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Rana Terms of Use

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The following describes the terms of use of Rana LLC’s (hereafter “Rana” or “the Company”) software, services, and other aspects of the Rana ecosystem. Agreement to these terms is required in full in order to use any part of the Rana ecosystem including its products and services, up to the maximum extent made possible by applicable laws. The default jurisdiction under which these terms apply shall be the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in the United States of America unless otherwise specified.

Your Information

RanaEngine, RanaRemix, and the other locally installed parts of the Rana ecosystem have been designed with local-first and offline-first principles in order to keep end-user data private and to ensure that users have maximum control over their own data. Rana does not want your data, will not sell your data, will not disclose your data without legal obligation, does not profit from your data, and will not train machine learning models on your data without your permission. Your data is a liability that you are responsible for and Rana does not want it.

For the cloud-enabled portions of the Rana ecosystem, limited identifiers may be used by the Company to provide such services and for authentication purposes with networked systems such as CloudFlare, Graph Universe, ActivityPub, Solid, and other connected systems, but only when necessary and only minimally. Please refer to the Privacy Policy for more details.

Age Requirements

All users of any part of the Rana ecosystem, including its products, software, and services, must be 18 years of age or older. Illegal content is prohibited at all times across the Rana ecosystem, its software, and services in accordance with applicable laws.

Service Availability and Quality

Rana is a best-effort ecosystem designed to “fail-to-functional” and as such attempts to maintain the proper workings of as many features as possible despite the availability of the Internet, Graph Universe, Rana Network, or other services that the Rana ecosystem depends on. Once services are restored and become available again, Rana will attempt to synchronize all important data and refresh any stale data as appropriate across relevant nodes, clusters, and networks. The Company makes no guarantees as to the uptime, availability, integrity, persistence, speed, or quality by which our services operate, although we run our own company on these services and work hard to ensure optimal uptime not only for ourselves but for all users as well. Individual experiences may vary based on the conditions of local computing infrastructure, Internet connectivity, bandwidth, hardware performance, and similar factors, and may be outside the control of the Company.

Your Rights and Responsibilities

Unless otherwise specified or restricted, all content produced by RanaEngine, publicly transmitted throughout the Rana ecosystem via servers controlled by Rana, or shared publicly across the Graph Universe, Solid, ActivityPub, or any other publicly integrated system with the Rana ecosystem, shall be considered public domain, fair-use, and copyright-free. Individuals and organizations that wish to retain restricted rights over their works as transmitted throughout the Rana ecosystem may do so via an Individual or Organizational license obtained through an appropriate subscription from Rana.ai. End-users agree to comply with all locally applicable laws, and are responsible for accurately maintaining and respecting the copyrights, trademarks, and other terms affecting content that they upload to the Rana ecosystem. In order to make this as easy and simple as possible, users are encouraged to use generative AI systems to produce and share copyright-free content whenever possible to avoid potential liability or violations due to copyright, trademark, or other content-restriction considerations in your local jurisdiction.

Rights You Give to Rana

Rana does not want your data, and we want to ensure that your private data stays private and protected by default, but that your public data is also free to easily distribute without encumbrance. Our primary goal is to promote the free sharing and exchange, remixing, translation, and adaptation of knowledge through open-protocols and systems, unencumbered by legal restrictions or centralized tracking and authorization systems. In support of this, we promote the use of copyright-free, public domain, and copyleft licenses by default for content that is created by our products and services, or publicly shared through our networks and systems, in support of the spirit of Fair-Use for all. For data that needs to remain private, we do everything we can to protect and secure such data for all users and organizations, including our free users, and offer tools and features to assist with this. As artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies are beginning to flood our world, we want to encourage a simple and straightforward approach to handling copyright around content: public things should be public, and private things should be private; complex licensing shackles end-users under the chains of strangers.

