Welcome to AnnotateAI. By registering for, accessing, or using our platform, browser tools, AI copilot engines, or task evaluation sandboxes (collectively, the "Services"), you enter into a legally binding contract with AnnotateAI Technologies Inc. ("AnnotateAI", "we", "our", or "us"), a corporation organized under the laws of the State of California with headquarters in San Francisco, CA. If you do not agree to these Terms & Conditions, you must immediately discontinue all use of our Services.

• You must be at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction to establish an account.
• Your continued use following any periodic updates signifies unconditional acceptance of revised terms.
• Corporate or enterprise accounts represent and warrant that the authorizing individual holds requisite signatory authority.

To access our copilot annotation suites, token wallets, and multi-model arena, you must create a registered account with accurate, current, and complete information. You are solely responsible for safeguarding your authentication credentials and API access keys.

• Account sharing across independent freelance evaluators is strictly prohibited without multi-seat authorization.
• You must notify security@annotate.ai immediately upon discovering any unauthorized account breach.
• AnnotateAI reserves the right to suspend or terminate accounts that provide fraudulent or synthetic identity data.

AnnotateAI operates on a transparent pay-per-bundle token economy. Users purchase discrete token allowances (e.g., Starter 5,000 Tokens, Pro 15,000 Tokens, Super Pack 55,000 Tokens) to power LLM inference, synthetic reviewer cross-examinations, and laser scans.

• All prices are listed in United States Dollars (USD) and exclude applicable local sales taxes.
• Token packs are sold on a per-bundle basis without recurrent hidden subscriptions or auto-debit traps.
• Due to immediate provisioning of compute across frontier model clusters (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI), consumed tokens are non-refundable once inference execution commences.
• Unused bundle tokens remain active on your account without arbitrary expiration windows unless terminated for policy violation.

AnnotateAI is an independent productivity suite and assistive intelligence sandbox designed for freelance data annotators, AI evaluators, and prompt engineers. We are not officially affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by third-party data annotation platforms, freelance client marketplaces, or AI research labs.

• You retain ultimate contractual responsibility for adhering to the specific client guidelines and rubrics of your third-party contracting platforms.
• AnnotateAI functions as a human-in-the-loop verification aid; human annotators remain the authoritative ground truth.
• All third-party trademarks, company names, and logos displayed on AnnotateAI belong strictly to their respective owners.

You retain full ownership and intellectual property rights in and to the specific human reasoning, annotations, and evaluation justifications that you create using our tooling. AnnotateAI does not claim copyright or title to your human evaluation outputs.

• AnnotateAI retains all rights, title, and interest in our proprietary algorithms, UI designs, and laser scan architecture.
• We do not sell customer evaluation inputs or use customer proprietary prompts to train public foundation models without explicit consent.
• Model outputs generated by integrated third-party foundation models are subject to their respective upstream terms.

The Services are provided strictly on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis. To the maximum extent permitted by California law, AnnotateAI disclaims all express or implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

• Under no circumstances shall AnnotateAI be liable for indirect, incidental, punitive, or consequential damages.
• Our cumulative aggregate liability for all claims arising out of these terms shall not exceed the greater of $100 USD or the total amount paid by you in the 3 months preceding the event.

These Terms and any dispute arising from your relationship with AnnotateAI shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California and the United States, without regard to conflict of laws principles.

• Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this contract shall be settled by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) in San Francisco, California.
• You agree to resolve disputes strictly on an individual basis and waive any right to initiate or join class-action litigation.
• The state and federal courts located within the City and County of San Francisco, California shall have exclusive jurisdiction for injunctive relief claims.

AnnotateAI Technologies Inc. ("AnnotateAI", "we", "our") is headquartered at 548 Market Street, San Francisco, CA. We respect your constitutional right to privacy and are committed to safeguarding personal information collected from freelance annotators, team leads, and enterprise subscribers globally.

• This Privacy Policy applies to all interactions with annotate.ai, API endpoints, and associated browser extensions.
• We adhere to standard California privacy mandates including CCPA, CPRA, and CalOPPA.

We collect personal information necessary to deliver high-precision evaluation copilot tooling and manage user accounts securely.

