Platform Use Agreement

This is an agreement ("Agreement") between you ("i.e., an individual or organization that registers as a user on the Platform and uses our services, and undertakes to comply with our various agreements, privacy policies, and other service terms") and Beijing Silicon Flow Technology Co., Ltd. and its affiliates ("SiliconFlow" or "we").

You confirm that before you start using or purchasing products or services from our SiliconFlow platform ("Platform"), you have fully read, understood, and accepted all terms of this Agreement. Once you actually start using the services on this Platform or complete the purchase process, it means that you have read and agreed to comply with this Agreement. We have the right to modify the terms of this Agreement when necessary, and you can check the latest version of the Agreement on this page. After the terms of this Agreement are changed, if you continue to use the services on this Platform, it will be deemed that you have accepted the changed Agreement. For the detailed data and personal information collection and use policies of this Platform, please refer to the "Privacy Policy".

You guarantee that you have full capacity for civil rights and civil conduct as stipulated by law, and are a natural person capable of independently assuming civil liability, or a person with full capacity for civil rights authorized by a legal person to act on its behalf; if you are a minor under the age of eighteen, you will not be able to complete real-name authentication or use the services on this Platform, even if you have already registered. You undertake and confirm that the content of this Agreement will not be prohibited by the laws of the country or region where you belong.

1. Account Management

1.1 Account and Real-Name Authentication

1.1.1. After you fill in relevant information as required by this Platform, and confirm and agree to comply with all terms of this Agreement and the "Privacy Policy", we will create an account for you. You acknowledge and agree that all or part of the functions on the Platform require your account to undergo real-name authentication before they can be activated, and we have the right to modify and maintain the services and functions on the Platform from time to time based on our independent judgment and business development changes.

1.1.2. If you access and use this Platform on behalf of an enterprise, legal person, unincorporated organization, or other entity, you must complete enterprise authentication for the account. In this case, this Agreement is not only effective between us and you, but also between us and the enterprise authenticated by the account (including but not limited to legal persons, unincorporated organizations, or other entities, hereinafter the same). The authenticated enterprise shall be responsible for all acts of use, recharge, information provision, etc. under this account and associated users, and may not refuse to assume responsibility on the grounds of account lending, personnel departure, etc. You should properly manage the enterprise authenticated account and the relevant login and usage permissions of associated users. Any losses to the enterprise or third-party claims arising from permission leakage, unauthorized authorization, or negligent management shall be borne by the authenticated enterprise and you.

1.1.3. If you connect to or access this service through a third party, it indicates that you acknowledge and allow the third-party service to use or store your user information, access tokens, relevant account information, and authentication credentials, as well as other data, and that this Platform may obtain and store your identity information and account credentials from the third party.

1.1.4. You are responsible for protecting the accounts you create, join, or manage, as well as your user identity, and shall not disclose to anyone any login credentials you use for login, including but not limited to SMS verification codes, email verification codes, or WeChat accounts. If the account is lost due to your active disclosure or your being attacked or defrauded by others, this Platform shall not be responsible. You should recover compensation from the infringer through judicial, administrative, and other remedy approaches.

1.1.5. The account name and user nickname you set must not violate national laws and regulations, public order and good customs, social morality, or be likely to cause confusion between your identity and that of this Platform. Otherwise, it may result in unsuccessful account creation or user registration failure, or we have the right to disable or cancel the account after notifying you.

1.1.6. The same user ("same user" is determined by mobile phone number, hereinafter the same) may only create one personal account. Your personal account is for your own use only. Unless otherwise agreed by both parties, you may not in any form gift, lend, rent, transfer, sell, or otherwise permit a third party to use your personal account. If this Platform discovers or has reasonable grounds to believe that the user is not the initial registered user of the account, to ensure account security, we have the right to immediately suspend or terminate the provision of services to that account, and have the right to permanently disable the account.

