Aristotle Explorations Inc (“Aristotle,” “we,” “us,” “our”)
Effective: September 10, 2025
1.1 Aristotle Properties means, collectively and individually, all websites, domains, and subdomains (including aristotle.xyz and successors), mobile/desktop applications (including iOS/Android), application programming interfaces, SDKs, libraries, CLIs, agents, bots, model endpoints, web UIs, plug-ins, integrations, documentation, and any internationalized, mirrored, sandboxed, staged, whitelabeled, or successor versions of the foregoing (together, the “Service”).
1.2 Account means any registration or credential used to access the Service, including keys, tokens, or device-based identities.
1.3 Input(s) means any content, data, files, code, prompts, tools, credentials, keys, settings, instructions, feedback, ratings, or signals submitted to or through the Service by you or your Authorized Users.
1.4 Output(s) means content returned or generated by the Service in response to Inputs, including text, code, images, audio, video, logs, datasets, embeddings, evaluations, metadata, and artifacts.
1.5 Customer Content means Inputs and Outputs collectively.
1.6 Account Data means identity, contact, billing, auth, device, and usage details associated with an Account.
1.7 Service Operations Data means diagnostics, telemetry, events, safety signals, and performance metrics produced by the Service.
1.8 Third-Party Provider means any hosting, infrastructure, analytics, content delivery, safety, or model vendor engaged by Aristotle.
1.9 Third-Party-Restricted Content means content subject to terms (open-source licenses, website/API TOS, SaaS terms, dataset terms, model/provider terms) that purport to restrict model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, or other model-improvement uses.
1.10 Authorized User means anyone you permit to access your Account, including employees, contractors, and end users.
1.11 High-Risk Use means use where failure could reasonably lead to death, personal injury, or severe environmental/critical-infrastructure damage (e.g., medical diagnosis/treatment, aviation, nuclear, autonomous vehicles, weapons systems).
2.1 These Terms govern access to and use of all Aristotle Properties now or in the future. By accessing any Aristotle Property, you accept these Terms for yourself and any entity you represent.
2.2 Additional product-specific terms, order forms, or a data processing addendum (“Supplemental Terms”) may apply; if a conflict exists and the Supplemental Terms expressly state precedence, they control; otherwise, these Terms control.
2.3 We may verify identity or entitlement before enabling specific features.
3.1 You must be at least the age of digital consent in your jurisdiction (and not less than 13). If you accept on behalf of an entity, you represent you have authority to bind that entity.
3.2 You are responsible for all activity under your Account, including by Authorized Users, and for safeguarding credentials/keys/tokens. Notify us promptly of suspected compromise.
4.1 Subject to these Terms, Aristotle grants you a revocable, non-exclusive, worldwide license to access and use the Service for lawful purposes, including commercial use, embedding, and redistribution of Outputs.
4.2 We may modify, suspend, or discontinue features, quotas, or rate limits at any time. Free/beta/preview features may be throttled or withdrawn.
5.1 As between the parties, you retain ownership of Inputs and Outputs.
5.2 Similarity & Non-Exclusivity. Due to the nature of generative systems, other users may receive similar outputs; Outputs are not guaranteed unique, novel, or free of third-party claims.
5.3 The Service, Aristotle models, software, UI, documentation, workflows, and marks are owned by Aristotle or its licensors.
6.1 Operational License. You grant Aristotle a worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, display, perform, adapt, translate, modify, create derivative works from, and distribute Customer Content solely to operate, provide, maintain, secure, support, debug, and protect the Service; to prevent, detect, and investigate fraud/abuse/security incidents; and to comply with law.
6.2 Training & Model-Improvement License. In addition, you grant Aristotle a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free license to use Customer Content to train, fine-tune, evaluate, red-team, and otherwise improve models and the Service, including updating model parameters, generating synthetic data, and developing new features/services (the “Training License”). The Training License survives termination and, to the maximum extent permitted by law, is not subject to deletion or “unlearning” after models have been trained.
6.3 De-identification; Aggregation; Publication of Statistics. We may collect, de-identify, pseudonymize, and/or aggregate Customer Content, Account Data, and Service Operations Data for analytics, benchmarking, safety research, and product improvement, and we may publish non-identifying statistics.
6.4 Affiliates; Subprocessors. We may exercise the licenses in this Section through our affiliates, contractors, and Third-Party Providers.