• Identifiers: Name, email address, username, IP address, and unique cryptographic account UUID.
• Commercial Records: Records of token bundle purchases, transaction references (processed via PCI-DSS certified gateways; we never store raw credit card numbers).
• Internet Activity: Session interactions, latency telemetrics, model preference selections, and browser user-agent signatures.
• Evaluator Context Data: Task evaluation prompts, benchmark comparison logs, and synthetic critique inputs entered into the evaluation sandbox.

We utilize user data solely to provision inference, calculate token balances, detect malicious jailbreaks, and optimize client responsiveness.

• We DO NOT sell your personal information or evaluation prompts to third-party data brokers or advertisers.
• We DO NOT use proprietary customer evaluation tasks to train public open-weights foundation models without explicit affirmative consent.
• Evaluation prompts transmitted to third-party model inference providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Cloud Vertex) are passed via enterprise zero-retention API contracts wherever available.

California residents possess specific statutory rights regarding their personal information under California Civil Code Section 1798.100 et seq.

• Right to Know: You have the right to request disclosure of the specific personal data categories collected, sources, and commercial purposes.
• Right to Delete: You have the right to request erasure of your personal data, subject to legal compliance and anti-fraud retention exemptions.
• Right to Correct: You may request rectification of inaccurate personal details stored in your profile.
• Right to Opt-Out of Sale / Sharing: Because we do not sell or share personal data for cross-context behavioral advertising, no opt-out is required; however, we honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals.
• Non-Discrimination: We will never deny service, charge different prices, or alter service quality for exercising statutory privacy rights.

Our servers and secure databases utilize AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.3 encryption in transit. Infrastructure operations adhere strictly to SOC 2 Type II compliance frameworks.

• Database snapshots are geo-redundantly secured in top-tier US data facilities.
• To exercise privacy rights or submit a verifiable consumer request, email privacy@annotate.ai with the subject line "California Privacy Request".

AnnotateAI is intended for legal, professional, and ethical AI evaluation assistance. Permitted activities include evaluating multi-model responses, cross-examining machine hallucinations, validating image/video annotation boundaries, and sharpening evaluation rubrics.

• Assisting human annotators in formulating rigorous, evidence-based critique.
• Conducting comparative model benchmark analysis across supported LLM clusters.
• Testing synthetic reviewer rubrics within approved educational or freelance workflows.

You agree that you will not use AnnotateAI to generate, store, or transmit content that violates federal, California state, or international laws.

• Malicious Prompts: Crafting jailbreaks designed to bypass foundation model safety guardrails or generate instructions for cyberattacks, weapons, or physical harm.
• Exploitative Content: Generating child sexual abuse material (CSAM), non-consensual sexual imagery, or harassment vectors.
• Automated Click Fraud: Using headless bots or unauthorized scrapers to artificially exhaust free tier evaluation quotas or spoof referral rewards.
• Identity Spoofing: Impersonating platform staff, frontier model research labs, or other freelance evaluators.

Users shall not decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or derive the underlying source code, proprietary laser scan algorithms, or synthetic evaluator logic of AnnotateAI.

• You may not probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of AnnotateAI infrastructure without written authorization.
• You may not resell, sub-license, or redistribute platform API access without an approved enterprise partnership.

AnnotateAI maintains automated safety filters and human compliance auditing. Suspected violations may result in immediate token forfeiture, account suspension, or permanent IP ban.

• Serious violations involving criminal endangerment will be reported to appropriate law enforcement authorities.
• Appeals may be lodged with safety@annotate.ai within 14 calendar days of sanction notice.

Frontier artificial intelligence relies fundamentally on human judgment for alignment and truth. AnnotateAI exists to augment human cognitive clarity, not to replace thoughtful human evaluation with mindless synthetic regurgitation.

• The annotator remains solely responsible for the accuracy and veracity of any final evaluation submitted to contracting platforms.
• Copilot analysis should be treated as an advisory second opinion, subject to human scrutiny and verification.
• Evaluators must actively verify model citations and facts before adopting them into client justifications.

Submitting automated, unverified LLM output as genuine human evaluation degrades model training datasets and directly endangers evaluator platform standings.

