privacy policy and terms

PRIVACY.md

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+# Koel Labs Privacy Policy
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+This Privacy Policy and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Washington State law. In the event there is a discrepancy between this English language version and any translated copies of the Privacy Policy, the English version shall prevail.
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+## The Summary
+Hello! You should read this Privacy Policy in full because it will tell you exactly how your personal data is being looked after by Koel Labs whenever you interact with our **Stuff** by visiting the Koel Labs website/blog, accessing any of our public profiles (GitHub, LinkedIn, etc.), or running our code/models!
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+IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT AND AGREE WITH OUR PRIVACY POLICY THEN YOU MUST NOT PROVIDE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION NOR INTERACT WITH OUR STUFF AND THERE IS NO CONTRACT BETWEEN YOU AND KOEL LABS.
+
+## Information We Collect
+If you subscribe to our email notifications such as our mailinglist or waitlist, we will collect your email address. We may also collect your name and other personal details you provide to us. These will only be used to send you updates about our Stuff.
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+If you create an account with us, we may collect your email address, name, language background, profile picture, and other personal details you provide to us. These will only be used to provide you with access to our Stuff and adapt our Stuff to your needs.
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+We may also collect anonymous information about your use of our Stuff, such as the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data. This could include audio recordings from practice sections if you opt-in to share those. This information is used to improve our Stuff and provide you with a better experience.
+
+## Data Storage
+By providing your email address, name, and/or creating an account, you agree and acknowledge that you are providing your personal details to Koel Labs.
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+By interacting with our Stuff, you agree and acknowledge that anonymous information about your use of our Stuff may be collected.
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+Our Stuff operates through servers located in a number of countries around the world, including the United States.
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+If you live in a country with data protection laws, the storage of your personal data may not provide you with the same protections as you enjoy in your country of residence. By submitting your personal information, you agree to the transfer of your personal information to, and storage and processing of your personal information in, any such countries and destinations.
+
+## Disclosure of Information
+We promise we will never sell or rent your personal details to any third party!
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+Koel Labs wishes to maintain a healthy community, and we will cooperate with all law enforcement inquiries and with all third parties to enforce their intellectual property or other rights. We may also disclose your personal information to government or law enforcement agencies, or private parties, as required by law when/or, in our sole discretion, we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our legal rights, or those of third parties and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on us.
+
+## Third Party Platforms
+We serve our code, models and discussions through various platforms such as [GitHub](https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/privacy-policies/github-general-privacy-statement), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy), and [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/privacy). To post comments, issues, pull requests, etc., you will need to sign in or create an account with these platforms. By doing so, you agree and acknowledge you are providing your personal details to these platforms. Their policies on personal data will apply. **If you do not agree to these privacy policies do not post on these platforms.**
+
+## Unsubscribing
+If you no longer wish to receive updates, you can unsubscribe by clicking the unsubscribe button at the bottom of our emails. Alternatively, you can fill out [this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecAMrMJlc46hcMht-Zf05ldxoRZEsOudElO7DWr9Y5BCi2iA/viewform?usp=sf_link), or contact our technical support team.
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+Your email address will be removed within 30 days.
+
+## Termination
+We may terminate or suspend your account and bar access to our Stuff immediately, without prior notice or liability, under our sole discretion, for any reason whatsoever and without limitation, including but not limited to a breach of the Terms. If you wish to terminate your account, you may simply discontinue using our Stuff. You may also contact us to request the deactivation of your account.
+
+## Technical Contact
+If you have any technical issues viewing our site please contact: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).
+
+## Attribution
+This Policy was adapted from [Badoo](https://github.com/badoo/techblog).

