Website Terms and Conditions of Use
Last updated: February 17, 2026
These terms of use constitute a legal agreement and are entered into by and between you and Taalas Inc. (“Taalas“, “we“, “us“, or “our“). The following terms of use, together with any other terms they expressly incorporate by reference, (collectively, the “Terms of Use“) govern your access to and use of: (a) our website including any content, functionality, offered on or through https://taalas.com/; (b) our hardware model offering whereby we host large language models embodied on silicon chips and associated software used to deliver such models (collectively, “Hardware Embodied Models“), including Outputs (as defined below); (c) the Taalas API (defined below); (d) our conversational AI chatbot tool; and (e) any text, pictures, media, data, text, information, and other materials or content (collectively, the “Content“) made available to you through (a), (b) and (c) (collectively, the “Services“, provided that the definition of the Services does not include any User Content). These Terms of Use apply to each Service to the extent you access or use that Service. The terms “you” or “your” refer to the individual or entity accessing or otherwise using the Services (“use” or “using” in these Terms of Use will mean any of the foregoing).
BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU:
A. REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT:
I. YOU HAVE REACHED THE AGE REQUIRED UNDER APPLICABLE LAWS TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF USE IN YOUR JURISDICTION;
II. YOU HAVE THE CAPACITY TO ENTER INTO BINDING OBLIGATIONS; AND
B. AGREE TO BE BOUND BY AND COMPLY WITH THESE TERMS OF USE AND AS UPDATED FROM TIME TO TIME IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 1.
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY. ACCESSING OR USING THE SERVICES CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE, YOU MUST NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES.
If you are using the Services on behalf of an entity, you represent and warrant to us that you have the authority to bind such entity to these Terms of Use. If you do not meet this requirement, you must not access or use the Services. These Terms of Use do not alter in any way the terms or conditions of any other agreements you may have with us in respect of any products, applications, services or otherwise.
1. Changes to these Terms of Use and the Services
(a) Except where prohibited by applicable law, we reserve the right, at our discretion, to amend any element of these Terms of Use at any time by posting an amended version of these Terms of Use to our website. If you do not agree to the amended version of these Terms of Use you must stop using the Services. Otherwise, your continued access to or use of the Services indicates your acceptance of the amended Terms of Use.
(b) We reserve the right to discontinue provision of the Services or change, withdraw or terminate any part of the Services at any time, without notice and at our discretion. We will not be liable if, for any reason, all or any part of the Services are restricted or unavailable at any time or for any period. We may modify the Services at any time.
2. Use of the Services
(a) Subject to your compliance with these Terms of Use, we will make the Services available to you on the terms and conditions set out in these Terms of Use during the Term. The Services are still under development by us, are not fully tested, may contain bugs or errors, and may have limited functionality.
(b) You may receive access to the Hardware Embodied Models via an API (“Taalas API“). In such event, Taalas will assign and deliver to you an API key (“API Key“), which you may use to access the Hardware Embodied Models. The API Key is uniquely created for you. All calls to the Taalas API must reference the API Key. You must treat the API Key as Taalas’ confidential information and shall not assign, transfer, delegate, share, or sell the API Key to any third-party. The number of calls you can make to the Hardware Embodied Models may be limited at Taalas’ sole discretion.
(c) Subject to your compliance with these Terms of Use, Taalas grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-sublicensable license to access and use the Taalas API to: (i) integrate the Taalas API into your applications and develop, test, and support such integration; (ii) make your integration of the Taalas API available within your applications to your end users; and (iii) display Outputs received from the Taalas API within your application, subject to your having a valid API Key. This license is conditioned on you not engaging in any prohibited use under these Terms of Use, including the prohibited uses set out in Section 2(d), and on your compliance with applicable Third-Party Model Terms. We may suspend or terminate your access to the Taalas API or this license at any time in accordance with these Terms of Use if you breach these Terms of Use or engage in any prohibited use.
