Conditions for the beta

1. Scope, parties, eligibility, and acceptance

These Beta Use Conditions (the Conditions) govern access to and use of the current hosted Splatfiction research beta at splatfiction.com, including its browser application, first-party interfaces, documentation, downloadable notices, and related beta features (together, the Service).

Provider means Tomáš Sikora, the researcher and beta provider identified in the Research Notice. Rights Holder means Tomáš Sikora as owner of Splatfiction first-party software and materials, except where an identified third-party licence applies.

You may use the Service if you can lawfully accept these Conditions. If applicable law requires a parent or legal guardian to accept for you, that person must do so. If you use the Service for an organisation, you confirm that you have authority to accept these Conditions for that organisation. In that case, you includes that organisation.

Before first use, the Service requires you to review these Conditions, correct your choices if necessary, tick the required acceptance control, and select the acceptance button. The Service then provides or stores a receipt identifying the accepted version and document digest. Material changes receive a new version and require renewed acceptance before continued use. You may open, save, or print the Conditions before accepting. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

The contract is offered in English. Any mandatory language, information, consumer, or accessibility requirement under applicable law remains unaffected.

2. Definitions

Automated Access means access to or operation of the Service through a bot, crawler, scraper, headless browser, script, macro, robotic-process-automation tool, AI agent, autonomous system, browser-control agent, API client, Model Context Protocol (MCP) client or server, plug-in, connector, wrapper, proxy, unattended workflow, bulk workflow, parallel workflow, or another machine-to-machine interface. These examples define the restriction and do not imply that Splatfiction offers any such interface.

Business User means a person using the Service wholly or mainly for a trade, business, craft, profession, public body, or organisation. Consumer means a natural person using the Service mainly outside a trade, business, craft, or profession.

Human-Operated Use means direct, real-time operation by a natural person through the normal graphical interface of a supported web browser. Accessibility technology and ordinary input-assistance features used under that person's direct control are permitted.

Inspection Tools means browser developer tools, debuggers, profilers, network inspectors, interception proxies, formatters, deobfuscators, disassemblers, decompilers, WebAssembly inspection tools, GPU-capture or shader-inspection tools, runtime instrumentation or hooks, memory inspectors, and similar technical tools.

Output means a scene file, point cloud, Gaussian-splat representation, image, video, export, or other result created from source material through permitted Human-Operated Use. An Output does not include the Service, first-party code, executable components, branding, documentation, or proprietary know-how.

Service Materials means the Rights Holder's first-party code, executable or binary modules, WebAssembly, shaders, interfaces, visual design, documentation, assets, marks, parameters, non-public protocols, technical structure, and other protectable first-party material made available through or in connection with the Service.

3. Research-beta status

The current release is a free public research beta for hands-on testing, evaluation, and permitted Output creation on compatible user hardware. It has no paid plan, service-level commitment, guaranteed support, or guaranteed continuation. Features, performance, compatibility, storage behaviour, and availability may change, be suspended, or end.

The Service is not supplied as a production, archival, safety-critical, or regulated decision system. Keep independent copies of important source material and Outputs.

4. Limited hosted-use permission

While the Service remains available and you comply with these Conditions, the Provider grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-sublicensable permission to make lawful Human-Operated Use of the public hosted interface and to create and use Outputs as permitted by section 9.

This permission is access to a hosted beta, not distribution or sale of software. It does not grant a licence to source code, executable components, Service Materials, branding, proprietary methods, security information, trade secrets, patents, or know-how.

The automatic transient retrieval, execution, caching, and storage of files by a supported browser strictly as technically necessary for permitted Human-Operated Use is allowed. This narrow allowance does not permit deliberate extraction, separate collection, redistribution, analysis for prohibited purposes, or retention beyond what the browser ordinarily requires.

5. Ownership and reservation of rights

Splatfiction first-party software, Service Materials, interfaces, visual identity, documentation, assets, marks, proprietary methods, and know-how remain owned by the Rights Holder. All rights not expressly granted by these Conditions are reserved. Access, testing, public availability, a browser cache, or reference in a public document does not transfer ownership or create an implied software, trademark, patent, or know-how licence.

Third-party components remain governed only by their identified licences in the Third-Party Notices. Those licences apply solely to the material they cover and do not license Splatfiction first-party material. Mandatory statutory exceptions and non-waivable rights remain unaffected.

6. Prohibited access, automation, copying, and service resale

Except where mandatory law expressly permits the specific conduct, you must not:

• copy, mirror, modify, extract, redistribute, sublicense, sell, rent, host, publish, or provide the Service or any proprietary component to another person;
• reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, translate, deobfuscate, or derive protected source code, algorithms, methods, parameters, pipeline structure, non-public interfaces, protocols, or other proprietary elements;
• use Automated Access without the Provider's prior express written permission;
• expose the Service, its interface, or a non-public endpoint through an API, MCP server, wrapper, proxy, embedded interface, remote-control service, managed upload portal, or similar facility;
• offer customer-operated access, service-bureau use, white-label access, automated reconstruction, unattended processing, or batch processing based on the Service;
• deliberately request, enumerate, crawl, scrape, index, archive, mirror, separately download, capture, or collect client bundles, WebAssembly modules, GPU shaders, workers, manifests, build assets, source-map locations, non-public endpoints, protocols, or other technical resources, except for automatic browser retrieval permitted by section 4;
• remove or alter copyright, trademark, attribution, licence, or proprietary notices;
• bypass, disable, defeat, or circumvent an access, acceptance, usage, security, integrity, rate, or technical control;
• probe a non-public interface, interfere with operation, introduce malware, or attempt unauthorised access to another person's data or systems; or
• use the Service in a way that violates law or another person's intellectual-property, privacy, confidentiality, image, property, or other rights.

