Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Himalaya A.I. Labs ("HimalayaAI", "we", "us") about your use of HimalayaAI Studio at studio.himalayaai.org (the "Studio"). Please read them. By selecting "I agree and continue" you accept them electronically, and that acceptance has the same effect as a signature.

The Acceptable Use Policy, the Privacy Notice and the AI Output Notice are part of these Terms. Where they conflict, these Terms apply, except that the Privacy Notice governs how we handle personal information.

What you confirm by accepting

By selecting "I agree and continue" you confirm each of the following:

• You are 18 years of age or older (section 2).
• You have read the Privacy Notice and consent to your personal information being processed as it describes, including by providers outside Nepal.
• You understand that results are produced by AI models, can be wrong, and that you are responsible for checking them before relying on them (section 4 and the AI Output Notice).
• You understand that anything you contribute to Himkosh is licensed to HimalayaAI for model training and may be published in open datasets, which cannot be recalled once published (section 5).

1. What the Studio is

The Studio is HimalayaAI's web console for trying the language, speech and vision models HimalayaAI serves, for running three agents built on those models (Himmy Agent, Voice Agent and Document Agent), for viewing the catalog of served models and published benchmark results, and for contributing to Himkosh, HimalayaAI's Nepali data collection programme (recording speech and transcribing, translating, annotating and handwriting text).

The Studio is a research and demonstration service. It is currently provided free of charge. It is not designed for, and must not be relied on for, any use where an error could cause injury, financial loss or legal harm without independent human review.

2. Eligibility and your account

• You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding contract under the law that applies to you.
• You sign in with a Google account. You are responsible for keeping that account secure and for activity in the Studio while you are signed in. Tell us promptly at info@himalayaai.org if you believe someone else has used your session.
• You must not share your session, sign in as someone else, or use automated means to create sessions.
• If you use the Studio on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to accept these Terms for it.

3. Using the Studio

You may use the Studio to try, evaluate and learn about HimalayaAI's models and agents, and to contribute to Himkosh, in line with these Terms and the Acceptable Use Policy. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable permission to do so. You must not copy, resell, sublicense or offer the Studio, or access to the models through it, as a service to others, or attempt to extract model weights or reverse-engineer the service, except to the extent applicable law permits this despite this restriction.

4. Your inputs and the outputs

Inputs. You may submit text, audio, images, documents and other material ("Inputs"). You confirm that you have the rights and any permissions needed to submit each Input, including the consent of any person who can be identified in it, and that submitting it does not break any law or anyone else's rights.

Outputs. The models and agents produce text, audio, transcriptions, extracted fields and other results ("Outputs"). As between you and us, and to the extent we hold any rights in an Output, you may use Outputs you generate for any lawful purpose, subject to these Terms. Outputs may be similar or identical to Outputs other users receive, and we make no claim that any Output is protected by copyright or free of third-party rights.

Our use of Inputs and Outputs. We process Playground and Agent Inputs and Outputs to provide the Studio to you, to keep it secure and to fix faults. We do not use them to train models unless you submit them through Himkosh (section 5) or we ask you separately and you agree.

Responsibility for Outputs. You are responsible for how you use Outputs, including checking them before relying on them or sharing them. Read the AI Output Notice.

5. Himkosh contributions

Himkosh exists to build open Nepali training data. Recordings, transcriptions, translations, annotations, handwritten pages and reviews you submit through Himkosh ("Contributions") are collected for that purpose.

• You keep ownership of any rights you hold in your Contributions.
• You grant HimalayaAI a licence. You grant Himalaya A.I. Labs a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to use, reproduce, adapt, annotate, combine with other data, and distribute your Contributions, in order to train, evaluate and improve machine-learning models and to publish datasets, including under open licences such as Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) or Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). We may sublicense these rights to recipients of a published dataset on those licence terms.
• Published data cannot be recalled. Once a Contribution is included in a published dataset, copies already distributed under an open licence cannot be withdrawn. Before publication we will act on a request to remove a Contribution where we can identify it (see the Privacy Notice).
• Your voice and handwriting. A speech recording or a handwritten page can identify you. Do not contribute if you do not want your voice or handwriting to be part of a public dataset. Do not record or write anyone else's personal information.
• No payment. Contributions are voluntary and unpaid unless we agree otherwise in writing.
• Moral rights. To the extent the law allows, you agree not to assert moral rights in a way that would prevent the uses above. Where moral rights cannot be waived, this sentence does not affect them.