(d) You will not, and will not permit any other person to, access or use the Services except as expressly permitted by these Terms of Use or in writing by Taalas. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you will not yourself, and will not permit others to: (i) sub-license, sell, lend, or distribute the Services or any registered and unregistered rights granted, applied for or otherwise now or hereafter in existence under or related to any patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, database protection or other intellectual property rights laws, and all similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection, in any part of the world (collectively, “Intellectual Property Rights“) therein, or otherwise make the Services available to any third parties; (ii) use or access the Services in violation of any applicable law or any Intellectual Property Rights; (iii) use or access the Services to collect, use, modify, retrieve, or disclose (collectively, “Process“), create or transmit any User Content or Output that: (A) you do not have the lawful right to create, transmit or Process; (B) violates any applicable laws, or infringes, violates or otherwise misappropriates the Intellectual Property Rights or other rights of any third party; (C) is defamatory, bullying, harassing, abusive, threatening, vulgar, exploitative, obscene, harmful, sexually explicit, inflammatory, offensive or discriminatory based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age or other such legally prohibited ground, or that contains pornography, nudity, or graphic or gratuitous violence, or that promotes violence, racism, discrimination, bigotry, hatred, or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual, or is otherwise objectionable; or (D) contains any computer viruses, worms, malicious code, or any software intended to damage or alter a computer system or data; (iv) copy, modify, reverse engineer, de-compile or disassemble the Services or any part of them; (v) use or access the Services for the purpose of building a similar or competitive product or service; (vi) represent that Output was human-generated when it was not; or (vii) use Third-Party Services (defined below) or any Content available on or via the Service (including any Output, caption information, keywords, or other metadata) in violation of any applicable licenses or agreements.
(e) The Services leverage third party large language models and AI algorithms and platforms (“Third-Party Services“) to generate suggested text, information, results, images, and other materials (collectively, the “Output“) in response to your prompts (“Prompts“). Taalas does not make any representations with respect to Third-Party Services or any Output provided in connection therewith. Taalas does not use the Prompts and Outputs for any purpose, including to create, train, fine tune, or otherwise improve an AI model. Taalas is not responsible for Outputs, and you are responsible for checking Outputs for accuracy and suitability. The Outputs provided by the Services do not reflect the views, opinions, or recommendations of Taalas, our affiliates or our personnel.
(f) The Hardware Embodied Models will include data, models and software from third parties. Some third-party providers may require Taalas to pass additional terms through to you. Third-party providers change their terms occasionally and new third-party providers are added from time to time. Currently the LLM used is the LLAMA model licensed under the 3.1 Community License, which can be found here: https://www.llama.com/llama3_1/license/. You agree to comply with all applicable third-party terms therein (“Third-Party Model Terms“). In the case of any conflict between this Agreement and such Third-Party Model Terms with respect to the third-party model or your use thereof, such Third-Party Model Terms govern. We cannot guarantee the continued availability of such third party products, data, services or features and may cease providing them without entitling you to any refund, credit, or other compensation, if for example and without limitation, a third-party provider ceases to make the third-party providers’ products, data, features or services available for interoperation or otherwise in connection with the corresponding service features in a manner acceptable to Taalas. Taalas is not responsible for any disclosure, modification or deletion of User Content resulting from access by such third-party providers’ products, data, features or services or its third-party providers.
(g) You acknowledge that in the course of using the Services, you may come into contact with our confidential information, and you agree to protect and keep confidential such confidential information and disclose it only as necessary to comply with these Terms of Use or with any applicable laws compelling disclosure. You agree that upon expiration or termination of these Terms of Use, you will destroy, return or delete any such confidential information in your possession.
