Terms of Service

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Effective Date: 2025-05-10

Terms of Service for gounblur.com

1. Introduction and Acceptance of Terms

Welcome to gounblur.com (the "Service"), an AI-powered image enhancement tool provided by Azo Startup Studio ("we," "us," or "our"). By accessing or using our Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms") and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, please do not use our Service.

2. Description of Service

gounblur.com provides users with tools to upload and improve the quality of digital images using artificial intelligence algorithms (the "Service"). The primary purpose of the Service is to enhance image clarity, resolution (e.g., upscaling), and restore details in user-provided images, such as deblurring photographs or improving facial clarity in portraits for personal or professional use. The Service is not intended for creating deceptive or harmful content.

3. User Accounts and Registration

1. Account Creation: To access certain features of the Service, you may need to create an account. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information during the registration process and to update such information to keep it accurate, current, and complete.
2. Account Security: You are responsible for safeguarding your account password and for all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security.
3. Eligibility: You must be at least 13 years old (or the minimum age required in your jurisdiction to use online services) to use the Service. If you are under 18, you must have your parent or legal guardian's permission to use the Service.

4. User Content and Intellectual Property Rights

1. Your Content: You retain all ownership rights to the images and other content you upload to the Service ("User Content"). We do not claim any ownership rights over your User Content.
2. License to Us: By uploading User Content, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, modify (e.g., to enhance or process), display, and distribute your User Content solely for the purposes of operating, providing, and improving the Service. This license ends when you delete your User Content or your account, except to the extent your User Content has been shared with others and they have not deleted it, or for our internal backup and archival purposes, or as required by law.
3. Responsibility for User Content: You are solely responsible for your User Content and the consequences of uploading and processing it. You represent and warrant that:
   • You own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize us to use your User Content as described herein.
   • Your User Content, and our use of it as contemplated by these Terms, will not infringe, misappropriate, or violate any third party's patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral rights, or other proprietary or intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or result in the violation of any applicable law or regulation.
   • Your User Content does not include any illegal, harmful, offensive, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material.
4. Our Intellectual Property: The Service, including its underlying technology, AI models, software, design, text, graphics, logos, and other content (excluding User Content), is the property of Azo Startup Studio and its licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your personal or internal business use, as permitted by these Terms.

5. Prohibited Activities

You agree not to engage in any of the following prohibited activities:

• Using the Service for any illegal purpose or in violation of any local, state, national, or international law.
• Uploading, processing, or sharing User Content that:
  • Is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable.
  • Is sexually explicit, pornographic, or depicts non-consensual sexual content. This includes any material that Creem (our payment processor) or other payment partners may define as "Sexually-oriented or pornographic content."
  • Infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other proprietary rights of any party, or relates to counterfeit goods.
  • Contains child sexual abuse material or exploits children in any way.
  • Promotes or facilitates illegal activities or substances.
  • Is intended to deceive, mislead, or impersonate others, including the creation of 'deepfakes' or manipulated media for malicious purposes.
  • You do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships.
  • Contains software viruses or any other computer code, files, or programs designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
• Attempting to interfere with, compromise the system integrity or security of, or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Service.
• Taking any action that imposes, or may impose at our sole discretion, an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure.
• Attempting to reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or underlying AI models of the Service, except to the extent that such activities are expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation.
• Reselling, leasing, or otherwise commercializing access to the Service without our express written permission.
• Using any automated system, including without limitation "robots," "spiders," "offline readers," etc., to access the Service in a manner that sends more request messages to our servers than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser (except that gounblur.com grants the operators of public search engines revocable permission to use spiders to copy materials from the site for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials).
• Impersonating another person or otherwise misrepresenting your affiliation with a person or entity, conducting fraud, hiding or attempting to hide your identity.

