PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF SERVICE CAREFULLY. BY CHECKING THE BOX TO AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF SERVICE OR BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF SERVICE AND ALL TERMS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF SERVICE, DO NOT USE THE SERVICES.

These Terms of Service (these "Terms") between you and 4AI Bilgi Teknolojileri A.Ş. ("image4io") govern your access to, use of, and participation in image4io's website, products, and services (collectively, the "Services"). These Terms do not change the terms or conditions of any other written agreement you may have with image4io. If you are using the Services on behalf of an entity, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to accept these Terms on the entity's behalf and that the entity agrees to be responsible to image4io if you violate these Terms.

For purposes of these Terms, "image4io" refers to image4io and image4io's investors, directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives, and assigns.

1. PRIVACY

Please see image4io's Privacy Policy at https://image4.io/en/privacy-policy for information about how image4io collects, uses, and discloses information about individuals who use the Services.

2. ACCOUNT

To access certain areas and features within the Services, you must create an account. You agree to (a) provide accurate, truthful, current, and complete information when creating an account; (b) maintain and promptly update your account information; (c) maintain the security of your account by not sharing your password with others and restricting access to your account and your computer; (d) promptly notify image4io if you discover or otherwise suspect any security breaches related to the Services; and (e) take responsibility for all activities that occur under your account and accept all risks of unauthorized access.

3. THE SERVICES

Overview of Services. The Services may include image4io's web API, image processing, image analysis, image rendering, image caching, image routing, image delivery, storage managing. The Services described under the “API Services” paragraph, do not involve image hosting or storage except for the limited caching described below. However, the Services do provide certain hosted processing and rendering services (“Hosted Services”) as further described in the “Hosted Services” paragraph below.

API Services. The Services image4io offers via its web API (“API Services”) enable you to control the actions image4io takes with respect to your images. You are responsible for updating your site or service's code to work with the API Services. The API Services provide limited caching and rendering services that image4io uses during the course of providing the Services to you. If an image cached via the API Services is removed from your storage or hosting location, it may remain on image4io's caching servers for a limited time.

Hosted Services. image4io may make certain Hosted Services available, which may enable users to upload images, use hosted processing features and functionality, and deliver or route such images. Notwithstanding Section 12 (Change to the Services) below, image4io reserves the right to modify, discontinue or suspend access to the Hosted Services at any time for any reason, without notice or obligation to you.

Content Delivery. image4io can be accessed for content delivery of your User Content (as defined below). When you access image4io for content delivery, image4io may cache your User Content for performance reasons. When cached User Content is accessed, you will be charged only for bandwidth out of image4io. Accessing User Content that has not been cached will trigger a render on image4io, which incurs additional charges. Although image4io does not guarantee that any User Content will be cached, image4io will strive to cache your User Content for at least the lesser.

URL. You will choose “cloudname” on sign up that will be used as path name and unique identifier of your account. You will not have the opportunity to select an alternative path name, image4io does not guarantee the availability of any path name. image4io reserves the right to change your path name with 14 days' advance notice to you.

4. FEES AND PAYMENTS

Pricing for the Services is located at https://www.image4io.com/pricing. image4io's Payment Policy, as set forth at https://image4.io/en/privacy-policy, governs your payment of the Services and is incorporated herein by reference.

5. USER CONTENT

Intellectual Property of User. You retain all rights in images ("User Content").

License. You hereby grant image4io a non-exclusive, revocable license to use, store, display, reproduce, re-post, modify, create derivative works of (including through aggregation), perform the User Content, solely in the course of providing the Services and for its internal business purposes.

Acceptable Use. You will not (and will not allow or authorize any third party to) post, upload to, transmit, distribute, store, create, solicit, disclose, or otherwise publish through the Services any of the following without the express prior written consent of image4io:

  • User Content that is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, exploitive of children, or invasive of privacy or publicity right;
  • User Content that is false, misleading or deceptive, including the content that appears confusingly similar to any other product or application or misrepresents or falsely implies an association with another company;
  • User Content that would constitute, encourage, or provide instructions for a criminal offense, or violate any law or regulation;
  • User Content that, in image4io's reasonable judgment, may expose image4io or others to harm or liability;
  • User Content that contains any information or content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships;
  • User Content that may infringe the patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, intellectual property, privacy, or other proprietary right of any party;
  • Private information of any third parties, including addresses, phone numbers, and payment card information; or
  • User Content that includes viruses, corrupted data, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware, or other harmful, disruptive, or destructive files.

image4io reserves the right, but does not have the obligation, to monitor User Content and to block access to any User Content that violates these Terms or that image4io finds otherwise objectionable. You are solely responsible for creating backup copies of and replacing User Content at your sole cost and expense. If you remove any User Content from the Services, image4io may retain User Content for a commercially reasonable period of time for backup, archival, or audit purposes.