Limitation of Liability

By using any product or service in the Rana ecosystem including RanaEngine, RanaRemix, RanaPod, and others, end-users voluntarily choose to assume complete responsibility for their own conduct and actions, and the consequences thereof, whether legal or otherwise. Rana cannot be held liable in any way for the actions users perform, the speech they utter, the messages they send, the data they transmit, the information they exchange, or anything else shared through the Rana ecosystem or its connected networks, responsibility lies exclusively with the end-users. Likewise, the Company cannot be held responsible for the consequences of end-user directives or instructions to autonomous agents, bots, crawlers, processes, jobs, tools, machine learning models, artificial intelligence systems, and similar technologies, or the consequences thereof, whether legal or otherwise in any jurisdiction. RanaEngine, RanaRemix, and similar locally-installed software from the Company shall be considered software products and not software services, despite any networking or connectivity features, and are not subject to the same requirements and restrictions as cloud-provided services or Software-as-a-Service systems. As locally-installed software products, end-users assume all responsibility and consequences for usage of such products, and agree to indemnify Rana from all liability related to their usage of such products, including coverage of all legal or court fees, fines, charges, penalties, and other applicable judgements levied against the Company as a result of end-user actions.

Content Rights

It is our understanding that the United States Copyright Office has declared that artificial intelligences are not considered people and cannot own copyrights. It is also our understanding that as a consequence, all content produced directly by generative AI systems can be considered public domain and fair-use, unless such content is restricted by the law for another reason such as trademark and other reasons. As such, the content created by machine learning models and AIs in the Rana ecosystem will default to a copyright-free and public domain license, but such content will not be disclosed to other parties until an end-user chooses to share it and will remain private.

DMCA and Takedowns Policy

Rana cannot prevent the sharing of content that is not hosted on our own servers or cloud-services, and cannot be held responsible for the actions of end-users who run Rana software that is locally installed or self-hosted. For all parts of the Rana ecosystem that are locally-hosted or self-hosted by end-users such as RanaEngine, RanaPod, or similar software products, all DMCA takedown requests must be sent to such end-users directly and without the help of Rana; the Company cannot and will not act as a notifier, proxy, intermediary, or any other form of legal agent on behalf of anyone involving servers, systems, or running software that we do not control, and Rana cannot monitor end-user conduct or behavior while users run their own systems. End-users agree to indemnify Rana from all liability, charges, fees, fines, penalties, or other costs related to such actions taken against Rana as a result of activities performed by end-users.

Notifications Procedures

For all parts of the Rana ecosystem that are hosted by Rana on the Company’s infrastructure such as a RanaPod hosted by Rana, if it can be determined that such infrastructure is hosting content in violation of another party’s rights, takedown requests may be delivered via email to dmca@rana.a and must include the following information:

Once provided with the information above, the Company will review all such claims and take action according to the results of an internal review on a first-come, first-serve basis. For successful takedown requests, notification will be provided to both the rights holder’s legal contact email and the end-user or organization responsible for the content violation, and such content will be temporarily removed.

Temporary Takedown and Counter-Notice Procedures

If a DMCA takedown request is successful, violating parties will have 5 business days to challenge the takedown request by filing a counter-notice with Rana at dmca@rana.ai , and must provide the following information in such a counter-notice:

Once provided with a counter-notice including the information above, the Company will review the claim and then forward the counter-notice to the email of the rights holder that issued the takedown request. Rights holders will have 5 business days to respond to all such counter-notices, after which time any DMCA takedown requests will be reverted if a response is not received.

Additional DMCA Dispute Resolution

In the case of a continued challenge by a rights holder to a DMCA counter-notice, all such disputes must be handled by the individual parties and may not involve Rana, its employees, representatives, or anyone else that can be considered to be operating on behalf of the Company. Until the Company is presented with a legal opinion or ruling by a court involving the content in dispute, all such content will remain restricted from being publicly shared via Rana cloud services and systems where possible.