6. Service Usage, Credits, and Payments

1. Service Availability: We strive to keep the Service operational. However, all online services suffer occasional disruptions and outages, and Azo Startup Studio is not liable for any disruption or loss you may suffer as a result. We may temporarily suspend the Service for maintenance or other reasons.
2. Credits and Subscriptions: Access to certain features or capacities of the Service may require the purchase of credits or a subscription ("Paid Services"). The terms of such Paid Services, including pricing, payment, and refund policies, will be presented to you at the time of purchase. All payments are processed through a third-party payment processor (e.g., Stripe). You agree to provide accurate payment information and authorize us (or our third-party payment processor) to charge your payment method for the Paid Services you select.
3. Credit Usage: Credits are consumed for image enhancement operations as specified at the time of use or purchase. Credits are non-refundable unless required by law and may expire if not used within a specified period, as communicated to you.
4. Free Tiers/Trials: We may offer free tiers or trial periods for the Service. We reserve the right to modify or terminate any free tier or trial offer at any time without notice.
5. Price Changes: We reserve the right to change the prices for Paid Services at any time. We will provide reasonable notice of any price changes.

7. Privacy and Data Collection

Our collection and use of personal information in connection with the Service are described in our Privacy Policy. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

8. Termination

1. By You: You may terminate your account at any time by contacting us or through your account settings, if available.
2. By Us: We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Service at our sole discretion, without notice or liability, for any reason, including but not limited to:
   • A breach of these Terms.
   • Conduct that we believe is harmful to other users of the Service, us, or third parties.
   • If we are required to do so by law.
   • Discontinuation or material modification of the Service.
3. Effect of Termination: Upon termination, your right to use the Service will immediately cease. We may delete your account and User Content upon termination, subject to our data retention policies outlined in the Privacy Policy.

9. Disclaimer of Warranties

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, AZO STARTUP STUDIO AND ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, PARTNERS, AND LICENSORS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

WE MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT: (I) THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; (II) THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE; (III) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE (E.G., THE QUALITY OF ENHANCED IMAGES) WILL BE ACCURATE, RELIABLE, OR MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS; (IV) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS; AND (V) ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED.

OUR AI ALGORITHMS STRIVE TO PROVIDE ACCURATE AND HIGH-QUALITY IMAGE ENHANCEMENTS. HOWEVER, THE NATURE OF AI MEANS THAT RESULTS CAN SOMETIMES BE UNEXPECTED. THE INTERPRETATION AND USE OF ANY CONTENT GENERATED OR ENHANCED BY THE SERVICE ARE AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND RESPONSIBILITY. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ENSURING THAT YOUR USE OF THE OUTPUT COMPLIES WITH THESE TERMS AND ALL APPLICABLE LAWS, AND DOES NOT INFRINGE UPON THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS OR CONTAIN PROHIBITED CONTENT AS DEFINED HEREIN.

10. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL AZO STARTUP STUDIO OR ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, PARTNERS, OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (I) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE; (II) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES; (III) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR USER CONTENT; (IV) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICE; OR (V) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE SERVICE.

OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE 12 MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (USD $100).

11. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Azo Startup Studio and its affiliates, officers, employees, agents, partners, and licensors from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable attorneys' fees) that such parties may incur as a result of or arising from (a) your User Content, (b) your use of, or inability to use, the Service, (c) your violation of these Terms, (d) your violation of any rights of another, including intellectual property rights, or (e) your violation of any applicable laws, rules, or regulations.

12. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of [Specify Jurisdiction, e.g., the State of California, USA], without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Any dispute arising from or relating to the subject matter of these Terms shall be finally settled by binding arbitration in [Specify City and Country/State for Arbitration, e.g., San Francisco, California] in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the [Specify Arbitration Body, e.g., American Arbitration Association] then in effect. Judgment on the arbitration award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each party shall have the right to institute an action in a court of proper jurisdiction for injunctive or other equitable relief pending a final decision by the arbitrator.

13. Changes to These Terms

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material, we will provide at least 30 days' notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion. By continuing to access or use our Service after any revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms.

14. Contact Information

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us through our contact page: gounblur.com/contact.

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By using gounblur.com, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. Thank you for choosing gounblur.com!