A manual public review, criticism, or comparison of the rendered user experience is not prohibited merely because it is critical or comparative, provided it does not use Automated Access, disclose non-public security information, reproduce protected code or substantial Service Materials, or otherwise breach these Conditions.

7. Inspection Tools, troubleshooting, and security research

You may use ordinary browser diagnostics to the minimum extent reasonably necessary to troubleshoot your own device, browser, local files, or permitted Output. You may also use Inspection Tools solely within the limited written authorisation and testing boundary stated on the Splatfiction Security page.

You must not use Inspection Tools or another technical method to extract, retain, deobfuscate, reconstruct, copy, modify, map, profile for competitive replication, or disclose protected first-party code, binaries, shaders, parameters, methods, pipeline structures, non-public interfaces, protocols, or runtime behaviour. The Security page does not authorise conduct outside its stated scope and does not grant a licence to proprietary material.

If these Conditions and the Security page appear to differ concerning good-faith vulnerability validation, the Security page controls only for the specific activity that it expressly authorises. All other restrictions remain in force.

8. Text and data mining, AI training, and competing systems

To the extent that the Rights Holder owns or controls the relevant rights, all rights are expressly reserved against text and data mining, automated extraction, systematic collection, behavioural harvesting, dataset creation, model training, fine-tuning, distillation, imitation learning, agent training, and development or evaluation of a substitute or competing system using the Service or Service Materials.

You must not use Automated Access, Inspection Tools, systematically collected interaction data, or extracted Service Materials to benchmark for replication, observe, collect, infer, reproduce, train, evaluate, or improve another reconstruction, alignment, pose-estimation, rendering, browser-control, or competing software system.

Machine-readable reservations published by Splatfiction form part of this reservation. This section does not claim rights in your own source material, a permitted Output, public facts, ideas not protected by law, or third-party material beyond the Rights Holder's actual rights.

9. Source material and commercially usable Outputs

You retain your rights in source material that you choose and in Outputs that you create, subject to rights in the underlying material and any third-party components. You are responsible for having all rights, permissions, notices, and lawful bases required to process the source material and use the Output.

Subject to these Conditions, you may sell, license, publish, exhibit, deliver, or otherwise use an exported Output commercially when you created it through direct Human-Operated Use. This permission applies only to the exported Output. It does not permit resale or sublicensing of access to the Service, customer-operated access, service-bureau or white-label use, automated or batch processing, or access through an API, MCP interface, agent, wrapper, proxy, or other machine interface.

Ordinary use of the Service does not grant Splatfiction a licence to train models on your source material or Outputs. Optional performance analytics do not grant such a licence either. Any contribution of project data for model development requires a separate affirmative choice, the Optional Data Contribution Terms, and the privacy choice described in the Privacy Notice.

10. Optional data contribution

If Splatfiction offers an optional contribution feature, it must be off by default and separate from acceptance of these Conditions and from performance analytics. A contribution is governed by the Optional Data Contribution Terms and the Privacy Notice presented at the time of contribution.

Turning contribution off stops future contribution packages. Rights concerning a package already uploaded, withdrawal, deletion, retention, and derived technical results are governed by those separate documents and applicable data-protection law.

11. Voluntary feedback

Do not submit confidential information as feedback. If you voluntarily send a suggestion, idea, or improvement proposal specifically as feedback about Splatfiction, you grant the Rights Holder a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable licence to use, adapt, reproduce, and incorporate that feedback without payment or an obligation to use it.

This licence covers the feedback itself. It does not cover source files, project content, personal data, or material clearly identified as excluded from feedback. Personal data in correspondence remains subject to the Privacy Notice.

12. Third-party material and external services

Open-source and other third-party components are governed by their applicable licences. The Service may link to or depend on external software, browser features, hardware drivers, hosting, storage, or other services. Splatfiction does not control third-party services and does not grant rights in them.

You are responsible for complying with third-party terms that apply to your source material, device, browser, drivers, exports, or downstream use. Nothing in these Conditions restricts a right expressly granted to you by an applicable third-party licence.

13. User responsibilities and restricted uses

You are responsible for your device, browser, source material, instructions, exports, publication, and compliance with law and third-party rights. Do not submit unlawful personal data, malware, stolen material, confidential information you are not authorised to disclose, or content that infringes another person's rights.

Do not rely on the Service for medical, emergency, safety-critical, biometric-identification, surveillance, law-enforcement, legal-compliance, or other high-risk decisions. Independently review Outputs before relying on, publishing, selling, or delivering them.

