Legal Information

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF SERVICE ("AGREEMENT" OR "TERMS OF SERVICE") CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SERVICES OFFERED BY BOOKVISION.CO. THIS AGREEMENT SETS FORTH THE LEGALLY BINDING TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR YOUR USE OF THE BOOKVISION WEBSITE AND ALL RELATED SERVICES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY FEATURES, CONTENT, WEBSITES (INCLUDING BOOKVISION.CO) OR APPLICATIONS OFFERED FROM TIME TO TIME BY BOOKVISION IN CONNECTION THEREWITH (COLLECTIVELY "SERVICE(S)"). BY USING THE SERVICES IN ANY MANNER, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT.

"The Site" refers to the websites operated by BookVision, including but not limited to BookVision.co, as well as any associated applications, services, features, content, and functionalities offered by BookVision.

Acceptance of Terms of Service

The Service is offered subject to acceptance without modification of all of these Terms of Service and all other operating rules, policies and procedures that may be published from time to time in connection with the Services by BookVision. In addition, some services offered through the Service may be subject to additional terms and conditions promulgated by BookVision from time to time; your use of such services is subject to those additional terms and conditions, which are incorporated into these Terms of Service by this reference.

BookVision may, in its sole discretion, refuse to offer the Service to any person or entity and change its eligibility criteria at any time. This provision is void where prohibited by law and the right to access the Service is revoked in such jurisdictions.

Rules and Conduct

By using BookVision, you agree that the Service is intended solely for the purpose of generating AI-based images inspired by fictional characters, books, and literary prompts. You acknowledge and agree that the content you submit must not include real individuals' personal information, likeness, or images without proper authorization.

By submitting a prompt to generate an image through BookVision, you confirm that the prompt does not refer to or impersonate any real person without their consent, and that it is intended for fictional, creative, or literary use only. You further agree not to use the Service to generate misleading, harmful, or inappropriate content involving real individuals.

By using the BookVision app, you agree that you are at least 18 years old or have reached the legal age of majority in your country of residence. If you are under 18 or the legal age in your country (whichever is higher), you are prohibited from using this app. It is your responsibility to ensure that you comply with your local laws regarding age restrictions for digital services.

BookVision's video creation functionality is strictly for lawful and ethical purposes. By using the app, you agree NOT to create or distribute videos that: 1) Impersonate real individuals without their explicit consent, 2) Engage in or promote scams, fraud, or other misleading activities, 3) Promote or sell illegal products, services, or content, 4) Engage in political campaigning, advocacy, or misinformation, 5) Produce deepfake content with the intent to deceive, defraud, or mislead others, 6) Create content that violates privacy or portrays individuals in a harmful or false light, 7) Distribute violent, hateful, or discriminatory content of any kind, 8) Create false photography or documents to breach people's accounts. You agree to only use the video creation functionality for positive and lawful purposes, such as but not limited to: 1) Creating advertisements for legitimate products and services, 2) Marketing campaigns that promote legal and ethical businesses, 3) Explainer videos or tutorials to educate viewers, 4) Educational content for personal or commercial use, 5) Any other purpose that complies with applicable laws and this TOS.

As a condition of use, you promise not to use the Service for any purpose that is prohibited by the Terms of Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you shall not (and shall not permit any third party to) take any action (including making use of the Site, any Assets or our models or derivatives of our models) that: would constitute a violation of any applicable law, rule or regulation; infringes upon any intellectual property or other right of any other person or entity; is threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another's privacy, tortious, obscene, offensive, furthering of self-harm or profane; creates Assets that exploits or abuses children; generates or disseminates verifiably false information with the purpose of harming others; impersonates or attempts to impersonate others; generates or disseminates personally identifying or identifiable information; creates Assets that implies or promotes support of a terrorist organization; creates Assets that condone or promote violence against people based on any protected legal category.

You agree to not use the Service for the purpose of generating nudes or pornography.

By using the Service and uploading any content, you expressly acknowledge and agree that you will not upload, post, generate or share any photographs or content depicting minors (individuals under the age of 18).

