archives of these materials. We may revoke this permission at any time, either broadly or for specific cases.

Unless expressly allowed in this Agreement, you must not:

• Collect or harvest any personally identifiable information, including account names, from our Services or Content;

• Use any communication systems provided by our Services (such as forums or email) for commercial or solicitation purposes; nor

• Solicit users of our Services for commercial purposes without our prior written consent.