Terms of Use

These Terms of Use (the "Terms") govern your access to and use of the website engineersofai.com and any related services (together, the "Service") provided by Engineers of AI ("we", "us", "our"). By accessing or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Information pursuant to § 5 TMG (Telemediengesetz). Responsible for content under § 18(2) MStV: Engineers of AI (address above).

By using the Service you confirm that you have read, understood and accept these Terms. We may revise these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be communicated by direct notice (e.g., email or in-product banner) at least 30 days before they take effect. Continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service. By using the Service, you represent and warrant that you meet this requirement and that you have the legal capacity to enter into binding contracts under your local law.

Some features require an account, brokered by our identity provider (Keycloak via OIDC). You are responsible for: (a) maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials; (b) all activity occurring under your account; (c) notifying us immediately at [email protected] of any unauthorized access. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms.

Large portions of the Service - lessons, articles, the research lab, the newsletter, and most interactive visualizations - are provided free of charge. We may offer paid services such as courses, certifications, premium content, or subscriptions ("Paid Services"). The price, billing cycle, scope, and any specific terms of each Paid Service are presented to you before purchase and form part of the contract.

If you are a consumer resident in the European Union and you purchase a Paid Service, you have a statutory right of withdrawal under Directive 2011/83/EU and § 355 BGB (German Civil Code).

All content on the Service - including lessons, articles, code samples, diagrams, visualizations, the AI Letters newsletter, and the underlying website code we authored - is owned by Engineers of AI or its contributors and protected by copyright, database rights, and other intellectual property laws.

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to view, read, and personally use the content via the Service. You may quote short excerpts with attribution and a link back to the source page.

You may NOT, without our prior written permission:

• Reproduce, republish, distribute, sublicense, or sell any substantial part of our content.
• Use our content as training data for machine-learning models, including large language models, where the output competes with or substitutes for the original content.
• Remove or obscure copyright notices, watermarks, or attribution.
• Use our trademarks, logos, or trade dress without permission (see our Press Kit for permitted use).

If you submit content via the Service (e.g., contact form messages, comments, feedback), you grant Engineers of AI a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, store, reproduce, and display that content in connection with operating and improving the Service. You retain ownership of your submitted content.

You represent that your submitted content does not infringe any third-party rights and complies with Section 10 (Acceptable use).

You agree not to:

• Use the Service to violate any law, including data protection, intellectual property, or anti-discrimination law.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to systems, accounts, or data.
• Disrupt, overload, or impair the Service (denial-of-service, excessive scraping, ignoring robots.txt).
• Distribute malware, phishing material, or other harmful content.
• Impersonate another person or misrepresent your affiliation with any entity.
• Use automated systems (bots, scrapers, AI crawlers) at a rate or scope that interferes with the Service or violates our robots.txt and ai.txt.
• Reverse-engineer or attempt to extract source code from the Service except as permitted by mandatory law.

In accordance with Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act), if you believe content on the Service is illegal, send a notice to [email protected] including:

• Your name, contact details, and a statement of good faith;
• A precise URL of the allegedly illegal content;
• An explanation of why the content is illegal under EU or member-state law.

We will acknowledge receipt within a reasonable timeframe and take a decision without undue delay. You will be informed of the decision and your redress options, including the right to seek out-of-court dispute settlement.

The Service links to and integrates with third-party services (GitHub, arXiv, Substack, Papers With Code, Hugging Face, ACL Anthology, OpenReview, Google Analytics, Netlify, Keycloak, jsDelivr). We are not responsible for the content, availability, or practices of those services. Their terms and privacy policies apply to your use of them.

The Service and its content are provided "as is" and "as available". To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all implied warranties (merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement). We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, or that content is accurate, complete, or up-to-date.

Educational and AI/ML content is provided for general information only and is not professional advice. Decisions you make based on our content are at your own risk.

Nothing in this section excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded, including statutory consumer rights under German and EU law.

To the extent permitted by applicable law:

• We are liable without limitation for damages caused by intent (Vorsatz) or gross negligence (grobe Fahrlässigkeit), and for injury to life, body, or health.
• For damages caused by simple negligence, we are liable only for breach of a material contractual obligation (Kardinalpflicht); in such cases liability is limited to foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract.
• Liability under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz) remains unaffected.
• For free services, we are liable only for intent and gross negligence, except as required by mandatory law.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Engineers of AI and its representatives from third-party claims arising out of your breach of these Terms or your violation of any law or third-party right, except where such claims arise from our own intent or gross negligence.

These Terms apply for as long as you use the Service. You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access immediately if you materially breach these Terms or if continued operation creates legal or security risk. Provisions intended to survive (Sections 8, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20) survive termination.

We are not liable for delay or failure to perform caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, war, terrorism, pandemics, governmental orders, network outages, third-party provider failures, strikes, or natural disasters.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Where you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer-protection provisions of the law of your habitual residence.

Place of jurisdiction for disputes with merchants, legal entities under public law, or special funds under public law is Dresden, Germany. For consumers, jurisdiction is determined by applicable consumer-protection law.

The European Commission provides an online platform for dispute resolution between consumers and businesses: ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.

We are not obligated and not willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (Verbraucherschlichtungsstelle) within the meaning of § 36 VSBG (German Consumer Dispute Resolution Act).

If any provision of these Terms is found invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force. The invalid provision will be replaced by a valid one that most closely reflects the intent of the original. Failure to enforce any right is not a waiver of that right.

Questions about these Terms? Write to:
Engineers of AI · [BUSINESS ADDRESS — TO BE UPDATED] · Germany
[email protected]