Conditions for the research beta

1. Scope and acceptance

These conditions govern use of the current hosted Splatfiction research beta. The beta provider is identified in the Research Notice. By affirmatively accepting these conditions and using the beta, you agree to follow them. If you do not agree, do not use the beta. The beta is intended only for adults who can accept these conditions for themselves.

2. Research-beta status

The current beta is free and non-commercial, requires no user account, and is provided only for hands-on testing and evaluation on compatible user hardware. It offers no paid plan, subscription, public content hosting, service-level commitment, or guaranteed support. Features, compatibility, and availability may change or end.

3. Limited hosted-use permission

While the beta remains available and you comply with these conditions, you receive a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable permission to use the public hosted interface for your own lawful evaluation. This permission does not distribute the software and does not grant a licence to source code, executable components, models, branding, internal methods, calibration, security configuration, or know-how.

4. Reserved intellectual-property rights

Splatfiction and Spinoff first-party software, executable components, interfaces, models, visual design, documentation, assets, and marks remain proprietary to their rights holder. All rights not expressly granted for hosted beta use are reserved. No right arises by implication, estoppel, access, evaluation, or reference in a public document.

Third-party components remain governed only by their identified licences on the Third Parties page. Those licences do not apply to Splatfiction or Spinoff first-party material. Mandatory statutory exceptions and non-waivable rights remain unaffected.

5. Prohibited use

You must not, except where mandatory law expressly permits it:

• copy, mirror, modify, extract, redistribute, sublicense, sell, rent, host, or provide the beta or a proprietary component to another person;
• reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, translate, or derive source, models, internal methods, parameters, or other proprietary elements;
• use the beta or its proprietary elements to reproduce or develop a competing renderer, reconstruction system, model, product, or service;
• remove or alter copyright, trademark, attribution, licence, or proprietary notices;
• use bots, scraping, unattended automation, an unprovided API or MCP interface, or another machine-operated workflow;
• bypass access, usage, security, or technical controls; probe non-public interfaces; or interfere with operation;
• submit malware, unlawful personal data, infringing material, or content that violates another person's rights.

6. Your source material and outputs

You retain your rights in source material you choose and in scene files or other outputs you create, subject to rights in the underlying material and third-party components. You must have every right and permission needed to process the source material and to use an output. An output does not include or grant a licence to first-party software, branding, models, or proprietary know-how.

The ordinary workflow is local-first as described in the Privacy Notice. If you separately enable dataset contribution, you grant the first-party rights holder a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence for the stated retention period to host, reproduce, reformat, analyse, annotate, combine, and use the contributed package for reconstruction research, evaluation, training, and improvement of Splatfiction methods, models, and product quality. You represent that you have the rights and permissions needed to make that contribution.

The contribution licence does not transfer your ownership or permit public display of identifiable source photographs as a hosted gallery. Research results that do not contain or reproduce the contributed source material, including aggregate measurements and learned model parameters, may continue to be used after the raw archive expires. Turning the choice off stops future packages. Requests concerning an archive already stored are handled under the Privacy Notice.

7. Voluntary feedback

Do not send confidential information as feedback. If you voluntarily send a suggestion about the beta, you grant the first-party rights holder a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferable and sublicensable licence to use, adapt, reproduce, and incorporate that suggestion without payment or an obligation to use it. This licence covers the suggestion only; it does not cover source files, personal data, or other material clearly identified as excluded. Personal data in correspondence remains subject to the Privacy Notice.

8. User responsibility

You are responsible for your device, source material, instructions, use, exports, and compliance with law and third-party rights. To the extent permitted by applicable law, you are also responsible for direct losses and third-party claims caused by your intentional unlawful conduct or material breach of these conditions. This does not transfer responsibility for conduct of the beta provider.

9. No production or safety-critical reliance

Do not rely on the beta as the only copy of data, as a production service, or for medical, emergency, safety-critical, legal-compliance, biometric-identification, surveillance, or other high-risk decisions. Independently inspect outputs before relying on or publishing them.

10. Beta risk and warranties

Keep independent copies of important source files and exports. The beta may contain errors, change behaviour, be unavailable, fail on particular hardware, produce inaccurate output, or lose browser-stored recovery data. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, it is provided “as is” and “as available,” without a voluntary warranty of availability, compatibility, accuracy, non-infringement, fitness for a particular purpose, or data recovery.

11. Limits of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the beta provider is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive loss, or for loss of data, revenue, profit, business, goodwill, or opportunity arising from the beta. Any liability that may lawfully be limited is limited to direct, reasonably foreseeable loss caused by a proven breach of these conditions.

Nothing in these conditions excludes or limits a warranty, remedy, right, or liability that mandatory law does not allow to be excluded or limited.

12. Access, enforcement, and changes

Access may be restricted or discontinued without advance notice to protect users, the beta, third parties, intellectual property, or legal compliance, or in response to a breach of these conditions. You may stop using the beta at any time. Material changes to these conditions receive a new version and are presented again before continued beta use.

13. General terms

If a provision cannot be enforced as written, it is applied only to the maximum extent permitted and the remaining provisions continue. A failure to enforce a provision once is not a waiver of it. Sections concerning intellectual property, prohibited use, feedback, user responsibility, warranty, and liability continue to apply after use ends to the extent their subject matter requires.

14. Version and contact

The current acceptance version is beta-2026-08-18-data-v1. Questions may be sent to sikora@splatfiction.com.