1.1.7. The same user may create several organization accounts. The organization accounts you successfully create may be used by yourself or allow other users to use them jointly. If you allow other users to use your organization account jointly, you will be responsible for the consequences and liabilities of all acts of the corresponding users under the organization account (including but not limited to using platform services, recharging, or incurring arrears, etc.). You must use the organization account in accordance with the relevant requirements of this Platform. Otherwise, to ensure account security, we have the right to immediately suspend or terminate the provision of all or part of the services to that organization account, and have the right to permanently disable the account.

1.2 Changes, Suspensions, and Terminations

We may change, suspend, or terminate the services provided to you, or set usage restrictions on the services, without being liable, if we have made our best efforts to provide prior notice through one or more means such as SMS, email, or announcements on this Platform. We can deactivate your account at any time. Even after your account is terminated for any reason, you will still be bound by this Agreement.

1.4 When there are clear legal requirements stipulating that this Platform, as a platform service provider, must verify users' information, this Platform will check and verify your information from time to time in accordance with the law. You shall cooperate and provide the latest, true, complete, and effective information. If this Platform is unable to verify based on the information provided by you, this Platform has the right to send you a notice of inquiry or request for rectification, and require you to conduct re-authentication, until the provision of some or all platform services to you is suspended or terminated. This Platform shall not bear any responsibility for this.

1.5 You shall be responsible for your own interactions, activities, exchanges, and communications with other users. We reserve the right to supervise disputes between you and other users. We shall not bear any responsibility for the interactions between you and other users and the acts or omissions of any users, including responsibility related to Interaction Data (as defined below).

2. Access to Services and Service Restrictions

2.1 Access to Services

Subject to your compliance with this Agreement, you are hereby granted a non-exclusive and non-transferable right to access and use this service only for your personal use or for the internal business purposes of the enterprise or other entity represented by you. We reserve all rights not expressly granted in this Agreement.

2.2 Service Restrictions

2.2.1. Disassemble, reverse engineer, decode, or decompile any part of the service;

2.2.2. Purchase, sell, or transfer API keys without our prior written consent;

2.2.3. Copy, rent, sell, loan, transfer, license, or attempt to sublicense, resell, distribute, or modify any part of this service or any intellectual property of ours (as defined below);

2.2.4. Take any action that may place an unreasonably heavy load on our servers, infrastructure, etc.;

2.2.5. Use the platform service in any of the following ways or for the following purposes:

(a) Opposing the basic principles established by the Constitution;
(b) Endangering national security, disclosing state secrets, subverting state power, and undermining national unity;
(c) Damaging national honor and interests;
(d) Inciting regional discrimination and regional hatred;
(e) Inciting ethnic hatred and ethnic discrimination, and undermining national unity;
(f) Violating national religious policies, and promoting cults and feudal superstitions;
(g) Spreading rumors, disrupting social order, and undermining social stability;
(h) Spreading pornographic, obscene, gambling, violent, murderous, terrorist, or abetting criminal content;
(i) Insulting or slandering others, and infringing upon the legitimate rights and interests of others;
(j) Inciting illegal assemblies, associations, marches, demonstrations, and gatherings to disrupt social order;
(k) Acting in the name of illegal non-governmental organizations;
(l) Non-personal works that may involve copyright disputes;
(m) May infringe upon the prior rights of others;
(n) Conducting violent intimidation and threats against others, and conducting cyber manhunts;
(o) Involving the privacy, personal information, or data of others;
(p) Infringing upon the legitimate rights and interests such as the privacy right, reputation right, portrait right, and intellectual property right of others;
(q) Infringing upon the legitimate rights and interests or harming the physical and mental health of minors;
(r) Secretly photographed or recording others without permission, and infringing upon the legitimate rights of others;
(s) Violating the "seven bottom lines" requirements, namely the bottom line of laws and regulations, the bottom line of the socialist system, the bottom line of national interests, the bottom line of citizens' legitimate rights and interests, the bottom line of social public order, the bottom line of moral fashion, and the bottom line of information authenticity;
(t) Prohibited by relevant laws, administrative regulations, etc.

