AGNIS

Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

Welcome to Agnis. These Terms of Service ("Terms") constitute a legally binding agreement between you ("User," "Student," or "You") and Agnis ("we," "our," or "us"). By accessing or using the platform at https://agnis.me or any associated service, you agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree to all provisions of these Terms, you must not access or use the application.

2. Description of the Educational Service

Agnis provides an AI-augmented educational platform designed to enhance independent study and active learning. Key platform capabilities include:

• Interactive educational chat and Socratic explanation of complex concepts.
• Active recall generation, flashcards, practice quizzes, and concept visualization via diagrams.
• Agnis Visuals: High-fidelity generative diagramming, textbook cutaway illustrations, scientific apparatus schematics, and academic prototypes to visually reinforce learning.
• Multiplayer study rooms enabling peers to review materials and practice together.
• Homework scanning tools to extract text and problems from student notes.
• Gamified learning analytics, including experience points (XP), study streaks, and achievement badges.

3. User Eligibility & Student Accounts

To access Agnis, you must create and maintain an authenticated student account using Google Sign-In or verified email credentials. Guest or anonymous access is not permitted.

• Mandatory Account Registration: Registration is required to enter the study workspace, use AI study tools, browse peer study materials, and join collaborative study rooms. This requirement protects community safety, prevents spam or room disruption, and enables seamless cloud synchronization of your learning progress.
• Age of Eligibility: Users under the age of 18 (or the legal age of majority in their jurisdiction) must have the permission and supervision of a parent, legal guardian, or educational instructor.
• Account Accuracy: You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information and maintain the security of your credentials.
• Account Responsibility: You are responsible for all activities that occur under your user profile. If you suspect unauthorized access, contact support immediately.

4. Acceptable Use & Academic Integrity

Agnis is dedicated to fostering genuine student learning, curiosity, and ethical study habits. You agree to use the platform in strict accordance with the following rules:

• Ethical Learning: You may not use Agnis to facilitate academic dishonesty, cheat on proctored examinations, or circumvent institutional honor codes.
• No Malicious Actions: You agree not to reverse-engineer, decompile, scrape, or extract source code, internal schemas, or model weights.
• Safety & Decency: You must not upload, post, or transmit content that is defamatory, harassing, sexually explicit, hateful, or that promotes violence or self-harm in study rooms or chats.
• No Prompt Injections: You agree not to attempt prompt injection attacks, jailbreaks, or attempts to force the underlying AI to generate harmful, toxic, or non-educational content.
• Resource Abuse: You agree not to automate requests, flood servers with denial-of-service scripts, or exceed fair-use computational quotas.

5. AI Content & Limitation on Academic Guarantees

Agnis utilizes advanced natural language models (such as Google Gemini AI) to assist learning:

• Informational Nature: All AI-generated explanations, formulas, code snippets, and study materials are provided for supplemental educational review only.
• No Warranty of Accuracy: We do not warrant that all AI-generated outputs are 100% accurate, complete, or up-to-date. The AI may generate unintended inaccuracies or hallucinations.
• No Guarantee of Academic Outcomes: Agnis does not guarantee any specific test score, examination result, scholarship, or academic admission. Students remain solely responsible for their academic work and test performance.

6. Agnis Visuals & Image Generation Terms

Agnis Visuals empowers learners to visualize intricate physical, biological, mathematical, and historical concepts through generative AI imaging.

• Educational Intent & Permitted Use: Visual generation must be used exclusively for bona fide educational purposes. Students receive a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to download, print, and incorporate generated visuals into study notebooks, homework assignments, school presentations, and science fair projects.
• Daily Free Quota & Limits: To ensure equitable access and prevent computational denial-of-service, student accounts are provided a daily free visual generation quota (standard limit of 5 free visual generations per day). Daily quotas reset every 24 hours. Agnis reserves the right to calibrate quota allowances based on platform capacity.
• Prohibited Visual Requests: Students agree strictly not to prompt, generate, or attempt to circumvent safety filters to produce: (a) sexually suggestive or explicit content; (b) graphic violence, weapons, self-harm, or gore; (c) harassment, bullying, or defamatory imagery; (d) deceptive deepfakes or impersonation of real individuals; or (e) unauthorized commercial merchandise. Any attempt to compromise visual safety systems will lead to immediate quota revocation or account termination.
• Scientific Accuracy Disclaimer: Generated visuals are synthetic educational illustrations synthesized by artificial intelligence. While engineered to adhere closely to textbook guidelines, students must cross-reference scientific labels, chemical bonds, and anatomical structures with authorized textbooks and teachers before relying on them for examinations.

