Terms of service

Effective from: February 1, 2024
Updated on January 23, 2024

Thank you for using ownvia!

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) apply to your use of ownvia and ownvia’s services along with all associated software applications, technologies, and websites (“Services”). You enter into a contract with us when you confirm that you accept these Terms or otherwise use the Services.

 

Registration and Access

Minimum Age. You must be at least 13 years old or have reached the minimum age prescribed in your country to use the Services. If you are under 18, you must have the consent of your parents or legal guardians to use the Services, and they should read these Terms with you.

Registration. You must provide accurate and complete information to register for an account to use our Services. If you create an account or use the Services on behalf of another natural or legal person, you must be authorized to accept these Terms on their behalf.

 

Using our Services

What You Can Do. You can access and use our Services provided that you comply with these Terms. When using our Services, you must comply with all applicable laws and the service-specific terms and policies.

What You Cannot Do. You may not use our Services for illegal, harmful, or abusive activities.

Software. Our Services may enable you to download software, such as mobile applications, which may automatically update to ensure you are using the latest version. Our software may contain open-source software subject to its own licenses, which we have provided to you.

Third-Party Services. Our Services may include software, products, or services from third parties (“Third-Party Services”), and some areas of our Services, like our search function, may include output from these services (“Third-Party Output”). Third-Party Services and Third-Party Output are subject to their own terms, and we are not responsible for them.

Feedback. We welcome your feedback on our Services, but you agree that we may use it to provide, maintain, develop, and improve our Services without compensating you.

 

Content

Our Content. You can provide input for the Services (“Input”) and receive output from the Services based on the Input (“Output”). Input and Output are collectively referred to as “Content.” You are responsible for the Content, including ensuring that it does not violate applicable law or these Terms. You represent and warrant that you have all the rights, licenses, and permissions necessary to provide Input for our Services.

Rights to Content. In relation to ownvia and to the extent permitted by applicable law, you retain (a) your ownership rights to the Input and (b) rights to the Output. We hereby assign all our rights, title, and interest, if any, in the Output and in relation to the Output to you.

Similarity of Content. Due to the nature of our Services and artificial intelligence in general, the Output may not be unique, and other users may receive similar Output from our Services. Our above-mentioned assignment does not extend to the Output of other users or Third-Party Output.

Accuracy. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are rapidly evolving fields of research. We constantly work to improve our Services to make them more accurate, reliable, safe, and useful. Due to the probabilistic nature of machine learning, using our Services may sometimes result in Output that does not accurately represent real people, places, or facts.

When you use our Services, you agree to the following:
• The Output may not always be correct. You should not rely on the Output of our Services as the sole source of truth or factual information or as a substitute for professional advice.
• You must evaluate Output for accuracy and appropriateness for your use case, including appropriate human review before using or sharing Output from the Services.
• You may not use Output about a person for a purpose that could have legal or significant effects on that person, such as making credit, education, employment, housing, insurance, legal, medical, or other important decisions.
• Our Services may deliver incomplete, incorrect, or offensive Output that does not reflect ownvia’s views. If Output refers to products or services of a third party, this does not mean that the third party endorses or is affiliated with ownvia.

 

Our IP Rights

We and our affiliates own all rights, title, and interest in the Services. You may only use our name and logo with coordination and permission from ownvia.

 

Paid Accounts

Paid Subscriptions. Some of our Services offer you the opportunity to purchase paid subscriptions to benefit from enhanced performance features and functions (the “Benefits”). The exact nature of the Benefits varies from service to service and will be communicated to you before purchase.

Fees: All fees, including subscription fees, will be communicated to you before purchase.

Billing. When you sign up for a paid subscription or purchase a service, you must provide complete and accurate billing details, including a valid payment method. For paid subscriptions, we automatically charge your payment method at each agreed-upon regular renewal. If your payment cannot be completed, we may downgrade your account or suspend your access to our Services until payment is received.

 

Termination and Blocking

Your Rights. You can terminate the use of our Services and your legal relationship with ownvia at any time by simply deactivating your account and ceasing the use of the Services.

EWR Consumer Withdrawal Right. If you are a consumer based in the EWR, you have the right to deactivate your account and withdraw from these Terms within 14 days of acceptance. However, if you begin using ownvia and ownvia’s digital services, you expressly waive your 14-day withdrawal right. Therefore, no refunds are possible once you have started using the Services.

ownvia Rights. We may take action to block or terminate your access to our Services or deactivate your account if we determine, in reasonable and objective discretion, that:
• You have violated these Terms or our usage policies.
• We need to do so to comply with the law.
• Your use of our Services could pose a risk or harm to ownvia, our users, or others.
• Your account has been inactive for over a year, and you do not have a paid account.