TERMS.md

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+# Koel Labs Terms and Conditions
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+These Terms and Conditions of Use (**Terms**) and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Washington State law. In the event there is a discrepancy between this English language version and any translated copies of the Terms, the English version shall prevail.
+
+## The Summary
+Hello! You should read these Terms in full because they will apply whenever you interact with our **Stuff** by visiting the Koel Labs website/blog, accessing any of our public profiles (GitHub, LinkedIn, etc.), or running our code/models!
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+IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT AND AGREE TO THE TERMS THEN YOU MUST NOT INTERACT WITH OUR STUFF AND THERE IS NO CONTRACT BETWEEN YOU AND KOEL LABS.
+
+## Content
+We want to hear your views and welcome comments, GitHub issues/pull requests, and other contributions. We believe in freedom of expression but you should not post any content which:
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+  * contains expletives or language which could be deemed offensive or is likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;
+  * is obscene, pornographic or otherwise may offend human dignity;
+  * is abusive, insulting or threatening, or which promotes or encourages racism, sexism, hatred or bigotry;
+  * encourages any illegal activity including, without limitation, terrorism, inciting racial hatred or the submission of which in itself constitutes committing a criminal offence;
+  * is defamatory;
+  * relates to commercial activities (including, without limitation, sales, competitions and advertising, links to other websites or premium line telephone numbers);
+  * involves the transmission of “junk” mail or “spam”;
+  * contains any spy ware, adware, viruses, corrupt files, worm programmes or other malicious code designed to interrupt, damage or limit the functionality of or disrupt any software, hardware, telecommunications, networks, servers or other equipment, Trojan horse or any other material designed to damage, interfere with, wrongly intercept or expropriate any data or personal information whether from Koel Labs or otherwise; or
+  * itself, or the posting of which, infringes any third party’s rights (including, without limitation, intellectual property rights and privacy rights).
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+Please use your common sense when interacting with our Stuff and follow our [Code of Conduct](/CONTRIBUTING.md#code-of-conduct), because you are solely responsible for, and bear all liability in relation to, your postings! Koel Labs has no obligation to monitor the content of our Stuff. However, Koel Labs reserves the right to review content posted to our Stuff and to remove any content at any time, without notice, for any reason and in its sole discretion.
+Opinions and other statements expressed by third parties are theirs alone, not opinions of Koel Labs. Content created by third parties is the sole responsibility of the third parties and its accuracy and completeness are not endorsed or guaranteed. Our Stuff and third parties may provide links to web pages, web sites, and various resources or locations on the web. Koel Labs has no control over the information you access via such links, does not endorse that information, and shall not be responsible for it or for the consequences of your use of that information.
+
+## Ownership of Content
+Any content that you post belongs to you (provided you are the rightful owner in the first place — please see our other rules above regarding posting content that doesn’t belong to you).
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+Please note though that by posting or sending content you represent and warrant to us that you have the right to do so and are the exclusive author and owner of that content, and automatically grant to us a non-exclusive, royalty free, perpetual, worldwide licence to use such content in any way (including, without limitation, editing, copying, modifying, adapting, translating, reformatting, creating derivative works from, incorporating into other works, advertising, distributing and otherwise making available to the general public such content, whether in whole or in part and in any format or medium currently known or developed in the future).
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+All other text, graphics, user interfaces, trademarks, logos, sounds and artwork within our Stuff is owned, controlled or licensed by Koel Labs and is protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property law rights.
+
+## Distribution
+All of our public guides, blog posts, LinkedIn posts, and other social media announcements are written by Koel Labs (**Posts**) but we are always looking to share our pearls of wisdom with others! To that end, Koel Labs grants you a non-exclusive, revocable licence to share the Posts for non-commercial purposes on any social media platform or website. You must ensure you always credit Koel Labs as the author. If you wish to use any Post for commercial use, you must obtain Koel Labs' prior written consent. Koel Lab may revoke authorization to share the Posts at any time.
+
+## Email alerts
+You may sign up for various email notifications from us such as our waitinglist and mailing list. These may ask for your email and name. Please see our [Privacy Policy](PRIVACY.md) for more information on how we collect and use your data.
+
+## Unsubscribing
+If you no longer wish to receive updates, you can unsubscribe by clicking the unsubscribe button at the bottom of our emails. Alternatively, you can fill out [this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecAMrMJlc46hcMht-Zf05ldxoRZEsOudElO7DWr9Y5BCi2iA/viewform?usp=sf_link), or contact our technical support team.
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+Your email address will be removed within 30 days.
+
+## Signin/Signup
+You may create an account with us either through a third party identity provider (e.g. Google) or by creating a username and password. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You should take all necessary steps to ensure that the password is kept confidential and secure and should inform us immediately if you have any reason to believe that your password has become known to anyone else, or if the password is being, or is likely to be, used in an unauthorized manner.
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+Please see our [Privacy Policy](PRIVACY.md) for information on how we collect and use your data associated with your account.
+
+## Termination
+We may terminate or suspend your account and bar access to our Stuff immediately, without prior notice or liability, under our sole discretion, for any reason whatsoever and without limitation, including but not limited to a breach of the Terms. If you wish to terminate your account, you may simply discontinue using our Stuff. You may also contact us to request the deactivation of your account.
+
+## Limitation of liability
+You expressly agree that the use of our Stuff is at your sole risk. Our Stuff is provided on an "as is" basis and Koel Labs makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Koel Labs disclaims any warranty that our Stuff will be uninterrupted, secure or error free.
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+Koel Labs and its directors, officers, employees, consultants, agents and other representatives shall not be liable under any circumstances including without limitation for any claims, charges, demands, damages, liabilities, losses or expenses of whatever nature and howsoever direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive or consequential damages (however arising including negligence), loss of use, loss of data, loss caused by a computer or electronic virus, loss of income or profit, loss of or damage to property, wasted management or office time, breach of contract or claims of third parties or other losses of any kind or character, even if Koel Labs has been advised of the possibility of such damages or losses, arising out of or in connection with the use of our Stuff. 
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+Koel Labs assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of our Stuff nor for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger or inaccuracy contained in any information within our Stuff or accessed through our Stuff.
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+Nothing in the Terms limits or excludes Koel Labs' liability for:
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+  * death or personal injury caused by their proven negligence; or
+  * any liability which cannot be limited or excluded by law.
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+Koel Labs does not have a duty to update information contained in our Stuff, and we will not be liable for any failure to update such information.
+
+## Indemnity
+If we are sued as a result of your use of our Stuff then we have the right to defend or settle the relevant claim as we see fit. If we ask, you will co-operate fully and reasonably as required by us in the defence of any relevant claim.
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+You agree to hold harmless and indemnify us and our officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives and licensors from and against any third party claims, damages (actual and/or consequential), actions, proceedings, demands, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses (including reasonable solicitor’s fees) suffered or reasonably incurred by us arising as a result of, or in connection with, your access to and use of our Stuff, the uploading or submission of content to our Stuff by you or your conduct, other than in accordance with the Terms or any applicable law or regulation (**“Claim”**). Koel Labs retains the exclusive right to settle, compromise and pay any and all Claims or causes of action which are brought against us without your prior consent.
+
+## Technical Contact
+If you have any technical issues interacting with our Stuff please contact: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).
+
+## Attribution
+These Terms were adapted from [Badoo](https://github.com/badoo/techblog).