You further agree that, in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, we reserve the right to monitor and review any uploaded any generated content, and if we identify any content featuring minors, we will immediately remove such content and report any instances of potential child exploitation, endangerment, or abuse to the appropriate law enforcement authorities in your respective jurisdiction. By using our platform, you consent to such monitoring, review, and reporting, and you understand that you may be subject to legal repercussions if you violate these terms.

Further, you shall not (directly or indirectly): (i) take any action that imposes or may impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on BookVision's (or its third party providers') infrastructure; (ii) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Service or any activities conducted on the Service; (iii) bypass any measures BookVision may use to prevent or restrict access to the Service (or parts thereof); (iv) use any method to extract data from the Services, including web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction methods, other than as permitted through an allowable API; (v) reverse assemble, reverse compile, decompile, translate or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or underlying components of models, algorithms, and systems of the Services that are not open (except to the extent such restrictions are contrary to applicable law); and (vi) reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Site, use of the Site, or access to the Site or any contact on the Site, without our express written permission.

DMCA and Takedowns Policy

BookVision utilizes artificial intelligence systems to produce the Assets. Such Assets may be unintentionally similar to copyright protected material or trademarks held by others. We respect rights holders internationally and we ask our users to do the same. If you believe your copyright or trademark is being infringed by the Service, please write to legal@bookvision.co and we will process and investigate your request and take appropriate actions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other applicable intellectual property laws with respect to any alleged or actual infringement.

Modification of Terms of Service

At its sole discretion, BookVision may modify or replace any of the Terms of Service, or change, suspend, or discontinue the Service (including without limitation, the availability of any feature, database, or content) at any time by posting a notice on the BookVision websites or Service or by sending you an email. BookVision may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to parts or all of the Service without notice or liability. It is your responsibility to check the Terms of Service periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Service following the posting of any changes to the Terms of Service constitutes acceptance of those changes.

Trademarks and Patents

All BookVision logos, marks and designations are trademarks or registered trademarks of BookVision. All other trademarks mentioned in this website are the property of their respective owners. The trademarks and logos displayed on this website may not be used without the prior written consent of BookVision or their respective owners. Portions, features and/or functionality of BookVision's products may be protected under BookVision patent applications or patents.

Licensing Terms

Subject to your compliance with this Agreement, the conditions herein and any limitations applicable to BookVision or by law: (i) you are granted a non-exclusive, limited, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, non-assignable, freely revocable license to access and use the Service for business or personal use; (ii) you own all Assets you create with the Services and (iii) we hereby assign to you all rights, title and interest in and to such Assets for your personal or commercial use.

Information Gathering

We learn information about you when:

You directly provide it to us. For example, we collect:

• Name and contact information. We collect details such as name and email address.
• Payment information. If you make a purchase, we collect credit card numbers, financial account information and other payment details.
• Content and files. We collect and retain the photos, documents or other files you send to us in connection with delivering our Services, including via email or chat.

We collect it automatically through our products and services. For instance, we collect:

• Identifiers and device information. When you visit our websites, our web servers log your Internet Protocol (IP) address and information about your device, including device identifiers, device type, operating system, browser, and other software including type, version, language, settings, and configuration.
• Geolocation data. Depending on your device and app settings, we collect geolocation data when you use our Services.
• Usage data. We log your activity on our website, including the URL of the website from which you came to our site, pages you viewed on our website, how long you spent on a page, access times, and other details about your use of and actions on our website. We also collect information about which web-elements or objects you interact with on our Service, metadata about your activity on the Service, changes in your user state, and the duration of your use of our Service.

Someone else tells us information about you. Third-party sources include, for example:

• Third-party partners. Third-party applications and services, including social networks you choose to connect with or interact with through our services.
• Service providers. Third parties that collect or provide data in connection with work they do on our behalf, for example companies that determine your device's location based on its IP address.

When we try and understand more about you based on information you've given to us. We infer new information from other data we collect, including using automated means to generate information about your likely preferences or other characteristics ("inferences"). For example, we infer your general geographic location based on your IP address.