6.5 Enterprise/Data Controls (Optional). If your executed order form or DPA expressly provides a “no-training” control and you enable it, Section 6.2 will not apply prospectively to Customer Content processed while the control is enabled (past training is not reversed).
7.1 Your Warranty. You represent and warrant that you have secured all rights, licenses, consents, and permissions necessary to submit Customer Content and to grant the Training License in Section 6.2, notwithstanding any third-party restrictions (including restrictions attached to AI outputs, APIs, websites, datasets, or provider terms).
7.2 No Obligation to Investigate. Aristotle has no duty to audit, monitor, classify, or verify whether Customer Content is subject to third-party restrictions. We may rely on your warranty in Section 7.1.
7.3 Indemnity. You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Aristotle and its affiliates from and against any third-party claim, liability, loss, and expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising from your submission of Third-Party-Restricted Content or breach of Section 7.1.
8.1 The Service is not designed to store protected health information (PHI), payment card data, government-classified data, or other regulated or export-controlled data unless expressly agreed in writing. Do not submit confidential or proprietary information you are not authorized to share.
8.2 If you nevertheless submit such data, it is processed under Section 6 and our Privacy Policy; we disclaim any special obligations absent a signed agreement.
9.1 Some features enable agents/automations to act on your behalf (e.g., run code, access files, call third-party APIs, commit code, send emails, or modify resources). By enabling these features or connecting accounts/keys, you authorize those actions and accept responsibility for resulting activity and charges.
9.2 You are responsible for scoping/permissioning keys, reviewing agent plans/outputs, and implementing guardrails. We may pause or terminate agent actions for safety or security.
You and your Authorized Users will not: (a) violate law or others’ rights; (b) submit or disseminate malware; (c) probe or circumvent non-public Service areas, rate limits, or security; (d) use the Service in High-Risk Use contexts; (e) submit personal data without a lawful basis and required notices/consents; (f) misrepresent Outputs as exclusively human-generated where labeling is required by law.
11.1 You may cache and store Outputs, and you may embed or redistribute Outputs as part of your products/services, subject to law and these Terms.
11.2 Attribution. We do not require attribution unless stated for a specific model or feature; if required, you must provide it as specified.
11.3 Pass-through Terms. If you resell/redistribute Outputs, you must flow down disclaimers consistent with Sections 29–30 to your end users.
12.1 We continuously update models, guardrails, policies, and filters (which may alter behavior).
12.2 We may add machine-readable provenance signals, content credentials, or watermarks to certain Outputs or require you to do so where mandated by law. False positives/negatives may occur.
12.3 We may block or modify Inputs/Outputs to comply with law or safety policies.
Outputs may be incorrect, incomplete, biased, offensive, or unsafe if misused. You must independently review and evaluate Outputs before relying on them. Outputs are not legal, medical, financial, or other professional advice.
Our Privacy Policy explains how we process personal information, including transfers to the U.S. and other jurisdictions and sharing with Third-Party Providers. The Service collects telemetry and usage data for quality, safety, and billing.
We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures, but no system is 100% secure. If you discover a vulnerability, notify [email protected]; do not test beyond what is necessary to demonstrate the issue.
Open-source components are licensed under their own licenses. If a conflict exists, the open-source license governs that component.
Government end users acknowledge the Service is “commercial computer software” and “commercial computer software documentation,” provided with only those rights set forth in these Terms.
18.1 Email-Only Channel. We do not maintain a registered DMCA agent. If you believe content accessible via the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to [email protected] with: (a) your contact information; (b) identification of the copyrighted work; (c) identification of the allegedly infringing material and its location; (d) a statement of good-faith belief that use is not authorized; (e) a statement under penalty of perjury that your notice is accurate and you are authorized to act; and (f) your physical or electronic signature.
18.2 Our Discretion. We may, in our sole discretion, remove or disable access to material, notify the user, request additional information, or take no action. We may, in appropriate circumstances, limit or terminate repeat offenders’ access.
18.3 Counter-Notice (Email-Only). If you believe material was removed in error, email [email protected] with sufficient detail to assess your claim, including your contact information, identification of the material, and your statement under penalty of perjury that the material was removed due to mistake or misidentification.
18.4 No Safe-Harbor Representation. We do not represent that we qualify for or claim any safe-harbor protections under 17 U.S.C. §512. Notices described above are provided without creating any statutory obligations beyond those that apply to us as a matter of law.
Paid features are billed per pricing presented at checkout or in an order form. Trials may auto-convert to paid unless canceled. You are responsible for taxes. Late amounts may incur reasonable late fees/interest where permitted.