Notice. If we deactivate your account, we will reasonably endeavor to notify you in advance so that you can export your Content or your data from the Services, unless it is not reasonable for us to do so, we have reasonable grounds to believe that further access to your account will harm ownvia or others, or we are legally prohibited from doing so.

Objections. If you believe that we have erroneously blocked or deactivated your account, you can object by contacting us.

 

Our Commitments to You

How We Provide the Services. We are committed to providing you the Services with reasonable expertise and care and with professional diligence. We do not promise to offer the Services forever or in their current form for a specific period.

Liability. Provided we have acted with professional care, we assume no liability for losses or damages caused by events outside our control. We do not exclude or limit our liability to you in any way that would be impermissible for us. You still enjoy full protection under the laws applicable to you.

Legal Rights. You have certain legal rights that cannot be restricted or excluded by a contract or that you are entitled to by law, e.g., because you are a consumer. These Terms are in no way intended to impair or restrict these rights.

 

Dispute Resolution

Concerns. In the event of a dispute, we would like to first try to understand and clarify your concerns before initiating formal legal proceedings. To share your concerns, you can contact us.

Court. If we cannot resolve our dispute, courts at the location where ownvia is based are to be called upon.

 

Copyright Complaints

If you believe that your intellectual property rights have been violated, please send a notification to us. We are entitled to delete or block allegedly infringing content and disable accounts of repeat offenders.

Written claims concerning copyright violations must contain the following information:
• A physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner;
• A description of the copyrighted work that you believe has been infringed;
• A description of where the allegedly infringing material is located on our site, so we can find it;
• Your address, telephone number, and email address;
• A statement from you that you believe in good faith that the disputed use has not been authorized by the copyright owner or their representative, or is permissible under the law; and
• A statement from you that the above information in your notification is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner under penalty of perjury.

 

General Terms

Assignment. You are not authorized to assign or transfer any rights or obligations under this contract. We are authorized to assign or transfer our rights or obligations under this contract to an affiliated company or a subsidiary or a legal successor of a business associated with our services. If we do so, your rights as a consumer remain unaffected. If you are not satisfied, you have the right to terminate your legal relationship with ownvia and discontinue the use of our services at any time.

Changes to These Terms or Our Services. We continuously work on the development and improvement of our services. We may update these terms or our services from time to time accordingly. For instance, we may make changes to these terms or the services due to:
• Changes in laws or regulatory requirements.
• Security or protection reasons.
• Circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
• Changes that we make in the usual development of our services.
• Adjustments to new technologies.

We will inform you at least 30 days in advance about changes that have a significant adverse effect on you and about the date when they come into effect, either by email or through a notification in the product. All changes apply only to our future contractual relationship. If you do not agree with the changes, you must discontinue the use of our services.

Delay in Enforcing These Terms. If we or you delay in enforcing a provision of these terms, either of us can still enforce that provision later, and this does not prevent either of us from taking steps against the other at a later time. Should a part of these terms be declared invalid or unenforceable, it does not affect the enforceability of other parts of these terms.

Trade Controls. You must comply with all applicable trade laws, including sanctions and export control laws. Our services may not be used in or for the benefit of (a) any country or territory against which an embargo has been imposed, or (b) any natural or legal person with whom trade is prohibited or restricted under applicable trade laws. Our services may not be used for end purposes that are prohibited under applicable trade law, and your input must not contain materials or information that require a governmental license for release or export.

Applicable Law. The law of the country in which ownvia is located shall apply to these terms.

 

Use of cookies

In order to facilitate the use of our website, we use “Cookies” that enable the identification of registered users. Cookies are small pieces of data that are temporarily stored on the hard disk. Cookies do not contain personal data, so your privacy is protected. At each subsequent access to the Internet page, our system will search your cookie for previously recorded data. Cookies can be classified as:

• Temporary cookies (Session cookies) – are stored on the computer and are automatically deleted after closing the web browser. They allow the website to obtain temporary data, such as comments or shopping cart status.
• Persistent cookies – They remain in your web browser even after closing and usually have an expiration date. Our site uses persistent cookies to facilitate access for registered users. They store information such as username and password, which allows you to use the “remember me” functionality when logging in, so that you do not have to enter your username and password every time you visit our website.
• First-party cookie – these come from the website you have visited and can be temporary or permanent. They allow websites to save data that is used when the user visits the website again.
• Third-party cookies – there are several external services that store limited cookies for the user (Facebook, Instagram, Google Analytics and AdWords)
  
  

What options are available to you? In the settings of browsers such as Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox or Chrome, you can specify which cookies you want to accept and which you will reject. The place where you can find the settings depends on the type of your browser. Use the “help” option in your browser to find the settings you need. If you choose the option not to accept certain cookies, you may not be able to use certain functions on our website.