3. Your Account
(a) To access the Services, you may be required to successfully sign up for a user account (an “Account“) using interfaces made available to you by us. Alternatively, you may be permitted to access your Account using credentials from a third-party identity provider (e.g., Google, GitHub, or GitLab), in which case you authorize us to receive from such provider, and use, the information necessary to authenticate you and grant you access to the Services. We reserve the right to disable any Account issued to you at any time in our sole discretion. If we disable access to your Account, you may be prevented from accessing or using the Services or any portion thereof. You are solely responsible for your Account.
4. Privacy
You understand that any personal information you provide will be Processed in accordance with our privacy policy, found at https://taalas.com/privacy-policy/.
5. Reservation of Rights; Licenses
(a) Neither these Terms of Use nor your use of the Services grants you ownership in the Services. These Terms of Use do not grant you any right to use Taalas’ trademarks or other brand elements. All right, title and interest, including Intellectual Property Rights, in the Services, the source code in the software we use to provide the Services, Usage Data, and all other materials provided by us hereunder, and any updates, adaptation, translation, customization or derivative works thereof, will remain the sole property of Taalas or our third-party suppliers, if applicable.
(b) Except as expressly set forth in these Terms of Use, nothing in these Terms of Use assigns or grants to Taalas any right, title or interest, including any Intellectual Property Rights, in and to the data, Prompts, information, content, records, or files that you load, transmit to or enter into, or that we otherwise collect from your access to or use of, the Services (collectively, the “User Content“). You are responsible for maintaining, protecting, and making backups of all User Content. To the extent permitted by applicable law, Taalas will not be liable for any failure to store, or for loss or corruption of any User Content. Do not share information that you don’t want the Services to use, such as any sensitive personal information.
(c) You grant to us and our affiliates and service providers, and each of our respective licensees, successors and assigns, an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid-up, transferable and sublicensable licence to access, collect, use, process, store, disclose, transmit, copy, modify and display User Content to provide you with the Services.
(d) We may collect, or you may provide to us, diagnostic, technical, usage, other related information and other data that is collected or generated by Taalas related to how individual users interact with the Services, including frequency and duration of usage, specific features or functions accessed, and user preferences (“Usage Data“). We and our affiliates and service providers, and each of our respective licensees, successors and assigns are free to create, process, store, transmit, disclose and otherwise use Usage Data during and after the Term for any purpose and without obligations of any kind. Usage Data is not User Content or Output.
(e) You grant us and our affiliates a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable, transferable, royalty-free license to use and incorporate into the Services and related software and materials any suggestion, enhancement request, recommendation, correction, or other feedback provided by you relating to the Services (“Feedback“). Provision of Feedback is voluntary and you grant us and our affiliates an irrevocable and perpetual right to use, profit from, disclose, publish, or otherwise exploit any Feedback, without compensation to you.
6. Enforcement, Suspension and Termination
We reserve the right at any time, without notice and at our discretion to:
(a) take appropriate legal action, including referral to law enforcement or any regulatory authority, or notification of any harmed party of any illegal or unauthorized use of the Services. Without limiting the foregoing, we have the right to fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or other information of anyone posting any materials on or through the Services; and
(b) terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Services or disable or terminate any account, username, password, or other identifier, whether chosen by you or provided by us, at our discretion. If you are a consumer residing in Québec, you will be provided with notice if we exercise the rights provided herein, which notice will explain the reasons for which we have done so.
7. No Reliance
The Services are not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. Your use of the Services is at your own risk and to the extent permitted by applicable laws, we do not have any responsibility or liability whatsoever for your use of the Services. If you are a consumer residing in Québec, the foregoing does not liberate us from the consequences of our own acts or those of our representatives.
8. Warranty; Disclaimer
(a) You represent, warrant, and covenant to us that you have obtained and provided, and will continue to obtain and provide, all necessary consents, rights and notices, and otherwise have and will continue to have all necessary authority in and relating to your User Content (including personal information) for us to perform our obligations and exercise our rights under these Terms of Use in compliance with applicable law, and without infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating any Intellectual Property Rights, privacy or other rights of any third party, and will inform us immediately if any such consents, rights or authority are withdrawn or can no longer be relied upon.