7. Agnis Study Library & User-Generated Content (UGC)

The Agnis Study Library enables students to publish, discover, preview, download, and study peer-to-peer academic resources (including handwritten revision notes, formula sheets, chapter summaries, past-year question analyses, and practice banks).

A. User Representations & Warranties (Who Is Responsible for Uploads?)

The individual uploader is solely, exclusively, and personally responsible for any material they upload or share on Agnis. When you upload any document, image, or study resource to the Agnis Study Library, you expressly represent, warrant, and certify that:

• You are the sole author and copyright owner of the uploaded notes, or you hold explicit, verifiable written permission or licenses from the copyright owner to share the content publicly.
• The uploaded content is original student study work (such as your own handwritten notes, concept summaries, formula lists, or study guides).
• Strict Prohibition on Restricted / Third-Party Content: You agree strictly NOT to upload:
  • Scanned textbooks, published books, copyrighted worksheets, or commercial study modules owned by third-party publishers (e.g., NCERT, Pearson, McGraw-Hill, Cambridge, Oxford, etc.) without authorized licensing.
  • Proprietary, paid, or watermarked course materials, lecture slides, test series, or question banks from private coaching institutes or commercial education companies (e.g., Allen, FIITJEE, Resonance, Aakash, Physics Wallah, Unacademy, Khan Academy, etc.).
  • Confidential, leaked, or embargoed school examinations, official board answer keys, or standardized test papers prior to official public release.
  • Content copied, scraped, or downloaded from other websites, paywalled repositories, or subscription portals.
• The material does not infringe any copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, or intellectual property right of any individual or entity.

B. Platform Safe Harbor & Intermediary Status

Agnis operates strictly as an automated technological platform and educational intermediary under:

• Section 79 of the Indian Information Technology Act, 2000 (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code);
• Section 512 of the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (Safe Harbor for online service providers); and
• The European Union Digital Services Act (DSA).

Agnis does not preview, endorse, curate, or verify the academic validity or legal ownership of user-uploaded files prior to publication. Agnis expressly disclaims all liability, legal responsibility, and warranty for user-uploaded materials, copyright infringements, or intellectual property breaches committed by users.

C. User Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Agnis, its operators, founders, developers, affiliates, and licensors from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or in any way connected with: (i) your uploaded materials; (ii) your violation of any third-party intellectual property or privacy right; or (iii) any claim that your uploaded content caused harm or copyright violation to a third party.

D. License Granted by the Uploader to Agnis & Fellow Students

• Ownership Remains With You: You retain all intellectual property ownership rights in your original handwritten study notes.
• Platform Hosting License: By publishing materials to the Study Library, you grant Agnis a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to host, store, cache, replicate, index, display, transmit, and distribute your material to other students across the platform for viewing, previewing, and downloading.
• AI Study Enhancement License ("Study with Agnis"): You grant Agnis the right to process your uploaded documents through our educational AI engines to generate derived study aids (such as active recall questions, flashcards, mind maps, and structured revision summaries) for your study sessions and those of peers studying your notes.

E. Author Right to Retract & Delete Materials

• Authors have the unilateral right to edit metadata or permanently delete their uploaded materials at any time through the platform interface.
• Upon deletion by the author, the file and metadata are permanently removed from Agnis active databases and Google Cloud Storage buckets.
• Downloaded Copies Notice: Deleting a material removes it from Agnis cloud servers. However, Agnis cannot retrieve, retract, or erase copies of documents that have already been downloaded locally by other students to their personal computers, tablets, or phones prior to your deletion.

F. Peer-to-Peer Academic Disclaimer

Study materials in the Agnis Study Library are created by students, for students. Neither the uploader nor Agnis warrants that any study note, formula sheet, or practice question is 100% complete, error-free, or up-to-date. Students must always cross-reference concepts, formulas, and solutions against their official course syllabi and authorized textbooks before relying on them for examinations.

8. Copyright Infringement & DMCA / IT Act Takedown Policy

Agnis respects the intellectual property rights of all content owners, publishers, and educators. We maintain a zero-tolerance policy for willful copyright infringement and respond expeditiously to valid takedown notices.

