General Terms of Service

1 General Terms

1.1 Services

These General Terms of Service (the "Terms") relates to all use of services offered by Strise AS with organization number 918 330 100 and registered address Rådhusgata 9, 0151 Oslo, Norway. The parties to this Agreement are Strise AS (hereby referred to as "Strise", "we", "us" or "our"), and the user (hereby referred to as "you"). Both are jointly referred to as the "Parties" or individually as a "Party". Other persons or companies than the Parties are referred to as "Third Parties".

Strise monitors unstructured and structured web data on legal entities. Based on proprietary technology, Strise’s intelligence platform delivers information in the form of real-world events, news, official announcements, financial data, and other properties for each targeted legal entity (the "Services").

These Terms and our Privacy Policy (the "Agreement") takes effect when you press "I Accept" or first use the Services. If you do not agree with this Agreement, do not use the Service. This Agreement shall apply to the maximum extent permitted by mandatory law. If there is a conflict between the Terms and our Privacy Policy, the Terms have precedence.

1.2 Agreement Revisions

We may revise and alter the provisions of this Agreement at any time. Upon changes of considerable significance, we shall strive to notify you within reasonable time. If you do not want to accept the revised Agreement, you may terminate the Agreement with immediate effect by deleting your account and uninstalling any Services.

2 Account

2.1 Your account

When you create a user account you agree to provide information that is correct, accurate and complete and you commit to keeping this information updated at all times. A failure to comply constitutes a fundamental breach of these Terms that can result in an immediate termination of your account. After you have registered your email address, you will get an account with your password for your use of Services.

The user name and password are strictly personal. It is your responsibility to keep your password safe and to make sure that your password at no time is made available to Third Parties. You are liable for any use of your account, with the only exception of instances where we are directly responsible for others gaining unauthorized access to your account.

You cannot register a username that is the name of another person or legal entity or is illegal to use in other ways including names that can be mistaken for another person, legal entity or trademark or a name that is offensive in any way.

2.2 Account Deletion

You can delete your own account at any time. We reserve the right to delete your account if it has been inactive for more than 365 days. Notice will be given 14 days prior to deletion.

3 Software License and Proprietary Rights

3.1 Software

You acquire, upon installing the Services, a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable license to use the applicable Service(s) in its current version and future upgrades, pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement.

3.2 Intellectual Property Rights

You acknowledge that all intellectual property rights in the Services throughout the world belong to us and/or the companies that we derive any rights from, that rights in the Services are licensed (not sold) to you, and that you have no rights in, or to, the Services other than the right to use the Services in accordance with this Agreement.All intellectual property rights to the Services and any related current and future functionality, products or services belongs to us.

4 Privacy

By using the Services, You consent to having your personal data collected and processed pursuant to our Privacy Policy.

5 Acceptable Use

5.1 User Responsibility

You commit to ensure that the Services are only used as intended by us and pursuant to this Agreement.

5.2 Acceptable Use Policy

You shall not use Services in a way prohibited by law, regulation, governmental order or decree; to violate the rights of others; to try to gain unauthorized access to or disrupt any service, device, data, account or network; to spam or distribute malware; in a way that could harm the Services or impair anyone else’s use of it; or in any application or situation where failure of Services could lead to the death or serious bodily injury of any person, or to severe physical or environmental damage. You must only use the Services for business purposes and on your employer's behalf. Violation of the terms in this Section 5 may result in immediate termination of this Agreement. We will suspend your account only to the extent reasonably necessary.

5.3 Service Content

We collect index and filter data and content regarding targeted legal entities, obtained from open and public web sources and web sources with restricted access (by passwords, paywalls etc.), included but not limited to media articles, accounting information, public records and more (collectively referred to as the "Service Content").The Service Content shall only be used for your employer's internal business purposes only and in strict compliance with these Terms.

The Service Content is protected by copyright and/or other intellectual property laws, and the terms of use of the distributor of the copyrighted Service Content shall govern your use of Service Content in addition to these Terms. You may not direct any claims towards Strise for any copyright infringements.

Any Service Content presented to you by use of the Service shall not be shared with, sold or distributed to any Third Party, or published or in any other way made available to the public in any way or form. You may not process the Service Content in the form of indexing or database storage. You may only read, print and electronically save the Service Content. You shall immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of the Service or the Service Content or any copyright infringement of the Service Content.

