Terms of Service

1. The Service

AIthentica Systems Inc. (“AIthentica”) provides (a) the Creative Process Provenance Suite, which records and signs cryptographic evidence of human creative contribution to AI-assisted works, and (b) the AI Code License Contamination Scanner, which analyzes software repositories for open-source license exposure. Together, these constitute the “Service.”

2. Ownership — Yours, Not Ours

• You retain 100% ownership of your source code, creative works, and all derivatives, with or without AI assistance.
• You retain exclusive ownership of all provenance evidence generated about your work: attestations, hashes, timestamps, and evidence packets.
• We claim no intellectual property right in your artifacts or in the factual content of scan findings (e.g., which licenses are present in your repository).
• We retain ownership of the Service itself: platform software, scanner engines, signature schemes, and pre-existing know-how.

3. What You May Do

• Register unlimited artifacts and repositories under your workspace.
• Export, print, file, or present your evidence in any forum, including courts, copyright offices, and M&A diligence rooms.
• Integrate the Scanner API into CI/CD pipelines, pre-commit hooks, and internal compliance tooling.
• Share evidence packets with counsel, auditors, investors, and platform reviewers under your own terms.

4. What You May Not Do

• Use the Service to scan repositories you do not have authorization to access.
• Resell or provide the Service as a standalone offering to third parties (white-label arrangements available by separate agreement).
• Attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or extract scanner engine internals beyond ordinary API use.
• Generate false attestations: signing evidence that you know to be materially inaccurate about human contribution defeats the legal purpose of the Service and voids support obligations.

5. Evidence Integrity & Reliance

Provenance evidence is generated using cryptographically signed, append-only records with tamper-evident chaining. We maintain a 99.9% monthly uptime SLA for evidence storage and retrieval under enterprise plans.

6. Subscriptions, Billing & Refunds

• Free tier: unlimited repository scans of up to 10 repositories per workspace, with a 90-day evidence retention window.
• Paid plans bill monthly or annually in advance. Annual plans include a 15% discount over monthly pricing.
• Cancellations take effect at the end of the current billing period; evidence remains exportable throughout the grace period described in our Privacy Policy.
• Refunds: annual subscriptions cancelled within the first 30 days are refunded in full. Monthly subscriptions are non-refundable mid-cycle except where required by law.

7. Security & Incident Response

We maintain SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 controls. In the event of a confirmed security incident affecting customer data, we will notify affected enterprise customers within 72 hours and provide a forensic summary within 14 days. You may designate notification recipients (security team, counsel) in workspace settings.

8. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, AIthentica's aggregate liability arising out of or related to these terms will not exceed the amounts paid by you in the twelve months preceding the claim. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, including lost profits or IP infringement claims by third parties against your work. These limitations do not apply to our confidentiality obligations, your data ownership rights, or liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.

9. Termination

You may terminate at any time via account settings. We may terminate for material breach that remains uncured 30 days after written notice. Upon termination, your rights to export evidence survive for the retention period in our Privacy Policy, and sections 2, 5, 8, and 10 survive indefinitely.

10. Disputes & Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules. Claims arising from these terms will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Wilmington, Delaware, except that either party may seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property or confidential information.

11. Changes to These Terms

We will provide 30 days' notice of material changes before they take effect, via in-product notice and email. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance. As with our Privacy Policy, every revision of these terms is itself signed and timestamped in our provenance ledger.