Terms of Service

1. Agreement and scope

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are a binding agreement between you and STARGA, Inc., a Delaware C Corporation ("STARGA", "we", "us" or "our"). They govern your access to and use of:

• the website at star.ga and its subdomains (the "Site");
• MIND: the MIND language, compiler, toolchain and standard library, the MIND commercial runtime, MIND Flow, and the products of the MIND ecosystem;
• NAESTRO: the NAESTRO operating system for super intelligence (SI), its kernel, device plane, control plane and related components;
• STARGA research publications, documentation, downloads, support and any other product or service that links to these Terms

Together these are the "Services". If you use the Services on behalf of an organization, you accept these Terms for that organization and confirm that you have authority to bind it. In that case "you" means the organization.

Where you and STARGA have signed an order form, license agreement, enterprise agreement or data processing agreement (a "Separate Agreement"), the Separate Agreement controls if it conflicts with these Terms. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal data. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Services.

2. Eligibility and accounts

You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract to use the Services. The Services are intended for businesses, researchers and developers, not for consumers' personal, family or household use.

Access to some Services requires an account. Accounts are provisioned by STARGA for customers and partners. You agree to give accurate information, keep your credentials confidential, notify us promptly at info@star.ga of any unauthorized use, and you are responsible for activity under your account.

3. Open-source components

The MIND compiler, the language specification and other components that STARGA publishes under an open-source license (including the Apache License, Version 2.0) are governed by that license. Nothing in these Terms limits your rights under an open-source license, and where these Terms conflict with such a license for a component it covers, the license controls.

These Terms govern everything else: the Site, hosted services, commercial and proprietary components, support and your relationship with STARGA. The Apache License, Version 2.0 is available at apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.

4. Commercial products and licenses

Commercial and proprietary Services, including the MIND commercial runtime, MIND Flow and NAESTRO, are licensed, not sold. Subject to these Terms, any Separate Agreement and payment of applicable fees, STARGA grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to use them for your internal business purposes, within the scope, seats, deployments and term stated in your order.

Unless a Separate Agreement or applicable law expressly permits it, you may not:

• copy, modify or create derivative works of proprietary components;
• reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble proprietary components, except to the extent applicable law permits despite this restriction;
• remove, disable or circumvent license keys, usage limits, integrity checks, anti-tamper or other protection measures;
• sell, rent, lease, sublicense, or provide the Services to third parties as a service bureau or hosted offering;
• remove or alter any proprietary notices, or use the Services to build a competing product.

5. Your content, models and outputs

You keep all rights in the code, models, data, prompts, programs and other material you provide to or create with the Services ("Your Content"), and in the compiled artifacts, evidence records and other outputs the Services produce from Your Content, subject to our rights in the Services themselves.

You grant STARGA a limited license to host, process and transmit Your Content only as needed to provide, secure and support the Services for you. We do not use Your Content to train models without your written consent. You are responsible for having the rights needed to use Your Content with the Services.

6. Determinism, verification and governance features

MIND and NAESTRO provide features for reproducibility, tamper-evident evidence, signing and governance. Specific guarantees, such as bit-identical output across hardware, apply only to the workloads, targets, versions and configurations stated in the documentation for the version you use.

These features are tools. A passing verification, an evidence record or a governance decision is not a certification that a model, program or SI system is safe, correct, lawful or fit for any purpose. You remain responsible for how you design, test, deploy and supervise your systems, for decisions made with them, and for meeting the legal, regulatory and safety requirements that apply to you.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Services to:

• violate any applicable law or regulation, or the rights of others, including intellectual property and privacy rights;
• develop, operate or support weapons of mass destruction, or unlawful surveillance, profiling or discrimination;
• operate systems where failure could lead to death, personal injury or severe physical or environmental damage, unless a Separate Agreement expressly allows that use;
• transmit malware or harmful code, or probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Services without our written permission;
• gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, or place an unreasonable load on the Services or any connected system;
• misrepresent the source, provenance or verification status of any model, artifact or evidence record.

Security research: we will not bring legal action against good-faith security research that avoids privacy violations, data destruction, service degradation and access beyond what is needed to show the issue, is reported promptly to info@star.ga, and is not disclosed publicly until we have had a reasonable time to fix it. This commitment applies only to STARGA and does not authorize testing of third-party systems.