• Never copy-paste raw LLM outputs into third-party evaluation rubrics without critical review.
• Utilize the Laser Scan and Multi-Model Arena to identify subtle logic discrepancies rather than accepting first-pass claims.
• Maintain independent domain expertise in your specialized annotation modalities (coding, math, creative writing, video analysis).

Third-party contracting evaluation platforms enforce detailed, project-specific rubrics. Annotators must ensure that custom client constraints supersede generic model assumptions.

• Where client rubrics mandate specific formatting, follow client specifications without deviation.
• Respect client confidentiality: never upload confidential source code or unreleased client model outputs into unapproved public chat sandboxes.

AnnotateAI enforces defense-in-depth cybersecurity protocols engineered to protect customer workloads against interception, unauthorized extraction, and loss.

• Encryption in Transit: All data exchanged with our servers is protected with TLS 1.3 protocols utilizing modern cipher suites.
• Encryption at Rest: Database volumes, user records, and session tokens are encrypted using AES-256 standard encryption keys managed via hardware security modules.
• Zero-Trust Architecture: Internal access to production infrastructure requires multi-factor authentication, device authorization, and just-in-time privilege escalation.

We collaborate strictly with certified cloud hosting providers and enterprise AI model clusters that adhere to rigorous data protection standards.

• Cloud Hosting: Tier-IV data centers located within the United States with SOC 1, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 certifications.
• Payment Gateways: Certified PCI-DSS Level 1 payment processors handle all credit card transactions.
• Zero Retention Agreements: We negotiate zero-day retention and non-training terms with upstream model providers whenever technically supported.

In accordance with California Civil Code Section 1798.82, in the event of an unauthorized security incident compromising unencrypted personal information, AnnotateAI will notify affected consumers and relevant regulatory authorities without unreasonable delay.

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer or mobile device when accessing website servers. Local storage allows our frontend interactive sandboxes to preserve your active workbench state across page refreshes.

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: Required to keep you authenticated, maintain CSRF security tokens, and access token balances.
• Preference Cookies: Remember your chosen theme settings (Light Copilot vs. Classic Dark), active legal tabs, and font sizes.
• Performance & Analytics: Help us measure API response latency and diagnose client-side rendering bottlenecks.

AnnotateAI does not engage in cross-site tracking or sell user data to advertising networks. We honor browser-level Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals and standard Do Not Track (DNT) headers.

• You may disable cookies via your browser settings at any time; however, certain authenticated tools and wallet features may fail to function correctly without session cookies.
• Direct questions regarding our cookie practices to privacy@annotate.ai.

The software, user interface design, logos, laser scan visualizations, domain names, and underlying source code of AnnotateAI are the exclusive property of AnnotateAI Technologies Inc. and protected under United States and international copyright, patent, and trademark laws.

• No license or right is granted by implication or estoppel except as expressly stated in these terms.
• Users may not use the AnnotateAI mark, stylized lightning badge, or branding assets without prior written consent.

In accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2), AnnotateAI maintains a designated copyright agent to receive notifications of claimed copyright infringement.

• Designated DMCA Agent: Legal Department, AnnotateAI Technologies Inc.
• Address: 548 Market Street, Suite 82001, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA
• Email: copyright@annotate.ai with subject line "DMCA Notice of Infringement".
• Notices must include a physical or electronic signature, identification of the copyrighted work, URL location, and a statement of good faith belief.

AnnotateAI appreciates the contributions of the ethical security community. If you conduct vulnerability research in good faith accordance with this policy, we consider your activities authorized under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and will not initiate legal action against you.

• Conduct testing exclusively against your own registered accounts and test sandboxes.
• Never attempt to extract, alter, or view private data belonging to other AnnotateAI users.
• Do not execute denial of service (DoS/DDoS) attacks or degrade service quality for active users.

If you believe you have discovered a security flaw, please submit your findings promptly to security@annotate.ai with detailed steps to reproduce.

• We acknowledge verified reports within 48 business hours and provide regular remediation updates.
• Eligible, high-impact security submissions may qualify for discretionary monetary bounties and public Hall of Fame attribution.