Terms of Service

Important Notes:

  • Please read these Terms of Service carefully before using our Platform.
  • These Terms of Service are entered into by and between: (1) Synthesized Limited, a company incorporated and registered in England and Wales with company number 10903020 whose registered office is at 73 Amwell Street, London, London, EC1R 1UT (“Synthesized”); and (2) the individual or legal entity, as applicable, identified as the user when registering to use the Platform on the Synthesized website (“you”).
  • By clicking on the “I accept” button, completing the registration process and/or using the Platform, you represent and warrant that (i) you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and the Data Processing Addendum; and (ii) you have the authority to enter into these Terms of Service and the Data Processing Addendum personally or on behalf of the entity you have named as the user and to bind that entity to the Terms of Service and this Data Processing Addendum.
  • If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms of Service or the Data Processing Addendum, you may not access or use our Platform, and should leave immediately.

What’s in these Terms of Service?

These terms and conditions (these “Terms of Service”) tell you the rules for using our free-to-use SaaS platform at https://www.synthesized.io (the “Platform”), any information, content or materials published on our Platform (together, “Content”) and any services to be supplied to or carried out by or on behalf of Synthesized via the Platform, including the processing of Input Datasets and creation of Synthesized Data and Rebalanced Datasets as described in more detail in these Terms of Service (“Services”). These Terms of Service govern and condition access to and use of the Platform, its Content and our Services by you.

Who we are and how to contact us?

This Platform is operated and owned by Synthesized Limited (“we”, “our”, “us”). We are a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 10903020.

Our registered address and trading address is at 73 Amwell Street, London, London, EC1R 1UT.

Our VAT number is 300 2970 48.

To contact us, you can email support@synthesized.io

By using our Platform you accept these Terms of Service.

By clicking on the “I accept” button, completing the registration process and/or using the Platform, you represent and warrant that:

  • you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and the Data Processing Addendum;
  • you have the authority to enter into these Terms of Service and the Data Processing Addendum personally or on behalf of the entity you have named as the user and to bind that entity to the Terms of Service and this Data Processing Addendum.

If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms of Service, you may not access or use our Platform, Content or Services and should leave immediately.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Platform, Content or Services through your internet connection are aware of these Terms of Service, and that they comply with them.

Not for consumers.

The Platform, Content and Services are not directed at, or intended for use or consumption by, persons acting in a personal capacity as consumers.

Accordingly, we recommend that, if you are acting in a personal capacity as a consumer, you leave the Platform immediately and do not access any Content or use our Services.

Privacy.

We will Process any and all Personal Data comprised within Input Datasets, as a Processor on your behalf, in accordance with our Data Processing Addendum, which is hereby incorporated into and forms part of these Terms of Service.

You agree to limit the Personal Data comprised within Input Datasets to the minimum necessary to receive the benefit of the Services provided under these Terms of Service.

We may make changes to these Terms of Service.  

We may amend these Terms of Service from time to time. Every time you wish to use our Platform, please check these Terms of Service to ensure you understand the terms and conditions that apply to this Platform, its Content and our Services at that time.

We may make changes to our Platform.

We may update and change our Platform, Content and/or Services from timetotime to reflect changes to the features and functionalities of our Platform, the state of current technology or market practice, applicable law or regulation and/or our business priorities.  

We may suspend or withdraw our Platform.  

Our Platform, Content and Services are currently made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our Platform, Content and/or Services will always be available free of charge, or generally available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our Platform, Content and/or Services for business and operational reasons.  

Our rights in the Platform, Content and Services.

We are the owner or the licensee of all rights (including intellectual property rights) in:

  • our Platform (including all software and other technologies comprised therein, including our proprietary AI algorithms, models and model weights);
  • our Content;
  • our Services;
  • all Synthesized Data generated by the Platform (including your use thereof);
  • any new, improved or augmented AI algorithms, models, model weights or other results of calibrations of such algorithms or models created or generated under or in connection with the provision of the Services, including as a result of any training of the foregoing through use of Input Datasets; and
  • any derivative, development, improvement, modification or augmentation of any of the foregoing that arises or is conceived, created, devised, generated, exemplified or reduced to practice by, or by a person on behalf of, Synthesized in the course of providing the Services, or independently of the Services.

The Platform (including all software and other technologies comprised therein) the Content, and Synthesized Data are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any Content you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status and / or that of any other identified authors as the authors of the Content must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the Content on our Platform for commercial purposes.

If you print off, copy or download any Content or other part of our Platform in breach of these Terms of Service, your right to use our Platform and its Content will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the Content you have made or that have been made on your behalf.

The licence we grant to you.

We grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, limited licence to use (i) the Platform and the Content for the sole purpose of receiving the Services, subject to the Restrictions set out below and these Terms of Service, until termination of your right to use the Platform, Content and Services in accordance with "We may suspend or withdraw" our "Platform above and Breach of these Terms of Service" below; and (ii) Synthesized Data comprised within any Rebalanced Dataset for your internal business purposes only, and subject to these Terms of Service.

Restrictions.

You must not misuse our Platform by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful.

You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Platform, the server on which our Platform is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Platform. You must not attack our Platform via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Platform, Content and Services will cease immediately.

You may not access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:

  • any part of our Platform, Content or Services;
  • any equipment or network on which our Platform or any Content or Synthesized Data is stored;
  • any software or other systems or equipment used in the provision of our Platform, Content or Services; or
  • any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

In addition to the general restrictions described above, you must not:

  • reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any commercial purpose all or any portion of the Platform, Content or Services;
  • use manual methods or any software, devices, scripts, robots or any other means or processes (including so-called ‘spiders’, ‘bots, ‘crawlers’ etc) to scrape the Platform and/or its Content, or otherwise create or compile (in single or multiple downloads) a collection, compilation, database or directory from the Platform or its Content, and you must not bypass or seek to bypass any robot exclusion headers we may implement; or
  • reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decipher or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Platform and/or its Content (unless and to the limited extent permitted by either: applicable law, or the terms of an open source license to which the relevant technology is subject).

