Important Terms

Welcome to our public community discussion forum dedicated to Piccolo AI, the open-source AutoML machine-learning development tool for creating inference models for microcontrollers and IoT devices. By using our forum, you agree to these Terms of Service (the “Terms”). Please read them carefully.

Your Permission to Use the Forum

We grant you permission to use the forum subject to the restrictions in these Terms. Your use of the forum is at your own risk, including the risk that you might be exposed to content that is inappropriate or inaccurate.

Conditions for Use of the Forum

Your permission to use the forum is subject to the following conditions:

  1. You must be at least thirteen years old.

  2. You may no longer use the forum if we contact you directly to say that you may not.

  3. You must use the forum in accordance with Acceptable Use and Content Standards.

Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

  1. Use the forum for any illegal purpose or in violation of any local, state, national, or international law.

  2. Harass, threaten, demean, embarrass, or otherwise harm any other forum user.

  3. Post content that is harmful, abusive, racially or ethnically offensive, defamatory, infringing, invasive of personal privacy, or objectionable.

  4. Impersonate another person or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.

  5. Transmit any worms, viruses, or other harmful software.

  6. Interfere with the operation of the forum or the enjoyment of the forum by others.

  7. Buy, sell, or otherwise trade in user names or other unique identifiers on the forum.

  8. Send advertisements, chain letters, or other solicitations through the forum, or use the forum to gather addresses or other personal data for commercial mailing lists or databases.

  9. Automate access to the forum, or monitor the forum, such as with a web crawler, browser plug-in or add-on, or other computer program that is not a web browser. You may crawl the forum to index it for a publicly available search engine, if you run one.

  10. Use the forum to send e-mail to distribution lists, newsgroups, or group mail aliases.

  11. Remove any marks showing proprietary ownership from materials you download from the forum.

  12. Disable, avoid, or circumvent any security or access restrictions of the forum.

  13. Strain infrastructure of the forum with an unreasonable volume of requests, or requests designed to impose an unreasonable load on information systems underlying the forum.

  14. Submit content to the forum that infringes anyone’s intellectual property rights or breaches agreements you have with others.

  15. Encourage or help anyone in violation of these terms.

Content Standards

All content you post to the forum must:

  1. Be accurate (where you state facts).

  2. Be genuinely held (where you state opinions).

  3. Comply with applicable law in the United States and in any country from which they are posted.

Enforcement

We reserve the right (but have no obligation) to:

  • Monitor the forum for violations of these Terms.

  • Remove or refuse to post any content that, in our sole discretion, violates these Terms.

  • Take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in our sole discretion, violates the law or these Terms.

Your Account

You must create and log into an account to use some features of the forum.

To create an account, you must provide some information about yourself. If you create an account, you agree to provide, at a minimum, a valid e-mail address, and to keep that address up-to-date. You may close your account at any time using the forum interface for account settings or by e-mailing hello@sensiml.org.

You agree to be responsible for all action taken using your account, whether authorized by you or not, until you either close your account or notify us that your account has been compromised. You agree to notify us immediately if you suspect your account has been compromised. You agree to select a secure password for your account, and keep it secret.

We may restrict, suspend, or close your account on the forum if we reasonably believe that you have violated these Terms.

Your Content

You retain ownership of the content you post to the forum. However, by posting content to the forum, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use, store, display, reproduce, modify, create derivative works, perform, and distribute your content on the forum for the purposes of operating and providing the forum.

Your Responsibility

You are solely responsible for the content you post. You represent and warrant that you own your content or have the necessary rights to post it, and that posting your content does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, intellectual property rights, or any other rights of any person.

Disclaimers

The forum is provided “as is” and “as available.” We make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the forum, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or that use of the forum will be uninterrupted or error-free.

Limits on Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenues, whether incurred directly or indirectly, or any loss of data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from:

  • Your use of the forum or inability to use the forum.
  • Any unauthorized access to or use of our servers and/or any personal information stored therein.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback and suggestions about how to improve the forum. You agree that we will be free to use any feedback you provide for any purpose.

You agree that we will be free to act on feedback and suggestions you provide, and that we won’t have to notify you that your feedback was used, get your permission to use it, or pay you. You agree not to submit feedback or suggestions that you believe might be confidential or proprietary, to you or others.

Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the forum at any time, for any reason, without notice. Upon termination, you continue to be bound by these Terms.

Disputes

California Law will govern any dispute related to these terms or your use of the forum.

You agree to seek injunctions related to these terms only in state or federal court in San Jose, CA USA. Neither you nor us will object to jurisdiction, forum, or venue in those courts.

Other than to seek an injunction or for claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, you agree to resolve any dispute by binding American Arbitration Association arbitration. Arbitration will follow the AAA’s Commercial Arbitration Rules and Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes. Arbitration will happen in San Jose, CA. You will settle any dispute as an individual, and not as part of a class action or other representative proceeding, whether as the plaintiff or a class member. No arbitrator will consolidate any dispute with any other arbitration without our permission.

General Terms

  • These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the use of the forum.

  • Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of those rights.

  • If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect.

  • We may assign these Terms, in whole or in part, at any time with or without notice to you. You may not assign these Terms, or assign, transfer, or sublicense your rights, if any, in the forum.

Contact

You may notify us under these terms, and/or send questions to hello@sensiml.org.

We may notify you under these Terms using the e-mail address you provide for your account on the forum, or by posting a message to the homepage of the forum or your account page.

Changes

We may revise these Terms from time to time. The most current version will always be available on our forum. By continuing to access or use the forum after revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Terms.