2.2.6. Circumvent the measures that we may use to prevent or restrict access to the service, including but not limited to preventing or restricting the use or copying of any content or restricting the functionality of the service or any part thereof;

2.2.7. Attempt to interfere with or damage the system integrity or security of the server running the service, or decipher any transmission with the server running the service;

2.2.8. Use this service to send spam, chain letters, or other unsolicited emails;

2.2.9. Transmit illegal data, viruses, or other software agents through this service;

2.2.10. Impersonate another person or entity, misstate your relationship with a person or entity, conceal or attempt to conceal your identity, or use this service for any intrusive or fraudulent purpose;

2.2.11. Collect or obtain from this service any personal information, including but not limited to the names of other users.

2.2.12. Other acts without our express authorization or usage methods that may damage our interests.

3. Interaction Data

3.1 This service may permit users, after registration, to carry out operations such as input, feedback, modification, processing, storage, uploading, downloading, and distribution of relevant personal profile information, videos, images, audio, comments, questions, and other content, files, data, and information ("Interaction Data") during the use of the platform services with large models, third-party websites, software, applications, or services. For the detailed data usage policy of this Platform, please refer to the "Privacy Policy" of this Platform.

3.2 If the interaction data is found to be in violation of any laws, regulations, or the provisions of this Agreement, we shall be entitled to delete such interaction data or cease the provision of technical services.

3.3 Regarding your interaction data, you confirm, declare, and warrant:

3.3.1. When requested by us, you shall provide a written explanation of the source and legality of the personal information within the Interaction Data or information that requires authorization before use, or provide the authorization. In case you exceed the authorized scope or time limit, you shall be responsible for obtaining an expanded or extended authorization on your own.
3.3.2. Your interaction data, and the use of the interaction data by this Platform according to this Agreement, will not violate any applicable law or infringe upon any rights of any third party, including but not limited to any intellectual property rights and privacy rights.
3.3.3. Your interaction data does not include any information or materials regarded as sensitive or confidential by government agencies, and the interaction data provided by you for this service does not infringe any confidentiality rights of any third party.
3.3.4. You will not upload or provide through this service, directly or otherwise, any personal information of children under 14 years old.
3.3.5. Your interaction data does not include nude or other sexually suggestive content; does not include hate speech, threats, or direct attacks on individuals or groups; does not include abusive, harassing, infringing, defaming, vulgar, obscene, or privacy-infringing content; does not include gender-discriminatory or racial, ethnic, or other discriminatory content; does not include content containing self-harm or excessive violence; does not include forged or impersonated profiles; does not include illegal content or content that promotes harmful or illegal activities; does not include malicious programs or codes; does not include any personal information of anyone without their consent; does not include spam, machine-generated content, or unsolicited information and other offensive content.

3.4 As an independent technical supporter, this platform does not enjoy any intellectual property rights in all interaction data generated by your use of the services on this Platform. All interaction data, obligations, and liabilities arising from your use of the services on this Platform shall be borne by you, and this Platform shall not be responsible for any losses caused thereby.

3.5 As an independent technical supporter, when you use this Platform to provide services to any third party, the corresponding rights, obligations, and liabilities shall be borne by you, and this Platform shall not be responsible for any losses caused thereby.

3.6 Disclaimer

3.6.1 We are not responsible for any interaction data. You shall be fully responsible for the interaction data you input, provide feedback on, correct, process, store, upload, download, and distribute on the services of this Platform. The technical services provided by this Platform will only process your interaction data in strict accordance with your instructions. Unless otherwise provided by laws and regulations, agreed upon according to specific product rules, or at your request to provide you with technical assistance for troubleshooting or resolving technical issues, we will not access your interaction data. You understand and acknowledge that we and this Platform only act as passive technical supporters or channels for interaction data. We and this Platform will not use or disclose your interaction data without authorization, nor will we store it.