Information Use

We use each category of personal information about you:

• To provide you with our Services
• To improve and develop our Services
• To communicate with you
• To provide customer support

Information Sharing

We share information about you:

• When we've asked & received your consent to share it.
• As needed, including to third-party service providers, to process or provide Services or products to you, but only if those entities agree to provide at least the same level of privacy protection we're committed to under this Privacy Statement.
• To comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process, provided that we'll notify you unless we're legally prohibited from doing so.
• We'll only release personal information if we believe in good faith that it's legally required.
• Only if we reasonably believe it's necessary to prevent harm to the rights, property or safety of you or others.
• In the event of a corporate restructuring or change in our organizational structure or status to a successor or affiliate.

Please note that some of our Services include integrations, references, or links to services provided by third parties whose privacy practices differ from ours. If you provide personal information to any of those third parties, or allow us to share personal information with them, that data is governed by their privacy statements.

Finally, we may share non-personal information in accordance with applicable law.

Information Protection

We implement physical, business and technical security measures to safeguard your personal information. In the event of a security breach, we'll notify you so that you can take appropriate protective steps. We only keep your personal information for as long as is needed to do what we collected it for. After that, we destroy it unless required by law.

Other Information

We retain personal data for as long as necessary to provide the services and fulfill the transactions you have requested, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and other legitimate and lawful business purposes. Because these needs can vary for different data types in the context of different services, actual retention periods can vary significantly based on criteria such as user expectations or consent, the sensitivity of the data, the availability of automated controls that enable users to delete data, and our legal or contractual obligations.

As part of our normal operations, your information may be stored in computers in other countries outside of your home country. By giving us information, you consent to this kind of information transfer. Irrespective of where your information resides, we'll comply with applicable law and abide by our commitments herein.

We don't want your personal information if you're under 13. Do not provide it to us. If your child is under 13 and you believe your child has provided us with their personal information, please contact us to have such information removed.

European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Swiss and California users

The following rights are granted under the European General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") and California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"). BookVision applies these rights to all users of our products, regardless of your location:

• The right to know what personal information is collected.
• The right to know if personal information is being shared, and to whom.
• The right to access your personal information.
• The right to exercise your privacy rights without being discriminated against.

EEA, UK, and Swiss Users: Our lawful bases for collecting and processing personal information under the GDPR include:

• Performing our contract with you and providing our services.
• Legitimate interests: we receive technical and interaction data of users, which may include IP addresses, to improve the security and reliability of our services and prevent abuse, and to understand where people learn about BookVision.
• Consent: where we ask for your consent to process your information, you can always withdraw this consent.

Under the GDPR, EEA, UK, and Swiss users have additional rights:

• The right to request correction or erasure of personal information.
• The right to object to processing your personal information.
• The right to right to transfer or receive a copy of the personal information in a usable and portable format, when any automated processing of personal data is based on your consent or a contract with you.
• The rights to withdraw your consent to processing, when the processing is based on your consent.

When we are processing data on behalf of another party that is the "data controller," you should direct your request to that party. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, but we encourage you to first contact us with any questions or concerns.

California Users: Under the CCPA, California residents have additional rights:

• The right to request personal information about to be deleted, subject to several exceptions.
• The right to opt-out of the sale of personal information. Note that we do not "sell" personal information as defined by the CCPA and have not done so in the past 12 months.

You may designate, in writing or through a power of attorney, an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf to exercise your rights under the CCPA. Before accepting such a request from an agent, we will require the agent to provide proof you have authorized it to act on your behalf, and we may need you to verify your identity directly with us. Further, to provide or delete specific pieces of personal information we will need to verify your identity to the degree of certainty required by law. We will verify your request by asking you to send it from the email address associated with your account or requiring you to provide information necessary to verify your account.

Exercising Your Rights

To exercise the rights described above or if you have a question or concern, please contact us at legal@bookvision.co and we will aim to address or resolve it. If we cannot, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Changes

We may need to change this Privacy Statement and our notices from time to time. Any updates will be posted online with an effective date. Continued use of our services after the effective date of any changes constitutes acceptance of those changes.

Contact Us

You can get in touch by emailing us at legal@bookvision.co.