We strive for high availability but do not guarantee uptime. We may throttle, suspend, or terminate access to address abuse, security, legal requests, or material breaches. You may stop using the Service at any time.
Unless you opt out by notice, we may use your name and logo to identify you as a customer on our websites and marketing materials.
These Terms do not transfer any IP in the Service to you or Customer Content to us, except the licenses in Section 6. If you provide feedback, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use it without restriction. Use of our marks requires prior written consent.
23.1 We may retain Customer Content and Service Operations Data for operational, legal, and safety purposes.
23.2 Training Data. Due to the nature of model training, data already used to train or evaluate models cannot feasibly be removed from model parameters. Backups and archives may persist for a reasonable period.
23.3 If a DPA or law grants specific deletion rights, we will honor them as specified therein, subject to Section 6.2.
You will comply with applicable export, re-export, sanctions, and anti-corruption laws and will not use the Service in prohibited jurisdictions or by restricted parties.
25.1 Keys & Quotas. You are responsible for securing keys/tokens and for usage under your Account. We may enforce quotas and rate limits.
25.2 Instrumentation. You consent to client-side/SDK telemetry reasonably necessary for performance, fraud prevention, and billing.
25.3 Reverse Engineering. You will not reverse engineer or extract model weights or proprietary datasets, except to the extent permitted by law despite this restriction.
25.4 Benchmarking. You may benchmark and publish results provided they are truthful, reproducible, and identify model versions and date of testing.
The Service is not designed for High-Risk Use. You assume all risk for any such use, and we disclaim liability for resulting harms.
You represent and warrant that: (a) you have and will maintain all rights necessary to submit Customer Content and grant the licenses herein; (b) your use will comply with law; (c) you will not rely on Outputs without appropriate human review; and (d) you will implement reasonable safeguards when enabling agents/automations.
28.1 Governing Law. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, excluding conflict-of-law rules.
28.2 Arbitration. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding arbitration administered by JAMS under its Streamlined Rules, held in Los Angeles County, California, before a single arbitrator. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
28.3 Class Waiver. Proceedings are on an individual basis; class, collective, and representative actions/arbitrations are waived.
28.4 Injunctive Relief. Either party may seek temporary or injunctive relief in court to protect IP or confidential information pending arbitration.
28.5 30-Day Opt-Out. You may opt out of arbitration by emailing [email protected] within thirty (30) days of first acceptance of these Terms.
THE SERVICE AND ALL OUTPUTS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ARISTOTLE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES—EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY—INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED OPERATION.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ARISTOTLE AND ITS SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, USE, OR GOODWILL. IN NO EVENT WILL OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY EXCEED THE GREATER OF US$100 OR THE AMOUNTS PAID BY YOU TO ARISTOTLE FOR THE SERVICE IN THE 12 MONTHS PRIOR TO THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limits; where prohibited, those limits do not apply.
In addition to Section 7.3, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Aristotle and its affiliates from third-party claims and costs (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising from: (a) your unlawful use of the Service; (b) your breach of these Terms; or (c) your infringement or misappropriation of third-party rights via Customer Content.
These Terms apply while you access the Service. Either party may terminate for cause upon material breach uncured within 30 days of notice. We may suspend immediately to address security, legal, or safety risks, or for non-payment (if applicable). Sections intended to survive (including 5–7, 9–16, 18–31, 33–36) do so.
You may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of substantially all assets, with notice to us. We may assign without restriction and may subcontract obligations.
Neither party is liable for delays or failures due to events beyond reasonable control, including acts of God, labor disputes, cyberattacks, or failures of suppliers or networks.
35.1 Email-Only. You consent to receive all notices electronically. All notices to Aristotle (including legal notices, copyright complaints, and dispute notices) must be sent to [email protected]. We may provide notices via email to your Account address or via in-product messaging.
35.2 Service of Process. To the extent permitted by law, we accept legal notices by email only at the address above. If your jurisdiction requires an alternative channel, contact us at that address to arrange it in advance.
36.1 Entire Agreement. These Terms and applicable Supplemental Terms are the entire agreement.
36.2 Severability. If any provision is unenforceable, the remainder remains in effect.
36.3 No Waiver. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.
36.4 Interpretation. “Including” means “including without limitation”; headings are for convenience only.
36.5 Order of Precedence. If you have a signed agreement with us, it controls to the extent of conflict.
[email protected] (general) • [email protected] (legal/copyright)