3.6.2 Please understand and acknowledge that we will add corresponding identifiers to AI-generated synthetic content in accordance with relevant laws and regulations such as the "Measures for the Identification of Artificial Intelligence Generated Synthetic Content". You may not maliciously delete, tamper with, forge, or conceal the above identifiers (regardless of the form in which they are embodied), nor use the above identifiers for illegal activities or to publish illegal content.

In specific scenarios, to better meet your usage needs, we may provide you with the option of AI-generated synthetic content without explicit identifiers. If you apply for this option, it will be deemed that you have undertaken and guaranteed:

(a) Not to use such content to engage in spreading false information or other illegal activities;
(b) When publishing or disseminating non-authentic information created using new technologies and applications such as deep learning, virtual reality, and generative artificial intelligence to relevant platforms, or other information content that may cause public confusion or misidentification, you shall identify it in a prominent manner;
(c) When sharing such content with third parties or publishing such content using network information content dissemination services, actively declare that it is AI-generated content;
(d) Comply with other relevant requirements proposed by laws and regulations.

If you violate the above guarantees, all legal consequences arising therefrom shall be borne by you.

4. Intellectual Property Rights

4.1 Intellectual Property Rights for SiliconFlow

You understand and acknowledge that the intellectual property rights of the content provided by us in the services on this Platform (including but not limited to web pages, text, images, audio, video, charts, computer software, etc.) have belonged to us from the beginning. You shall not access, sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, transmit, display, publish, adapt, edit, or create derivative works of any such intellectual property. It is strictly prohibited to use any intellectual property for any purpose not expressly permitted by this Agreement. Rights not expressly granted to you in this Agreement shall be reserved by SiliconFlow.

4.2 Output

On the basis of your compliance with the following and in accordance with laws and regulations, you may use the results generated by the services on this Platform in a manner compliant with legal requirements:

(a) Your use of the service and the output will not transfer or infringe any intellectual property rights (including the intellectual property rights of SiliconFlow and other third parties);
(b) If, at our discretion, we consider that your use of the output violates laws and regulations or may infringe the rights of any third party, we may restrict your use of the output at any time and require you to cease using the output (and delete any copies thereof);
(c) You shall not represent that the output of the large model is human-generated, and you need to fulfill the corresponding identification obligations in accordance with relevant legal provisions;
(d) You shall not violate any licensing, usage restrictions, or intellectual property-related agreements of the model provider.

You agree that we shall not be liable to you or any third party for any output content or results claimed to have arisen from the technical services provided by us.

4.3 User Usage Data

We may collect, or you may provide to us, information related to diagnosis, technology, and usage, including information about your computer, mobile device, system, and software ("User Usage Data"). We may, as necessary for the maintenance and operation of the platform and within the scope permitted by law, use, maintain, and process User Usage Data or any part thereof, including but not limited to:

(a) Providing and maintaining platform services;
(b) Improving our products and services or developing new products and services (User Usage Data is different from Interaction Data. Interaction Data is not saved or disclosed. For details, please refer to the "Privacy Policy").

For the detailed data usage policy, please refer to the "Privacy Policy" of this Platform.

4.4 Feedback

If you provide us with any suggestions or feedback regarding this service or any other SiliconFlow product or service ("Feedback"), then you hereby assign all rights and interests in the Feedback to us, and we may freely use the Feedback and any ideas, know-how, concepts, technologies, and intellectual property contained therein. Feedback is considered as our confidential information (as defined below).