6. Acceptable use

You must follow the Acceptable Use Policy. We may remove Inputs or Contributions, limit features, or suspend access to protect the Studio, other users, HimalayaAI or the public.

7. Our intellectual property

The Studio, the models, the agents, their software, documentation, design and the HimalayaAI name and marks belong to HimalayaAI or its licensors. These Terms do not transfer any of those rights to you. Published datasets and model cards carry their own licences, which govern their use.

8. Third-party services

The Studio relies on services operated by others, including Google (sign-in), Tarka (model inference), and Amazon Web Services (hosting and file storage). These are described in the Privacy Notice. Their own terms govern their services; we are not responsible for their acts or omissions beyond what the law requires of us.

9. Availability and changes

The Studio is a preview. Models, agents, features and limits may change, be paused or be withdrawn, and the service may be unavailable, slow or interrupted, sometimes without notice. We do not commit to any level of uptime. We are not obliged to keep any Output, run history or Input you have not submitted to Himkosh, and you should keep your own copies of anything you need.

10. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Studio at any time and sign out. We may suspend or end your access, with or without notice, if you break these Terms, if your use creates risk or legal exposure for us or others, if required by law, or if we withdraw the Studio. Sections 4, 5, 7 and 11 to 16 survive termination, together with any other provision that by its nature should.

11. Disclaimer

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Studio, the models, the agents and all Outputs are provided "as is" and "as available". We disclaim all warranties and conditions not expressly stated in these Terms, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Studio will be uninterrupted, secure or error-free, or that any Output will be accurate, complete or suitable for your purpose. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any warranty, condition or right that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including the Consumer Protection Act, 2075 (2018) of Nepal where it applies.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:

• we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive loss, or for loss of profit, revenue, data, goodwill or opportunity, arising out of or in connection with the Studio or these Terms; and
• our total liability for all claims arising out of or in connection with the Studio or these Terms is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for the Studio in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, and NPR 10,000.

These limits do not apply to liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud or wilful misconduct.

13. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you will indemnify HimalayaAI against reasonable losses, costs (including reasonable legal fees) and liabilities arising from a third-party claim that your Inputs or Contributions infringe that party's rights or break the law, or that you used the Studio in breach of the Acceptable Use Policy. We will tell you promptly about such a claim and let you participate in its defence at your own cost. This section does not apply to the extent the claim arises from our own breach or negligence.

14. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of Nepal.

If a dispute arises, please contact us first at info@himalayaai.org so we can try to resolve it informally; we will both try in good faith for at least 30 days. If it is not resolved, the courts of Nepal sitting in Kathmandu have jurisdiction, unless we both agree in writing to refer the dispute to arbitration under the Arbitration Act, 2055 (1998) of Nepal. Either of us may seek urgent interim relief from a competent court at any time.

If you live outside Nepal, the mandatory consumer-protection laws of your country of residence may give you rights, or a right to bring proceedings in your local courts, that this section cannot remove. Nothing in these Terms limits those rights.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. Each version has a version number and an effective date, shown at the top. When we make a material change we will change the version, and you will be asked to review and accept the new version before you can continue using the Studio. If you do not accept, you may stop using the Studio and sign out. Corrections that do not change the meaning, such as fixing a typing error, may be made without a new version.

16. General

• Entire agreement. These Terms, with the documents they incorporate, are the whole agreement between you and us about the Studio and replace earlier understandings about it.
• Severability. If a court finds any part of these Terms unenforceable, that part is limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest stays in effect.
• No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision immediately, we have not given up the right to enforce it later.
• Assignment. You may not transfer these Terms. We may transfer them to an organisation that takes over the Studio, and we will tell you if we do.
• No third-party rights. No one other than you and us has rights under these Terms.
• Language. These Terms are written in English. If we provide a translation and it conflicts with the English text, the English text applies, unless the law requires otherwise.
• Contact. Himalaya A.I. Labs, info@himalayaai.org.