6. image4io MATERIAL

Intellectual Property of image4io. image4io reserves all rights not expressly granted in these Terms. Except for the license expressly stated in these Terms, you are not granted any rights in or to the Services by implication, estoppel, or other legal theory, and all rights in and to the Services not expressly granted in these Terms are hereby reserved and retained by image4io. image4io reserves all right, title, and interest to and in all information, materials, and content (including text, graphics, data, formatting, graphs, designs, HTML, look and feel, photographs, music, sounds, images, software, videos, designs, typefaces, source and object code, format, queries, algorithms, and other content) that is not User Content (collectively "image4io Material"). image4io Material is protected in all forms, media, and technologies now known or later developed.

License. On the condition that you comply with these Terms, image4io hereby grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access the Services (including any image4io Material therein) solely for the purpose of enabling you to use the Service in the manner permitted by these Terms. If image4io, in its sole discretion, elects to provide any upgrade that replace or supplement the original Services, this license will govern any such upgrade unless such upgrade is accompanied by a separate license, in which case the terms of that license will govern.

Restrictions. You are solely responsible for your conduct (and the conduct of anyone who uses the Services on your behalf) with respect to the Services, which you use at your own risk. Except as expressly permitted in writing by image4io, you will not do, and will not permit any third party to do, any of the following:

  • copy, adapt, hack, of reproduce the Services;
  • distribute the Services or make the Services available over a network where it could be used by multiple devices at the same time;
  • rent, lease, lend, sell, or sublicense the Services;
  • modify, port, translate, or create derivative works of the Services;
  • remove, alter, or obscure any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notice or labels on or in the Services;
  • decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code, underlying ideas, or algorithms of the Services or any part of the Services, except to the extent required by applicable law;
  • use the Services in any manner that could interfere with, disrupt, negatively affect, or inhibit image4io's other users from fully enjoying the Services or that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the functioning of the Services;
  • stalk, intimidate, threaten, harass, or cause discomfort to other users of the Services;
  • impersonate or use the Services by misrepresenting your affiliation with a person or entity;
  • use the Services for any illegal or unauthorized purpose or engage in, encourage, or promote any illegal activity or any activity that violates these Terms; or
  • infringe or violate the rights of image4io or any third party.

If you violate (or are alleged to have violated) any of the foregoing restrictions, your license to use the Services will immediately and automatically terminate, and you may have infringed the rights of image4io, which may subject you to prosecution and damages.

7. FEEDBACK

image4io will own exclusive rights, including all intellectual property rights, to any feedback, suggestions, ideas, or other information or materials regarding image4io or the Services that you provide, whether by email, posting through the Services, or otherwise ("Feedback"). For the avoidance of doubt, Feedback does not include any User Content that you upload for the sole purpose of utilizing the Services. Any Feedback you submit is non-confidential and will become the sole property of image4io. image4io will be entitled to the unrestricted use and dissemination of such Feedback for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment or compensation to you. You waive any rights you may have to the Feedback (including any copyrights or moral rights). Do not send image4io Feedback if you expect to be paid or want to continue to own or claim rights in your Feedback. image4io also has the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted by you constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy. Further, you agree not to submit any Feedback that is defamatory, illegal, offensive, or otherwise violates any right of any third party, or breaches any agreement between you and any third party.

8. METADATA AND ANALYTICS

image4io uses proprietary software to analyze images it processes. Whenever image4io processes an image for you, it observes, collects, and analyzes the metadata of the image. image4io may use this metadata it collects to learn more about the images it processes and help improve the Services. image4io also collects analytics data about images it caches and processes. For example, image4io may track how often images are accessed, performance data, and other such technical information. image4io reserves all rights in and to any metadata and analytics it collects in the course of providing the Services.

9. THIRD-PARTY CONTENT

image4io may display content from third parties through the Services or may provide information about or links to third-party products or services. Your interactions with any such third parties, and any terms, conditions, warranties, or representations associated with such interactions, are solely between you and the applicable third parties. image4io is not responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such interactions or as the result of the presence of such third-party information made available through the Services.

