Patent Ninja Consumer Terms of Service
Welcome to Patent Ninja! Before you access our services, please read these Terms of Service.
These Terms of Service ("Terms") set out the agreement between you and Patent Ninja Limited ("Patent Ninja"), to use our services, along with any associated apps, software, and websites (together, our "Services"). By using our Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms, including any changes made to them in accordance with these Terms.
These Terms apply to you if you are a consumer who is resident in the United Kingdom. You are a consumer if you are acting wholly or mainly outside your trade, business, craft, or profession in using our Services.
In these Terms, when we refer to "we", "us" or "our," or similar, we mean Patent Ninja. Other words in bold and quotation marks have the meaning given to them where the word or phrase is first used. Subsequent uses of these words have the same meaning unless otherwise stated.
Please read our Privacy Policy, which describes how we collect and use personal information.
Please note: Our Commercial Terms of Service govern your use of any Patent Ninja API key, the Patent Ninja Console, or any other Patent Ninja offerings that reference the Commercial Terms of Service. For clarity, this does not include the use of our patent application generation services for individuals or entities.
1. Who we are.
Patent Ninja is a company specializing in using AI models to generate and search patent applications for its users. We leverage artificial intelligence to provide accurate and efficient patent drafting services.
2. Account creation and access.
Minimum age. You must be at least 18 years old to use the Services.
Your Patent Ninja Account. To access our Services, we may ask you to create an account (your "Account"), to provide certain information (such as your email address), and to create a password. You agree to provide correct, current, and complete information and allow us to use it to communicate with you about our Services. You agree to notify us promptly if there are any changes to the information you have provided to us. Our communications to you using such information will satisfy any requirements for legal notices.
You may not share your Account login information, Patent Ninja API key, or Account credentials with anyone else or make your Account available to anyone else. You are responsible for all activity occurring under your Account and agree to notify us immediately if you become aware of any unauthorized access to your Account by sending an email to support@patentninja.com.
You may close your Account at any time by contacting us at support@patentninja.com.
Business Domains. If you use an email address owned by your employer or another organization, your Account may be linked to the organization's enterprise account with us and the organization's administrator may be able to monitor and control the Account, including having access to Materials (defined below). We will provide notice to you before linking your Account to an organization's enterprise account. However, if the organization is responsible for notifying you or has already informed you that it may monitor and control your Account, we may not provide additional notice.
Evaluation and Additional Services. In some cases, we may permit you to evaluate our Services for a limited time or with limited functionality. Use of our Services for evaluation purposes is for your personal, non-commercial use only.
You may need to accept additional terms to use certain Services. These additional terms will supplement our Terms for those Services and may change your rights or obligations for those Services, including your obligations to pay fees.
3. Use of our Services.
You may access and use our Services only in compliance with our Terms, our Acceptable Use Policy, and guidelines or supplemental terms we may post on the Services (the "Permitted Use").
You may not access or use, or help another person to access or use, our Services in the following ways:
- In any manner that violates any applicable law or regulation—including, without limitation, any laws about exporting data or software to and from the United Kingdom or other countries.
- To develop any products or services that compete with our Services, including to develop or train any artificial intelligence or machine learning algorithms or models.
- To decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce our Services to human-readable form, except when these restrictions are prohibited by applicable law.
- To crawl, scrape, or otherwise harvest data or information from our Services other than as permitted under these Terms.
- To use our Services or Materials to obtain unauthorized access to any system or information or to deceive any person.
- To infringe, misappropriate, or violate intellectual property or other legal rights (including the rights of publicity or privacy).
- Except when you are accessing our Services via a Patent Ninja API Key or where we otherwise explicitly permit it, to access the Services through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script, or otherwise.
- To engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits any person from using or enjoying our Services, or that we reasonably believe exposes us—or any of our users, affiliates, or any other third party—to any liability, damages, or detriment of any type, including reputational harms.
You also must not abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt our Services, including, for example, introducing viruses or malware, spamming or DDoSing Services, or bypassing any of our systems or protective measures.
4. Subscriptions, fees, and payment.
Fees and billing. You may be required to pay fees to access or use our Services or certain features of our Services. You are responsible for paying any applicable fees listed on the Services. The fees applicable to our Services (including information on how we calculate our fees) are set out on the Services listing.