A. How to Report Infringing Content

If you are a copyright owner, publisher, coaching institute, or authorized representative and believe that any material available in the Agnis Study Library infringes your copyright or proprietary rights, you may submit a takedown request through either:

• In-App Reporting: Click the Report flag icon on the material's detail card within the Agnis Study Library and select "Copyright / Intellectual Property Violation".
• Direct DMCA / Takedown Notice by Email: Send an email to our designated copyright agent at supportteam.agnis@gmail.com with the subject line "DMCA / Copyright Takedown Notice".

B. Required Notice Information

To be effective, your notice must include:

1. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or a representative list if multiple works are covered).
2. The specific URL, Material ID, or exact title and author of the infringing material on Agnis to enable our team to locate it.
3. Your full legal name, organization/institution (if applicable), email address, mailing address, and telephone number.
4. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
5. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of the owner.
6. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or authorized representative.

C. Takedown Actions & Repeat Infringer Policy

• Expeditious Removal: Upon receiving a compliant takedown notice, Agnis will review the claim and promptly disable access to or permanently delete the infringing material (typically within 24 to 48 hours).
• Counter-Notice: If an uploader believes in good faith that their content was removed due to mistake or misidentification, they may file a counter-notice with proof of original authorship.
• Repeat Infringer Termination: In accordance with the DMCA and applicable intermediary laws, Agnis will permanently terminate accounts and revoke upload privileges for any user determined to be a repeat copyright infringer.

9. Prohibited Materials & Code of Conduct

In addition to copyright restrictions, users agree strictly not to upload or transmit:

• Malicious Code: Files containing viruses, worms, trojans, ransomware, corrupted payloads, or any scripts intended to compromise device security.
• Non-Educational Executables: Files with executable extensions (such as .exe, .bat, .cmd, .sh, .apk). Only approved educational formats (PDF, DOCX, PNG, JPG, WEBP) are accepted.
• Personal Identifying Information (Doxxing): Notes containing unredacted private personal details of any person (e.g., government ID numbers, personal phone numbers, physical residential addresses, or financial credentials).
• Abusive or Defamatory Content: Content that is sexually explicit, violent, defamatory, harassing, or that promotes hate speech or discrimination against any individual or group.
• Academic Fraud: Stolen teacher answer keys, leaked board examination papers prior to test commencement, or materials intended to breach institutional examination security.

10. Intellectual Property Rights (Agnis Platform)

The Agnis name, brand logo, software code, user interface designs, visual themes, AI prompting architectures, gamification algorithms, XP reward systems, and trademarks are the exclusive proprietary property of Agnis and are protected by applicable intellectual property laws.

11. Study Rooms & Community Collaboration

When participating in public, private, or audio-enabled study rooms:

• Respectful Interaction: Treat fellow students with respect, kindness, and collaboration at all times. Harassment, verbal abuse, trolling, or disruption of study sessions is strictly prohibited.
• Live Audio & AI Voice Interaction: Students in audio rooms may communicate via microphone and interact directly with Agnis using Tap-to-Talk voice questions. Participants must maintain academic decorum while unmuted.
• No Unauthorized Audio Recording: You may not record, stream, broadcast, or republish audio conversations or interactions of fellow students in live rooms without their prior explicit written consent.
• Privacy Safeguards: Room creators and participants must not share private personal contact information, passwords, financial details, or inappropriate materials.
• Enforcement & Expulsion: We reserve the right to remove any study room, mute abusive audio streams, or permanently terminate accounts of users violating community conduct standards.

12. Account Termination & Deletion

• User Termination: You may stop using Agnis and permanently delete your student profile at any time via Profile > Delete Account inside the app.
• Our Right to Terminate: We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to Agnis without prior notice if we find you have violated these Terms, uploaded restricted content, engaged in academic abuse, or posed a security risk to other users.

13. Disclaimers & Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW:

• AGNIS AND THE STUDY LIBRARY ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACADEMIC ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
• WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT ANY USER-UPLOADED MATERIAL WILL REMAIN ACCESSIBLE INDEFINITELY.
• IN NO EVENT SHALL AGNIS, ITS CREATORS, CONTRIBUTORS, OR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE, ANY USER-UPLOADED CONTENT, OR ANY AI-GENERATED OUTPUT.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may modify these Terms periodically to introduce new study tools or comply with applicable regulations. We will update the "Effective Date" at the top of this document whenever changes occur. Your continued use of Agnis following any changes constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

15. Contact & Designated DMCA Agent

For legal inquiries, copyright takedown notices, or platform questions, please reach out to our team:

Email: supportteam.agnis@gmail.com
Designated DMCA / Copyright Officer: Agnis Legal & Content Safety Team
Official Website: https://www.agnis.me