10. TRADEMARKS

image4io's name, image4io's trademarks, image4io's logos, and any other image4io product, service name, or slogan included in the Services are property of image4io and may not be copied, imitated, or used (in whole or in part) without image4io's prior written consent. The look and feel of the Services, including all custom graphics, button icons, and scripts constitute service marks, trademarks, or trade dress of image4io and may not be copied, imitated, or used (in whole or in part) without image4io's prior written consent. All other trademarks, registered trademarks, product names, and company names or logos mentioned in the Services ("Third Party Trademarks") are the property of their respective owners, and the use of such Third Party Trademarks inures to the benefit of each owner. The use of such Third Party Trademarks is intended to denote interoperability and does not constitute an affiliation by image4io and its licensors with such company or an endorsement or approval by such company of image4io or its licensors or their respective products or services.

11. COPYRIGHT POLICY

Repeat Infringer Policy. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and other applicable law, image4io has adopted a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances and at image4io's discretion, users who are deemed to be repeat infringers. image4io also may, at its discretion, limit access to the Services and terminate access of any users who infringe any intellectual property rights of others, whether or not there is any repeat infringement.

Copyright Complaints. If you believe that anything on the Services infringes upon any copyright that you own or control, you may file a notification with image4io's Designated Agent as set forth below:

  • Designated Agent: İsmail İren SALTALI
  • Address of Designated Agent: Hürriyet Dist. Sağlam St. No: 4/9 Kağıthane/İSTANBUL
  • Telephone Number of Designated Agent: +90850 885 4454
  • Email Address of Designated Agent: [email protected]

If you knowingly misrepresent in your notification that the material or activity is infringing, you may be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys' fees, incurred by image4io or the alleged infringer as the result of image4io relying upon such misrepresentation in removing or disabling access to the material or activity claimed to be infringing. image4io does not guarantee that it will have the capability to remove infringing content in its entirety, including infringing content that has been stored in a viewer's cache, but may block the display of any infringing content.

12. CHANGES TO THE SERVICES

image4io may review, improve, change, or discontinue (temporarily or permanently) the Services or any features, information, materials, or content on the Services. If image4io makes a material change to the Services, image4io will notify you in advance, via email or through other communications channels, and give you the opportunity to terminate your use of the Services.

13. SUSPENSION OR TERMINATION

If your subscription terms expressly allow for termination at will, you may terminate your account through your account page, or by contacting image4io via email at: [email protected]. If your subscription is based on a renewable fixed period, you may elect not to renew your subscription by sending image4io the applicable prior notice. image4io may require you to verify your identity by sending image4io additional information, as a condition for terminating your account. Following the termination of your account, you may no longer be able to access the Service. You are not entitled to refund upon termination of these Terms. image4io reserves the right, but does not undertake any duty, to take appropriate legal action including the pursuit of civil, criminal, or injunctive redress against you for continuing to use the Services during suspension or after termination. image4io may recover its reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs from you for such actions. These Terms will remain enforceable against you while your license to access or use the Services is suspended and after it is terminated. Except for the license granted to you to access and use the Services, all the terms, conditions, and restrictions set forth in these Terms will survive termination of these Terms.

14. DISCLAIMERS

YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. IMAGE4IO DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS (EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ORAL OR WRITTEN) WITH RESPECT TO THESE TERMS, THE SERVICE, THE IMAGE4IO MATERIAL, AND THIRD PARTY TRADEMARKS, WHETHER ALLEGED TO ARISE BY OPERATION OF LAW, BY REASON OF CUSTOM OR USAGE IN THE TRADE, BY COURSE OF DEALING OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND CONDITION OF TITLE.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IMAGE4IO DOES NOT WARRANT, AND DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR (A) THE COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, SECURITY OR RELIABILITY OF THE SERVICE OR ANY IMAGE4IO MATERIAL; (B) ANY HARM TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM, LOSS OF DATA, OR OTHER HARM THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE SERVICE, ANY IMAGE4IO MATERIAL, OR ANY USER CONTENT; (C) THE DELETION OF, OR THE FAILURE TO STORE OR TO TRANSMIT, ANY USER CONTENT AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS MAINTAINED BY THE SERVICE; AND (D) WHETHER THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR BE AVAILABLE ON AN UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE BASIS. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED FROM IMAGE4IO OR THROUGH THE SERVICE, WILL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY MADE IN THESE TERMS.