8. Preview, research and evaluation features

Some Services, documents and protocols are released as previews, drafts, research or evaluation versions (for example, protocol drafts published by STARGA Research). They are provided for evaluation, may change or be withdrawn at any time, may be less reliable than generally available features, and are excluded from any service level or support commitment.

9. Feedback

If you give us suggestions or feedback about the Services, you allow STARGA to use them without restriction or compensation. This does not give us any rights in Your Content.

10. Fees and payment

Fees for paid Services are set out in your order or Separate Agreement. Unless it says otherwise, fees are invoiced in advance, payable within thirty (30) days in US dollars, non-refundable except where required by law, and exclusive of taxes, which you are responsible for (other than taxes on STARGA's net income). We may suspend paid Services for undisputed amounts more than thirty (30) days overdue after giving notice. We will give at least thirty (30) days' notice of a price change, which applies from your next renewal.

11. Confidentiality

This section applies between STARGA and customers or partners that hold an account or a Separate Agreement. Each party will protect the other's non-public information that is marked confidential or that should reasonably be understood as confidential, with at least reasonable care, and use it only to perform under these Terms. This does not apply to information that is or becomes public through no fault of the receiving party, was already known to it, is independently developed, or is lawfully received from a third party. A party may disclose confidential information when required by law, after giving notice where lawful. Feedback is not confidential information.

12. Third-party services and links

The Services may link to or work with third-party websites and services, such as code hosting, scheduling and package registries. Those are governed by their own terms and privacy policies. STARGA is not responsible for them, and linking does not mean we endorse them.

13. Export control and sanctions

The Services may be subject to US and other export control and sanctions laws. You will not export, re-export or transfer them, or allow access to them, in violation of those laws, including to any embargoed country or region, to any person on a restricted-party list, or for any prohibited end use. You confirm that you are not located in, or acting for anyone in, a comprehensively sanctioned jurisdiction, and that you are not on any such list.

14. Intellectual property and trademarks

Except for open-source components and Your Content, the Services, the Site and their content are owned by STARGA or its licensors and protected by intellectual property laws. STARGA, MIND, NAESTRO and related names and logos are trademarks of STARGA, Inc.. These Terms grant no right to use them except as needed to refer accurately to the Services. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

15. Disclaimer of warranties

Except as expressly stated in a Separate Agreement, the Services are provided "as is" and "as available". To the maximum extent permitted by law, STARGA disclaims all warranties, express, implied or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement and accuracy, and any warranty that the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or that outputs or evidence will be free of errors.

16. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither party will be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill, even if advised of their possibility. Each party's total liability arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services will not exceed the greater of the amounts you paid to STARGA for the Services in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim, or one hundred US dollars (US$100).

These limits do not apply to your payment obligations, to a party's indemnification obligations, to breach of the license restrictions in section 4, or to liability that cannot be limited by law.

17. Indemnification

You will defend and indemnify STARGA, its affiliates and their officers, directors and employees against third-party claims, and the resulting losses, costs and reasonable legal fees, arising from Your Content, your systems and their outputs, or your breach of these Terms or of applicable law. STARGA will give you prompt notice of the claim, reasonable cooperation at your expense, and control of its defense, but you may not settle a claim that imposes obligations on STARGA without its written consent.

18. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Services at any time. We may change, suspend or discontinue the Site or any free, unpaid or preview Service at any time. We may suspend or end your access if you materially breach these Terms and do not cure the breach within thirty (30) days of notice, immediately where needed to prevent harm to the Services, other users or third parties, or where required by law. Paid Services may otherwise be ended only as stated in your order or Separate Agreement. On termination, your licenses end. Sections 5, 6 and 9 to 21 survive, together with any accrued payment obligations.

19. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply. The state and federal courts located in Delaware have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services, and each party consents to their jurisdiction. Either party may seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property or confidential information.

20. Changes and general terms

We may update these Terms. We will post the new version here with a new effective date and, for material changes, give reasonable advance notice by email or in the Services. Changes do not apply retroactively. Continued use after a change takes effect means you accept it. Separate Agreements change only in writing signed by both parties.

These Terms and any Separate Agreement are the entire agreement on their subject. If a provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets. Neither party is liable for delays caused by events beyond its reasonable control, other than payment obligations. Notices to STARGA must be sent to the email address below; we send notices to you at the email address on your account or in your Separate Agreement.

21. Contact

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