“AI Features” means any functionality within the Services that uses machine learning, large language models, or algorithmic processing to generate, classify, summarise, or recommend outputs, including but not limited to AI-generated summaries and adverse media classification, and AI-reading and text population from documents uploaded by the user.

“AI Output” means any content, recommendation, risk rating, report, or determination produced wholly or partially by an AI Feature.

To the extent enabled in your instance, the Services include AI Features that generate AI Outputs to assist users in their compliance workflows. AI Outputs are decision-support tools only and do not constitute legal, compliance, or regulatory advice.

5.4 User Content

Any content made available to us by the User, including but not limited to, IP addresses and e-mail addresses is referred to as "User Content". You are responsible to update and make sure that the User Content that you provide is correct and complete. We are not responsible for any User Content, and we are not obliged to oversee yours or others’ User Content. We reserve the right to review User Content and delete such User content at our own discretion. By using our Services, you grant us a limited, royalty-free license to use such User Content to the extent necessary to provide the Services.

5.5 Rules of Conduct

We reserve the right to delete or block users who do not comply with our Rules of conduct. By using our Services, you agree not to copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, modify, sell, license or otherwise exploit Third Party information unless that Third Party has expressly granted you those rights. You acknowledge that your User Content may be viewed by other Authorized Users within your organisation, and processed by the sub-processors and support vendors Strise uses to deliver and support the Services, solely to the extent necessary for those purposes.

5.6 Cheating and Hacking

You hereby confirm that you will not engage in any sort of cheating, hacking, tampering, modifying or altering of the software. This applies regardless of the intention. Any breach of this obligation will result in termination in accordance with this Agreement and liability for any damages and/or losses, both direct and indirect.

5.7 Third Party services

We use certain Third Party services to deliver our Services. You acknowledge that additional terms and conditions may apply for these Third Party services, even if such terms and conditions are not part of this Agreement, and we have no responsibilities whatsoever related to such Third Party services. Breach of a Third Party provider's terms of use may result in termination of this Agreement.

6 Miscellaneous

6.1 Warranty and Claims

Services are delivered "as is" with no warranty regarding functionality, support or availability, with exception of relevant requirements pursuant to invariable Norwegian law. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we do not accept any direct or indirect responsibility or liability for the quality or functionality of Services, for the loss of any data, for the Service Content or any monetary damages directly or indirectly derived from the use of Services.

Our liability is limited to the delivery of the Services. You are responsible for the use of Services, including choice and/or use of available settings in Services and use of the Service Content. We accept no liability whatsoever for the flow of data between you and any Third Party. You have the sole responsibility of securing that the use of Services is in accordance with applicable law in your jurisdiction.

Any information found by using the Services is provided by Third Parties. We do not audit or endorse any Third Party site, nor are we responsible for any Third Party information found by using the Services.

We shall not under any circumstances be liable for damages (for pain and suffering) or for covering Indirect Losses. In this context, the term "Indirect Losses" includes for example interruption losses and any other consequential losses, included but not limited to lack of anticipated savings, loss of earnings or profits, loss of data, loss of computer time, consequential damages, operating losses, trading losses, losses incurred by Third Parties, losses as a result of the agreement with a Third Party being annulled or amended, as well as other commercial or pecuniary losses. The exemption on Indirect Losses also applies where we have been made aware of the possibility that such losses or such damages might occur. We shall not under any circumstances be liable for reparatory damages to, replacing or restoring software, data files or data.

6.2 Defaults

In the instance of a default of the Agreement by you, we may put limitations on your account, including suspending your account for as long as we see fit. In the instance of a material breach of the Agreement by you, we may terminate this Agreement with immediate effect. Upon such termination by us, your account will be deleted.

6.3 Assignment

We can assign our rights and/or obligations under this Agreement in whole or in part to a Third Party. You cannot assign your rights or obligations under this Agreement without the written consent from us.

6.4 Dispute Resolution

This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and be governed by the laws of Norway. The Parties consent to jurisdiction by the Oslo District Court in Norway.

6.5 Support

You can contact us for information regarding Services support, as well as other relevant documentation regarding our Services, by emailing at support@strise.ai.

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