CERTAIN STATE LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES IN CONTRACTS WITH CONSUMERS, SO, IF YOU USE OUR SERVICES FOR PERSONAL, FAMILY OR HOUSEHOLD PURPOSES, SOME OR ALL OF THE DISCLAIMERS IN THIS SECTION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

15. INDEMNIFICATION

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless image4io from and against any actual or threatened suits, actions, proceedings (at law or in equity), claims, damages, payments, deficiencies, fines, judgments, settlements, liabilities, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees, costs, penalties, interest, and disbursements) arising from or related to (ii) your conduct, or the conduct of any third party you authorize acting on your behalf, with respect to the Services, including any User Content or Feedback you or such third party provides, or (ii) the violation (or alleged violation) of these Terms or the rights of any third party by you or any third party you authorize acting on your behalf with respect to the Services.

16. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IMAGE4IO WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS, THE SERVICE, THE IMAGE4IO MATERIAL, OR THIRD PARTY TRADEMARKS, HOWEVER CAUSED, REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY (CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, WHETHER ACTIVE, PASSIVE OR IMPUTED), PRODUCT LIABILITY, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER THEORY), EVEN IF IMAGE4IO HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF IMAGE4IO EXCEED THE GREATER OF U.S. $100.00 OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID IMAGE4IO IN THE PAST SIX MONTHS FOR THE SERVICE GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.

THE LIMITATIONS IN THIS SECTION WILL NOT APPLY TO ANY WILLFUL MISCONDUCT, GROSS NEGLIGENCE, OR FRAUD OF IMAGE4IO. IN ADDITION, SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THIS LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

17. VENUE; GOVERNING LAW

Republic of Turkey Ministry of Justice will have exclusive jurisdiction over any suit in connection with the Services or these Terms that is not subject to arbitration, and you and image4io hereby irrevocably and unconditionally consent and submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of such courts. These Terms and your access to or use of the Services will be governed by, construed in accordance with, and enforced under the laws of the Republic of Turkey without resort to its conflict of law provisions.

18. AMENDMENT

image4io reserves the right to make changes or modifications to these Terms from time to time, in its sole discretion. If image4io makes changes to these Terms, image4io will provide you with notice of such changes, such as by sending you an email or by posting the amended Terms via the Services and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of these Terms. All amended Terms will become effective immediately on the date they are posted to the Services unless image4io states otherwise in its notice regarding the amended Terms. Any amended Terms will apply prospectively to use of the Services after such changes become effective. Your continued use of the Services following the effective date of such changes will constitute your acceptance of such changes. If you do not agree to any amended Terms, you must discontinue using the Services.

19. MISCELLANEOUS

These Terms contain the entire agreement, and supersede all prior and contemporaneous understandings between the parties regarding the Services. These Terms do not alter the terms or conditions of any other electronic or written agreement you may have with image4io for the Services or for any other image4io product or service or otherwise. In the event of any conflict between these Terms and any other agreement you may have with image4io, the terms of that other agreement will control only if these Terms are specifically identified and declared to be overridden by such other agreement. Nothing in these Terms creates or can be construed to create an employer/employee, joint venture, or partnership relationship between you and image4io. Except as otherwise expressly elsewhere in these Terms, there will be no third party beneficiaries to these Terms. image4io's failure or delay in exercising any right, power, or privilege under these Terms will not operate as a waiver thereof. If any provision of these Terms is or becomes unlawful, void, or otherwise unenforceable (including the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above), then that provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision, and the remaining provisions of these Terms will continue in full force and effect. image4io will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from any event beyond image4io's reasonable control, including, but not limited to, flood, extraordinary weather conditions, earthquake, or other act of God, fire, war, insurrection, riot, labor dispute, accident, action of government, communications, power failure, or equipment or software malfunction. Headings of sections are for convenience only and will not be used to limit or construe such sections. As used in these Terms, "including" means "including (without limitation)." You may not assign or transfer any of your rights or obligations under these Terms without prior written consent from image4io. image4io may assign or transfer any or all of its rights under these Terms, in whole or in part, without obtaining your consent or approval.

20. QUESTIONS

If you have any questions regarding the use of the Services, please email image4io at [email protected]