(b) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES AND ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS FOUND THROUGH THE SERVICES IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, COLLATERAL OR STATUTORY WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS AND CONDITIONS, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, MERCHANTABLE QUALITY, COMPATIBILITY, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE, OR ANY WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE DO NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS FOUND THROUGH THE SERVICES WILL BE COMPLETE, SECURE, SUITABLE, ACCURATE, RELIABLE, AVAILABLE, ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE SERVICES ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING ARE RAPIDLY EVOLVING FIELDS OF STUDY. GIVEN THE PROBABILISTIC NATURE OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, USE OF ANY OF THE SERVICES AND THIRD-PARTY SERVICES MAY IN SOME SITUATIONS RESULT IN INCORRECT OUTPUT THAT DOES NOT ACCURATELY REFLECT REAL PEOPLE, PLACES, OR FACTS. YOU WILL EVALUATE THE ACCURACY OF ANY OUTPUT AS APPROPRIATE FOR ITS USE CASE, INCLUDING BY USING HUMAN REVIEW OF THE OUTPUT. DUE TO THE NATURE OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, OUTPUT MAY NOT BE UNIQUE ACROSS USERS AND THE SERVICES MAY GENERATE THE SAME OR SIMILAR OUTPUT FOR YOU OR A THIRD PARTY. OTHER USERS MAY ALSO ASK SIMILAR QUESTIONS AND RECEIVE THE SAME RESPONSE. RESPONSES THAT ARE REQUESTED BY AND GENERATED FOR OTHER USERS ARE NOT CONSIDERED YOUR USER CONTENT. IF YOU ARE A CONSUMER RESIDING IN QUÉBEC, THE FOREGOING DOES NOT LIBERATE US FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF OUR OWN ACTS OR THOSE OF OUR REPRESENTATIVES.
9. Limitation of Liability
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL WE BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY: (A) DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES; OR (B) LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF GOODWILL, OR LOSS OF DATA, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE, OR INABILITY TO USE, OR RELIANCE ON, THE SERVICES, THE THIRD-PARTY SERVICES, ANY LINKED THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES, OR ANY WEBSITE CONTENT, MATERIALS, POSTING, OR INFORMATION THEREON, REGARDLESS OF THE CAUSE OF ACTION OR THE THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR GROSS NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF WE WERE NOTIFIED IN ADVANCE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IF YOU ARE A CONSUMER RESIDING IN QUÉBEC, THE FOREGOING DOES NOT LIBERATE US FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF OUR OWN ACTS OR THOSE OF OUR REPRESENTATIVES.
10. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Taalas, our affiliates and our and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, licensors, licensees, suppliers or successors from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses or fees (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to: (a) your breach of these Terms of Use; (b) your use of the Services, including your use of any Output, third-party sites and third-party content other than as expressly authorized in these Terms of Use; (c) your violation of any law or the rights of a third party (including Intellectual Property Rights); (d) your User Content; and (e) any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, spyware, malware, cancelbots or other similar harmful or deleterious programming routines input by you into the Services.
11. Termination; Survival
(a) These Terms of Use will commence on the day you first use any portion of the Services and will remain in effect until terminated by either party in accordance with the provisions of these Terms of Use (the “Term“). We may terminate these Terms of Use at any time and with immediate effect by giving notice to you, at our discretion, by email (at your current email address on file with us). You may terminate these Terms of Use at any time and with immediate effect by requesting by email that your Account be deleted, or by deleting your Account and ceasing use of the Services. For greater certainty, if you continue to use any portion of the Services that is publicly available after these Terms of Use have been terminated, these Terms of Use will continue to apply to the extent of such use.
