Consumer Terms of Service
Effective September 23, 2024
Welcome to Vitiligo.AI!
Before you access our services, please read these User Terms of Service
These Terms of Service ("Terms") and our Usage Policy (also referred to as our “Acceptable Use Policy” or “AUP”, see here below) set out the agreement between you and Vitiligo Research Foundation (“VRF”) to use Vitiligo.ai, and other products and services that we may offer for individuals, along with any associated apps, software, and websites (together, our “Services”).Please take some time to read over them and understand them. By agreeing to these Terms, or in the absence of such agreement, by using the Services, you agree to be bound by them, including any changes made to them in accordance with the Terms. Our affiliates, licensors, distributors, and service providers (collectively “Providers”) are not contracting parties under these Terms.In these Terms, when we refer to “we”, “us” or “our,” or similar, we mean VRF. Other words in bold and inverted commas have the meaning given to them where the word or phrase is first used. Subsequent uses of these words have the same meaningPlease read our Privacy Policy (see here below), which describes how we collect and use personal information.
1. Who we are
VRF is a 501(c)3 non-profit, focused research organization, with the mission is to accelerate the end of suffering for millions of people who live with vitiligo through research, support and education. We conduct research, develop and apply a variety of novel technologies, and deploy the resulting systems via a set of partnerships and products.
2. Account creation and access
Minimum age. You must be at least 18 years old to use the Services.Your VRF Account. To access full range of our Services, we may ask you to create an account (your “Account”), to provide certain information (such as your email address), and to create a password. You agree to provide correct, current, and complete information and allow us to use it to communicate with you about our Services. You agree to notify us promptly if there are any changes to the information you have provided to us. Our communications to you using such information will satisfy any requirements for legal notices.You may not share your Account login information, VRF API key, or Account credentials with anyone else or make your Account available to anyone else. You are responsible for all activity occurring under your Account and agree to notify us immediately if you become aware of any unauthorized access to your Account by sending an email to info@VRFoundation.org.Business Domains. If you use an email address owned by your employer or another organization, your Account may be linked to the organization’s enterprise account with us and the organization’s administrator may be able to monitor and control the Account, including having access to Materials (defined below). We will provide notice to you before linking your Account to an organization's enterprise account. However, if the organization is responsible for notifying you or has already informed you that it may monitor and control your Account, we may not provide additional notice.Evaluation and Additional Services. In some cases, we may permit you to evaluate our Services for a limited time or with limited functionality. Use of our Services for evaluation purposes are for your personal, non-commercial use only.You may need to accept additional terms to use certain Services. These additional terms will supplement our Terms for those Services and may change your rights or obligations for those Services, including your obligations to pay fees. 3. Use of our Services.
You may access and use our Services only in compliance with our Terms, our Acceptable Use Policy, and guidelines or supplemental terms we may post on the Services (the “Permitted Use”).You may not access or use, or help another person to access or use, our Services in the following ways:- In any manner that violates any applicable law or regulation—including, without limitation, any laws about exporting data or software to and from United States of America, Canada, any countries in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or other countries
- To decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce our Services to human-readable form, except when these restrictions are prohibited by applicable law.
- To crawl, scrape, or otherwise harvest data or information from our Services other than as permitted under these Terms.
- To use our Services or Materials to obtain unauthorized access to any system or information or to deceive any person.
- To infringe, misappropriate, or violate intellectual property or other legal rights (including the rights of publicity or privacy).
- Except when you are accessing our Services via API Key or where we otherwise explicitly permit it, to access the Services through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script, or otherwise.
- To engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits any person from using or enjoying our Services, or that we reasonably consider exposes us—or any of our users, affiliates, or any other third party—to any liability, damages, or detriment of any type, including reputational harms.
You also must not abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt our Services, including, for example, introducing viruses or malware, spamming or DDoSing Services, or bypassing any of our systems or protective measures. 4. Prompts, Outputs, and Materials.