The licence you grant to us.

You, and not us, are entirely responsible for all datasets that you upload, post, e-mail, transmit or otherwise make available (“Make Available”) on or via the Platform (“Input Datasets”). You or the relevant licensor retain all of your ownership rights in your Input Datasets.

You grant to us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable licence to access, store, review, copy, modify and otherwise use such Input Datasets as necessary for the purpose of providing the Services, including to identify certain attributes or biases within Input Datasets and modify such Input Datasets with a view to removing such attributes or biases through:

  • the inclusion of new, synthesized data in respect of data attributes or biases, and/or the deletion of data bearing data attributes or biases; and/or
  • the implementation of randomised changes to replace the Input Dataset in its entirety with a new synthesized dataset,

in each case as instructed by you (including through your selection of target variables) in your use of the Platform. We refer to any Input Dataset modified as described above as a “Rebalanced Dataset” and any synthesized data comprised within a Rebalanced Dataset as “Synthesized Data”.

You or the relevant licensor retain all of your ownership rights in you Input Datasets to the extent comprised within such Rebalanced Datasets. We retain all of our ownership rights in Synthesized Data comprised within such Rebalanced Datasets and grant you the right to use such Synthesized Data as described in "The Licence we grant to you" above.

You warrant (on an ongoing basis) that you have the full right and entitlement necessary to Make Available any Input Datasets you Make Available on or via our Platform, and to grant us the licence outlined above, including to create Rebalanced Datasets. If at any point you become aware, or have a reasonable suspicion, that the warranty in this provision is or may untrue, you agree to:

  • take all necessary steps to remove such Input Datasets and any associated Rebalanced Datasets from our Platform; and
  • notify us by email at support@synthesized.io

Input Dataset Standards.

Whenever you Make Available Input Datasets on or via our Platform, you must comply with the content standards set out in this section.

You acknowledge that we have no obligation to pre-screen Input Datasets. However, we reserve the right (in our sole discretion) to pre-screen, refuse or remove any Input Dataset that we judge to:

  • be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
  • be threatening, harmful, abusive or incite violence;
  • harass, upset or embarrass any person;
  • promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
  • breach any law or legal duty to any person;
  • promote or incite any party to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act;  
  • infringe any right (including any intellectual property right) of any person;
  • deceive or intend to deceive any person;
  • transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam);
  • be defamatory of any person;
  • impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.

You hereby irrevocably consent to such monitoring by us and / or our third party service providers.

No backup.  

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up any Input Datasets, Synthesized Data and Rebalanced Datasets. We have no responsibility for, nor any liability arising out of:

  • the deletion or accuracy of any Input Datasets, Synthesized Data or Rebalanced Datasets; or
  • the failure to store, transmit or receive transmission of Input Datasets, Synthesized Data or Rebalanced Datasets.

Do not rely on Content, Synthesized Data or Rebalanced Datasets.  

The Content on our Platform is provided for general information only. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the Content on our Platform, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the Content is accurate, complete, or up to date. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely.

The Rebalanced Datasets, Synthesized Data and any “bias scores” assigned to Input Datasets in using the Platform:

  • are not intended to reflect objective facts;
  • do not remove all bias from Input Datasets;
  • must not be relied upon for any purpose, including for the purpose of compliance with anti-discrimination laws.

You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the Content, Synthesized Data or Rebalanced Datasets. We have no responsibility for, nor any liability arising out of, any action you take or refrain from taking on the basis of the Content, Synthesized Data and/or Rebalanced Datasets, including in respect of compliance with anti-discrimination laws.

We are not responsible for websites we link to.  

Where our Platform contains links to other websites and / or third party Content, these links are provided for your information only.

Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or any Content you may obtain from them.

We have no control over the contents of those websites nor that Content.

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you.  

  • We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
  • We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, whether direct, indirect, consequential, special or otherwise arising under or in connection with these Terms of Service, including use of, or inability to use, our Platform, Content or Services. Without limitation to the foregoing, we will not be liable for loss of profits, sales, business or revenue, business interruption, loss of anticipated savings, loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation.
  • To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our Platform, Content or Services.

We are not responsible for viruses.  

  • We do not guarantee that our Platform, Content or Services will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
  • You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Platform, Content and Services. You should use your own virus protection software.

Rules about linking to our Platform.  

  • You may link to the home page of our Platform, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
  • You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
  • You must not establish a link to our Platform in any website that is not owned by you.
  • Our Platform must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our Platform other than the home page.
  • We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

Breach of these Terms of Service.  

When we consider that a breach of these Terms of Service has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate including, immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our Platform, Content and Services and/or immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any Input Datasets, Synthesized Data and/or Rebalanced Datasets from our Platform and/or taking legal action against you.

Law and jurisdiction.

Governing Law. These Terms of Service, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law.

Jurisdiction. We each irrevocably agree that the courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms of Service and all matters arising from it (including any dispute relating to the existence, validity or termination of these Terms of Service or any contractual or non-contractual obligation).

Our Trade Marks are registered.

The following trade marks are UK registered trade marks of Synthesized Limited:

  • Synthesized, Synthesized data.

You are not permitted to use them without our approval, unless they are part of Content that you are using as permitted under and in accordance with these Terms of Service.