If you purchase access to our Services or features of our Services from us, you must provide complete and accurate billing information ("Payment Method"). You confirm that the card or bank account which is being used as your Payment Method is yours, or that you have the authorization of the account holder to use it. If you use a Payment Method which you are not authorized to use, you will be liable to us for any losses that we suffer as a result of your use of that Payment Method.
You agree that we may charge the Payment Method for any applicable fees listed on our Services and any applicable tax. If the fees for these Services or features are specified to be recurring or based on usage (for example, a Subscription (see below)), you agree that we may charge these fees and applicable taxes to the Payment Method on a periodic basis.
If you purchase access to our Services through a distributor (e.g., an app store) ("App Distributor"), then you will make payment to the App Distributor, and the App Distributor's terms in relation to payment methods, billing, and refunds will apply. The purchase and use of these Services may also be subject to additional terms.
Subscriptions. You may be required to pay fees to access or use our Services on an ongoing basis (a "Subscription"). A Subscription provides you with access to certain features of the Services for the duration of the Subscription ("Subscription Period"). Information about Subscription fees, including how the Subscription will be billed, will be made available at the time of purchase.
If you purchase a Subscription, your Subscription will automatically renew at the end of each Subscription Period, and you will be charged the applicable Subscription fees and taxes for the next Subscription Period to your Payment Method, unless you cancel your Subscription in accordance with the cancellation terms specified at the time of purchase or through your Account settings.
Changes to fees. We may change the fees we charge for our Services at any time and will provide notice of these changes in accordance with these Terms. The new fees will apply to your next billing period. If you do not agree with these changes, you must cancel your Subscription before the changes take effect.
Refunds and cancellations. If you purchase access to our Services, you may be entitled to cancel your order and receive a refund. If you purchased a Subscription, you may also cancel your Subscription and receive a refund. The availability of refunds and how to cancel and request a refund is explained at the time of purchase or in our Refund Policy.
5. Suspension and termination.
We may suspend or terminate your access to our Services and these Terms, including your Account, immediately if:
- You violate any provision of these Terms, the Acceptable Use Policy, or any applicable law.
- Your use of our Services poses a security risk or may have an adverse impact on us or our other users.
- We determine that your use of our Services subjects us, our affiliates, or any other third party to any liability, damages, or detriment of any type, including reputational harm.
- We are required to do so to comply with applicable law or the order of a court or other governmental authority.
We may also suspend or terminate your access to our Services and these Terms, including your Account, for any other reason with 30 days' prior notice. If we suspend or terminate your access for reasons other than those listed above, we will refund any prepaid amounts for the remainder of your Subscription Period.
If you wish to terminate these Terms, you can do so at any time by closing your Account and ceasing to use our Services. Upon termination of these Terms, your Account will be closed and your access to our Services will cease. Termination will not affect your obligations or our rights under these Terms that were incurred before termination or your obligations or our rights that are intended to continue past termination.
6. Confidentiality.
You acknowledge that our Services and associated documentation, software, models, and other materials provided by us (collectively, "Confidential Information") are confidential and proprietary to us. You agree not to use or disclose our Confidential Information, except as permitted by these Terms.
If you become aware of any unauthorized access to or use of our Confidential Information, you must notify us immediately by emailing support@patentninja.com.
7. Limitation of liability.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither Patent Ninja nor any of its affiliates, licensors, or service providers will be liable for any indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenue, whether incurred directly or indirectly, or any loss of data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from:
- Your use of or inability to use the Services.
- Any unauthorized access to or use of our servers and/or any personal information stored therein.
- Any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from the Services.
- Any bugs, viruses, Trojan horses, or the like that may be transmitted to or through the Services by any third party.
- Any errors or omissions in any content or for any loss or damage incurred as a result of the use of any content posted, emailed, transmitted, or otherwise made available through the Services.
In no event will Patent Ninja's aggregate liability for all claims relating to the Services exceed the amount paid by you to Patent Ninja for the Services in the 12 months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.
8. Governing law and dispute resolution.
These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. You and we agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction to resolve any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Services.
9. Changes to these Terms.
We may change these Terms at any time. We will provide notice of these changes by updating the "Effective Date" at the top of these Terms and making the updated Terms available on our website. If we make material changes to these Terms, we will provide additional notice to you, such as by emailing you or providing notice through the Services. Your continued use of the Services after we make any changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms.
10. Contact us.
If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at hello@patent.ninja