Terms of Service

Last updated: October 18, 2024

You must read through the entire Terms of Service below and agree with all the details before you use any of our Services.

23VIP srl is a company registered in Belgium, VAT BE0849690306 Postal address: 1b, rue de la Grande Bruyère, 1330 Rixensart, Belgium.

Acceptance of Terms

By using 23VIP's website or software services ("Services"), such as Web Drafter or Claim Drafter, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Services. Please keep a record of these Terms.

The Services are provided by 23VIP srl ("23VIP" "we," "our," "us"). "You" and "your" refer to you as a user of the Services. If you are agreeing to these Terms on behalf of a law firm, company, or other entity, you represent that you have authority to bind such entity, its affiliates, and its associated users to these Terms, in which case, "you" and "your" shall refer to such entity, its affiliates, and its associated users. If you do not have such authority, you must not agree to these Terms and may not use the Services.

Use of Services

  1. The Services are designed to assist in preparing patent applications but are not a substitute for the advice of a qualified patent attorney. You acknowledge and agree our Services are not provided as part of an attorney-client relationship and using our Services also does not give rise to an attorney-client relationship. Information you receive from us also do not constitute legal advice and are not substitutes for obtaining legal advice from a qualified patent attorney.
  2. You must be 18 years or older to use the Services or have obtained parental consent.
  3. You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Services for their intended purposes in accordance with these Terms.
  4. You retain ownership of all content you submit to the Services. By using the Services, you grant 23VIP the right to use such content to provide the Services to you.
  5. You may not manually or systematically download or scrape content from 23VIP's website or Services, or write scripts to do so.
  6. You may not use our Services to reverse engineer the software or underlying code used to provide our Services.
  7. You may not use our Services to violate any law or regulation.
  8. You may not use our Services to violate other people's intellectual property, privacy, or any other legal right.

Intellectual Property

23VIP retains all intellectual property rights in the Services, including all software and underlying technology. You may not reverse engineer or attempt to extract the source code of the Services.

User Accounts

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account. 23VIP reserves the right to terminate your account at any time for any reason, including violation of these Terms.

Payment and Refunds

The Services are provided on a pay-per-use basis. Payments are not refundable. We reserve the right to modify prices at any time. Changes to the price will not be applied retroactively but will apply towards your use of our Services in the future.

Data Security, Confidentiality, and Privacy

At 23VIP, we prioritize the security, confidentiality, and privacy of your data. We employ industry-standard security measures to safeguard your information from unauthorized access. We take the following steps to ensure the confidentiality of your data:

  1. Secure Transmission: When you use our Services, your data is encrypted using the secure HTTPS protocol during transmission to our servers.
  2. Data Processing: Once received, your data is processed by our software's internal logic and by AI models from one or more of our trusted third-party providers: OpenAI and Anthropic. These models process your data as necessary to generate outputs but they keep your input and output confidential and they do not use your specific data to train their models. To check OpenAI's policies, please visit: https://openai.com/policies/business-terms. To check Anthropic's policies, please visit: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy.
  3. Encrypted Results: The results generated by our Services are encrypted using the secure HTTPS protocol during transmission back to you, whether displayed in the output window or provided for download.
  4. Secure Storage: Documents prepared for download are encrypted at rest on our servers, which are securely hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS). These documents are retained solely to facilitate user retrieval and, upon your request, will be securely deleted from our servers. We do not retain copies of your input data after processing. To check Amazon AWS data security and compliance policies, please visit: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/.
  5. Trusted Cloud Platform: Our software runs on Heroku, a trusted cloud platform that processes data on our behalf and protects the confidentiality of your data. To check Heroku's policies, please visit: https://www.heroku.com/policy/

By using our Services, you acknowledge and agree that your data will be processed by 23VIP and our third-party subprocessors as described in these Terms and our Privacy Policy. You also accept the Terms of Service of the third-party subprocessors listed above (OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon AWS, and Heroku).

We are committed to maintaining the highest standards of data security and privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about the security or privacy of your data, please don't hesitate to contact us at Christophe.Ego@23vip.be. We are here to address any inquiries you may have and to ensure that you feel confident in the protection of your data while using our Services.

Disclaimer of Warranties

The Services are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, express or implied. 23VIP disclaims all warranties, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

Limitation of Liability

You acknowledge and agree that we make no guarantees or warranties on the outcome of your patent application or on the quality of our output, including the generated language, revisions, comments, or any other output provided by our Services. You acknowledge and agree that you are using our Services solely at your own risk.

23VIP's Services are provided "as is" to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. We expressly disclaim all warranties and conditions of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to the implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We specifically do not represent or warrant that 23VIP will meet your requirements, will be accurate or reliable, and will be error-free. No information or advice, whether oral or written, given by us, shall create any warranty not expressly provided in the terms.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages (including but not limited to any loss of business profit, any loss of goodwill, any loss of data, or the cost of procurement of substitute goods or services) that may arise from using our Services. We shall not be liable for such damages whether or not we have been advised of or should have been aware of the possibility of any such losses arising.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold 23VIP harmless from any claim or demand made by any third party due to your use of the Services in violation of these Terms or any applicable law.

Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms will be governed by the laws of Belgium without giving effect to any conflict of laws rules or principles. You agree that any legal action related to these Terms or Services will be filed only in the state of Belgium. You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts. If any provision in these Terms is found unlawful or unenforceable, then that provision will be removed and will not affect the enforceability of any other provisions. Our failure to enforce any right arising from these Terms will not constitute a waiver of that right or prevent us from enforcing that right in the future.

Miscellaneous

If any provision of these Terms is found invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force. 23VIP's failure to enforce any right shall not constitute a waiver of such right. You may not assign these Terms without 23VIP's prior written consent.