14. Security, local storage, and backups

The ordinary workflow is local-first as described in the Privacy Notice. Browser storage may be removed by you, the browser, the operating system, an update, storage pressure, corruption, or another technical event. The Service is not a backup or archival system.

No security method is perfect. You must protect your device, browser profile, local files, credentials, and exported material. Security concerns must be reported through the Security page and within its testing boundary.

15. Suspension, termination, and survival

The Provider may restrict, suspend, or discontinue access where reasonably necessary to protect users, the Service, third parties, intellectual property, security, legal compliance, or the beta programme, or in response to a suspected or actual breach. Where reasonably practicable, the Provider may provide notice, but urgent protective action may occur without advance notice.

You may stop using the Service at any time. Your hosted-use permission ends automatically when your use ends, the beta ends, or you materially breach these Conditions. Sections concerning ownership, prohibited conduct, Outputs, feedback, third-party material, responsibility, remedies, liability, governing law, and any provision that by nature should survive continue to apply.

16. Beta risk and warranties

The Service may contain errors, change behaviour, be unavailable, fail on particular hardware, produce inaccurate or incomplete Outputs, or lose browser-stored data. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Service is provided as is and as available, without a voluntary warranty of uninterrupted availability, compatibility, accuracy, completeness, non-infringement, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or data recovery.

Nothing in these Conditions removes a mandatory guarantee, remedy, or right that applicable law does not allow to be excluded.

17. Liability

Nothing in these Conditions excludes or limits liability for fraud, intentional misconduct, death or personal injury caused by negligence where such liability cannot be limited, or any other liability that mandatory law does not allow to be excluded or limited.

For a Consumer, the Provider is responsible only to the extent required by mandatory applicable law. Any exclusion or limitation in these Conditions applies only to the extent permitted by that law.

For a Business User, to the maximum extent permitted by law:

• the Provider is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, revenue, business, opportunity, goodwill, anticipated savings, data, or production time;
• the Provider is not liable for loss resulting from use contrary to these Conditions, failure to keep backups, incompatible hardware or third-party services, or a decision to rely on an unverified Output; and
• the Provider's total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service in any twelve-month period is limited to the greater of EUR 100 and the total fees, if any, paid by that Business User for the Service during the preceding twelve months.

The limitations apply regardless of the legal basis of the claim, but only to liability that may lawfully be limited.

18. Business-user reimbursement for prohibited conduct

This section applies only to a Business User. To the extent permitted by law, a Business User must reimburse the Provider for reasonable, documented losses, costs, and third-party claims directly caused by:

• source material that the Business User knew or should reasonably have known it was not authorised to process or distribute;
• Automated Access, service resale, a wrapper, customer-operated access, or another use prohibited by sections 6 or 8; or
• an intentional or materially negligent breach of these Conditions.

This obligation does not cover loss caused by the Provider's own conduct. The Provider must give reasonably prompt notice of a third-party claim and allow reasonable participation in its defence. No settlement imposing a non-monetary obligation on the Business User may be made without that Business User's consent, which must not be unreasonably withheld.

19. Protection and enforcement of rights

Unauthorised copying, extraction, automated access, disclosure, or use of Service Materials may cause harm that is difficult to quantify. The Provider and Rights Holder may use any remedy available under applicable law, including suspension, preservation of evidence, claims for loss, and interim or injunctive measures. This section does not create a remedy that applicable law does not recognise.

A delay or failure to enforce a provision on one occasion is not a waiver of that provision or of later enforcement.

20. Transfer of these Conditions

You may not transfer or sublicense your hosted-use permission or assign these Conditions without the Provider's prior written consent.

The Provider may transfer the Service, first-party intellectual property, and these Conditions to a successor operator or acquirer of the Splatfiction project or relevant assets, provided that the successor assumes the Provider's applicable obligations. Any transfer of personal data must also comply with the Privacy Notice and applicable data-protection law. A transfer does not reduce a Consumer's mandatory rights.

21. Governing law and disputes

These Conditions are governed by the laws of the Slovak Republic, without applying rules that would displace mandatory protections.

A Consumer retains every mandatory right, protection, governing-law rule, and court jurisdiction available under the law of the Consumer's habitual residence or other applicable consumer law. For a Business User, the courts of the Slovak Republic having jurisdiction under applicable procedural law have jurisdiction, unless mandatory law requires otherwise.

Before commencing formal proceedings, the parties should first attempt in good faith to resolve the matter through the contact address in section 22, unless urgent interim relief or a statutory deadline makes that impracticable.

22. General provisions

These Conditions and documents expressly incorporated for an optional feature form the agreement governing the Service. Promotional statements or private communications are not incorporated unless expressly stated.

If a provision cannot be enforced as written, it applies only to the maximum extent permitted and the remaining provisions continue. Headings are for convenience; including and includes are illustrative.

Material changes receive a new version and renewed acceptance. A non-material correction may be made without changing substantive rights, but the published document and digest must remain consistent with the accepted version.

Version and contact. Version 2026-08-18.6, effective and last updated 18 August 2026. Questions and legal notices may be sent to support@splatfiction.com.