(b) The following sections, together with any other provision of these Terms of Use which expressly or by its nature survives termination or expiration, or which contemplates performance or observance subsequent to termination or expiration of these Terms of Use, will survive expiration or termination of these Terms of Use: Section 4 (Privacy), Section 2 (Use of the Services), Section 5 (Reservation of Rights; Licenses), Section 8 (Warranty; Disclaimer), Section 9 (Limitation of Liability), Section 10 (Indemnification), this Section 11(a) (Termination; Survival), and 12 (General Provisions).
12. Export Controls
You acknowledge that the Service is subject to applicable export control and trade sanctions laws and regulations (collectively, “Export Controls“), including without limitation those of the United States (e.g., the sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC“) (31 CFR part 500 et seq.) and the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR“) (15 CFR part 730 et seq.)). You agree to abide by Export Controls, and you represent and covenant that your use of the Service is and will be in full compliance with Export Controls. You confirm that you are not a restricted or sanctioned party on a BIS or OFAC restricted party list. If you are a business user, you confirm that the business is not owned 50 percent or more by one or more parties on the OFAC Specially Designated National or Sectoral Sanctions Identifications Lists, as they may be amended from time to time. You further represent and covenant that you will not cause Taalas to violate Export Controls or otherwise cause Taalas to be liable for such violation(s); and you shall indemnify Taalas and hold Taalas harmless for any such violations or liabilities caused by you.
13. General Provisions
(a) Governing Law. Except as restricted by applicable laws or if you are a consumer residing in Québec, these Terms of Use will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, without regard to conflicts of law principles. If you are a consumer residing in Québec, these Terms of Use will be governed by the laws of the Province of Québec and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law. Except as restricted by applicable laws or if you are a consumer residing in Québec, any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to the Services and under these Terms of Use will be initiated in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and each party irrevocably submits to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of such courts sitting therein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this choice of jurisdiction does not prevent us from seeking remedies with respect to a violation of Intellectual Property Rights in any appropriate jurisdiction. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods will not apply to these Terms of Use.
(b) Entire Agreement and Interpretation. These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and us in connection with the subject matter of these Terms of Use and supersede all prior or contemporaneous agreements, representations or other communications between you and us with respect to the Services. The terms “include” and “including” mean, respectively, “include without limitation” and “including without limitation.” The headings of sections of these Terms of Use are for reference purposes only and have no substantive effect. The terms “consent” or “discretion”, when used in respect of us in these Terms of Use, mean our right to withhold such consent or exercise such discretion, as applicable, arbitrarily and without any implied obligation to act reasonably or explain our decision to you.
(c) Waiver. A waiver of any provision of these Terms of Use must be in writing and a waiver in one instance will not preclude enforcement of such provision on other occasions.
(d) Severability. Any provision of these Terms of Use found by a tribunal or court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable will be severed from these Terms of Use and all other provisions of these Terms of Use will remain in full force and effect.
(e) Assignment. You will not assign these Terms of Use to any third party without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms of Use or any rights under these Terms of Use to any third party without your consent. Any attempted assignment, subcontract, delegation, or transfer in violation of this Section will be null and void. These Terms of Use will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties, their permitted successors and permitted assignees.
(f) English Language. The parties confirm that the essential stipulations of these Terms of Use reflect the mutual agreement of the parties further to negotiation, and were not imposed by either party, even when drawn up by one of the parties. The parties further confirm that it is the express wish of all parties that these Terms of Use, all documents related to these Terms of Use and all communications between the parties in the context of the performance of these Terms of Use be in English only. Les parties confirment que les stipulations essentielles de la présente entente reflètent le résultat de discussions libres de gré à gré et n’ont pas été imposées par l’une ou l’autre des parties, même lorsque rédigées par l’une des parties. Les parties confirment également que c’est la volonté expresse des parties que la présente entente, tout document s’y rattachant et toute communication entre les parties dans le cadre de l’exécution de cette entente soient uniquement en anglais.
(g) Contact. If you have any questions or comments regarding these Terms of Use or have Feedback, comments, requests for technical support and other communications relating to the Services please contact us at info@taalas.com.