Dispute Resolution and Governing Law

Rana works hard to equip our users with all of the tools necessary to manage their own data, content, and experiences throughout the Rana ecosystem and to the platforms and networks that connect to our products and services. We will do our best to avoid the need for any legal proceedings between ourselves and our users, but in the case that legal proceedings should be necessary to resolve a dispute, by using our products and services, end-users and organizations agree to settle all disputes with Rana via arbitration in the legal jurisdiction of San Juan in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in the United States, or at an alternate location of Rana’s choosing.

Service Limits and Rate Limiting

Rana is continually working to provide the best and most performant experiences to our users that is possible with our current technologies, and tries to offer accurate and reasonable predictions ahead of time when providing computing services, estimating levels of effort and time to completion for jobs and workflows, and when interoperating with network and connectivity features and functions. The technologies that the Rana ecosystem depend on in order to provide these functions and services are unpredictable, and may be affected by local conditions related to end-user hardware, network reliability, and other unknown factors outside of the Company’s control.

Rana operates the Rana ecosystem, its products, and services on a best-effort basis, and cannot offer any form of Service Level Agreement in the tradition of regular cloud software companies. This limitation is made up by the ability for RanaEngine to operate using privately hosted infrastructure and in offline modes, so although the Company cannot guarantee the full functionality of all products and services all of the time, in practice a minimal level of functionality should be available at almost all times throughout the Rana ecosystem.

No Warranty

ALL RANA SOFTWARE, INCLUDING RANAENGINE, RANAREMIX, RANAPOD, RANABRIDGE, AND ALL OTHER SOFTWARE AND DATA DELIVERED BY RANA IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Payment and Billing

All payments and billing are pre-paid ahead of time before paid services are provided, with various subscription durations based on user choices. For on-demand services such as computing-on-demand, users must retain sufficient pre-purchased computing credits associated with their account in order to continue accessing on-demand services.

All payments, purchases, and subscriptions provided by Rana will be handled and processed by Stripe, Inc. according to their terms as described here.

Force Majeure

Rana shall not be held liable for any disruptions or diminished capabilities of our products or services due to acts of God such as natural disasters including hurricanes, earthquakes, flooding, tornadoes, or any other similar disaster of nature, or any human-caused widespread societal disruption such as an electrical outage, protest, act of war, terrorism, uprising, embargo, sanction, hacking, denial-of-service, or other event resulting in the interruption of normal societal functions.

In the event that a force majeure situation affecting paid services from the Company continues longer than 120 continuous days, either party may choose to terminate the remaining duration of the paid services, and the Company will refund the remaining portion of the pre-paid services on a prorated basis from the time of the request less the 120 day minimum period.

No Agency

No part of this Agreement shall be interpreted as creating a partnership, agency, joint venture, or other form of fiscal or legal relationship between Rana and any of its users, agents, representatives, associates, or other organizations.

Severability

If any part of this Agreement is held to be illegal, invalid, or inapplicable, all remaining portions of this Agreement shall remain enforceable in whole or in part, up to the fullest extent allowed by the law.

No Third-Party Beneficiaries

No third-party may be a beneficiary of any part of this agreement, unless explicitly provided for by such terms herein. This includes creditors, partners, associates, and other parities that may have a financial or legal interest in any of the users or organizations utilizing the Rana ecosystem.

Survival

Rana cannot assist in recovering any data that we do not manage on our own systems and servers. In cases of survivorship, inheritance, or other court-ordered transfer of digital assets, Rana will assist with transferring the digital assets of a user’s or organization’s Rana-hosted RanaPod, adjusting any Rana-controlled DNS settings for the user, and claiming any pre-paid computing credits to a single third party legal representative of the user who will be responsible for any further distribution or disbursement.

Such transfers may include remaining pre-paid computing credits stored in an account, files or data stored in an object store such as RanaPod on behalf of an account, or similar user-controlled data. Incidental data generated by user actions throughout the Rana ecosystem or data that the user cannot directly control are outside of the scope of this agreement, and will not be able to be transferred to new parties.

Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, United States.