5. Confidential Information

This service may include non-public, proprietary, or confidential information of SiliconFlow and other users ("Confidential Information"). Confidential Information includes any information that should reasonably be understood as confidential based on the nature and circumstances of disclosure, including non-public business, product, technical, and marketing information. You will:

(a) Protect the privacy of all Confidential Information with at least the same degree of care as you protect your own highly sensitive information, but in no event less than a reasonable degree of care;
(b) Not use any Confidential Information for any purpose other than exercising your rights or fulfilling your obligations under this Agreement; and
(c) Not disclose any Confidential Information to any individual or entity.

6. Billing Policy and Taxes

6.1 You understand and agree that certain services provided by this Platform may be subject to usage fees, after-sales fees, or other charges ("Fees"). By choosing to use the service, you signify your agreement to the pricing and payment terms applicable to you as stated on this Platform (subject to our pricing, payment terms, recharge agreements, and other documents updated from time to time, or other agreements signed between you and us). You agree that we may monitor your usage data accordingly to complete the billing for the service.

6.2 Please pay special attention that due to the particularity of "service preceding billing", our products and services are usually in a pay-after-use mode. Please carefully read and confirm the pricing, payment, and deduction terms related to the corresponding products and services before use, and ensure that there is an available balance in the account or discount coupons, vouchers, etc. that can offset the fees (collectively referred to as "Coupons"), otherwise arrears may occur. Arrears may lead to the unavailability of other products or services on this Platform (whether paid or free), that is, we have the right to terminate the provision of services or technical support to you when arrears occur, and you shall bear the corresponding consequences caused by arrears.

6.3 You understand that the issuance, retention, and use of the aforementioned Coupons are premised on your compliance with specific activity rules, service agreements, etc. If the Coupons are recovered or invalidated due to your violation of the corresponding activity rules or relevant service agreements and commitments, we have the right to require you to make up for the amount of service fees offset by the Coupons.

6.4 The pricing, billing, payment terms, recharge agreements, and deduction rules of all products and services on this Platform are hereby incorporated into this Agreement by reference. You agree that with the development of business and changes in the market environment, we may add new products and/or services, remove or terminate existing products and/or services, increase or modify the fees for existing products and/or services, etc. We may set different price fees according to your actual place of use, and/or stop providing any service at any time. Without our written consent or other relevant policies of this Platform, the payment obligation, once incurred, is non-cancellable, and the paid fees will not be refunded. If there are any government-required taxes, you will be responsible for paying all taxes related to your use/activation of the service.

7. Export Control and Sanctions

You undertake to comply with the export control and sanctions laws and regulations of the People's Republic of China, as well as other applicable export control and sanctions laws and regulations. You undertake not to use the products or services provided by this Platform for military, weapons of mass destruction-related users and purposes, and not to use the products or services provided by this Platform for purposes prohibited by applicable export control and sanctions laws and regulations. Without permission from the relevant competent authorities, you and other individuals or entities you authorize to use this Platform's services will not provide controlled products, technologies, software, or services to destinations, entities, or individuals prohibited by applicable export control and sanctions laws and regulations through this Platform's services.

8. Privacy and Data Security

8.1 Privacy

Based on the relevant information ("User Information") you actively provide to this Platform when registering, logging in, creating, using accounts, and conducting real-name authentication for accounts, and to ensure your normal use of the relevant services on this Platform, we may collect, organize, and use the User Information you provide. However, we will continuously comply with the Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China and other relevant applicable laws.

8.2 Data Security. We are concerned about the integrity and security of your personal information. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to breach our security protection measures.

9. Use of Third-Party Services

This service may contain links to third-party websites, materials, and services ("Third-Party Services") not owned or controlled by us. Certain functions of this service may require you to use third-party services. We do not endorse or assume any responsibility for any third-party services. If you access third-party services through this service or share your interaction data on any third-party service, you will do so at your own risk, and you understand that this Agreement does not apply to your use of any third-party service. You expressly release us from all liability arising from your access to and use of any third-party service.

10. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless us and our subsidiaries and affiliates and their respective agents, suppliers, licensors, employees, contractors, officers, and directors ("SiliconFlow Indemnified Party") from and against any and all claims, damages (whether direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or otherwise), obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, debts, and expenses (including but not limited to legal fees) arising from:

(a) Your access to and use of this service, including your use of any output;
(b) Your violation of any provision of this Agreement, including but not limited to your violation of any representations and warranties set forth in this Agreement;
(c) Your infringement of any third-party rights, including but not limited to any privacy rights or intellectual property rights;
(d) Your violation of any applicable law;
(e) Interaction data or any content submitted through your managed account (whether personal or shared with others), including but not limited to any misleading, false, or inaccurate information;
(f) Your willful or grossly negligent misconduct;
(g) Any third party's access to and use of this service using your username, password, or other authentication credentials.

11. Disclaimer

You use this service at your own risk. We expressly disclaim any express, implied, or statutory warranties, conditions, or other terms, including but not limited to warranties, conditions, or other terms relating to merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, design, condition, performance, usefulness, ownership, and non-infringement. We do not guarantee that the service will operate without interruption or error, nor do we guarantee that all errors will be corrected. Furthermore, we do not guarantee that the service or any equipment, system, or network related to the use of the service will not be subject to intrusion or attack.

For any content downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of this service, the risk of acquisition is borne by you. You shall be fully responsible for any damage to your computer system or mobile device and any data loss due to the above circumstances or due to your access to and use of this service. Furthermore, SiliconFlow does not provide warranties, endorsements, guarantees, recommendations, or assume responsibility for any products or services advertised or provided by any third party through this service or any hyperlinked website or service. SiliconFlow does not participate in or monitor in any way any transactions between you and third-party product or service providers.

12. Limitation of Liability and Disclaimer

SiliconFlow shall not be liable in any case for the following damages:

(a) Indirect, incidental, exemplary, special, or consequential damages;
(b) Loss or damage of data due to third-party reasons, or business interruption or loss;
(c) Loss of revenue, profit, goodwill, or expected sales or revenue, under any law, whether such damages are caused by the use or inability to use software or other products, even if SiliconFlow has been informed of the possibility of such damages.

The total liability of SiliconFlow and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, suppliers, and licensors to you (whether for warranty, contract, or tort (including negligence)) arising from any cause or manner of acting shall never exceed the fees that you have paid to SiliconFlow. Nothing in this Agreement shall limit or exclude liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law.

14. Applicable Law and Dispute Resolution

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the People's Republic of China (for the purposes of this Agreement only, excluding the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region, and Taiwan region).
In the event of a dispute during the implementation of this Agreement, both parties shall resolve it through timely negotiation. If negotiation fails, either you or we have the right to submit the dispute to the Beijing Arbitration Commission for arbitration in accordance with its then-effective arbitration rules, and these arbitration rules are incorporated into this Agreement by this clause. The language of arbitration is Chinese. The place of arbitration will be Beijing. The arbitration award is final and binding on both parties.

15. Other Terms

15.1 Transferability Without our prior express written consent, you may not assign or transfer this Agreement and any rights and licenses granted hereunder, but we may assign this Agreement without restriction. Any transfer or assignment in violation of this Agreement is void.

15.2 Severability If a provision of this Agreement or a part of a provision is invalid or unenforceable, it does not affect the validity of other provisions of this Agreement. The invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed to have been deleted from this Agreement.

15.3 Revision from Time to Time In accordance with changes in relevant laws and regulations and the operational needs of SiliconFlow, we will revise this Agreement from time to time. The revised Agreement will replace the pre-revised Agreement. When using the services of this Platform, you may consult and understand in a timely manner. If you continue to use this service, it will be deemed as consent to the revised content. In the event of a relevant dispute, the latest user agreement shall prevail. If you do not agree with the revised content, you have the right to stop using the services involved in this Agreement.

15.4 If you have any questions about this Agreement or this Platform, or wish to file a complaint or report, you may contact us at contact@siliconflow.cn.

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