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TERMS OF USE

  1. Scope and effectiveness

Istituto Italiano per la Privacy e la Valorizzazione dei Dati, with office in Piazza San Salvatore in Lauro 13, 00186 – Rome (Italy), VAT no. 11129771009, Fiscal Code no. 97506750583 (hereinafter, “IIP”) with these terms and conditions of use of the website www.aingel.istitutoitalianoprivacy.it (hereinafter, the “Website”) governs the access to and use of the Website (hereinafter, “Terms of use”).

By accessing and browsing the Website, the user accepts the provisions of the Terms of Use.  If a user does not wish to accept the content of the Terms of Use, the user should cease accessing and using the Website.

IIP reserves the right to modify the Terms of Use, in whole or in part, including in order to comply with laws and regulations. Access to and use of the Website by the user after the publication of the aforementioned changes implies implicit acceptance of the same.

The owner of the Site is the Italian Institute for Privacy and Data Protection.

  1. Activities and services of the Website

Within the Website there is the Privacy AIngel function through which the user can interact with Artificial Intelligence systems owned by IIP (hereinafter, “Privacy AIngel”) through which the user can use and interact with the Artificial Intelligence system trained with information and/or informative material on privacy and data protection law and query it through a request prepared independently by the user (hereinafter, “Prompt”) and obtain a response generated independently by Privacy AIngel (hereinafter, “Output”). The user will be informed the first time the user uses Privacy AIngel, and each time the user uses Privacy AIngel thereafter, that the use of Privacy AIngel involves interaction with Artificial Intelligence Systems. The user will also be informed that any content submitted at express request (i.e., Output following Prompt input) is generated by Artificial Intelligence Systems.

The user acknowledges that Privacy AIngel only aims to empower individuals by enhancing their understanding of privacy and data protection rights in a data-driven society; Privacy AIngel helps users better grasp how their personal data is processed, fostering clarity and informed decision-making. The user also acknowledges that Privacy AIngel is not a substitute for legal advice and should not be used for legal consultations.

  1. Guarantees

IIP cannot guarantee in any way (i) that the Website, including its services and functionalities, will be free of interruptions, defects, malfunctions, bugs, suspensions, interruptions or errors; (ii) that any defects found in the same will be corrected (although IIP will make every reasonable effort to do so) or that the use of the Website will produce any specific results and in any event meet your expectations.

The Website, the Privacy AIngel function, and the Output are provided on an ‘as is’ and ‘as available’ basis.

  1. Use of the Website, user obligations and prohibitions

The user can access the Website by freely browsing on the browser of his/her personal device (personal computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.).

The user may use the Website, the Privacy AIngel functionality and the Output exclusively for the purpose of his/her personal, non-commercial, and non-professional use, and on his/her own account (not on behalf of third parties). In particular, the user can use Privacy AIngel totally free of charge for a maximum number of 1000 times (i.e. by entering up to 1000 Prompts), after which the use of Privacy AIngel will be inhibited.

The user may print and/or share the Output with third parties for exclusively personal, non-commercial and non-professional purposes.

The use of the Website may in no way result in the establishment of any professional relationship with the user, also with regard to entering the Prompt to Privacy AIngel.

The user undertakes to use the Website in compliance with the Terms of Use, and with the law and/or in any case in such a way as not to violate and not to prejudice the rights, including the image rights of IIP, of other users and/or of third parties.

In particular, as far as is reasonably possible, it is forbidden for any third party, and the user undertakes not to:

  1. enter information, in the form of Prompts, containing personal data and/or confidential and proprietary information protected by copyright and intellectual property law into Privacy AIngel;
  2. undermine, modify, limit and/or otherwise alter (or attempt to undermine, modify, limit and/or otherwise alter) the means of accessing and using the Site and the Privacy AIngel functionality
  3. engage in (or attempt to engage in) conduct of any nature which could, even potentially, interfere with the use and enjoyment of the Site and/or the Privacy AIngel functionality by other users
  4. modify or adapt, in any form and/or manner, alter, tamper with the Privacy AIngel functionality
  5. decode, decompile, disassemble, or in any way attempt to obtain or derive the object code or source code of any software and/or trade secrets and know-how used to provide the Website and the Privacy AIngel functionality (i.e. “reverse engineering”), except in cases expressly permitted by law;
  6. technically intervene on the Website and/or the Privacy AIngel functionality in order to i) extract and/or re-use the data collected on the Website except in cases expressly permitted by law to the legitimate user; ii) acquire, obtain, use in any form and/or manner and/or purpose the materials, information and data used for the training of the Privacy AIngel functionality;
  7. provide hyperlinks or other forms of connection to the Website, including linking, for profit or to obtain other economic and/or competitive advantage, without the express prior written consent of IIP;
  8. use and/or process Prompt (and in general any interaction made possible on the Website between the User and Privacy AIngel), and in any case any information, data and/or content, which are i) unlawful, in breach of the Terms of Use, in breach of the rights of third parties, including intellectual property rights ii) capable of promoting or mentioning, or inciting, directly or indirectly, the performance of illegitimate, illegal or unlawful activities, as well as activities subject to restrictions, such as, for example, communication and advertising games of chance, tobacco products, alcohol, medicines iii) directly or indirectly, even by means of mentions, quotations or allusions, contrary to mandatory rules, public order or public morality, violent, threatening, abusive, pornographic, of a sexual nature in any case, defamatory, discriminatory (any form of discrimination based on gender, orientation, thought, age), racist, offensive, including to religious beliefs, obscene or in any case morally reprehensible (iv) apt to defame and/or denigrate natural and/or legal persons; (v) aimed at (and/or apt to) use or promote hate speech (i.e. “hate speech”);
  9. use and/or process Prompt (and in general any interaction made possible on the Website between the User and Privacy AIngel), and in any case any information, data and/or content containing viruses, worms, logic bombs, bugs, malware, spyware, ransomware or any other form of data, code, links or information even only potentially harmful to the Website, computer systems, Privacy AIngel, operating systems, and in general applications and devices for access, use and/or receipt.

In the event of conduct that does not comply with and/or in any case breaches these Terms of Use, the user and third parties will be liable towards IIP and the relevant stakeholders and will also indemnify and hold harmless IIP and the relevant stakeholders from all charges, costs, expenses, losses, sums, penalties, compensation or damages (including legal fees) that may arise and/or in any case derive from disputes, actions, requests, judicial and/or extrajudicial, from third parties and/or from the competent administrative and judicial authorities.

IIP reserves the right to interrupt or suspend the user’s access to or use of the Website, even without any prior notice, if it considers that these Terms of Use have been breached or if it is necessary for security reasons or in execution of provisions issued by competent authorities.

  1. Limitation of liability

Subject to the mandatory limits of the law, events of force majeure, interruption or malfunctioning of the services of telecommunications operators and/or power lines, IIP shall in no event be liable to users or third parties for any damage or loss resulting from the use of the Website and/or the Privacy AIngel function.

  1. Contact details

For technical problems, questions, comments and requests for information, the user can contact IPP at the following numbers:

Istituto Italiano per la Privacy e la Valorizzazione dei Dati

Piazza San Salvatore in Lauro 13, 00186 – Rome (Italy)

VAT no. 11129771009

Fiscal Code no. 97506750583

E-mail info@istitutoitalianoprivacy.org